The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-13 00:00:00

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LONDON.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 13, 1842.

There was another debate in the House of Commons
last night- on Mr. COWPER presenting a petition against
the income tax, and the probability, or rather the cer-
tainty, of similar debates every evening, seems to have
moved the Tories to put forward Lord FRANCIS EGERTON
to make a little diversion, and corer the Premier's retreat •
That Noble Lord accordingly suggested to Mr. COWPER
to withdraw the petition, and allow him to bring for-
ward, at the earliest possible opportunity, a substantive
motion which shall settle the whole question. As Mr.
DexcomnE observed, the Noble Lord had spread out a
feather bed for her MAJESTY'S Alinisters to fall on, and
full on it they will without being smothered.
Lord MAIION, who, like Lord FRANCIS EGERTON,
voted wifh Mr. T. DUNCOMBE on Monday evening,-
though both generally vote with Sir R. PEEL, wished for
the adjournment of the debate till Friday, in order to
allow Lord F. EGERTON to bring forward his motion on
Thursday. The motion was discussed, and the debate
accordingly adjourned to Friday, not then to be resumed
if Lord F. EGERTON'S feather bid be found in the mean
time sufficiently soft to break the fall of the Premier
and his companions.
We scarcely understand Lord F. EGERTON'S conduct.
On Monday he distinguished himsAt, in the early part of
the evening, by both speaking and voting fur Mr. T. DON-
COMBE, and in the latter part by uttering a violent, and,
regarding the uncouth gesticulations of the Noble Lord,
a furious tirade against Mr. DuNcomnE and his friends.
At five o'clock he voted that the Premier, by enforcing
an antiquated order; was stifling the prayers of the
people, and at 12 o'clock he was most vehement against
those who opposed the arbitrary conduct of Sir RARISERT
PEEL. The Lord FRANCES EGERTON of after dinner con-
demned the Lord FRANCES EGERTON of five o'clock.
Being of this kind of double character, having one
tongue for the Radicals, and another for the Tories, the
Noble Lord was a fit and proper person to step, between
Mr. COWPER and success, and stave off a division which
would • have left Sir R. PEEL iso_a minority. We hope
the Noble &d-maker, otherw:se Lortrlitherside, may
succeed or the Session will be waved in a fruit-
less effort on the part of the Tories to prevent the voice
of the people being heard in Parliament against the in-
come tax.

best intentions, no doubt, but with a great want of judg-
ment, followed Dr. Bowanic in praising Sir ROBERT
PEEL'S tariff. As we said yesterday, it is to be consi-
dered as part of a system, of which the income tax is
another pait, and it is impossible to approve of Sir
ROBERT PEEL'S tariff without giving approbation
to the income tax. Ho stated expressly, on
March 11th, that he meant to devote the sur-
plus revenue he expected to obtain, by his inquisitorial
income tax, to relieve the metal trade arid the timber
trade. What Mr. LABOUCHERE and Dr. Bownlsto
praise, therefore, is Sir ROBERT PEEL'S determination
to tax professional men and shopkeepers, to enrich those
who use much timber. We regard the whole principle
as erroneous; we treat such a dealing with the property
of individuals by discriminating taxation as most dan-
gerous ; we say it is levelling and revolutionary ; de-
grading the people beneath the legislature as adespotism,
without being just ; and we conclude, that the whole
vicious scheme ought to be condemned and resisted.
We will take the first case, as to cattle, of which Mr.
LABOUCHERE said he approved, and stated, that had he
remained in office, he meant to have proposed something
of the same kind. But the Ministry of which he was a
member properly repudiated, by the mouths of Lord
PALMERSTON and Lord JOHN RUSSELL, the principle
of protection by discriminating duties, and only justified
duties such as those of which he approves when pro-
posed by Sir It. PEEL, who maintains the principle of
protection as a sort of compromise and a step towards
free trade. To approve of Sir R. PEEL'S tariff as to
cattle, which is based like his Corn-law on the prin-
ciple of protection, we must see it proved that his prc-
posed tax is in due and just proportion to the protecting
duties on wheat, oats, and barley, so that the production
of no one of these useful commodities shall re-
ceive more or less encouragement than another.
At the same time we are quite aware that
this cannot be proved—that it is utterly impossi-
ble for any mortal man, though his head contained
the brains of twenty PEELS and twenty GLADSTONES,
correctly to adjust any scale whatever of discriminating
duties on all commodities. The attempt is an arrogant
absurdity ; and therefore to approve of Sir ROBERT
PEEL'S little bit of adjustment as, to cattle, adopted
under the false system of protection, is to encourage him
and his party in their dangerous errors and ruinous
absurdities.
Does any man know on what grounds Sir R. PEEL has
conceded this little matter about meat ? Has he con-
sulted the graziers and the cattle breeders ? has he
asked the butchers or the consumers ? We believe not.
lie has gathered, he says, some startling information of
a wonderful scarcity of cattle, of a rise in the price, and
of a falling off in the consumption. All very natural
c:reutustances, we are sorry to say, and easily explicable,
notwithstanding the protection afforded by the prohibi-
tion to import cattle, enacted by former wiseacres
;ke himself, to which he now attributes the
fling off; and therefore proposes to remove

People must have bread, and they will have it, before
beef. He has made bread dear and scarce ; the agricul-
turists have been tempted, and obliged, by his protecting
Corn laws, to grow more corn than they ctherwise.
would, and breed and feed less eattle Hence the scar-
city and comparative dearness of cattle as well as bread.
The derangement is plainly the consequence of men at-
tempting to adjust what they can neither measure nor
comprehend. The scarcity of cattle is the result of an
unrighteous Corn-law ; and, instead of abolishing the
iniquity, Sir ROBERT PEEL proposes to- add to it an
income tax. Tiiis is grievous, and it is more
grievous to have Mr. LABOUCHERE, • Dr. BOWRING,
and that clas of politicians bribed by a- little lip
homage to free trade principles, which is no homage at
at all, for it is part and parcel of a system of protection,
to praise a tariff which is the result of the Corn-law and
an income tax.

We are sure that these gentlemen cannot have exa-
mined the tariff, and we will take one of its parts as a
vpecimen of the whole. Sir ROBERT PEBL took much
praise to himself for lowering and altering the coffee
duties. Now, we shall show that by so doing, he has
given a much greater boon to the monopolist planters of
our own colonies, already revelling in the annual plunder
of the people to the amount of several millions, than to
the consumers.
The tariff shows that the bulk of the coffee imported
in 1840 was colonial, which, at 6d. per lb. duty, yielded
373,579/. to the revenue ; and foreign, imported from
places within the charter of the East India Company,
not the proiuce of its possessions, at 93. duty, which
yielded 544,6531. to the revenue. Now Sir ROBERT
PEEL proposes to reduce the duty on the former to 4d.,
or one-third, which, supposing no alteration in con-
sumption, will lessen that part of the revenue 121,526!.
At the same tine he proposes to reduce the 9d.
duty to 83., which will lessen the second portion of duty
mentioned 80,5E1.
It is perfectly clear that the colonial coffee,
in proportion to its quality, will always command
in the market a price equal to the foreign coffee.
Now, because our own Colonies cannot supply us with
a sufficient quantity of coffee, and we consume a great
quantity of the coffee which pays the higher duty, it is
equally clear that the colonial proprietor Will put
into his pocket the whole difference of duty
betwixt the colonial and the foreign coffee. The result,

then, is, that Sir ROBERT PEEL and Mr. GLADSTONE,
in their adjustment cf the coffee duties, remit
of the taxation on coffee 60,5171. to the con-
sumers, and bestow—(let the Public mark this as
it is done partly by Mr. GLADSTONE, a connexion
of West India merchants)-124,5261. of the 170,0001.
Sir ROBERT PEEL expects to lose by the alteration of
the coffee duties on the wealth-swollen and wealth-
gorged West India planters. Such is the tariff, which
our liberal politicians praise. That is the tariff too, the
people are to buy by an income tax. If the" purchase
such legislation at such a price, they will be the most
besotted and befouled people that was ever struck blind
by much success and most overweaning vanity.

The cry which the country has raised against the im-
position of an inquisitorial income tax in time of peace,
is beginning to alarm the Cabinet, and accordingly is e
now hear of nothing but the wars in which England is
engaged in Affghanistan and China. This dishonest
Tory trick was well exposed by the Right Hon. Member
for Edinburgh, Mr. MACAULAY, in the debate last
night upon the proposed iniquitous impost. The
Right Hon. Gentleman demonstrated that a refer-
ence to hostilities in Affghanistan was an after-
thought--that Ministers could have had no idea of a
war on that side of the Indus when the resolution to tax
income was adopted by the Cabinet. This called up
Lord STANLEY, who, disappointed in replying to the
eloquence of Mr. SUIEL on Friday night, was of course
eager for a fitting opportunity to deliver an oration
which was liable to grow stale. With a pertness verg-
ing upon impiety, he ridiculed the wisdom of the Divine
aphorism, " sufficient for the day is the evil thereof,"
quoted by Mr. WASON ; and modestly claimed for him-
self and his colleagues the prescience which foresaw, and
therefore prepared .against, coming catastrophes. There
was no war in Affghttnistan when the Tories resolved
upon an income tax, but, with that prophetic force of
vision which penetrates the mysteries of futurity, they
discovered at a glance what was to happen.
4, Stanley, the sage, whose comprehensive view,
The past, the present, and the future knew"—

saw that an inconw tax was the only State remedy, and
therefore he adopted it without uttering a syllable about
the anticipated reverses in Caubul. Were the occasion
less serious, we might be amused with the cool im-
pudence of this speech. This Parliamentary defence of
second-sight legislation is rich in absurdity. But neither
the war in China, nor the reverses in Caubul, have had
anything to do with the question of the income tax, and
the attempt to mix them up with it is as inpudent as
it is dishonest. The war with China was as clearly
foreseen by the Tories in 1833, as the reverses in Air-
ghanistau were by the Ministers when they resolved
upon an income tax ; and yet what was the opinion then
expressed by Sir R. PEEL of sueh an impost ? We are
indebted to Mr. WALLACE for last night bringing it to the
recollection of the Right Hon. Baronet and his friends.
Sir RQBERT then praised the Government for not adopt-
ing an income tax, and, although a war in Syria was ex-
pected to embroil us in hostilities with France, he con-
tended that nothing but extreme necessity could
justify Parliament in subjecting the people of this
country, in a time of peace, to the • inquisitorial
process which must be resorted to, in order to render
that impost productive, and that it would be the excess
of folly to have recourse to it for raising two or three
per cent. Now this excess of fully, denounced in 1833,
is the Conservative excess of wisdom in 1842. The
fruit of the Premier's meditation is but a returning " of
the dog to his vomit," and of the " sow that was washed,
to her wallowing in the mire."

it. PEEL, with an air of contrition for past offences,
cordially ashamed, or at least shammhfg shame, admitted
that he could not maintain the practice he voted for on
Monday, but he declined to take an active part in putting
an end to it. Bat a great man like Sir ROBERT, being
always able to obtain some titled persons to do his dirty
work, the Noble Lord we have mentioned is to act for the
leader of the House. Sir ROBERT conceals his
own disgrace beneath the splend;d and dazzling honours
of his Aided followers. His confession, however, and
Lord Fn.tscis EGERTON'S motion, promise a complete
settlement of the question, and Mr. T. DUNCOMBE will
have the high honour of wringing from the Tory majo-
rity of .the House of Commons the recognition of the
right of the people, after it has been suspended for
years, to petition against a tax intended to form a part
of the supplies for the year.
Sir ROBERT PEE-L's conduct on this question was, as
usual, equally cunning and contradictory. He submits
an income tax to the House, for which he can only find
one precedent in the' whole course of our history, and
the tax was then ticlop;:ed under circumstances which
are now totally wanting. The only precedent he
can find fails him, and he. boldly throws it aside,
and denies that an income tax is exclusively a war tax.
He appeals to the circumstances of the country. tlio de-
ficiency of the revenue, the impossibility to levy more
taxes on articles of consumption, the loss of an army in
Caubul, and war with China, to justify his proposition.
In one ease he :.is all fur reason. and casts precedent to
the wind. In the other he is all for precedent and treats
reason as a charmer, against whom lie is bound to shut

his ears. lie should stick either to reason or to prece-

dent ; but, to wake sure of his.vietory, he introduces his
tax us a proposition of reason, and forbids it to be ques-

tioned by appealing to precedent. His cunning is now

undoubted, but such crooked courses do not pass on the

world for wisdom.

From a notice given in the House ofCommons on Mon-
day night, we gather that it is the intention of the agricul-
turists to take " horned cattle " under their special
protection: We are not surprised at this, for " like
clings to like,"" and there is certainly much of a con-
genial nature between the protectors and the protected.
Both live by the soil ; both are equally dull, sluggish,
and impervious to every argument short of a sledge-
hammer ; and both can bleat and bellow on occasion
with equal vigour and effect. In one respect, however, the
ox has manifestly the advantage over the agriculturist, for
the former is a ruminating animal, whereas the latter never
ruminates at all, being Wholly destitute of the logical or
thinking faculty, and actin solely from the blind force of
instinct. But why do the agriculturists restrict the range

We Lave more than once had occasion to complain
that the liberal cause has been much injured by its
'Llniktiriii.Uonclay night Mr. LABOUCIIEJIE, With the
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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDEESDAY MOW,,cING, APRIL 13, 1842.

Isome offieerOf the Government, according to some rule.
and he will be made to pay accordingly. We take it for
granted, that the landowners, who occupy laniC"beirg
persons known to possess incomes far above 150/. a year,
will be compelled to pay- an income tax on all lands in their
own occupation of whatever description, in proportion to
the value, as well as on the rent they receive from
tenants. Our doubt and difficulty arises from persons of
an income varying between 15CL and 300/ a year de-
rived from land in their own occupation. Will they be
assessed on the same principle as mere farmers, and will
their incomes be estimated at half the amount of the
rent the land they occupy would let for? If that be the
rule, the consequence will be, that all landowners and
occupiers, who with due and ordinary diligence have in-
comes of 299/. a year and less, which they may
leave to their families for ever, will wholly escapa the in-
come tax, while the surgeon—the next door neighbour of
some such farmer—wil have to pay 5/. 18s. 6d. on a
hard-earned professional income or 200/. a year, which
is totally extinguished the instant he ceases to labour.
This is only. one of the many hard inequalities ant
gross acts of injustice which will be perpetrated by the
income tax. We do not envy the landowners and occu-
pier who escapes, but we do say that all other men
ought to escape as he escapes.

MONEY and COMMitRCIAL NEWS

CITY, TUESDAY EVENING.
This hal been again a completely blank day, totally
without business, either in the produce or m mey markets;
and, in the absence of foreign arrivals, without news. The
uncertainty which the present unsettled state of the intended
alterations in the duties, &c., causes in the various trades, de-
ters merchants and dealers from operating.
Consols left off at 901 90/ for Money and for the Account.
Bank Stock 166 167 ; Exchequer Bills 36 38 prem.
The price of Belgian was 103 104: Brazilian, 67 68 ;
Danish, 801 81; Dutch Two-and.a-Half per Cents , 521 ;
and the Five per Cents., 1n • -1. The quotation of Portuguese
Five per Cents. was 36 1; the Three per Cents., 21 1; Co-
lombian, 271 1; Mexican, 41 1; Spanish Five per Cents,,
25 i; the Three per Cents., 251
Birmingham Railroad Shares were 85, 87; Great Western,
281, 291; the Half Shares, 15,
151, prem. ; Birmingham and
Gloucester, 56, 58; South Western and Gosport, 60, 61 ;
North Midland, 71, 72; the New Shares, 35, 351; and
Brighton, 361, 361, per Share.
The exchange on Hamburgh improved to 13.13, 13.131; on
other places the rates were firm ; Amsterdam, 12.5, 12.51;
Rotterdam, 12.51; Paris, 25.82, 25.871.
The Quartorly Sales of Indigo commenced this day. The
quantity advertized amounts to 5,359 chests, consisting of the
following, viz. :-3,624 chests Bengal, 595 Madras, 634 Kur-
pah, 429 Oude, 36 Bimlapatam, 37 Bombay, 4 Manilla—total
5,359 chests. Before the 'sales commenced 426 chests were
withdrawn, and the importers manifested an unwillingness to
take lees than January prices, at which biddings commenced,
with a fair competition for the ordinary and middling qualities ;
but for the good and fine, suitable for Russia, the competition
was much greater, at 2d a 4d per lb. above the January prices;
and out of 806 chests gone through to-day, 685 have found
buye.i, at prices raging from 2s. a 7s. Id. per lb. There
was a good attendance of buyers from the manufacturing dis-
tricts, as also from the continent, who seem satisfied with the
present rates, and purchase with confideece.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
The prices of the English funds have been drooping to day,
and now are not quite so good. The depression can only be
accounted for upon the supposition that this is a slight reaction
consequent upon the Ire rise. Consols having been sold at
90/ for money, are now marked 901 ; and 93 for the Account.
New Three and a Half per Cents., 100 100/ ; Three per Cents.
Reduced, 89/ 90; India Bonds, 16; and Exchequer BD:3,
36 38 premium.
The Foreign Market has had literally nothing doing; the
nominal quotations for Colombian are 27/ for Money, and 271
for the Account • Buenos Ayres, 24 25; Spanish Active
Five per Cent. Bonds, 25 251; and the New Three per Cent.
Stock, 251. The price of the Dutch Two-and-a -Half pet
' Cents. is 52/, and of the Five per Cents. 100 1001.
The depression in our own Stocks has caused Railway Shares
to be less in request than they were yesterday, but the rates
remain the same. Great Western, 93% ; South Western,
60k; Midland Counties, 80; Birmingham and Derby, 54% ;
Greenwich Prit ilege, 171; and Brighton, 36j 361 per share.
Intelligence has been received at the North and South Ame-
rican Coffee-house, by means of Watson's telegraph, that Ge-
neral Carmona, and General Eran, the President of New
Granada, had met and arranged their disputes, and that peace
had been proclaimed. This information was brought by the.
Diana, front Savanilla to Liverpool, off Cape Clear, out forty
days, having sailed on the 20th February.
Acceunts to the 18th of February have been received from
Porto Rico. The prospect of the sugar crop appeared to be
good, and trade generally had improved.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKI.7I, APRIL 11, had some ap-
pearance of briskness', and Saturday's prices were fully sup-
ported. 300 American were taken for export, and the entire
sales amounted to 6.000 bales, namely, 2,000 Surat, 3d. to 41d. :
150 Bahia, 61,1. ; 150 Maranham, sd. to 61d. ;i7O Pernams, Old.
to 7d. ; 60 Egyptian, 76. to Bd. ; 3,570 American, 41d. to 6d.
LP/meow. SHARE MARKET, APRIL 11.—The transac-
tions in Railway stock were rather few, but there was little
variation in, prices. Eastern Counties, 9/ ; the New Shares.
41. 16s. Bd. ; Brighton, 371; South Western, 601 ; Paris and
Rouen, 141 ; Great Western Halves, 651, Fifths, 104; London
and Birmingham New 321. Shares, 30. The market closed
firmly, especially for the two last named lines.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 11.—We have
a good demand for Railway Stock, and prices continue very
firm. Manchester and ilireningham, 281; Mahchester and
Leeds, 82 83 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 481 481; Alliance
Bank, 241; Manchester Assurance, 9%.

CLOSING PRICES. •
BRITISH FUNDS. .
Bank Stock .. 167 India Stock .
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3 per Cent Red. B9l Ditto Bonds l5 pm
3 per Cent Cans 9Ol Ditto Old Annuities ... 861
3f per Cent Red . 99 Ditte New Annuities...
New 31 per Cent
New 5 per Cent.
Long Annuities ;.oexpire 1 Ditto Small 37 pm
Jan. 1860 ..... ..... 12 7-16 Bank Stock for Acct ~.
Oct 1859. ........ 121 India Stock For Acct....
Jan. 1860. ....... 12 11-16 Consols for Acct 9Ol
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 p.,.. cent.... Portuguese, 5 per cent. 04
Belgian, 5 pei cent Ditto, New Ditto —
Brazilian 80nd5.... ...... Prussian, 5 per cent. ~ —
Buenos Ayres 6 per cite 1 Russian, 5 per cent. ....
Chain, 6 per cent..... Ditto, Meta11ic.........,. --
Colombian, 6 pet cent.. !Spanish, 5 per cent.
Ditto, 1824.. ...,... ..... 27f 'Ditto, Deferred.... ..
Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent. —4. —c•
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange 1 c.
Mexican, 5 ter cent.... 41 French, 3 percent —'. —e
Ditto, i per cell% 1637 Dutch, 21 per cent.. 52/
Peruvian,lB2.s, F. per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent. .. . 1001
SHARES.
Birmingham and Derby Railway (100 pd) 541
Eastern Counties Railway (23 Laid) ...
Ditto New Shares (-- paid) ..... 4/ 19s 2d
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid)
... 49
Great Western Railway (65 paid) 94
London and Brighton (50 paid)
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COURSE OF EXCHANGE--(YESTERDAY.)
Amsterdam CF.I2 8 Gibraltar,.. .. .. . 46
Ditto, at sight
.. 30 20
Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 Ili Genoa .
25 95
Antwerp
Hamburgh M.D. 13 151 Venice 47
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 75 Palermo, per oz 120
Ditto, 3 months 25 95 Lisbon
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 26 0 Rio Janeiro 27
Frankfort on Maine... 152 Bahia
Petersburgh, 3Us ... 364 Buenos Ayres
Berlin ... . . .. . ............
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Vienna, effec. fl. 3 31. 957 Philadelphia
Trieste, ditto
Madrid ...
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Bilbao
Barcelona
Seville ... 351 Silver in Bars 0 4 11*

OBBARD'S MASQUERADE.
The last Masquerade cif the season, which was wit up on the
tame scale of splendour as always characterize Mr. Obbard's
masquerades, was held last night at the Crown and Anchor
Tavern, Strand.

The coml•.any was numerous and respectable ; amongst which
were many fancy characters. Sailors and Sc Achille!) abounded ;
there w, re also loads of Greeks, Turks, Chinese, &c. &c., all
of whom sustained their various characters with •considerable.
eclat. Dancing commenced at eleven, and was kept up with
great spirit till a late hour of the morning.
Supper was laid at two, and r e must express our highest
satisfaction at the excellent arrcngements.
The whole affair passed off in a most agreeable manner, and
e were pleased to see so large a number assembled, inas-
much as that is the best proof that can be adduced that Mr.
Cbbard's exertions in catering fisr the public amusement, are
fully appreciated.

HAYMARKET_ TIIEATRE.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean appeared on Monday night:in the
tragedy of the Gamester. Mr. Kean played his part most
ably, but we do not hesitate to pronounce him more effec-
tive in Hamlet and Macbeth. In two or three instances
last night we found his transitions too abrupt and sudden
to be within the use of nature, but on the whole it
was a most tremendous and beart.rending performance,
and drew forth much weeping and wailing. In some por-
tions he was fearfully real. When he falls in with his old
serving-man, Jarvis (Strickland) his entreaties to Stukeley to
find oat one ray of hope to illumine his dreary path, and his
last interview with his wife, were most powerful and affect.
ing. Of Mrs. Kein—the sweet, gentle, unresisting Mrs.
Beverley—we can only say that she exceeded all her previous
efforts, with the exception, perhaps, of Ophelia. The noble
indignation with which she
rejects Stukeley's tile proposals,
and her ejaculation, " I don't believe it !" when he tad her
that her husband had given her jewels to his mistress,
were perfect pieces of acting. Throughout the whole
piece, she sustained her wonderfully natural manner.
Both site and her husband were admirably supported by Mr.
Stuart, as Stukeley. We shall expect to see him one day at
the head of his profession, for in whatever he attempts he has
been invariably successful. The Pretty Girls of Stilbery ap •
peared on the stage after The Gamester.

GOVERNESS INSTITUTION, 30, SOIIO-SQUARE.--
Mrs. Hinton respectfully informs the Nobility, ,Gentry, and
Principals of Schools, that her list contains the names of
English and Foreign Governesses, resident, daily, and occasional,
with god references, and properly qualified to take every
branch of female education. School property transferred ; and
pupils recommended in England, France, Germany, and Swit-
zerland. Mrs. H. having resided many years on the Continent
is familiar with the modern languages. Letters must be free.
BLASTING BY GALVANISNL—Afr. Robert's mode of
blasting was for the first fine in the neighbourhood of Glas-
gow carried into practical operation in Mr. M‘Callum's quarry,
adjoining the Necropolis, on the evening of Saturday last. The
operations were directed by Mr. Wilson, of the Mechanics'
Institution, and the successful result in every instance gay,. a
most convincing proof of the practicability of the application.
Scme hundred tons of rock were detached; and several practi-
cal men wpresent, and who previously were sceptical
o n the matter,h o were
expressed their complete convictidn that the
adoption of this mode of discharge would be more efficient and
economical than the common one.—Caledonian Mercury.
COVENT GARDEN THEATRE.—Miss Adelaide Kem-
ble took her benefit on Monday at Covent-Garden Theatre.
in the opera of La Sonnambu/a. Her performance went of
brilliantly, and the house was as fully and respectably attended
as the lady herself could desire.