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LONDON?
TUESDAY _MORNING, APRIL 19, 1842.

The House of Commona List night agreed, by a majo-
rity of 97, the numbers being 285 and 188, to give a first
reading to the Income-tat Bill. Lord JOIIN RUSSELL
opposed the measure, and Mr. Fox MAULE, Mr. THOMAS
DuscomnE, in an excellent speech, the details of which
we recommend to our readers' consideration, and Mr.
COBDEN, took the same side; but we regret to say that
other gentlemen, sitting opposite to Sir ROBERT PEEL,
both spoke, and said they would vote, in favour of
his measure. Scarcely content with giving their reasons
for thus being parties to inflicting intolerable grievance
on their constituents, two of them, Mr. RAIKES CURRIE
and Mr. ROEBUCK, pronounced, each envying, perhaps,
the eloquence of the other, a warm panegyric on the
measure and character of Sir ROBERT PEEL. His
conduct was described as straightforward, manly,
honest, bold, and suited to the exigencies of the
country. It is unpleasant not to share in such
admiration, but difli3ring entirely from Mr. ROE-
BUCK and Mr. RAIKES CURRIE, we must repeat our opi-
nion, that a more Machiavellian course—a course more
certainly intended to obtain an end, which Sir R. PEEL
himself dare not avow, an end which it was the burden
of Mr. ltoEnucK's speech to condemn, the preservation
of his own power, by sowing sordid divisions
amongst the people—a more Machiavellian course
than that of Sir ROBERT PEEL never fell under our
notice. Differing entirely from Mr. ROEBUCK in his
appreciation of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S conduct—for
barefaced impudence doesnot impose on us for courage—
we differ entirely also from the conclusions to which
Mr. ROEBUCK came. We inquire not into his motives
for his conduct—he must answer to his constituents; but
we sha,-!1 state one or two objections to his reasoning.
It is Mr. ROEBUCK'S opinion, and in this we
agree, that the Government is too extravagant,
and that its extravagance is a great injury to
the community. Moreover, Mr. ROEBUCK agrees
with us in condemning the present constitution of the
House of Commons. Sir R. PEEL approves of this, and
demands more money. To two fundamental articles
of Mr. ROEBUCK'S political creed Sir R. PEEL is de-
cidedly opposed ; yet Mr. ROEBUCK votes with the
Right Hon. Baronet, and says that his scheme of
policy is suited to the exigencies of the country. We
cannot comprehend that, and it seems tows either that
Mr. ROEBUCK is ignorant of the force of his own pro-
positions, or he is insincere in urging tLem.
Again, being an avowed economist and arguing
strongly in favour of retrenchment, 'knowing, as he
must, that no Government ever retrenches that can help
it, he voted to place in the hands of the Government a
new tax, amounting at least to 3,700,000/. We cannot
understand the logic of Mr. ROEBUCK'S argument and
his vote. Mr. ROEBUCK is a popular champion, and he
arms the Government with new and extensive powers.
Sir R. PEEL, by his new scheme of taxation, proposes to
levy 600,0001. more ft-Om the ,people than he wants.
In fact, including the income, he will derive from the
alterations in the tariff;- Saud from not losing the timber
duties for more than half the year, he will levy nearly
1,000,0001. more than he wants; yet for this increased
and unnecessary • burden on the people did the economy-
loving and freedom-loving Mr. ROEBUCK vote.
Mr. ROEBUCK pleaded, that the constituencies had
formed a bad House of Commons, and he seemed pleased,
rather than otherwise, that the constituencies should feel
the good of an income-ti..x. But the electors of Bath
did not send him to Parli:tanent to vac for such a tax.
If it be proper to punish in that manner the electors of
Liverpool, who returned. Lora ;iA...vwx and Mr. CRESS-
WELL, the electors of Bath, who elected Lord DUNCAN
:and Mr. ROEBUCK, do not deserve such a visitation.
Their own Member, however, has voted to inflict an
Income-tax on them.

We agree as little with Mr. lionnucK's political
economy, as with his policy. That he did not vote for
Lord Joux RUSSELL'S resolutfon, we could justify ; but
we cannot see why his abhorrence of Lord JOHN, should
lead him to approve of a worse than Lord JOHN.
The country is in distress, and Lord JOHN RUSSELL
proposed to relieve it, and increase the revenue,
by lowering- the rate of certain customs' duties. "Juggle
with the matter how you will," said Mr. Roebuck, in
substance, " the money to be raised must still come from
the people, and I do not see h(ny their advantage is more
to be consulted by raising that revenue from indirect
than direct taxation." To us i t is clear that, by Lord
J.
RussELL's plan, the State would get no increase of

revenue, unless trade flourished and consumption
increased. It is essential to the success of that
plan that the people prosper. To levy it will re-
quire no new machinery. But the direct taxation pro-
posed by Sir R. PEEL limits the enjoyment of the people
in proportion to its amount, and the Exchequer may, by
that means, be filled while the people are ruined. It
requires, too, a host of new officials. We do
not say that indirect is always to be preferred
to direct taxation, but Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S WAS
to increase the revenue by increasing the consumption
of the people. Sir R. PEEL'S plan is to increase it by
taking from their means of enjoyment. Mr. ROEBUCK
voted to tax the electors of Bath 7d. per pound on their
incomes, for which they will get nothing whatever but
the pleasure of paying it. Admitting that Mr. ROE-
BUCK'S speech was clever,.we never heard one which was
more like special pleading, too, in a cause which was felt
to be essentially bad.
Forsaken by those we trusted—hearing nothing but
eulogi um on our opponen ts —almost deserted,we are afraid,
by the people themselves—we cannot and will not de-
spair. Our cause suffers because the Members of the
House of Commons have no other alternative imme-
diately offered them than the scheme of Sir R. PEEL, or
that of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, and those who do not ap-
prove of the one embrace the other. All agree in this,
that the Government must have, and must spenl more
money. In that we do not agree. The expenditure of
the Government is ruining the people, and the Legisla-
ture forget its primury duty when, for the sake of pre-
serving the former, it inflicts an irreparable injury on the
latter. The present condition of the people, we beg to
tell both Whigs and Tories, speaks in tones of deep
misery against any and every increase of taxation.

Since the tariff question has been mooted, we have
convicted the Corn-law, by the complaints of the agri-
culturits, of plundering the consumers to a greater ex-
tent than ever was ascribed to it by Messrs. llumE,
NPGRECOR, and BOWRING. We have now another proof
of the same fact. A new weekly publication, called the
Church and State Gazette, is extremely anxious to de-
monstrate that Sir ROBEET PEEL'S Corn Bill and his
tariff will confer immense advantages on the public. It
says, " Surely no one will deny that the new Corn-law
will reduce the price of bread one penny in every quar-
tern loaf. A man, his wife, and three children will eat,
with their servant, one quartern loaf and a half per diem,
or 547 loaves per annum—say 500 loaves. Then the
new law will save him 500 pennies each year. This
will save him 2/. Is. Bd. No one'will call this exagge-
ratcd."

Now the utmost reduction of the duty is about 10 per
cent., and that reduction, according to this writer,
will save every man with a family of three children,
21. Is. Bd. 'per year. If this be not an exaggeration,
it follows, as clear as daylight, that the reduction
of the other nine-tenths of the duty would save him
181. 15s. But the quartern loaf; or rather the four-
pound loaf, does not cost more than 10d., and on this
mode of reasoning, it would then be got for nothing,
The statement is, therefore, a palpable error, committed
by this psuedo religious publication, in order to gull the
public. Sir R. PEEL'S Corn-law will not lower the
quartern loaf one penny.
At the same time, we quote the testimony of this and
other Tory Journals to the fact, that the prOposed alter-
ations in the Corn-laws and the tariff will reduce the
price of provisions, and that this reduction is a public
benefit, with great pleasure. It is of great public im-
portance. The exaggeration does not alter the principle
which the Church and State Gazette establishes—namely,
that the Corn and Provision-laws, as at pre-
sent existing, raise prices, and take away pro-
perty from all the consumers of bread and
;neat. The Gazette, and the whole body of the
Tor:es, exult and boast of the great advantage of the
small reduction, but why stop short at a little good—why
not abolish, instead of reducing the evil? While they
admit that they take ten pounds from every family un-
righteously, and boast of restoring one, what can they,
say in defence of continuing to take the other nine? For
pious people, pretending to be the guardians of the na-
tion, to acknowledge that they by means of law steal ten
pounds from every family, and to boast of restoring one,
is unquestionably the greatest piece of impudence we
have yet known the psuedo godly tribe to be guilty of. The
whole of the Church and State party continually claim
for themselves greater purity of morals than is possessed
by other men : if such be true, we wonder how society
can exist, for all other men must be, at the very least,
most impudent and in ost consummate scoundrels.

A gross system of mismanagement has long prevailed
in the transport service, and the present Government do
not seem at all inclined to abate the evil. More accidents
happen to ships carrying out troops and convicts than
to any other class. Scarcely a year pa•ses without
enormous loss of life, caused by the wreck of
old and insnilicient ships ; and notwithstanding
the frequent occurrence of such disasters, no
inquiry has been institutei[ to ascertain the cause,
nor any plan adapted for securing the lives of thousands
of human beings placed at the mercy of worn-out cap-
tains and unskilful mates. The only object Go-
vernment appears to have in view is cheap-
ness, without at ' all considering the value of
human life or the cost of the troops embarked. This
is grossly absurd, nay, it is worse—it is an absolute crime,
to risk our brave troops in ships that would hardly be
considered fit for conveying logs and spars -from
Canada. And, as if they wished to make the
evil greater, they send out these crazy vessels
one by one, so that no relief can be obtained in case of
accident. They are, in fact, wholly unprotected. Would
it not be infinitely better to despatch all the troops at
once in the best sailing vessels that can be obtained, at
whatever cost, under convoy of a ship of war, ready to
protect them, and render assistance when wanted ?
The first vessel despatched with troops to India is al-
ready ashore off Dungeness, and it is fortunate that the
wreck took place so speedily, or the whole of the troops
• might have been driven on the French coast or sunk in
the Bay of Biscay. We sincerely trust some Member
of Parliament will take up this important question, and
press upon the Government the necessity of adopting a
new plan, by which not only the lives of the soldiers
shall be placed in greater security, but the vessels shall
arrive at their destination in the shortest time possible.

Now that the House of Commons has consented to re-
ceive the petitions of the people against an inquisitorial,
oppressive, and uncalled-for system of taxation, we call
upon the trading and commercial classes to lose no
time in petitioning for the rejection of so vexatious
a measure. A deficiency of three millions in the
revenue is not sufficient to justify a British Minister
in deranging the whole commercial relations of this
great country—in demanding from every man in
Great Britain an exact account of the amount
of his income, and so leaving him at the
mercy of an army of hungry tax gatherers, and dis-
honest rivals in trade. But, say the Tories, there is
a deficiency, and money must be raised., As Sir
ROBERT PEEL has stolen so much of his plans
from the Whigs, why did he not take that
portion of it which would have made up , the
deficit without any income tax ? Why did he
he not avail himself of the revenue derivable from an
eight shilling fixed duty on corn, and the breaking up
of the great sugar monopoly ? Here was money in
abundance provided for.him by the budget of his pre-
decessor.

Tjie people must bestir themselves to prevent the
imposition of this tax. Better do that now than
disturb, the peace of the country by rising
up in arms against it, after it has become
the law of the land. We foresee what will happen,
should it be adopted by the Legislature, and, therefore,
we call upon the country to stir in time. The evil must
be cured.; bat would it not be better to prevent it?

From Madrid we have news of the 10th inst. The
majority of the Deputies were opposed to a commercial
treaty with England, the advantages of which would not
all be on the side of Spain. They were quite willing to
accept from England any modification of the import
duty on Spanish wines and fruit, but by no means dis-
posed to accept British cottons in exchange, if they could
help it. We are still, however, of opinion that a oommo-
ercial treaty will be adopted, which shall considerably
benefit both countries. We know that such a treaty is
becoming absolutely necessary for the preservation of
the wine-growers, not only of Spain but -of Portugal, as
England is now the best wine mart in the world. Wine
and fruit are among the staples of the Peninsula, whereas
manufactures are in their infancy, and but little national
loss can accrue from abandoning them altogether. That
there will be much grumbling at first we expect ; but
when trade is suffered to flow in its natural channel
conflicting interests will soon find their proper level,
none being sacrificed to bolster up others.
In a letter from Madrid of the 9th inst., we find the
following announcement, for the truth of which, how-
ever, we do not pledge ourselves :
I have to inform you that Don Enrique Maria Fernando,
the second son of the Infante Don Franci►co, is the happy
Prince Weed upon to be affianced next October to her Majesty,
and that last night remittances have been sent to M. Onis by
a Cabinet courier (going to Paris and London), to accompany
him from Vienna to Madrid. He is nineteen years old, whilst
the thi►d son is still younger than the Queen herself.
A more unobjectionable project of marriage than the
one now assumed it would be difficult to point out.
England cannot consent to a matrimonial alliance be-
tween the young Queen and a son of the King of the
FRENCH ; a Prince of any of the German houses would

be unpopular with the Spanish people ; ancl -the quarrel
. between Spain and the POPE interferes with any matri-
monial project on the side of Italy.

There is not much news in the French jour-
nals ; and the little there is has no European 'in-
terest. In the Chamber of Deputies, on Satur-
day, M. DUFACTRE presented the Report of the Railway
Committee, the reading of which was dispensed with, as
it would have occupied the Chamber for five hours..
We have given in our Summary descriptions of the
eight lines recommended by the Committee to be under-
taken first. We fear, however, that it will be many
years before they are completed. The insane project of
fortifying Paris is swallowing up all the surplus wealth-
of the kingdom. .• •
The Reform of the Criminal Code of Franco is occu-
pying the serious attention Of the French Chambers.
No subject is of more,"importsnee to the people of
France.

We learn by a letter from Stettin that the works of the rail-
way from that place to Berlin are proceedingly rapidly, and will
be completed next year. The payments by the shareholders are
made with great punctuality and promptitude.
The crettitcrs of the Tate Mr. John Cockerill held a meeting
on the 12th iDst. at Liege. It was opened with the reading of
the balance sheet, with a report from M. Soyex, the Delegate
of the Government. These statements showed the amount of
debts to be 11,783,564 f., and the assets 17,b75,640f. , leaving a
surplus of 6,092,076 f.
A widow, named Vilinion, who had been living for many
years in the Rue Payee, in a state bordering on indigence, suc-
ceeded, about a month ago, to a small property of 2,400 f.
Excited by this piece of good fortune, she indulged in liquor,
and, two nights ago, was brought home by a strange woman,
in a state of intoxication. In the morning, moaning sounds
were heard from her room, and her neighbours made their way
in. They found her bound fast on her bed, and gaggedso as
to be unable to speak, or even cry out for assistance. When
released, she told them all she could recollect, which was that
she had been drinking with a woman at a public-house, whom
she did not know, nor of whom could she give any description.
Not only her money, but every portable article of value was gone.
A family fete was lately celebrated in a private residence at
Antwerp, in honour of a female servant, 72 years of age, who
had completed her 50th year of service in the same family.
An imposing religious ceremony took place on SUnday last
at Bayeux. The Bishop having received from the Pope the
entire remains of St. Eulychius the Martyr, which were ex-
humed in 1919 from the cemetery of Calista, at Rome ' • these
relics, inclosed in a rich shrine, were borne on a bier, decked
with flowers, from the Bishop's Palace to the Cathedral, the
procession passing along the principal streets, the clergy and
choristers chanting litanies, amidst an immense concourse of
people.
A letter from Constantinople relates that a dispute having
arisen between a Greek artisan and his brother-in-law, a fel-
low-countryman, who claimed a debt which lie was unable to
pay, the' debtor, irritated by the reproaches cast upon him,
waylaid his creditor, on the 21st ult., as he was coming out of
the Church of St. Mary, and, stabbing him in various parts of
the body, killed him on the spot. The scene was witnessed by
several people in the street, but they were unable to prevent
the fatal catastrophe. They were, however, so enraged, that
they set upon the murderer, and beat him till he expired.
•-•- -

BOURSE-PABIS, SATURDAY, APRIL 16.

First Ripest Lowest

Last

_
Price Price. Pries.. • Pyle'.
French 5 net Cents llB 65 ... 118 75 ... 118 65 ... 118 75
4 per Cents lO7 5U ... 1,1 50 ... 107 50 ... 107 50
li per Cent, ........
Lcau
Slink of !trance
Latlltte Lank 1,0001. Si,arei 11:20 ...102U ...111^_0 ...le2o
5,0J01. Sluices 5042 50 ...5042 t 0 ...5040 ...SOO
Belgian Bank
S per Cent'., 1840... 104% ... 101% ... 104% ... 104%
ipanish A c,ive irAi ... 25'4 ... 25% ... 25%
Passive 5% ... 5% ... 5% '.!... 5%
'leapolitan
R 1aian......
RAILWAY BHARES.

St. Germain
Versailles, R. n 3io ... 310 ... 340 ... 340
BELGIAN k UNDS—Baussets, APRIL I.
VI
itiLocilhu:clhlladeb,L., Nanp,esrpCeernct...t
102%
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. ll3
Sper Cent. —
..
.(IS40) 1(11!,i,
Loan of City, 1'232, 4 per Cent l;5
Society of CO/01114rce, 4W, per Cent P2,
"Sank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 7d
National Society —
Exchange on London (short) ..... — •
—Brussels Papers, April 16.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS..—VIENNA, APRIL 8.
"'Pieper Coats. Metalliques
leer per Cents. lOO
Three Dar Cents.
Bank Shares
'HA 11IBU UGH BORSENHALLE, APRIL 15.
13111 s. Money.
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Snares 1663
Anglo. Russian Loan llO% 11014
Russian 5 Der Cent., Ist series, Certificate lO4 103%
Inscription, Ist series 103%
Russian 5 per Cont. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series
Ditto in Certificates 19% 99
New 4 per Cent. (1840) 894 f. 9%
Dutch Actual Debt, 234 per Cent. ......... ...,,, 51%
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Polish Bonds •.• 154
New Tickets 169%
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent.
Spanish, New b per Cents.
E2CLHANUEN ON LONDON.
HAMBURH, APRIL 15.-13 1014.—Two months, 13 8%
PETRasnuuan, APRIL s.—Two months, 38 7-32 pence.
11117 A, APRIL 8. —Three Mouths, 38%. ,
STOCKHOLM. APRIL Z.,—Seventy-five days, 12 13
CHRISTIANIA, APRIL 6.—Three months, 4 64.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.— Barium, APRIL 12.
bills. Money.
St. Schuld. Sch., 45„ per cent. 104% 10414
Prussian-English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 103 1011,4
Xxchange on London, three months 6 x 244
—Prussian State Casette. April 13

Thirty-seven

TIM CONT/tADICT!MY ATINISTRY.—The present is a
wonderfttl Administration. It came into power as the
farmers' ft.'end ; it has partly filched away their beloved
Corn-law, ai'd their cattle prohibition, and has become
the farmers' enemy. They say it has cheated them. It
appealed, by it; Income-tax, to the Chartists, and it was
supposed, tor the moment, to be the Chartists' friend.
• Now it is found out, that an Income-tax is intended to
prepare for putting down - freedom in France, and, if
possible, in the United States, and the Chartists lock at
it even more askance than the farmers. " How," they
say, " could we be such fools as to believe that the Duke
of Wellington, an old soldier, and the Tory Peel, could
sincerely mean to benefit and exalt the working classes ?
Both are great by our slavery, but fair words betrayed
us, for a moment, into believing that they were our
friends." This Administration is now upholding the
system of flogging, which degrades both army and navy;
and yet its parasites call it the sailors' friend. As it
has turned against the farmers, as the Chartists have
detected it, we hope its assumed character towards the
navy may not. indicate that it is to destroy the main arm
of our security, as it has betrayed and deceived the other
interests to which it Las pretended to be a friend.
SALTED PROVISIONS.—A return has just been laid
on' the table of the House ,of Commons of the salted
beef and salted pork imported into, and exported from
the United Kingdom from the sth of January, 1834, to
the sth of January, 1842, &c. The law permitting the
importation, brought in, if we recollect right, by the
late Lord Sydenham, came into operation at the first-
named period, and since then the exportation has suc-
cessively increased from 4,1.55 cwt. of salted beef, in
1834. to 42,956 cwt. in 1841; from 3,730 cwt. of salted
pork, in 1834, to 45,317 cwt. in 1841. There were re-
exported, in 1834—beef, 3,048 cwt.; pork, 31,331 cwt. ;
and, in 1841—beef, 32,306 cwt. ; pork, 29,367 cwt.
There remained, therefore, for consumption, in the year
1841, beef, 10,650 cwt •-; • pork, 15,950 cwt. The port
from whence the salted provisions is principally imported
into England is Hamburgh. The exports have gone
chiefly to British possessions in India, and to Bri-
tish settlements in Australia and New Zealand.
Our North American colunics, whence we might
have expected a supply, and which, in the first year,
sent 1,595 cwt. of beef, was supplied from England in
1842 with 6,472 cwt. of beef, and 2,384 cwt. of pork.
The greater part of that probably went to Newfoundland,
but it seems a most false and mistaken policy to encou-
rage the colon:: is in cutting timber, and make them
neglect the breeding and feeding of cattle. An inference
unfavourable to our restrictive policy altogether may be
drawn front the return, since it proves that a considerable
supply of provisions is in fact obtained for an increasing
' people, in spite of the Corn-law ; but it has brought
that supply to us in the condensed, and, so to :peak,
manufactured form of meat, instead of our obtaining it
in the • shape of grain. The true policy of England is
the reverse of that of Sir R. Peel, who is about to encou-
rage the importation of the inferior grains, and of meat
and cattle, when, as we must import food, the best kind of
importation is the most valuable gran, namely, wheat.

ATKINSON'S SKETCHES IN
AFFG H ANISTAN.

The private view at Messrs. Graver's. Pall-Mall, of these
interesting original drawings, made on the spot by Mr. James
Atkinson, surgeon of the army 'of the Indus, represents the
remarkable scenery of the country traversed during the cam-
paign of the British army, with characteristic sketches of the
native chiefs. The leading series of these coloured sketches,
which extend to the number .of twenty-six, is as varied of
aspect, as could naturally, be expected from a country which,
beyond green mountain-slopes and gardens, consists of preci-
pitous passes and bluff mountain-heads. These last form the
stock of Mr. Atkinson's views, assuming a diversity of rocky
conformations, variously embellished with sometimes a knot of
gay-bedizened Affghan cavalry, or more frequently, and in
keeping with the scene, robber-herds of savage Beloochees,
intent upon murder and rapine. The lighter and more ant
mated pictures are these descriptive of parts in the vicinage of
Caubul, its bridge, bazaar, citadel, and burial-ground. These
are proposed to be drawn on stone, alter the fashion of a proof
exhibited, which struck us as a good specimen of bold and dis-
tinct lithograph, for accompanying plates to Mr. Atkinson's
forthcoming work on the recent operations of the British army
in Afghanistan, and which undoubtedly promises to be a ser-
viceable and first-rate volume, Upwards of twenty smaller
sketches, representative of Caubulese and Beloochee costumes
and people, with the portraits of eminent chieftains, close the
series. Of these latter, the likeness of Abdool Rusheed Khan,
he nephew of Dost Mahoined, indicates, in personal aspect, a
keen, vigilant, and penetrative man. Naib Mahomed
Shureif Khan bears marks, an the other hand, of a desperate
vigour in his look, accompanied by strong decision. Hajec
Khan Kanker, taken at the time of his imprisonment, fur-
nishes a countenance, whose oblong length of woful sorrow
could not be surpassed by a captive of Babylon. The two
rival brothers differ much in cast of countenance: Shah
:•zoojah, by his profile, appears stolid and heavy-fronted, while
Dost Mahomed looks sagacious as a Je.4uit, with a nose aquiline
as Caesar's. We looked for Akbar Khan. but found no simili-
tude answering to that accomplished villain.

A lift' of that sturdy reformer, William Cobbett,
has been given to the world, prefixed to an excellent transla-
tion of one of his most useful works—" Advice to Young Men
and Women." This remarkable production, notwithstanding
its immense popularity in England, has never before been pub-
lished in French, and the translator, Mr. Vernes Prescott,
well merits the thanks of his countrymen for introducing to
them a work, which may be almost called a key to domestic
happiness through life.-- Gulignani's Messenger.
A philanthropist, who conceals his name, placed,
some days ago, a sum of I i,090f. in the hands of a notary, to
be at the disposal of an abbe in one of the parishes of Paris,
who is to distribute it among its indigent inhabitants.
M. Charles Ledru, the advocate, has left Paris for
Algiers, to plead before the Cour Royale of that colony, in the
affair of M. Chamorrn, son of -the General of that name.

47, 7,1 NI P ell 7. E
atilt Lta t.

AN D
VubUr Qpinton.

" Who runs may read."

POREIGIV.

The Commerce states, that the meeting at sea cf four French
ships of the line had created considerable sensation in Malta,
and induced a belief that they were proceeding to Tunis. The
Governor immediately ordered an equal force to be got ready
to sail for that destination, when it became known that those
ships were returning from Smyrna to Toulon.
The Journal de Smyrne, of March 29, says :—.lThe depar•
tore of Admiral de La Susse, with his two vessels, the Inflexi-
ble and the Santi-Petri, is talked of for the end of the week.
Baron tie Bandiera left on Sunday, in the frigate Venere, fur
the coast of Syria. It is supposed that. he will touch at Rhodes
and Castel-Rosso, to inquire into acts of piracy which have been
lately committed in that neighbourhood. Nothing new has
taken place in Syria. The Christians are still undergoing ill-
usage from the ])ruses, and have been obliged to abandon the
greater part of the mountain."
The Chamber of Deputies reformed, on Friday, the 114th
article of the Code of Criminal Instruction, relative to indivi-
dual liberty. The code gave the Judge the power or setting
an accused at liberty, on bail, when the penalty incurred by
him was only of a correctional nature. The new article, sub-
stituted in its stead, makes it imperative for him to do so.
M. Dufaure, Chairman of the Committee of the Chamber
of Deputies, to which theißailroad 13111 had berm referred for
re-examination, read his report to the Committee on Saturday.
M. Dufaure recommends the construction of six principal lines,
viz.-Ist, the Northern line, with a double entrance into Bel-
gium„by Lille and Valenciennes, and a branch line destined to
unite Paris with London ; 2d, the line to Nantes ; 3d. the
Bordeaux line ; 4th, that between Paris and 51arseilles; sth,
another between the Mediterranean and the Rhine; and 6th,
the Eastern line, extending from Paris to Strasburg.
The Spanish Chamber of Deputies was occupied, on the Bth,
with a discussion on the proposition for requesting the Govern-
ment, in the name of the Cortes, to present a Bill relative to
cotton manufactures, as promised by article two of the Tariff
Bill of last year. Several of the Deputies spoke, but the (Ls-
cussion was by no means animated, as the Ministry made no
opposition to the proposition.
There were some tumours in Madrid that the Spanish Ca-
binet had addressed to the French Minister for Foreign Affairs
a note protesting against the pastoral letter of the Archbishop
of Paris to the French clergy, in obedience to the Pope's mes-
sage, to put up prayers for the Church of Spain.
The Memorial Bordelais states that M. Oviedo, a Spanish
capitalist, residing at Bordeaux, has applied to the Spanish Go-
vernment for permission to establish joint• stock banks at Se-
ville, Cadiz, Barcelona, Malaga, Bilbao, Valencia, Corunna,
Santander, Saragossa, and Burgos, each with a capital of six
millions of rt als (1,500,0001. ), and to have the power of issuing
notes, so as to facilitate the operations of credit.
The Basle Gazette announces that the new constitution of

the canton of Schwytz was adopted, ,on the sth instant. by a
majority of twenty-five to seven. By this constitution there is
to be a Council of the canton consisting of sixty-six members,.
with an Executive Council of seven. The law tribunal of the
canton is reduced to nine members, and, in cases of condemna-
tion to death, there is to be a right of appeal to a Court com-
posed of thirty-three members. There are to be no unpaid
functionarie., and the convents ate to pay taxes not merely to
the State, but also to the districts.
The Constituent Assembly of Geneva adopted, on the 10th,
the article of the new Constitution which fixed the number of
deputies for the canton at 176.
A letter from M. Linan, Engineer-in-Chief of Canals at
Cairo, which has just been published, gives an interesting ac-
count of the public works which Mehemet Ali is getting exe-
cuted. He has finished this year in Upper Egypt, all the
works of the canal, on which nearly 400,000 workmen were
employed. "In four months," say; this letter, " more than
forty millions of cubic metres of embankments of dykes and
canals have been exeeuted, and thus Upper Egypt is at present,
so to speak, sheltered from the untoward effects of an inun-
dation. All the bridges and other works have been com-
menced, and next year all will be finished. 'l here will be
wanting to complete this great system of canalisation and na-
v;gation only the grand canal of Suebe-Sillily, in Upper Egypt,
the removal of the bars of the dyke st the point of the Delta,
and lastly the communication between the two seas."
.76) WILIAM MEN T ATLI r

The Lords were engaged all the evening with the second
reading of the Corn laws. The Earl of liipon moved the
second reading, and the Earl of Stinhope moved to read it a
second time in six months. The Noble Earl was extremely
severe on Sir Robert Pet' and his friends.. In the
course of the long debate which ensued, Lord Brougham
made a good speech, and advocated most eloquently
and forcibly the total and immediate repeal of the
Corn-laws. The Noble Lord shervt d, with ereat
clearness. the impossibility of our getting any great immediate
supplies front abroad, and the impossibility of foreign coun-
tries being able suddenly to increase their productions. The
Noble Lord moved a i esolution, as an amendment on Earl Stan-
hope's amendment, that no duty wha: ever be pad on any foreign
corn when imported. Their Lordships differed and disputed
fir some time whether Lord Brougham's amendment should
be put or not, and at length decided that it was to be put
after, and not before, Lord Stanhope's.
Earl Fitzwilliam and Lord Melbourne severally explained
hat they should vote for the second reading, though they did
not wholly approve of the Bill. .Their Lordships divided in
the first instance on Lord Stanhope's amendment, which was
lost by 119 to 17 ; and secondly, on Lord Brougham's, which was
also lost bylo9 to 5. The success of the Corn-bill is ensured,
therefore, in the House of Lords, by very 1 •rge majorities.
Their Lordships adjourned soon' after 'Twelve o'Clock.
In the Commons little business of importance was tran-
sacted—for voting away the public money is a matter of
indifference—beside reading the Income-tax*Bill a first time,
the debate on which occupied the House the greater part of
the evening. It was finally decided by 285 to 188 that the
Bill should be read a first time.
Tho House sat till one o'clock.
PZI LIC OPINION.

The Times contains the following remarks on Lord Nor-

manby's speech on Friday night in the House of Lords:—
" Lord Normanby has been meddling with edge tools, and, as
was probable, has cut his fingers. 'On Friday evening he made
an attack upon the J.ord Chancellor for his appointment cf
borough magistrates, and certainly took as little by his motion
as any Hon. or Noble Mover that we remember of late. The
charge was, that the Conservatives had appointed 364 new ma-
gistrates since last September, increasing those in Hull alone
from 24 to 32, the additional gentlemen being all of Minis-
terial politics. Lord Normanby's spec ch did not itself promise
much for his cause. It was really the production of a person
who hail nothing to say, and was ready to catch at any straw
which would support any charge, or suggest any insinuation,
however wanting in justice or in point, by which his speech
might be swelled into a sufficient extent of tediousness."
The Post observes, with reference to the war-mania still
existing to a certain degree in France:—" If French writers
and orators will vapour and talk incessantly about what France
may accomplish by warlike means, she cannot but expect to be
met with language indicating a sense of the folly and injustice
of such bravado. If France. do not mean to go to war, it is
very absurd to be filling the minds of an inflammable popula-
tion with ideas of war. If she does mean to go to war, she
will do a most absurd thing. Let her remember what was the
end of her warfare when she had so great a genius as Napoleon
to guide her energies and to direct her battles. Without him
can the expect better success than she had with him ? Does
she wish to witness again the scenes of 1814 and 1815?"
In an article on the subject of Free 'Flute, the Advertiser
thus cursorily alludes to Sir 11. Peel's tariff:--" In exclaiming
against the unwise policy of prohibitory duties, he has modified
those constituting the oppression of the present system to the
least possible extent ; and while the great articles of alimentary
consumption are left nearly as they were under his predecessors,
small monopolies are broken up, producing not so much general
good as, perhaps, individual embarrassment. But the moment
must come when the objects alluded to must be compassed, al-
though the present Premier has shrunk from the permanent
fame which would have attached to his accomplishment of
them, and we assume it is only in expectation of that moment
the country maintains its comparative quiet under its present
intolerable circumstances."

The following is from the Chronicle: —" We do not wonder
that the farmers should reproach Sir Robert Peel with incon-
sistency, both as regards the Corn-law and his income tax
opinions. If there is one man in Parliament more deeply
pledged to opposition to an income tax than another, that man
is Sir Hobert Peel. On turning to the Mirror of Parliament,
we find that, on the debate on the budget of Lord Althorp,
on April the 19th, 1833, Sir Robert Peel made the following
energetical speech against an income tax I think likewise,'
said the Right Hon. Baronet ( Mirror of Parliament, p. 1,331),
that the Noble Lord has done well in not proposing an
income or property tax. Nothing but a case of extreme neces-
sity can justify Parliament in subjecting the people of this
country, in a lime of peace, to the inquisitorial process which
must be resorted to in order to render the impost productive,
and to have recourse to such a machinery for the purpose of
raising 2or 3 per cent. would be most unwise. Such a tax is
a great resource in time of necessity, and therefore I am un-
willing, by establishing the Disc USTING inquisition with which
it must be accompanied, to create ouch an odium against it, as
would render it impossible to resort to it in time of extreme
necessity.' Who could have believed that the individual who
delivered the above speech in 1533, would be found proposing
an income tax in' a time of peace?"
We take the loll Owing from the Herald :—The slightest
glance at Sir Robert Peel's entire political career, administra-
tive or legislative, will establish that he is not a stationary poli-
elan ; he has, throughout life, been a statesman of moderate
°plutons, and in moderation there is always progress. Again,
Sir Robert Peel has never been an impracticable or obstinate
politician ; he has never made his own convictions the absolute
standard of right and wrong—of action or inaction—but has
bended his personal opinions here a little and there a little, ac-
cording to the necessities of the times and the pressure from
without. Sir Robert Peel has not, moreover, deep and enthu-
siastic convictions; be is a practical statesman, sufficiently
easily acted on by external circumstances, or the state of par-
ties. He has always been of the juste milieu; and politicians of
extreme views have no right to make his moderation a ground
of complaint against him."

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