The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-16 00:00:00

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

Pcasmourn, MoNnAr.—Prepirations are being made
throughout the district for the reception of a large military
Force of several thousand men. Orders have been issued for

the barracks of this garrison to be got ready fur the occup;ti;
of as many men as they can conveniently contain. Similar
instructions have been -forwarded to the barrack-masters at
Chichester, Winchester, the Isle of Wight, &c. The regiments
about to be quartered here are those destined for foreign ser-,
vice, 'so re of which will embark as soon as the transports can
be got ready to convey them to their destination..
The 10th Regiment, about to embark for India, will be hero
in a Lev days, from Glasgow, which it leaves in steam-vessels
for Liverpool, and comes on to London by the Birmingham
Railway, and thence to Gosport by the South-Western line.
Formerly it would have taken nearly a month for a regiment
to march from Glasgew here; not the distance can be per-
formed in th;rty-eight hours. The depot of the 19th Regiment
marches to-day for Brighton, to make room for the 10th. The
73d Regiment will leave in a fortnight for Woolwich, and will
be saeceeded by the 16th, at present at Winchester. In addition
to the 20th, 23d, 29th, 71st, 95th, and battalion Ritlea, which
have been ordered to be augmmted to 1,200 strong, the fol-
lowing regiments now in, or ordered to India, are also to be
augmented to the same number:—the 10th, 17th, 39th, 50th,
78th, and 86th. The head-quarters of seve:al of these regi-
ments will be in this district. The Albany Barracks, in the Isle
of Wight, are intended as one of the depots for regiments in the
East Indies, and it is anticipated that they will be occup'ed by
between 2,000 and 3,000 troops in the course of the sum-
mer. The officers of Parkhurst prison, who have been men.-
pying apartments, as also General -Eveleigh, Captain By-
grave, and others on the establishment, have orders to leave
immediately. The barracks and the various offices are being
put in suitable repair and order to receive the troops. The
newly-raised St. Helena regiment, now lying at Winchester,
will be removed into them as soon as they are ready for its re-
ception. The 16th Regiment at Winchester was reviewed on
Wednesday by the Commander-in-Chief of the district, Major-
General Sir Hercules Pakenham, who expressed himself much
pleasA at the excellent state of discipline which the regiment
pourtrayed.
The :32,1 and 34th Regiments will continue for soma time"
longer in their present quarters at Portsmouth, and perform
garrison duty. As the service companies of these regiments
ha.,e but recently returned from Canada, it is not rntiripated
that they will be immediately ordered for foreign service, sinless
upon some extraordinary occasion. Both of those regiments
are in a very effective state, and admirably disciplined.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
tilLOßE.—Lord Brougham's "Resolutions" touch
all the pointS in Sir Robert Peel's plan of finance
which demand discussion, before the country. can
justly be called on to acquiesce in it, We have not
hesitated to express our opinion that the principle or
direct taxation is . not what, is objectionable in that
plan; under existing circumstances. What is obje,c-
tionable is, that the principle is not carried put with.
fairness. "Itis my duty," said the Prime Min;ster,,'
"tq make an earnest appeal to the possessors of pro-.
perty."' It was his duty. It is a duty which, we think, has
been too long postponed. Parties have been amusing.
themselves (to borrow a simile from Hume's Essay's)
with a match of cudgel-playing in a china-shop—with
a struggle for power amidst failing finances. The
ale-
ananas of the public service have been yearly in--j
creasin,4' while no corresponding increase has been
obtained in' the means of meeting' them. The
late Government proposed' to relieve' our finance
by removing, " restrictions- on our commerce ; and
we have na doubt that the end would 'have
beef( attained with the aid of time. But a great
pare of . our difficulties, though largely owing
to anti-commercial laws, did. not admit of immediate
removal by the relaxation of 'those laws. The short
supplies of the first necess,..ries, which the impro-
vidence of monopoly brought on us; could not be
converted to immediate abundance by an f'4.*Orange
in the Corn-laws. We hold, therefore, iliat). con-
cuiTently with the liberal measures of the late Go-
vernment, a direct, and not a speculative,' provision
sh,,uld have beea made for deficit. Half the
du y of financiers was omitted in-"qmitting., to pro-
for the present. The- late litidget cannot.
be seriously affirmed to have made such provision.
Financiers omit the other half of their duty in diS,
regarding the future; and that is What appears to us
the failure of the 7! present administration. We hold.
that the imposition of new burdens ought to have been
accompanied by the coacessionOlboons which mace net
been concerfed to commerce andindustry. We hold that
in the imposition of those burdens there should have
'been exercised a discrimination which lies not been ex-
'crei.ged between the various source.; of income; aiNthat
their comparative value and prntanenee should have
formed the measure of imposition. It is indeed idle
to attempt to estimate the comparative interest of
io, ul.,cue.GnlETs
()RIMMED TO INDIA—The 10th Foot
richer and poorer citizens in the preservation of public
credit, and the payment of public services.' Mit it is
no more than justice to take into calcidatien the, com-
parative value-of their possessions—of those perma-
nent' or precarious reao (trees yon make the
nibject of taxation.
STANDARD.—Iiord Brougham given notice
,
niine resolutions, condemnatory of Sir Robert Peers
financial plan. These resolutions will be found in the 25th (from the Cape), and the 29th ie invents are ordered
our Parliamentary report. None will be so rash as to 11 t procoed immediately to 11)(4 g

EDINBURGH & GLASGOW RAIL-

NV AY.--4U.NDAY TRAINS.
Yesterday, as onr•readers are already aware, the first
Sunday trains commenced running on the Edinburgh and
Glasgow Railway ; and we are happy to state that
everything went off in the most quiet and orderly man-
ner. So far as Glasgow is concerned. we are enabled to
state that. not one of its inhabitants, hitt for the
previous annottwement inade in the advertisements
(4.; the Company, would have. known that such a
thing as a railway train had been put in motion ;
the streets were as quiet and decorous ns on former
Sa'abaths, and even in the neighbenehood of the terminus
scarcely any di&rence could be observable. In the
afternoon and evening, it is true, a number of people,
actuated•by feelings of curiosity, assembled to witness
the departure and arrival of the trains both here and at
Cowlairs ; but in a few moments. their curiosity was
gratified, and they dispersed without the slightest breach
of decency or decorum being exhibited,
The number of passengers who passed. along the line,
going and coining, was 878. In the morning train from
Ghtsgoiv there were nine carriages,. there of each claSs,
Carrying 259 passengers, the greater portion of whom
were.for Bishopbriggs; Kirkintilloch, and the stations in
the west. The morning train from Edinburgh, on its
arrival in Glasgow, had 197 passengers. The evening
train from Glasgow had 143 passengers, and the evening
train from Edinburgh. 279.
It has been alleged that the Sunday travelling must
have the effect of making people, who would otherwise
travel on. Saturday, postpone their journey till the Sun-
day ;Ibut it so happens that, on Saturday last, there
were more persons conveyed aloe:„ the line than have
iysetto day. _l flu G
been antyisyone , day. 10 Irf Monday,esh
shall see what the result

-I::.EW LITERARY SOCIETY.—Steps are being taken
for the-formation of a new association, to forward whose views
it is understood that every ficility will be given by Government
for the publication of collections from the public records. It
will be estahlidied on the basis of the Camden, Percy, Parker,
and other societies, its object being to collect historical evidence
from these important and extensive national records, which are
to be rioted in a classified form. Thcse matters of inquiry
will furnish ample records to a faithful history of this country,
particularly in every event of moment or importance;. and -or
course more authentic than can can be obtained from any other

C NT-GRI/EN THEATR
liE.
opera A
of the Marriage of Figaro was presented,
fortlez?‘r'
firstltjE time at this theatre, last -night,- and the cast of
characters, with Miss Adelaide Kemble as the donna, in
Susanna, from the promise it' held forth, drew a full house at
the opening. The prototype of Le Nozzo on the Italian stage
has long ago explained the plot it involves—if any plot,
indeed, exist—seeing that the whole piece is resolvable into
the simple fact, of a species of volatile infideEty on the part
of a certain Count and Countess, whose warm over-extibe-
ranee of feeling, natural to the sun-glowing South, find-
ing no reciprocity between themselves, fastens, with a sort of
contraband fondness, upon the first and fairest whom either
meets with. Hence originate the jocose intricacies
of the piece ; the jealousies, alarms' and mutual per -
turbat ons which by turns seize each of the characters,
giving finish to the acting, and alternating passion or gaiety
generarroguerv, however, of those amours
thesimplicity of affection existing between Fi-
t is o
relieved the
by The
garo ( Mr. Leffler) and Susanna (Miss Adelaide Keaible), the
former of whom realises one of the handsomest specimens of
the Leporello order on the stage. Miss Kemble had to grapple
with the difficulties of a new department last night ; her tones
and carriage in the higher range of operatic tragedy have, been
tested and written down approved. Comedy was a trial of her
powers in a new shape, and the versatility of her voice and
talent carried her equally well through its requirements.
Very lovely, indeed, was her manner of singing the canzone
in the sec ,nd scene, which described, like the celebrated
Sapphic, the varying raptures and pains of love : this
was encored, as was also an exquisite little duo be.
tween herself and the Countess ( Miss Rainforth), apper-
taining to the inditing of a letter, the arch conclusion of
which, contained in the words, " The rest, no doubt, he'll
comprehend," formed, by the sweetness of the two voices in
union, a brilliant morsel. Miss Kemble's execution of the
air in the third scene, " 0 come, no more delay," was her
most charming and effective passage, and the depth of luxury
breathed by her in the invitation to come, where,
the night-flower waking
From out her fragrant breast perfume is shaking,
as well as the delicious rests made by her upon the hat words of
Haste thee, my darling, white the world reposes,
0 come! and I will crown thy forehead fair with rose's !
called down encore, and a redoubled peal of applause. Madame
VeAria, as the beauty-page Cherubino, was rife with fascina-
tion, and Leffler inimitable in his little guitar pas•,age. Their
duet, where he taunts the page upon his becoming a soldier, to
the curtailment of his tresses and danlyisms, was smartly touched
off, and the sudden assumption of a military step and air by Che •
;lbino was truly heroic—there was a sunny richness upon the fea-
tures of both thrutighout the piece. Miss ltainforth's execution of
the aria," Fled fir ever," was classically and beautifully chaste :
her tremulous stresses were of true sweetness. At the fall of
the curtain Miss Kemble, in answer to the call of the audience,
appeared, with Madame Vest ris, and on a bouquet being thrown,
amid the applause, at her feet, by a graceful impulse she divided
its honours with the latter; afterwards Mr Leffler, with Miss
Rainforth and Mr Stretton, appeared in answer to the same
honour. .

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, March 15.

The LORD CHANCEiLLOR took his seat on the Woo]
sack at Five o'Clock.

The LORD CHANCELLOR, 'in moving that the
Repoit respecting Presbyterian Marriages in Ireland,
which he' had laid the table of the House- last
tight, be printed, said that, With reference to
.that Report, he Would just mention that he had
this morning received some resolution's agreed to
by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in
Ireland, and held in Belfast, which had been communi-
cated to him by the Moderator. Referring to the
case at Carrickfergus, one resolution was to the effect
that under the unhappy circumstances of this case they
(the Assembly) were anxious that Parliament should
abstain from legislation on this subject until an
appeal had been made to the House of Lords, which
would determine what marriages were allowed b)
law. Another resolution stated that since passing
the foregoing resolutions they had heard with
great satisfaction that a committee of that House had
been appointed to take into consideration the laW re-
lating to marriages in Ireland.
Lord BROUGHAM said that this was the Assembly
to which he had referred on several occasions in alluding
to the subject of Presbyterian marriages.
Several messages came up from the House of Com
mons, bringing up the West India (Bishops) Bill, Mit-
ford's Divorce Bill, the London and Greenwich Railway
Act Amendment Bill, and other measures.