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FOREIGN.
The Courrier de la Gironde of the sth inst. publishes a
letter from the delegates of the Sugar Committee of Bordeaux,
giving an account of their reception by the King. They state
that the King appeared to be deeply impressed with the com-
plaints of the delegates, and of the Deputies of the Gironde,
who accompanied their, relative to the perturbation caused by
the postponement of.the sugar bill, but observed that he could
only repeat the motives assigned by his Ministers for the post-
ponement, at the same time confirming the promise made by
them to present a bill at the commencement of the next session.
A body of forty linen-manufacturers waited last week upon
the President of the Council and the Ministe:s of Commerce
and Finances, and represented to them, that more than a third
of the manufactories were standing still, and that the linen
trade was in a melancholy position. They in consequence
asked for an increased protecting duty of 10 per c, nt. on cloth,
and 15 per cent. on thread, imported from England. The
President of the Council and his two colleagues promised to
do all in their power to meet the views of the linen trade, after
the close of the se:sion. The same manufacturers afterwards
proceeded to the Chamber, and obtained a promise of support
frdm several Deputies, particularly MM. Victor Lilrandin and
Darblay.

The French Society for the Abolition of Slavery have come
to a resolution to give their sanction to the Government Bills
now before the Chambers, relative to forced expropriations in
the colonies, and to the attributes of the Colonial Councils, as
being a trausition from slavery towards abolition.
• The seventh anniversary of the birth of the Duke of Bra-
bant, heir-presumptive to the Throne of Belgium, was cele-
brated on Saturday by a grand military review. There were
to be p omotions in tile army, and the infant hero of many
well scratched nurse-faces was to receive his first commission.
Princes are all horn-wise and warlike, and are legislators and
soldiers as soon as they have cut their teeth.
The ceremony of the exchange of rings, or plighting of
troth, between the Princess Sophia of the Netherlands and the
Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar Eisenbach, took
place, on the sth inst., at the Hague, in the palace of the
Nordeinde, in the presence of the King and Queen, the parents of
the affi ineed bride, all the members of her family, the Minis-
ters of State, the Officers of the Household, and a numerous
Court. In the afternoon there was a grand dinner, and in the
everting the young couple received the congratulations of all the
Foreign Ministers, and a numerous assemblage of persons of
distinction. The front of the palace was brilliantly illuminated
with the cyphers of the affianced pair.
The Leilisic Gazette of the 4th instant, states that the Bri-
tish Government had solicited permission from Mehemet Ali
to march a body of troops through Egypt to the Isthmus of
Suez for the purpose of facilitating their arrival in India. The
Pacha is said to have replied that he could not grant the re-
quest without the consent of the Sultan. The object of Sami
Bey's visit to Constantinople is to represent to the Sultan the
inexpediency of granting a similar permission, and to suggest
the propriety of erecting a line of forts on the coast of the
Red Sea.

PARLIAMENTARY.
In the Lords, last night, some petitions were presented
against the income tax.
Lord Campbell moved the second reading of his Bill for re-
forming the Appellate Jurisdiction of the country.
. The Lord Chancellor uisapproving of the measures, moved
that they be read a second time in six months, which amend-
ment was carried after a short debate, and the Bills were thrown
out. So ends Lord Campbell's present measures of judi-
cial reform.
In the Commons, Mr. Wakley presented a petition, informing
the House that the petitioners and others would be ruined by
the income tax, which, on this plea, was ordered to be laid on
the table.
We have elsewhere adverted to Mr. T. Duncombe's motion
on the subject of petitions, the debate on which was renewed.
Here we shall only say that Sir R. Peel, Mr. M. Milnes, and
Lord Egerton, Captain Hamilton, Lord Sandon, and the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, opposed the motion, and that Lord
flowiett, Mr. H. Berkeley, Lord J. Russell, and Mr. S.
Wortley (a Tery) supported it. Ultimately it was lost
by one.
On Sir C. Napier inquiring of the Speaker if he might have
followed Sir Robert Peel on Friday night, the Speaker replied
" Yes," and a short discussion arose as to the rules of debate,
in which the Speaker maintained his previous opinion, and
Sir Robert Peel came to his aid with some cases.
The adjourned debate on the Report of the Income Tax
Resolutions was resumed by Dr. Bowring ; and after Mr.
Macaulay, Lord Stanley, Mr. Labouchere, Lord F. Egerton,
and several other Members had addressed the House, the debate
was again adjourned.
A short discussion arose on the question of the adjournment.
Lord Egerton, in the course of his speech, spoke of any factious
opposition to the measures of Sir R. Peel as highly criminal in
the present state of the country; and also made some a lotions
to Affghanistan, which was in truth a prominent subject of the
debate throughout the whole evening. confirming the statement
that the income tax is to be imposed ou the country for the sake
of conquering Cahoot.
These remarks called up Lord John Russell, who reminded
the House that the criminality was on the other side, which
had put off giving the country any relief for nine
months, and that papers connected with Affghanistan
had been laid on the table of the House, and the
Tories had not raised any question on them. Both the
Noble Lord and Sir j. Hobhouse declared themselves ready to
meet any inquiry into the origin of the war, and to take their
full share of the responsibility. Both eulogized the conduct of
Lord Auckland.
The House adjourned at a Quarter before Two.
Pun LIC OPINION.
The Morning Herald says The position which Sir Ro-
bert, as a statesmaa emphatically invited by the nation to re-
trieve it from its embarrassments, has assumed is, both per-
sonally and constitutionally, a legitimate one. Having ac-
cepted the office tendered to him in such a crisis, it is no more
than a privilege he may fairly claim to stand or fall by the ap-
probation or rokction of the general policy which he proposes
to pursue; and if he be somewhat too sensitive or positive on
this score, it is an error on the right side. It is an agreeable
novelty to see a Minister rather mere tenacious of his principles
than of his place, and we may therefore set off any seeming
wilfulness of opinion against his evident sine.rity of purpose.
Still we must not and cannot conceal the truth that Sir Ro.,
beret; dominance (if we may so term it) borrows a compara-
tive lustre from the unpoplarity of his predecessors, and that
the Opposition are blindly doing their best to heighten the con-
trast to their disadvantage."
The Chronicle, speaking of Sir Robert Peel's recent bear-
ing towards the House of Commons, observes :—" Sir R. Peel
has been in more passions since the 3d of February, not only
than Lord John Russell since his entrance into the House of
Commons, but all the Whig Ministers put together (including
Lord Stanley) during their ten years of power. It is become
a common subject of inquiry, when a Member comes into the
waiting-room, " How is Sir Robert ?" "Ishe in a passion ?"
" How is the great man's temper ?" "Did he snub Lord
Stanley ?" " Was ho rude to Mr. Baring ?" " Did he bully
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combat. He could not read hand-writing, he could not speak
two consecutive sentences. He was bearish to the Speaker ;
and if the House of Commons permit this vulgar bullying to
go on, there is really an end to the character of lit itish gentle-
men. Charles Fox used to say that nobody but a mat, of
family could lead the House of Commons Up to the present
time Sir R. Peel has disproved the opinion of the gifted Whig ;
but, of a truth, it seems that prosperity has turned his head;
and that he is not gentlemen enough to deport himself with de-
corum to his opponents. It is, however, a consolation to us
to see that there is some impartiality in these vulgarities; and
it augurs but ill for his Government that Lord Stanley is at

length showing some symptoms of self-respect, and is beginning
to discover that the head of the house of Derby ought not to
be a mere dead weight, or of Knatchbull-like dimensions in the
Cabinet."

The following is from the Post :—" No doubt there are
many who are surprised—many who are disappointed—at the
measures which the Premier has brought forward. But they
who made him the leader of the majority did not put him in
that position in order to carry this or that measure which they
approved. They gave him power because they had confidence
in his judgment, and they have not withdrawn that confidence,
although he may have come to determinations different from
what they expected. Within the last three weeks we have
heard hundre,ls of the Tory party stating the objections which
occurred to them against the measures which have been brought
forward, but ending with the assertion that they believed Sir
Robert Peel and the Duke of Wellington knew better than they
did what the honour and interests of the coun'ry required,
and therefore that the measures of the Government should have
their support."
In an article on the subject of Sir R. Peel's income tax, the
Times thus expresses itself:—" We do not pledge ourselves
meanwhile, as must have been sufficiently obvious to cur
readers, either to all the details of his plan, or to the argu-
ments which have been urged in its support. One such argu-
. merit used by Mr. Roebuck, and, we are sorry t• say, re-
echoed in a modified shape by Sir R Peel, in a debate shortly
before Eas'er, wis well refuted by Lord John Russell. It
was one of those merely popular topics which, from their very
shallowness and a certain appearance of point, men use to elicit
applause from their own supporters. 'I he opposition to the
tax as inquisitorial was met by the assertion that an honest
man need not fear the exposure of his affairs. We call such a
statement ungenerous as well as unreal. It is the random,
reckless saying of a man who knowi nothing about the difficul-
ties or the nature of business. It is like those sweeping
maxims of strict morality which some people are fond of apply-
ing to cases in which they have no concern—wide, unpractical
assertions, which only show that those who make them have
never set their minds and consciences in earnest to find out

right and wroni .. have never really dealt with those complicated
cases of conscience which every man has now and then to settle
for himself. Lord J. Russell justly protested against this fallacy."
The Liverpool Journal states that the agriculturists are
vehemently opposed to the new tariff, and observes :—" Hay-
ing had time to read, mark, and inwardly digest it, and notice
how insid:ously it cuts away that ' protection.' which, as they
very truly say, the
returned to sustain, they have raised an outcry which has
present Tory majority in the House was
alarmed the friends of free trade much more than the Minis-
ter. From one end of the three kingdoms to the other they
are up in arms, and are backed by various other smaller mo-
nopolists, whose interests are menaced by the proposed
changes. On the other hand, the resistance to the income
tax, though slow,
itself, it would add, if directed to a resolute opposition to the
is gathering, and though not formidable in
Minister, to the weight of the other."
The Dublin Evening Post thus alludes to the probable ef-
fects of the tariff on the glove trade :—" The aninirable ten
gloves of Cork are hanging in the market, and for the Limerick
gloves, which we really think better than the best Paris we
ever put on_(s„,t,
sooth to say, we are not particular in these
matters)—you cannot make sale. In England, this trade, and
all other trades included in the genuine haberdashery, are suffer-
ing. But when the duty is lowered, what will become of the
millions, we might almost say, employed in fhe work? This
question they will have to answer in England, as best they can.'
We quote the fillowing remarks from the Leeds Times :—'
"Probably it is in the division of his enemies that Peel's strength,
and their weakness, consists. An immense number of classes
and interests are dissatisfied, but all for different reasons—
some because the measure is too liberal, others because it is
oppressive and inquisitorial—some because it diminishes the
' protection' of the home producers, others because it main-
tains the most egregious mischiefs of the present system. The
agriculturists, the coal-owners,
the manufacturers, the shop-
keepers, the professional classes, are ail complaining, more or
less, but their opposition has no plan or concord ii, it : the dis-
concerted parties cannot coalesce and act together, and conse.
quently Peel feels himself strong, and his measure safe."
The .Scotsman observes, on the subject of Sir Robert Peel's
projected tariff :—We will not be entrapped into a hasty con-
demnation of the proposed ameliorations, however incomplete ;
for although certain " working interests" may suffer, the ob-
vious tendency
But if we contend that in the march of this great principle, not
of such changes is to benefit the nation at large.
even the barriers which ' protect' labour should be spared, how ;
much stronger must be our hostility to that monstrous moms-
poly which, in order to swell the rent-rolls of the aristocracy,
deprives the poor not only of bread, but of employment ! Yet

this is the master-grievance for which Sir Robert has dragged
up' the abhorred ir:come- tax from its grave expresily to degond !"
The Cambrian says:—" It cannot be too often repeated,
that Sir Robert Peel came into power to prevent justice 1)012,
done to the people. He is the Minister of the monopolists. It
is useless to tell him that there is all the difference in the
world in point of justice between a tax on property and a tax
on the income of trades and professions. He is not at liberty
to abandon the income tax part of his scheme. He has told
the House, he must carry the income tax or quit office. Of
all classes of the community, the owners of land ought, for
various reasons, to be equally taxed with the owners of per-
sonal property."

.MOIVEY—TEILDE—commEncz.
""The state of trade at Bradford is more animated; at Leicester
more is doing in the glove and hosiery lines, but general
trade is unimproved. At Blackburn and Leeds the aspect of
affairs is verydepressed ; Manchester is worse.
ItTAV.II.I. .11.11111
The .armed steam-vessel, called the Semiramis. built by
a large Parsee ship-master, for the East India Company, has
been recently launched at Bombay.
It is generally believed in the naval circles that Admiral Sir
David Milne, G. C. B. will succeed Admiral Sir G. Moore in
the Plymouth command ; Admiral Sir Chas. Rowley, G. C. 8.,
the Portsmouth command; and Rear-Admital Hyde Parker,
C. 8., to be the successor to Rear-Admiral the Honourable
D. P. Bouverie, whose time is up in July next.
.11.1 VD PO ta,C,ll,
rlobert Hall and Jonathan TsYlor, convicted at the last York
Ass,aes, for the murder of their wives, were executed at York
on Saturday last. From 10,0',0 to 12,000 persons were present.
S2ORTINC:.
Yester,;ay the Queen's stag-hounds met at Slough : the three
days' spring hunt in the New Forest fixed upon for next week
has been postponed.
otravr —Twin: NIXECLE.
The Archbishop of Canterbury's public dinners at Lambeth
Palace will commence on Saturday next.
The Earl and Countess of Jersey entertained a select circle at
dinner on Satu, slay, in 13erkeley-square.
His Excellency Earl De Grey arrived at the family mansion
on Thursday, from Dubin Castle.
The Earl of St. Germains has arrived at the Marine Hotel,
Hastings.
Viscount and Viscountess Beresford left Bedgebury Park,
Kent, yesterday, for Cavendish-square.
Viscount Villiers left town on Saturday last for Newmarket.
Lord Crewe has arrived at Mivart's Hotel, from Crewe Hall,
Cheshire.

Sir Robert Peel will give a grand dinner on the 23J inst., al
Whitehall,

WITSCELLAMMOITS.
Mr. Yates, the actor, has become so much better, as to en.
able Mrs. Yates to resume her duties at the Dublin Theatre.
Petitions against the income tax have been numerously
signed at Wolverhampton, Wakefield, Darlington, Durham,
Wooler, the parish of St. Marvlebone, and several county
towns during the past week.
On yesterday was concluded, in 1713, the celebrated peace of
Utrecht, and with it terminated the 12 years' war for the suc-
cession to the throne of Spain.
At a meeting of the Floricultural Society last week, it was
stated, in token of the high price and value of tulips, that in
1809, Titian, a fine specimen, sold for 50/. ; Dowager Coun-
tess of Aylesbury, 100/. ; Gloria Florum Suprema, 300/. ; and
in 1818, Joie de Davey, 500/.