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of Hampshire, and the subject of this. tireCatit Was born at the
The father of Sir Lionel Sm:T!l -44 Benjamin Smith, gstt.;
beginning of Oetober; in the year 1778. At the age of
seventeen .a 6.4.e.1441 thy limy; and as appointed to aft
signcy in the March of 17... th niqather serfices were per-
formed prinCipally in the East and t• eft belies, during which
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time he rose through the tfiecessite grades of Lieutenant,
Captain, Major;, OA-Colonel,
having highly distill-
guished himself in tue eBu#til es Brigadier-General,
in actions against the Peishwa, unue: the+ adininistration of the
Marquis of Hastings. In 1809 and 1810 i 1:911/Imanded an
expedition to the Persian Gulf against the Pirates.; and in
1619 was created a Major-General for his bravery in the cava::'
action at Ashla, where he was severely wounded by a sabre-cuti
on his head, His Indian services will not easily be forgotten.
But that *hich, perhaps, brought him more publicly before
the world than even his military achievements was the civil
office Which he filled in 1836, as GOVernor of Jamaica ; and
as the circumstances which he had to control were difficult.
and his conduct upon the occasion was matter of winch note
and observation, *e shall notice the conspicuous part which
he acted, and the state of the colOtty at the time of his entry
into office.

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EVFNINGS, except Saturdays, 11.0 m Sheen till half4isst Ten
o'clock.—The COLOSSAL ELECTRIFYINGMACHINE,
worked by Stearn Power, exhibiting the ELECTRIC LIGHT,
the appto.rance of the AURORA BOREALIS, &C., &C., on
a grand scale, at Three, and at Eight in the Evenings.
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p.m. At Four o'clock the Diver and Diving Bell, with Expe-
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consists of the leading features of the Morn rig, a variety of
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TL:Tnpowered by Special Act of Parliament.
DIRECTORS.
T. LAMIE MURRAY, Evil., Chairman.
J. Elliotson, M. D., ER. S. John Rawson, Esq.
John Griffith Frith, Esq. I John Riddle Stodart, Esq.
Hunter Gordon, Esq. Clement Tabor, Esq.
George Lungley, Esq. I Joseph Thompson, Esq.

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SUMMER STOCK ; in value, variety, and style it is quite
equal to any Stock in the metropolis, inclu4ing a large quantity
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SIR LIONEL'S PREDECESSOR, THE MARQUIS Or SLIGO.—
Jamaica, during the hatter part cif 1835, was the scene of re-
peated and vexatious di§ptites hetWeen the Executive and Le-
gislature, although these disputes regarded particular legislative
measures; and not any proposed alterations in the existing con-
stit htion. The principal of these measures was what was
termed "the Act irt .s-;that art Att to make provision
for carrying the Abolition Act into effeet—and a Bill for
strengthening and regulating the police, which Was rendered
necessary by the same great change. The Colonial Legisla-
ture had passed both of these measures, but only for a limited
tithe the Marquis of Sligo, who was then at the head of
the Government, was dtislrtius that they should endure for the
whole period of the apprenticeships.
Lord Sligo accordingly, thus at issue with the Legisldtrtre,
determined to persevere in his purpose; the Legislature of the
island was no less resolute in Assembly. As Governor, he re-
fused to pass the Bill as amended by the Council. The House
of Assembly voted this a breach of privilege : a prorogation
efisnedi and then a new Session, at which the House addressed
itself to the King. Affairs having; come to this crisis, the
Marquis of Sligo found the situation of Governor far from
being a pleasant one—one scarcely tolerable. He was now in
constant contact with an unfriendly Assembly, to which he had
even found it necessary, finally, to confess that he had treated
them ill : it was a position, too, which was injurious to the
dignity of his office. Accordingly, at the beginning of Sep-
tember, the Marquis of Sligo left the island, having been re-
called or allowed to resign.
In the same month that his predecessor left it, Sir Lionel
Smith, the Governor of Barhadoes, arrived at the island, and
succeeded in his place, the British Parliament, in the mean
time, having passed the Bill for reviving and continuing the
act in aid of the Colonial legislature.
Sin LioNEL's GOVERNMENT, 1836-7.—The Government
of Sir Lionel Smith gave at first great satisfaction in Jamaica.
The apprenticeship system, hitherto so troublesome, worked in
quiet; though the negroes refused to work extra-time in
raising vegetables ; yet even this was reckoned a symptom of a
very improved state of things ; the chief embarrassment he
had to contend with was in the debased state of the currency,
which was so longer adequate to the en:arged and improved
circulation of the country.
GROWING DIsQUIETUDES.—The posture of affairs in
Jamaica, however, soon became serious, and involved Sir
Lionel in imminent troubles. lie was charged, in the adminis-
tration of his Government, with acting in the spirit of a decided
partisan, and lending on all occasions, a credulous ear to the
false and highly-coloured statements of the s jpendizry Magis •
trates. It was also charged against him that he was in the
practice of transmitting to the Colonial-office all the statements
he received from these functionaries, without accompanying his
ex parte communications by any of the numerous representa-
tions which had been delivered to him from other quarters.
LORD GLENELG AND SIR LIONEL'S EXPLANATIONS.—
Despatches accordingly passed between Sir Lionel and the
head of the Colonial.offiee at home, when the former gave an
account of his administration, and the difficulties attending it :
from those despatches we give the following summary account:—
It would appear that affairs were improving in Jamaica, when
the proceedings at home, and particularly the interference ol
the Imperial Parliament, by the Slavery Abolition Amend-
ment, and the West India Prisons Bills, created an angry spirit
throughout the island. Sir Lionel, being the proposer of these
measures in the Assembly-house, as the organ of the Home
Government, at the Convention of the Legislature. June 5,
1838, advanced these measures for the abolition of apprentice.
ship. The answer of the Assembly was significant of its tem-
per. "Jamaica," they observed, " does indeed require repose ;
and we anxiously hope that should we determine to remove an
unnatural servitude, we shall be left in the exercise of our con-
stitutional privileges to legislate for the benefit of all classes,
without any further Parliamentary interference. On the 16th of
June, however, Sir Lionel Smith had the satisfaction of giving
the Royal Assent to an Act for the total abolition of prtedial
apprenticeship from the ensuing Ist of August. But it was
with no cordial spirit that the Assembly lent themselves to this
measure. It was wrung from them by the necessity of th,
cave, and the language of sullen discontent formed their Ad-
dress to the Queen shortly after. _ .

On the promulgation of the Act, however, Sir Lionel trans-
mitted a cheering picture to Lord Glenelg, in these words :
" There has hardly been time to hear generally of the effects of
the Act on the labouring population, except that they are uni-
venally quiet and happy . . . . The sugar-crop is gettinf:
on as usual . . . . Proprietors are everywhere engaged io
making bargains for wok . . . . The country is deriving
infinite benefit from the influence of the missionaries, who im-
press the negroes with moral obligations, and the just remune-
ration of their labours."

The important Ist of August arrived at length, anti the ne.rt,
population of Jamaica came into the full enjoyment of their
freedom. The day was observed by proclamation as one of
thanksgiving and prayer. Sir Lionel writes enthusiastically ot
the prevailing happiness and quiet.
Two months, however, had not elapsed from the let ot
August, before we find Sir Lionel Smith's despatches beginning
to lose their cheerful and encouraging tone. He writes ot
"the most unfortunate state of excitement throughout the
island," created by "the practice of demanding exorbitant
rents :" anti on taking the part of the negroes he writes that
• under the oppressions which bear upon them they are "pa-
tient and submissive beyond all praise ; while, however, 1 am
under no uneasiness for the peace of the island, I am powerless
to remedy the cruel wrongs imposed upon them."
But new troubles were now in store. The Act which in the
course of the session passed the Imperial Parliament, for re-
gulating the prisons. in the West Indies, which we have before
adverted to, wa,, no sooner proclaimed in Jamaica by the Go-
vernor, than it aroused a violent storm of indignation. Reso-
lutions were passed by a majority of 24 to 5 in the House of
Assembly against this Act, as a violation of all their rights as
British subjects. Upon this, Sir Lionel Smith prorogued the
Assembly for a few days, to give them time to reconsider their
decision. Again they re-assembled, when by a majority of 21
to 3, their resolutions were more determined still. The Go-
vernor, having no other resource, at once dissolved this inflam-
mable and angry assembly. "No House of Assembly," writes
the Governor, " can now be found that will acknowledge the
authority of Queen, Lords, and Commons, to enact laws for
Jamaica."

A new Assembly was nevertheless convened, and met on the
18th of December, but its proceedings too well justified Sir
Lionel's anticipations. A prorogation again ensiled, but not
unaccompanied by what Sir Lionel calls " an unpleasant cir-
cumstance;" for the proper officer, despatched to deliver the
message was, through the tumult, forced out of the House, and
when the Provost-Marshal was sent to summon this contu-
macious body, he knocked to no purpose. By a third attempt,
however, he was enabled to deliver his message at the bar.
IlEcAn or SIR LioNEL.—It was not less evi lent now to
the Government at home, than to Sir Lionel himself, that the
upshot of affairs was too serious to be tampered with. A Bill
was brought into the Imperial Pa.liament for suspending the
existing constitution of the island. But it was obvious, how-
ever, at all events, that the existing Governor, whatever
might have been the abstract merits of his administration, had
been too deeply committed in the late unhappy dissensions, for
him to carry satisfactorily into execution the conciliatory course
of policy which the Government had concerted to adopt.
Sir Lionel Smith, therefore, quitted Jamaica on the Ist of
October, 1839, and was succeeded by Sir Charles Metcalfe,
who had been lately in discharge of important functions in our
East Indian empire.
Slit LIONEL, GOVERNOR AT PORT LOUIS.--Early, we
believe, in 1840, Sir Lionel was appointed to the Governorship
of the Mauritius; and his discharge of the Administration,
which he continued up to the moment of his death, over a po-
pulation of more than 98,62:1 souls, 8,111 of whom are whites,
15,444 five blacks, 69,076 slaves, with troops and strangers, was
to the last satistacto y.
Sir Lionel was in his 64th year.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

INTELLIGENCE EXTRA.
NEWMARKET SECOND SPRING MEETING.
WEDNESDAY.

The Suffolk Stakes of 15 sovs. each, 5 ft, if declared by
noon on Monday next; the winner of the 2,000 guineas Stakes,
or the Somersetslaire Stakes at Bath, Sib extra ; of the
1,000 guineas Stakes, or the R. M. Plate, 41b extra.
John o'Gaunt, 4 yrs, 9st 41b ; Potentia, 4 yrs, 9st 31b ; The
Currier. 4 yrs, Sst; Ralph, 4 yrs, Sst 101 b ; The Corsair,
6 yrs, Bst 1011); Johnny, 5 yrs, Bst 51b • Bob Peel, 5 yrs,
Set 51b ; Rory (J'More, 6 yrs, Bst 31b; ielmyra, 5 yrs, Set ;
The Nob, 4 yrs, Bst ; The Genius, 5 yrs, ist 101 b ; Una, 4 yrs.
ist 81b ; I-am-not-aware, aged, 7st 51b ; Mustapha, 4 yrs,
ist 51b ; Minaret, 4 yrs, ist Sib ; Florence, 4 yrs. 7st 31b ; St.
Colomb 4 yrs, 7st; Agreeable coltL 3 yrs, Est 121 b; Sister to
Glencoe, 4 yrs, Est 101 b ; Fidhatiti, 4 yrs, tist 71b ; Miss
Fidget, 4 yrs, 6st 51b; Nuncio, 3 yrs, 6st 51b; The-evil-
among•the-Tailors, 3 yrs, 6st, 51b ; Tripoli, 3 yrs, Est 51b ;
Ilaitoe, 3 yrs, sst 91b; Norma, 3 yrs, sst 91b; Taurica, 4 yrs,
paid 5 sovs. ft.
CRAVEN MEETING, 1843.—M0/inns-.
_ . _

Lord Kelburne's c by Velocipede, out of Amulet, Bst 41b,
against Col. Peel's c by lon, out of Alalibran, Bst. T. Y. C.
h ft.

ASCOT HEATH, 1842.-_TBURSDAY,

Nominations fur the Gold Cup.—Marshal Soult, 4 yrs ;
Beeswing, acrd; Bokhara, 5 yrs ; St. Francis, aged ; Ralph,
4 yrs ; Jack, 3 yrs ; Lanercost, 6 yrs ; Eringo, 4 yrs ; Little
Wonder, 5 yrs ; The Nob, 4 yrs ; Potentia, 4 rs.

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and feeble beginnings of this most important charity. In
ark
that year you were enabled to place upon you,r.verb:
TAW...IIIFROMICIIIIMrSIIWW i11ir......11.1111.1•11ft. four male and two female pensioners. At the f."ll° w-
ing election there were only six males and tines' fema' les-
And, within a period of nine years, so strong the
practical proofs of the utility and enlightened beneel" axe
of this Institution, you were enabled, at a single elee. lists,
to appoint, instead of nine, no less than ninety pension e is
on your bounty, and to place upon your books a 'tuna* t
of pensioners amounting altogether, I believe, to not less, 4
or little less, than coo. But, unhappily, a change came
over the prospects of your Institution—a change to be
deprecated in any case where the progress of a useful
and benevolent society is arrested by unexpected causes ;
but a change, most of all to be deprecated, when the
failure fell not on the prospective, or contingent, or pos-
sible objects of your bounty, but, when I may almost
I say, a breach of faith had been committed, and those to
whom you had, in some measure, pledged yourselves that,
you should continue a monthly payment of 31s. were'
limited to a still more humble pittance. It.
must have been most painful to - the, pito-
motors of this charity to have felt themselves
compelled, by a cessation of subscriptions , nets
only to cease adding to the number of the objects of 'their
benevolence, but to take, as was the case, from nmen at
GO, 70, or 80 years of age, a large portion of tints pit-
iance which they had promised themselves would c.heer
and relieve their declining years. In 1833, instead of 31s_
a month to male pensioners, you were enabled to give but,
35., and instead of 225. you were enabled to give- but
2s. to females. That effect was not to be attributed. to a
decline of charitable feeling—God forbid—but to the
increase of local pension societies,. which withdrew large
sums from your subscriptions. But, since the year 1833 s
the prospects of the institution have gradually improved,
and, I believe, you have since been enabled to give 15s.
a month to the older recipients of your bounty. An in-
stitution like this, open for the relief of the honest and
industrious artizan whom misfortune has overtaken in
the decline of life, deserves every snpport and sympathy.
I hope that with your aid, its benefits may be perma-
nently increased ; and I now call upon you to drink to
"The prosperity of the London General Pension Socissty "'
1 The toast was drunk with enthusiastic applause. •
The health of the Duke of Buceleuch, the Presidient
of the Institution was next drank.
The Secretary here read the list of subscriptions for
the day, which amounted to a sum of 1,2201. The list
was headed by ascontribution from her Majesty of 100 t.
Mr. LIDDELL, M.l'., in an eloquent address, proposed
;he
health of the Chairman, the Right Honourable Lord
Stank .. v.
sist was received with loud cheering, again an&
The t,
.ed.e The ladies in the gallery joined in the
waving of handkerchiefs.
The Cusiests.'
again renes.
applause by tr.
returned thanks, proposed the
1
'o,,', Esq., to whoa: the Institution
was so much indebted,
%limo bad so largely contributed
to its funds and supportea ' laving
health of J. I. Brim.
it by his exertions in times of
adversity.
Mr. BRISCOE returned thanks.
The toast of " The Ladies who had honoured the
company by their presence that evening" was next pre,
posed and duly honoured.
:The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the next toast, said'
that as that was not the only engagement he had to fill
in the course of the evening, he hoped he would be ex- .
cused if he coupled the names of two gentlemen, officers
of the Institution, whose healths he should have pro-
pTosed separately, and to whose exertioes the Society was
so L'illeh indebted. lie begged to propose to them' he
healtiss of Mr. Perry, the Treasurer, and of Mr. Richard-
son, the tiecretary to the Institution."
The tos'st was drunk amidst great applause.
sse, rEh'itY, the Treasurer to the Society, returned
thanks.
Mr. litensitilSoN, in acknowledging the toast, said
that he begged rave to return his sincere thanks to the
Noble Lord in the Chair for the honour lie had slow
him in proposing his health, and to the company for thme
manner in which they had received it. llis Lordship•
had so completely exhimsted every detail connected with
. the Institution that it a us perfectly impossible he could
urge any Aing new upon time subject, and perfectly unne-
cessary that he should aflempt it. Ile should only re-
'had so often' said, that if undividei and
dprvottedhathe
attentioni to the interests of the Institution on
his part could effect the object which they had all so
much at heart—nauely, the raeing the pensions to the
maxim= sm'ssunt, he should be amply rewarded for any
trouble he had taken.—(Cheers.) if any praise were due
to him much more °raise was due to the Directors, who, .
had so efficiently piesided over time interests of the Insti-
t might enlarge rpon those topics
f,m:on. r
tinennslildee!
rfta-ihtlethtant is
nem: ont
he
knew that the Noble Lord
in the Chair had other en,Tagements that evening, which
would call immediately presence. He should,
therefore, do no more than ,
I°l'4- bmi4 and
to return to him an
to the company his most cordial thanks.—(Cheers.)
The "Health of the Lords Mayor," and some other
toasts followed, and were very 3, 'armly received.
Time Noble Chairman retired sisortly after ten o'clock,
and the company soon broke up a,"ter having spent the
evening in the greatest harmony and conviviality.
We have been authorised by the'directors to state
that time rapid rise and high position °is the Sosiety is
principally to be attributed to the exert-'ens of their
zealous and indefatigable Secretary, Mr. Ric.hardsan.

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.
The new five-act play, entitled Plighted Troth, whi.ch
was produced for the first time last night at this Olean
is one of those unlucky productions in which effect
constantly aimed at, and as constantly missed, from the
author's want of truth and simpl city in the managemc nt
of his details, and the development ofhis rharaters. It A
in vain to deny hint a errtain sort of energy, as regards,
conception; but it is misdirected energy, at variance
with the propriety of nature, and put forth will far too
much parade and fuss. He .werdoes almost everything
that he touches ; elaborates /rifles, and in critical
places is perpetually hovering on the verge of the
ridiculous. Ilis path was clear before him ; but in-
stead of maintaining a straightforward course, he
moves in a circuitous, zig-zag direction ; halts when
he should be on the alert ; and keeps his eye ifted
on everything but the goal. The consequence is, ti'lat
he excites an interest only by fits and starts, and th..a
chiefly by a convulsive, spasmodic display of power, that
is more startling than impressive—except., indeed, in the
scene of the closing catastrophe, where something like
a true dramatic spirit is manifested. But. the radie'al
defect of the author is the set, formal preparations
that he makes for incidents, which, when fully de-
veloped, lose their effect from their having been all
apprehended beforehand. The plot of his play—
which, by the bye, is most loosely constructed—
is something like the following :—Sir Gabriel Grim-
wood (Macready) is a wealthy, unscrupulous Cumber-
land Baronet, of headstrong passions, and of a most vin-
dictive character, who, by the agency of his artful stew-
ard, Wormall (Phelps), contrives to obtain possession of
his ward's, Itaymond Willoughby's (Anderson), estates#
and to get him shipped off for a foreign country. Pre-r
vious to his departure, Willoughby seeks an mterview•
with Maddeline (Miss Ilelen Faucit), a dependent
in Grimwood's household, who is warmly attached.
to him, but for whom he appears to enter-.
twin no more than a mere passing penchant. Wit)
this interview the first act terininat:v. The inci
dents in the second are supposed to take place Um
years later. The steward, Wormall, has, in the interim,
managed to secure to himself his master's estates, who
has been implicated in the Jacobite risings in Ireland in
1688, and is supposed to be either dead or an exile. In the
midstotjhisprosperity,jhowever,W ormall learns thatG rim-
wood still lives, and is in London, pining in a state of indi,
gence, and half-frenzied with his reverses. .Scarcely:
has he got over the shock of this surprise, when he,
hears that Willoughby is also in the metropolis, and.
that consequently he must be compelled to refund all of
which he has robbed him. Scarcely knowing how to
act under such a complication of annoyances,
he resolves at length on having an interview with
the desperate, half-crazed Baronet, in the hope
of prevailing on him, by the offer of returning
him a moiety of his estates, to make no attempt
to recover the remainder. He accordingly visits
him in his wretched retreat, but stung to desperation by
his bitter taunts, stabs him, and is soon afterwards ap-
prehended for the murder, with which incident the play
closes. Thes.e arc the leading incidents, but there is a
sort of underplot, in which Raymond Willoughby, and
Maddeline, are chiefly concerned. The latter, during the
former's absence from England, has been proved to be
the descendant of the Counts of St. Auriel, and, in con-
sequence, has succeeded to the title just before Wil-
loughby's return. As she still loves him, and be reci-
procates her affection, not dreaming that she
is the
poor dependent whose attachment he formerly sligttetil
she determines on making a trial of his sincerityo.'n"
after a long and somewhat superfluous conversations.,
confesses that she is the identical Maddeline whom he'
had once rejected ; and moved by his penitence, accepts
him as her husband. The whole of this underplot is very
clumsily managed, and is attached to the other portions
of the play by the slightest possible link& In fact, it is
little better than an excrescence*hough it is from this
fragmentary episode that the drama derives its title.
Tare are two striking incidence in the play--
one, where Grimwood is represented brooding over
his revenge, in spite of the efforts of a Catholic priest
in attendance to bring him into a better frame of mind;
and the other, where he taunts Wormall into. the corn--
mission of murder, in presence of a concealed agent, in
the hope that lie will in consequence be denounced, and
hanged. On both these occasions Macready's acting
was uncommonly fine ; his conception of the character
was bold without being overcharged ; and he exhibited,
strange to say, none of that mannerism which has been
so often objected to him. The fierce glimmerings cot
sanity that kept incessantly struggling through his mad-
ness, were pourtrayed with startling earnestness ; and he
appeared as though he were kept alive, and in a state
of imperfect intelligence, solely -bv the idea ofr
revenge, on which he gloated with all the remorseless:
avidity of a fiend. Miss Helen Faucit played the part.
of the Countess St. Auriel with infinite grace and spirit ;
but her acting was in a great degree lost on the au-
dience, from the very perplexing nature of the character
she represented. Phelps, as the steward Wormall, was
somewhat too boisterous ; and Mr. Anderson, as Wil-
loughby, made a very sickly, sentimental lover. The
language of the play is often terse, animated, and nervous,
but oftener still turgid and inflated. Here and there it
betrays evidences of poetic power ; but, like angels
visits, these tokens are " few and far between." Por-
tions of the dialogue, indeed, were so ridiculous, though
meant to be tragic, that the audience could not refrain
from laughter. The scene*, was excellent throughout ;
and the ball-room scene magnificent. The play, how.
ever, was coldly received, chiefly from its want of na•
tare, simplicity, and coherence ; and we cannot promise
• it a run of more than a few nights. • •