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

CASE OF MURDER.

The Court of Assize of the HauteLoire was
..
occu-
pied on the 21st inst., and two succeeding days, with
the following case of murder :—.=-Francoise Servel, a
woman aged 40, wife of a farmernaniedblaude Cham-1
bias, residing near Isengeaux; on:thelloire; was -ac-
cused of having pois.oned•her husband and their two
children. The. ather. was taken suddenly ill, and died
in great tortures on August 7, 1840. Prancoise, his
daughter, a child of five years old, expired in frightful
pain on Nov. 16 ; and Christophe, a boy of 14, fol-
lowed on Dec. 2. These sudden deaths, all accompanied
with strange symptoms, gave, rise to much remark.
Expressions used by the wife were remembered and
repeated, in which she declared, " how happy she
should be if she could get rid of her husband and chil-
dren, and regain her liberty." It was known, too, that
a young man, named Joseph Cheynel, professed great
admiration for the woman, though she possessed no
beauty whatever, and. had expressed his willingness
to marry her, should she ever become a widow. The
legal authorities were informed of these 'circumstances,
and arsenic being found in the house, the woman
was arrested on a charge of murder. At the trial,
the principal witness against her was an intelligent
little girl, eight years old, named Victoire Poncet.
She deposed that she was in the prisoner's house during
the last illness of the son, and that she saw her pour
a white powder into a cup half full of water, which
she immediately gave to the boy, saying that it was
flour to cure his sickness. The prisoner gave her
three sous, and desired her to purchase at a certain
shop some poison for rats, as a huge one had pre-
vented her son • from sleeping all night. The
child, suspecting something wrong, pretended to
go and purchase it but, on her return de-
clared that none could be found. The mother then
threw two green balls into a cup of water, and gave
it to the boy. He complained of great pain, and said
his mother was poisoning him. When, the little girl
was going away, the prisoner threatened to have her
guillotined by the gendarmes, if she spoke a word of
what she had seen. During the trial, this child was
ffequently examined, but nothing transpired to
shake her testimony. The scientific part of the
question was of great interest. The father's
body, when taken up after four month's in-
humation,
was completely decomposed. The bodies
of the .other two showed such lesions, as ge-
rally appetr from poisoning, and being submitted to
Marsh's apparatus gave out abundance of arsenical
stains. The chemical experiments were first made at
Issengeaux by the local physicians, and were verified
lily MM. Orfila, Chevalier, and Olivier (d'Angers.)
'1 he Jury deliberated for half an hour, and then gave
:n a verdict of guilty of the murder of the two child-
ren, but acquitting her with respect to the husband's
death. The Court immediately passed sentence of
death on the prisoner, which she heard without emo-
tion. Her Counsel gave notice of appeal.

•
ABSENCE OF A JUDGE AT
CHAMBERS. •
[FROII A CORRESPONDENT.]
Much disappointment was experienced at the Chambers in
Rolls'-buildinp, Chancery-lane, on Saturday, occasioned by
the non.httendance of a Judge. Numerous, suitors, attornies,
and their agents, were in waiting the entire day for the
purpose of making affidavits, taking out summonses, orders
&c.. whose time was altogether sacrificed on account of this
extraordinary indifference to the public interest.
The distress and inconvenience arising out of this omission of
duty is incalculable, many creditors wishing to swear
to the intention of parties to quit the kingdom, upon
whose detention large sums of money eepended, were enable
to effect their object, and a variety of persons (some perhaps
unjustly incarcerated) have had their term of confinement unne-
cessarily extended, solely on account of this inexcusable want of
punctuality. Surely some arrangement might be made by the
Learned Gentlemen on the Bench, so that one of their number
should always be in town to prevent the frequent recurrence cf
this evil.

THE TORY LANDLORDS AND
THEIR TENANTS.

From the Vale of Alford; from the Howe of the Mearns,
and, in a word, from almost every Tery district of this and the
adjoining counties, no report now reaches us, but one general
voice of lamentation and great mourning over the fall
in the prices of catt:e consequent upon the promulgation
of the new tariff, the landlords striving to comfort their
poor tenants with assurance that " all would yet be
well," but the farmers refusing to be comforted, be-
cause that their high rents remain, while t eir high prices are
gone for ever. Accustomed as the Conservative squirearchy
i eve all along been to represent the 'Whigs as friendly to the
importation of foreign produce, and to identify such a poll( y
with the ruin of the farming interest, they now feel sadly at a
loss what to say to their tenants, who come to them with long
faces, and ask what is now to be done, when the.calamity which
they had been so often taught to dread from their enemies, the
Whigs, has come upon them with redoubled force from their
friends, the Tories? At tie outset it would aplear that the lords of
the soil fancied themselves of such importance in the eyes of
the nation, that they had but to signify their disasproval of
the intended measure to have it abandoned ; and accord-
ingly, they assured their tenants at first that they
would take care to have the whole thing put right.
lint the haughty bearing of Sir Robert Peel in Par-
liament towards the agricultural bigots of his own party having
taught all this sort of people a lesson as to their own insignifi-
cance, it would seem that the Conservative gentry had wisely
resolved to keep themselves quiet upon the occasion, but to stir
up the farmers to sign Petitions to Parliament setting forth what
an evil it would be to them if the present high prict- of beef was
trot kept up! Foreseeing, however, no doubt that theirpe tit ioning
would all end in smoke, and that their tenants would soot. return to
them with the demand "how they were to pay high rents with low
prices of oats and cattle," they arc now adopting another policy
with regard to the farmers, and are gravely assuring them that
the measure will, after all, be " goodless, ill-less," for that the
ports had been opened to the importation of foreign cattle only
because it was well ascertair ed that there were none to come
in !—Aberc.'een Herald.

It appears, by recent accounts from Trieste, that,
notwithstanding the efforts made to improve the trade
of that port, it is still declining. It is ceasing to be the
principal depot for the supply of Austria, and the ex-
ports and imports for 1841 show the same progressive
decrease as they did in 1840 and 1839. The falling,off
in the last year, as compared with the preceding, was
29,000,000 f. in the imports, and 6,000,000 f. in the ex-
ports. In 1840, as compared with 1839, the total de-
ficit was between 14,000,000 f. and 15,000,000 f. This
has arisen chiefly from the depot of colonial produce,
and from merchandise in transit for consump-
tion in Europe. To these losses by Trieste must
be added a decrease of the Austrian coasting
trade with Dalmatia and the Venetian States, to
the amount of about 8,000,000 f. The principal ar-
ticles of depot, such as sugar, coffee, cotton, gums, wax,
silks, and wools, are put down in the deficit of imports at
about 19,000,000 f., without including dried fruits, which
are reckoned at 6,000,000 f. at the least. The corn
counts for but a small portioth The relations between
Trieste and the Levant and Italy arc the most important
to her, and those with France, England, and America,
are becoming annually less and less important. France
and Algeria reckon in her imports and exports for about
8,000,000 f. ; England counts fur at least double this sum.
The imports at Trieste, from France, restrained as they
are by the Austrian prohibitive system, have been re-
duced by nearly 2,000,000 f. They are composed of
articles for local consumption and foreign , produce,
partly destiNd for re-exportation. The exportations,
though under restraint, have increased in a slight degree.
They consist of some of the natural produce of Austria,
but they are susceptible of great increase, if the duties'
were more favourable to exchange of commerce.

EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE.—Yesterday morn-
ing, between two and three o'clock, as Sergeant Morris, City
Police 505, was going his rounds, his attention was drawn to
loud screams from the neighbourhooi of Fish-street-hill.
On going thither he observed a woman almost in a state of
nudity, upon the iron spikes of St. Bennett's Churchyard,
and a large pool of blood on the ground beneath. Near her
lay another woman, upon one of the graves of the churchyard.
Both the feinales wereacreaming in the most di eadful man-
ner. Morris sprang his rattle for assistance, and police
constables 568, 584, and 525 were promptly on the spot,
and with great difficulty the unfortunate woman was removed
from the iron spikes, her right thigh being lacerated in a
most frightful manner, the iron spike penetrating completely
through, and she, with the other woman, was conveyed to the
house of Mr. Croft, surgeon, who rendered them every
assistance. As soon as they were capable of giving some
account of themselves, it appeared that they were domestic
servants in the family ef Mr. Isaac Worley, of the Monument
Hotel, 48, Fish-street-hill, and that their names were Mary
Cray, 24 years of age, and Ann Hallett, 22 years ; that about
two o'clock in the morning Mary Cray was awakened by a
noise which appeared to her as if occasioned by some persons
attempting to break into the house. In her fright she awoke
Ann Hallett, who slept with her, and, the noise continuing,
they both became so terrified that they flew to the windows,
and, throwing them open, both of them jumped out. Ann
Hallett unfortunately leaped out of the window nearest the
street, and fell upon the iron spikes. Mary Cray fell upon the
ground, and escaped with some internal bruises. Ann Hallett
was removed to St. Thomas's Hospital, where she remains in
a very dangerous state. Her fellow-servant remains at her
master's house. Mr. Worley's family were immediately aroused
by the police, and a search was made through the premises, but
he fears of the women appeared to be utterly groundless.
The General Steam Navigation Company's packet
Ocean, I. Fife, of Rotterdam, arrived off the Cu,tom-house
yesterday, with the Dutch mail.
SUICIDE OF TILE HIGH SHERIFF OF NEW SOUTH
Ws wis.—Letters and papers from Sydney to the 16th Octo-
ber announce the death of Mr. Sheriff Macquoid by his own
hand. In consequence of having got into difficulties through
' unsuccessful speculations, by which his character was compro-
mised, ie sought the horrible means of evading pnblic censure.
Ile brew out his brains in ins dressing-room, in the hearing of
his family. The monetary affairs of the colony still remain in
a distressing state, and apprehensions are entertained of the
solvency of the most respectable firms.
A meeting of Agriculturists was held at the Foun-
tain Inn, Canterbury, on Saturday, which wag attended by Sir
Edward Knatchbull, and Mr. Plumptre, the Members for the
Eastern Division of Kent. Loud complaints were made against
the proposed plans of Sir Robert Peel, and some of the speakers
at the conclusion, addressing Sir Edward, said the meeting had
broken up dissatified. _

The execution of the monument of the Emperor
Napoleon iu the church of the Hotel des Invalides has been en-
trusted to M. Visconti. Ten gold medals of the value of
I,ooof. each are being struck at the mint for the 10 architects
whose plans were mast favourably noticed by the committee
appointed to report on the subject. M. Marochetti, as our
readers will recollet, is charged with the execution of the eques-
trian statue in the Cour d'Honneur of the Invalides.

The 59th Regiment of the Line in garrison in
Paris have just exchanged their old muskets with flints for
those of the new construction with perettz.sion-locks. The
same exchange is to be made in succession by each regiment
stationed in Paris and the banlieue.

M. Cozette de Rubempre, a native and inhabitant
of Amiens, died lately at the age of 73, leaving the following
noble bequests to the town. First, a sum of 260,000 f. for the
foundation of an asylum and House of Industry for persons of
both sexes reduced to mendicity; and, secondly, his library,
which is said to have cost him upwards of 80,000 f.

ANECDOTES OF CHERUBINI.
The Lodoiska of Cherubini produced a profound
sensation in the musical world; and the impulse
which it gave to art, seconded by the nearly equal
efforts of Alehul; Berton, and Lesneur, brought to the
French school an e-ea of glory to which one would
have doubted its ev'r attaining. Lodoiska was fol-
lowed by Elisa, or le Mont St. Bernard, Medea, the
Hotellerie Portugaise, and finally the Demi Jour-
nees, which became rapidly popular. It is in Elisa
that is heard the chorus of monks seeking the tra-
vellers buried in the snow, too rarely executed at the
concerts of the Conservatoire, the character of which
is so true to nature, that it has been said on hearing
it, "Thus music makes one shiver with cold." In.the
same opera the scene of the bell is with equal justice
admired, in which, by turning constantly round the
single note of a bell, the ringing of which is heard
continually from the beginning to the end of the
piece, the Master has displayed the harmonic resources
he possessed; and his rare address in the connexion
of modulations.

Cherubini frequently had warm discussions with
the Jearned Reicha and with Choron upon this sub-
ject; and one day, that a systematic theorist, less
known than these two masters, and very obstinate
also upcn the strange doctrine of musical theology,
of which he is at once the disciple and the founder,
perSisted in arguing against him, Cherubini, boiling
with anger, and unable to get rid of his obstinate dis-
putant by gentle means, at last exclaimed, " Get out
of my house ; . get out, I tell you ; or I will throw
myself out of the window ; and it will -be said you
assassinated me !"

His wit had pre-eminently a caustic turn ; his con-
versation abounded in biting sallies, in repartees of a
laconism at once piquant and cutting. One day pss-
sing through the Court of the Menus plaisirs at the
time of the performance of a concert given by a young
composer of my acquaintance, some one wished to
entice him into the room to hear the new symphony
which was then serving as a text to the most animated
musical controversies. " Let me alone," said Cherubini,
" Ido not want to know how I must not compose !"
Another time, at a rehearsal of the grand solemn mass of
Beethoven, having given my opinion against the
fugue in D major, v. hich it contains, with a frank-
ness which my admiration for the author might, I
think, excuse, a pianist, undoubtedly a man of merit,
and who has composed much, undertook the defence
of the fracas fugue of Beethoven. Cherubini came
up in the midst of the discussion ; although I made
signs to my adversary to be silent, he still continued
in a way to attract. Cherubini's attention, who turn-
ing round quickly, said—" What is that ?" "It is
this gentleman," replied my adversary perfidiously,
" who does not like the fugue." " Because fugue
does not like him," said Cherubini.
Ile was,without pity even for his pupils, when a
sally presented itself. One of them was going to give
a new opera ; Cherubini was present at the last re-
hearsal in a box. After the second act the young
composer, full of anxiety-, entered the box, and waited
in vain for some of those kind words which we desire
so much in a similar case. " Well, dear master,"
said he at last, " you say nothing to me !" "What
the deuce do you wish me to say to you," replied
Cherubini, laughing; " I have teen listening to you
these two hours, and you say nothing tO me either."
This was the more harsh, because it was unjust and
ill-judged; the pupil's work had great success.
A little before the representation of his opera, the
Deux Journees, 'Cherubini had been nominated. env
of the Inspectors of Instruction at the Conservatoire.
This place was for a long time the only one he filled.
Napoleon . endeavoured in every way worthy of him,
to make Cherubini feel the dislike he had for his works
and for his person. 't he motives of this were some
rude replies of Cherubini to some ill-founded obser-
vations of Napoleon upon his music. It is said that
the composer said one day to the First Consul, with a
vivacity quite conceivable, however, on such an occa-
sion : "Citizen Consul, occupy yourself in gaining
battles, and leave me to my trade, of which you
know nothing." Another time, as Napoleon owned
his predilection for monotonous music, that is to say,
for that which pleased his ear, Cherubini replied, with
more finesse, however, than humour, "I understand
yon: like the music which does not prevent you
thinking of State affairs." These repartees, as
Nvil I be seen as we proceed, are quite in the cha-
racter and turn of Cherubini's mind. It is quite
certain that .Napoleon constantly sought an opportu-
nity to wound his self-love by praising with excess in
Isis presence Paisiello and Zingarelli, and setting him
aside as mediocre, and in pronouncing his name in
the French manner, in order to show that he did not
think him worthy of bearing an Italian name. It
was only in 1805 that Napoleon, after the victory of
Austerlitz, hearing that Cherubini was at Vienna,
occup:ed in writing his opera of Faniska, sent for him,
and showed him sufficient good will to cease pro
nouncino' his name ala Francaise. He even charged
him with the organization of his private concerts, and
failed not when they took place to -criticise the ar-
rangement of them, and to exact of Cherubini the
must ridiculous things. For instance, he wished the
air of the father of la Nina, of Paisiello (for a bass) to
he sung by the soprano Crescentini ; Cherubini ob-
serving to him that -the povero could only sing it in
an octave higher. 44 Well, let him sing it, said Na-
poleon, "I am not particular to an octave 1" And
it, was really' very fortunate, for had the great man
been pariieular to an octave, and had he insisted upon
the ..singer taking a bass voice, in spite of hii good
will, he could not have succeeded.

QUACK: PAMPHLETS.
• TO THE • EDITOR OF THE S
SlR,—PenTlit MC to call your attention to the follow-
ing fact.: —A man, in the employ of one of the ii►ost no-
torious quacks of the present day, is in the habit of
visiting Regent-street during the busy hours of trade,
having with him pamphlets neatly folded, bearing on
the outside the impression of a wood-cut likeness of the
individual alluded to, which be is constantly forcing into
the hands of such ladies as honour the tradesmen of
this street with their custom, and who come for that
purpose in their carriages. I saw yesterday, on three
distinct occasions, these papers indignantly thrown
into the road, as soon as the nature of their
contents was ascertained by the females to whom
they had been presented. Prompted by curiosity
I endeavoured to procure one of them, but was
civilly informed by the man that he had most positive
orders to give none to any but the occupiers of
k:cats in carriages, at the same time presenting me with
a handbill containing a fec-simile of the Lord Mayor's
signature—a copy of the bill, I presume, that was
alluded to by Sir Peter Laurie in the Justice-room of
the Mansion house on Thursday last. Perhaps your
noticing this species of-annoyance will have the effect of
causing the police to put an emit° a system which, if
persevered in, may induce those who now honour us
with their patronage, to confer their favours upon shine
other locality, where the same inconvenience is not
found to exist—a circumstance which, under the very
depressed state of trade at present, we could ill afford
to meet.

AN INHABITANT, AND CONSTANT
SUBSCRIBER.
[We give the letter as we have received it, but have
no idea to what it refers.]

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTII-WESTERN
RAILWAY.—On Saturday forenoon considerable alarm
was caused at the Vauxhall terminus of the South-
Western Railway, in consequence of the non-arrival of
the up train, which ought to have reached London by
half-past ten o'clock. The train (lid not arrive until
nearly five hours after the proper time. It was in the
first instance feared that some accident had occurred to
the railway train by its
.having run off the rails, or in
some other way ; but on the arrival ofthe train it was
ascertained that the cause of the detention was the fill-
ing in of one of the three tunnels between the Andover
and IVinchester stations. The accident took place on
Saturday Morning, beta een six and seven o'clock. The
extent of the accident may be inferred when it is stated
that, as nearly as could be ascertained in the confusion
consequent on the occurrence, 150 feet of the tunnel
have fallen in. The engineers having for some Line
apprehended a failing in the south-west end of the tun-
nel, engaged a great number of workmen to shore it up.
While so engaged the whole of the soil gave way,-em-
bedding those in the tunnel, and precipitating those on
the soil with their fellow-workmen. The confusion and
alarm cannot be described, the report being at one time
that fifty workmen had lest their liVes, and that one of
the trains containing numerous passengers and persons
of distinctin were buried in one common heap. But we
were
,glad to learn that the sacrifice of life has not been
so great. Nine bodies, it was . however reported, were
taken out dead, and several dreadfully mutilated, and the
London terminus was thronged with the friends of those
who had gone by the early train in anxious suspense as
to the real extent of the calamity, and the amount of
life sacrificed, among. whom were the friends of Lord
George Bentinck, Lady Fitzroy Somerset, and Lady
Canning, respecting whose fate serious apprehensions
were entertained ; but the, safe arrival of the noble
travellers by the eight o'clock train gave the greatest
satisfaction to their friends, for .chose fate serious ap-
prehensions were entertained. Several of the Directors,
sith praiseworthy
alacrity,
1
.ms(enea toAndover, where
the accident.took•place, and by their zeal and personal
exertions combined, rescued snany a poor creature from
his perilous situation.. A great number of workmen
were instantly placed on the road, and strong hopes are
entertained that on Monday or Tuesday the whole line
will be again opened for passengers.
Sir Robert reel has shown great skill in adapting
his financial policy to the interests of the powerful, and
the ignorance of the humble. By his Corn bill ho
bribes the landed interest to silence.. By his refusal to
touch the sugar duties, he bribes the West an(; East
India proprietors and merchants. By the entire sacrifice
of the duty on colonial timber, he bribes the Canadian
interest. By allowing Ireland to escape:the income tar .
he bribes the Irish members. By exempting from the:
tax all farmers whose rents are below 3001., he bribes
the bulk of that class. By some excellent points in his
tariff, he bribes a part of the free traders. And by pre-
tending that the tax will only upon capital, and not upon
labour, he Conciliates or silences many of the working
classes.—Leeds Mercury.
RommmAY.—Mr. Pi!ie, the Lord Mayor of Lon-
don, has not been unmindful of the land of his birth. Ile lately
transmitted, through his friend,
several of his Lordship's
Baillie Macdonald, of Bane,
a handsome sum, to be divided among
Bothiersay.—Aberdeen lieruki.
aged relatives in the parish of

PIRIT of the pupuc JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY.
GLOBE.—Sir Robert Peel's Budget of 1842
• will constitute an epoch in the history of legisla-
tion. It has the unenviable quality of offending
all parties, and pleasing none. It is an ingeni-
ous piece of fiscal machinery for annoying every-
body and pleasing nobody. It is a chef d'ceuvre
in its way, and its production will, most assu-
redly, immortalise its author. Brought forward
with pompous gravity, but with assumed
" alacrity and buoyancy of spirit " pro-
ducing in its propounder a solemn compla-
cency, as though it had been a grand dis-
covery in political science the House of
Commons heard it announced with an almost
sympathetic reverence, while 'a considerable
portion of the country received the intelligence
of the Premier's " grand secret" with an aston-
ishment which was mistaken for approbation.
When, however, the ebullitions of surprise sub-
sided into tranquillity, and reason resumed its
functions—when, by examining its qualities and
analysing its elements—when, by viewing it in the
varied phases in which personal 'interest, party
prejudice, and cool, impartial investigation
will always cause every great public mea-
sure to assume, its real - character was
brought to light—its hollow pretensions, its
gross partiality, and its selfish and class-interest
tendency became raanifest. Those who "at first
praised the " boldness" and " profundity" of the
project became silent; indifference succeeded to
admiration; and laudations subsided into silence;
. while in the far greater majority of instances the
first feelings of astonishment gave place to aver-
sion and detestation—quantum mutatus ab
It is, indeed, a change. Even the followers
of the Premier, with the Government Jour-
nals, the mere claquers of the party,
ave the audacity to " blow" upon the
magnificent scheme cf their leader. When
such sad saucy knaves as the latter—albeit, not
over-nice —venture to cry " stinking fish" upon
the pet production of their master, it is not very
likely to prove palatable to the public. In fact,
Sir Robert Peel is somewhat in the predicament
of the Man and his Ass, of fabled celebrity,
who, whether he rode or walked, or carried his
quadruped, failed to give satistitction to the
passers-by : at length, so says the fable, he be-
came so enraged at the unqualified disapproba-
tion he encountered, that he threw the poor
beast over the bridge, and thus ended, the troubles
of both.
STANDARD.—When a nation or an indivi-
dual gets into debt, or finds that expenditure
greatly exceeds income, or both (which happens
to be our present unfortunate condition), two
courses are open—either to " put off the evil
day," with the certainty of its arrive: sooner .or
later in aw6gravated terror, or boldly to meet the
difficulty by such sacrifices as may be necessary.
There is no middle course. We may deceive
ourselves, or (which more frequently happens)
pretend to deceive ourselves, by expedients for
disehargingdebtsor dentandsovithout paying any-
thing.; and there Lever will be %yawing persons
to help its with such expedients—as wise as
Lord John Russell's late badge:, or the scheint.
of Swift's philosopher, who proposed to extract
sittobeawfrolltencumbees. Bat the truth is, that
money due must be paid by money, in one shape
or the other, and looney cannot -be paid without
making sonic sacrifices. If, therefore the cotta-
try is prepared to pay the debts incurred during
the last seven years of peace, and to meet, with-
out incurring further deb: s, the atigineoted ex-
penditure rendered necess'ary by the Minister,
who have incurred these debs, the country nuts,
be prepared to make sarrifimi. Neither Sit
:Robert Peel, nor any other Nlmist, r, can in Ike
a deficient revenue tut ade Mato revenue: ".ex
nihilo nihil fit." 'fltis is a very plain proposition,
and any attempt to make it plainer would onl.‘
obscure its obvious truth. But this proposition is
admitted on all sides—all are agreed that the
country must make a sacrifice, arida are perfectly,
contentel that the country should make it; but,
somehow, every one has an excellent,reason-wh
lie stud his classsliould be-exempted front the neces-
sity aeon. ri tinting t ahe offermg. How is a Stat‘s-
man to deal in such. a case ? Is lie to accept every
excuse offered, upon any grounds more or 1,..5s
plum ible, or opou no rational grounds at all? Is
lie to spare the annuitant becaus,. he thinks that
the proprietor of a perpetuity 'will be taxed too
little in proportion? or to spare the landowner
and farmer. because other measures threaten to
fall heavily upon hint ?—while all object to the
-cruel necessity of being obliged to expose the
true condition of their affairs. The truth is, that
they do not like to pay. They liberally profess
their readiness to make a common sacrifice—, ,t
their interpretation of a common sacrifice is a sa-
crifice which is to cost themselves nothing. Nrowt
if a Minis:er were to yield to these and like oh-'
lectors, it is not difficult to say what would be the
fate of his expected revenue. And therefore,
in tile circumstances supposed, a Minister has
but one course, and that is to look for revenue
to all who are able to contribute it, and who can
be made to contribute it, but to look no further.
Nor is there any practical injustice in this plain
course. The best test of any man's interest in
the common safety and the common prosperity
is his prevent command of money. Riches are
proverbially fugacious ; and whether their flight
be marked out by a certain date, or left to the
contingencies of fortune or of death, it comes to
pretty much the same thing in the end. As re-
gards taxation, it would be just as unreasonable
to tax wealth in prospect as to make allowances
for prospective poverty.

COURIER.—WeII, the Eastertecess is just
over; the Ides of March are passed; the thun-
ders of the Opposition have swept over the
country; but, alas! how puny the echo which
they have awakened ; the last resource of despe-
rate factiousness has been tried in the hope of
lashing the country into the requisite degree of
convulsive excitement, and what is the result ?
Where are the strongand formidable manifesta-
tions of hostility to Sir Robert Peel's financial
measures, to his income tax, or his tariff revision,
which we were told the country only wanted an op-
portunity to exhibit? Where are the county,where
the city public meetings that were to have been
held, and before the combined expression of
-whose Opinions the Minister was to have quailed?
Echo answers where. With the exception of a
few scattered and half-suppressed murmurs of
discontent among the more unreasonable of our
agricultural friends, and an occasional grumble
amongst the parties who fancy their interests
will be injuriously affected by the proposed re-
duction of duties, the country has maintained
the most profound silence on the subject, and if
ever it were allowable to construe silence into
consent, it is in the case of a proposition for im-
posing a new tax. A little grumbling in such a
case were pardonable; no one likes to have his
patriotism subjected to such a test; and with the
prevalence of this dislike to anything in the
shape of fresh imposts, the wonder is, not that
the ward of Farringdon Within or Farringdon
Without should have met and resolved against
an income tax—not that the Berkshire or Lin-
colnshire farmers should have deprecated any
reduction of duty on foreign corn—not that the
glove manufacturers of Yeovil should have re-
monstrated against any alteration of the duties
on gloves—or that the great coal proprietors of
Northumberland and Durham should have
sought interviews with the Members of the Go-
vernment in the hope of being ahl.e to avert the
proposed enhancement of duty on exported coal.

BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, APRIL I.—Nothing
done in our Sugar Market during the week. In Lon-
don, the prices have deeined another ls., and of the
large cjuantity brought forward for sale the greater part
was withdrawn, principally for want of buyers, but also
to prevent further depression.—Bristol Mercury.
THE NE W TARIFF.—The result of the panic-struck
meeting, which we noticed last week, as having been
convened by Mr. Trood's terrific rush into the Globe,
Exeter, was that a deputation should go to Sir Thomas
Arland, at Killerpn, on Saturday. The deputation
consisted of the following gentlemen :—E. Trood
Samuel Drewe, George Turner, Richard 14ortimore, Mr., Wippell, and Captain Smith, of Traisebeare. Sir
Thomas, although he would have preferred seeing them
on the Monday instead of the Saturday, received them
most courteously. The deputation represented to the
lion. Baronet most strongly the injurious effects which
the reduction of the cattle duties must have upon the
agricultural interest Of Devonshire. They expressed the
deep mortification at having experienced such treatment
PS that threatened from the hands of those called the
farmers, friends. Sir Thomas appeared much con-
cerned at the conclusion4i to which the agriculturists had
come, and recommended, and it was ultimately deter-
mined, that a meeting should he held at the Globe.Hutel,
this day, for the purpose of considering what steps
should be
imadopted in the present crisis
s-of affair;.—
n Tes.

The works on the railroad tilong the Valley ofthe
Seine
tftrcrnelalaltp‘arretislaojk s
incl.:
Seine are going Oil th l'it I igh the wl 01e ii-e
witi;,
the
Fr ut-
most activity, by men
and even from England.
is com-
tirely perforated, and the ►masonry of the vault
co►r-
suencetl. All the questions of expropriation or lands
are adjudged, and numerous additional portions of the
road will be undertaken in a few days. Many viaducts
over the Seine are in progress, and there is every reason
to e4pect that the road will be open even before the sti-
iflated time. ,
Advices from Vienna of the 23t1. ult. state that the
Empeior and Empress were, according to custom, on
Maunday-'lhursday, to wash, on the following day, the
feet .f. twelve poor old men and as many women. The
o!ths woman was 104, and the oldest man 108. The
Duke of Brunswick had left Vienna for lately.