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from twelve to fourteen guns, and those marked with-
out any rate, mount from one to six. The two
small steamers. mount four guns, and the Missouri
and Mississippi, each mount eight sixty-eight
pounders on their quarter7decks, and two 120 pound-
ers forward, all Paixham guns. Two of the steam-
ships mount eight, and the third six guns.
Persons unacquainted with naval affairs would most
probably imagine, from the rates, that there were ac-
tually but 2,044 guns in our navy, whereas there are
about double- that number.

PA Et LIAIVIEIN TA
(From the Votes and Proceedt,
WEDNESDAY,

KY DIVISIONS
zgs of the House of Commons.)
, MARCH 24.
£ TAX.

put, " That the Chairman do
to sit again."—The Committee

—AYES, P 7.
Marshall, VVm.—Carlisle
Martin, John—Tewkesbury
Nlaule, Hun. Fox—Yerth
Morris, D.—Carmarthen
Mostyn, E. M. L. —Flintshire
Murray, Alex.—Kirkcudbright
Napier, Sir Chat les M ,rylebmie
O'Brien, Cornelius—Clare
O'Brien, J.—Limerick City
O'Connell, M. J.—Kerry
Ogle, S.—South Northumberland
Paget, Frederick—Beaumaris
Pechell, Captain—Brighton
I.Philips, Mark—Manchester
Pinney, W.—Lyme Regis
Pluinridge, aptain—Pettryn
Powe'l, C.—Limerick Co.
Power, J.—Wexford Co.
. Polsford, Robert—Hereford
Rennie, G., jun.—lpswich
Ricaido, L.—Stoke-ciiton."Frent
Russell, Lord E.•—Tav:stock
Scott, trobert— Walsall
Scrope, Po u I ett—Stroud
Seale, Colonel—Dartmouth
Shed, Richard Lalor—Dungarvan
Smith, Benjamin—Norwich
Somers, J. P.—Sligo
Stuart, Villiers—Waterford Co.
Strutt, Edward—Derby
Thorpely,Thos.—Wolverhampton
'froubridga, Sir E T.—Sandwich
Tuf. ell, en ry —Devonpo rt
Villiers, C. P.—Wolverhampton
Villiers, F.—Sucibury
Wakley, 'thomas-I•insliury
Ward, H. G.—Sheffield
Wason, Hie, —lpswich
Wilde, Si Thomas—Worcester
Williams, William—Coventry
Wood, Benjatniu—'outhwarr:
Wood, U. W.—Kendal

The United States frigate Savannah, on the stocks
at the Navy Yard, Brooklyn, is now undergoing re-
pairs, and preparations are about to be made for
launching her. This is a first-class frigate, and will,
it is anticipated, prove herself an ornament to Ameri-
can naval architecture.

The brig of war Dolphin, belonging to the Home
Squadron, will sail in a few days on a cruise, to assist
vessels in distress off the coast.
There is a fine brig-of,-var on the stocks, at the
Brooklyn Navy Yard, which will be ready for sea in
the ensuing spring.
The United States steamer. Missouri will make a
trial trip down the bay in the course of the week. Her
engine has already been tried, as she lies alongside
the wharf, and found to answer all expectations.

The sloop-of-war Ontario will sail shortly for New
Orleans, to become the receiving ship of that station.

COLOSSAL METROPOLITAN
MUSIC-HALL.

Mr. Hansom, the well-known architect of the
Birmingham Town-hall, built by him mainly
with referenee to musical purposes, delivered a
lecture last week, in Store- street, expla-
planatory of the above project, and the means
to be adopted towards its accomplishment. This
project is not a mere splendid architectural
hypothesis invented by Mr. Hansom, to amuse or
astonish, but one which has its origin in the de-
mand occasioned by the advancement and ex-
tension of music among the million. Mr. Joseph
Mainzer, a foreigner, has lately spread, in an
almost magic manner, a wide and deep love,
among the lower classes for this science. Thou-
sands of minds, hitherto rude and unhumanized,
have been subjugated by, the spells of sound;
arid Mr. Mainzer's clear, precise, and harmo-
nious system, has won to him, in an unprece-
dented manner, crowds of voluntary learners
and hearers. Six months alone have brought
five thousand under his superintendence, and
the first time that the necessity of a larger
music-hall than any yet constructed, appeared
last December, when, at the first union of all
the metropolitan classes, no hall capable of con-
taining so large a number of singers and per-
formers, with a correlative proportion of bearers,
was anywhere obtainable. A hall half as
large again as Westininst,...r Hall, or nearly
twice and a half larger than either Exeter
Hall or the Birmingham Town Hall, has now
become an absolute requitision, and the same sa-
gacity which discovered this first necessity, has
as speedily led to adoptive measures for its exe-
cution. To the feasihiLy of Mr. Hanson's plans,
there can be no diffidence; the fabric he pro-
poses to raise, as • a temple to our English Poly-
hymnia, however apparently immense may at
first appear its dimensions, is not of magnitude
or grandeur greater than demanded, seeing that
her shrines are already planted in the hearts of
a numerous people, whose new wants, improved
pleasures, and moral condition, call loudly and
peremptorily for the same. Guided by rule and
measure, _

TELLERS.
Cobden, P.—Srocl part .Y
Duncombe, S --einsbury

NOES, 290.

•
Holdsworth, J.—Wakefield
Holmes, Hon. W.—lsle of Wight
Hope, Charles—Linlithgowshire
Hope, G. W.—Woymouth

Elo:.nity, - Blackburn
Houldsworth, T.—Nottinghamsh.
Howick, Viscount—Sunderland
Hutt, W.—Gateshead
Ingestre, Viscount—Staffordshire
Inglis, Sir It. H —Ox. University
Jermyn, Earl—Bury, Suffolk
Johnson, W. G. —Belfast
Jolliffe, Sir W. J.—Petersfield
tones, T.--Londont'erry Co.

Kernb.le, H.-,East Suriey.

Knatchbull, Sir E.—E.tKent
Knight, H. G.—Nottinghainshire
Knight, F. W.—W. Worcestersh.
Knightley, Sir C.—Northampton•
shire _ _

rL;h7;irchere, Right Hon. Henry—
Faunton

Langston, J. H.—Oxford
Law, Hon.C. E. CambridgeUn i v.
Lawson, A.—Knaresborotorh
Legh, O. C—North Cheshire
Leicester Lord Bodmin

Lincoln, Earl of—No, thampton-
shire, South
Lockhart, Wiliam—Lanarkthirr
Lowther. .1. H.—York
Lyall, G. I,ndon
Lygon, Major-Gen. Hon. H. B.
Worcestershire Wt st.

Macauley, 1' IS. Edinburgh
M'Geachy, F.—Floniton
Mahan, Viscount— Hertford
MAnwar'ng, T —Denbighshire
Mangles, It. D.—Guildford
Manners, Lord J.—Newark

March, Earl of—West Sussex
Marsham. Lord—West Kent
‘la-tin, W.—Newport, I. of Wight
Martin, Thomas—Galway Co
C. C.—Southampton

Mabter,, Co olel—Cirencester
M.isterman, J.—London
Maunsell, T. P ort hamptonsh.
bleynell, Captain 11—Lisburne
Milnes R. M.—Pontefract
Mitchell, T. A.—Bridport
orriaunt, Sir John—Warwieksh
Morgan, o. Monmouthshire
Mo. isan, William —Kinross-shire
Morrison, James—lnverness
Nfundy, E. M.—South DerOyshile
Murray, C. S.—Bucks
Neeld, John—Cricklade

The proposed Colossal Music Hall will ex-
ceed in every respect that of Birmingham.
Its form is to be a square of 150 feet, and its
height 120 feet. The Birmingham Hall is 140
feet long, 65 feet high, and 65 feet wide, and
contains in area 9,100 feet. Exeter Hall is not
so long, but wider, and contains in area 9,956.
Westminster Hall, the noblest apartment in Eng-
land, if not in the world, is 238 feet long, and 68
feet wide, thus containing an area of 16,184 feet;
but the proposed music hall, being a square of
150 feet, will contain in area of 22,500 teet—that
is, it will be half as large again as Westminster
Hall, and nearly twice and a half larger than
either Birmingham or Eketer Hall ! In height,
however, it will greatly surpass any one of the
three above-mentioned buildings; in fact, it will
be as high again as their average heights.
It is always desirable to dispense with pillars in
the interior of a music hall. But then. as such
buildings should be large •in area, and lofty in
height, the difficulty arises as to the means of
supporting the roof. The architect of the pro-
posed music hall, availing himself of the use of
iron, and of the advance of the mechanic arts,
has discovered the means of erecting a flat, and
almost imperishable suspension roof, the prin-
ciple of which has been folly tested, and by which
he will be enabled to erect his building at a sum
not greater, comparatively speaking, than the
roof alone, upon the old principle, would amount
to. The Colossal Music Hall will accommodate
about 20,000 persons standing, and between
7,000 and 8,000 sitting. The design fin. the organ,
which we have seen, and which has been pro-
nounced perfectly praCticable by one of the first
organ-builders of the day, presents to the view
a forest of pipes, and forms the crown, as it
were of the orchestra, which will arise in an in
dined plane, arranged with terrace-like platthrms
and parapets, accommodating 2,000 or 3,000
vocal and instrumental perflirmers. The or-
chestra will he nearly 90 feet high at its summit,
and 150 feet in width. The organ will be about
70 feet high, descending in some parts and in-
corporating with the architectural arrangements
of the orchestra. It is intended to attach to the
building a College of Music, to be supported by
the admission-fees to the periodical perform-
ances in the hall, and-by the money derived by
the letting of the room for great banquets, and
other public purposes.
The firm of the proposed building, according
to the proportions fixed above, causes it to assume
a shape nearly spherical, and consequently the
best adapted to the reception of bodies of sound :
indeed, we could propose to Mr. Hansom to
observe this principle to a greater extent in °Oct
particulars. Knowing. concaves and curved re-
cesses to be essentially the best recipients and
retainers of sound, the•architect should here put
himself in alliance with iicou.stie principles, and,
at the same time that a. done-shaped roof should
unequivocally be . adopted, angularity of corners
should be avoided, and as much of spericity or ro-
tund form everywhere had in vogue. When it is
considered that the cost ofthis colosial and national
fabric is fixed only at -30,0001., at a day wren
80,0001. are expended upon royal stables, and
that ground lies ready for the parpose, it would
be shame if the sympathies or encouragement
of the age were to act the laguard. The new-
awakened spell of music is slidaig into the souls
of thousands, harping amid the bosom chords.
and attaining to a beautiful, because gentle,
humanity, the feelings of incalculable numbers,
Who heretofore were hard of disposition and in-
corrigible, or, perimpg, reprobate of nature. It
is one of those agencies in the present 4e
which, with almost an apostolic power, es
purifying. and •moraliSing- the natures of men
and women, and those , who have listened
to the choral exercires perfinaned by up-
wards of five hundred of Mr. Maiuzer's male
and female pupils=the-propiiety of their vocal
enunciation—the strength of harmony and per-
fect accordance which' they preserved--could not
but discover a degree of cultivation and suscep-
tibility to the refinements of melody virtually
surprising. The "I ueri Habivaorem," a chorus
fitted for Priests and Levites, the gravitone pass
sage of "Flowers wherefore do ye bloom," and
the hearty hilarity •of "Contentment," , gave
abundant token of great vocal masteries that
will be achieved hereafter. Independently as
Mr. Mainzer is proceeding towards the consum-
mation of •his great desire, the erection of a
fitting hall for his increasing numbers, by apply-
ing to that purpose the proceeds of his own
musical exhibitions, his present plan ought to be
known 'universally through the medium of the
press. 'When 'being known, it is certain that
the philanthropic and high-minded of the land
will aid his endeavours, and thereby render
moral and elevated, vast bodies of society, by
assisting with their-Contributions and personal
co-operation. •

Neville, R.—Windsor
Nieholl, J.—Caidift
Norreys, Lord—Oxfordshire
Norreys, Sir Denham—Mallow
Northland,Viscouot—Dungaimon
O'Brien, A,—N. Northamptonshire
O'Brien, W. S.—Limerick:Co.
Ossulston,Lord—NorthNot thum-

berland
Owen, Sir John—Pembroke
Packe, C. W.—Leicester, South
Paget, Lord W.—Andover

Partner, Robert—Berks
Palmerston. Viscount—Tiverton
Patten, J. Wilson—Lancashire
Peel, Rt. lion. air 11.—Tamworto
Peel, Col. Jonathan—Huntingdon
Pemberton, Thomas—Ripon
Pigot, Sir Robert —Bridgnorth
Polhill, Frederick—Bedford
Pollock, Sir F.—Huntingdon
Ponsonby, C. F. A. C.—Poole
Ponsonby, Hon. John—Herb!
Pringle, Alexatider—Svlkirkshire
Protheroe, Edward—Halifax
Pusey, Philip—Berkshlre
Rashleigh, W.—Last Cornwall
Rawdon, John i )awson —Armagh
Reade, M.—Waterford City
Rein, Sir John Rae—Dover

Repton; G. W.—St. Allian',.!
Richards, Richaril—Merioneth
liose, Sir George—Christchurch
Round, Charles Gray—Essex N.
Point% John—Maldon_

Rushbrooke, Colonel—Suffolk
icuSSCII, Lord John—London

Russell, C.—Hearin:
Russell, .l.—N. Staardshire

Ryder, 'Hon. I).— Hertiordshire
S anion' Lord—Liverpo.l
Scarlett. Hon. R.—Horsham
icott, Hon. F —Roxburghshire
Seymour, Sir H. B.—alidhurst
Shaw, itightHon. F.—Dublin Un.
Shirley E.—Monaghan

S;bthorp, Colonel-Lincoln
smith, Abel—Hertfordshire

Sm V. -- Northampton
-omerset, Lord G. —Monineuthsli
Somerton, Viseount
iomerville. IVm.—Drogheda
Sotheron, 'l'. H.—Devizes
Stanley, Lord—North Lancashire
Stanton, W. H.—Stroud
Staunton, Sir Geo.—Poitsmouth
Stewart, John—Lymington
Stuart, 1-1 Bedford
Sturt, Henry Chas.—Dorsetshire
Sutton, C. M.—Cambridge
I'ancred, H. W.—Banbury

ISomertou, Viscount
sornervil:e. Sir W.
1; ,theron, 'l'. H.
stanley, Lord
stewart,.John

Stuart, H.
Su'ton, Henry M.
Tancred, H. W.
Taylor, J A.
Tennent, J. E.
Toompson, Ald.
Tlnrnhill, George

ON THE BODY,

iorriline, t.torge
' Trevor, Hon. G. R.
' .otter, John
Toren, Sir J.

The only article of iniportance in the Moirid Jour-
nals of the 14th inst. is a circular from the .qinister of
Justice, in the Madrid Gazette, with reference to the
dispute with the Court of Rome. The circular says :
" The Government knoWs that these fruitless attempts
have for object to
,excite Spaniards to fail in the obe-
dience which; according to the" Gospel, pastors and con-
gregations owe to the constituted authorities, with the
manifest intention of faVobring the pretensions of the
rebel Don Carlos-7of rendering null the existing laws
which, by the sale of national property, have created new
interests, and of condemning- all doctrines contrary to
the interests of the Court of Rome, which, whilst it re-
ceives our money for granting apostolic favours, accuses
of impiety the majority of Spaniards, and seeks to alarm
their conscience." The,.' circular then goes on to say
that, although the Regent feels convinced that the Pre-
lates of the Established Church will not obey orders
from any foreign authority, he thinks it right to desire
:In diocesan Bishops who may receive apostolic letters of
the 22d ult., plemary indulgences, immediately to for-
ward them to the Minister of Grace and 'Justice, and to
pay no attention to the injunctions contained in them.
TORY EAns.—ln alluding to the income tax on Wed-
nesday night in the House of Commons, Mr. Curteis re-
quested that " gentlemen in the agricultural interest would
lend him their ears for a few minutes."—We are surprised
at the Hon. Member's anxiety to borrow Tory ears. Surely,
he must be well aware of their inordinate and embar-
rassing length I

Taylor, .i. A.—E. Worcestershire
Tennent, J. E.—Belfast
. .

Thompson, All.—Sunderland

Thornhill, G.—Huntingdonshire
Tollemache, Hon F.--Grantham
'lollemache, J.—South Cheshire
1 omli n e' George—Shrewsbury
Trewn,Sir, F.—Scarborough
Trevor, Hon. G —Caermarthensh.
Trotter, John --.N‘ est Surrey
Tyrrell, Sir J. T.—North Essex
Vere, Sir C. 13.—East Suffolk
Verner, William—Armagh Co.
ern, n, 0. H.—East Rettiird
Villiers, Viscoun —Weymouth
Vivian, John Ennis—Truro
IWilbraham, Hon. It. B.—Lanca-

shire
Wilshere, William—Yarmouth
Wodehouse, tklinottd—E Norfolk
Wood, Charles Halifax

THE SUN, LONDON FRIDAY .MORNING, MARCH 25, 1842

e, a.r C. B.'
Verner, W.
Vernon, Granville
Villiers, Viceount
Vi, ian, John Ennis
W 1 .1 aham, R. B.
Wilshere, W.
Wodehouse, Edmond

NVeou, Colonel
Wo‘s!ey, l.crd
Wor tley, .J. tuart
Wyndham, Colonel
Wynn, Sir W. W.
Yorke, lion. E. T.
Young, John
Young, Sir W.

TELLERS
Fresnantlo. Sill V.
Baring, 1-1, B.

THE TORY INCOME TAX.

A Ineetini, was held in the Guildhall, Norwich, on Tuesday, in
opposition to this hateful tax, the Alayor in the chair. A petition
to the Queen, and another to the House of Lords, were unani_
mously agreed to, and received in the course of the day a great
number of signatures.

At a meeting of the United Reform Club, held at Bradford yes.
terday, strong resolutions were also passed against the proposed
measure.

The solicitors, an influential body, are about to make common
cause in resisting the scheme. A Correspondent states that, taking
into account the heavy stamp duty paid by solicitors, and the
charge of HI. in the metropolis raid 81. in the country, a profes-
sional gentleman making by a country praCtice 2001. a year, would
pay to the revenue in direct taxation...not less than 7 per cent.

AN INQUEST BY ANTICIPATION

LAMENTABLE CONSEQUENCES OF THE INCOME-TAX-
DEATH OF JOHN BULL, ESQ.-CORONER'S INQUEST

An Inquest was held this morning (October sth,
1843), before Mr. WAKLEY Coroner, and a highly
respectable Jury, on. the body of John Bull, Esq.,
who was found dead in his bed, and worn away to a
shadow—in fact, picked clean to the bone, as much
so, as if a parcel of hungry . vultures had been dining
on his remains. The countenance wore an expres-
sidn of great discontent and anxiety, and a frown still
hung about the forehead, as if the old gentleman had
died .while in the act of launching an anathema
against the "eyes" of his medical attendants, both of
whom were present at the Inquest.
After the Jury had viewed the body, they returned
to the Inquest-room, when the following evidence was
adduced :

Doctor JOHN RUSSELL M.D., who was the first
witness examined, deposed that he had been for some
years in the habit of attending the deceased, who,
though somewhat testy and wayward in his temper,
generally enjoyed pretty good health. About the
year 1830, he suffered severely from an inflammatory
attack, well known to the faculty by the name of
" The Reform Fever," but by cooling and aperient
medicines, he (witness) restored him to his usual
state of convalescence. Since then, however, as he
still continued to be indisposed from time to time,
he (witness) ordered hiin to 'be shut up in a nice,
new, cool work-house, and • his wife to be taken
from him, and locked up in a separate ward, so that
he might have nothing to annoy him ! Deceased
visibly improved under this treatment, especially as he
had thin water-gruel twice a Week—

CORONER—Pray, Doctor Russell, did you ever
taste this gruel yourself ? .
Dr. RUSSELL (making a wry face, as if he were
swallowing physic)—NeVer, thank God ! The truth
is, it does not agree with 'some constitutions, and
mine is one of them. But where it does agree, it
agrees wonderfully ! . It answered exceedingly well
(continued the witness) in the 'deceased's case; and he
would no' doubt have become better than ever he was
in his life, if he had not, in sudden fit .of caprice,
called in a Quack Doctor—one Peel of Tamworth,
since when he had never enjoyed a day's health. The
witness added, with lively emotion, that he always
predicted Dr. Peel would be the death of John Bull,
for to his (witness's) certain knowledge, he had inva-
riably killed every patient for whom he had ever pre-
scribed !

Doctor ROBERT PEEL, M.D. was the next wit-
ness examined—He is a middle-aged man, of imposing
address, but with something sly and sinister in the
bland expression of his countenance. He entered the
Inquest-room with the dignified- gait of a gander,
and commenced giving his iviclence with "great
buoyancy and alacrity of spirit," which, however,
visibly diminished as the examination proceeded. He
stated that he was called in, at the deceased's own
particular request, and found him labouring under a
complication of disorders brought on by the inju-
dicious treatment of the last witness.

Dr. RUSSELL (considerably, excited)--That's a
bounce, and you know it ! _ _

Dr. PEEL '(looking viciously at' his rival)—l was
fully prepared for this factious opposition on the part
of Doctor Russell.

CORONER—Doctor Peel, will you be good enough
to state the symptoms of deceased's case :
Doctor PEEL—(stammering,_and looking greatly
embarrassed)Symptoms !—Why, really—oh, the
symptoms, you mean !—Why, he was labouring
under, what in medical language is called, a decided
hic, hcec, hoc, genitive, hujus, dative, huic, comment
vous portez vous, quod erat demonstramlum, in saecula
saeculorum, &c.
A VOICE FROM THE CROWD—Exactly so; so he
was, and I never heard the symptoms of his case so
clearly explained before.
CORONER—Who is that?

A JURYMAN (looking round)-oh, its only an old
woman named Sibthorp, a great adm'rer of Doctor
Peel's.

CORONER (with dignity)—Turn the old woman out!
After the interruption occasioned by this lively
sally of the old gentlewoman had been put an end to,
the witness went on to observe, that when he had
carefully considered the deceased's case for upwards
of six months—

CORONER—Upwards of six months ! And was the
deceased's malady gaining ground all this time ?
Doctor PEEL (looking exceedingly foolish)—l am
sorry to say it was, but I never thought of that.
When, however, I had sufficiently considered his case,
I prescribed a corn plaster, on the homompathic prin-
ciple, in infinitessimal small 'quantities, which unfortu-
nately only increased his irritation, whereupon I
thought it best to produce a counter-irritation, so
worried him with a parcel of tax-gatherers, in order
to divert the excitement occasioned by the corm-plas-
ter. This succeeded admirably, but it happened tin-
luckily that the patient died, just as he was getting
over t'he irritation produced by the plaster.
CORONER—Pray, Doctor Peel, what is your usual
mode of practice in ordinary cases of illness ?
Dn. PnEL—Why, I have generally found that most
patients' maladies originate in an organic derangement
of the chest, so I always begin by cleaning that well
oat!

CORONER (impatiently)---The Jury have teardquite
enough. Is there any other witness ?
A stout, elderly gentleman, by name Daniel
O'Connell, here stepped forward, and deposed that de-
ceased was his particular friend, and that he.had heard
him declare, not three days before his death, that.
though Doctor Russell had not done him quite as much
good as he might have done, yet that it was the irrita-
tion occasioned by Doctor Peel's tax-gatherers that
had " done his business for him." These, added the
witness, were deceased's own words.

Mr. O'Connell concluded by stating that if John
Bull had taken his advice, he would have kicked off
both Doctors, in which case he would now have been,
" Great, glorious, and free,
First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea!"

No other witnesses having been c-alled,,
The CORONER summed up—le observed that, un-
accustomed as he was to public speaking, he should
he brief in his remarks, for, the truth was, the case
lay in a nut-shell. There could not be the slightest
doubt that the deceased had met his death at the hands
of Doctor Peel's tax-gatherers ; and addressing the Re-
porters, the Learned Coroner added, that he trusted it
would go abroad that in all cases of serious indispo-
sition, a dose like that prescribed by Doctor Peel,
must inevitably prove fatal.
The Jury, after deliberating a few minutes, re-
turned a verdict to the effect that "Deceased died by
the Visitation of the Tax-gatherer !"
The deceased gentleman will, we understand, be
buried next Tuesday, at the expense of his numerous
friends, Doctor Peel having, in accordance with his
usual mode.of practice, effectually cleaned him tut.
The proceedings excited intense interest—indeed,
such as has r. of been witnessed within the memory
of the oldest living inhabitant!

ANTI-SLAVERY MEETING IN
PARIS,

fmruemetiangjourney altogether
which they I.ad
The anti-slavery deputies have returned from Paris, dis-
appointed,useless. They were cordially received at a public meeting
of the French Abolition Society, which was numerously at-
beeuiuvitecderttuaiantltye,,nodf, the publicuas
at-
tended, and at which the Duke of Broglie presided. Here
the several es .
deputies pi • ented the credentials I an(other
do-
cuments of which they were the bearers, and a long and in-
teresting letter from the venerable Thomas Clarkson was
read ; and several of the deputies also expressed their senti•
ments at some length, prominence being given to the moral
arid religious views of the British abolit.onists, and a some-
what extended statement of the results of emancipation in
the British colonies. In the evening of the same day, after a
dinner to which the deputation had been officially invited, and
to which there sat down about eighty gentlemen, including
many eminent and distinguished persons, Mr. Scob!e addressed
the meeting in a manner which excited great attention, and was
followed by M. Lamartine with great cordiality. The deputa-
tion received acts of personal courtesy, not Only from the Duke
of Broglie, the President of the French Abolition Society, M.
Isambert, its Secretary, M. Lutteroth, and others of its mem-
bers, but oho from M. Gu'eet, the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Upon these occasions they had the pleasure of meeting with
many persons of distinction ; and upon them all the anti-slavery
question was made a prominent topic of conversation. The
deputies feel that the social intercourse with which they were
thus favoured was of a character decidedly useful and influen-
tial--perhaps more so, in the attitude of the good cause of
abolitisn in France, than any proceedings which could have
taken place at a public meeting. During their s'ay in Paris,
the deputies had the pleasure of exercising an act of courtesy
towards the persons of colour (many of them students from the
various colonies) cow resident in that ; 0
—ty, about thirty of
whom were invited to a dejeune. Much interest was felt bi
the deputies on this occasion, and much gratification in wit-
nessing those developments of good sense, energy, and virtue,
which afford pledges of the speedy elevation of the coloured
nces to an equality in all respects with the.other portion of
mankind.

Sir George Arthur is to be the Governor of Bombay,
in succession to the late Sir Win, 11. Alliaghten.

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SlR,—Your London is the :place for exhibi-
tionsjrom a fasting man to an earthquake, from
any -dust•to • " devil's dust!' 'All are sure of at-
tentioit and admiration. A Mr.-Ferranti has been
showing off his talents in' the wonder way to
the wisdom " of the nation ; and verily he has
contrived to make a considerable stout-, liberally
mixed with a commodity of his own invention,
but to which he has attached the name of a
worthy not celebrated for hi: strict adherence to
truth. Whether the nomenclature is to be con-
sidered a casual circumstancOr as the result of
any smirking sympathy fitr 'the:characteristics of
the good father, does not appear. But, seriously,
it is lamentable that a matt, professing to be a
legislator, should be capable of such buffoonery
as this Mr. Ferrand, and still more so, that a
British House of Commons should be found so
ignorant about the manufactures of the country,
as to listen to.his wild and childish harawrues.
This Member is evidently a young man, bent
on showing how little he requires to know of
any matter to enable him to talk on it; but that
his displays of vanity and lack of common in-
formation should have elicited applause from
many others, is truly remarkable. What was it
lie told them ? Just what anybody could, to
better purpose—that flour was used for stiffening
calicos, and that woollen rags were reduced to
materiel for making coarse cloth of, and that,
when made, the manufacturer sells them ! Does
this gentleman know anything. about the price
these stiffened and "devil's dust" fabrics are
sold for, or does be suppose that all cloths
are one and the same price? One might think
so, if the charge brought against the makers is
to be taken for aught else than idle vapouring.
It is not held a crime for a party to manufactui e
coarse goods, unless he palm them on the buyer
as of good quality, and take a price accordingly.
Had this wondrous wise gentleman stooped to
think of the money paid for the,starched calicos

he treated Lord 'John RusSisll and Sir. Robert
Peel to specimens of, even he might have been
led to consider it as somewhat astonishing that,
at such prices, they were there at all. But that
was a trifle beneath his notice. Enough for him
to prove the main fact—that he could produce a
piece of cotton cloth starched with flour. Why
does he not pull up his shirt collar, and at once
demand a Select Committee to investigate the
wickedness of his laundress fkir Stiffening it with
flour! The one case lies more; at least, in his
way, than the other, and would be equally edify-
ing or diverting. But then the very sapient and
Honourable Member has discovered, that in
preparing these fabrics some dust, aye, "devil's
dust," is let loose, and seems •to think that no
one but himself has a right. to-raise any dust in
manufactures of a small value. Such exhibitions
are disgusting. It is no wonderindeed, that the
Legislature has little respect from the country,
but it is only surprising it returns any, when such
fantastic tricks are suffered_to be played by its
Members, nay, applauded by, many of them.
What are we to expect froth such men? Are
we to be asked to repose confidence in them?
Carlisle, March 9, 184'2.. X.