The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-04-26 00:00:00

MARRIED.

On the 13th inst., at Kendal, Mr. W. Huston, draper, of
Kendal, to Mrs. E. Mills, of this town.

On the lath inst., at St. Ann's Church, Rainhill, by the Rev.
T. B. Ingham, Thomas, eldest son of Mr. Arthur Cook, vic-
thriller. Hall-green, Cheshire. to Elizabeth, fourth daughter of
the late Mr. Robert Latham, farmer, Haslington, Cheshire.

On the 14th inst., at Sefton, Mr. D. Thomas to Mary Wood.
ward, daughter of Mr. W. C. Wilkinson, Union-street.

On the 16th inst., at Ambleside, D. A. Cannan, Esq., of
London, to Jane Dorothea, daughter of the late Louis Claude,
Esq., of this town.
On the 17th inst., at St. Peter's Church, Mr. I. Sumners to
Miss J. Burton.

On the 17th inst., at St. Peter's Church, Mr. G. Nichol to
➢Liss Donal!.

On the 17th inst., at St. Philip's Church, by the Rev. C. H.
Burton, M.A. Mr. T. Fairclough to Miss E. Rogers.
On the 17th inst., at St. Philip's Church, Mr. Win. Smith to
Miss E. Muir.

On the 17th inst., at Walton, Mr. John Foxley, joiner, to
Mrs. Ellen Turner, of Cropper-street.

On the 19th inst., at St. Philip's Church, Mr. C. Allen to
Miss M. M'Beau.

On the 18th inst.,'at St. Philip's Church, Mr. J. Prisill to
Miss A. Griffin.

.....
On the isth inst., at St. Mary's Church, by the Rev. W.
O'Sullivan, Mr. C. Purdue, I.Voridside, to Mary, daughter of
the late Mr. A. M'Coy.
On the 18th inst., Mr. William Sidebottom, landing-waiter
in H. M.'s Customs, to Miss Mice Lamb.
On the 18th inst., Mr. Edward Jones, customs-agent, South
Castle-street, to Miss Raleigh, daughter of Mr. Raleigh, master
mariner, of this port.
On the 19th inst., at West Derby Parish Church, by the Rev.
J. H. Jones, M.A., Incumbent of St. Augustine's, Everton,
Mr. H. Elworthy, of Westford, Wellington, Somersetshire, to
Ellen, daughter of the late Mr. B. Simpson, of this town.

On the 19th inst., at St. Michael's Church, Stone, Stafford-
shire, by the Rev. J. Leighton, 13. A., Mr. Thomas Leighton, of
Seacombe, to Mary Ann, only daughter of the late Thomas
Nicholls, Esq., of Longton, Staffordshire.
On the 19th inst., at St. Paul's Church, Seacombe, Mr. John
Taylor, to Caroline, eldest daughter of Mr. P. J. Foulkes, of
Egrein on t.

On the 19th inst., at St. Paul's Church, Mr. John Blundell,
surgeon, to Miss Mary Ann Griffiths.

On the 19th inst., at Greenock, David Jardine, Esq., of this
town, to Margaret, second daughter of the late James Currie,
of Belfast.

On the 19th inst., at Christ Church, Everton, Mr. William
Abram, eldest son of Mrs. Emery, Kirkdale•road, to Miss
Steele, teacher of St. Martin's School.

On the 20th inst., at St. George's Church, Douglas, Isle of
Man, by the Rev. William Hawley, assisted by the Rev. Richd.
Cattley, Phillip Maguire, Esq., of Toureen, Cahir, county Tip-
perary, to Mary Catherine, second daughter of the late Thomas
Moffat, Esq., lt.N., of this town.
On the 20th inst., at Knotty Ash Church, by the Rev. G. F.
Gsrene, Frederick Within ton, Esq., to Ellen Clare, daughter
wArrall. Esa. of Knotty-Ash-house.
On the 20th inst., at -t%,..t.,?„
Adams, the incumbent, the Rev. Franc-WT. .I.)Y..the Rev. R. L.
vicar of Duxford, Cambridgeshire, to Sarah LoUisa, 144..
daughter of Edward Holroyd. Esq., one of Her Majesty's Com-
missioners of the Court of l3ankruptcy.
On the 21st inst., at St. Peter's Church, Everton,.by the Rev.
S. 13. Sutton, 8.A., Incumbent, Mr. James Williams, of Great
Homer-street, to Ellen, daughter of Mr. Joseph Seddon, farmer.
On the 21st inst., at the Cathedral Church, Manchester, by
the Rev. J. H. Maguire, Joseph Wilcox, Esq., late of Bahia, to
Jane, second daughter of the late Mr. George Morville, Man-
chester.

On the 21st inst., at Wallasey Church, Joseph Johnson, Esq:,
jun., to Caroline Davison, third daughter of Robert Pace, Esq.
On the 21st inst., at Woodside Independent Chapel, by the
Rev, Dr. Raffles, D.D. and LL.D., Matthew-Wilson Armour,
Esq., of this town, to Louise, youngest daughter of Vincent
Higgins, Esq., Claughton-range, Birkenhead-park.
On the 21st inst., at Ellesmere Church, by the Rev. G. Day,
William Parry, third master of No. 10, Pilot-boat, of this port,
to Elizabeth, second daughter of T. Williams, of Ellesmere.
On the 21st inst., at St. Silas's Church, by the Rev. Robert
Browne, Thomas Bennet Dorset, Esq., Oswestry, to Mary,
daughter of Francis Lucas, Esq., of the same place.
On the 22nd inst., at Egremont Church, Mr. Hugh Wood-
ward, jun., third master of No. 12 Pilot-boat, to Miss Sarah
Ellison, of North-view, Egremont.
On the 23rd inst., at Great George-street Chapel, by the
Rev. Dr. Raffles, L. F. Keogh, Esq., of the firm of Molyneux
and Keogh, cotton-brokers, of this town, to Sarah, eldest
daughter of J. A. Picton, Esq., Sandy Knowe, Wavertree.
On the 23rd inst., at St. Silas's Church, by the Rev. Samuel
Minton, Incumbent, James Summers, Esq., professor of Chi-
nese literature in King's College, London, to Jane Frankland,
daughter of W. H. Coiling, Esq., of Collingsville, Ontonagon,
Lake Superior, Michigan, U.S.
On the 24th inst., at St. Silas's Church, by the Rev. Rober,
Brown, Mr. Matthew Fell, of the 23rd Regiment of Infantry,
to Miss Agnes Fober, Shaw's Brow.

On the 24th inst., at St. Nicholas Church, Mr. John Roberts,
leather cutter, to Mrs. Mulleneux, publican, both of Maryborie.

FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.

MONDAY MORNING.
THE excitement at the West-end Clubs last night
betokens the speedy approach of a political contest, cer-
tain to be attended with circumstances of a memorable
character, and not at all unlikely to prove most damaging
to the ABERDEEN Administration, should, indeed, that
strange admixture of imbecile Whiggery, preposterous
Peelism, and audacious dandified Radicalism escape
positive condemnation at the hands of a well-organised
and constitutional opposition. In ordinary times, our
clubs on Sunday present the dullest aspect imaginable.
At no period of the day or evening can you find more than
half-a-dozen familiar Parliamentary faces grouped together
in the salons of those fashionable resorts of our free and
independent legislators. But last night " Brookes's" was
positively crowded to inconvenience—the " Reform"
numbered at least one hundred and fifty of those who
may fairly be ranked in the category of Lord JOHN Rus-
SELL'S followers ; and the " Carlton" presented an array
of honest, genuine Conservative pluck and spirit, which,
when one considered the immediate cause of their anxi-
ous communing, made glad the heart of the oppressed
Income-tax payer. It was my good fortune to have
lounged an hour or two at each of those establishments,
commencing, somewhere between seven and eight o'clock,
at my own re-union, the " Carlton," where the cuisine,
by the way, under new management, is enchanting ;
towards ten o'clock eliminating the much-vaunted aroma
of Master " BROOKES'S" claret; and, as midnight stole on,
seduced by a brace of Manchester friends into the
" Reform"—under whose rather ricketty roof I found
Sir ALEXANDER COCKBURN and BERNAL OSBORNE,
surrounded by a group of Irish members pronouncing
painful panegyrics on the Cabinet, that they " hoped was
not soon about to fall in pieces." Into such company
no earthly consideration would have induced me to
venture, were it not that T felt inconceivably curious
to learn in what respect the state of feeling at the
Rform, " respecting the CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER'S chances of success with his plagiarised
financial scheme, tallied with the evidence which had
been already afforded me both at the " Carlton " and
" Brookes's." Curiously enough, nearly the same opinions
pervaded each of the three clubs. Reformers, Whigs,
and Conservatives agreed in declaring that the Budget
was not the thing ; that in many respects it was most
objectionable ; and that unless Mr. GLADSTONE con-
sented to many material modifications, his propositions
must fall to the ground. At the Reform and Brookes's it
appeared to be generally feared that the Government
would experience defeat on the question of the Irish
Income Tax, by reason of the combined strength of the
Conservative and Ultra-Liberal section of the Irish re-
presentative body. At the Carlton there were slight
hopes that such a game might be played ; but my own
deliberate opinion, formed after six hours' careful con-
templation in the hotbeds of political gossip, leads to
the conclusion that the Ministers, by a majority of from
twenty-eight to thirty-five votes, will force all the essen-
tial elements of the GLADSTONE Budget through the
House of Commons ; and that for the remainder of the
session, at least, we shall have certainly no resignation
of Ministers, and nearly as certainly no dissolution
of Parliament.

I hare no doubt that most of the readers of the Standard,
in their early days, have seen a nice little treatise, en-
titled, Hocus•Pocus ; or, the Whole Art of Legerdenzain.
I remember it tickled try fancy much, especially the page
wherein were three rude wood-cuts of thimbles, and
as many peas about ; since well known as the " thimble-
rig"—a game which the late Premier, the Earl of DERBY,
did not practise, but expose. All CHANCELLORS of the
EXCHEQUER must, in some degree, be professors of the
art referred to ; and doubtless the CHANCELLORS of the
present day are as clever professors in their branch, as the
HOUDINS and ROBINS entirely
,smlalowun
ago. lameniTc-on-:
t!ie v!ilgarane v-
tritontne- use of this apparently ill-favoured
allusion, from having a dance with our present CHAN-
CELLOR of the EXCIIEQLTER on Monday evening, when
be propounded what is technically called `' The Budget."
I shall notice, in a conversational or gossiping style, rather
than in a severe manner, several of those points which 11
seemed to take the house,—or rather the strangers in it ;
that small sample of Messieurs the Public, who had
access ; taking that way, as most likely the fairer mode of
judging of public feeling out-of-doors, for, on such a
many-membered subject as a Budget, representatives
cannot be accepted as fair expositors. The House
was immensely crowded, I must tell you,
,and
GLADSTONE came in punctually, looking ,prim and pale,
and somewhat big with importance. ft is a trite remark,
that a case must be bad which occupies a long time in the
defence. Now, though Mr. GLADSTONE spoke five mor-
tal hours, and spoke well too, the thousand and one
topics, Argo-briarien like, he had to grapple with, vindi-
cated the length of time consumed, though I make no
reference at all to the budget of his immediate predeces-
sor, which occupied in the delivery exactly the same
number of hours. That right hon. gentleman, you may
be sure, was close by, listening with deep attention, now
and then shrugging his shoulders far up among his hype-
rion curls, which appeared to have had an extra drop of
nude divine, as well as an extra twist of the tongs,
Never mind. " A sop to Cerberus," quoth one shrewd-
looking billy, seated in a good part of the SPEA KER'S gal-
lery—duty off the supplement was then being proposed
by the CHANCELLOR. The murder was out at once.
" Who will be bettered by this ?" " The leading Jour-
nal," quoth our friend, who had much the appearance of
one of those coney, well-to-do, and good-natured people
who have mills on the banks of our still clear and
peaceful tributary stream s—mills for the manufacture
of paper. There can be no doubt of it. I tried to
remember when and where I had seen a supple-
ment save that of the Times; but failed, though
I have a glimmering of a supplement, "a long time ago,"
of some other London paper. However, the halfpenny
was well enough received, though the Thunderer did not
want " greased lightning" to aid him in the support of
the Government. This proposition is looked upon as
nothing less than an attempt to propitiate the powerful
organ I have mentioned. The reduction in the advertise.
ment duty was hailed as a grand step in the right direc-
tion,—perhaps you will laugh and pity my ignorance when
I state that I firmly believe this is the only really tangible
and beneficial proposition of the whole. Thousands will
advertise who were heretofore debarred ; especially will
this be the case with a host innumerable of workers,
clerks, and cooks, and servants of all classes. There was
a bit of humbug brought forward, namely, the remission
of the post-horse duty. Cui bond ? That huge " roarer,"
the iron horse of the rails, has sent all his flesh and blood
predecessors to "grass" long ago; and, excepting a
wedding party, like an angel's visit, or a " peppered"
beast hired for the day by clerk or shopman—horse and
rider easily distinguished,—the former from its excess of
grooming, and great need of it,—the latterby his gaucherie,
the job-master has had little or no duty to pay for a
long while. But it sounded well,—" Remission of the
Post-horse duty !" Don't it ? Three or four points of
Mr. GLADSTONE'S financial scheme were either plagiar-
ised or taken by 'consent from Mr. DISRAELI. That
about the Tea, for example. The Income-tax move is one
of the grandest attempts at dust-throwing in JOHN BULL'S
eyes. Let me have it as it is for two years, Air. GLAD-
STONE might have said, and you may have it off altoge-
ther afterwards, if you like. But this would not have
suited the wily CHANCELLOR'S plan. He must appear to
go cautiously about his work—do his financiering as Arid
doesher spiriting—gently. Mr. GeansToNEknows as well
as I do, and every one,rsave and except his own immediate
worshippers, that in much less than two years the exist-
ence or non-existence of the Income-tax will be to him,
as a Minister, a mere matter of moonshine : as a loyal
subject, of course, he will pay it. There w-s a laugh,
when he, in a rather grandiloquent manner—perhaps .t
was assumed—introduced to the notice of the House a
contemplated reduction of the duties on certain important
articles of human food, enumerating cheese, eggs, and
apples I Transporting his auditors at once to those
Arcadian and lacteal regions which still are to be found in
" merrie England," where the lowing of the cow is
heard, the cackling of the hen, and, ill luck to it !
sour cyder is drank. Eggs and apples ! Foreign abo-
minations. The pullets-spume of France and Belgium
ought to be doubly taxed, and so drive us to encourage the
production of good English eggs fromEnglisla fowls. Foreign
apples again—beautiful indeed are they to the eye, but de-
ceitful; they are all either what is called" sleepy," the pulp
dry and woolly, or sour as crabs. For what we have re-
ceived, however, in the budget, let us be thankful. This
is certain, the Government at present are determined to
stand or fall by it, while the opposition-Conservatives
have determined to join the Irish members in throwing
out the Income Tax clause as regards Ireland.
FINCH HATTON, commonly called the Earl of WIN-
CHILSEA, which he is and eke of Nottingham, though in
his sixty-second year, is as fine and manly a specimen of
the real Englishman as you will meet with in a day's
march. Good-looking, burly, and remarkably broad

shouldered, with a piercing grey eye, somewhat moist
and merry when he is lighted up, you see at once that
you have at least found a man—who is not to be trifled
with. Had I had the configurating of his forehead. in
clay, I would have made it perhaps of more ample ch
meri-
sions and less shelving. I would, as a skilful 'artist, in
other respects certainly, not have increased firmness, lest
it should have approached to obstinacy, but would have
counteracted the rigid indication of the former character-
istic ; in short, made the suaviter in modo take precedence
of the fortiter in re. Yet WINCHILSEA is a splendid
fellow and a fop withal. Two dozen years ago, when he
went into Battersea-fields—where I sometimes go to pick
up groundsel and chickweed for my neighbour's birds—
WrsclutsEA was a buck. He was then thirty-eight years
of age, and adored WELLINGTON ; they had a quarrel on
the Roman Catholic question ; the DUKE was then brisk
at sixty. HENRY HARDINGE, the DUKE'S old catnarade,
was only forty-four, and as fiery as a lucifer match, played
the part of second to his Grace. There was little explana-
tion in Battersea-fields, I trow ; but WINCHILSEA stood
like a brick. WELLINGTON affected to fire straight at him
(he didn't mean it) ; in an instant after the DUKE'S fire
FINCH HarroN's bullet whizzed high up in the air, far
away from the now sainted head of WELLINGTON. Had
either party been slain, the survivor would have lived
miserable. WINCHILSEA has been passing his latter
years in quiet, either at Kirby, in Northamptonshire, or
Eastwell-park, Kent; and, barring a flying letter to a
Protestant paper now and then, little has been heard of
him until Monday night last, when he came out in the
House of Peers, like a BOANERGES—son of thunder, as
he is,—when GLADSTONE was talking about his Exchequer
Bill rubbish, which no three men in the house understood
or cared about ; I was one of those, and dropped in to the
Lords, hearing WINCHILSEA'S voice, high, like his glorious
cause, far above all else. He was moving for a committee
of inquiry into the mode of education, practices, &c., at
Maynooth. More than half of his speech was lost, the
commencement of his sentences were so supremely loud,
and the conclusion so abrupt and low. COLERIDGE. i
my memory serves aright, speaking of KEAN (EDMUND),
says something of that great actor's transitions from
" Hyper-tragical to sub-colloquial."
The quotation conveys my meaning. Still the Protestant
Earl's speech appears to read well. You will perceive he
lost his committee and got a commission, or as good, and
I can scarcely find out the difference. Any way, the
existence of that sink, Maynooth, is only a question of
time. It is doomed.

Dropping WINCHILSEA, let us gossip half a minute
about his son and heir, Viscount MAIDSTONE. now
exactly the same age as his father when he met WEL-
LINGTON with no hostile intention. Lord MAIDSTONE
is in his 38th year, and has copied his father to
a T. The Viscount's Deluge, recent published, has
caused much sport not only among sporting men,
with whom the noble scion is an associate, but in
every circle; it contains some good hits, and more
hum-drum. MAIDSTONE is an independent fellow, likes
to bear his Deluge well spoken of, but says he don't care
a fiddle-stick though it is laughed at. At the West-end
sporting houses—we have two or three yet left—the Deluge
is highly eulogised. Your pugilistic readers, if you have
any, will be gratified to know that HARRY BROOME, after
two hours and a half's hard work, succeeded in bacon-
mauling llAnny ORME the other day, and now has the
champion's belt. I would not give a doit for a fellow if
he could not knock down a blackguard, or know how to
defend himself against one. The education, however, is
horrible !

JAMIE WILSON, " the yellow-hair'd laddie " who
represents Westbury in Parliament, and the Secretary to
the Treasury in the Government, is one of the most
remarkable men of his time. Before noticing his Customs'
Reform speech in the House of Commons on Thursday
night, a few words on his personnel—neither extenuating
nor setting down aught in malice—may not be amiss.
JAMIE, as his honoured name importeth, is frae the
" cauld north," born in 1805, at Hawick, a place famous
in S•ottish song and story. Mr. WILSON is now
about 48 years of age, the hey-day of manhood, if
indeed such a man as the honourable representative
ever experienced hey-day joys, save in the divarication
of figures, not of speech but of arithmetic, which
he appears to have at his fingers' ends. It was this
knowledge of figures, and the application of them,
which " transmogrified" Mr. WILSON from a hatmaker
in Holland-street, Blackfriars, to a financier and a
minister, now living in Hertford-street, Mayfair, one of
the most fashionable localities at the West-end, with a
chateau down in that salubrious county, Wilts. Bravo,
COCKER ! What Mr. WILSON'S scholastic attainments
are I cannot tell ' • he utters himself grammatically enough,
and his dialect has scarcely a taint of Hawick. His out-
ward man is mean in the extreme : he is withal as lean as
a locust, and as hungry—as a Radical. His eyes are the
drollest I have seen ; they have a peering, sorrowing,
doubting, and anxious expression, very painful to note.
If it were not for the queer aspect of the irides, which
appear like two rings, one within the other, surrounding
eyes of great convexity, one would fancy the hon. gentle-
man was ill at ease. The expression given to Mr.
;„ as
EAMB.(taruall'as caricature can come. For all this, Jas.
WILSON has been Secretary to the Board of Control, and
now is higher in the range of office, being in the Treasury.
He has written a good deal which I cannot understand,—
perhaps because " my affections do not that way tend."
A number of years ago, he published his " Influences of
the Corn Laws," " Fluctuations of Currency, Com-
merce, and Manufactures," "The Revenue, or what
should the Chancellor do ?" and so forth. He is
at this moment the editor of the Economist, a weekly
paper. On Thursday evening he had the place of
honour assigned to him at the table of the House, with
the official box before him ; which, with good taste, he
did not strike so frequently as some more flashy members
I could name, and who have got the title of " striking
members " bestowed on them. Denuding the hon.
gent.'s speech of its commercial technicalities, his scheme
of Custom House Reform contains fourteen heads of re-
commendations. Fourteen heads! This outbarks Cer-,
berus, with his three, all to nothing, reminding one of
the sleepless offspring of Typhon, with its hundred heads.
Mr. WILSON told the House it was not the intention of
the Government to alter the constitution of the Customs
Board at present. I should think not. Let the poor
Commissioners enjoy their thousand or two a-year, with
something else, for doing nothing, a little longer, JAMIE.
Your Radical friends have their own thoughts about his
reservation. Oh ! SAMMY JOHNSON ! great lexicogra-
pher and moralist ! verily you spoke truth when you de-
fined a Whig to be a Tory—when in place. Promotion
among the Custom House servants is in future to be placed
on a fairer basis. The propounder said something about
merits commanding a preference. Time it should. The
seizing officers were to be better looked after, with the
view of doing away with that monstrous temptation to
evil-doing, "direct interest in seizures." Transit by rail
was another good point, and elicited a " hear ! hear!! "
With regard to the Port of Liverpool, in whatever way
the Board of Customs was to be altered, it was resolved
to give to Liverpool a Custom-house, as it were, of its
own,—that is, to have an independent head or functionary,
at Liverpool. This is wisely done. The Customs au-
thorities in the large house near Billingsgate have a
shrewd suspicion that the Liverpool mercantile and ship-
ping interests were not likely to wait for their share of
reform until the Greek Kalend period, when the London
Board would set to work and reform itself. Meantime,
you are to entertain and decide all cases of an ordinary
character not above £lOO. These are the chief points of
the new scheme, as I gathered them. Towards the ter.
mination of the hon. gentleman's address, he had " fit
audience, though few ; ' there only being about thirty
members in the house, among them Mr. TURNER, who
staid to the last. Lord JOHN RUSSELL and Mr. GLAD-
STONE graced, by their presence, the peroration. The
plan gave satisfaction.

Saturday was a rather busy day at Bow-street police-
office. The Rotherhithe sulphur and saltpetre, smoke
and bounce war rocket, KOSSUTH, and what not people,
the HALES, pere et fils, were brought before the worthy
" beak " to answer the charge of having more powder
about the rat's house in Redriff than the law allows.
HALE'S people contended it was not powder that was
found on the premises. It tasted confounded like it, if my
boyish recollections of the Fourth of June, when GEORGE
was king, vindicate the appreciation of a palate still
on the qui vice, though rather elderly. One of the
chemists-analytical—what next, I wonder ? I call him a
working chemist—let out something about the " compo-
sition ' not being exactly " good " gunpowder : good or
bad, ignoramus ! the law knows not,—powder is powder,
if it should be as coarsely granulated as onion seed. Mr.
BODKIN, a discreet advocate, M.P., and son of a decent
watchmaker in Clerkenwell, appeared to prosecute for the
Crown, and CLARKSON—to Mister whom would be ridi-
culous—appeared for the HALES. The inquiry was con-
ducted with much bonhommie—there is no treason in it—
and I liked to note young HALE, though discharged,
still stick in the dock by his father's side. Decision is
deferred. the po-liti-co part being fixed for next Thursday.
Moonshine ! Some people say there would have been no
inquiry at all, but the "leading journal" having put its
foot in it, GLADSTONE and PALMY are willing to get it
out as clean as possible.
The English metropolitan theatres do not deserve notice
in this communication ; the houses have been but mode-
rately attended during the week : two or three new novel •
ties, however,are promised, and a rally is anticipated. The
Italian Opera carries all before it, that in Covent-garden
being sole temple, is nightly crammed : not an empty
nook to be had. There is not the least appearance of the
elder and more classical interior of Her Majesty's
Theatre being lit up this season. Mr. GYE, the intelli-
gent conductor of Covent-garden, it is stated, has paid
the sum of £5,000 to the chief creditor at Her
Majesty's Theatre, and means to keep it closed, which I
suppose he can, till the above sum is repaid. I don't
think he can open the house under present exigencies,
though he may have power to keep it closed, and thereby
fill Covent-garden. GRIST made her first appearance as
Norma the other evening ; she is thinner—more spirituel
than heretofore, but still splendid in bust and shoulders ;
fit to be admired even by Anchorite, as when CHANTREY
the great sculptor of female anatomy lived, and made his
marble all but breathe ! The cast of Norma was grand ;
TAMBERLIK, the Russian, taking the role of MARIO, the
Kandian. The Puritani is marked for to-morrow, with
AlARro's first appearance in his fine part of Arturo. Thus
the muse of poor BELLINI is taking the place of " vain
show," which ought never to be permitted in a house with
such artists at the command of the management. BELLINI
died a few years ago, at the early age of 37 ; the same as
that of our own gifted and never-to-be-forgotten HENRY
PURCELL. BELLINI was full of whim ; good-looking,
but delicate ; he put himself to a vast amount of worry
about his dress. The weather in Paris, at the time to
which I refer, a little before his death, was boisterous and
inconstant. BELLINI would sally forth in the morning in
his furred frock ; he bad not been out half an hour, anon,
the clouds parted, and there was a blink of sunshine dear
to BELLINI ! Home be ran, doffed the furs, and came
bseufoohr e
waanso tthheer
du r.
oyuout absodligihmt
back
aoigr
h " delight and hurt
is familiar, wherever sounds, which
like author of Sonnambula " nearly every note of which
ayi nastoa his fur. zephyr;
not," are heard.throughout the world. Had he lived, he
would have redeemed the Italian school, now dying fast,
or living only—moribund—in " sound and fury." The
quotation reminds me of that noisy little man with the
huge black beard, VERDI : his opera " Rigoletto" is in
rehearsal, and is to be produced forthwith. One work
from BELLINI was worth a thousand such ; and though
severe musical scholars may designate " Sonnarnbula" as
an opera of ballads, it will be a favourite when the strepito
Of VERDI shall have ceased to vex the ear.

COMMERCIAL AND MONETARY NETT S.

MONDAY NIGHT.
THE all engrossing' subject, both in monetary and
commercial circles, is the Budget of the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, and his scheme for reducing the
interest of the Three per Cents. The latter, al-
though it has received the sanction of the House of
Commons, is considered to be open to some grave
objections, particularly as to the lengthened term
for which it is proposed to guarantee the reduced
interest, which will be on the average about 2/. 15s.
per cent. It is argued, and with some show of
justice, that a guarantee for forty years is giving
too great an advantage to the public creditor, as
many circumstances may occur in the interval to
render practicable a more advantageous bargain ;
the more probable, as the supplies of gold from
Australia may operate to lower the interest of
money. The Budget we have commented upon in
another article, but we may remark that the Funds
have since experienced a decline, which is some
evidence that its passing is considered doubtful, as
a contrary opinion would naturally have induced an
advance. The Budget has also not been without
its effect upon the mercantile world, as the pro-
posal to repeal the Soap duty has led to an advance
of about 71. per ton in the price of Palm Oil, which
forms a principal ingredient in the manufacture,
and induced considerable sales of cargoes to arrive.
Tallow has also experienced an advance, and Tea,
which is proposed to be affected by a reduction of
duty, has also risen in price. At the same time
there is a manifest disinclination to enter into any
speculative operations until the House of Commons
has decided upon the Ministerial scheme, and trade
generally is consequently inactive. It is, however,
generally believed that whatever may be the fate
of the present Ministry, the financial policy of any
Cabinet will deal with the Soap and Tea duties.
The Manchester manufacturers have so far car-
ried out their design of withholding their purchases
beyond their immediate necessities, that their trade
has been comparatively quiet, but without any sen-
sible diminution in prices. As a purely speculative
operation, it has had a slight effect upon the Liver-
pool market, though the depression is confined to
the lower qualities of Cotton. This state of things
cannot, however, be expected to: be of any long
duration, should no material alteration occur in the
advices from America, as the Spring trade has now
fairly commenced, and the demand for home con-
sumption must shortly be active. Much stress has
been laid by parties interested for a fall upon the
excess of stock as compared with last year, but
until it has been proved that the crop is more in
excess than would meet the demands of a greatly-
increasing consumption, the additional stock will be
merely the result of earlier receipts: than usual, an
opinion which is entertained by some of the best-
informed men in the trade. The reports from
Bradford, Leicester, Nottingham, and other seats
of manufacturing industry, show a continued ac-
tivity, with, in some cases, an inclination to advance,
but speculative operations are considerably deranged
in the Woollen trade, owing to the high price of
the raw material, which leaves but a small margin
for the manufacturers' profit. The lace trade espe-
cially is buoyant, and hosiers have full employment
for additional machinery, with every prospect of a
continuance. _

Messrs. T. and H. LITTLEDALE and Co., in
their half-monthly circular, observe :
The business of the past fortnight has not been active,
but the same healthy features continue to characterise our
different Produce markets ; the uncertainty as to the
Chancellor's propositions has had some influence, and the
injudicious haste to effect sales of the recent Leavy arrivals
has also had a depressing influence—the quantities offered
at public sale being quite beyond the power of the trade
to take off. The Budget was brought forward on the 18th,
and contains a proposal to reduce the Tea duties to
Is. 10d., Is. 6d., Is. 3d., and ultimately to Is. in 1856,
and a number of small duties removed entirely; but, like
its predecessor, it will meet a good deal of opposition, and
may not pass into law,though many of its provisions are good.

The return from the Bank of England, for the
week ending the 10th of April, gives the following
results. when compared with the previous week :
Public deposits .. £3,780,216; Decrease £952,892
Other deposits .. 13,622,968 ; Decrease 1,310,929
Rest .. 3,110,471 ; Increase 3,585
On the other side of the account—
Government securities £13,221,382 ; Decrease £450,000
Other securities .. 14,085,037 ; Decrease 790,590
Notes unemployed .. 8,906,720 ; Decrease 933,025
The amount of notes in circulation is £23,613,165,
being an increase of £636,450 ; and the stock of
bullion in both departments is £18,792,996, show-
ing a decrease of £433,338, when compared with
the preceding return.

ISSUE DE,
Notes issued £32,519,883

.ARTMENT.

Govrnt. Debt.. £11,015,100
Other securities 2,984,900
Gold coin & bu1n.18,500,731
Silver bullion .. 19,154

£32,519,585

£32,519,885

BANKING D
Prop.'s capita1.X14,553,000
Rest....
Public deposits. 3,780,216
Other deposits . 13,622,968 I
7-day, &c. bills. 1,419,595

£36,486,250