tures, to a nominal amount; and with reference to articles completely manufactured, our object has been to remove prohibitions and reduce prohibitory duties, so as to enable the foreign producer to compete fairly with the domestic manufacturer; and I still entertain that confident belief and expectation which I expressed on first intimating the intentions of the Government with respect to this Tariff, that the general result of it, if adopted by the House, will be materially to diminish the charge of living in this country. The duties upon raw materials would in only a few instances exceed 5 per cent., on partially manufactured articles 12, and on complete manufactures the reduction in duty proposed would be about 20 per cent. There were 1,200 articles in the Tariff, and on 750 of them a reduction was proposed; on foreign timber the reduction would be from 55s. to 25s. a load, with the exception of Canadian, which would be treated as an integral part of the island, and bear a merely nominal duty. The Income-tax, calculated at 7d. per pound on 150. and upwards, was to be limited to three years, with a possible extension to five years if the House should please to sanction its continuance." Sir Robert concluded the exposition of the Ministerial policy in these words :"I know that many gentlemen who are strong advocates for Free-trade may consider that have not gone far enough. I believe that on the general principle of Free-trade there is now no great difference of opinion, and that all agree in the general rule that we should purchase in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest. (Loud cheers from the Opposition benches.) I know the meaning of that cheer. I do not now wish to raise a discussion on the Corn Laws or the Sugar duties: I have stated the grounds, on more than one occasion, why I consider these exceptions to the general rule, and I will not go into the question now. I know that I may be met with the complaints of gentlemen opposite of the limited extent to which I have applied the general principle, to which I have adverted, to these important articles. I thought, after the best consideration that I could give to the subject, that if I proposed a greater change in the Corn Laws than that which I submitted to the consideration of the House, I should only aggravate the distresses of the country, and only increase the alarm which prevailed among important interests. I think that I have proposed, and the Legislature has sanctioned, as great a change in the Corn Laws as was just or prudent, considering the engagements existing between landlord and tenant, and also the large amount of capital which has been applied to the cultivation of the soil. Under these circumstances, I think that we have made as great a change as was consistent with the nature of the subject." 11.-While addressing the House to-night on the financial policy of the Government, Sir Robert Peel created some surprise by quoting a letter from a smuggler illustrative of his statement that high duties were a mere delusion, and in no sense a protection to the manufacturer. After offering his services on goods from a certain part, the writer adds: "I am also able to forward to you every week blondes and laces (I mean articles manufactured at Lille, Arras, Caen, Chantilly, &c.) at a very low premium by the indirect channel. (Laughter.) The goods would be delivered in London the same week of the reception here, by a sure and discreet individual: my means are always free of losses and damages, or I would not use them. Here follow the prices at which I might at present undertake the passage:-Blondes, by pieces, according to value, 9 per cent.; blonde veils, according to value, 8 or 8 per cent.; laces (Lille ditto) 8 or 8 per cent.; silk gloves, II to 12 per cent.; kid gloves, 12 to 13 per cent. ; and generally all silk goods, as gros de Naples, satins, gros des Indes, gros de Paris, jewellery, &c., for which articles prices would have to be determined, but certainly a great deal under your Custom-house duties." 11.-Arthur Conolly writes: "From our prison in the Bokhara citadel.-This is the eighty-third day we have been denied the means of getting a change of linen from the rags and vermin that cover us; and yesterday, when we begged for an amendment in this respect, the Topshee-Bashee who had before come occasionally as our host to speak encouragingly, set his face like a flint to our request, showing that he was merely a vane to the withering wind of his heartless master, and could not help us thus, so that we need not ask him to do so. I did not think to shed one warm tear among such coldblooded men, but yesterday evening, as I looked upon Stoddart's half-naked and naillacerated body, conceiving that I was the special object of the King's hatred because of my having come to him after visiting Khiva and Kokund, and told him that the British Government was too great to stir up secret enmity against any of its enemies, I wept on entreating one of our keepers, the gunner's brother, to have conveyed to the chief my humble request that he would direct his anger upon me, and not further destroy by it my poor brother Stoddart, who had suffered so much and so meekly here for three years. My earnest words were answered by a 'Don't cry and distress yourself:' he also could do nothing. We have risen again from bed with hearts comforted as if an angel had spoken to them, resolved, please God, to wear our English honesty and dignity to the last within all the filth and misery that this monster may try to degrade us with." 12.--Captain James Ross's exploring expedition in the South Polar Seas narrowly escapes destruction. During a heavy breeze the Erebus and Terror were driven into violent collision with an extensive chain of icebergs. The Erebus was much damaged. 13.-George Lucas, Aldermanbury, murders three of his children, and then commits suicide. 15. Sir James Graham announces that, as the question between the Church of Scotland and the Government was simply whether the law was to be obeyed or not, it was the fixed determination of Ministers to insist on obedience to the law. It was the duty of the Government to see that the Veto Act of the General Assembly did not prevail over the law of the land. Lord Ellenborough writes to the Commander-in-chief in India, that in the present position of Shah Soojah he did not think the British Government was any longer compelled to peril its armies, and with its armies the Indian Empire, in support of the Tripartite treaty. "Whatever course we may hereafter take must rest solely on military considerations, and have, in the first instance, regard to the safety of the detached body of our troops at Jellalabad, at Ghuznee, at Khelat-i-Ghilzie, and Candahar; to the security of our troops now in the field from all unnecessary risk; and finally to the re-establishment of our military reputation by the infliction of some signal and decisive blow on the Affghans which may make it appear to them and to our own subjects, and to our allies, that we withdraw, not from deficiency of means to maintain our position, but because we are satisfied that the king we have set up has not, as we were erroneously led to imagine, the support of the nation over which he has been placed." In consequence, apparently, of Engand's defeat at Hykulzye, this forward policy was abandoned for a few weeks, and orders were actually issued that Pollock should withdraw at once from Jellalabad, and Noit from Candahar. These timid counsels, however, were overcome, and an advance of both armies ordered on Cabul. An endeavour was to be made by negotiation to obtain a release of the prisoners in Akbar Khan's hands, though it is not clear that General Nott understood their release to be an essential part of the expedition. Died, aged 82, Salvador Cherubini, an eminent Italian composer. 16.- Lord Francis Egerton's motion for leave to introduce a bill legalizing marriage with a deceased wife's sister, rejected by 123 to 100 votes. Came on at York Assizes the trial of Robert Goldsborough, indicted for the murder of William Huntley, at Crathorne, in the year 1830. In the month of July in that year, Huntley received the balance of a legacy due to him; he was shortly afterwards seen with Goldsborough, and then missed. Goldsborough said that he had gone to America. About that time Goldsborough was observed to have money; and two witnesses deposed that they had seen him carrying something bulky in a sack into his house. He subsequently left that part of the country; and the matter was forgotten until lately, when, during some improvements in Stokesley-beck, the bones of a human body were discovered, and the skull The presented such appearances as led to the supposition that it was the skull of Huntley. jury were not satisfied of this identity; and a verdict of Not guilty was returned. 16. Died at his town residence, St. James'ssquare, aged 77, Bernard Edward Howard, twelfth Duke of Norfolk, and the first Roman Catholic peer who took his seat in the House of Lords after the passing of the Emancipation Act. 18.-Income-tax resolutions opposed in Committee by Mr. F. Baring, Lord John Russell, and Lord Howick, on the ground that the tax was needless in times of peace, and oppressive in its operation. 19. Accident in Wombwell's menagerie, Stafford. A rash visitor, named Martin, reaching his arm into the tigers' den, was seized and mangled so severely that death ensued in a few days. 20. The Earl of Munster commits suicide, shooting himself in his house in Belgrave. square. 21.-Explosion of the Telegraph high-pressure steamer at Helensburgh pier, Dumbartonshire, and loss of fifteen lives. "" Rossini's "Stabat Mater performed at Bologna with an effect hitherto unmatched in magnificence; Donizetti conducting, Rossini himself giving the time, and Clara Novello, Ivanhoff, and Prince Belgiojoso singing the solos. 23. The Jellalabad garrison in the extremity of their peril. Sale writes to Pollock, who had been long detained at Peshawur with the relieving force by sickness and insubordination: "I informed you definitely that I would, by God's blessing, hold this place to the 31st inst by which time you acquainted me that you could arrive at Jellalabad with the dragoons. You now state to me your expectation that they will only reach your present encampment by that date. Our European soldiers are now on twothirds of their rations of salt meat, and this the Commissariat supply; on the 4th proximo that part of the force will then be without meat, not. withstanding every arrangement to lessen the consumption. I have this day directed all the camels to be destroyed with the view of preserving the hay for the horses of the cavalry and artillery. April 1.-Inundation at Derby. The streets under water for several hours, and one young woman drowned in her bed. 2.-General Nott advises General England either to remain where he is at Quettah or to push boldly through the Kojuck. "Your moving into Pisheen with a convoy known by the whole country to be intended for Candahar, and then halting or retiring to Quettah, will have the very worst effect throughout Affghanistan, and will be more injurious to my present position than 20,000 of the enemy in the field." 4. The series of resolutions embodying the Income-tax scheme of the Government, carried through the Commons with only a slight attempt at opposition. The Edinburgh newspapers publish a letter from Dr. Candlish, containing a scheme for reconstructing a new Church should the Establishment be broken up. On their separation from the State he proposes that the NonIntrusion party still adhere to one another, and form a "protesting and testifying" Church, to be entitled the "Non-Erastian Church of Scotland." Funds for the maintenance of the zlergy and the building of churches are to be raised by large donations at the commencement, and afterwards by monthly or weekly contributions; the money raised is to form a common stock, out of which the ministers are to be paid at the rate of 150l. or 2001. a year; other Presbyterian bodies are to be invited to Co-operate with them; parishes left in the hands of Erastian incumbents are to be dealt with as vacant, and all the funds raised are to be placed at the disposal of a large central committee, composed of elders, deacons, and communicants, exclusive of ministers. 5. At half-past 3 A.M. the troops under the command of General Pollock commence their march to force the Khyber Pass. From Jumrood on the east the pass extends for twenty-eight miles towards Jellalabad. As far as the fort of Ali Musjid it is deep and uninterrupted. For seven miles beyond the ascent is somewhat uniform, till near Sundu Khana, where for two miles it runs along the face of a frightful precipice, like the galleries of the Simplon. General Pollock found the mouth strongly fortified, and the enemy in force on the heights on either side, but two columns advanced and gained the crest of the hill, driving all before them. On the 9th the advance guard reached Sundu Khana, and the whole force had cleared the pass before the 14th, being the first instance of an army forcing its way through these defiles against an enemy. Pri 5.--Concluded in the Commission Court, Dublin, the trial of Robert Caldwell, attorney, for assault with intent on the person of Mrs. James Corbett. The outrage was alleged to have taken place in Mr. Corbett's house. soner's counsel pleaded previous familiarity, and submitted letters said to have passed between the parties. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty, and the prisoner was sentenced to two years' imprisonment. 6. In committee, Lord Mahon's Copyright Bill receives various modifications, Mr. Macaulay arguing strongly in favour of the period being fixed at forty-two years, or the death of the author, whichever was longest. The other periods proposed, he contended, would either have the effect of checking the reproduction of certain popular works, or give undue protection to the early and immature writings of men of genius. Mr. Wakeley caused some amusement by alluding to the slight claim certain kinds of literature had for any protection at all. "If they gave a poet an evening sky, dew, withering leaves, and a rivulet, he might make a very respectable poem. (Laughter.) Why, anybody might do it. (Laughter, and "Try it !") Try it! he had tried it. (Great laughter.) And there" (pointing to Mr. Monckton Milnes) "is an honourable gentleman who was a poet of the first water. He thought a member of society might employ his talents to much better advantage than in the composition of such productions as he had quoted. Who could not string such lines together by the bushel? He could write them by the mile." (Laughter.) The police discover in the stable of Garnard Lodge, Roehampton, London, part of the body of a female. The police were drawn to the place in consequence of a pawnbroker in Wandsworth having charged the coachman Good with stealing a pair of trousers from his shop. Good evinced great concern when the officers entered the stable in search of the missing garment, and when their attention was directed to the fourth stall he suddenly rushed out, locked the door upon them, and fled. that stall, beneath a little hay, they found an object which at first they could not understand, but which turned out to be the trunk of a In 1842. woman female, with the head and limbs cut off, the abdomen cut open, and the entrails extracted. The whole of the cuts through the flesh had been made with a sharp knife, but the bones were hacked with some blunt instrument. The stable-door was at once burst open, the alarm given, and on further search a quantity of burnt bones belonging to the body was discovered in the fireplace of the harness-room. It was impossible to identify the remains, but from inquiries instantly set on foot there was no doubt they were those of a brought by Good or his wife to the Lodge the preceding Sunday. At the inquest the jury found the body to be that of Jane Jones, or Good, and that Daniel Good had wilfully murdered her. Good eluded pursuit for nearly a fortnight, but was then discovered working as a bricklayer's labourer at Tunbridge by a man who had formerly been in the police force at Wandsworth. He was at once taken before the magistrate. While under examination he took a comb from his pocket and with it turned back the hair from his forehead, as if to hide a bald place-a circumstance which corresponded with a known peculiarity of the murderer Good. He persisted in stating that his name was O'Connor, and knew nothing about the murder. He was committed to Maidstone jail, where he was again identified by two officers, and conveyed by them back to London. 7. At daylight this morning Sir Robert Sale attacks the besieging force of Akbar Khan outside the walls of Jellalabad. "The Affghans," he writes, "made repeated attempts to check our advance by throwing forward heavy bodies of horse, which twice threatened to force back the detachments of foot under Captain Havelock; but in a short time they were dislodged from every point of their position, their cannon taken, and their camp involved in a general conflagration. The battle was over and the enemy in full retreat in the direction of Jughman by about 7 A. M. Mahomed Akbar in open field by the troops The defeat of whom he had boasted of blockading has been complete and signal." Colonel Dennie, of the 13th Light Infantry, was shot during the engagement. 8.-Lord John Russell introduces an amendment on the Government Income-tax scheme, on the ground that it was inquisitorial, unequal, and had hitherto been considered in the light of a war reserve only. The debate lasted till the 13th, when, on a division, Ministers had a majority of 106, in a House of 510 members. Concluded at Boulogne the trial of Vivier, who in his duty as courier of the Chronicle, Post, and Herald, was charged with defrauding the Post-office. Suspicious of the speed with which private Eastern despatches were conveyed between Marseilles and Calais, M. Thiers had issued a regulation compelling them to pass through the post-office, and pay the ordinary rate. Vivier, though defended with great APRIL ability by M. Berryer, was found guilty. Judgment deferred. 8.-Lord Melbourne submits a resolution affirming the principle of a fixed instead of a fluctuating duty on corn, but is defeated by a large majority. 14.-Presenting a petition to-day from the farmers of Essex to the House of Lords, Lord Western complained that the agriculturists had been deceived by Sir Robert Peel, who had framed the new Corn Law, and by their representatives in Parliament who had supported it. The Duke of Wellington instantly replied: "The noble Lord should have waited for the opportunity of stating the when, and the where, and the how, and in what words, my right honourable friend has deceived the public. But, my Lords, I deny the fact; and, as for mally and emphatically as the noble Lord has stated it, I say it is not true; and that's the end of it." 16. The troops under General Pollock entered Jellalabad amidst enthusiastic greetings on both sides. The garrison mounted the walls of the fortress, and loud cheers, mingling with the roar of cannon, attested the joy with which the beleaguered troops welcomed the arrival of their deliverers. 17. A religious service performed by signs to the inmates of the Deaf and Dumb Refuge, Holborn. 18. The Corn Importation Bill read a second time in the House of Lords by a majority of 117 to 68. It was read a third time, and passed without a division, on the 22d. 21.-Lord Ellenborough issues from Benares a notification regarding Sale's victory over Akbar Khan : "That illustrious garrison, which by its constancy in enduring privations, and by its valour in action, has already obtained for itself the sympathy and respect of every true soldier, has now, sallying forth from its walls under the command of its gallant leader, Major-General Sir Robert Sale, thoroughly beaten in open field an enemy of more than three times its numbers, taken the standards of their boasted cavalry, destroyed their camp, and recaptured four guns, which, under circumstances which can never again occur, had during the last winter fallen into their hands.' A salute of twenty-one guns was ordred to be fired at every principal station of the army. 23.-Commencement of the sale of the Strawberry Hill collection. A wooden building was erected on the lawn for the purpose of accommodating the visitors, no apartment in the dwelling-house being large enough. The sale opened with the library of books, to which six days were devoted. Died a prisoner in the hands of Akbar Khan, Major-General Elphinstone, the com mander of the British forces in Affghanistan. 24.-Serious fires, supposed to be the work of incendiaries, take place in Huddersfield, Kidderminster, and Bridport. 25.-Meeting in Freemasons' Hall to honour the memory of Dr. Birkbeck by founding a Professorship of Machinery and Manufacture in University College, London. Captain Colin Mackenzie, one of the Cabul prisoners, arrives in General Pollock's camp with proposals from Akbar Khan for a surrender of all the hostages. The conditions being considered improper and extravagant, no result came of the negotiations at this time. - Died suddenly at Paris, M. Humann, French Minister of Finance. He filled that office in seven out of the nineteen administrations which had existed since 1830. 27.-Meeting of the electors of the City of London, to demand the resignation of Lord John Russell on account of his "factious opposition" to Sir Robert Peel's new tariff. An amendment in the form of a vote of confidence was carried by a large majority. May 2.-Demonstration of Chartists in the metropolis on occasion of taking their monster national petition to the House of Commons. The procession mustered in the square of Lincoln's Inn Fields about one o'clock, and proceeded by way of Holborn, Tottenham-courtroad, the New-road, Langham-place, and Regent-street, to Westminster, which was reached between three and four o'clock. The petition, described as having 3,317,702 names appended, was borne on the shoulders of sixteen men, representing different trades in the metropolis. Being too large for admission at the door of the House, it was broken up and carried in piecemeal by a long line of men. Next day Mr. Duncombe moved that the petitioners should be heard at the bar by counsel. T. B. Macaulay opposed the motion, drawing special attention to one passage in the petition complaining of the obligation to pay the National Debt, and to another remonstrating against the monopoly of property in land. Sir Robert Peel opposed the motion because it was an impeachment of the whole constitution and social order of the kingdom, and the business Mr. of the country could not be suspended while the House inquired whether it would be fitting to sponge out the National Debt and repeal the Union. Mr. Roebuck described the petition as drawn up by a cowardly and malignant demagogue. On a division there appeared, for the hearing, 49; against, 287. 2.-Lady Chantrey presents to the University of Oxford her husband's valuable collection of original busts, and copies from the antique, on condition that a permanent place is assigned to them in the sculpture gallery. Eighty-seven clauses of the Income-tax Bill passed in committee to-day with little discussion. 3.-Died at St. Petersburg, aged 62, Sir Robert Kerr Porter, K.C. H., traveller. 4.-The Boers of Port Natal, unable, as they alleged, to obtain redress of grievances within the limits of the Cape Colony, are unsuccessfully attacked to-day on the frontier by Sir H. Smith. He lost two officers and fourteen men. The Literary Association of the Friends of Poland give a fête at Stafford House, in which Madame Rachel takes part, and the sum of 8767. is raised in aid of poor Poles. At another entertainment in the Guildhall, where Miss Adelaide Kemble and Miss Rainforth appeared, 7367. was collected. A mode of compromising election petitions, which afterwards led to a parliamentary inquiry, was this day adopted with reference to the recent Nottingham contest. "Memorandum :-It is expedient to settle the petitions now pending; and it is agreed that, I. All the petitions shall be abandoned; 2. Within four days from this day one seat will be vacated; 3. The sum of 1,000l. to be paid in consideration of expenses incurred in connexion with petitions; 4. It is understood that Mr. Walter is to be returned at the election resulting from the above-mentioned vacancy." "" Similar compromises took place at Harwich, Lewes, Reading, Falmouth, and Bridport. Dr. Lushington gives judgment in the Consistory Court against the legality of a new Braintree church-rate, levied by a minority of the vestry. At a meeting in July last, called for voting a rate for the repairs of the parish church, a motion was made for a rate of two shillings in the pound, and duly seconded; an amendment was then moved, and carried by a large majority, denouncing all connexion be tween Church and State in general, and against church-rates in particular. After this the majority of the parishioners left, and the churchwardens and others of the ratepayers carried the original resolution without opposition. 5.-A policeman shot, and two others wounded, by an armed footpad who had been prowling for some days about the neighbourhood of Highbury-barn. On being pursued to Highbury-vale he appeared to have resolved on keeping his pursuers at bay. He placed his |