The Express. — London, England, 1847-04-02 00:00:00

H ki ARMY SHRVICE BILL. Thy. 4011 In Comnitnee in favour of enlistment far ten ran, and again* air Valera:l Douglas's amendment of for fourteen years.— Ayes, G 2 ; Nuts, 27. liaserman, A. Maar. Air Ix LOKI A. Rumsll, Lord E. Bernal, ft. Madan Ho. J.oJdaesulay, T. Sorope.o. P. fladele, J. J. Racolt, S. jsugsbutou,W.A. .dien. R. B. Buerring, Dr. Evans, Sir D. L. MecuMenra, Maj. SomervillkSirW. Boller, C. Permed, W. B. Wart*, A. Maori, Lard J. Baler. E. Fonder, M. WlMeenell, J. Y. Stimul i W. V. Berivni, W. Dore, sat. e. Maitland. T. Street. Hoc E. Bytes, O.K. Grey, Hr D. Marshall. W. Talmud, IL. W. Callaghan. D. Oust, the J. 14ole,Rt Ile. F. %%Berg, lion. C. Cbolmelsy. Sir Malatton, Capt. V. (Manor Don Warburton. H. Clay, sir W. Hamm, K. Paget., Colonel William; W. Oelebrooks, Mr T.llobbosise, Sir J. Probe% 00$. Wyae, T. Collett. J. Howard. P. IL Perfect, K Craig, W.O. Hume, J. Phillpotta, J. sILLMIS. Dawson, ILn.T.V.Jervis. tbr J. Plamridge, Capt. MI, Lord M. Drat, J. is. W.*. 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MGR WATER AT LONDON-BRIDO& T•g DAl—ltorning, 2 min. Feu 3 ; AftWOOOM, 19 eds. put 3. "10.310“02-3IonsIsp, S ols. put 3 ; Aftusue, 31 W. put & LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL:2. NOTHING has more surprised us in the controversy that has unhappily been raised respecting National Education, than the assertion that the interference of the state to secure the duo instruction of the people is contrary to the principles of nonconformity. Of whom are Nonconformists more generally and more ; ustly proud than of the brave old puritans,the pilgrim fathers of New England ? Those conscientious men, driven by intolerance from their native land, sought and found " freedom to worship God " in the wilds of America : to support religious voluntaryism they abandoned home, fortune, and friends ; and yet, by these men was recognised the great principle that it is the duty of the community, and therefore of the state as representing that com munity, to provide for the instruction of its members in their rights and duties. One of their earliest ordinances sets forth that none of the brethren shall suffer so much barbarism in their families as not to teach their children and apprentices so much learning as may enable them perfectly to read the Eng lish tongue . ' Otto of the first laws passed by the colonial assemblies of the in fant states sets forth : "To the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of oar forefathers, it is ordained that every township, after the Lord bath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall appoint one to teach all children to write and read ; and where any town shall increase to the num ber of one hundred families, they shall set up a gram mar-school, the masters thereof being able to instruct youth gofer as they may be fitted for the university." Six years after the arrival of Wl:armor, the general court voted a sum, equal to a year's rate of the whole colony, towards the erection of a college. " Every child," says BANCROFT, with pardonable pride, "as it was born into the world, was lifted from the earth by the genius of the country, and in the statutes of the land, received, as its birthright, a pledge of the public care of its morals and its mind." These were the puritans of the olden time, men of uncom promising principle, and imperishable fame. To the pilgrim fathers we have reverently looked for the genuine principles of dissent, and we find a recogni tion of the duty of the state to provide for the educa tion of the people, and that most prominently set for ward, and most sedulously practised. It does not raise our opinion of the honesty of the opposition made to the ministerial measure, to find that no one of its leaders has male the slightest allu sion to the system of public instruction established in the United States of America. In all eases this abstinence cannot have resulted from ignorance, for, unless our memory deceives us, this system is described and praised in " The Modern Traveller," a very clever compilation, which bears on its title pig the name of JOSIAU CONDE& We beg leave most respectfully to remind oar opponents that all honest logicians hold suppceseto ceri to be equivalent to artggestin falei, and that there is a concealment hardly teal guilty than false assertion. It grieves us inexpressibly to hint such censure ; but if we thought that the great dissenting body adopted the opinions and sanctioned the practices of those Mho have set themselves forward as their leaders, we should almost despair of our country. But we have good reason to believe that such is not the case : some we know have been deceived by the cry that this system has been borrowed from the despotic states on tile continent : others have been deluded by the itsi dims assertion, that it was taken from France, and th it its results would be similar to those ascribed to the French system, in a work of no authority, called " France as it is;" and others have been actuated by a desire not to disturb the unanimity of the dissenting body generally. We have, therefore, every reason to believe that this present storm of opposition, begun in error, and continued in obstinacy, will share the fate of the many senseless cries which have, within our memory, quickly burned themselves out by their own intensity. We have advocated neither church nor sect, but the general interests of the community, and more especi ally of the working classes,—classes which have been very harshly treated by some of the leaders of the opposition to the government measure. We can not comprehend any true patriot lamenting that the extension of the suffrage should be impeded by the deficiency of education, and then insisting that the means of education ought to continue deficient. We cannot understand the demand that a London university should be endowed for conferring degrees on the children of the wealthy, and schools of design for the encouragement of artists, and at the same time declaring that there should exist no endowment for the children of the labourer and the artisan. Wo cannot comprehend bow it should be essential to " manly independence," that the children of the poor should be indebted for their edu cation to the precarious and capricious charity of the wealthy, instead of claiming it as • right from their common country. There is in all this a semblance of hostility to the working classes, which we sincerely deplore ; and there is something more than a semblance in the list of eec ti o ns published by Messrs. Cox and HARKEY, when the attention of government is called to the danger of rendering oar artisans too skilful, and our labourers too well acquainted with their business. The inconsistency of the objections made to the ministerial measure is too glaring to escape notice. On one side it is condemned for giving some ideal superiority to the Established Church, and on the ether it is assailed for placing Catholics and Seel miens on the same level as other Christians. Some people have a very strange idea of the real nature of liberty. A story is told of a celebrated anarchist, who loudly exclaimed, " I wish I were free ! I wish I were free!" A bystander asked, " Well, are you not free to do u you please?" To which the I anarchist candidly replied, " Aye, but I am not free to make you do as I please ;" and the anarchist's answer embodies what too many mesa when they plead for freedom of education. We see, by the educational reports in the United Stator, the beneficial results that have followed from the adoption of the educational principles laid down by the fathers of dissent—the genuine apostles of nonconformity, the pilgrim fathers of America— " Every school that is established," says one of the Kentucky reports, "every child that is educated, every school-house that is built, are new and additional pledges for the perpetuation, and the growth, and the moral influence of our institutions." We, like the old puritans, desire that oar institutions should be per petuated, that they should grow and advance with the growing and advancing intelligence of the age, and that their moral influence should be extended, by education, to every member of the community. The pilgrim fathers of New England are surely safer guides for modern nonconformists than the Jesuits of France, whom they have so faithfully and sedulously imitated in their present agitation. They now exhibit that anger which is characteristic of the uneasiness men feel when they have a lurking consciousness that tizey have fallen into error; bat we pray that they may not feel the pangs of a late repentance if on them should devolve the merlons re sponsibility of having caused the rejection, or even impaired the efficiency, of the measure. If means be not taken to check the growing mass of juvenile depravity, which no one can deny to be on the in crease, a few years more will render crime and punishment in England a scandal to the civilised world; and it will be a sorry consolation for the multiplication of offences that sectarian rancour pre ferred the gaol to the school, and the executioner to the instructor. While writing we have received Dr. VAUGHAN'S candid and manly letter, which will be found in another column. We quite agree with him that the plan which he has proposed would be preferable to the ministerial measure, and we also concur with him in the belief that the country is not yet prepared for its reception. But, because we cannot get the beet posible, we will not reject the best attainable; and we know from some practical experience, that as the government measure gets into work, it must daily approximate more and more to the scheme suggested by Dr. VAUG HAN. As to the rejection of government grants by the nonconformists, we have only to say that the Presbyterians of Ulster expressed similar determination when the national system was intro duced into Ireland, but when they saw that the system was worked fairly, honestly, and efficiently, they not only ceased from opposition and sought assistance from the board, but became its zealous ad vocates and firm supporters. There is no reason to fear a greater manifestation of obstinacy in the nos conformists of England. Some Irish noblemen and gentlemen have been jogging the elbow of the Premier, and asking what has become of the emigration part of the ministerial plan for regenerating Ireland. A plan of emigration' for Ireland, approved, as to its leading principles, by the Archbishop of DUBLIN, the Earl of DEVON, Mr. BERNAL OSBORNE, Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL, sad Mr. W. H. GREGORY, among others, has been to Lord JouN Russell,. The letter whil e s: l sm. " ponied it will be found in another column. We are glad of this: for although emigration. per se, could not by any possibility suffice to remedy the social evils of Ireland, emigration is an indispensable ingredient in any comprehensive measure for their alleviation. Ministers have hitherto replied to all questions asked of them in parliament relating . to their views of emigration as one means of alleviating Irish distress that they rely u . the spontaneous and natural flow of emigration. e numbers who annually find their way from Ireland across the Atlantic is certainly great, and, under the pressure of this year of scarcity, it is greater than ever. Bat it is totally inadequate to relieve the pressure of population upon the means of employment and subsistence to such an extent as will enable the condition of society in Ireland to right itself. Besides, the utterly destitute class—the class that would derive most advantage from emigrat ing—is not enabled to get out of the country by this natural flow. Government is not asked to give any artificial stimulus to the desire to emigrate : the numbers who actually emigrate, and still more the greater numbers who anxiously seek the means of so doing, are a guarantee that no stimulus is r e q uired. The emigration will be spontaneous : government is only required to remove the obstacles interposed by natural poverty to check the natural flow. The emigration actually in progress is of a nature, ri=der existing circumstances, to do almost as much harm as good. Ireland has labour in superabund ance : its main want is capital to turn that labour to account. The existing emigration is making its little capital less. In Ireland, as everywhere, labour is constantly making capital ; but the poor man, who saves from fifty to two or three hundred pounds, has no means of investing it. Some curious illustrations of this phase of Irish society will be found in the evidence relative to Tipperary, collected by Lord DEVON'S commission. The money-making peasant has nothing for it but to turn money-lender on precarious secardy, and at usurious rates. The bulk of the emigrants, under the " natural system" are those money-making men who carry their small capitals to countries where they can turn them to better account. It would startle such as have not looked closely into this emigration, could an accurate and authentic return be obtained of the aggregate of money thus drained from Ireland in the course of the last twelve months. The difficulty of finding secure investments for money in Ireland suggests another illustration of the necessity of emigration on • large scale. Capital is required to set the surplus labour of the country to work. To this end the capital must be employed either in Ireland or out of it. But there is such a preys ' lent opinion of the insecurity of Irish investments, that capital will not go there at present in the na tural way of business. It was one objection to Lord GEORGE I3ENTINCK'S railway bill, that the sum he asked was far too great to be lavished upon one class of undertakings; but a more insuperable objection was the utter want of confidence in the securni a f r ez the repayment of the money. Irish railway were valueless before and independent of the famine. Since, therefore, capital cannot be got to employ Irish labour in Ireland, the experiment must be tried to get ca pital . to employ Irish labour out of Ireland. Experience has shown that English capital and Irish labour can meet with mutual advantage beyond the Atlantic. There is a still more weighty reason than has yet been touched upon, why government should undertake —not to stimulate an artificial emigration—but to facilitate and direct the existing spontaneous emigra tion. It is the duty of government, as the great na tional trustee, to take care that the destitute who quit their country to relieve the pressure of population on the means of subsistence do not suffer in consequence. It would be less inhumane, to effect the clearance by killing them at once, than to leave them to die of pri vation and neglect on a foreign shore. The natural" system of emigration has been little better than re moving surplus population, as a gardener weeds out surplus plants, and throwing them down on a distant land to wither and die. It has literally been a " shovelling out of paupers," to get them out of our way. In the British provinces of North America they have been known at times to die off like sheep when the rot gets into a flock. In the United States they are barely tolerated as a " serviceable nuisance." The anti-Irish riots in Philadelphia, and the ex istence of a " native American " party, having for its sole bond of union enmity to the Irish, show what kind of home Irish emigrants find in that country. Government is bound to care for the future of those who remove in order that those who remain behind may have room to prosper. In other words, to do justice to the Irish poor, government must colonise as well as promote emigration. We admit that, though not insuperable, there are great difficulties in the way. There is no colonising department of government, and little hope of getting one. Again, the Irish emigrants are a peculiar class, and must be managed in their own way. From England and from Scotland, individuals of the middle and upper classes axe easily found to proceed to new colonies as employers or leaders. The Irish emigrants have so little in com mon with the middle or upper classes of their coun try, that it were in vain to think of forming Irish settlements in this way. The Roman Catholic clergy present almost the only class from which each settle ment might receive a nucleus. These considerations, THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 2, 1847. it would appear, have not escaped the notice of the Irish gentlemen who are now moving in the matter of emigration. In the letter which accompanied their memorial to Lord Joust Russeu., they intimate that their scheme contemplates—systematic colonisation from Ireland to Canada on a large scale, and with government assistance : provision to be made for the religious wants of the settlers; and the agency of pri vate enterprise in carrying out the plan. When their memorial, with all the details of their scheme, is published, we shall be in a condition to form a judgment u to its practicability. Meanwhile, we may express our concurrence in these its cardinal principles. And wo may add that the memorialists' expression of " willingness to accept an income and property tax, for the purpose of defraying the cost of the emigration," speaks volumes in favour of their earnestness and honesty of purpose. The Debats of Wednesday has another article on the subject of free trade. The present suspension of all restriction upon foreign commerce in pro , visions will cease on the 31st July. The object of ministers is, by means of the press, to bring public opinion to bear upon the chamber, so as to enable them to carry a law continuing the present suspension of all commercial restrictions until the 31st July, 1848, and to do this at once, without waiting for any further results as to the quality or quantity of the next harvest. The ministerial argument is shortly this. It is assumed as an incontestable fact, that the potato crop of the present year will be almost nothing. This is proved by the fact, that no potatoes are being sown. The usual amount produced annually of this article of food is above 100 millions of hectolitres, a quantity equal to the amount of grain produced in France. It is affirmed that no crop planted in spring can, on the surface left vacant by the potato, produce anything near the same alimentary resources. The corn crop must therefore be sulfa ' ciently superabundant to cover thedeficiency in the potato crop, to suppose which would be to anticipate a harvest altogether without precedent. A large im portation would thus be indispensable. But such an importation cannot be hoped for through the ordinary operations of commerce without due notice. The transit only would occupy a long period. It may be assumed that three millions and a half of quarters will be wanted. This would fall 800,000 tons of shipping, which at the average magnitude of vessels would employ from three to four thousand ships. Bach is the fact, and such the inferences put forth by the French government, as their justification for the intended appeal to the chambers to continue free trade, not only in corn, but in every species of ali mentary provisions. L' Union Monarehique says, that the correspond ence between the court of the Tuileries, and the cabi net of Madrid, is more active than ever. It is feared on both sides that the natural progress of events will lead to a complication with England. The Duchess de Montpenaier will leave Paris for Madrid next month, preparatory to her accoudiernent in that capital, as heiress presumptive of the throne. The duke will, of course, accompany her, and as she will take the rank of a Spanish princess, he will assume that of Prince come. We have received the Madrid despatches and jour nals of the 26th alt. The ministerial embarrassments still continue. Although the present ministers command a large majo rity in both chambers, they acknowledge, both per sonally and through their organs of the press, that they are surrounded with difficulties almost insur mountable, and that their stability can only be insured by strengthening their ranks with recruits from all shades of their party, and, above all, by receiving une quivocal manifestations of the confidence of the crown. The admission implied in the last condition tells the wholestory of thepreeenterisis. Tee truth is,theQaeen desiresto obtain the resignation of the cabinet; the minis ters are unwilling to give it, and if they did, a difficulty would still remain to find ministers who would ven ture to accept office with a majority of the present chamber against them, and the consequent necessity of a dissolution and a new election,which under existing circamstaaces might be hazardous. Nevertheless, re ports were generally spread t h at it was probable that M. Salamanca would take othi e, and succeed in fu: ur ing a practicable ministerial c unbination. On the 25th the Minister of the Interior proposed in the chamber a project of law nape( Log the • in corn. Rumours continued to be ret tired of .dit move • ments in the provinces. The works on the railway from ( tom to Mataro were to be immediately reaumci La Patrie, Paris journal, mentions "4. report that General Serrano has succeeded in let ring Madrid, and that he was expected at Bayonne. CONSTANTINOT )(Arum IS. - _ H.M. steamer Heat arrived here en the 11th inst. from Greece with &apaches froir Sir E. Lyons for the Hon. Mr. Wellesley. The F rench steam-frigate Cuvier left the Piraeus four hours after the Heck, ~ud arrived in the Golden Horn on . 1 o 13th inst. The envier was the bearer of despatches for M. de Bow , ciumez, and also of one from M. Coletti to M. polos, the Greek Chargé d'Affaires at Cowden ' irinVe. - MM. Coletti and Piscatory found. it every day more difficult to maintain the position they had taken up ; and they were completely isolated as far as regarded the corps cliplomatique. Habit might have rendered a man who had gone through such a career as Coletti, insensible to aversion or con tempt, but the French envoy had sufficient amour propre to feel keenly the sentiments so openly mani fested by his colleagues. By the advice of M. Pla catory, therefore, Coletti determined on changing the ' colour without altering the spirit, of his resistance to the demand of the Porte. In this view he wrote to M. Argeyropolos, with instructions that his despatch should be communicated to Ali Effendi, the Minister of Foreign Affairs. In this communi cation, which is as uncomfortable in its tone as clumsy in its conception, M. Coletti tries to separate M. Mumma from his official capacity, and grounds his refusal to comply with the wiehea of the Porte on personal rather than political motives. He adds that popular feeling is an strong against M. Muslim, that it would be impossible for hint to adopt any measure which might be construed into an amoral of the conduct of the Turkish envoy ; but that if the Porte will consent to send another representative, he will do all, and even more, than is required by the Ottoman government. The Grand Vizier assured one of the representatives of the five great powers, who had an interview with him on this subject, that the Porte was determined to reject in tots the proposition of M. Coletti, and to adhere to its original demand. If the Turkish government were to comply with the proposal of the Greek minister, it would be an unequivocal condemnation of its own conduct. The proceedings of M. Mumma, as they had been authorised, were naturally approved of by the Porte from the very commencement. He refused a to the ex-bandit, Tamathasao, because he C a d i rx r express orders to that effect ; and he afterwards. demanded his passports, and returned to Constan tinople, in compliance with instructions from his government. The recall of M. Muenrus was approved of, if indeed it were not proposed, by the emnants tires of the five great powers, who saw in his pet ters at the king's ball, a treacherous trick on the part of Coletti, and in the expressions addressed by his Majesty to the representative of Turkey, a gross and unmerited insult, which nothing could have war ranted. The despatches of the Russian, Austrian, and Prussian envoys to their colleagues at Athens, exist in written testimony of this fact ITALY.—RoME, MARCH 19.—A private letter re ceived from Leghorn brings news from Rome to the above date. The alarm and agitation created by the establishment of the censorship, have been considerably tranquillised by the character of the individuals who are to exercise its functions. Contrary to what was expected, the board is composed cliitfly of the laity and of individuals known for their enlightened and moderate opinions. They are the Marquis Autici, the Abb6 Coppi, and MM. Matti and Vaa -1 masa, the latter a lawyer. -LEGHORN, MARCH 20.—The report of an intended intervention by Austria in Tuscany is daily becoming more certain. This intention is said to be to land 2000 Austrians in Elba, which is part of the territory of the duchy of Tux tiny, so that they may be brourcht into the Italian territory at a moment's notice. In Piedmont, Tuscany, and the Roman states, the most lively apprehensions are entertained, and it is feared that, notwithstanding his enlightened end liberal opinions and intentions, Pius IX. will not long be able to resist the Austrian influence, especially as that in fluence is, to say the least, connived at by M. Cluisot and his colleagues. OEHMANY.—Aosrats.—The dividends on the Austrian Kaieer-Ferdinands-Nord-bahn, which, in 1844, were 4i per cent., have been fixed at 8 per cent. for 1846. It is generally assorted that Count Munich Bellinghsuaen intends resigning the double funedons of Austrian minister to the Diet, and president of that assembly, and that he is to he appointed Minister of the Interior in the Austrian domi nions. Ills successor at Frankfort has not been named. PRAGUE, MARGIT 14. FOOD RIOTS. Several mannfecturen having been obliged to dismiss a number of their workmen, the latter, reduced to a state of famine, attacked and plundered divers bakers shops in the town. Sit handled artisans sent a deputation to the burgomaster, to beg of him to alleviate their distress. The result has been that the cotton manufacturers have engaged to pay a certain sum weekly for the support of workmen out of em ploy. All workmen, not natives of Prague, or who have worked in that city for less than three months, are ordered to leave it immediately. MADAGASCAR.—The Moniteur, Paris official journal, denies the truth of a statement made by the Journal an Havre (and copied by us) to the effect that the island of Nossihd was to have been evacuated iu December last. No such step has been taken, nor have the authorities of Bour bon or Mayotti received any instructions towards carrying such a measure into effect. EASTERN AItCHIPELAGO.—Duren SErnz mst4Ts.—At Bali, it is stated that the hostile feeling of the princes who have lately been vanquished still continues. Entrenchments have been thrown up near the Dutch fort at Belding; the intercourse between the inhabitants and the garrison of that fort had been suspended. The health of the Dutch troops was bad, so that it was necessary often to re. Ikea them. The fort was in a perfect state of defence against any attack from the natives. Attempts made by the Balinese emissaries to excite the princes of Lornbek against the Netherlands government had tailed. Ecaieraries had also been sent to Singapore ; but the Balish authorities seemed to have given them to understand that they could expect no aid from that quarter, and that their wisest course would be quietly to conform to the treaty which had been concluded. The Prince of Belding was busy in repairing his palace, which was destroyed during the late expedition, being urged by the popular belief that if it were not inhabited for more than one year, the whole of the prince's family would become extinct.—Dutch Paper, March 31. ef)! ealln. WINDSOR, TBITBBDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert walked this morning on the Eastern Terrace and slopes of the Castle. Their RR.HH. the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal took walking and pony exercise this morning in the grounds adjacent to the castle. Lieut.- Col. F. H. Seymour has arrived at the castle, and has relieved Col. Bouverie in the duties of Equerry-in-waiting I to his R.H. Prince Albert. A deputation from trke - r - eneral body of dissenting ministers of the three denominations on the subject of the government scheme of education, had an interview with Lord J. Russell yesterday at his official residence in Down ing-street. Baron de Moncorvo, Portuguese Minister, trans acted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. The Turkish Minister and Princess Callimaki left town yesterday on a short visit to Brighton. The Marquis of Lansdowne (Lord President) was better yesterday. His Lordship received a deputation front the dissenting body at Lansdowne House. The Right Hon. F. Milner Gibson (Vice-President of the Board of Trade) was sufficiently recovered yesterday from his recent illness to attend at the Board of Trade. A deputation to the First Lord of the Treasury from a Public Meeting of Protestant Dissenters and of the Friends of Sunday School Instruction, held at Finsbury Chapel, Leaden on March 19. on the subject of the Minutes of the Cominitteit of Council on Education, had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday. The Right Hon. H. Labouchere, Chief Secretary for Ireland, has left town.—The Earl of Minto has left town for Scotland.—Viscount Morpeth left town yesterday morn ing.—The Right Hon. Sir G. Grey and Lady Grey have left town, for Fallodon, Northumberland.--Lord Campbell has left town.—The Right lion. E. Strutt and Mrs. Strutt left town, yesterday, for their residence, Kingston, near Derby. —The llarquis of Clanriearde has left town. Despatches were sent off last evening from the Colonial-office, for the Governors of the West India Colo miss. l)ivine Service was performed yesterday (Maundy Thursday) in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Bishop of London afterwards confirmed some of the juvenile nobility. The Royal Minor Bounty and Gate Alms were dis tributed to the aged and peer on Monday and Tuesday, to upwards of 1,000 persons, in sums varying in amount from 51. to 13a, and 31. The number of blind very much increased on the present cassion. Yesterday the Royal Maunday was distributed at Whitehall Chapel, in the usual state, during divine service, accompanied by the prescribed prayers for her Majesty's long life and happiness. The number of persons who received the royal charity was 28 of each sex, being the age of her Majesty. The numbers increase one of each annually, to correspond with the age of her most precious Majesty. The clergy and gentlemen of the Chapel Royal were in attend ance. The boys of the Chapel Royal were present, and else -.ix children of the national schools (three boys and three girls), who attended as a reward and encouragement for goad conduct. The distributions were made by the Sub-Almoner to her Melesty, the Rev. Dr. Jelf, Canon of Christ Church, and Principal of King's College, London, assisted by Joseph Hanby, En., Secretary to his Grace the Lord High Almoner, anal Yeoman of her Majesty's Almonry, and attendants, under the immediate orders of the Venerable the Arch bnhop of York. The oldest recipient of the royal charity SAG of age. The value of the royal charity to each aaat, including the silver pennies, was 41. 75. 4d. Each assn end woman received as many pennies as the age of the sovereign. At the close of the ceremony the national anthem, "God Ws the Queen," was played as a voluntary ea the organ. DEATH OF LORD SAYL AND SELF.—This much respected noblemen expired on the evening of the 31st ult , at his residence in Grosvenor-street, aged 49, after an illness of about eight days, which it appears arose from a odd only recently caught. He bad hitherto been in the eniersent of good heath. Lord Saye and Sole's compa ratively early death will be much regretted by a numerous aide and by the lovers of aquatic sports in particular. His l ordship, it will be recollected, succeeded his late father so recently as November, 1814. He was a prominent member of the Royal Thames Yacht Club, and on the occasion of the re-election of the late lamented Commodore Harrison, whom he has survived but a few days, gave a piece of plate for competition between Erith and Greenwich to celebrate the event. In politics, his lordship was a reformer, but never took any prominent part in public fairs. The deceased peer, William Thomas Eardley Twisleton Plenum, twelfth, baron in the peerage of England, was born Apri! 24, 1798, being the son of the eleventh lord, who died in 1844, by the Hon. Maria Eardley, eldest daughter of Lord Eardley, on whose demise, in 1824, that Me became extinct. The only other issue of this marriage was the lion. Maria Elizabeth, who married, in 1825, the Count Von °endue' of Prussia, and died in the following year without issue. The deceased never married, and the title and estates fall to the Rev. Frederick Twisleton, his cousin, who is a canon residentiary of Hereford Cathedral. The father of the deceased, in 1825, assumed the name of Fiennes, after his patronymic Twisleton, and in the same year took the name of Eardley, on the death of his father inlaw. The tenth lord succeeded in establishing his claim to the barony in 1781, it having remained 107 pure in abeyance. The family estates lie in Oxfordshire and Kent. EMIGRATION RROM IRILAND.—A memorial, em bodying a plan for emigration from Ireland, was presented on Wednesday to the Right Hon. Lord John Russell. It was accompanied by the following letter : 14. Part-street, Oreevener-squm, London, Much 31. M:f Dad,—We ham the honour to mums to mar lordship the embed emmerliel, with the lit of near which we have beat sothsebed Is appall bit The luta gesgsatiso whisk it em. bodies, andlealisi them ehe hue OPUS esodfse aremelme The neseatty et whose* essilesiesaa, on • wry Zrate/a, lkom Intend to Grady d the sessois the dole lopremste reeneety =ebbs wide= rat. is he fbs usigrarSa.-3. The acvestep d eallehr yedele mese. E s ther dam d agency, tee say eat the gian.—And 4. A wil ls amyl is Weems and geogerly ton, de the mere al de wit et de asignede. We here et proem weemens Werelese title parts, of the NM& IPS WM de ear mime ems basset et thomilded is yew baldtr dber dr Neater bet we haw lbeestit ft sew eedisted leper =to W e= yea at ewe vtdiest veldr atedeaM Ws bwe die Weser my yew beibles wry eledlest feeeises, W. It. OIDAST, M.P. • J. frOmesta. ILP.; I. R. Othur.—The Right Hoe. lord J. Hornell. Newts authorised to be attached to the accompanying nmenorial —The Arebbiehop of Dublin, the Marquis of ' -Ormond., the Marquis of Ely, the Earl of Devon, the Earl of Dysart, Lord Farnham, Lord Jocelyn, Sir A. J. Foster, Bart. ; Colonel Wyndham, M.P.; Evelyn J. Shirley, Esq., M.P. ; Lieut.-Colonel Taylor, M.P.; Alex. M'Carthy, Esq., M.P. ; Sir Chas. Coote, Bart., M.P. ; R. B. Osborne, Esq., M.P.; Hon. James Muwell, M.P. ; Major Layard, M.P. ; J. H. Hamilton, Esq., M.P.; Hon. S. Spring Rice, M.P. ; M. J. O'Connell, Eirj.,M.P. Wm. H. Gregory, Esq., M.P.; John Robert Godley, Esq. BRITISH IRON COMPANY.—The annual meeting of this company was held yesterday, at the office in Thread needle-street : Sir George Larpent, Bart., took the chair. The moments showed a balance of 4,5.311. 9s. 4d. in favour of the company, liable to be increased by further receipts which are expected for compensations for calls, but also to be di minished by any new claims against the company. The chairman, to answer to a proprietor, said he did not see how the company could be finally wound up under a twelve month, as some considerable time would be necessary to get in the debts which had been compromised, and many of them were attended by difficult circumstances. He hoped any sum of money that might come to the shareholders from the meets would be made before that time and the company then dissolved. A vote of thanks was passed to the chairman and directors of the company. Tillt COMMON COUNCIL AND THE GOVERNMENT PLAN or RDVOATION. — The Lord Mayor has appointed Mon day, the 12th MU, for the further disunion, in the Court , of Common Council, of Mr. Bennoch's motion respecting ; national education. MIDDLESEX 110SPITAL.—ELECTION OF A PRE . INDINT.—The directors of the above hospital met yesterday r the parpose of choosing a president, the office having become vacant by the death of the Duke of Northumber -1 land. The present duke, having signified his willingness ? to undertake the office, was duly elected in the place of his • late illustrious brother. ADMISSION OF THE PUBLIC TO THE ZOOLOOICAL GARDENS, RECIENTR-TARE. Yesterday the Zoological Society resolved to admit the public to their gardens in the , Regvnt's park on each Monday and Tuesday throughout the . year, end on every lay, except Saturday, in Easter and Whitaun weeks, without the usual order of admission from a know of the society. GOVERNMENT EDUCATION SCHEME. Sir, —lt is with much reluctance that I request space to offer a word or two in redly to the observations relating to myself in your journal of yesterday. It is quite true that, when pleading on the side of state agency in sid of popular education, I was aware of the existence of the National School Society, and of the British and Foreign School Society, and of the practice of those societies in so mixing the general and religious instruction in their schools, that children have been compelled to re ceive both, or precluded from receiving either. But my argument has been, that the conditioa on which any school should be allowed to obtain funds raised by general Manion, should be, that the general instruction be kept distinct from the religious, and that the (eraser be thrown freely open to the com munity, without any direct or indirect imposition of the latter. My hope, that the time had come in which the government and the country would see their way to the adoption of some course of this nature has not been realised. Churchmen seem resolved th at their religion shall be taught in their schools as fully as in their &urchin, and be so taught to all who attend such schools. The great majority of nonconformist', I re. gret to say, are also determined that, in their schools, the general and religious teaching shall be linked together is the same manner. The result is, that our government is obliged to endow systems of popular education which will be everywhere thoroughly sectarian, or to endow none. With this choice before it, my settled conviction is, that it had better endow none. Sec tenon education is not an affair for an English government vs meddle with. In any circumstances, day-school educe tioa taking a sectarian complexion is by no means a thing to my taste, whether the sectarianism taught may chance to he my own or that of my neighbour ; but, as taken under the supervision or pay of the state, education of this sort is open to insuperable objection. The day is passed in which such a scheme might have been approved or endured in these nations. I admit that, had the government insisted on such a distinction between the general and the sectarian in the education sided by its means, it would not perhaps have succeeded in bringing the two societies named, or the different religions bodies, to approve of its plans. But to have failed on such ground would have been honourable, whereas, from the present scheme, I see nothing but mischief as likely to result. For it must be remembered, that it is now ascertained, that the great body of nonconformist', in cluding the Methodists, will not be recipients of these grants: some, because they object to the interference of civil government with popular education in any form; others became they object to such interference in respect to re ligious education ; and others, because they are opposed to this virtual endowment of all creeds—even such as are, in their judgment, the most superstitious and errone ous. For our government to persist in this measure, with the clear certainty before it that nearly all the proposed bounty would go to the side of the conformist, and scarcely I a vestige of it to the nonconformist, the latter having no I other concern with it than as a man who is to be reminded at every turn that he has been himself taxed to supply them sinews of war to his antagonist—to go on with this scheme in the face, I may say in defiance, of such consequences, would be, in my poor judgment, little short of infatuation. If it be said that exceptionable as this measure is, it is really about the best we can hope to obtain, my answer is, I be lieve it; and believing this, I cannot avoid the con clusion, that the sooner we cease to think of popular education in England sea matter with which our statesmen may profit ably concern themselves, the better. I see the alternative — I feel its weight —but it appears to me unavoidable.—l am, sir, yours, Ropier VeurntaN, Lancashire Independent College, March 31. A FACT FOR THE ANTI-EDUCATIONISTS.—Of the Aldworth jury, who convicted Mr. Butler, of Pangbouna, of inantaughter 12 in number, there were seven that could net sign their Own names. AMERICAN SYMPATHY.-MR. CLAY'S SPEECH. The following important speech was made at a meeting held at New Orleans, in the state of Louisiana, for the purpose of making arrangements for the relief of the people of Ireland. /dr. Clay addressed the meeting nearly as follows : Mr. President and Fellow-citizens—l hesitated to accept the invitation which has brought me here; being 'a mere sojourner and not a member of this community, I doubted the propriety of my presence and participation in the proceedings of this meeting, and apprehended that my I motive might be misunderstood. But—on consulting my pillow, and considering that the humanity of the object of this assembly ia bounded by no latitude nor locality, and ought to be coextensive with the whole human family—it seemed to me that all considerations of fastidious delicacy and etiquette should be waived and merged in a generous and magnanimous effort to contribute to the relief of the sufferings wnich have excited our feelings. if I should be miscuoceived or misrepresented, the experience of a long life has tiught me, that the best response to misconcep tion and miereprescatation is the fearless and faithful dis charge of duty in all the conditions of life in which we may be placed ; and; the best answer to traduction and calumny is conscious rectitude and the approbation of one's own heart Mr. President, if we were to hear that large numbers of the inhabitants of Asia, or Africa, or Australia. or the remotest part of the globe, were daily dying with hunger and famine—no matter what their colour, what their religion, er what their civilisation—we should deeply lament their cunditine„ Ana ha ieeesowibly p.oinpted, If possible, to mitigate their sufferings. But it is not the distresses of any such distant regions that have sum moned us together on this occasion. The appalling and heart-rending distresses of Ireland and Irishmen form the object of our present consultation. That Ireland, which has been in all the vicissitudes of our national exis anee, our friend, and has ever extended to us her warmest sympathy—those Irishmen, who, in every war in which we have been engaged, on every battle field, from Quebec to Monterey, have stood by us, shoulder to shoulder, and shared in all the perils and fortunes of the conflict. The imploring appeal comes to us from the Irish nation, which is so identified with our own as to be almost part and parcel of ours, bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh. Nor is it any ordinary cue of human misery, or a few isolated ems of death by starvation, that we are called upon to emaider. Famine is stalking abroad throughout Ireland ; whole towns, counties—eountless human beings, of every age and of both sexes—at this very moment are starving, or in danger of starving to death for breed! Of all the teems of dissolution of human life, the pangs and agony of that which proceeds from famine are the most dreadful. If one dies fighting gloriously for his country, he is cheered, in his expiring moments, by the patriotic nature of his I seerinee. He knows that his surviving relations find friends, whip lamenting his loss, will be gratified and honoured by his devotion to his country. Poets, painters, sculptors, historisns—will record his deeds of valour and perpetuate his renown. If he dice by the sudden explosion of the boilers of a steamboat, or by &storm at sea, death is quiet and easy, and soon performs its mission. A few piercing shrieks are uttered, ho sinks beneath the surface, and all is still and silent.• But a death by starvation comes slow, lingering, and excruciating. From day to day the wretched victim feels his flesh dwindling, his speech sinking, his friends falling around him, and he finally expires in horrible agony. Behold the wretched Irish mother—with haggard looks and stream ing eyes -her famished children clinging to her tattered garments, and gazing piteously in her face begging for food; and see the distracted husband and father, with pallid cheeks, standing by, horror and despair depicted in his countesuusee—tortured with the reflection that he can afford no succour or relief to the dearest objects of his heart, about to be snatched for ever from hint by the most cruel of deaths ! This is no fancy picture but, if we are to credit the terrible amounts which reach us from the theatre of misery and wretchedness, is one of daily occurrence. Indeed, no imagination can conceive— tongue express—no lona paint—the horrors of the scenes which are there daily exhibited. Ireland, in re spect to food, is differently situated from all the countries of the world. Asia has her abundant supply of rice ; Africa her dates, yams, and rice; Europe, her bread of wheat, rye, and oats; America, a double resource in the small grains, and a never-failing and abundant supply of Indian corn—that great supporter of animal life—for which we are not half grateful enough to a bountiful and merciful Providence. But the staple food of large parts of poor Ireland is the potato, and when it fails, pinching want and famine follow. It is among the inscrutable dispeneations of Providence, that the crop has been blighted the two last years ; and hence the privations of food, and this appeal to the sympathy of American hearts. Shall it be in vain / Shall starving Ireland—the young and the old—dying women and children ate. tch out their hands to us for bread, and find no relief ? Will not this great city, the world's storehouse of an exhaustless supply of all kinds of food, borne to its overflowing warehouses by the Father of Waters, act on this occasion in a manner worthy of its high destiny, and obey the noble impulses of the generous hearts of its blessed inhabitants ? We are commanded by the common Saviour of Ireland and of us, to love one another as ourselves; and on this, together with ono higher obli gation, hang all the law and prophets of our holy reli gion. We know that of all the forms of humanity and benevolence, none is more acceptable, in the sight of God, than the practice of charity. Let us demonstrate our love, out duty, and our gratitude to Him, by a liberal contribu tion to the relief of His suffering Irish children.—Fellew- Mime —no ordinary purpose - has brought to together. lids is sw political gathering. If it had been, you would wet have sow mo here ; I have not come to make a speech. When the heart is full and agitated by its own feeling emo tions, the paralysed tongue finds utterance difficult. It is net fervid eloquence, not gilded words, that Ireland needs— hat substantial food. Let us rise to the magnitude of the duty which is before us, and by a generous supply from the magnitude of our means, evince the genuineness and cor diality of our sympathy and commiseration. At the con clusion of Mr. Clay's speech, one loud and unanimous shout of approval was raised, in which officers and audience participated. STATISTICS OF THE COTTON TRADE. Some intereadag statistic tables, relating to the eats= trade, haw boa published in the Ilareitergar Guar dia*. Mr. Jake Ds= r al Blaekburn, the compikr, ob es an at s . nampli cones • toryinsinnes. mr =lorls 11.11 =1•166 • = di a .... Inmenntle eintianni, kimono iney ye tis tam ansingannt stew mina Inds noll In min Tr Urdu* br a lonftlunt of dr rev inn66l•l ken ray other arm stallinn tar On lot ably pren Ym Isersold at the Man at In prr ant ark ism IWO, ann860611•81• 444 , 0n•448_ yomrs. The annomenlen In as year 1817, was masted at 11668860118.; Wilion 1111,411186414111. bi 1814, at 8811,11111.4418116 lald In 184$, ei 816000,0001 b. Thy Isimisit coundeptka delfts ea the continent dace 1834, has Win In 168 mine ratio 211 that of Great Britain ; whilst In the United intense nne even been greater, at the compound rate of ereea cent. each year, thereby doubling Weil in ten yearn As it ne be many years before India will be able to produce aide:table quantity Wootton, we shall of neeessity be in a greit sm. sure dependent upon that grown in the Unitzel State% which i e ... the produce of slave labour. Itowithatanduig the vat extent of tja email:, yet uncultivated, the vitality,. energy, and r e p eo m.„ w power of the coloured race is la decidedly inferior to that Oka Anglo-Sawa, Anglo-American. and at! er fair branches of that., csanan race, that they cannot, under the most favourable eine m stances, keep pace with them In the onward mar. h of 1mm0... much Ices when in • state of slavery ; and when we consider, ton, alit a larger proportion al blare labour will be emplo3 id la the culling/le of mgar than heretofore, and the white polio ilion be helm. I. railing grain for Europe, we cannot expect so a andant a supply of cotton AS we have bad. }flab prices will undou'itadly 'Wingate km, ductioa, but they atm react in curtailing conem titian. and render k very probable that priors wig permanently race higher than teens have done during the lain five seam, and the G.turc derclepmeag al the cotton trade will be retarded in comequence if it. These views are pertectly sound, with the exception of the anticipated increase of sugar cultivation is the United State.. No country north of the '24th parallels can compe'e with the countries situated between them in that branch of indastg. It is impossible that the sugar cultivation of the union can increase much or permanently. The cs:culations on ninth Mr. Baynes rests his opinions are the felowing : Actual Comuunplion of Cotton in the year 1534. Great Britain Continent of Europe United States 198,270 do. MUM. 11,413,000 k Total . Actual Ccoutotption of Cotton In lbe year 11 Great Britain. Continent of Europa . Vaned Staten 421,600 &I v i t 290 lb. 536,193,0002. 61i,113,001%. 318.0fM,000 lb. 101,814,W014. Total 1, 09 097,0%1k The 0 0 MUM Om increases in Great Brit in at the somponad oe of 6 per cent.-or d able m 12 yam, do. on the eontir.ent, 6 per ova -do. in 12 yearn. do. in the United States, 7 per cent. -do. w 10 Jean Total ocousurription of cotton L.- i year (1346). ti Proporon. Proportion. By Gt. 8ri11ip...1,291,200 bales r.-- .26 ..by 17,800,004 apindkn -. .64,4 On the co n 4 822,100 do. = .29... by 7,682,004 spindles -- T;s Intim U. Stater.. 422,600 do. -.- .12... by 2,300,080 spindles - lei Total. ....2,5H,800 bales —I. _by27583,M spindles 1 7— Finer yarns are spun in Oreat Br, Al in than either on the continent or in the United States, which Accounts for the greater number of spindles in Orsat Britain, compared Mil the cotton consum ed. ----- Ayersip weekly ocewasipti .14 Ike 1846. Oreat Brit. ln et!t,!f Europe 15,933 hka United Mates 8,127 Oaks. T0ht....~....„..... w Rio take. Description a oodles sessuned 1876. Growl h of the United lOWA. 2,467,780 bats. Dread. Dolt Dad* Egypt, km. "1100 bake. ISM Irks per mat. 1.• Total Beacriptice of Cotton consumed b Great Of Coded/Nato cotton 1,20,440 bL 24,730 Braid Fis73 NOW ..... 113,731/ do. = 2,220 Egypt WestilddisiN7 14,810 do. = 331 W. do. do. do. do. do. Ibtal ..... ..... . 1,104200 ch. = 30,638 o a. Ave Ma t j l el s 6=C "Wl' rt; =of jars at 39. Pru 0 *Moe. UM. Bales. Expected for 1347. MeV Orel Me United States 2,190,832 Ineperlel lama Bran' Imported leme PAM ladies 24„683 inpposi ......... 1/I,l* awned Item Egypt . . 60,668 de....-- elkill beferadaem Weer bare d a Maser pets Wel . 2.1143,09 ----- VMS Adult earmaption. 1.144.1900 Garden,lathe year lati 0t... 491,800 It the esseumption of cotton coat: tuft to increase in the same rage that it has done during the• lest 12 years-411°01w thugs Wag the some—the cotton required 12 years hew, say for therm. 1858, will be : Great Bribin 3400,000 hales. Description, leSe. Continent 1,656,00e ~ I United 'totes ....3,013,000 teas United Mates 031,000 „ Other o omens 733,000 „ 6,810,000 „ Or upwards of 6,000,0430 b Stara 12 Years hence. The following statement slaves, with the average gro not muss lt us to expect so I has alrea4 overtaken the at ammo° of colon from the Umt.& the ec'onred population al of cot! ,n in that country, oh e a pm...tete:mow the donna IM 1 0. 88,678 1,168,734 _. range Wes. years ..... - ..... . 1116430 aversire 211:49 2l -1500 2,486,726 2,8,.0,000 Baca BAles. 1,711,44.10 2,137,400 The new time bill will make en alt^ration in inc Mum consumption of cotton in Great Britain. If the bouts et labour be reduced to 11 per day, from lot May, 1847, to It May, 1848, and afterwards to 10 hours per day, and tie w compound ratio of six per eat learr" increase at the be continued , the consump tion three ye h ats will be the isms as last year; but, other countries continnise to work the same number of hours as heretofore, and is• creasing in the sense ratio, the relatire consumption will In for the year' 189. MSC. 1660. Great Britain 1,600,000 tales .2,700,000 bales 1,050,000 Ws. Continent United titaltil 517,700 bolos 952,000 bslrB .1,090,0005* Total 3,104,000 bales.. 8,310,000 bale" ..8,000,000 1e1s It takes 15os. cotton to make 16oz. yarn; but u loa of Le waste is used up into coarse yarn, att average of Ma piton will nuke 16ez. yarn. Cotton consumed is Great Britain for 1848... Laos waste 611,000,11K6. 611,000,00306 Tars opus . 1H,000,0001b. Yarn expected ..... 1 03,000,00014 3b4,011,5e1b. Tarn left for weaving 361,000,011M At 3514. pet lean per week = 200,000 power looms, suppeizgas pm to be woven by hand. If 21oz. flour be allowed for sizing each pound of Mat it will take 28,437,5001 b. flour, or 118,500 packs, w WA° quarters of wheat per annum ; being nearly ,I pit cent., or 1-200th part of the whole wheat consumed ia IM United Kingdom. In connexion with this subject, the tea trade affords a striking illustration of the beneficial effects resulting for machinery. By increasing the productive powers of this country, and in the facilities it alfcrils for obtaining, not only the necessaries, but the comforts of life, it promotes the moral and physical welfare of the whole community, and also contributes largely to bear the fiscal burdens of tie country. A great portion of the tea imparted into this country is taken in barter for yarns and cott us piece goods, at an average rate of 22 taels per picul. This, at an ex change of es. 54., will give about 1214. per lb. ; add 21d. fix freight, insurance, and other charges ; 15d, per lb. laid don in this country. Tea imported in 1846 34,765,2991 b. t vszot.' 3,534,665 lb. 4596,1331 b. Taken for consumption . 46,735,A elb....duty,st 16.21d.31,11 0 , 111 16,728,3051 b. met, at Is. 3d. MBA Thus, an article, which costs nearly 3,000,000 f. sterling, to the revenue upward' of 5,000,0001., or 1-10th of *alibi revenue. Notwithstanding the heavy impost upon tea, oar nary enables us to consume 25 per cent. more than the whil of Europe, United States, Canada, and Australanh, Ml* be proved by the following statement, taken from the lir ,nisi, No. 168, page 1,484: D. Total consumption of tea in China Upset to Great Britain and Ireland for the year NOW 50th June, 1816, as shown by the China Maga Export to the United States, same authority Do. to Holland, as given In Davis's “Cblisam.---- a_ Inland trade with Burin Ell. ll4l#P.. Esperttollaraburg, Bremes.iwatlen,Desimeskimagssa 1,2; Do. to Prance and Spain, 4 cures. isr Do. to Sydney and South .lustralia, say WOO Total O5O Directly exported frogs China to the United Slates Do. do. do. to Europe and Australia 16"." Re-exported fora Great Britain to Europe, Camay. *A . United States Consumed in Europe, United States, Canada, and AO' oi crabs—teal Consumed in Greet Britain and Ireland 6 1 ; 0 ^ -- The annexed valuable Statistics of the Cotton now at work, were collected by Maim Du Fay sad Cc , at Bild. k Wake. ti,ast,sse 4,190,013 1,474.13 2547.3 ra.~ .... I.7n,STS n,970 L00m5........ la 11134, matzo cceinuaed, 303,000,01 L, 07 10. In 1646 40. do. 611,000,0004 b., by 11,300,00, de. noladlia ltanland and Wales ..... . • 1 1 llootland Ireland — Total 17,309,140.. "ii • epladlas. Is the itiimsouipbed in ONNNW Mobbing = I SoO,OOO 3 300,000 tii=and ..'..- 130,000 Rasta — —.-. 100,030---7,500000615,000 SS Ra Vwlad Rates ---- --- 'biol.., -37,365, 300 =-1. OPPONENTS TO NATIONAL EDUCATION.* SlR,—Your remarks on the govern me t rw--- rePo ll aid in the education of the poor, and your ani • the unreasonable, bigoted, and most intolerant oral. !Mord against it by certain political dimenters (for 0 1 _2; 1j tolbelieve the Wealeyans hare, for the most P. • Lad, seen the error they bad been led into), ha" b .° o consonant with sound sense and justice, that holm r s ,_,A publish them hereafter in a collective form, being conuev— 130 11 KM Free persona of eeiour Slane Growth of cotton: or 3 Free pence' of caner Slaves Growth of Mass : 1590. 1639. )33,284 162,9711 1,3,24,216 1,996,734 Vales. Bar 4.4H0 937,1110 • 111311 moon 313,11 e do. 3.736,10 amnia of 5,000,000 lake will be 'Nuked. M: