The Express. — London, England, 1849-01-10 00:00:00

14.. aHS Itries,3oi. to I& ; tereigs, Ms. V. NIL Per. teldle ate ; 7a Mo to Ma ; Mr. -. ' , Wu& mesbiag, Sis. to lmMits 40t. to 445. beuersod, pee 16 IM to MIL Liessoll Cakes, HeAlieha pot •es N.= honign, 71. SOL Ila. Baps Cakes, 1170 la gum, 87s. 61. 41. to W. la• Imports Mot tee 30th eit Geo to the 74 " k B' 4 Jos. Waive; Wheat, fatale. 11. 49 _ 4 A . BUIS/. 1 $" _. Oats. 1.0e 3 ; Bess, 1,241; Pus. 6,ato • Tarsi, telif t likened. 7,273 ; tapeinii, 446; Liaised Glo ss. 316; gape Calm. 117 ; Bases t 170. 'runes. Is.. 9.-Thanpply of Wheat um sell and Ins, at bit weal's prism. Harley with the moteptioa of Ills vie, lust, Is. per qr. lower. . Boon% Pees, end Ode deli ea* mid duper. Luse, Jas. 9.-We are sioden _seppliwi with grain. Millem nutria their 'minims@ to th teiy it immediate waits, owl the trade mks slow ix Wheat, at Friday% rates. Beriey is dell, sad seise are diMeialt to make at fair prism Bsees and Oats do set very fries last week. Other anklet es bean. Anne plies et grade: Wisest, 1,206 us.. 475. 4d. Barley, MI, 300 9d. Oats, 143, 19s. 91. Beans, 16, 365, 1041. Peas, 4,38 s. Letonion Beau's. Jae. 9.-At market this del thiu was bat • moderate eapply of Wheat, the eseditios of whisk was very middling. The sales that teak dose were at shoat lest week's earriney. Berlin a dentitel sandy, end 1.. per qr. lower. BMW, both old sad sew, dui*, is vales. WINGS, Old per 6 bushels, Ms. to 315.; sew. 265. to Ms. Barley, per imperial qr., 275. to 325. Beans, old, 23a. fitL to 265. k arit, 16.. to 24... 6d. per 6 bushels. Oats, 300 to 365. per map. qr. Lewes, Jas. 9.-Th• demand foe Wheat at this market wee ratter sleek ; bat priest muted unaltered. Barley, Oats, Bweas, and Pus steady. Wheat, old, white, 141. to 14s. 10d. ; red, 131. to 131. 6s. ; now, white, 101. to 131. • red, W. to 111. Begley, 295. to 31s. Oats, 16s. to 20s: Beans, 31s. to 33.. Per, Mit. to 375. DvanrooL, Jan. 0.-Farther advice, from New York, re mind hue this .seeing, per swat* Meows. dated the 26th de , report limited unmakes in Wheat and Fleur, the state artiste denuding chiefly upon boom denied ; the latter quoted rather higher, say 2 3. 6d. Lob. foe Western Canal. Canal. Indira Can la g ood inquiry for expert, at ranging fur new yellow at 22e. to 245. • old yOlow p riest Ma Bd. per 480th. f.o.b. &au the C 1.. .. of last intik wii Lee had a decided thaw, with same rein, sad the Xmas phne having become compentinly mild for the semen, the wow, whist, had it remained loner upon the ground, would have predseed a mastery offset, has rapidly disap pend. With a thane of wiad to the west, the arrivals fns Ode port sties Monday lam woods a good supply of perky, Malt, Oats, sad Oused,asistwies and mom Ireland, bat not meek prelims of sonar kinds theses ; including this imports from Europe and Amorist, however, we Unto sib a liberal secession of Wheat, with a fair quantity of ism* Per, ladies Coco Core Med, amid Floar; and Snag MIN weeds are in this morning, bat not yet repuried. Tb. soli. lees still looking forward to a free cut trade on the Ist proximo, have sunsieed vary insane at our market today, lad although holders irf fine Wheats refuted to accept lower &i .:. a1l other dames of English, Irish, and duty paid declioed Id. to 2d. per 701 b. below the currency of 707gy se'nnight ; whilst Waded were firm, and a few par eels taken on fully as high terms as before. States and Co median Flour, both free mad ander lock, commanded a fair dome of attention, and with improving confidence as to the futon vans of these discriptioise, the sesjority of samples were withdraws fru sale ; sack Flour, on the contrary, vast little notice at as abatement Cl la per 280. b. Barley and Malt, contianing in very slow neat, hardly satiated the reduced rates of Friday ; and Beans, as well as Per, were 'ether cheaper. Oats sad Oatmeal, epos a good supply of sigh, INNS exUesely diScult *sell, the former &dialog tally ld. pee 4516, and the leiter 6d per load. ladies Core, with • languid &mend for In lead to day, receded Is. per or. from last Tuesday's quotations. and Corn Meal 6d. ;er barrel. British: Wheat, per 701 b., English, red, new, Os. el to 7t. Od. ; old, 6s. 104. to 7s. 2t. ; white, saw, 7s. 24• to 7 1 . 61.; old, Ts. 241. to 7s. 6d. ; Irish, red, sew 6s. 6d. to 6s. 641.; old, 6s. 6d. to 6s. 91. ; whits, new, Ile. 3i. to 6s. Bd. ; old. 6e. 9d. to 7s. 01. Barley, per qr. : Beg., ono 295. to 31s. ; Chevalier, 325. to Th.; Scotch aid Irish, per 001ba, 4.. to 4.. 2d. Malt, English, per qr., pale, Moto Ohs, Oats, English and Scotch, per 4 , 51 b., eld, 3.. 13. to 3e. 1114 Welsh, old, 3s. Od. to Si. Id. ; Irish, fine ports, amp, 2s. &I. to 2.. 9d.; old, 3s. Od. to 3e. 3d. • general, sew, Is 6d. to 2s. Bd.; old, 2s. 1 Id. to ': s. Id. Beans, per qr., Bag" new, 3.55. to 375. Od.; old, 36e. to 375.; Scotch and I • 4801 b., new, 30s. Od. to 325. 0.I.; old, 32.. to 34, . Pus, r ßlm oi per qr., white, new, 35e. to 36e. ; ditto and Irish, grey, lei 325. Flour, per 2801 b., Englishand Irish, tine, 34., to 3044 I nperline, 365. to 375. ; extra, 375. to 395. Oatmeal, per lead of 2401 b., Irish, sew, 23e. Od. to 245. 0.1 ; old, 21s. ti 226.0 d. ; Canadian, old, 225. to 235. Bran, per 141 b., 10d. Is Is. Foreign: Wheat, pit bow., Canadian, red, Os. U. to 6.. ed ; white, 7s. Od. to 7s. 2d. ; United Statio niz t 6.. 10d. to 7a. 2d. ; white, 7s. 4d. to 75. 9.1. ; Dane* sad rod, 6s. 9J. to 7s. Od. ; high raised, 7s. &I. to 9a. M.; Lower Baltic and Hamburg, red, 7. Od. to 7s. 3d. • white, 7s. 6d. to 7.. BJ. ; Rigs and Pet 'burg , red, 64 U. to 6s. 94. ; Archangel, 6.. 4d. to 6. 6d. ; (Mau ram's. red, Si. 4d. to 6s. 7d. ; Polka, 6.. Bd. to 6s. 10d. ; French, Spanimh, and Italian, red, 6s. Bd. to 6s. 11d. ; white, la 2d. to 7s. 4d. ; Bennet and Marianopoli, red, as. Bd. to 6s. 10d. ; Egyptian, 6s. 3d. to 5.. 61. ; Mediterranean, Ac., hard. red, 5.. 9d. to 6s. Od. General qualities, in bond, red, 6s. 6d. to 78.0 d. ; white, 64.9 d. to 7a. 6d. Rye, pm qr., Baltic, At., 28.. to 30s. Barley, per 601 b., 4s. 2d. to to 4d. Oats, per 451 b., 3,..0,1. to 3s. Id. ; Russian, b. 7d. to 2s. 9.1. Beans, per qt. European, 32a. N. to 345. 6d. • Egyptian, per 4801 b., 28s: to 295. Per, per qr., Baltic, Ac., white, 365. to 375. ; Ca sadiu, 395. to 33.. Flour. per barrel of lON lls , Cana/Mow. sweet. M. to 275. 6d. ; United States, sweet, free, 27. to 275. 6d. ; in bond, 245. 6d. to Us. 61. ; United States and Canadian. sour, 255. to 265. 6d. Indian Corn, per 4401 b., Ame rican, white, 29.. to 395. 6d. • ) ellow, 30.. 6d. to 325.; Euro psi., yell,w, 31s. 6d. to 33e. Indian Meal, per 196th.., 14.. to 15s. Arrivals and exports from the 2nd to the Bth January iselusive into Liverpool and Runcorn: Wheat 19,356 qrs. ; Barkj, 6,401; Malt, 3,064 ; Oats, 7,861 ; Beans, 2671 ; Pan, 2,638 ; Indian Corn, 13,046 ; ludas Cora Meal, 6,035 bends • Oatmeal, 6,315 seeks ; Flour, 2,179 sacks, 16,213 barrels: LTMN, Jan. 9.-A small supply of Wheat, and price same et laid week. Moderate of Barley, and Is. per qr. lower. Wheat, 601 b. to 6/Ib., 41s. t• 45e. ; fins white, 50.. Barley, best runs, 265. to 27e.; fine, 29.. NIWCASTLII, I.e. 9.-The weather up to Sunday was sensually severe, bat on that evening a thaw set in; we have today indications of a return of frost, which, it is to he hoped, may occur, as it would have the effect of mate riaLy stren.theniug the trade. At our market this morning we had a moderate show of Wheat from the growen, and, the arrivals coastwise being trifling, an advent* of b. per qr. over Saturday's rates was required, which had the effect ot chi eking business ; but at the rates of that day a good clear sore aught have been made, which factors generally refused to comply with. Fur Flat we txpaiiimad a steady though brisk inquiry, at previous pekes, viz , 335. to 3.5.. for house holds, aid 3,1*. to 37.. for whites. le Rye Lana, or Pen, little stirring. Choice malting Barley soldfully as well, bat rehear descriptioss were a shade cheaper, foreign in some sea. suns interfering with ts. sale of ordinary quaiities of south awry growth. _Malt still inclining cheaper. With Oats Ire were mete moderately supplied by our growers, and tie Inds epee the whole tided somewhat &intr. PLTsolfTs, Jen. 9.—There was a good attendance at this misraing's Corn market, sad seamy millers appear to want Wilms, bet all will bey eastiousty until the trade is more settled. Prime of Wisest sad nom unaltered, and stocks eery be of free C int. Barley has given way le. per qr. litmenone, Jeri. 9.—The quanti.y of Wheat pitched to. day far ezatioded that for many weeks past; sod the attend ee's, was unusually large, sotwitketanding the trade was wry gloomy. A taw sales were effected at • slight decline ; by, ',morally speaking, the prism of this day week were =detained. Barley was ia abundance from all the neigh bouring towns, het • greater stagnation in trade was sayer experienced than at the present time. The bream were anxious to Abet sales, bet purchasers Gould not be found to any great trent, at • Mae da" of 24. per quarter. Oats also experienced • si miler dolmen, and needed &mut le. per qr.; really good Can being twareely notici d, at • demand of 16s. to per v. B,ans were alto dull, but sot sufficient business trans- acted to vary qematious. Wheat, W. to IV. 104. per load. Barley. 245. to 28. Lang, 365. to 38s Per, Xs. to 40s. Oats, 18e. to 20t, per qr. hoar, 375. to 38s. per sack. Malt, 7a di. to Bs. per bushel. METALS.—LoWtxm, Jan. 9.—At the nonwnenew moat of the past year the separalleled derangement of come morels' affairs in the previous twelvemonth, was the subject of universal disswaloa, bat the saws time we had the sada- Emotion of observiag • gradual senora of confidence daring the 101 l wilds followed that distressing crisis, and although every article experiessed a gnat redaction in value, yet the law rates at which manafeeternerare offered, combined with an &madame of many, held oat indueemenu for a steady revival of businme oss a more solid and substantial Iwis ; th • trade with India was slowly resuming its wonted regu larity, o bile the soetinental Moses were again exerting their aneunomed activity. and considerable hopes were entertained of the prospect of 1848; the sequel is known—the French, German, sad Italian sonsiggies have each in their turn &Sterol the iaterests of the various m inutietares, and cast a threatening aspect over the position of aarresin4ing nations; one fact is however worthy of Doti' in the Metal market, ass, whereas the falling off ia Coatinsn.al demand reduced the exportation and coassquatly the price of Scotch Pig Iron, the Americans were indon.d to purchase lovely at the low quotations, sad to an extent more than equal to the deficiency ia tile exports to the Con. lineal. Iron has undergoes a INITiOUS change from the boys eansro, aggravated by the forced sales of Welch Bats at very low rates. Scotch Pig emontraced the year at 465. 6d. for No. I; as the spriog approached, suositerable purchase. were mad. for the Continent and on speculation, advancing the pries to 61s. Bd. The news from France inisaedia . elyehecked its progress, throwing a barge quantity into the marker, and the priee gradually reacher! 40a., between which and 43.. 84. it has slowly fluctuated. Within the last fortaight doident signs of koprovsment have been manifest; prices have steadily advanced, and 474. is demanded for present, and 49 for spring delivery, free on board at Glasgow. Foreign shipment' in 1847 were aboat 148,000 tone; coastwise, 26e.000; total, 401,000. 1848, foreign, 153,250; coastwise, 839,362 ; total, 384612. The furnaces in blast amount to 103 Welsh Pig slightly in demaad ; prim 31 10.. to 31. 16s. pee ten, 24 per ewe. discount. Welsh Bus hays been ia better demand L.ely ; the Mae. °win tattle prewar. Dilate par. eels on the market, needed in one instance as low as 41. 104 ; the removal of tha neiwbt has however allowed the prise to jimmye within the last * nook er two, and the lowest quota tions are Si. and Si. 64 per toe, free en board in Wales, less 3 per cent foe cash, et w hi c h it team. la Rails a mood bootee's M denag,;altkougli the contract priori have been low; maker however being in many iniroaree full, are not disposed to take further orders unless at a -any* remunera•ive rate; th quotations are U. da to Si. 104. per ten, free on board at the Alain pet e matt ends. Sledkali, Ices bee folly me- I rimed the degwasiss whisk besoidended thrust the trade, , ad @Mush the somiael redseliss afl NW per les Measly , be sub at the yeareethy , maids. of the hen senate s, ; intim le the Nand ismasd, pullet bays And le somery ' Mae=maw them reassalloos; lergewbillmeste 1 hoes meta eg them ports kithe *bets bale @VOW ethei with Wage i»a ; widths *s peat two or wee weeks, iew i ver. we lam the alider lies to theme a steady improvement is IlteNerdelthe, said maim Aso set aimless to sell at at he t =ld prima The Whew* are the qmosatkme ia Plena% vin. ; Pig, as. h. to 31. 15s. per to. attke weeks, 24 per fest. diecomat ; bar, 61.16 e. to N., less Si Oaf liat.krii e s a boird hLeaden, 10a. per to. lam delivered ; sail Tees W. 17e. Id. to Ti. 6e. • keeps , 71.16 e. to Is. id. ; amidst 71.17 e. dd. to di. 61.; Canada pit^ 101. to 101. 6s. boa : Wi th supplies Meat thetat to meet the small demand. boa ranged throughout the year at from 101. 10a. to 111. 10e. ; any.thmes M the demand would have a eosidersble sleet the prat, as vet= in the market at the enema quoted.= ; sad what arrivals may he st mt this mess, will same st high rams. The mo is very Willing. Prompt prim, 121. pa too, 2i pea seat. disommt. Remise very quiet; egret 25 tons Anima'sl aid a few week. slue, at 121. per ton ; the remaining stork, cooeisdag of shoat 70 toss, is held at 131.6.. per to., 24 per oast. discount. P. S. I. no demand ; worth sent 141. 10e. to 161. per ton. C. C. N. D.- 11 few toss may be bed at 161. 17e. Bd. per ton. Swedish Steel, is hags, has bees is demand daria the past sheath. /alas hue bees made at Gam 111 15s. per tea is smell bash le althea 1111. 10e. in first heels, dimes* 24 pm seat. The smelt is sew sow castrated in few base, sea k..d firmly, at 141. British Copper, owing te_bega Meeks already ea kinds deems, in the exports le Wkti end the Masa iststraptine to the oostinental amok hes dropped M. per lea these this time last year ; gendekrable esesitities have beta throws on the market and mid ander the elaadard ; but the market has lately aleamei s steadier meet, and a further fall in prime is improbable. Tough Cake, 781. 16s. per too, 3 per cent, diseases fu sash ; ad., 771. 10s. • sheathing and bolts, 9d. per lb. Ch il i= Copper: This ;thick, from the repeal of the heavy duty previously imposed, is likely to form an im portant branch to the trade. The arrival into London and Liverpool have been numerous, amounting la sll to about 1,300 toes. From the circumstance above-mentioned, South American Copper will become an article of great oonsump non, and the hem shipments previously made to the Con tinent, will doubtless find a ready sale in them markets for home use ; the value of good quality is about :731. per ton; 3 per cent. dement for cash. Several hundred tons of refined, Is ingots, have been sold at about this figure. British Tin, after beano bees gradually lowered from 831. 10s. for bar, to 741. in September, has quickly recovered. and the market is steady at the following rate.: Bar, 801. per too, free on board in London ; discount, 2i per cent ; ingots. 791. 101. ; block, 791. Of B. I. Tin the stock consists of 258 tons. Banc* his been firm, et 861. Straits have ad vaned to 821. per ten. Speller rapidly full from 201. to 121. 10s , gradually reaching 161., at which sales to some extent were made for India. After receding a few shillings, it has improved fully 16s. per ton since Saturday, and several parcels changed hands at 161 e. 10.. There are now no sellers under 151. 15s. The sleek is about 2,000 toes. British Lead has been selling (lastly for home coaeamption, and rather more inquiry has bees exhibited for exportation within the put woe* ; at the fo ll owing prices order may be executed :- Pig, 161. 161., lees 24 per cent. dimmest, free en board in Landon; Sheet, 16f. 10s. Spanish is rather dull; 150 tons I &edged beads at 151. per ton a few weeks since ; the price may be quoted 161. 10s. to 161. for the beet brands. Very little demand at present. Of American we have in arrivals, the :ow price of English keeping . it out of the market. Australian Lai d Ore has cont inued to arrive, and has readily sold at remunerative prices. The quality is very good. Tin Plates have been in brisk demand ' throughout the year, the trade being confined to a less number, the supply has been barely sufficient, and the prices have improved since the summer, ls. 66. to 2s. 6d. per h ; a very limited (panty is offering for sale. The demand continue, good. Quicksilver has fallen to 3s. 6d. per lb. The accounts from the various districts, and the favourable disposition of buyers, have fully ;sailed the in timation given of the improving prospects ref the iron trade, and we have reason to hope that improvement will be per manent, as the sales which are being made are for the supply of actual wants.-C. R. Mealier Circular. Fruarcs.-We read in the Cowrie? sf Bemires, of the 6th inst. : " The ironmaiters of Charleville and the Ardennes have, within a short time, purchased in the Lorraine nearly 6,000,000 kilogrammes of cast iron, smelted by wood-fur naces. Orders are coming in in rapid succession, and the foundries in our country are in great activity." MANUFACTURES.—Hoonsaanatn, Jan. 9. Oar Pisee-hall of this day has exhibited a very animated ap• pageant*, and a very ireat quantity of ',oda has this day been sold. Lest market day and this have equalled any two assoket days for the last two years. Light goods, and miasma of all kinds, have sold readily. WOOL.—Hunneasrumn, Jan. 9.—The demand for this article continues very brisk, ',kb, fn some instances, improved rates. German Wools, at Is. 6d. to la. 81., are very good sale. Colonials, at Is. to Is. 21d. per lb., are also in very brisk demand. CATTLE, &C.--•SZWCASTLE, Jam 9.—The supply of Cattle, though not numerous', yet was equal to the demand ; but Sheep were leo abundant, that prices receded fall 44. pa► lb. Bcoat.., inferior to prime, at 6d. to Gd. ed. per mane. Sheep, Ewes and Wedders, from 4jd. te Sfd. per lb. Pigs, though in good supply, were stationary in prices, and may be noted at from 6s. 6d. to 6s. 9d. per atone. Batten:sir, Jas 9,—The supply this morning was large, and of lair average quality ; though there was a great num• bee of butchers in attendance, they hung fire in their par• chases, and it was not until a reductMu took place that much biriness was transacted, when a goad clearance was effected. The number of Sheep penned did not exceed the usual quantity, yet still the demand was short, and tr►de was very heavy, though ultimately all were sold. The average prim of Beef was from 91. 6d. to 1103. 6d. per score. Mutton, 6d, to did. per lb. Veal, 7d. The supp'y of Pigs was not very large, and there was an improvement in the demand, but not in prices. For Yesterday's asarkets we last pp. the eirpnlifi. The malls for WIG& North Americo, sad the United Mates, wt be wade up on the eveninerd the 13th Jae. The Wait India Math, excluding ®swede, Nasesse, Races, BIe•JUZU. New Orlouse, and Mode" end ineluding those for Mstbeira, Jumds.wiearagna, New Orem* Cldll, and Pent, will be made up en the se of the 17th Jaa. TM us for Vlso, Oporto, Lesbos, Madalso, Cadiz, end Gibraltar will be made up on the arynalagot taw 17th Jen. The mile fee Clibranwr, Mahe, the lonian blends, V Men, Ceylon, India, Hasti-Kong, and as itouthainptos, lY A M Reds up an the morning of the 11011 The smile, Ms Ilairstill" to the M.dleeereleen. Itempt, tM Ceylon, India, liortg-Kose, he., will be side op es the resaltgan T;;NOw New boat Mahn, Tea Diewea% Lewd. sad New lextaa will be eedo op re tae moolog of the atetJac. The =silo far the Meet Wag at Atria sad Nadelre will be made up an the maim ot the Slot .lea. math tor Ifiedebs, the Brodie, and lame Ayres, will be made ay oh the mordag at the 4th Fob. ZION WATIIII AT LONDON MIDGE. Tst. Del —313.***3.6 raven 3; Mlancon, 11•13. pest I. Te esosarr—lgm3&lo,o32. ma 3,10,43.331.33.31 LONDON. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 10. THE period is approaching when the various schools, which have so long been disputing the ma nagement of Ireland must come to some common ac cord and determination. It is quite evident that the two principal schools—that of the political economists, and that of the sentimentalists—have alike proved their incapacity to work a remedy for Irish pauperism either each working alone or both conjointly. Each has either fallen short of the great object for which it miaow n tocome forward atall, or else gone beyond it and m e bad worse by failing. Both have refused to listen one to the other, or consent to a compromise, but as power has alternated between them, each has made use of it, rather to prove the other inhuman or absurd, than to work the peculiar good which it promised. First we had the good old principle promulgated, that the land should support its poor, a proposition that, in despite of the poor law, Ireland has contrived to belie ever ainoe. For even its promulgators stop ped short and declared they only meant that the law should enforce the feeding and care of the infirm poor. These, however, were already cared for in Irela' d by satire's poor-law—the charity and kindliness of an aboriginal people. The only use of a poor-law in 'Mani was to deal with its unemployed and able working population. The rconomists advanced to the very brink o. the ne amity. but shrank back on perceiving, somewhat late, that all the working population remains unemployed lbw many months, and consequently can put them selves en the list of the destitute, with scarcely a Iblesbood or a mental reservation. The economists, therefore, raised the cry of " no out-door relief." Yet, what was indoor reliet to a score or two of the desti tate and able, when hundreds , having equal claims, elamour at the poor-house door? The poor law in England has a pump and • piston, which are equal to the carrying off the surplus pauperism from a dis trict into its own reservoir, throwing it back as employment can abs orb it. Bat what pump, piston, or machine could suffice to mitigate or manage the torrents of Irish pauperism ? A penny w' hale might as well be employed to drain the bogs of Ireland as apply the first little poor-law of the eco nomists as a remedy for high misery. The potato rot, however, drove the economists out of the field. Universal Mid with a labour test was Wed, bat under oironmstances that rendered the test null. The latter was aban doned, and the sentimentalists were allowed • our. THE MEP: EV ul itaeketa a _aal Irish W o rt ihakiaseesses, the refusal of which . . T e t a ' aam ••••• ofYill d on • PAammi se muals unmerited shffering. ~.--e5,11.41 1 ,1 • t io log i = a faillinn I The Paw% pdodelly iastromental in Mr. --*1 e. the same thas, thi utter of the IMMO; !Qin, sad bra imeticipedion in whose offence litre industry that existed in the country. The teen- he was tried, was one JostrOaFtrrana, a soi•disant tistentalists had, however, still power esough to ex' fatiteti surgeon, who resided at CamberwelL This trod the original and insalkisst poor-law to one en- flircun occupied his leisure time, and added out-doorralieL AndeventhessonemiatsvoteAt, to his wealth, which was considerable, by "the . ; . thatlt Weald bring the Irish lar;lotaa to tracing oat the entitled to unclaimed Bauk their mess and eraertlosa Bat what w'!:ri old imam- of England stack and dividends; obtaining for them bream and fresh deists, hlaarrad. during the year the property to which they were entitled, and pocket of amine, the landlord had rei spring left. His re- lug a handsome donor for the orrice he had ren smear, physical sad moral, were exhausted. The dewed. Whether Arms= entered on this pursuit, absurdity of district delimitation, the with the ender the influence of dishonest motives, does not terrible demands upon him, drove the Irish landlord appear ; bat, eventually, he made it a practice, when to have the feelings of the Happen., and to coin- he could not discover the right heirs to such property, bine with the pauper against the law. It was and though: . the ground was clear, to substitute false hoped that he might be forced to sell, but a ones, ir Unit the principal part of the proceeds, rebellion, however abortive, does not fill a market and remuneraung the instruments of his frauds with with whilst the legislature, in its attempt the remainder. In the legal proceedings necessary in' to hats the isle of inoumbered estates, paned so such asses be employed, among other firms, that of puny and incomplete a measure, that it might as Messrs. BARBRR and BIRCHASI, who came in process well have left the goestion untouched. of time to be his ordioary solicitors. In his dealings A new session of parliament is now about to with them, and other solicitors whom he employed, open. It is admitted that the discord of Irish }lmam who appears to have been a man of much pauperism and landlordism must be one of ability, took cam to give all his proceedings In appear the first subjects inquired into. And the advo- once of perfect legality, if not of a certain disinterest eaters of the different parties are already ha- eduesa. The caution, which for selfish motives, and tangoing and enforcing their peculiar ideas. The with a view to ascertaining where he might safely economists put forth long essays, deprecating out- get up a case of fraudulent heirship, required to door relief, and attributing to it t he broken back of be exercised in the search for the owners of unclaimed the Irish poor-law, which, they say, would have been dividends, naturally slimmed to his solicitors the sp an excellent law if kept to its original dimensions. pearance of a solicitude to obtain the greatest cer- The sentimentalists ask with reason to what use or tainty as to the right heirs, before he interfered for end could serve the Irish poor-law, limited the purpose of forwarding their claims. to the mere filling of the workhouses. Its In how many cases of this description FLETCHER would have been limited to the school scope the infirmary. The ultra tor) journals plead for succeeded in imposing on the solicitors whom he em ployed, as well as on the proctors at Doctors'-oom the destitute Irish landlord, whilst the ultras of the mons, and on the officials of the Bank, will never be contrary creed would let loose upon him all the yin- kuown. Bat he appears to have carried on the prac dictivenese of the rate collector. On this subject, tice successfully for some fifteer years, and probably however, opinions are verging to the common conclu• the greater part, if not the whole of his wealth, was don that landlords in the west have been ',harshly derived from this source, for the profits of a single treated, landlords in the east too leniently, and a fraud were often very large, amounting to thousands national rate in aid to help those districts where a of pounds. At length, however, he was caught. maximum rate shall have been ranched, seems almost H e b roug ht e • orward a Mrs. SANDERS, an old imperative. accomplice of his, as EMMA SLACK, the next heir to Bat how is this rate in aid to be distributed ? Shall one ANNE SLACK, of Smith-street, Chelsea, who had it be in the shape of mere out-door relief, leaving the died too , sessed of 3,5001. Three per Cent. Console, on landlords in full possession of their wastes deriving which the dividends had been accumulating for ten pride and poverty, but; no profit from them ?—whilst years. A genuine certificate of a supposititious de Mb, the sale of estates in a region devoted to a maximum and a forged will were produced. FLETCHER intro poceseate is, of course, a chin,era. Here, however, duced Mrs. SANDERS to BARBER lIS Min EMMA the great political doctors who prescribe for Ire- a: LaLACK, and BARBER relying on FLETCHER'S Tepees-a land immovably stick. They will not hear tations, accompanied the lady to Doctors'-commons, of waste land reclamation, and they turn where she proved the will ; and afterwards aided in as rick es the political economists at any the necessary proceedings to obtain, and was present scheme of productive labour. They scent the at, the payment of the money by the Bank. When proposition of Mr. MILL, and will not listen to Mr. the fraud was discovered, all these circumstances, and PouLerr Sonora, whose brain is as fertile in plans, especially his attending in FLETCHER'S place at Dac es his zeal is indefatigable in propounding and in tors-commons, were considered as implying, on pushing them. The Times plays with the subject. It BARBER ' S part, a guilty knowledge of the transaction. abases the Celtic peasant, yet sacrifices the landlord. BARBER and FLETCHER, with Mrs. SANDERS and her It preaches the doctrines of political economy one husband, were tried together for conspiracy to time, the suggestion. of sentiment another. Now it forge and utter the will in question, and has gr, at faith in emigration, and anon bath but all found guilty. BARBER'S being tried together small hope in it. with FLETCHER and Mrs. SANDERS prevented For our part, we have little faith in emigration as a the examination of the only witnesses from whose remedy for the pauperism of millions. And the Poor- admission his innocence could be proved. The magis law, however Tequilas and admirable for every-day trate before whom he was brought had refused, in a functions in a SAMS cr not deeply-diseased system, is very hard and arbitrary way, to accept any bail for incapable of grappling with the universal ruin and his appearance. His defence was imperfectly con destitution of the west of Ireland. There are masses ducted, owing principally to the want of funds, of people, and there is the land which could be made which, if admitted to bail, he could have procured. to feed them, which is United to no account , and The var i ous which would grow produce to feed the m. gave rise to a host of rumours and misrepresentations, The pauper landlord stands between them and the which 12 by .ARDERN MISS was immensely prejudiced, mil, nay, sends them off to pauperise other both in the eyes of the public generally and still more districts which cannot support them ;and the poor in those of the Bank directors and their solicitor, who law acts as incentive to this. We should say, lookel upon him as an old confederate and hardened keep the peasantry of the west in the west, accomplice of FLETCHER'S, and proceeded against him give them the soil to dig and to sow, we care in cense quence with an animosity , still Reciter than not how, provided it be a kind of tenure or property, that which they manifested towards FLETCHER him which begets security and prudence. It is alleged this is impossible with the Celt. But it has self. This severity appears to have been per never been tried, and the result has been to make the sisted in the more on account of BARBER'Srefusal, when first arrested, to dieclose Celt as he is, the Celt of Saxon imagination, FLETCHER'S name and connexion with the transom by depriving him of every sentiment and every aim tion, on the ground that it would be a violation of the of existence, save those of the savage, being daily and confidence reposed in him by a client, whose integrity immediate sustenance. In the wealthy and cultivated he had as yet no sufficient grounds for distrusting. ports of Ireland apply the remedies of wealth, and Had BARBER, indeed, waived this punctilio, and at give the rich the alternative of either employing the once given up FLETCHER as his employer, the probi population in industry, or feeding them in idleness— bility is that he would either have escaped trial alto give the population the alternative as in England of gether or, at all events, he would have got out on bail, work and su ffi ciency, or idleness and want. But and hid an opportunity of properly preparing his de in the west, where there is no wealth, none able to fence. The trial, as reported, and with the prima feel and to save themselves from the dilemma facie evidence againstßAßßEß, W . .iCh, to a certain —where there is nothing but the soil, distribute extent, warranted the judge and jury in the course the soil, re-colonise, re-attach the outcast to they took, will be found in the London morning it ; and be not alarmed by the cry, flat papers of the 17th to the 20. h April, 1844. capital is needed and not forthcoming. A poor Immense efforts were made by BARBER and his man's arm is capital, if he have the strong interest friends te procure a reinvestigation of his case both and security to wield and activate it, which the FLETCHER and SANDERS both made dec by of the squatter must have. The political economists assert before and a ft er his departure from England. declarations that they have tried every scheme of productive la- r hour, and in vain. No doubt, since they have always BARBER ' S innocence, which were corroborated icts, omitted that one little ingredient which alone renders statements of other conv labour in rude and remote districts productive, a conversation endeavoured to e who had in priva te licit from FLETCHER an sense of property or of a man's labouring for himself. acknowledgment of the truth. But all these testi conies attributed co between te par- Nor Ii this mere theory ; we have seen the principle ties, " and were to FLETCHER'S to wish to llusion screen his supposed at work in the mountains of the west of Ireland. We have seen Lord BANTRT'S tenantry as poor RS e ha old accomplice from the conse d quences of the nefarious tra tions in which h him s ved him. ever Celt was, driving the ploughshare and the spade, This suspicion continued to act against BARBER each year higher and higher up the mountain, en during the voyage, and on his arrival at hie place of croachiog on the heather, and studding the barren hill with productive crops. The capital expended in destination. And no outward enmity between FLETCHER and BARBER could satisfy those who war the operation consisted of leases with no rents at first, prejudiced against the latter that the whole disagree and to th.s should now be added a wholesome mis trust of the potato. But as long as the political went was not gots against him it up for show. W i Wh at impossible to tea); at private influences economists insist on rendering the Celt nomad, they were employea condemn not only him but the soil, to remain Celtic, but neither the declarations of his fellow-prisoners, nor at least according to the Saxon acceptation of that the striking facts which transpired after his couvie injurious term. tion, could procare either a reconsideration of his case, or even a trifling mitigation of the severities of his sentence. Whatever influence was exerted had directly the contrary effect. BARBER came to Norfclk Island a marked man, and during the greater part of his stay there was subjected to the most cruel treatment, of which the pamphlet which he has just publisted con tains a harrowing detail. The poignancy of his sufa ferings was aggravated by his beholding other per sons of his previous station in society, and amongst them FLETCHER himself, treated with a mildness and consideration which formed the gres'est possible con trast with the galling indignities, unwarranted either by his offence or by any misconduct since he had been a convict, of which he was selected as the object. His sufferings in this condition ex iced the compas sion, as hie conduct and demeanour had previously won the respect and esteem, of the chaplains and some of the superintendents at Norfolk Island. But their efforts to ameliorate his condition were for a long time unsuccessful. Even the request of one of the chaplains to have him for a ser vant was refused ; and these and the other officials who showed him any favour were made to feel that they had committed an imprudence. BARBER was a marked man--palpably in load odour with some one or other at head-quarters—and it was a crime even in the ministers of religion to show any sympathy with his sufferings. Though the establishment under which this occurred has been broken up, we think these circumstances demand inquiry from parliament. The facilities for practising this sort of oppression are so great, that when a case like this does come to light, it ought not to be passed over without in vestigation. The gentlemen who had inquired into BARBER'S case, and who had formed a conviction of his inno cence, as strong as their compassion for his suffer ings, did not relax their efforts on their removal from Norfolk Island. One of them especially, the Rev. Mr. NAYLOR, made unheard-of efforts to bring his case before the home government. And we may mention, as a specimen of the in fluence that was exerted against BARBER, that a lever of Mr. NAYLOR'S on the subject, which he ad dressed to Sir ROBERT PEEL, was suppressed by the colonial government, and found in the office of the Comptroller-General of Convicts, nineteen months after its date. Other letters of Mr. NAYLOR were transmitted, not to the persons to whom they were addressed, but to BARBER'S prosecutors. It being re ported among the convicts that BARBER was prepar ing another statement of his case, the few remaining papers he had were seiz ,d, and he was debarred all use of writing materials. It was only when toe Rev. Mr. NAYLOR, baffled in every other way, sent Mrs. NAYLOR, his own wife, to England with BARBER'S papers, that a hearing was got for him, the result of which was—first, a conditional pardon (dated the 12th of November 1846), on condition of hie riot re turning to the United Kingdom; and, subsequently, after BARBER'S arrival in Paris, where he could with ease communicate with his friends, and point cut the mode of completing the proofs' Most of our readers, we dare say, have some recol lection of the trial of Mr. WILLIAM HENRY BARBER, a solicitor of some standing and considerable practice, who was, in the spring of 1844, convicted of forgery and sentenced to transportation for life. Mr. BARBER'S ' private and professional character had been previously altogether unimpeached, and from the first there were very strong doubts whether he could have been guilty of the crime for which he suffered, the grounds for which opinion have been at different times, and in a variety of shins, brought before the public. The recent return of Mr. BARBER to this country, after receiving a full pardon from the crown, is likely to call renewed attention to all the circumstances of this very remarkable case. Mr. BARBER naturally feels that, though the government have, after a most un warrantable delay, thought proper to acknowledge his innocence, yet that the unfavourable impressions which many of his countrymen conceived of bim at the time of his trial continue unabated, and that he has still to solicit that reversal of his condemnation at the tribunal of public opinion which the govern ment, after a most searching inquiry, found it im possible to refuse. There is no conceivable position in which a man more requires the aid and counte nance of his fellow-men than in an attempt of this description. It is true, indeed, that two of the worst abuses of the system, under which imperfections, as well as its mal-administration, Mr. BARBER suffered, have since been partially removed. A court of appeal in crim i nal cases has been established ; and the worst atroci•ies of Norfolk Island have been abolished. But the im portanoe of Mr. BARBER'S case does not depend on its being an unusually striking illustration of the imper fections of our criminal code. It is one which has a very extensive bearing on the relations that exist be tween solicitors and their clients, particularly as re gards the maintaining inviolate by the former the confidence reposed in them by the latter. The profes sion are not likely, for their own sake, to let an inquiry drop, in which their own interests are so widely in volved. There is no man among them, let him be ever so scrupulous and suspicious, who is not liable to the misfortune of having for his clients persons so eretly engaged in nefarious transactions, but whose true character is indiscernible beneath the mask of respectability and often of actual wealth, which they assume. The number of such individuals, prowling about and preying on society, and yet maintaining an unblemished character before the world, is greater perhaps than society in general has any suspicion of. Solicitors of the highest respectability are sometimes purposely sought out by clients of this clam, with 'the view of placing above suspicion the transactions in which the latter propose to employ them. It may be that of the risks thus ran the law can take no cognisance. It may be that the protection of sli• ciety requires that solicitors so employed should always be liable to be tried for conspiracy in conjunc tion with their dishonest clients. If so, it is only the more necemary to mecum to them ail those opportnni of his innocence, a free pardon, dated 3rd Nov., 1848. Mr. BARBER'S innocence of the crime for which he was convicted is now acknowledged by the government. But who shall restore him to the position he enjoyed before that sentence, or compen este him for the unmerited sufferings—and the penal honors of Norfolk Island, even when nuggravated by official malignity, exceed all description—which he his sines endured ? We have now recapitulated as minutely as our space would permit us the facts of this very extraor dinary case. Bat we have necessarily, and with great regret, emitted the chain of testimonies which go to substantiate Mr. BARBER'S innocence, and which pro duced a long-delayed and reluctant admission thereof from the Home-office itself. This surely is a cue—or let us rather say a type of a whole class of cases—which demands a searching in quiry from parliament, as well as a careful investiga tion by the profession to which Mr. BARBER belongs, of the liabilities to which the present imperfection either of the law or of its aiministration, exposes them. One of the main objections to the punishment of death, viz. the impossibility of its revisal, would apply equally to transportation and imprisonment, if officials were at liberty, as they found themselves at Hobart Town and Norfolk Island, to suppress at their own arbitrament - the appeals of persons unjustly convicted, and thus nip in the bud all their chances of obtaining redress. Bat for the noble and most du►nterested conduct of the Rev. Mr. NAYLOR, there is no reason to suppose that Mr. BARBER would not be at this moment still undergoing his p unishment; if the per secution to which he was subjected had not. indeed, by this time, brought him to his grave. The magni tude of the sacrifice Mr. NATLOR made shows the despair he was in of otherwise obtaining the redress of an injustice, the sight of which weighed upon his conscience, almost as if he had been the cause of it. Really it is time that this matter should be looked to. So long as each doings are permitted as those to which we have adverted, it is not her Majesty or the government, but the girders and overseers of our con vict establishments, that virtually exercise the prero gative of mercy. all men are M the eager pursuit of wealth. tie au conjecture the extent of these outrages, for living witanam ere not at hand, and " dead men tell no t .lee." Tbe stn. and firm hand of government must be promp.ly exiatie tt li save the country from the most revolting acts of violence, Without immediate measures on the pelt of the government to preserve persons and property, th us too much reason to believe that the whole country will sink into anarchy and the wont possible cat. fusion. _ We think it only dae to Mr. BARBER, as well as to his unwearied advocate, the Rev. Mr. NAYLOR, to quote the certificate in which, on leaving Norfolk Island, that gentleman expressed We conviction of Mr. BARBER'S innocence. It sums up, in a few ex pressive sentences, the result of a variety of circum stances in the latter's favour, which we have not space to present to our readers ; and it is corroborated by a number of similar documents, some of them proceed ing from distinguished persons of the legal professions in New South Wales and at Madras, at both which places Mr. BARBER was received in a way which ex pressed, in the heartiest manner, the general convic tion of his innocence : CBUTIPICATII Or THE Rev. T. B NAYLOR —N triolk Island, Sept. 3,1845.—1 n leaving the island of wni.sh I have now been for some years the chaplain, I owe to public justice the duty of recording my full conviction of the perfect innocence of William Henry Barber, now suff-rinT on it as a prieoner under a sentence of transportation. I have, with unceasing in t, followed up a series of inquiries into cir cumstances ecnnected with his case inaccessible to the court by which he was tried, and many of which have sub sequently occurred. In addition, I have heard the reluctant acknowledgments of Fletcher, the guilty originator of the frauds, establishing, beyond the possibility of doubt, the innocence of Barb. r. My efforts shall continue for his ex trication. I deeply lament his truly wretched condition here, and would gladly have seen it ameliorated. I have never known a prisoner of the crown who has been auljected to greater wretcludnessi I rejoice to be able to add, I have never seen au instance of more dignified suffering, acttom• panied by invarinb4 conekent conduct. It will afford me real plea.ura to continue his acquaintance under happier cir cumstances.—(Signed) T. BEAOLY NATLOB. UNITED STATES. The WasAington Globe has also a letter from tlm writer of the foregoing communication, M r . trs but of twenty days' later date, from wtlch we ;Zi s the following extracts : Something should be done here at once for the establish. ment of pesos and good order in the country. All j aw, b otik civil and military, Is at an end. Among the mines, and j a , deed most parte of the country out of the village., n u mu, lily but that of the strongest exists ; and outrages of tae most disgraceful nature are constantly occurring, and the offenders go unpunished. There are now about twenty-do g vessels in this port, and I believe there is not one of them that has a crew to go to sea. Frequently the sailors a rm themselves, take the shies' bo ats, and leave in the mat op en manner, defying both their officers and the civil ma.ide g i o . These things are oisgrageful to the country and th e g in and while vowels have to pay . port coarges, duties. &c., thek owners ought to be protecteThe tariff law of 1846 is now M force in California. We have not had an American mansof• war in this port for more than a year, and all the naval remoras of the United States on this coast are concentrated ar Monterey which is not a barbou, but an open roslatead, and which bas not one-tenth of the business on its water which is done in this bay. For months past there has sal. dom been more than one merchant veseel at a time, and fro quently none at all, and still that is the general place o f resort on the coast for men-of-war. At this time, arch is the state of affairs here, that at least one armed tress 1 ought to be constantly in port. In a few months the line of mesa mail steamers will be in operation from Panama to Orego n , and this port is to be a depot for coal, and course a stopping point in passing, both war. The stoma: of the line of steamers on this coast is likely to be an Ullth %%akin of very great difficulty, and at this time such is in impart. ante with reference to both Oregon and California, that its failure might be look, d upon a. a natioual calamity. Still,sa, less some kind of protection is extended to the shipping of mi l part, it is not at all improbable that it may fail for want of the necessary labourers se soon as the boats teach this harbour. Indeed, it is altogether probable, unless somas compe.ent authority is found hero at tho time to preser ve order, that the crew will quit in s body as soon as the that vessel arrives. Every p issible as4stance should be eat ndad to ensure the ste,:cass of this company. and every reasonable latitude should be granted in the execution of their con tract. It is now uncertain if the steamers can enter Colum bia river at all times in the winter ; and they may end it necessary to run up to Puget's Sound. This would be a small inconvenience in comparison to the loss of one of these vessels upon the very dangerous bar at them uth of the Columbia—an event not at all improbable, if Volt rotes the river in the winter. livery kind of labour is rot at cionnom rates of compensation. Common clerks and salesmen at the stores about town, often receive as high as 2,500 dollars and their board. The clerk now in my nffice is a young boy, who, until a few weeks since, was private of veins teem and I am now paying Dim 1,600 dollars per annum. Thi s w ill no t appear high when I tell you that I have just seen upon his table a wash bill, made out and p dd. at the rate of 8 dole, per akin, and the. almost everything else is at correepoading prise. Unless something is done, lam unable to see how it is possible for officers, living upon the salaries granted by law to military men, to support them selves' in this country. For some time last Rummer (Angst and July) the officers at Monterey were entire') w i thout sees ' vants, and the Governor (C o lo n el Mason) actually took his turn is cooking for his mess. Unless some pros pt actin(' taken to pay both officer' and men serving in this country Ia proportion to the un .voidable expenses to be inc_rred, ths former will rt sign, and the latter will desert, and it will be impossible to maintain a military force in California. it can not be expected that officers will devote their serv.ei a to the government at a rate of compensation which will not en* them to employ a servant, to say nothing of living in such a manner as may bitcome their station ; and it is utterly is. possible to do it in California upon the salaries allowed by law. The following is the letter of our own correspondent: NEW YORK, Dec. 26, The Christmas of this year has been a remarkably unplea sant one. A dense log huvg over tee city, and it was scarcely possible to see across the street; collisions of carriages seemed unavoidable, and tt e foot passengers unconsciously jostled each other. It was a common remark that one might sup pose himself in London. A 1 business is, as usual at this season, at a stand. CALIFORNIA. The W ashington Union comes to us with an elaborate and interesting communication, dated Quartermaster's Office, San Francisco, Sept. 18, from J. S. Folsom, Esq., which throws some new light upon the extraordinary doings in and about the gold region there. We have previously published advices from San Francisco and Monterey as late as the 11th October, but there is much contained in Mr. Folsom's despatch which we have not yet seen. Mr. Folsom be gins with a concise narrative of events which first led to the discovery of the mines, and then goes on to de scribe the general hegira which followed. San Fran cisco, which, we are told, up to that time had been , one of the busiest towns on the whole Pacific coast, is now nearly deserted, though there were signs of a re-action beginning to appear. Thus: Sickness had broken out among the miners, and many ' have returned prostrated with fevers, while others have come to avoid being so. There is now a large number of labourers here, but many of them refute to work on any terms, while those who tabour do so at exorbitant prices. The ordinary compensation for white labourers is fr dole to 10 dela. per day. lam now paying these prices for men I am forced to employ for repairing the government lighter, and for discharging the ship Huntress, now in this' port. At the same time everything is high in proportion. Butter sells by the barrel at 1 dol. per lb., and hams a , the same price ; flour is 25 dolt. p.x barrel, and pilot bread, 40 c. per lb. For the last three pair of boots I have had, I base paid respectively 18 dole., 14 dols., and 12 dole. per pair. Other things are at corresponding prices in this place, but at the mines everything is muck higher. Flour and pork vary in the mines from 10 dole. to 200 dole. per barrel. Common shoes, worth in Boston about 75 cents. per pair, sell at 8 dole. or even 12 dole, per pair. There is a kind of recklessnesa about these, prices which would be sought after in vain in any otter part of the world. The climate of California, about the gold regions, Mr. Folsom says, is insufferably warm in the summer. When he was there in the beginning of July, everything was literally parched up, after a drought which had then continued for near three motths, and which had five months more to run to the rainy season. As no one has yet found the gold in its native matrix, a question often suggests itself as to its origin. I believe the coarse gold is found near the spots where it originally lay in its native bed, and that much of the fine gold has been swept down from the mountains by torrents of water. Almost all the rocks in Upper California are imperfectly organised, I being soft and friable, and incapable of resisting the action of the weather. In the process of time the mountains have gradually crumbled away into fine dust, aid the gold ban been liberated. The coarse gold, from its massiveness and great specific gravity, was not removed from the mountain ' sides, whereas the fine gold was swept off to the plains below. The gold region, the writer firmly believes, extends ' throughout a territory of more than 600 miles in extent, and probably into Oregon. Here are some o'her statements calculated rather to stimulate than to allay the excitement, in this meridian : On the most southerly tributary of the American Fork, sixteen mile, from the main stream, I saw where Messrs. Neilly and Crowly got, with six men in six days, ten and a half pounds of gold, avoirdupois weight. In the bottom of a dry ravine of the same stream, Messrs. Daly and M'Cooms removed, with a party of Indians and white men, 17,000 dol in two der, and within 200 yards of the main stream. From another dry ravine, within a few rods of the lest mentioned, it is said that 30,000 dot. were collected in three days. Mr. C. S. Lyman, a clergyman, unaccustomed to labour, informs me that he got 60 dol. for about five hours' work each day. M. V&C•i, a New Mexican, who resides about thirty miles from Sutter's told me he, with four other men, got seventeen pounds of gold, avoirdupois weight, in seven days. I saw the gold. Major Cooper, late of hlisssuri, with two men and one boy, got 1,000 dole. in two Oasts. Mr. Sinclair had been engaged in digging gold about five weeks, with a party of ledians, numoering about forty, sometimes more and some- times less. He gave his Indians meat, sugar, coffee, flour, and rice, and they ate three times a day. They were mostly will Indians, and worked altogether with pans. In five weeks, after ;eying all his Indians and the current expenses of the party, he had 17.000 dole, er upwards of ninety pounds, troy weight, of gold dust. The gold was shown. Mr. Nor ris, and one companion took from a dry ravine, not far from thee* already mentioned, 3,000 doh. in two days, and the dirt was packed on horses more than 200 yards to the water. Mr. Aaron Angland got from his own labour, in 20 consecu tive days after his arrival at the mines, 2,200 dole. But I might go on stating facts like these until I should tire vur patience It is impossible to foretell what will be the ulti. mate result of this sudden development of wealth. It is sufficiently obvious, however, that the country will be pre• I maturely filled by a restless, excitable, adventurous and reckless population, and that extended agricultural or me chanical improvements are at en end for some years to come. Gambling and all sorts of thoughtless profusion begin to prevail. The present excitement will attract vast numbers of the idle, rcious, and dissolute. Refugees from justice from the United States, as well as other countries, will flock to Calitornia among the better disposed population, and will find shelter among the almost inaccessible featnesses of the mountaiies, where such mines of wealth are now °pearl. These regions are of vast extent, and are remote from the regular settlements, and from the operation of the laws. In the solitary recesses of the Sierra Nevada are little clusters of men, with nothieg but the trees for their covering, and no protection but their ewa vigilance and strength. Many of these people are known to purees very large amounts of gold (sometimes as much as twenty thousand dollars) wrapped in their blankets, where there is no eye to see and no agent to pursue the guilty. Is it strange, when the temptation is so great, that the robber and assassin ebould be abroad among the mountains? Many robberies and some mureltrs are known already to have oc curred ; but little attention is excited by these events, where From Washington we have some interesting news. A movement has been made in Congress to prevent the traffic in slaves in the district of Columbia. The defeat of Geo. Cass han given courage to the free 'oilers, and, having found out that public opinion is rather strong on the abstract ques tion, they are beginning to attack the outworks of the south. It is b lieved that the proposition will pass, inasmuch as is the original code of laws which was prepared for the govern ment of the district the time prohibition was contained, al though it was never adopted. Two effects have already taken place in consequence of this—a movement to retrocede the district, or rather that part of it which the general go vernment does not want, to the state of Maryland. This has been made in both how* of congren. The other is a meeting in Cauca& of the southern members to deliberate ea this new danger to the slaveholding netts, which took place a few evenings since at Washington. Mr. Calhoun, as mull, took the lead, and proposed violent measures of some kind or other, but he met with but a meagre support. Man of those present objected naulutely to his Oen, advocated union before all ode r prieciplee, and declared their tuned lingness to act with rashness. The meeting adjourned to I meet again. Meantime, the whole difficulty will vanish with the mea -1 non of it—the position of the new territories. It. is now settled bey.nd a doubt that the people of New Mexico sad California will not permit slavery to exist there. Lieutenan Emory, an accomplished officer of the topographical corps of engineers, who en with General Kearney clueing the whole of his successful march through that region, says, labour is already so cheap there, that that of slaves cannot possibly compete with it. In the next place, no slave holder could possibly keep his eleven there a single day. 'they mold certainly leave him, and never could be reclaimed. Let oar European philanthropists rekice if they like over the feet that there will be no slavery in California or New Mexico. I have omitted to mention to you an anomalous c mdtuoa of the present legislation of Ohio. The ger ate of that state recently elected has been duly organised ; the Assembly has not been. It appears that the whip would have it majority in the House as well as in the Senate it the memten elect from Hamilton county could take their seats. The demo crats contend that their election was Hiegel, and in order to secure their own ascendancy in this blench of the govern. ment, took posseesion of the Representative Climber before the hour fur its annual ireembling, were sworn in, and pro ceeded to maintain it. The whip, at the regular hour, also walked in, were sworn In, and have kept up the show of meeting and adjourning from day to day. The democrats have deemed it expedient to retain their seats day and night. Their meals are brought in to them, and they sleep on benches and mattresses, and upon the floor. As may be supposed, they are well nigh worn out, while the whip are in good condition, and grow stronger and firmer, as the others grow weaker. At first, party excitement ran high, but it is wearing off, and it is expected th it by some compromise the house will be organised. This spectacle is considered here a disgraceful one. The initiative was take, by the democrats. Public justice will speedily overtake the offending party, be it whom it may. The excitement with repel to California continues ea. abated. Every day we hear further accouots of the produc tiveness of the gold region. Indeed, the first clan of diggers is beginning to talk of returning home te enjoy their for tunes. Letters are constantly published from individuals oonnected with the army, and well known here, which state that they have money enough, and they are about to return. One person talks of thousand. of pounds of gold being stored 1 up by himself and his associates. Others speak of the mountain ores as being still richer then the river tends. It is needless for me to enter into details which you will find in the newspapers accompanying this letter. I refer you in particular to the official report of .Capt. Folsom, which has been published by the authorities at Washington. Therms ter emigration is no longer confined to the lower classes, bat has reached the intelligent and most respectable. Immense quantities of assorted goods are going out to San Francisco, and American coins in large sums also, to be exchanged toe gold at 7 or 8 dole. the ounce. This last operation is likely to be the most easily and profitably performed. One of the nine days wonders of the press is the Me 0( Mrs. Butler. It is now asserted that Mr. Butler has with , drawn hie suit, has settled a proper income upon the lady, and permits one of the children to reside with her. Thin the storm which threatened to wreck her peace hes subsided, and while she has enjoyed the hearty couimiseratioh of the pubic, she has shown herself worthy of a better late. The president has withdrawn the nomination of young Mr. Cass, which was before the senate for c.ntiemation, as minister to Rome. It was so unpalatable a dose that it would not go down. General Caw his been mowed of unfair pay to another gentleman in this matter, but the event will best determine. If that gentleman receives the appeiutmen then the selection of Mr. Case, jun., may have been a whim of the president. If not, General Can will be wisp .cted of duplicity. Both the general and Mr. Clay are expected back in the senate of the United States. General Taylorte views with regard t t his cabinet are al/ unknown. No one knows anything about them. The politicians have no " speculation in their eyes " to glare withal at him. It is the first tent since the days of Wash ingto.t that we have had a president without a camera (cabal). Tnerc can be no doubt whatever of his uptight ill• tentions, nor of his sound discretion. The attacks of the cholera have not continued in the city. The number of cases at the Marine Hospital, co icateo Island, has diminished daily, and the disease is evidently lees virulent. No American hes yet been sick with R. We have information from New Orleans of its arrival there vita an emigrant ship. When we had the cholera before in this city, the inhabitants used well water, end a very inferior kind dawn from pits by a steam engine, and distributed abort in wooden tubes. At this time we have toe utmost profusion of delicious water, brought nearly fifty miles (rein the Croton river in a ventilated culvert. Before at is dioui bated in the eity, it is received in two grand reservers, or nob:e masonry, where the sediment deposits itself, and is exposed to the action of the air. This wetter is CO iveyed in iron mains through every street, and from the meies by branch pipes to every dwelling. In every house now erected, large or small, whether it rents for 601. or 2001, the last being a high rent, there is • hot and cold bath. In front of each house in also a bydratr, which is opened by a key, and the own, , by Man/ of a hose, is able to have the front WEDNESDAY EVENING, JAM:lilt *4849.