The Express. — London, England, 1849-03-27 00:00:00

Mee , arl if the revitw was also gable to meet she gems, then the ales should bs extended till it @m ask the whole kingdom. With regard to the Ai o adas soh to the priaciple of a rate ia aid, 1M en the pert of the government, had no kositatitat in say * that he would MOWN Ike income tax instead, if the fibers from Ireland preferred it. (" Hear, hear, " and 6. g iener.) But as the rate in si I weld be made inandistely a}Pigable foe the relief of Metros which wag largess, and as loco was at present me machinery in Ireland for collecting is blues tax, 1 • could not at meant eabetitute the one g g the other. And, indeed, he did not understand that the Mouser tax wee seriously propeasel on the present occasion. Ne understood the boa. gentleman to say that he would vote ge • sonunittes to inquire whether they would be rut in impos ing an income tax on Ireland, tut for himself he wanted no inquiry, as he wa g Ens:oced that Ireland bore her fair proportion of igatise. (hear.) All the arguments of the hot,. gentleman wo g to avow that the resources of the imperial exchequer egad be made available for the relief of Irish destitution. Bet the hoe. member for Noithamptonehire °Neared to es Sew the imperial Exchequer ; Altogether. He slid C: eh • differential tax dim between the two clienteles was 12,000,0007., and whet he asked fir as se Irish pr was that the taxation should be mode equal. The hon. gildsman did not concur in that view ; all that he w og prepared to do was to vote for • commit s to inquire into the fiscal relations between the two countries The hon, gentleman disclaimed the ilea of Wavier; the di.treesed districts to shift for them gam. ILO admitted the urgency of the distress, but he pre med no means of relieving it; be offered no substitute for aja plan of the government. (Hear.) The bin gentleman who had just at down raised a constitutional objection to the Maitre. lle charged the government with the intention of @skies parliament to sanction a vote of 100,0001., without being rare that parlament would sanction the bill under which it was to be raised. The hon. gentleman bad mis taken the proposition of the government. What his right hon. friend proposed wee this, that the teemd reading were agreed to he should propose, be thee going into committee on the bill, to move in committee at the whole Louse, that 100,0001 be voted on the security of the rata in aid. It was not prepared to advance the money mmetiosed y suck reselutioo, but to Insert • clause to that feet in committee, making it a part of the bal. But if the bill was upend by either hoes. of pentium/sat, then the vole geoid fall to the ground, with the security on which It rusted. With Tossed to the objection that the go voistsest introduced no alteration• in the poor law , the answer was that it wee Bought better t.. wait iler the result of dee committee bitting on that solject before tbey td the amendments which the government had Kmrd t hey would be prepared to inabsait. Redid not think that the hon. member for Kerry did the government justioe when he said that they shrank behind the want of unanimity g amest the Irish members. He said that they counted e n the po.,r law as a reams of relieving Us distress without elimmlating the employmeat of the labouring elute.. That was not altogether the case, because the government had afforded the means to the landlords of that county of employiee the labouring population in land improvement, arterial drainage, in giving assietanee to • 1 eras railway company, and in the improving of ports and herhoure. No ins than 2.500,0001. had been lent to peruse who were themselves interested in the improvement of the land, which our a better aad more economical mode of giving employ meat to the pow than if the government took the task upon thestylves. (Hear.) That, he thought, wee the meet efiL dent ar d benetkill mode in which the employment of the Mooring poor weld he stimulated. (Hear, hear.) The government did not think itorigkt to aspersed. these who bad • direct interest in the imp comment of the land, bet they afforded them the means of obtaiaiag money on essi. r terms than they could got it in the' market, sad he was glad that advantage had been takes of it, for they met only improved the value of the had thereby, but they stimulobed employment in the more desirable way. (Hear, hear.) He would not now go into the wes' principle of a rate in min.He hoped parliament ImM not reject this measure till sine better mode of meet. lag the evil was proposed. It was necessary that some tem. 'wary method of relief should be immediately applied is order to Nave the people from that starvation with which they were now threatened. (Hear.) W. STAFFORD, with reference to the scheme of Sir R. Peel, which be acknowledged had occupied • meneiderable demo of angelica across the Maisel, thought it woe due to the people of Ireland that, bets. this discuesion cloud, the government should distinctly rate whether or no they had say intention to carry It out. This remark draw • smile bum Sir theory Grey, at whisk Kr. Stafford appeared to be somewhat settled. He then repeated his sell fns en tzplssetias of the extent of destitution, and the calculated amount of the rate. But it wee one thing to ur ke • rate, and another to levy one. The melting of eacollected rate in November last was 800, 1 1001 The gist et his opposition was, that is some unless if the Me were levied they would he Meted, whilst the sum mini weld be only a drop in the ocean of Connaught misery. Drawing • gloomy picture of the future, he u ged upon the hum very emphatically the injustice and the s-rims ven ialness of determining merely the question of the facility SI emeeties, and orbtete, a rate exclusively upon the most distressed classes of their fallerer-eitigene. Mr. M. O'CONNELL said her Mejesty's provernmeat Ind overlooked the diEerent nature of the two chief aim. time urged to their MINIM ; the one applying to the *Nes. dal ea the part of them is Ireland shady too besvily op pessed, and whsee Lamas had beat advocated by the gallant member for Loogiord ; the other, in which he did not concur, reprtheated by the.. why advocated toirenlist interests of the north of Ireland. He propos* largely to transfer the burden—by alow. he the tenant who paid the extra tate of 61. to deduct the whole smount paid es that me t from his tto the landlord, and allowing the leadkiTi to deduct s re p:oportion ban the iamunbrasetworhether is the form of mortgages or family settlements. He would also taw it to be paid by WI officials having IldarillS of 3001. a per. This wou'd re spire no new sachthery, sad act in the way of ea Moose tax to seer:an extent. lir. NAPIER moved the adjeurameat a the debate. Sir G. GREY rose, net to object to this motion, but to pretest egaiast the unfair essestruetion put upon a gesture which moped him by the hon. number for Northampton. (Chem.) He begged to ammo Min and the house that he did not, and never would, trait with levity or ridicule any prepseitiou tending te alleviate distress ; and he was only mu )(wind that the hon. gentleman's expertise, would not have coshied him to have heaven that the government were not to be espeeted to say whether they would or would not adopt • CZlZlplan suggested by en hen. 'member. He should, Zin lutsue, be more careful mot to smile et anything that fell from the hon. gentleman. (Hear, bear.) Mr. STAFFORD raid he never meant to say that the right hon. gentleman would smile at distress ; but he did man to my, and repeated, that the right hon. gentleman ought to give an answer to the question whether be in tended to take any steps in refiner.* to the plea of the right hoe. baronet the member for Tansweeth. The debate wee them adjousued. _ _ SUPPLY. - - The hones hawing reeol;editieffinto a committee of supply, Colonel ANSON hoped the hen. member for Montrose Weald not move the resolution of which he had given notice ce the present occasion. The vote which he (Colonel Amain) 1104 to more now was for the ordnance excess of 1846, of 97,5811. Previous to that year the ordnance as comets were not made up at the elc as of the year, bit a balance in hand was carried to the cre dit of the department, and subleqcently appropriated tithe pubVe service, but not brought into charge. Under thme circumstances, no balance-sheet was hid before parlia ment; there was only a running amount. A great improve ment had a nee been made, bt which parliament had ac quired the supervisiin of this nt within the year, aml that alteration had prosed moat beneficial to the public esrvice. Mr. HUME was aware of the anxiety of rowenieseat te rue the vote, and as it was an maws &fling from the laxity Of former years, he would not interpose his motion now, although it was against the general rule to allow money totes to be taken after 12 o'clock. This, however, should fall be regarded ea an exception. The vote was then agreed to, and the house resumed. BANKRUPTS (IRELAND). Mr. NAPIER obtained leave to bring in a bill to amend the law en Ireland relating to bankrupts. TRANSFER OF REAL PROPERTY. - - - The foil Wini lis;;l;ice ware nominated 4;1 the select eosamittee on Transfer of Real and Persons' Property : Mr. Sulleiter-011110,11/, Mr. Arll3/100116, Mr. Hardiary, Mr. Geer Turner, Sir Harry Verney, Mr. Wood, Mr. Wal tes,s4l2. Maisie, Mr. COIN, Mr. Charles Howard, Mr. Palmer Mr. Crowder, Mr. Sharon, Mr. Wral, tad Mr. Headlam: SCHOOL OF DESIGN. On the mottos Matte, Kr. John Els, Mr. Baring Wall, and the Marquis of KB. dare were added to the Wets committee on school of design. PUBLIC LIBRARIES. Os the motion of Mr. EIIVART, Sir Jolla Walsh was added to the rim amanatinis an midisYherrire ; and Mr. Goal bon au diabangaat bon ailmisse said aosamittee. he beam adjoin:ad at Wiped 12 Vainek. P1141.09E0 MORONI= TO MI POW, COnsPZIL—A hecrespaudent of the Leisester liererry swig " Penult age to alien those of year mien who me admirers ef the dramatis plet, Cowper, that it is proposed to erect, by eabetription. • monument, with bee-rebel and bust, to hi. limn in Westminster Abney. That this monument may he raised on the brood bans of his literary se well as hi.. _Christian rod report, all me invited to subscribe, the mektet contribution being restricted to five shillings. It h extremely gratifying to learn that Wordsworth has warmly patronwed this scheme, and written some noble mem en the Inhject ; but it is sot a little surprising to led that Dickens, when applied to for his support, objected hr two reasons ; first, because poets superior to Cowper hums alluded from the Abbey, and secondly, because the Abbey was sot free to the public. The latter objecting is Woe weight, beams the Poets' Corner (where, of course, the meaument would be erected) is open to the public Lit Smear objection, the writer ncdentands Yr. to insinus'e that Byron, who alone of the excluded Pets could be looked upon es Cowper's peer, was a @orrice Post to Cow per, end there/men memunent ought to be erected Id Ma fin , . To this it may be answered, that Cowper 11 )letly entitled to the preference foe more than one meta. !ink bmure he was an earlier pest than Byron, and died Jean beUre the Bows of Idleness " appeared, aad ten er mica before its author achieved anything like celebrity. &mad, because the works of Cowper are of a moral and giem character, and have a purifying and elevatlag tea ___,`"lll. while thou of Byron are (esi,h rime tonoureas "'lm?ds) misanthropic, demoralising, and licentious.] —I leay jut state, for the information of parties interested in the movement, that the sum of 3)1. has already been raised." Mit Opals. OUTGOING MAIL& Tho nib kr Ikor kiirs; I. sad Wow looisod A be kris up so the mobs of the Slot Sri Ile Wort ibis MO% ionising Ihriairra, Malone, Nam% =Sow alma% soil kirks. soi swindle thus ror .11L Aossado.likosogoo. Sky Ormsis. MK sod Tom will So en op ra assolog of rho log of UefL Nils skik op Sir illakka. Cipp de Verde Mak* Sierra Losrma, sod Arroarier. 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In the beginning of the speech with which ho 1 refaced the army es imstes, Mr. Fox MAULE lacerated the unfoitunate ltf gar of Leeds, who had ventured to call a financial reform meeting ; at the close of the same speech he made a dead set at the conceded financial rt farmers of Liverpool ; end on Friday last, ci propos of the Mutiny Bill, he returned to the charge. This betrayal of relentless inveteracy by the Secre tary at War is not overwise on his part. It is rarely that pablio men honour with sac's reiterated attacks any of whom they do not stand in some degree uf awe. Aed the taste of his a ticks is as quesaon. able as their prudence. It was ictlecd very silly in the Mayor of Leeds to sign a tequieition for ell ing out the soldiers, lest there should be a d sturbmee at the financial reform meeting to which ‘ be had given his sanction. No man, poi se ask g the average intelligence and nerves cf a man, could have dreamed of die urbence oa such an occa sion. But it is weak men like the worthy msgistraie in question who constitute the connecting link be tween aristocratic cons( entire whigs of Mr. MAuLt's complexion end the popular party. Common gtai tude ought to have led that gentleman to conceal the weakn ss of one of a class which has been so us-rful to him. Again, Mr. Fox Nlatme talked of a " set of people calling themselves the Liverpool Financial Reform Association." This is Mrs. Slipsiop over grin, who, whenever she n.eant to be particularly dignified and cutting, directed her animadversions against "sons people." We have no right to quarrel with the Secretary at War fo? giving himself the vulgar airs of a spoiled lady's-maid ; but he miebt have spared the feelings of his friend Sir THOMAS BIRCH, who happens to be one of that " set f people," having subscribed 251. to aid in the dis semination of their principles, though he voted against teem in the House of Commons. But Mr. Fox Manta knows his audience as wiles any canny Scot that ever crossed the Tweed. Five sixths of the members of the House of Commons,even when they are not themselves officers in the army, navy, or militia (and your Major Sturgeons always exaggerate the expression of the feelings of a profes sion which hesitatingly recognises their claim to be long to it) have numerous connexions in the service, anChave from youth imbibed their prejudices. No small proportion of them have their letters addressed to some military or naval club. Then there are in the Hoene of Commons official representatives of all the bodies which administer our defensive establishments. The spirit of a mess-room or military club pervades the House of Commons, send is marshallei and orga nised by recognised leaders. The tons in which Mr. Fox MAULE affecttd to speak of the criticisms on our military and naval establishments was sure to find a gratified response in the breasts of an immense male• city of those by whom he was surrounded. He 'rowed lustily, for he was crowing on his own doegbill. Out of doors, however, the petulant remarks of Mr. Fox MAULE, and his volunteer coadjutors are more impartially innvamed. Aed the universal feeling is, that the attempt to silence frank criticism of the system of organisation and management which prevails in the ,mine, by supercilious sire, will not be endured by the middle classes of England. They think it hard enough to be obliged to pay for the overgrown mill tory eitsblishment of the country without being scorned and flouted by their overpaid servants into the bargain. Mr. Fox MAULE has himself sufficiently exposed the utter groundlessness of the vague and exaggerated chime he advanced against the financial reformers of Liverpool. He deliberately accused these gen tlemen of s ystematically disseminating atta he upon the officers of the army, which neces sarily tended to subvert military discipline. On Friday he could produce only one paragraph of two senteuces, out of all the voluminous public ideas of the society in support of his accusation : even that paragraph did not boar out the construction he put upon it. Even Mr. Fox MAULS could detect nothing in it beyond what he was pleased to ell' " an insinua tion " of complicity between the clothing colonels and their quartermasters. He contented himself with attempting to make cut a case of constructive oxhide. tion to mutiny. The oonviction is rapidly gaining ground throughout the country, that the profligate expenditure upon un necessarily lerge armaments in time of peace, of those means which ought to be expended repo the improve ment of our civil government, or left in the pockets of the people, is not to be combated by such fethle misreprasentatione. The people will not be diverted from the pursuit of army reform, and the reduction of army expenditure, by imputations which they feel to be utterly unwarranted. The Financial Reform Amociation of Liverpool have told no more than the truth. They have shown that our army is far more numerous than it needs to be ; that the number of officers, in proportion to the men, is too great; that the manner in which the high class officers are pad is most injudicious, inasmuch as it holds out inducements to peculation, and necessarily begets stuipic ion diet pecu lation exists. It is the extreme of silliness to protest against such representations on the plea that they have a tendency to create a prejudice 'gainst officers in general society, and discontent and insubordination in the rank.. If the averments made are untrue, they can be disproved, and then their power to do barn will ' cease; if true, the danger consists, not in the exposure, hat in the existence of the abuses denounced. The splenetic effusions of military partisans against the Liverpool Financial Association have been manly provoked by their exposure of the " clothing colonels eras. What are the facts with regard to this system? In the army estimates for 1849-50 (pp. 5 and 8) we find the following entries : CLOTHING. Allowances to colonels for providing clothing , as bone on establishment L 378,212 14 8 Special allowance to the Colonel of the Grimadies Guards, ditto 1,093 8 10 Allowing.a to colonels for providing, clothing for anpasatations Alloiromon to colonels for providing clothing Ow seganinnamaries 7,000 0 0 Allman* to certain cavalry regimen's to wow isilidencies la the allowance for pro viding clothing , &c' 1,850 0 0 Cost of patters% making great costa, itc. £392,088 3 8 And further on, at pp. 18 and 17, we find it noted that, except in the cases of the V:ree regiments of household cavalry, the Malta Fencibles, and the Canadian Rifle Regiment, the clothing allowance is placed at the disposal of a colonel, this colonel being it is well known, a general officer whose only con nexion with the regiment is the disposal of this monev. On the 17th page we find " Emoluments from - clothing" stated as one of the permanent sources of incluse of this class of colonels in 131 of the 138 regiments there enumerated. Lastly, we have the authority of Major-General Sir WILLIAM NAPIER for saying that, since attention has been drawn to this very objectionable arrangement by the Liverpool Financial Reform Association, no hos than five of these colonels have had the clothing they supplied to their regiments returned upon theor bench; u unfit for am Neither railing nor supercilious talking at the association can efface the effect these facts have pro duced on the public mind. Even though they had remained concealed from the public, they would have been known to the soldiers would have excited sus picion of other abuses in t heir minds, and must of necessity have produced that discontent which is absurdly attributed to the pamphlets of the associa- THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 27, 1849. Lion. And all the clamour et mem rooms, and mili tary clubs, and a Howe of Commons which differs little from spelt military club, will not prevent lons BULL from speaking his mind of each a paltry and equivocal system with his cluirseeristio frankness and plainness of speech. WE Lave read Mr. NEWDZGATeII letter to Me. LABOUeIIERE, on the Balance of Trade, and that La saying a great deal. What dote Mr. NEVIDEGATE want? Here are twenty-right pages of close print, into which m st Felple will re very loth to penetrate, and after thsm three-and-twenty pages of figures, of which we may traly say that much which is inge nious and much that is true is disfigured by blunders almost too conspicuous to be accidrntal. Still what does Mr. NEwDEGATE want? He eats oat with some most sensib!e remark* on the slovenly condition of our camm.rcial reflation—remarks ro sensible that wa began to wonder how so much common sense had found its way into that region of the p litic tl hemiep`to c of which the nonourablo member for Warwickshire is so di.tinguialied an abo riginal. But this is a purely deceptive manoeuvre. We very speedily find ourselves in the midst of Mr. NEWDEGATE'S native fog. The pamphlet hu been written apparently to expound the doctrine of the balite° of trade; but for some reason, genuine or awunted, it confounds the balance of trade with the anr_unt of the na , ional income. The little book is written apparently to extinguish ADAM SMITH. and, by a most ingenious collation of passages from the "Wealth of Nations" and the book of Dr. LIST, it does ncthing but extinguish itself. It embodies most leborious calrulieions to show the value of the goads we sell and the goods we buy, and it altogether ex chides from the calculation the chief items which some under the head of both ; and while the pages ars crammed with figures about shipping and naviga doe, they whimsically place the result of their compu tations to the wrong side of the account. Mr. Newbenate has made his first attempt at political economy in the shspe of a pamphlet which has all the paraphernalia of arithmetic without its precision, sad all the formality of statistic!, without their truth. What does Mr. NEWDEGATE mean by the "balance of trade"? He says, truly enouga, in one passage of his pamphlet, that the balance atria& is the excess of the imports over the °epee's, or of the exports over the imports, and that as far as the substantial pros perity cf a nation is concerned, this balance is to be regarded as an accident which may disturb but cannot dettr..iy the equilibrium of itsprogrees. There is no objection to a sensible dpepine like this. But Mr. NEWDEGATE has found out another ba lance, and hastens to confound and alarm himself by mixin; the balance of trade and the new balance together. ADAM SMITH appears to have se-isted Mr. NEWDEGATE to cue clear id, a et least, when he says in the "Wealth of Nati-ns," ghat if a people happen to buy more than they happen to sell, the inequality will presently work its own cure, bat if they consume more than they produce, they must infallibly b. come impoverished. "Very true," says Mr. NEWDEGATE. "I Mn perfectly comprehend that," and most people will participate in Mr. New- DEGATeie readiness of perepaion ; but surely no but himself could have attached Mr. Never:m.lTA preposterous conclusion to such a premises, for it h the object Of the pamphlet and the figures before us to prove that 'he balance of trade and the balance of income are the same thing, and that in spite of in creasing bullion and favourable exchanges this coun try is positively cansuming its substance at the rate of some sixteen millions a year. If we hid a potato famine every smond season, combined with cotton at Bd. a pound, there might be some small ground for an alarm of this nature ; bat, to have the foreign trade which this country carries on in ordinary Store described as a species of inter change which impoverishes the country, is a startling absurdity. What do we import? Do we import only articles of consumption ? Are we fed by forrgn soils, clothed by foreign looms, or decorated and pro tected by foreign ingenuity and industry? Not at all. A nation in such a helpless state of imbecility might well live in hourly apprehension of the evils of assay described by ADAM SMITIL Its collie= would exceed its produce, and its of trade might be truly an index of the velocity of its ruin. But this is not our asses It is the precise reverse of our case, and Mr. NEWDE GATE himself has proved the absurdity of his own panic. Let km examine and classify his own list of imported commodities in 1845—an average year— and he will find that the valneof articles of raw mate rial, wool, cotton, indigo, flax, tallow, timbar, and so on, amounts to sixty -fw; pir cent. of the entire im portal of that year. What do We make of these raw materials? Do we consume them in personal grati fiarion, or do we use them for purposes which in crave the wealth and extend the power of England, wherever a physical want is to be supplied, wherever industry is to ibe fostered, or an end of civilisation fulfilled? But we do notconfl as our criticism to general emote , . Mr. NEWDEGATE pretends to prove that in 1815 there was an adverse balance of trade. Did any sen sible man ever hear of an adverse balance of trade taking place in a year when the quotation of the ex change on Paris inertia's! from 25.60 in January, to 25 65 in August sn4 23.63 in December ; and the exchange on Hamburgh from 13.111 to 13.121 be tween the tame periods? It seems also ghat 1846 was throughout a year of a. adverse balance of trade. It is quite certain that after the harvest of 1846 there was an adverse balance, but before that time the facts were mut emphatically the reveres. The exchange on Paris and Hamburg in January 1846 wu 26.65 and 13.13 ; in August of the same year it was 26.75 and 13.14}, and the amount of bullion in the Bank of England had, what ?—not bat increased from 13 . 1 to I6i millions aterlirg. At present we 87 noth ing of the computat one which Mr. NewDza tTE has given of the value of the import.. We perfectly coincide in his opinion that the value of the imports ought to be ascertained and published by the Custom-house; and whenever Mr. NEwDEGATa will urge that reform in the House Of Commons we engage that be shall receive the best support . we can give him. Leaving, however, the calculations as Mr. NEwDI. GATE has left them, we have a word or two to say about certain matters upon which he is unaccountably silent. Suppose, for example, that the value of the imports in 1847 we', se the pamphlet swats. 117,047,0001., and the value of the exports 70,368,0001. Sorely this is not the whole case. Seventy millions was not the whole of our exports is 1847, although seventy millions might he the declared value of the goods which left this emery during that year. We export other things as well as goode. We export a supreme go esemunt to India. We export the dividends of a certain portion of the national debt to foreigners ; and we export the rent of their estates to certain sybarite landlords—most of them protectionists like Mr. NEW. DEGATE—we consume in Italy and FMCS the re sauces fur which they are beholden to the industry and skill of Englishmen. Let Mr. NEWDEGATE ex amine these items. He will find that the Indian cos. maxims of this country are equal to a sum of about four millions yearly ; that is to say, India pays us 4,000,000/. per annum for our government and pro tection such as it is. The foreign dividends may be stated at half, and the absentee rents at a whole mil lion a year. Hers then are five and a half millions ot exports, or 12 per cent , of the who's of which Mr. NEWDEGATE, in a statistical account, introduced with pomp and circumstance, takes not the smallest notice. But this is not all, Mr. NEWDEGATE reckons up the value of the imports in bond at prices which include the cost of freight, that is to say the ant of their transit from the place of production in British and foreign ships . ; but he does not deduct from this value the proportion :of freight which belongs to the amount of British tonnage engaged in the foreign trade, and shewn by the navigation accounts to have entered inwards ; nor, on the oilier band, does he add to the value of the exporte the amount of freight earned by British vessels in the foreign trade cleared outwards. Take, far example, the year 1847. Th e pamphlet states the imports at 117,047,0001. ; well, but m 1847 there were 4,942,000 tons of British tonnage entered inwards in the foreign trade. Sup pose the average earnings for the year to have bees even 3!. a ton, then the actual coat of the imports wosid be reduced to 102,174.0001. The entries outwards won to the extent of 4,770,000 British tons and reckoned at the was rate would increase the ;slue of the ex: ports from 70.329,0001. to 81,639,000/. The differ ent*, therefore, in that year would amount to about 171 millions; and this adverse balance diminished by the 6 millions already alluded to, leaves about 13 millions as the &dull excess of imports of food in 1847 to be paid for in money, and that was not far from the truth in that year, es we know by the re turns of the Bank. Bat between twelve millions and 27,899,0001., i.e declared by Me. NEWDEGATZ, there is a somewhat wido difference, and a difference which will enable us to form some judgment of the modesty of protectionist demand■ upon our belief, and the accuracy of protectionist appeals to the se'ente of numbers. COLONIAL. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. STRIKES OF MINERS—EARTHQUAKES. —We have received fi es of Adelaide papers from the middle of September to tte Bth of October. We some time ago published adv:ces of more recent date from that el bony, but the jourtals now come to hand enable us to present our rt odes with more full details of the ctr.kes of mint re at the Dorm Burrs mines. --- Tie first strike occurred on Fs iday, the 15th or September : the proceedings at the mines on that d 47 and Saturday aro thus &tailed in the South Australian tithe 19th:— About tea days ago the directors of tie association resolved to dispense with the further services of Thomas Burr. Esq , their superintendent at the mines. The resolutio I was com municated to him in wiring, and Messes. B ck (chairman), Ellis, and Kingston, members of the booed of directors, and Mr. Ayer, secretary of the &nth Australian Mining Ass.- elation, proceeded to the mines to carry out the resolution of the board. They arrived on Thursday, and on Friday they relieved Mr. Barr (who declined to red in) of hie duties. Mr. Burr then left for town ; when he left all was quiet. In the mean time, the miners, hearing of the scrotal of the Ci nders, determined to apply for redeem of alleged gel , thaws, and despatched a depatat:on to represent the use, They applied to be admitted to the director', but were refused an interview, and were told, more over, that the works would be stop-ed. • • • Upon hearing this threat of stoppage the tributovs, who, we understand, !OM the great body of the miners, bemuse greatly alarmed, as there was work to the em .unt of several thousands of pomade dose by them to payment or which they would not be entitled till the completion of their sets. They, therefore, rushed to take poriession of the mine, and mix the ores, so that no ens of the misers could be paid, as we understsr.d, and all woubi be interested in enforcing • settle meat from the association. The system of levity is. that each miner's ore when cleaned &addressed, is divided into three pate. A specimen from one part is taken by the miner. and specimens from the other two parts are taken, one for the captain or superintendent, who gets it tested on the spot, and one for the directors in town. The assay at the mine till lastly was agreed to by both parties, but the directors having boom* dissatisfied, they got a variety of analysis made by various parties in town in order to test its CJI11141• nets, and they made the discovery that Mr. Elphick, chemist, Rundle-street, made the most correct analysis. Ile, accord ingly, has been appointed analyser to the mime'. The miners, ho saver, have been as much dissatisfied with the Adelaide analysis, as the directors were with theft at the Burn Burrs, especially as analysis, latterly, have not been (as they state) exhibited at the mines in en authenticated form, but only communicated by letter from the secretary. The &le gation against Mr. Burr is, that he was directed not to raise ore unless it contains 1 at the lust twenty-five per cent. of metal, and that from neglect, cr deficient analysis, he allowed mach poorer ores to be raised, which have been paid for at the higher rates. Mr. ;Burr alleges that the captains alone are responsible for the duties which he is charged with neglecting, and utterly denies the correctness of the charges against himself. • • • Mr. Doran, of the Royal Admiral, who left the mine at half-past one on Sandal, ie.' forms us that all was then quiet. We learn, also, that the miners on Saturday, having tied those who refused to strike work hack to back, carried them through Koorioga ; the di'ertors ordered the police to seize the ringleaders; the cor poral male the attempt, but was immediately stoned, and was forced to retreat. The miners bed made a disturbance at Mr. Wren's hotel, and assaulted Mr. Ayers or one of the dir.ctors. Nearly 400 miners have struck. They boast of having as much powder as the association, and say they are determined to havotheir rights. Oa the Tuesday the following intelligence reached Adelaide : BURR& SORRA, MONDAY, HALF-PART FOUR, All.— The polite magistrate arrived yesterday, and there are in a 1126 armed policemen, partly from Adelaide, and partly from various out-stations. Everything is perfectly quiet at present ; and there is less, I understand, of drunkenness than usual—The directors (Messrs. Beck, Kingston, and Paxton), were for a long time list night with the police corn • missioner, Mr. Tolmer, and Mr. Ayers; and I understand the bell is to be rung for work at 7 o'ckitk this morning.— Elkoald the miners resist the police, the latter are prepared to pranged to any extremity ; and the miners, numbering from SOO to GOO, seem equally determined. On Monday everything became quiet. An expla nation toga place betecen the din ears and the work men, so much to the satisfaction of the latter that they gave a concert in the evening to the director.. On Wednesday every men was at work, and the police force le't Icr Adelaide. Matters continued in this satisfactoty position till the 30.1 s of Sep'ember, when the miner.. again struck. The papers we hive received contain no account of ho measures taken by the directors or their results. The following is the substance of the manifesto of the miners : To the Chairman of the *on. the Baud of Directors of the South Alainllia Iltrqaor#ssocdivioa. Barra Burra Mines, Sept. 30, 180.—Sir,—It is with great regret we have notiesitthe rate of wages, as sent by the breed for the future working of these mines. We are sorry to refer you to tie storike.pere books; but, sir, were you to take even a cursory glance at them, we feel assured you would at ones be convinced of the absolute necessity of raising instead of lowering our wages, lit order that we may still claim the title of honest me. , . Permit a, air, for a moment to refer you to the present didactical:-Ist. There is 3.. per week for house-rent 2ndly. Club and doctor, le. more. 3rdly. Candlelight and Bring, lay at least 3e. per week. Here an already 7s. par week deducted, before we can take top a play for the requiring. of our families. la the nest place, sir, cookier the enormous price we have to pay for onr own and families' living ? And we have no ground of hops to procure that at • cheaper rote, when we I consider the distance from Adelaide, and the very high price of cartage. We submit the fact to the board, that we have for some time past been weekly running into debt, and there fore feel 'tistifled in refusing to take at the specified rate of wages. We have, upon mild consideration, arrived at the conclusion to turn in ail hands, tributes and tutwork men, to them all our ores, that we may thus come to • speedy settlement, and then leave the mine for some more suitable place, unless the board shall NMI meet to allow us the um* wages as formerly, via. ' as regards the miners, labourers, carters on the mine, whim boys, and ore-picking boys. In conclusion, sir, permit us to assure the board, through your se!f as their available organ, that we remain, very truly yours. This was signed by a great number "on behalf of the whole body." The only other intelligence of interest in these Papers is the account of some shocks of earthquake felt at Adelaide and Burnt Burro. The Adelaide shock occurred about 4 a.m., Thursday, the 15th of September, and was very slight. The Burrs Burra one took place at the same hour of Friday the 16th. The latter is thus described : On Friday last, at about four o'clock In the morning, a shock of rn lard quake was felt at the Bum Bum, the village of Clare, and as far to the north as the neighbourboad of Mount Bryan. Its direction was from south to north. It was cot only heard and felt by many at Kooringa, but the glasses end bottles, the jars and ponnakiss, were rattled and shaken. It was attended by • distinct rolling soupy resembling the rusk of carriages, which lasted for about half a minute, and in some houses even fur niture was seen to move, the light of the moon being clear, by persona who chanced to be lying awake. Many who were asleep were awakened in fright. There is no doubt of the pselity of the shock, as testimony from all sides is concur rent, varying only from the eirenastancre of the early hour having found some sleepers who started in affeght, some who dept through it, and a few who " on earnest nuantoi bent" were awake, and suddenly surprised by a jig among the moveables to the music of • mime peal of thunder, which, a little contrary to the ordinary rules of etiquette, was followed by &mimic flash of lightning, so brilliant es to illuminate the semidry far and near. The southern hemisphere appears to have baen in a slating condition towards the latter part of last year. The New Zealand earthquakes took place exactly a month after those of South Australia. Ine Court. Prince Albert attended by Colonel Bouverie visited the British Museum yesterday. The Queen and Prince Albert honoured the per forations of the Philharmonic concert, at the Hanover square rooms, yesterday evesing, with their masses. Her Majesty end his Royal Highness were attended by the Mi. - trees of the Robes, the Viscountess Jocelyn, Lady in Waft ing, the Hon. Mimes Stanley and Dawson, Maids of Honour in Waiting, the Lord Chambalain, the Mister of the Horse, the Groom of the Stole to the Prince, the Marquis of Or mond.. Lord in Waiting, Viscount Clifdeu, Lord in Wait ing to the Prince, Li.ut -Colonel the Hon. Robert Boyle, Groom in Waiting, Captain Francis Seymour, Groom in Waiting to his Royal Hiehnew, Lieut •Ccecnel the Hen. Charles Grey. Equerry in Waiting, and Colonel Bonnie., Epson" is Waning to the Prince. The august party arrived at Oght Wok*, in tour of the royal carriages. The Duchene of Kent, attended by Lady Augusta Bruee, went yesterday to Claremont and visited her Majesty the Queen of the Belgians. A Cabinet C)oncil was held at 12 o'clock yesterday at the private residence of Lord John Russell in Chesharn. place. The ministers present were the Marquis of Law dosing, the Earl of Minto. Sir George Grey. Vieieunt Pe isen.on, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir F. Baring. Sir John Hobbouse, Lord Campbell, he Right Moe. H. Labouchere, the Earl of Carlisle, and the Marquis of Clandearde. The Earl of Clarendon attended the meet ia'rhaguncil sat two hours. despatches from the Governor of South Auer&lia was received yesterday at the Colonial-Ake. Despeches were sent off last evening from the go:lila-office for the Governor of Gibraltar. THREATENING LETTERS TO THE QUEEN. At Windsor, yesterday, Jobn Wardle, remanded from Monday last, was changed before the mayor and two other magistrates with having sent threatening letters to her Majesty and other parties. The prisoner had first written to her Majesty on lan. 18, 1848, when he stated that, unless be and his family obtained their rights, her Majesty should die by his hands. This 'letter was sent down to the Staffordshire polies, within whose jurisdiction the prisoner was employed, when he was taken before the =agate's, and chanted with writing the. atenine lateen to her Majesty. The prisoner explained that his reason for doing so was to obtain 10,0001. left to his family by the late Duke of rent. The magistrates sentenced him to three months' confinement is Stafford gaol, in default of his fin ling bail to keep the peace. On Thursday, the Bth inst.. he presented himself at the residence of the Dean of Windsor. and told the butler he was determined to see the Queen, attd get his due, even if his neck was stretched for it. Ile was again given into custody, and the result was that. after two isquiries, the case was postponed till Monday, the 17th inst., when the authori ties at the Home-office having ban communicated with, Mr. Hayward, of the office of the solicitor to the Treasury, attended to watch the cue, and was about to ask the magis trates to hold the prisoner to bail for using, threatening lan gu when Mr. Pearl, a surgeon, of Windsor, who had examined him, expressed doubts of the prisoner's sanity. Upon this Mr. Hayward asked for a remand, to obtain fur ther evi fence on that point. Accordingly the prisoner was again brought up yesterday, when the above facts having been deposed to, Dr. Mooro ✓ated that he had bad an interview of more than an hour's duration with the prisoner, and he was clearly of opinion that he was a dangerous lunatic, whom it was not safe to trust at large for a Dingle hour. Upon this evidence being given, Mr. Hayward applied to have the prisoner committed to the county lunatic asylum. The Mayor, having 'sleet the prisoner if he had - any ex planation to give of his conduct, he replied that it would be useless, as he was like a lamb in a den of wo lves. After some conailtration the bench adjudged the prisoner to be a dangerous lunette, and sentenced him to be metalled in the county lunatic asylum at Littimam, near Oxford, unless hit friends could give security for his see custody. Tao prisoner is evidently very illiterate, no two consecu tive words h•ing epclt correctly, bar Majesty being described as Queen " Victorev." MR. BRIGHT AND THE VICAR OF ROCHDALR. The Times of the 19th inst, published a letter from Dr. Molesworth, the Vicar of Rochdale, denying cer tain statements made by Mr. Bright in the House of Common., in the recent deote on Mr. Trelawny's motion, referring to transactions which toak place in the parish of Rochdale in 1840. The follow ng letterhas been forwarded by Mr. Bright to the Times, and we have been requested to inert it in the Express. It will be seta that the vicar, " cot unknown to fame," has lost none of his rashness, however much his memory may be at fault. TO THE EDITOR OP THE TIMES. In your paper of the 19th of this month, the vicar of Rcehdale has denied the accuracy of the statements made by me in the House of Commons, in the late debate on the question of church rates. I could have sent you an answer to the vicar's letter on Tuesday las', the day on which I read it, but I preferred the delay of a few days in order that other proof than that I was at the moment prepared with might be brought to bear upon the point to dispute. I take your report of what I said in the House as quoted in the VIM'S letter, namely, "In 1840, in the last contest respecting church rates which took place in that town (Rochdale), the troops were called out, and the vicar was followed through the streets by 8,000 or 10,000 people, who hissed and hooted him in a manner mset distressing to every one who cared either for the church or fur Christianity." The vlcar and his witnesses *dm' t the crowd acd the excitement, and the calling out of the military, and indeed they do not dare boldly to deny the expres sions of disapprobation on the part of the pesple, but leave it to be supposed that the circum-tancea were by no mesas such as to justify the reference I made to them. _ _ _ I was one of the parties engaged in the church-rate contests of 1810, and immediately after the termina tion of that to which my obsorvivione rererred, I pub lished an "Address to the Inhabitants of the Parish 6/ Rochdale," giving a narrative of the unhappy pro ceedings connected with it. Of this pamphlet about 5,000 copies were sold, and hundreds of respectable persons at the time would have attested the general accuracy of its itstemen's. Tho "Address" contains the following paragraph, which has a direot reference to the point in dispute :—"I will not dwell on the scene which presented itself as the vicar of this great perish proceeded towards his home, in company with some who had been his fellow-labourers with him in achieving this triumph' of the church ; he and they doubtlees felt their humiliating position, and all the exultation which blind party feeling can indulge In will not be able to efface the recollections of the greetings of his nominal flock' as he paced the streets of the town, where his preienco hss been the signal for starring up afresh the fires of bigotry and strife. I will not dwell on the mournful picture : the minister of the church of England, the vicar of this large parish—the police—the multitude of hie unwilling 'flock,'—the hissings—the groans—all this was enough surely ; but to all this must be added the feeling that it was merited, and the consciousness that the union which ought to bind a pastor to his flock was unhappily severed for ever!" I now proceed to adduce further proof of the correct ness of my statement. The flint is a letter from Mr. William Chadwick, who for many yeers has acted as a county magistrate, is one of the most respee'ed in habitants of the borough of Rochdale, and who is him self a c'ourchmati. Mr. Chadwick writes to me as follows: Rcehdale, March 24. My dear Sir, --Having read your speech on the church rate question as published in the Tunes—likewise the letter of Dr. Mol:sworth from the same paper, purporting to deny the statements you had made on the above occasion—in justice to your public character, I feel called upon to state that your account of the proceedings which took place on that occasion was mainly correct. There were 8000 or 10,000 people collected together near the polling booth. The military were called out, but speedily ordered to withdraw, which they iiid. At the ter mination of the polling the ezeiteraent was such as my pen cannot describe. Tee scene was such that as a chu►chman I hope it will never be repeated. Dr. Moleswerth beim; half a mile from the vicarage, if was agreed for his safely, that lie shou'd be escorted home, which he was, by the niagu. Crates, of whom I was one, a few gentlemen, and the police; after leaving the neighbourhood of the polling booth, I am not aware of any further insult being offered to the vicar, on his route through the town. You will see there is no mate rial difference between your statement and mine. You are aware that my political sentiments are milder than your., which may srue from my having had some 25 years more esperience of human nature than yourself ; yet I should be wanting in duty and respect to you, if I were to withhold that corroboration of your statement regarding the tumul tuous nature of those proceedings which its integrity de mand.. I remain, respectfully, yours, WILLIAM CHADWICK. To John Bright, Eaq., M.P. I think I have now disposed of the main question. The vicar also objects to what I said in a former de bate, on the non-appointment of evangelical mini.ters in the pariah. On this point I have only to repeat that Ilhave heard churchmen more than once complain that, as they had not 'svemgelical vicars, they ►ad not and could not have evangelical clergymen. I impute no blame to Dr. 111tlesworth on this ground, for it would bs absurd and unjust to blame him for not selecting ministers with whose sentiments ho does not agree. I mentioned it merely with refer ence to a statement made by Lord Ashley. I must suppose Dr. Molesworth to b 3 in harmony with all that the established church requires, eyeing that he obtained his vicarage from the late Archbishop of Canterbury. With regard to the many charges in Dr. Moles worth's letter, 1 shall say little. If they were true, which they are not, they would only strengthen all the arguments used in the House of Gammons against the continuance of church rates. If the Doctor can look back to the at, ife of 1840 without regret at the course he then Writ, I think him beyond the reach of all appeals that 0113 be made to him. If he was, and is still, unconscious of the sorrow and indignation he then excit. d among those whom the law regards as his "flock," he must be proof against the impressions which act on other men, as his outward senses seem to have been unable to observe the manifestations of die like with which he was greeted during and at the termination of the contest. if Doctor Molesworth's letter had circulated only within the limits of the parish of Rochdale, I should not have thought it necessary , to make any reply, for almost every man who read it could have furnished his own answer to it ; but, appearing in your columns, I have to ask you to insert this as my justificat on with those to whom, happily, the doings of " our parish" are not familiar. I am respectfully, JOHN BRIGHT. London, March 26, 1849. OUR REPRESENTATIVE SYSTEM. RICHMOND. TO Till EDITOR OF Till IXPRUS. Stn,—Sorne 'sr:un--evidently one of tboss low minded people who derive pleasure in giving pain to others—has forwarded to ma your paper of March 5, storing under end Mar trating by care remarks the following passage, under the bead of " Oar Itepre sentative System—Richmond (Yorkshire)." You will cry often hear it said in London, " Oh, Lard Beaumont is the person who coatested the North Riding in 1832, sad polled a very small number of votes." This is altogether a mistake, and perhaps not a very fortunate one for the noble lord. The hero of that contest was a Mr. Martin Stapylton of Myton Hall, near Boroughbridge, whose father, under the title of Dr. Brae, was a celebrated quack doctor in York. The similarity of the names—" M. Stapleton" and "Dl. Stapylton"—ar.il the aisociation of both panics with the same distsict of the same county, has frequently led to this not very enviible eonfu.ion. 1 need tot inform you that if the above extract is not true, it is a libel ; and that it is nottrue a very slight inquiry would have convinced you. My grandfather, the fattier of the late M. Stapyl ton, of Myton Hall, York, was a clergyman, and rector of Markstay, in Essex. He married the daughter of Sir Martin Stapylton, of Myton. My late uncle, whose whole life was marked by singular emmtrie.ties, had in early life conceived same notion that he had mode a great discovery in medicine, and took, I believe, irregular means to make this known; but at the time he did this he wu heir to a fortune of 10,0001. a year, and I do think it is a very hard thing that for this indiscretion the children of the younger brother should, after a lapie of nearly half a century, be stigmatised as the desc,ndants of a quack doctor, and one of the most ancient families is the kingdom (Stapylton of Myton) scandalised. With regard to the connexion between the Stapp - tons of Carleton and the S•apyltone of M 1 tm, which your paragraph seems anxious to repadiate, the mat ter is quite clear. Sir Nichtens Stapylton, was seised, about the year 1300, in right of his wife, of the lordship of Carle ton, county of York. He was succeeded by his son, Sir Miles Stapylton, of Carleton. who was summoned to parliament as a berm in 1312. Sir Miles was BlM cceica by Sir Gilbert Stapylton ; then by Sir Brian Stapyltoi, who had (10.1 sons—Sir Brian, the ancestor of the Stapyltons of Carleton, now represented by Lord Beaumont; and Sir Miles Stapylton, the an cestor of the Stapyltocs of Myton, now solely repre sented by the children of my late uncle, of my father, and his younger brother. I trust that you will take an early opportunity of correcting the very painful mistake int, which, I have no doubt, you have inadvertently fallen. I am, &c., C. It. BREE. Stowmarket, March 24, 1849. BRITISH AMERICAN LAND COMPANY. Yesterday the annusl meeting of this company wan held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgste-street, for nceiving the report of the directors, and on other business. Aux. ciittasrla, Esq., the governor of the company, having taken the chair, the SIICHIITART reed the report of the directors, from which we make the following extracts : " The commissioner's estimate of income, at the com mencement of the year, from mortgage debts, timber, and rents, was 6,0001.; the actual receipts from these sources have been es follow: Mortgage debt, 4,8021. 111. 10d. timber, 1731. 81.; rents, 4971. 12a. Id.-5,4731. 111. Ild.; The sales on credit allow an increase of 11,50131 acres, amount, 15,6731 7s. 7d. over the past year: The total quantity mold being 25,9181 sere. for £14,828 1 7 And in the town of Sbtrbrooke 3 aeree for Showing an amount of 25,9211 scree for £13,697 12 6 And the average price The average rim of the lands sold, as stated in the last report, was 13'. Id per sere; the diminution in the price obtained arises from the bulk of the sales effected being of the unim proved lands in Rotten, at 10s., and in Orford, at 7e. 6d. per acre, in pursuance of an agreement entered into with the French Canadian Amodation. The expenditure within the year exclusive of the payment of 1,4191. 155:10d. on account of the railway, amounts to 8,0751.16 e. 6d., including 1,9111. 185. 2d. for management. Of this sum, it will be observed, th charges for management, &e., only amount to 1,9441. 18s. 2d., the remaii.der having been required for in vestments approved by the Court of Proprietors, and deemed menial for the ultimate prosperity of the company. The expenditure has been generally confined to thous townships where the bulk of the sales have taken place, an-1 which would not otherwise have been effected; the total expenditure for the year on the real estate, comprising 606,273 acres, being 1,3681. 125. 15., fully one-half of which has been made b credits on land. Thirty miles of the St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad are now in actual ope ration, and trains run twice a day to St. Hyacinthe, which is within 16 miles of Acton, where the company's territory commences, and is one-third of the entire distance from Montreal to Sherbrooke. The eOllll any's investment in this undertaking stand, thus: —Stock subscribed for, 2.5,0001. ; paid thereon, 15,0001. After much anxious consideration, the directors have arrived at the conclusion that no benefit could be desired by for bearing any longer to make a call sufficient to complete the payments. In their last report the directors Mated their in tention of calling 21. per share, bat intimated that a sum of about 6,0001. would still remain due, which they then enter tained some hope might be provideefrom the Canadian rc souries; in this, however, they have been disappointed, and fedi , that nothing but disadvantage could ante front re- I have also a letter from Mr. William Fenton, who :ling that nothing but 5u...... ~, is a banker in Rochdale, the son of Mr. Fenton, who maining in debt, they deemed it expedient to extend the amount shave per share, in two instalments of 301. ; for several years represented the borough in pulls- but they the confident expectation that this will be et the ment. Mr. W. Fenton, like Mr. Chadwick, is a under .. last cell that, any circumstances, will ever be made on county magistrate, and I give an extract from Ma the proprietors. The directors who go out by rotation are, letter: Alexander Gillespie, Esq.. the Governor, Russell Ellice, BANK, Rochdale, Much 24, 1849. Esq., Thomas Poynder, Eq., James B. Elio, Esq., and My dem Sir.—l am very unwilling to stir up the embers Robert Carter, Esq., auditor, who, being eligible, offer them of as old party contest, which I bad hoped, except selves for re-election." as a matter of history, bad been forgotten with the The CHAIRMAN, after replying satisfactorily to some shags of anta gon ism which it earl,. 4 in the taws ; questions as to the acconnts,moved the adoption of the report. yet at I hays been requested to state what I mewl- Mr. CLARKE asked in whet position they stood as m int of the truth of the at egstioss made by you in the house girded the call. sa Mr. Trelawny's motion. I have much pleasure in bearing The CHAIRMAN Boldest 4,000 shares bad been already my testimony to the general accuracy of your statement, paid upon, leaving about 1,200 in armee in this country, be dsits, impugned by Dr. Molesworth in the Times. At this sides 600 or 700 shun which were in the course of payment distance of time, I cannot say whether Dr. Moleswortb in Canada. was hooted by ten, or five, or three thousand, but es to the Mr. SANDERS hoped the director' would see that those hatbf the hooting I have no doubt whatever. in default were made liable to the payment of interest, which I remain, my dear sir, very truly, yours, was only just to those who had paid up to promptly. (Hear.) J. Bright, Eq., M.P. I have also received a letter signed by a number of Wirimaiia Fitterore. The CHAIRMAN said the direcun would certainly do to the re respectable inhabitants of Rochdale, from which I W m I ibili of the shareholders, it was understood when this that in justice to the rest of the proprietors. As extract the following : 25 0001., in the Tenser company, that the assets of this con- Wecourtby a vote took a number °taboret, to the extent of have seen with surprise that the vicar of this parish has published a letter denying the truth of your statement in did should be responsible for that amoun t . T h e di r e ctors did expect the funds would have been forthcoming front the the H , use of C 013160121, with regard to the events which oc other side, so as to have prevented this tall being made en cured in this town during the church rate contest in the the proprietors, from the value of the land, timber, &c. to be yesr 1840. We can bear witness to the truth of you state- taken by the railway company, hut the state of the money market having been so depressed, the progress there had been meat. The troops were called out, mod unneceicarily a s we believe. The vicar did proceed through t he town retarded. The directors bad, however, the pleasure of saying on his we. to the vicarage attended. IT an katmense, that this would no doubt be the last call ever made on the crowd, 1661 such was his IllpOpULSl6 suc hl, and prapr i ewn . ( R ear , h ear. ) i pa rt, the report was adopted =smi ths abhorrence manifested of his conduct in pro ' After some discussion , in which Mr. Anderton, Mr. m bia t a ng an a i n h d oo p te resi d in ding a 20 01r in er ,e t r he tha eo t contest, that h th av a e t behene mostW White, and others took p gamey. humiliating to himself and most painful to his hinds. As Mr. J. J. CUMMINS (deputy governor) drew attention your townsmen, end well acquainted with the frantic*" to the improved condition of thhi company. They had now an amount nut at interest on real proprrsy of 70,9001. They had also 600,000 acre. of land, which were in the way of you felt it your duty to make in the Home of Commons. very rapid settlement. With three facts before them, and Amongst the signatures attached to this letter are the prospect of the completion of the rail t .f -sti th o i tr iri nt er t t f lff, truth maily oyfeanthe"vety wee f u te tul lb° sta un te d m to en blar t which wir way so contiguously the following to their property, ho trusted this lost =ll of V. would be 0. Ormond, leather-dealer ; T. Ashworth, manufacturer ; unanimously met by the proprietors. Om. Mansell, draper ; J. Petrie, jun. ; ironmonger; Charles The directors who retired by ro'ation were Alexander IParry; Joseph Sugden, leather dealer' Thomas Turner ; Gillespie, Esq., (the governor) Russell Ellice, Es q., Thomas Thomas Robinson, timber - merchant; J. Wood, ir,vidon Poynder, Etq. and James B. BIM,. E.q., who were re dealer ; James Gibson, dyer ; &e. elected unamm'ously. ~.c..--4-7r,, 1 i ~..—,,-.. f4 6 ,4p _. . . 4 'A t irr til 3 - -' - ' ' iii ' , I,' .-% t~ i