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MORNING EDITION THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 21, 1841. TO BE HAD AT ALL THE LIBRARIES. POPULAR NEW NOVELS, JUST PUBLISHED BY MR. COLBURN. THE LOVE MATCH. By MRS. MABERLY, Autho ress of " Emily." 3 vols. THE TRUSTEE. B y the Author of the Tragedy of " The Provost of Bruges . ' 3 vols. DE CLIFFORD; OR, THE CONSTANT MAN. By R. PLUMER WARD, ESQ., Author of "Tremaine," " De Vere,"&c. 4 vols. JOAN OF ARC, THE DI AID OF ORLEANS. AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE. 3 vols. THE MARRIAGE MART, OR SOCIETY IN INDIA. Tly AN INDIAN OFFICER. 2 vols. The ENGAGEMENT. A NOVEL. 3 vols. LOVE AND WAR; OR, THE ROMANCE OF MILI TARY LIFE. By Capt. EDWARD QUILLINAN. 3 vols. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. 13, Great Marlborough-street. MR. COLBURNS NEW PUBLICA TIONS. The IDLER in FRANCE. By the Countess of BLESSING TON. 2 vo!s. Bvo. The Hcn. Mrs. DAMER'S DIARY of HER TRAVELS. 2 vols. email tkvo., with numerous illustrations. The LIFE of PETRARCH. 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Now ready, and to be had at all the Libraries, in 3 vole. post Bve., THE LOVEa AND THE HUSBAND; AND THE WOMAN OF A CERTAIN AGE. Edited by Mrs. GORE. Author of " Mothers and Daughters," " The Dowager," " Mrs. Armiti . ge," - &c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. 8, New Burlington-street. VIR BENTLEY has JUST PUBLISHED the following NEW WORKS I. The HISTORY of DUELLINGJ comprising Narra tives of the most remarkable Personal Encounters, from the Earliest Period to the Present Times. By Dr. HILLEN GEN, Author of " Curiosities of Medical Experience," &c. In 2 vols. Bvo. H. MEMOIRS of the RIGHT HON. WARREN HAS TINGS, late Gorernor-General of India. Including hii Jour lals and Letters. By the Rev. G. It GLEIG, Author of The Life of Sir Thomas Munro," &e. In 3 vols. Bvo., with Portraits. 111. BELGIUM. By J. EMERSON TENNENT, Esq., RI. P., Author of " Letters from the JEgean 9 " " History of Modern Greece," &a. In 2 vols. post Bvo. , with Illustrations. IV. MEMOIRS of the COLMAN FAMILY. 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(JUNIOR). • On Tuesday next (•t.l June) is A GENERAL MEET.. ING—iu reference to a " motion" of the UNDERSIGN'D namely—the election of a Trustee—to prevent the repetition of a fraude—as in the hitherto transfer of " Club-monies, alias Income, with enterest on 12,0001." at the Bank of England by certain parties, under a false name " A MAN OF STRAW" as —invalidating all claim—in case of Bankruptcy as creditors. This election being a point-blank " to bar" the giveing away of the subscribers'-money to servants, etc., without a general sanction as illegally done in 1833, namely—raising the Gene ral " SECRETARY'S wages at' that period from 3001. to 400/. with client-like attempt " behind the scenes" this year by an extra " side wind" grant of 501. per annum. The Bankers-factional "wish being father to the thought" as a good coverlid sanction (under " pack'd meeting of clients") for an wgis to former impropriety : the majority of the mem bers being out of town. CHARLES ACKERLEY. Author of the Vital air Lamp" relief for allaying all in flamation in the Blood arising from " morbid action" as in the Teeth, and bilious head-ache. 5, Swallow-street, Quadrant. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Splendid success.—Fourth Week of the first Vocalists in the Kingdom. The New Opera, " A Queen for a Day," and " La Sonnambula," on alternate nights, supported by Miss Romer. Mr. Wilson, Mr. Leffler, a powerful Band, and an extra Chorus, conducted by Mr. G. Stansbury. THIS EVENING, JUNE 21, Will be acted Bellini's Grand Opera, LA SONNAMBULA. Amino., Miss Romer; Lisa, Mrs. Serie ; Rodolpho, Mr. Leffler ; Elvino, Mr. Wilson. After which, THE . QUAKER. Steady by Mr. Leffler. To conclude with, YOUNG LOCHINVAR; OR THE BRIDE OF THE GRAVE. Lochinvar, Mr. N. T. flicks. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. The p.-eatest wonder of the present age is Mr. J. TI. AN vz:tzsoN, the GREAT WIZARD of the NORTH. now nightly performirg at the above 't heatre hi; wond er f u l an d incresable fees of Tat and Oc,sultomarv. As a proof of the ris.n,l reput,tion and renown of this tlistinntished anti no t-to-be-equaltei tl . e Theatre - is nightly crowded by ASTONISHED AND IJEIIGIITED AUDI ENCES. comprising the elite of Scienct., Literature, and Fa:hion, i and around the 3letropols. To attempt to enu merate or descant on the wond , r-tirorkings of this unparalleled artiste would be useless—they must be sern to be believed, r.nd when seen, must be pronounced the ne pl us u l tra o f a ll that is astonishing, delightful, and rati ona l. Th e var i ous de lusions performed by THE GREAT WIZARD OF THE NORTH are entirely different from those which gained hint such immense patronage at the Strand Theatr e some ti me b ac k , which even at that time wereere universally allowed to be without parallel. The incredibilities .he now enacts ar e th e resu l t of many years' research, indefatigable study, and perseverance, to say nothing of his magnificent display of solid silver apparatus, forming a tout ensemble at once unique and elegant, an d a l one w orthy the public attention and admiration. Strangers at present sojourning in the Metropolis , sho u ld not neglect visiting the Adelplu Theatre —the Temple of the Magi —the cheapest and grea test treat in London. Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; Pit , Is . 6d. ; Gallery, 6d. Half-p r i ce a t Nine o'clock. Private boxes, to contain six, 1/. 5 5 . Th e Box-office is open daily from 11 to 4. Parties desirous of se curing places are requested to apply as early as convenient. Carriages at a quarter past Ten. ROY ----- AL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS UNDER HER MAJESTY'S ESPECIAL PATRONAGE. PROMENADES MUSICALES ET CHAMPETRES, by the unrivalled Band of Wind Instruments, The ILLUMINATION of ST. PETER'S and Superb GIRANDOLA of ST. ANGELO, EVERY MONDAY, TUESDAY. AND THURSDAY. The Promenade Musicale will include Berlioz' Overture "The Inquisition"—a new Quadrille, composed for the occa sion, " The Court of Flora"—Jullien's celebrated " Nightin gale Waltz," with Piccolo Obligato by M aster Hall—Grand Selection from " Maria Stuart" and " Oberon"—" Les Cent Suisses" Quadrille—Overtures to "Die Zaubertlote" and " Za netta"---and Handel's Grand " Firework Symphony." Open at Ten. Concert at Six. Girandola at Dusk. Admission One Shiiling. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. minutes after 3 I Evening ......t.6 minutes after 3 LONDON: MONDAY, JUNE 21, 1841. Certainly the bread-taxers are the most impu dent of robbers. Other plunderers try to make their victims believe that they have taken little or nothing from them the bread-taxers delight in magnifying their booty. The great object of some dozen of pamphlets and hand-bills they have recently put forth, is actually to vaunt of very. They make it 'out could be sold in England •a profit to the eent.; after paying all If it be so, then, instead a tax of 10s. per guar .tee, on the consumer of eY levy a tax of douhl- Tory Sc have asserted, and even said in the House of Lords, that wheat from the North of Europe may be imported into England at 30s. per quarter. If the Anti-Corn-law people were to make such statements with a view to exaggerate the wrong which the landlords of England inflict on the suffering and starving people, we could comprehend their object, but for the landlords and their partisans so to exag gerate, implies either boundless impudence or boundless fatuity. The lower the price at which corn can be purchased abroad and-brought into England, the greater is the amount of plunder obtained by the landlords in keeping it out ; and the greater the abundance of foreign corn which we can obtain, the greater is the injury which the landowners inflict on the starving people. For our parts we laugh to scorn all these cal culations. We do not doubt that in a particular year a single ship load of wheat may have been bought at Odessa or Dantzic at such a price, that it could have been brought to England, and sold here at a profit, for 355. per quarter. But to make a law on the single contingency of one such case, implies that the seasons are always abundant, and suffer no variation in other countries, whatever may be the case in England. On the contrary, only last year, or the year be fore, such was the scarcity of corn in Russia, that exportation was prohibited, and none could be obtained from it at any price. Three years have not yet elapsed since corn or flour was sent from England to the United States, where, on the average, we believe, it is grown at a much less cost, by free labourers, than by the serfs in Russia. The attempt to frighten the starving people from demanding and obtaining justice by such contemptible statements as these n•ill injure and deceive nobody but the silly men who rely on them for success. If those who make them were acquainted with the A B C of political economy, they would lay down their pens. Corn is an article of manufac ture, depending mainly for its production on labour and skill, like cotton cloth on steam-engines. It follows, as a matter of course, that, like other manufactures, it will be produced at a less costin countries where skill and industry are great than where they are little, at a less cost therefore in England than Podolia, and at less cost in England than the United States. We say at a less cost, meaning a less quantity of labour, not a less money price, because the money price is determined partly by a law passed to keep it very high. In fact, with the exception of labour and skill, there is no other element to be considered, and he must be little acquainted with the condition of this and other countries who doubts that labour is more skilful in England than in almost any part of the globe, and consequently is more productive, or the cost of all which it produces is less. Some persons think fertility of soil an ele ment; but what constitutes fertility no per son knows, d it is no more an element of cost th a s unshine or rain. All are equally th e free gifts of a benevolent GOD. Labour is the sole element of cost, and it is invariably productive, not in proportion as the soil is fertile, but as the labourer has ac quired knowledge and skill. The valleys of the Mississippi and the plains of New Holland were just as fertile when they were inhabited, the former only by Red Indians and the latter only by prowling savages, as at present. Then, how ever, they produced nothing but lofty trees, tangled grass, or scrubby brush-wood, and now they teem with a great abundance of good cattle and flocks. What has made the vast and blessed difference ? The labour of skilful men. It is that turning knowledge of soils and cultivation to ac count which has, as it were, filled the two coun tries with all the means of subsistence. Now it does not admit of one moment's doubt that the cost of producing all the present abun dance of food which prevails in the United States and New Holland, is much less than was the cost of producing the wretched subsistence of the red mea or the prowling savages. A whole day's labour scarcely suffices to obtain a single meal for the savagc,while the skilful labourer in the United States, in New Holland, or in Eng land, by a day's labour not only feeds himself, but feeds a considerable number of persons who produce nothing whatever. But the same prin ciple, in degree, applies to. all countries less peopled and less civilized than Britain, and more peopled and more civilized than were the present United States and New Holland three centuries ago. In all countries, and at all times, fertility is no element of cost, any more than sunshine or rain; and in all countries at all times the cost of subsistence will be less, as the inhabitants are most ad vanced in knowledge and skill. Where the people know, as in Mexico, how to scratch the ground, and sow maize, a favourable season yields them an abundant harvest, but in a bad season they get little or nothing. Between the most abundant and the least abundant seasons in England there is no such difference as is ob served in the produce of Mexico. The skill of civilized man, therefore, whatever may be the presumed fertility of a soil, will, moresurely than that, give him an average abundance of food. We extend these general principles to all coun tries, and affirm that, on an average of years, wheat is grown at a less cost than in any of the countries in which it is sold for a much less money price than in England. We will not now advert to all the causes of the much higher money price in England than in other countries, but they may all be explained without supposing that it costs more to grow wheat in civilized England than in half-barbarous Podolia. Some persons affirm, for example, that as coun tries become peopled and civilized all things be come dearer, and therefore they say the pr, - sent high monied price of food in England is a natural and necessary effect of our civiliza tion and the multiplication of our people. But what do such reasoners say to the price of all kinds of cotton manufactures, which has fallen in proportion from 10s. to ls., within the memory of man ? What do they say to the price of all kinds of hardware, of all kinds of silk goods, of all kinds of groceries, not subject to a monopoly —to teas and coffees, to every thing which is brought from abroad, most of which, as every body, we believe, knows, but the Corn-law advocates, have Jaen in cost amazingly within the last century? Corn ap pears not to have fallen, because they have fallen so much more ; but corn itself has fallen in cost price. So far from civilization and the multiplication of people havinc, a tendency to raise the cost o f production, they have the con traryeh th e l tendency; atvu.i a l n n d o t al o lt l i v il nugss, to e h x a c v e e p a t t a fo l o o d w , price, cost less and less as the increase of people promotes knowledge and civilization. Even the money p r i ce o f food is followi ng th e reduction which takes place in the cost of pro ducing it. Thus the average price of 1815 to 1818 was somewhere about 80s., and the average price latterly has not been above Vs. The law cannot keep up the price, because everywhere, iu England as in the United States and in Po dolia, as the people acquire skill the cost of growing corn becomes less. That England is not an exception to the general rule that cost diminishes with civilization is evident from the fact that in England a much larger number of persons in proportion to the whole population is maintained in ease and opulence than in any other known country of the globe. That itself is a proof that food ac tually costs less labour to obtain it in England than in Podolia, though our barbarous laws, framed in the very spirit of hostility to the pro grets of society, striving as too many laws do to put constraints on society, and make it something different from what nature dictates, prevent a gret number of the people from obtaining- food at almost any price. That it naturally - costs less to obtain food in England than. in any other country, and that at the same time it is both dear and scarce, is the condemnation of the lawmaker. If' great injury w•uild rt.::111t from abolishing our barbarous law as to food, though we think that amazingly overrated by those whose fears are the parents of their worth, that is an additional proof of his folly or his guilt, in having made such a law. Go on under it we cannot, and to throw it off, though infinitely the lesser evil of the two, is still a great evil which he has inflicted on society. The coalition of the IVlonopolists is perfect and avowed. Their intention, also, to continue to levy taxes on the public, which do not go into the Exchequer, is plainly stated. A meeting of the General Shipowners' Society was held on Friday last, one HENRY BUCKLE in the chair, supported by Messrs. G. R. ROBINSON, GEORGE R YOUNG, GEORGE PALMER, M.P., Alderman THOMPSON, M.P., A. CHAPMAN, M.P., G. POWLES, &c., all Esquires, at which meeting a Report was read from the Committee, contain ing amongst others the following passage : Long experience has taught your Committee how in effectual must be the exertions of any separate interest, when placed in array against popular theories, backed by political influence, and official power. In such struggles it is evident, that from combination alone can success be hoped for ; but, unfortunately, placed, as it has constantly been, in the forefront of the battle in defence of the protective principle, it has been rarely that the shipping interest has been able to excite the sympathy, or engage the co-operation, of the other great interests, notwithstanding the prosperity of those interests has been admitted to be involved equally with that of navigation in the maintenance of a just protection. In the present instance, however, the can dour or the incaution of the assailants of the principle, leading them to include in their purposed legislation a direct withdrawal of protection from the agricultural and colonial interests, an obvious and pressing motive for union at once presented itself. Availing themselves of this advantage, your Committee felt it a duty not to be deterred by any apprehension of the misrepresentations to which such a step might expose them, from tendering to the West India body, the Agricultural Association, and the Colonial Society, in conjunction with their col leagues of the British North American Colonial Associa tion, every assistance in their power in maintenance of a cause which the nature of the Ministerial propOsitions had rendered common to all. The offer thus made «•es promptly responded to, and a cordial communiedtion with those influential bodies was in consequence at Once esta blished. . It did appear to them that while insisting on protection for themselves in the carrying trade of timber and sugar, it would have been inconsistent and unjust to have se parated themselves from the agriculturists, who were ex pressly connected with them in the very measure they were called on to oppose. It did seem ti them, that im portant as is the support of that powerful interest for the maintenance in the legislature of protection to na vigation, they would have compromised every principle of duty, if they had hazarded the loss of the future assistance of that interest by a selfish isolation in the hour of common peril. They are not unaware that there are ship-owners who look to the extension of the carrying trade by the free introduction of foreign corn. But, apart from the probability that, under such a system, accompanied, as it must be, by further changes in our navigation laws, the greater portion of such im portation would eventually fall into the Sands of the cheaply built and cheaply navigated shipping of foreign nations, your committee appeal with confidence to the great body of ship-owners, whether they would ad vocate a course which would justly affix to them the cha racter of grasping monopolists ; eager to promote their own gains by the maintenance of a principle which applied to others, they are equally ready to subvert ; and whether they can sincerely believe that, if such a course were either manly or honourable, it could by possibility prove in the long run successful. Satisfied that it must have resulted in the failure and disgrace it would have deserved, your Committee felt at once that it was in compatible with their honour or with the permanent in terests of ship-owners ; and they have acted On their convictions by making common cause with other im portant interests in the great struggle for the protective principle justly applied, which has only now commenced. The Report was adopted by the general body of shipowners, who have thus entered into a league against their fellow-countrymen. There have been many laws made against workmen combining, but we are afraid that no law has ever been directed against the unprincipled com bination of these several great bodies mutually to plunder the people by legislation. The shipowners appear to us to he inexcusable, for they admit that the ground of their apprehension is that foreign ships are cheaper built and cheaper navigated than English ships ; but they are so cheaper built and navigated in consequence solely of our Timber and Corn-laws, and thus the shipowners obviously sacrifice the maritime interest of the community to their pre sent advantage. They will allow the English shipping to be dearly navigated arid dearly built, to the certain diminution of its utility and employment, if they be not dis turbed in their present monopoly of bringing timber from Canada. Those who know the ship owners will probably not be surprised at their conduct. The men who patiently allowed impressment to be continued during the war without remonstrance, and, it is said, even encouraged it, in order to keep the seamen more dependent and subservient—the shipowners who never threw the shield of their wealth and power around the brave men who in their service encountered all kinds of hardships, and exposed themselves to every clime, cannot be susceptible of patriotic feeling. Such men as Alderman THOMPSON, Mr. G. ROBINSON, and the other Esquires, can have no sympathy either with their seamen or their suffering countrymen, and it is only natural that they should combine with similar selfish men to preserve that protection which is another name for legal robbery. The, provincial papers are all full of election addresses and election proceedings. We are happy to see that the spirit displayed in the City of London has had a good effect throughout the country, and many places are rallying which mere politicians gave up for lost. There is even a stir in East Sussex, according to the Brighton Herald, and a longing for a Liberal candidate, though Mr. CAVENDISH has so cruelly betrayed and deserted his friends. One of the best signs that we behold is the una nimity of the working-classes in opposing the Monopolists. The non-electors are everywhere bestirring themselves, and taking measures to make known their wishes to the electors. In Manchester, Wigan, Kendal, as well as at Bath, and Liverpool, they have taken a lively interest in the good cause. We do not despair, there fore, of succeeding quietly through the means of Parliament. We trust that such will be the case, for it will be a fatal day for England when' a House of Commons shall be again con stituted to maintain by a majority the laws which ordain plunder and starvation. In the miscellaneous columns of a well-con ducted newspaper there is that principle of order observed which assigns to whatever appears in it not only its place but its character. Politics are never jumbled up with the Court Circular, nor is an unpopular actor ever attacked under the head " Shipping Intelligence." Those readers of newspapers who care more to hear about the gossip of the Jockey-club, the newest fashion, the last new novel; or the price of Stocks, than about Corn-laws and electioneering, have only to turn to their respective departments in their favourite journal to find the information they seek, undiluted with the offscourings of rabid party spirit. To this general rule the Times is an exception. Under the head " Money Mar ket" in that paper of Saturday, commercial readers are treated to a long tirade about the prospects of metropolitan Toryism at the ensu ing election, in which there does not happen to be one syllable of truth. Now we are not unpre pared for political lying in the Times, but we do object to meet with it in the City article of that or any other news paper. If the commercial readers of the Times want to learn any falsehoods about Lord JOHN RUSSELL and the Whigs, they have only to turn to its editorial columns to ;obtain a surfeit of them. Besides, the writer of the City article in the Times is a clumsy hand at the management of a wholesale falsehood. He has none of the editorial tact in tricking out a lie with here and there a shred of truth. Having fabricates a story as im probab!e as notoriously untrue, he drags it in neck and shoulders, and, presenting it to the public in its naked: deformity, gravely invites them to receive it as an absolute fact. His base coln.wearsthe impress of nothing calculated to obtain for it a - temporary currency. The brass which he offers for gold is not even gilded with that precious metal. He tells us that th e Con scrvati ',vs of the Ci Lv of London, " the more they reflect the more truly pitiable do they consider the position of Lord JOHN RUSSELL in coming fol.. ward as a candidate ;" and yet he knows right well that there is not a Conservative elector in the City of London who entertains the shadow of a doubt of Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S triumphant re turn to Parliament for the metropolis. To what purport, then, are such lies, save to cast dis grace upon the public press, and ta create doubts of the authenticity of commercial intel ligence? They cannot possibly minister to any clever party purpose, much less to any just or useful one. Now, to mix up every department of a newspaper with the politics of the day is to debase the character and greatly to abridge the utility of the public press. This is what the Times is labouring to effect, but as yet it has found no imitators among our Contemporaries. It stands alone in baseness and apostasy. An Extraordinary Express from Paris has brouglit the following intelligence of Friday's date from that Capital : PAtats, Jusrs 18.—There is nothing of the slightest interest to communicate to-day. In the Chamber of Peers the dis cu,sion on the budjet des dcpenses terminated this day, and they are at this moment proceeding to the division on the whole bill. The funds continue depressed, in the absence of any information respecting the new loan. MADRID, Ju NE l.—ln consequence of despatchPs received last night from Pails, a Council of alicisters was held. It is. said they contain the conditions upon which Queen Christina consents to relinquish the guardianship of her children, but which the Government does not feel justified in accepting. It is thought the question will be brought before the Cortes about the 15th. The Minister of Finance was much engaged with the pressing Alm made by the British Ambassador for the 5,000,000 reels due to the Legion. Very little doing at the Bourse ; not a bargain for cash, but 20i to 27i at various dates. At Barcelona on the Ilth the most perfect tranquillity pre vailed. The municipality had addressed a suitah:e proe:arna tion to the working classes. CANDI..., JUNE 4.—Letters of the Ist and 4th announce that the Candians bad expe , ienced a serious reverse, and that in consequence the most influential chiefs amongst the emigrants in the island had addressed to the British and French Consuls a request for an interview with Tahir Pacha and Mustapha Pacha, on board either of the fleets, for the purpose of coming to an understanding. The Consuls applied in vain for this in terview ; but yielding to their solicita ions, they obtained per mission to leave the island by the'ships of those Powers. The emigrants ask for a delay of 10 days to deliberate, but which the Turkish commanders refused. Such was the state of things on the 4th. It was thought this wretched state of affairs was drawing to a close. The little activity cli•played by the Turks in their preparations for attack would gain foe them the 10 days asked for. Accounts from Constantinople, dated the 27th ult., state that the hatti-scheriff would be forwarded to Alexandria on the 31st of May. _ _ The Paris Journals of Thursday contain no news of any interest to an English reader. The Constitutionnel contends that the British Go, verument having failed by diplomacy to cause the Spanish Ministry to conclude a commercial Treaty with this country, now tries the effect of smuggling upon a large scale. This is - a falsehood so notorious that it would be a waste• of words to refute it in more than a sentence. The British Government is no more responsible for the conduct of our merchants, than is the President of the French Council. It is not to be supposed indeed that the Bri tish Government will take any very active part in the suppression of a contraband trade on the coasts of Spain, which, if successful, must open an extensive market to English merchandise, and it is not improbable that more is expected from this annoyance to the Spanish Govern ment towards bringing about a commercial Treaty, than from any attempt to convince the rulers of. Spain that it would gain more by such g Treaty than from a system of prohibition and exclusion, which the Constitutionnel admits to be imperfect, inasmuch as the accomplices of the smugglers are the %firy persons whose office it is to drive them away. The Constitu tionnel, far from approving of the prohibitive and re strictive systems in Spain as a general principle; com plains of it as an offence • against Europe at large,, and calls upon the Regent for a modification of the tariff on all things, excepting, of course, British goods, for these, says the Constitutionnel, come in direct competition with the manufactures of Spain. Our Contemporary forgets that, in the present state of Spain, the extension of in dustry is a very doubtful thing, for it is only in coun tries where there is perfect protection for capital and manufacturing enterprise, that the one is invested and the other developed. Until the pacifica tion of Spain shall be complete, and confidence in the honesty and stability of its government be estab lished all the prohibitive tariffs that the Cortes can enact, and all the coast-guard that can be raised, even suppoS ing it to be as faithful in the performance of its dutieS as it is the reverse, will not suffice to prevent smuggling, and every attempt to foster native industry will be vain. It is a mistake also to suppose that Spain can ever be made a manufacturing country, to such an extent as to render it prudent to exclude the manufactures Of other States. Her wealth is in her soil, by the proper culti vation of which she may carry on an extensive ex change. The Constitutionnel mentions as one of the ob jectionable items of the Spanish tariffs the enormous duty on French books, which are the only foreign books, it says, read in Spain. This sympathy for the book trade in France is very natural ; but if English books were the only foreign works read in Spain, would not the argument against the prohibitive duty on them be just as strong ; and if it happens that English hardware and cotton goods enjoy as exclusive a preference among Spaniards as French books, may not the English com plain as justly of their exclusion, as the Constitutionnel does of the excluSion of French books? The Commerce says :—" It is confirmed that the Austrian Government has contracted a loan of five per cent., and it is said to be at par. The holders of French five per cents made large sales yesterday in order to buy into the new stock." The Gazette de France of this evening asks some questions of the Government, to which probably no an , w( r will be given. The facts which that paper mentions strike the eyes of eversbody, but it states them precisely, and on that account it cannot but be useful to repeat the article. " All the troops which are in the first military division, ca valry, infan'ry, and artillery, are constituted and orpnised as a corps dame, with a staff, paid as in times of war, as it would be on the frontier in the presence of the enemy. "'there are 70,000 men of all arms, a park of 42 field pieces, forming 7 batteries in the advance of Versailles, besides the 100 pieces of cannon at Vincennes, and those of the military school. " There is a Staff composed of a General-in-Chief (General Schneider) with Generals of divisions and Brigadier-Generals under him, for the cavalry and infantry, to say nothing of the swarm of officers of every grade attached to the extraordinary service. " On what pretext has this organiation been made when there is at Paris a General to command the military division, besides a General of division instead of a Major-General to command the department of the Seine, when in all the chief towns of the adjacent departments.there are Major-Generals to command the troops, and to superintend the military police? "Since 1789 there has never been round Paris an army orga nized on the war establishment, independently of the Com mender, in all the departments. How does it happen that so enormous a fact has not been pointed out in the Chambers, when the expenses resulting from it make it necessary to burden the people to a degree which calls forth protests in all parts of France a;ainst demands for money, bemuse the people are unable to satisfy them? " In England, when a Judge goes to a county to hold the assizes all tee troops are withdrawn to a distance of 36 miles, that the law may be unimpeded in its course. At London there are never more than two regiments as the Queen's guards, and at Paris, the seat of the Parliamentary Govern ment and discussions, there are 70,000 men, organised on the war establishment."—Le commerce. the English and American news. No news in them respecting the President steamer, with the exception of the rumours in our English papers concerning the above vessel. We have also received the Demerara papers to May 6th : " Great complaints are made cf the inconvenience arising from the present 'condition of the currency of the Colony, to which it is earrestly hoped that the Court of Policy will apply some speedy remedy.—( These papers are also vcid of interest.) The Barbadoes papers, which we have received to the 9th of May, state that the great blessing which the country has re ceived is a plentiful rain, which fell in the greater part of the island on Thursday night and early yesterday morn ing. This delightful and most welcome weather has given new life and spirit to the agriculturists ; the labourers are very busy planting corn, peas, &c. The Swift packet deserves her name this voyage, having arrived on Thursday in twenty-six dais. We have received papers from the Northern Islands, none of which possess any interest. Bermuda papers have been received via St Thomas's of the 6th May. We collect nothing from them but that the Lieut. - Governor Reid h, d met the Colonial Parliament, and matters were going on smoothly. Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Harvey had arrived from Jamaica. ( From the Port of Spain Gazette.) His Lordship the Bishop of l3arbadces may, we understand, be expected to arrive here on Thursday or Friday next. His Lordsh . p intends to leave Barbadoes in a steamer. Our only arrivals of consequence this morning, are two mails from Jamaica. The latest dates are of the 15th May, pith papers of the same date, which are extremely barren of intelligence. The packet Swift brings a freight of 6,0001. in gold dust. The Colonial House of Assembly at Jamaica had been prorogued from May 18 to June 22. Those papers do not mention anything about the crops, or the working of the labourers. 'I his being Saturday, as usual the British Funds remain in a state of stagnation, as well as all eeseriptions of commercial affairs. Nothing is talked of at present in the City but the e!cc•i ns ; parties are busily engaged in canvassing both for the Whigs and Tories. The British Funds opened this mornin g as they left off yes terday, 89% to ; Reduced 89% %; lhree-and. a-Halt per Cents. Reduced 986 ; Exi.lequer Bills 5 7 prem ; Bank Stock, 167% 168%. Up to the present time there is nothing doing in the Foreign Market, and the prices are nominal as yet. Spanish Acti as they lest off, 21 22 ; Deferred, 10% ; Passive, 4/ 5%; Portuguese the same, 33%; Three per Cents., 19% 20; Brazi lian, 57 68 ; Colombian, 20% 21 ; Mexican, 26%'27% ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 52% ; Five per Cents. 99% 100. SHARES - Great Western, 24% 25% prem. ; New, 11% prem. ; London ai.d Brighton; 6h 6 ais. ; Blackwall, 7% 7 cis. ; Birmingham, 67 69 prem ; Southampton, 53% 54% per share ; Croydon, 13% per share. PRICES OF SHARES TIIIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Birmingham and Gloucester 100 ...... Ditto New Great Western Ditto New Ditto bias London and Brighton London and Birmingham ... 90 London, and South Western 3B; .. .. to Ditto Tenths Manchester and Leeds Ditto New Shares North Midland Ditto New Ditto Thirds York and North Alidland. . We cannot expect any further arrivals from New York for a week to come, of later dates than already received. The Great Wt stern leaves the above city this day, the 19th of June, and the Acadia, leaves Boston on the 16th inst., and Halifax on the 18th or 1911 i inst. The paeket-ship of the 7th inst. from New York, being a Failing vessel, is not yet due, and the date of her arrival is un certain. _ _ We have again to state that the British Funds remain in the same state as in the early part of the morning, firm and steady, but without any business doing. 'there was a report that Mr. Craivtord and Mr. Pattison had resigned, leaving the field to Lord J. Russell and Sir M. Wood; but up to the present time we do not hear anything official on the subject, and the report does not gain ground. There does not appear to have been any betting on the elections this morning in the House.. Consuls are at present the same as they opened, 89/ 4 for the Account; Reduced, 89/ 4 same;' Exchequer Bills, 75 7 prem. ; Bank Stock, nothing doing; India Stook for the opening, 248. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active continues heavy at 22 ; Brazilian, 67/ ; Colombian, 214 21 ; MeXican, 274 ; Portuguese, 33/. in shares scarcely anything doing :—Great Western, 91 ; New, 61/ ; Ditto, Fifths, 104 ; London and Brighton, 43/ ; Leaden and Birmingham, 157. It seems as though we were destined never to know the fate, .except by surmise, of the President steainer. The West India accounts received this morning reach to tha 16th of last month, and yet do not bring the-least item of intelligence respecting the discovery of any wreck or . fragment. The week which closes to-dly has not been one of much activity in the produce markets, and the prices realized also leave but little room for congratulation. As, however, the value of many leading staples is now comparatively low, it is ra• her expected that when freed from the trammels of the existing political excitement, attention will be attracted towards business again. From Liverpool and some of the Midland and Northern districts our accounts on the subject of manufactures are mare cheering. It is satisfactory to learn by accounts from Demerara, that Lord John Russell has approved of the Civil List as settled by Sir H. M'Leod. Consuls, b9h 8%; Mexican, 27 27i; Spanish , 22 22k. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock lndia Stock ' 3 per Cent Red B9A Ditto Bonds —par 3 per Cent Cons B9k Ditto Old Annuities ... 3; per Cent Red 9BA Ditto New Annuities... New 31 j per Cent - Ex. Bills, 1,000/....20 Bpm New 5 per Cent. — Ditto 5001 8 pm Long Annuities toexpire Ditto Small ll pm Jan. 1860 124 Batik Stock for Acct... Oct 1859 lndia Stock for 0pg....24S Jan. 1860. FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent Portuguese, 5 per cent. 58 Belgian, 5 per cent — !Ditto, New Ditto Brazilian 80nd5.......... Prussian, 5 per cent. Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent 'Russian, 5 per cent Chilian 6 per cent 'Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 per cent... I Spanish, 5 per cent 22 Ditto, 1824 ... ... Ditto, Deferred .. Danish, 3 per cent. French, 5 per cent.ll4f. 25c. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent. Exchange —f. e. Mexican, 5 per cent.... French, 3 per cent —f. —c Ditto, 6 per cent, 1625. ,Dutch, 2i per cent. ... Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent SHARES Birmingham and Gloucester Railvtav(loo p) Ditto New Shares (2i paid) ......... 21 Great Western Railway (65 paid) 9l Ditto. New Shares (00 paid _ 6 Ditto Fifth (4 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid). London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) 157 London and South Western Ditto Tenths (li paid) London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) l3l Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ...... ... Ditto New Shares (30 paid) Northern and Eastern (30 paid) North Midland llailway (100 paid) Ditto New Shares (40 paid) Ditto Thirds ( 5 paid) York and North Midland Railway (50 pd) 694 the exte I , ttt their robb igi ro ti ,..Sik-l• •., Podolia( 'i-'''' ° Y. - ---• p 4 1 uarter, .' l7fi llP9l'ter, of, 4 per c y, th la exPell§e4-al**att* •a. -• 1 ;,of i,-COrn-144'.. . tel, 1 411t1 1 rir:- lculat , 'wrfaootl, th ( -ertd4.moti F. \raii = i Eonie other Tory f,RTP b 4 i s Ut, 44 Aft l ;; ' 4F.'A Ems ` : - A s 134 K d ! , " " 0 • ' BOURSE—Pam, THURSDAY, JUNE 17. Bret Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Pricy Price hre..ch 5 ier Cents 4 per Cents O9 : 99 30 ta) PO .. 09 30 3 per Cent . cx. div 76 55 . 7 6 6J ... 76 55 ... 76 61 sank of r ranee Lanitte Bank 1.0001. S! aros 1(80 ...IrBo ...I(8) ...JOS) SAW - . Sr arcs 5185 ...5190 ...5 1 85 —.510 1 tia!glan Sank 5 per Cents. New Loan ..... 101% ... 1 1 , 4 ... 10i iol% DutehiS per Cents try per Cents. 53 ... 53 53 EtAILWAY SHARES. St Germain .... 690 ... 690 ... 690 ... 690 Ve.sailles,L.P ........... 195 ... 191 ... 192 50 ... 192 50 it. B ..... 330 ... 5W.50 ... 330 ... 3:2 50 'touen ......» «458 1 673 ... 458'75 ... 4 8 75 ... 453 75 487T50 ... 489 75 ... 487 50 ... 4FB 75 Ifulhausen to 427 50 ... 434 ... 427 50 434 St,..sautie Lo Bale 231 25 ....31 25 ... 230 ... v.ao Mr. Charles Buller, whose great talents are well known and admired, has accepted the place of Secretary of the Board of Control, in room of Lord Seymour, removed to the Home Office. Mr. Buller is one of the most dis tinguished speakers of the House of Commons ; he pos sesses great industry, and his connection with Lord Dur ham, as well as his votes in the House of Commons, guarantee that his views are sound and liberal. The ap pointment does equal credit both to the Government and Mr. C. Buller. THE BUG PARTV.—Since nothing breeds bugs like the bad American timber, the use of which is forced on us by the monopolists, what can so fitly designate the party as the filthy vermin which it takes under its special protection, and which, in its blood-sucking properties at least, it so closely resembles. Let every monopolist candidate, at the approaching election, 'be greeted with the cry of " No Bugs!" and if the bees of this our industrious hive of England do their duty, not even the Bug Talaver-man Peel—the great hum-bug himself—will be of sufficient potency to seat a " Bug" Ministry on the Treasury benches. _ - MONEY and COMMERCIAL NE WS. (From The Sun of Saturday Evening.) 'Ammo'. COTTON MARKET, JUNE 18.—There has been a lager attendan- e of the trade in our Cotton Market this week than for some time previously, notwithstanding the work imr. short time cowinues to be almost universally adopted, and although holders of all descriptionS have generally offered their stocks freely, prices have not at all given way. The demand to-day has been bri,k, and the Market closed steady. Specu lators have taken 2,000 bales American and 130 Surat, and ex porters 550 hates American and 250 bales Surat. LIVERPOOL SHARE Ala agrr, JUNE 18.—We have again to report an extremely lim ted business at the Stock Exchange, and no alteration has taken place in the prices. Grand Junc• tion, Half-shares, 101; Di t to, Quarter Shares, 25k; L-ncaster and Pre s t on Junction, 281/,. Lord Sandon and Mr. CI °smell visited th e Exch ange a n d Underwriters Rooms this afternoon ; they were enthusiastically applauded by the Conservatives. heavy_se arce i y 13oth candidates addressed the members. MaacirEsTEß STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 18.—Market very lb - h May. Great Western, 90b ; Ditto, former sailed Half Shares, 61; Loudon and Birmingham, 158 ; London anything doing : and Brighton, 43 ; North Midland 67 ; Bank of Manchester 6/. latter sailed from St. Thomas's, WELT IN DIES.— Two packet ships have arrived from Jamaica M a y 8, Hayti, May 12. this morning, by which we have received Jamaica papers to the The p ack e t s n oamreatsh,se, Asiwaiyftlasn,ditihayetiE, flay 19 ; The (From the Jamaica Papers. ) Si.AvErt WRECKED.—The Brig Troubadour, Spanish co- It';! -,,, with `..!-0 ,laves' on board, bound to I.lthi::;,>, Vi?! wiecled OH the 6th of February, on the Ca)eas lslandi, and all on board were saved, and arrived at :Nassau. The vessel 1 was totally log. The above papers are entirely filled with FLANDERS MAIL. BRUESELS, JUNE 17.—The average price of wheat last' week was 17f. 50c., and that of Rye 10f. 13c. per hectolitre. Emir Effendi, an officer of engineers of the Tur4ish army, is now at Brussels. The King and Queen will go to Ostend in the course of. next week. Baron Falck, the Dutch Ambassador, has returned from Maestricht, where he has been to present his re spects to King 'William IL, and to receive his orders. The palace given by the State to the Presumptive Heir of William 1., which has been unproductive ever since the revolution, is goin. , to yield a rent to the owner. The stables are already let to a Company who have converted them into a Pantechnic Bazaar. We learn that the main building i has been let to a Com pany who propose to convert t into a splendid casino, in which balls, concerts, banquets, &c., would be given, but the Company wishes to add a saloon fin.' gaming, and offers to give 21,000 francs annually to the poor of the city, A petition to this effect has been put into circulation, Which would have been unanimously ap proved of had it not been for the project of gambling. We doubt whetherour Magistrates Will allow this source of ruin in a capital where its effects would be much more disastrous to youth and to commerce than in any other place.—Enial.r . pator. Nothomb, the Minister of the Interior, is gone to Frankfort, where he will present to the German Diet his letter of recal, which puts an end to his mission as Plenipotentiary of Belgium to the Confederation. He will return to Brussels at the beginning ofJuly. King 'William arrived at Maastricht on the 14th, and was very well received by the inhabitants of the city and country. The town was illuminated in the evening. The next day the King gave audience to the authorities and to all the persons who presented themselves to speak to him. 'We are assured that he gave a very gracious reception to the Belgian Commissioners for determining the frontier line, and conversed a long time with Gene ral Pusse, the President of the Commission. BRUSSELS, JUNE 18.—The Royal Family is to go to Ostend on Monday. It is said that the King will go to London, and that at his return, after having visited the camp of Beverloo, his Majesty will go to Germany, and return to Belgium with his sister the Duchess of Kent. M. Bomsen, the Prussian Minister to the Swiss Con federation, arrived at Brussels yesterday evening from Berlin on his way to London. General Hamilton has also arrived here. VIENNA, JUNE 9.—Count Maltzahn, the Prussian Ambassador, set out yesterday for Silesia. It is said that M. V. Stroganoff will be appointed, pro tempore, Russian Ambassador at our Court, on the retirement of the present Ambassador. _ _ _ The Archbishop Palatine of Hungary has left Vienna to return to Ofen. PESTH, JUNE 6.—Late accounts from Kaschau say that the fire was not so considerable as the first reports stated, but still that the handsomest part of the city is destroyed. The number of houses burnt down is said to be 100 or 120, including. the Episcopal Palace. TURKISH FRONTIER, JUNE 3.—The last mail from Constantinople brings word that Count Pontois has as sured the Porte, and the representatives of the Four Powers, that the last despatches he has received from Egypt leave no doubt that Mehemet Ali will make no further opposition to the arrangement offered by the Porte. Lord Ponsenby, taught by long experience, is not inclined to give the slightest credit to this promise of Mehemet Ali; and therefore seems entirely to agree with the resolution of the Porte not to publish the new firmans till the receipt of further communications from London. A letter from a well-informed person mentions that the firmans cannot possibly be p ublished till an an . swer of the Conference is received to the note sent by the English courier, which le ft Constantino p le for L on-, don on the 26th of May, which answer can hardly reach Constantinople till the befrinning of July. ;:n.l - not v. - holly supprm:sed. .Nuinerous I bodies of t ans, partly provided with tire-arms, infest the country. Till they are dispersed or pacified in. some way or other, a fresh breaking out of the revolt is possible. AMSTERDAM, JUNE 17.—The seven herring-boats be longing to this city sailed yesterday : the whole fleet consists, this year, of 123 boats, each manned with 14 or 15 men. The Limburgh papers give a very long account of the visit of the King to Venloo, Ruremonde, ar.d Maestricht. His Majesty is everywhere received with the greatest joy by the inhabitants. On the 10th of this month his Majesty signed an ordinance by which it is decreed that the Members of the Municipal Council of Maestricht, who, in the year 1835, on account of the state of affairs at that time, were nominated by a Royal resolution, shall be subjected to a new election by that electoral college, and in case they should not be re-elected they are to be considered as honourably discharged. This resolution seems to have made a very favourable im pression at Maestricht. It is countersigned by the Minister Schemmel Penninck. ST. PETERSBURGII, JUNE B.—lt appears from a table in the Russian Commercial Journal, that in the course of last year the value of goods passed through nine Cus tom houses on the frontier of Russia and Poland was from Russia to Poland, 6,746,481 silver rabies, and from Poland to Russia, 4,196,695 silver rubles. DUTCH ill NDS.—AMSTECUAM, JUNE 13 Moues. Lil'a. Actual Lhbt, CIA per Cent Jitto, ditto 5 per cc:: t. Airmit Syndic, 4ii per cent Hy, 4014 Ditto, ditto, 354 per cent 7354 74 Commercial Company, 4 , , percent 1 ,2 I'3 Ditto (i 535 and 9 4 37) 5 per cent. Loan 1837, 5 per cent. 941% 97% Exchange on Londen, One month . 19. 974 Two months ....... 11 9734 Dutch Papers, Juno 19. tst:Ltil Al I.UNDS—fsausance, JUNE 18 actual Debt, 2.}y per Cent. ......... ........... 52 1 4 Roti.schild's Loan, 5 per Cent JUJU Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent.... ,----- 3 per Cent. --.. Thin y.seven---- -- - ...... 69% (14i)) lrby, Loan us Ott+. 1832, 4 per Cent. Bl% Society of Ct romorce, 454 per Cent 1 ,836 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ............ National Society . ... — Exchange on Londent (short) .—.Brussels Papers, June 18. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.-.VIENNA, JUNE I: t lye per ,6/41.3. ibletaliNtich , lO% Fotst per Cents. - . 1 41 Torre p.r Cents. Rank Shan, 1(52 • Aligerneine Zeirintg. June 15 COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert attended Divine Ser vice yesterday morning in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Sleath, who took his text from the Ist of Peter, chap. ii., verse 17. The Prayers were read by the Rev. Dr. Knapp, the Lessons by the Rev. Dr. Wesley, and the Communion Service by the Rev. 1)r. Sleath, Rev. Dr. Knapp, and the Rev. Dr. Wesley.. The Form of Prayer for her Majestes Acces sion to the Throne—the Chaunt was the Earl of Wilton's, the Te Deum and Jubilate was King's, the Sanctus and Responses, Earl of Wilton's. The Anthem, "In Jewry is God known " ( Whitfeld), was sung by Messrs. Haw kins, Hobbs, J. B. Sale, and two of the young gentle men of the Choir. Sir George Smart presided at the organ. The Bishop of Norwich, Clerk of the Closet, was in waiting. The Royal Suite consisted ,of Lady Barham, Hon. Miss Paget, Hon. Miss Anson, Lord Poltimore, Lord George Lennox, Hon. Sir William Lumley, Sir Edward Bowater, and Colonel. Wemyss. The Duchess of Gloucester, the Princess Sophia, and the Duke of Sussex, visited her Majesty and the Prince yesterday, at Buckingham Palace. Viscount Melbourne had an audience of her Majesty yesterday. Her Majesty and • Prince Albert left Buckingham Palace at half-past one o'clock on Saturday afternoon in an open landau and four to honoUr the Duke of Devon shire with a visit at his residence at Chiswick. The Equerries in Waiting, ColonelWemyss and Major-Gene ral Sir Edward Bowater, followed in a chariot and four. L - uly Barham, Lady . in Waiting, Hon. Miss Anson, Maid of Honour in Waiting,. Lord Poltimore, Lord in Wait- Lig, and Lord George Lennox, Gentleman in Waiting on Prince Albert, occupied another (open) carriage and four. Her Majesty and the Prince returned from Chis wick at half-past five o'clock. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the Duchess of Sutherland, Hon. Miss Paget, Hon. Miss Anson, Lord Poltimore, lion. Sir William Lumley, Col. Wemyss, and Sir Edward Bowater, honoured the Italian Opera House with their presence on Saturday evening. The Duke of Cambridge went to Kew yesterday morn ing. His Royal Highness attended Divine Service in the church in the forenoon. The Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge attended Divine Service yesterday morning in Grosvenor Chapel. Lady Augusta Somerset was in Waiting on the Royal Duchess. The Duke of Cambridge honoured Sir Henry Halford with his company at dinner on Saturday evening, at his residence in Curzon-street. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday, at the resi dence of Viscount Melbourne, in South-street. • It was attended by all the Ministers except Viscount Palmerston. The Council sat an hour and a half. The Committee of the Baronetage for Privileges met at the Clarendon, and transacted business on Saturday. Despatches from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, and also from the Governors of Malta and Gibraltar, were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. PRO TESTO F LII3ERAJ , PE- 6 " AGAINST THE CORN BILL OF 1815. The Dublin Evening Post has republished the protes" of the Lords who dissented from the Corn Bill of 1815; To this documcw, will be found attached the ns.nies , Grenville and Wellesley, accompanied by that of Chan' dos Buckingham, the father of the present Duke :. " 1. Because we are adverse in principle to all n straints on commerce. We think it certain that pve prosperity is best promoted by leaving uncontrolled theher free current of national industry ; and we wish, Yut .. 1 by . well -considered steps, to bring back our cowl:aerie!: legislation to the straight and simple line of wisdom, t°7 to increase the deviation, by subjecting additioral extensive branches of the public interest to fresh Oste' of artificial and injurious restriction. ,- .1 of "2. Because we think that the great practical ri(11 leaving all commerce unfettered, applies more pecu l of and on still stronger grounds of justice, as well 1 :1 policy, to the corn trade, than to any other. Irre:zistl;g indeed, must be the necessity which could, in our Pu: ment, authorise the Legislature to tamper with the t e tenance of the people, and to impede the flee purell f and sale of that article on which depends the ex istenoe° so large a portion of the community. "3. Because we think that the exypectations of it ltin ttt . t e e benefit from this measure are founded on a dellls3`; theory. We cannot persuade ourselves that this I s of will ever contribute to produce plenty, c heaplOs s ' 4, steadiness of price. So long as it operates at all, its of fects must be the opposite of those. MonopolY,„ the parent of scarcity, of dearness, and of uneeitai;nld To cut off any of the sources of supply can 0o 1 ) -. to lessen its abundance—to close agains t ourselves the cheapest market for any commodity, must enhanee'.o. price at which we purchase it ; and to confine the ; sumer of corn to the produce of his own country I..ch Providenceefut ts to ourselves has made llvestheb forenefit of that . provision whi equalizing to man variations of season and climate. 4. B u t, w h a t ever may t h e f u t ure consequenc!sseej, this law, at some dist a nt a nd uncertain period I , ' the with pain, that those hopes must be purchased at n p r expense of a great and present evil. To c°7 3 ; the consumer to purchase corn dearer a home t. te it might be imported from abroad, is the iintfi edia •t practical effect of this law. In this way alone can ofl operate. Its present protection. its promised extensi c:ich agriculture, must result (if at all) from the profits it creates by keeping up the price of corn to an level. These future benefits are the consequences e ex pected, but, as we confidently believe, erroneously to r petted, from giving a bounty to the grower a tax levicd on its consumer." • • • ; It assign other reasons for dissent, and is thus Su bscribed : of core, .r. " Augustus Frederick TorriLgton . 5 o f (Duke of Sussex) Dutton (Ihui4 ul William Frederick Douglas) b o (Duke of Gloucester) Chandos Grenville Montfort Wellesley King Essex Carlisle." THE WORKING j CLASSES., 0 . The working men of Kendal have sensibly all_"ty,.is, dielously- expressed their opinion on the present c,,iog in a hand-bill issued on Wednesday last. The we r :,_oll classes generally are close observers ; and alt b sometimes misled by inducements held . out by the baits of the monopolists, their real sentimen ts ' f the' calmly expressed, are in our.opinion ever worth,' ? e , highest regard and attention. On the state of Pa rt ' Kendal, the following remarks occur : n acr e° " The working classes of Kendal, having co---,r the matter in all its bearings, look upon it as thtoJy, perative duty to come out and speak boldly and P belt at a time when the electors of the borough nr‘'' called upon to give their verdict - for plenty or.sea re o wee cheap bread or the shackle of starvation, the c 0.4" of the present accursed Corn-law. They, tberefore,_.o with disgust and the spirit of deterihined opposition, ta pe as they are concerned, the attempt to foist upon thealici nip their representative in. Parliament, a man untried 0 03, iP known, but who, from the principles he hold s fer in the manifestly opposed to those most vital interest s ; „ r ing well-being of which their existence as a mantill a ], we and producing body depends. Electors of K en` „dint have no votes, but we are determined, notwi thsts r to use our legitimate influence with. those that ~oe'rests. returning a Member safely devoted- to our in' s , bai t Who G. Bentinck may be, personally, we kil° ls f el little; we speak of him merely as to the princiPje 110 which he has declared himself an advocate. r t hee'' ' briefly and candidly' given you his statemen t nko Soar and we, in like manner, would respectfully offer notice the objections which we have in replY•" distr ess e 5 The address goes on to show that all olir, ies originated with the bad government of the Ur i to nes that we are now feeling the immense and. aw_,fth b y 0 38 quences . of their misrule. The bill is - sign ed Chairman of the Working Men's 'Anti-Ccall' a ' ciation.—Kendal Mercury. _ , rue As a proof of the popularity of Lord , Jou". air tit' u sell in the City, it may be mentioned, th a t in the ` s fr ien7, Cripplegate alone, which contains 128 vote, th e i aetr. of the Noble Lord have obtained 103 positive r for him. OF' Sari," A GOOD EXAMPLE.—MEETING - 0 0, 0 t ELECTORS.—Last evening a meeting of non - e' r e ' the borough of Manchester, convened by Plo ce , e oll; .e ! . held in St. George's Fields, in a hollow near St- " 0 0 1 1 Church, " to take into consideration the be a s to be adopted in order to induce the shopice e . ,P - bo ara, other voters immediately dependent upon .the - i tl a sai7, classes, to support such candidates only at til!, A - t ai election as will vote for the total, immediate, an ditional repeal of the man-starvation acts." Th e I , l . ° as the'? tors were called upon with " peace, law, and ord er o ditic e ; motto, to unite as one man to shake the hug e be a monopoly to its very base. Notwithstanding thou'o le there was an assemblage of more than t wo persons. Mr. Melhearne was called to the ehI0o07: meeting was addressed by Messrs. Finnigan, 0411., and many others whose names we did not hear i 10n ,e174 solutio:is were adopted to the effect, that the I n d be!, ti s tors, couip . osing the meeting, having suffered 1 , 1 ,,,et1e‘ a 4 still suffering great privation and distress fret') of monopolies, especially that great monopoly d trews4 tax, resolved to support those shopkeeper s an t 91.01„. men only who voted for those candida tes tilediateol• themselves for a total, unconditional, and inutie peal of the Corn-laws. The resolution pasleter:ols, mously, and with loud cheers ; and it was u_ .t.t he _ te e that a committee should be formed to carry' n tj ,.„ n clil c / jects of the meeting. The proceedings throughout in the most orderly. and peaceable 01 Manchester Guardian. • tell • # It is really surprising how the Tone s , , ;,, t! e e lec forward such an. election list as they .diuyeith of yesterday. Any person at all acquaints(' rosy t o J o, tion proceedings must be struck with the g e c t ion presentations which. abound in that list. I L e s ite s 4~ dent that if our Contemporary . turns i" .. „ lo ptUffse honestly to it, it will at once perceive and ri,d. knowledge the errors into which it has be n the • that fi worst feature in these misrepresentations is . o d i hil' s 'e were (704, tend one way ; but it is as evidently the c op: i op, ranee, for the blunders are so gross as to )?re Pe r vi?,, being the inventions of any ingenious falsitie r Ai it e ve ?, we may here notice a little circumstance wh i ,l te 0",• 0 0 0 ,' strong proof of the probable stability. of t he ( ment, and of confidence as to the result of the wi t ," 1 11 Mr. Le Marchant, who is better acquaintliblie:efill state of the constituencies and the stat e of has gi, than almost any other man in the country, „oiat7gor a permanent office of 1,500/. a year to be 0 5 . I cretary to the Treasury, an office whi ch „,. r o er• render upon change of Government , —ODs. oteS SHREWSBURY ELECTION.--T"' " c Ic' rii, the representation of this borough, has eV, e i l intense interest ; and no wonder— for t" l o ' c ig struggle on behalf of the working and tr o oor de r here and everywhere, against oppressive ne w 0 5 61; classes. The candidates in favour of 1 t...J0 s li t iae,o things—in favour of free competition in ii - r onl l Tyt.P c ,. merce all over the world, for the sake of 1 3 _ c ivt' r er, interchange of benefits, and thus promoting. ip P l '/ o se: and peace all over the world—the candida, 4.01 bury, on these principles,. are General t T e " COY the Parry, and Christopher Temple, Es+ , of for Ban—Shrewsbury *Chronicle. - • Mr. Grogan, the favoured candriicitolateCtitall:',tro, City of Dublin, put forward by the C 3 ni sin„', ot y saved us from what we had deeMed a Pe r ,tf A A' of ti f namely. a full con s ideration of the results r gtin co as,,, vernment .in Ireland. mv. Organ, t h ." o ° the t i o gtoo Robert Peel, declares that " every man I 04 1 ' must have seen before this how the fading' o , t hing t ernoe fluence of Popery was now pervading o'ejd...--t°,.1415! land, and. was it not time to uproot the T he e fiv r o t, to s the withering blight of Pupery?" ° oti ndf n e 0 1 ,00 repmeutative of Sir Robert Pee!, the e :i t i t : itecei h i ll io t ,oi li v :it Tory policy, would extinguish PoperY r e . e n s t 4 1 8 Papists. Well do we know that Sir Bov.e ntoi tto 14) such diabolical—such downright insan e ,;citti n g . then the party must - be kept togetlit r by of., ; s wise io steam among the Orangemen. 0 ai 4' Herrings have bent+ taken during. 11 til'A , c our coast, but, we are sorry to say, 11(4 by . o as to render them universally °Maio" trious classes. They are still set ing n . s, at her e . „1 1 sixpence ; but should calm, arm nt rite d may expect-a plentiful take and chear - ' l. 29 1 h of l.acen Herald. • t he _.ders • .... On „ c i tr" - f elk THE CITY RICKSTE.R.7. tte _ e 0 April last, a petition from the mercluit,__ the City of London was presented too,llls,dch eq_ je; mons; the allegations - and prayer r e o ,jaioi l l ii o l o jt , lows That your petitioners are. ° : "_ l ;are ilt ry 'tole present customs' duties .nd prohibly,ho trimehtal both to the general trade oq o f 9 /.0 a ' r uo re 'igl the revenue. That the; have the effe*,, f to ani f° re, ing ere prices to the British consumer u die s . _ la blyor ding "`drealthe ,tor first necessity, and of totally e xc.' , . a , 1 .. v growth, thus giving more than a fto r ro duce a lit * p ,o' tection to individuals interested in th:P d pgifig,, tent Kingdom and its dependencies', m rece rta . e . o .o,, i ' lle es c on the community without benefit to ti!e i.ce ilia!, in ! we al ? show the greater degree of inar.ort a .y tori ttin“;ol)e ; " o time, attached to obtaining " su.-41 tions i ' 55 ; P rit i cessive differential duties and restricii , to 0 'fair and ust to the consumer A u ist i fi cti_v; a n a r ,„ cu:..er," than, to the hackneyed_u o f fi 17 4] , j etif e t ;,, . P / or Tory, the followin7 signaturep_iat lU ct n vidaals of the greatest ,oeln': 1 1 ' el personcl respectability, but Ni 11e0s1,.ZientVa CO. able for.libera;ity it) ' t ti Co. f l r d John Horsley Palmer ; Hen"' s on s, e ot ten ‘1 0 ))1 3 son, Brothers ;• Jacob Warncr,t . Is% I)obree and . Sens ; P. and - ( -- ; • 1 _, I Grailk2a. Non, Bell Frederick Huth and Co ; e p r i , n r . c e a p n h d o c vs o ,. ;und.j.Ciotn. I to i li t n 2 4,ll ,67 ` t t at o o ci r,e.„ `i, e; - of Batard, and Co. ; Bradbury and ..,,,1. these' Robcrt y rae , .11 0 be largely es.telided. With wh"__" 4l ? of them, oppotie L or d John LITERATURE SIXTEEN YEAIiS IN CHILI AND PERU. Fisher, London, 1841. We fear that this narrative of a sixteen year's residence in Chili and Peru will go far to illustrate the 'truth of the old adage that " a great book is a great evil ;" for it is a heavy, bulky, octavo. volume, a considerable portion of w Well is almost unreadable, being stuffed with official documents, whose interest or im portance has long since passed away; with long extracts from different authorities, local and otherwise, respecting Lord Cochrane's naval ac tions off the coast of Chili, while in command of the fleet of that province ; and with parti culars of the great earthquake of ,1835 which did so much damage in the neighbourhood of Concepcion, and with which the majority of our readers must be already well acquainted, through the medium of the • newspapers of the time. The best, or at any rate, the most entertaining parts of the work, are those wherein the author describes in detail the manners and customs of the natives of Chili, their severe, protracted struggles for independence, and the disastrous political convulsions which have taken place, since the final emancipation of the province from the mother country, Spain, up to the period of the establishment of- the Government now in authority in Chili.. On all these points the author writes with the ; ease and decision of one who is thoroughly master of his subject, and his statements wear all the appearance of authen ticity. In the course of some incidental allu sions to the earthquake at Valparaiso—that de structive convulsion which, in the year 1835, ravaged so large a portion of the South American coast—he relates a curious anecdote of a bigotted Catholic priest who, in . his addresses from the pulpit, attributed the earthquake, and all the other evils that had recently be fallen Chili, " to the pernicious custom of reading heretical 'books." The Governor of the city of Aconcagua, the place where this clerical fire-brand held forth, was so struck by his dis courses that it gave him an " irreconcileable hatred against books," and he swore " upon the cross of his sword, and before the Lord of Hosts," that he would not spare any volumes which should fall into his hands. Accordingly, he issued strict and precise orders that all the books in the city should be collected, " and .on a fixed day and hour, taken to the principal square, and burned." A pile was forthwith made,, and the auto-da-fe commenced with a col lection of.the Ecclesiastical Observer, which was declared to be a pernicious work; next followed the Bible of P. Selo; but the spectators, impa tient of the destruction of volumes by ones and and twos, " committed the whole of the books to the flames, and saw them consumed!" Striking illustration this of the spread of intelligence and liberality in Chili I The bachelor, Sampson Carrasco, who, out of his excess of the practical and matter-of-filet, made a bonfire of Don Quix ote's collection of romances; and the victorious Omar, who, from sheer wilfulness, destroyed the Alexandrian Library—or at least is said to have done so, for the fact is somewhat doubtful—were paragons of enlightment compared with this thick-skulled Governor of Aconcagua, who was prompted to his disgusting task by - mere igno rance and fanaticism. A HAND-BOOK FOR HAMPTON-COURT. Cunningham, London, 1841. A neat, unassuming little volume, embellished with several appropriate engravings, which will be found very serviceable to those who may' feel disposed, during this fine weather, to take a trip to Hampton Court, and see its paintings, gardens, grounds, &c. SIR JAMES GRAHAM.-111very body inquires what Sir James Graham is going to do. He has been turned out of Pembroke. Sir John Owen thinks he has mule the sent warm enough, and that he must now have it again for himself. • So poor Sir James is uncere moniously thrust out. An attempt was made to palm him upon Bristol ; but the answer was an indignant no. Then Westminster was thought of; and his flic. , nds were all cock-a-hoop that he would become the ', - Young Glory" of the clay. But, alas'! Westminster proved more coy than Bristol ; and now the report is, that he is to come in under the wing of the Lowthers, either for Westmoreland or West Cumberland-•—" to creep into tie House by the postern gate, of which my Lord L msdale keeps the key." How are the mighty fallen.—Carlisle Journal. SUGAR IN HAMBURGH AND LONDON.—The retail price of raw or brown sugar in Hamburgh is from 3d. to 4d. per pound. Ii London, it is, I belieye, Bd. per pound. Refined sugar, which in England is - from I Id. to 13d., is here at t'le retail price of from 4d. to 5-.kd. per pound. Coffee of the best quality, which sells in London at 2s. to 2s. 6d., is here at from Bcl. to 11d. per lb. retail ;! and the comparative cheapness of other articles, of colo n:al produce quite as great. The (lifferentxs, ti is ie- 1 . - es in , tile conifol•r , of the middle and Ivorl:ing daises requires no comment. --London Journal of Com n.erce. MORNING _EDITION.