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Among the best novels of its kind for many years given to the world by the English press."—Athenaeum. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready, and to be had at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. post Bvo., TIPPOO SULTAUN. AN HISTORIC!►L ROMANCE. By CAPTAIN MEADOWS TAYLOR, OF THE SERVICE OF HIS HIGHNESS THE NIZAM. Author •f " Confessions of a Thug." Richard Bentley, New Barlington-street. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. NDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, JAN. 5 Will ho presented Shakspere's Comedy (with Music) of THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Bartley; Master Slender, Mr. C. Ma thews ; Ford, Mr. Cooper; Penton, Mr. W. Harrison; Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mrs. Page, Madame Vestris; Ana Page, Miss Rainforth, Mrs. Quickly, Mrs. C. Jones. After which, The NEW GRAND CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME will be repeated, entitled THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO; OR, HARLEQUIN AND THE GIANT HELMET. Harlequin, Mr. C. J. Smith ; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway ; Pantaloon, Mr. Mo-••Ili ; ColurnbiTie, Miss Fairbrother. To-morrow, The Midsummer Night's Dream, with The New Pantomime. " ' On Thursday, The Midsummer Night's Dream, with the Ne, Pantomime. On Eliday, The Merry Wises of Windsor, with The New Pantomime. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to :oalmence. at Seven o'Cloek. Tieket-3 and places for the Boxs; to be taken of Mr. Grogan aL the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may ue had upon application. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 33. 6d. ; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 'ls. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price. ; Gallery, Is. Private BOXL 4 to be had so'cly of Mr. And; ONS, bookseller B;7. New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. The Foud pro-eminence acquired at this Theatre by the supe riority of the pantomimicaf effects, is more than ever realized by the amasing hit of the Royal Pantomime. The most brilliant overflows have been attracted by the present Per formances. THIS EVENING, JAN. 5, Will be represented a New Domestic Drama, entitled MARTHA WILLIS, THE MAID SERVANT. Martha Willis, Mrs. Henry Vining. Supported by the entire strength of the Company, After which will be repeated the Grand Traditionary Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND MY LADY LEE; OR, GOOSEY GANDER AND Tilt SPELLBOUND GOSLINGS. _ . . . In which the unrivallod Artistes, tie Bolen° Family; 31r. Southby, the Original Clown •' Miss Sharpe, Columbine ; an d the ast(onishing Gyrynastioue, Signior Felix Carlo, from Fran coui's, at PariF, will perform : concluding with Brunning's Grand Dioramic Synopsis of Syria. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS AY. minutes after 11 I Evening ) minutes after 6. , .P.. ~' . 4)4 1 __... JIA ) 1,..4. , ~ _• , •11. , ?+: 41. ,7 6. , ..,, ' ...k t' i ja . ''' ).,. 1...'" ':i. 1.1 ! ..%); ' ~9 `.:;.•-r.g.'4lV2:i's' I*-*--.7. Z . :[)V LONDON: TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, IE4I. Some of our Contemporaries exult very much at the extinction of Chartism, and the quietness of the people. If such were the fact, and we have before us evidence in Chartist meetings and publications that it is not, we should regard it as more significant of ruin than pros; pc:ity. The worst state of the public mind is political apathy. It is generally followed by social atrophy, and is a disease much more to be dreaded than political discontent. Down-trodden as are the bulk of the people, living under laws made only to scourge, and rarely or never to protect them, plun dered on all hands in the name of the law by those who pretend to be their friends and benefactors, made to bear all the evils of society, and denied mo-,t of its advantav s, if they were to be continu ously passive and contented under such injustice they would consecrate the system by their sanction, give it permaner.t life, and ensure at no distant day the decay of the empire. The results of political agitation and political apathy, as we may trace them in the United States and in Italy, are worth a moment's attention, in reference to the contradictory views we have just stated. In the United States an election has just come to an end, which has roused into activity every full-grown man in the empire. The people, we are told, have toiled as if their salvation de pended on the issue. They have called each other all manner of hard names, and have worked them selves up to a pitch of violence amounting almost to phrenty. No doubt, in their eagerness, they have abused and calumniated each other in a very u nneighbourly manner, most offensive to drawing room patriots. The ordinary and customary method of vilifying, what our Tories call the can naiiie, o r the mob, or greasy artizans, is in the United States somewhat changed, and there being no canaille or mob in that country, the Bil lingsgate of party is plomiscuously and generally shared. In Europe the upper classes, and the Press of the upper classes, have long had, except under temporary ebullitions of popular feeling, a monopoly of this kind of language, and the bulk of the people, degraded into slavery, have also been contumeliously taunted with their misery. In the United States this monopoly is destroyed . There general equality dlftuags pretty equally ev en the power of abuse, and lan guns is now and then of that n addressed to the upper classes, which in Europe is reserved for Now this poo r, and almost exclusively applied t o them may be vary grating to aristocr at i e i l• v , e:telartelnd-res:ubltutt what in America is the concomitant The society is unexampledly prosperous unex sampledly tranquil. - Never befo re i n the w h the whole extent of the histor y nev er through ma n_--if we except China , with the internal history of of rhich we are not we ll ac q uainted—w ere there so many as from four to fourteen millions of hurnan beings in the same neighbourhood, who, for so lon g a period as the inhabitants of the United States, since their revolutionary war, have lived to gether in concord without worrying each other, worrying their neighbours. We do not forge the' year they were obliged to carry on against Great' Britain, we do not overlook the irruption 0 • ion of them into Texas, nor their en the Indians ; but taking these into * , -gxrAwaffirm, 4„ , top as the prosperity of th 7 t ( .; lxita been unexampled, so h ave been • I /7 ; ,heir internal tranquillity and oxternal peace. That is the accompaniment, if not the result of political agitation. In the States of the Church, to take the example of the most quiet people of Italy, and a people completely controlled, as some amongst us wish our people to be, by a Puseyite priesthood and an arrogant aristocracy, there has hardly been any political agitation amongst 1 them since the days of RIENZI. The French Revo -1 lotion roused them for a little while, but it was only \to make them sleep afterwards the more soundly. Their fields are accordingly like those of a slothful man. T, l 'e Government is undisturbed, the country is neglected. hop elation makes no progress, agri culture no improvement. Nav i g ation is. almost un heard of, though abe and navigable rivers belong to the Papal States. The only arts which flourish are sculpture, painting, music, architecture, and o thers of the same kind, which contribute to the enjoyments of the opulent or the purposes of dtvotion. But even these seem now to fail and fade, wanting that healthy support which is derived from an increasing and prosperous population. The people are civil and obsequious, all that our aristocracy wish to make our people. They are a nation of s,rvile artists and valets. Foreigners are received with smiles and bows, and their money and their custom are eagerly sought after. With an abundance of smoothness, civility, and courtesy, neither pro ' perty nor life is particularly safe. Assassination is not unfrequent, and banditti flourish in companies, making the roads unsafe, and setting the law at de fiance. Gentlemen and ladies are carried cfr to the mountains, and must be ransomed ; vehicles are are stopped and plundered on the highways, and travellers are obliged to fight for their property and their lives. If the active virtues slumber, villany seems always awake. Such are the results of a priestly paternal government, and of the people being in a state of political apathy. Is this the condition which our politica! writers, enamoured of political quietness, wish for England ? If the spirit of political agitation be not kept alive, and the tyranny of the aristocracy and the priesthood be permanently successful here as in the Papal States, to that we shall come. Al ready there are numerous classes who prefer ease to freedom. Our youth are growing up like Italian boys, delighting in cigars, theatres, and music. The arts, which mark a nation's decay rather than its prosperity, sculpture, painting, architecture, are successfully cultivated. Obsequiousness is recom mended, and rough, but honest language, such as prevails in the United States, is stigmatized as the greatest vice. While cupidity and Atheism pre vail amongst our upper classes as in Italy, here, as there, a great hypocritical attachment for reli gion is assumed, and everything approaching to free public discussion, is put down by pro secutions as blasphemous libels, or by the intol erance of the hypocrites. If our Government pur sue the same course as that of the Papal States, were it to be successful, and were our lovers of quiet, and the bayonet to attain their wishes, and put an end to all political agitation, what could be expected for England but the fate of the Papal States? The ancient mistress of the world now owes much of her remaining and little prosperity, much of her mo dern glitter to the annual visits of Germans, French, and English, to study and admire the memorials of her former greatness. Far off be the time when in like manner the inhabitants of the United States shall repair to London chiefly to study and admire, if there be then anything left here for admiration, the monuments of our departed greatness. But that ime will come for our descendants, as it has come for Rome, if our present system of ruthless oppres sion and ruthless plunder of industry in the honoured names of law, government, and religion, shall be consecrated and preserved by the perfect submis sion of the oppressed. Our news yesterday from Walsall was good. Mr. G. SMITH, the Chairman of the Anti-Corn-law League, stands on the Liberal interest with every prospect of success. Notwithstanding the tem porary alienation which may be caused in some of LYTTELTON'S friends by his retirement, there is not a single elector of Walsall favourable to the Liberal cause, which includes a repeal of the Corn laws, who will not labour with all his heart and a ll his soul to secure Mr. SNIITIeS return. Nor will there be wanting on the part of the League any exer tion which can lead to success. A great cause is at issue, the cause of freedom, for he is surely a slave who cannot buy his bread where he pleases, —the cause of honesty, for surely it is dishonest in the owners of the soil, already secured an ample maintenance without toil, most greedily to add to their wealth by taxing the food of the poor, and the cause of our country, the peace of which is endan gered by the continuance of such unrighteous legis ladon. If any elector, iii ignorance of what is at stake, have been beguiled into promising his vote to the immoral, iniquitous advocate of the bread tax, the duty he owes to his kindred and country men, the duty he owes to justice and to GOD, com mands him to withdraw such a promise and vote for Mr. G. SmITII. This is not an ordinary contest • between two individuals ; it is a contest between the p rinciple of right and wrong, of light and darkness, of good and evil, and every honest man is bound not only to vote, bt.t to exert himself to the utmost to put down the wrong, in the person of Mr. GLAD STONE, and support the right in the person of Mr. SmITII. Walsall will become a bye-word throughout the whole of the manufacturing districts if it elect a Corn-law advocate. The word Renegade will be banished from our tongue, and the word Wal sailer substituted for it. " Base as a Walsaller" will be, a proverb, if the borough now sells the cause of honesty, of justice, and of the people to the bread-taxing Tories. Mr. GLADSTONE and his connections, the vast gains of his family by slavery, the enormous tax they levy annually on the people by the dis criminating duties on sugar, their attempt to revive slavery in the persons of the Hill Coolies, must be well known at Walsall, and to Mr. GLADSTONE'S opponents. They, we are assured, will not allow him to pass himself off on the borough for any thing but what he is. The GLADSTONES are amongst those persons for whose behoof at this moment more than 2d. is levied on every pound of sugar the people consume. The planters and the landowners have a common interest, and make common cause ; and no person can be surprised that a GLADSTONE is the patron of slavery at home, slavery abroad, and plunder, by means of law, everywhere. In rejecting Mr. GLADSTONE the electors of Walsall will give a heavy blow to the tax on sugar, levied for the benefit of the Deme rara and other planters,aswtioelih l as to the accursed t a x on the bre ad of the nation. A re port prevails that Lord HILL is to retire from the Horse Guards. We are not surprised at this, because the cond uct of the Noble Lord in the ease o f th e Earl of CARD IGAN, has made his retirem ent a matter o f necessity. Tho u g h we have recot ded the instances wh ich have latterl y come to li g h t o f the Noble Ear l ' s conduct, we thought it wholl y improper to make any remarks on them, becau se L or d H I LL and the Horse Guards had fully j justified a ll t h e p roc eedings of the Noble Earl, and t a k en all his delinquencies on them selves. The Horse Gu ar d s encouraged back-h i l i ng• The Horse Guards app rove d of officers writing to him a Colonel issuing public orders to prevent his on private affairs. The Horse Guards eagerly seized hold of the slight indiscretion such tyranny hurried a younger officer into, organized a Court-martial, and so dismissed him the service. For the honour and for the future good discipline of the army — that gentlemen may feel even commonly at their ease, and safe from insidious, unmanly, misrepresen tations—it is necessary that those who have approved of Lord CARDIGAN'S conduct should retire from the Government of the army. For Lord HILL, as a brave and good officer, who while in command of a portion of the army, was universally beloved, we entertain a very high respect; but as the Commander-in-Chief he seems not to have followed the dictates of his own good heart and solid understanding. He has acted as if he were not independent. By meaner and much less worthy men he has apparently been made the in strument for corrupting the army to aristocratic pur poses. The same baneful influence which has predo minated in the Legislature, has cast its cold shade ova the military, and the honoured name of Lord Hi L has been the screen by which all popular rays have been intercepted. It is no longer consistent with our manners and ways of thinkina, to have the aristocracy usurping all honour, and moulding all our establishments to its views. The army is paid by the whole nation for the common clefenee, and it must not be converted, by such appointments A 4 that of Lord CARDIGAN, after he had been dis missed, and by such deference to his arbita' y pm ceedings a the Horse Guards have exhibited, into a mere plaything or pension given for the aristo cracy. Lord HILL has lent his name to that vicious system, till the abuses have become flagrant, and therefore the report prevails that Loid HILL is about to retire, We direct the attention of our Protestant readers to a letter, signed "An Anglo-Catholic." It is written by a clergyman of the Established Church, who candidly admits himself to be a Puseyite, subscribes to " Bishop Sparrow's Rationale," from which, on Tuesday, we gave lengthened extracts, and who, as far a.; we can judge, is as staunch a Roman Catholic as DANIEL O'CONltTglill) Qr th? POPE himself. We neither nickname nor revile our Correspondent, or any one of the sect, for his conscientious belief ; we have no wish to convert him, and least of all to persecute him, for any doctrine he may entertain ; but we must be per mitted to enter our protest against the conduct of those Churchmen who hold livings from which Ro man Catholics were ejected on account of their faith, and who at the same time profess the same faith under a different name. Between Puseyisin and Popery there is but a step, and the Oxford divines, according to their own account, look for ward to the day when they shall make that step, and be received into the bosom of the HOLY FATHER.. Two paragraphs in the letter convey unexpected and joyful information. The Puseyites, it appears, contemplate the expediency of separating themselves from the State, and the prac tice of pastoral visiting has become common among the clergy of the Established Church. The latter circumstance is quite new to us, for though we were aware that a certain portion attended to their duties, we know, like our Correspondent, from ex tensive observation, that a vast proportion of the English Clergy were more occupied in fox-hunting, in canvassing at elections, in performing the duties of laymen at the Quarter Sessions, and in making violent political harangues at public dinners, than in attending to the great duties to which they were appointed—visiting the sick and the dying, and mi nistering to the wants of the needy and distressed. The former circumstance, also; has something of no velty in it, and when accomplished, but not till then, we will give credit to the new sect for disinterested motives and sincere religious feelings. The candour and kindly feelings with which our Correspondent writes convince us that be is in earnest, but his open defence of the new sect only adds to our conviction, from other circumstances, that the Protestant faith is in imminent danger, and that unless her MA JESTY, as Head of the Church, or the Houses of Parliament interfere, the English Church will shortly be brought into the dominion of the POPE and his intriguing and worldly-minded Cardinals. The Paris Papers of Friday and Saturday have been duly received. The Moniteur of Saturday is filled with the New Year's day Addresses, pre sented, according to immemorial usage, to the King of the FRENCH. Copies of these addresses, and the KING'S answers to them, will be found in another part of The Sun. We find much to ad mire in the KING'S .answers to the Addresses of the Chambers and the Diplomatic body. They confirm all that we before heard of his MAJESTY'S unalterable desire to maintain the peace of Europe. " The real good of France," said the KING, ad dressing the Deputies, " does not consist in con quests, or in glory too dearly purchased at the price of our blood and ow treasure. War should not be undertaken except when the public interest renders it a rigorous duty. At present we have the hole that the long career of peace, which we have gone through so honourably, will not be interrupted ; but, on the contrary, will be continued, without the country having anything to regret, either for its honour or dignity. It will always have reason to be proud of having preserved mankind from the dangers and evils of a general war. We have given to history sufficient monuments of our glory t o have a right to add to our trophies that which is not less glorious—that of being the guarantees of the peace of the world and the repose of mankind." These noble sentiments, so worthy of the KING and of France, were delivered in a firm voice, and were responded to with loud cheers and cries of " Vivc le Itoi I" by the assembled Deputies. To the Diplomatic body the KING addressed himself in the same pacific spirit. " You know the value, observed his MAJESTY, addressing the Ambassa dors, " which I have never ceased to attach to the duration of the political repose enjoyed by Europe, and to the maintenance of the general peace. Con vinced as I am that this state of things is alike the interest of France and of all other States, nothing shall relax my efforts to co-operate with all the Sovereigns for the preservation of this great bless ing to our nation ; and I hope with you that in the year which has just opened to us, the wisdom of the Cabinets will effect its consolidation." May these wise and patriotic sentiments find an echo in the heart of enlightened France I The French journals, after the fashion of the English, indulge in retrospective views of the pro gress of France during the last year. These, of course, take the hue of the medium through which they are viewed. But for her policy on the Eastern question, the past year would have acquired a dis tinguished place in the annals of France. Even yet it is in the power of France, by resuming amicable relations with the Great Powers, to re trieve many of the errors consequent upon an ad herence to the mistaken policy of isolation which M. THIERS forced upon her. There is no political news of the slightest in- terest in these journals. The Courrier Francais persists in maintaining that Count MOLE is on the eve of resuming office as chief of the Cabinet. The following summary of Oriental news is from the Austrian Observer of the 26th ult., copied into the Paris papers of Saturday : On the 2d ult. the Ottoman Porte notified to the corps diplomatique the raising of the blockade of the Syrian harbour, occupied by the troops of the Sultan. On the 21st of November, after Ibrahim bad evacuated his camp of Zahle, the Emir Bechir immediately occupied the posi tions abandoned by the Egyptians, and received the sub- TflE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 5. 1841. mission of the shicks of Celesyria. The united Egyptian garrisons of Northern Syria, under Achmet Pacha , forming together a corps of 20,000 men, well provided with artil lery, had marched from Alcppi to Dantaceu:;,. iii cruet to join Ibrahim. On the 26th, the Turkish Com mander-in-Chief, on hearing that tile latter was preparing to effect his retreat across the desert, detached several corps to observe his movements and at the same time to protect the inhabitants of the southern pachalies, who had made their submission to the Sultan. A brigade of the Imperial Guard was sent to Jaffa for the purpos., and other troops had been stationed at Jerusalem and Gaza. The Egytian garrison evacuated Aleppo on the 20th,and the whole army was to have commenced its retro grade movement from Damaseus on the 30th of Novem b. r. Ibrahim had still 130 pieces of artillery. He ex pected to reach El Arish on the 18th of December. " M. Cailler, Aide de• Camp of the Minister of \Ara , left Paris yesterday," says the Monileur Parisicn, ,‘ for Toulon, on his way to Africa on an important mission." A dinner was given on Wednesday at the Pavillon Henri IV., St. Germain en- Laye, by the officers of the Belle Poule and Favorite, to their Commander, the Prince de Joinville. Toasts were drunk to the health of the King, the Royal Family, the Prince, the Navy, &c. His Royal Highness, .on taking leave of his comrades, who wore to pursue their way next morning to Havre, premised to join thorn on board crc long. M. de Bruhl, Extraordinary Envoy of Prussia to the Holy See, arrived at Rome on the 19. h ult. He was said to be charged with an important mission, and to have re ceived a carte blanche to settle amicably the affair of thz. Archbishop of Cologne. A letter from Leghorn of the 21st announces the arri val in that harbour, on the preceding day, of the ex. Re gent of Spain, Maria Christina. The Duke of Lucca itpmetliately waited on her Majesty, and the Grand Duke of Tuscany was expected from Florence. The Madrid Journals received are of the 25th ult. On the previous day a grand funeral service was performed in the Church of St. Isidore, for the repose of the souls of the soldiers of the Constitutional Army, killed in the battle of Lu chana in 1630. In a letter from Corunna, of the 19th ult., it was stated, that an English steamer had on that morning entered the harbour, on fire ; and that the Captain refused any assistance to ex tinguish it. The vanglish Consul at once ordered him to be arresto„ which was done. The vessel was still burning when the letter was written Five per Cents. Active, were 281 for cash on the previous day. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NE WS CITY, MONDAY EVENING. There was very little difficulty experienced in meet ing the large payments falling due on mercantile accept. ances as usual on the 4,th of the month, and the funds were not at all afrect:d by the circumstance. Oa the contrary, they were steady, it not buoyant all day. Con sols for the opening rose from 881 and 89, the range of Saturday, to 89,i and 89, closing at 894 ; Exchequer bills wave a shade better. viz., 8 to 7 premium, but India Bonds were not higher than 14 to 10 discount. The Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents. obtained '97 to the Three per Cent. Annuities 89i to and the Three-and-a-Half per Cents. 08 to 97g. The Foreign Market was rather dull, and generally prices had a downward tendency. The business don.. however, was but trivial. The Active Spanish Bonds were again rather neglected at 25 to 24i for immediate trans fer, and at 24i- to 251 for the Account ; being, however, a slight improvement on Saturday's rates. Portuguese new Five per Cents. were dull, in the absence of any later news from Lisbon, at 32} to 1, ; and the Five per Cents. of 1836 at 421-. Colombian Six per Cents. of 1824 were flat, at a decline from 24 to 23 Brazti Stock was neglected at 71, Belgian Bonds at 98, are! Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 50 ex-dividend. Russian Stock was firm, at 113. The market for Railway Shares has been tolerably animated to-day, and prices generally have been fully supported. We must, however, except from the re mark the Brighton line, which declined in value this af ternoon, in consequence of a report that an accident had occurred to one of the trains. The more current quotations this afternoon were these :—London aiid Blackwell, 4 ; Brighton, 5i ; Greenwich, ; Croy - don, I 1 ; North Midland, 19 ; Ditto, New, ; Bir mingham and Derby, 24 ; Bristol and Exeter, 22 ; and Hull and Selby, 6}, disc. The Great Western Shares were 28 ; the New, 13 ; the Fifths, 7i ; the South Western, 182- ; the New Manchester and Leeds, 6 ; and the York and North Midland, 19 prem. Nothing was done in Banking Shares. ___ The stock of tallow in London now is 37,649 casks against 29,490 casks at this time last year. The deli very last week was 1,942 casks only against 2,051 casks at the same time last year. The arrival last week was 3,293 casks against 196 casks at this time last year. The total arrivals since the Ist of June last have been 86,201 casks against 84,885 casks at the same time in 1839-40. From the comparative statement of the stock of hemp in the port of London we find that on the Ist of Jan., 1835, it was 7,033 tons ; in 1837, 3,116 tons ; in 1838, 9,871 tons ; in 1839,7,447 tons ; in 1840, 12,575 tons ; and in 1841, 9,246 tons. ( From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MAUKET, SATURDA Y.-We have had a quiet market to-day, but prices are steady ; sales, 3,000 bags, comprising 30 Egyptians 104 d. a 104 d ; 20 Maranhams, 8/d. ; 80 Bahias, 81d. to 81d. ; and 200 Surats d. to sd, _ _ Accounts from Madrid, of the 22d December, state that the Portuguese Cortes were to be'convoked early in January. We have received the. Journal of Antwerp of yester day's date. BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, JAN. I.—Business was ICS3 animated in the National Funds, but the prices in general were firm. In Ardoin's Spanish a good deal was done ; they opened at 221, and remained at 224 3-16th ,I; Russian Loan Four per Cents., 86k. The British Market opened this morning rather firmer than it left: off on Saturday, at 894 for the Account, no doubt in consequence of the King of the French's re ply to the various Addresses to him on the day of the new year, which were of a very pacific nature. Afterwards Consols were not quite so good, and may be quoted now at 89k, the leaving off price of Saturday. Exchequer Bills, 4 6 prem. ; Bank Stock, 157 158 ; I n di a S tuc k, 238 239. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active, which left off on Saturday at 244 251, is a shade lower, and may be quoted 244 25k ; Deferred 121 13 ; Passive 64 ; Por tuguese same as they left off, 321 ; Three per Cents. ; Colombian 231 24+ ; Mexican the same. 281 29,1 ; Brazilian, 70} 71k ; Chilian, 56 60 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 49,1. SHAnEs.—Great Western, 261 271- prem. ; New. 12 13 t rem, ; Lo ndon Brighton, 6 5f ; Blackwall, 4 4 d is. o ; B e ir : th n g d ham.B2 84 pr em . ; S out h am pton, 57 58 per share ; Croydon, 12+ a per share ; Greenwich. 8 9 per share ; Manchester and Birmingham, 15 13 dis. ; South-Eastern and Dover, 16+ is dia. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ()NE. KAILWAXS. Paid. Per Share. Birmingham and Derby lOO .. , 76 Bristol and Exeter 6O ...... 38 .. ... to 37i Great North of England 0 ...... 514-- to Great Western .... Ditto New ... Ditto Fifths London and Brighton London and Blackwall Condon and Greenwich-- •••••• 20 London and South Western 3B& 574... .. to Londsa and Croydon (Trunk)... 134 12i..... to North Alidland Ditto New f ark and North :Midland ... Consols may be quoted at present at 89,4-, have been 891, for Account ; . Exchequer Bills improved to 8 prem., Small 7 9 prem. ; Bank Stock nothing done; India Bands 14 10 dis, In the Foreign Market Spanish Active not so good as in the early part of the morning, when they were 25i, i at present 2-11-; Portuguese 321 ; Russian 113 ; Brazilian, 71 ; Colombian 23k. In the Dutch Funds nothing doing to the present time. A good deal has been doing in the Share Market in the course of the morning at advanced prices. Birming ham and Derby 76 ; Bristol and Exeter 371; Great North of England 511. ; Great Western 924 • ' New 63 ; Fifths 17} ; London and B r i g ht on 431 ; Blackwall 18. ; Greenwich tiii ; South Western 571 ; Croydon 121 ; North Midland 81 ; New 304 ; CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock ......... . India Stock York and North Midland 69. ••• . 3 per Cent. Red......... 89i Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cons ...... .. Ditto Old Annuities — '3 per Cent Red.__ .. 97i Ditto New Annuities._ New per Cent ...,, __. Ex. Bills, 1,0001....2jd 7pm New 5 per Cent ... ... Ditto 500/ 6pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 9 put , Jan. 1860 ....... 13 Bank Stock for Acct ... Oct 1N59 ... ...... —.. India Stock for Acct ... Jan. 1860 ... ...... Consols for Opg B9 FOREIGN FUNDS. A ustrian, 5 per cent... Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent ...... Ditto, New Ditto.... . 13razilian Bonds ... ~ .. _ BuenosA yres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent. Chilian, 6 per cent ..... Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 percent... S Spanish, 5 per cent — 21i Ditto, 182-1 ............... D e mo, Deferred • 1 Danish, 3 per cent. .... per cent... —f. —c. French, 5 Greek, 1825, 5 percent . —f. —c. Prussian, s • ---- Exchange •• ........ Mexican, 5 per cent..., 29 French, 3 per cent... —f. —e. Oitto, 6 per cent, 182,5. tti per cent per cent 50 Dutch, Peruvian,lB2s,6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent... .. 1 _ . SHARES. Birmingham and Der by Railway (100 pd)••• 75 e Fiftlls Junction 4 .................. • • Great a i r • D i se s tai t et ti t l orNi and whu E no x tsfi e : t sEa e r r nitegsa ( li 6 a(l o n,s,doa i 3 r p,it a y: .......... a.. . 3 5,1b : 11.5 4 4 Railway Great Western Railway (65 paid) ............ : 6 1 0. 443 London and Brighton Railway (50 paid)) —• ISA (35 pd) ......... 42 London and Illackwall Railway (22i P d, London and Greenwich Railway .;(2U paid) _Vr G H o u ps lr ito a tr n ot d Selby (50 paid).. ...................... 433 London and South Western Railway ••••••••• i? 2 44 London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) .••••• Manchester and Leeds R. ilwa (70 paid) -- a y 3! Ditto New Shares (25 paid) ............... m , North Midland Railway (100 paid) ......... Ditto New Shares (40 paid) . ........... —AI 69 Yoyic and North Midl an d Railway (501,- OXF , ITY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sikt,—Being one ul what you would call exeltuively " the working clergy," and having, like Chaucer's priest, " a parish wide, and houses far asunder," I have, at this season, little time to look at a newspaper, and your invitation escaped me, " to state my version of the new [old] faith." Nor should I now have trespassed on your columns, had I not seen (Sun, Dec. 29) a statement of the doctrines of the Oxford divines, by an opponent, which (an unusual occurrence with disputants) I, who take the opposite view, consider to be perfectly fair, and cordially accept. Most remarkably does it confirm my previous statement, that the so-called new faith is but s revival of good old Church principles, to be found in the pages of our standard divines. " Sparrow's Rationale' has long been a text-book on ritual mat ters in the Church, and may be found on most of the lists, recommended by our Bishops for candidates for orders during the last century ; and, therefore, the gravamen of the charge against the Oxford Tractarians, A stated fairly, amounts to this—that they adhere strictly to Me Prayer Book, to which they have sworn to coifforin. Another striking testimony to the correctness of my own and your Ilfracombe Correspondent's version, hap pens to be at hand. In the February Number of the Eclectic Review, the organ of the Dissenters, is an ar ticle on the state of religious parties in the Establish ment. The writer, lamenting the grievous decline of practical preaching among the sell-styled Evangelical clergy, goes on to observe, that " the thinking, respect able, and religious part of the community is beginning to weigh their pretensions in the balance, and find them wanting. Even same of their own members are becoming startled at the fact, that their Oxford op ponents are proving them to be most inconsistent childi en of the Church of England. Having sworn and subscribed, in the most solemn manner, to all and every word and thing in the hook of Common Prayer, yet these very persons, pluming themselves upon being more serious 3 the rest of their brethren—after giving this ce aninio consent—do not hold, do not believe, and do constantly preach against several of the doctrines, mat ters, and things to which, on being ordained, they thus avowed their adherence. Baptismal regeneration, the absolution in the visitation of the sick, &c., are in stances of what we allude to. By practices of this sort, the evangelical ministry of the Church of England are gradually losing much of the respect with which they were nut long since regarded. They positively rave against the Puseyites ; whilst they, in their turn, mani fest a much better temper, display infinite stores of logic and learning ; and, upon the arena of mere argu ment, are thrashing and exposing the poor Evange licals, who provoked them to the contest, every day of their lives. The Oxonians, moreover, have rendered no little benefit even to ourselves, by helping to disabuse the public mind of one grand naisconeeption, namely, that the Episcopal Church and the Establishment are one and the same thing. They have done much to show, what one would have thought was sufficiently obvious. from the circumstances of Episcopacy in Scotland anti America, that the Church, of which :he Archbishop of Canterbury is metropolitan, may not merely survive apart from its connection with the State, but will probably become all the better in a spiritual sense through that very sepa ration. Not a/ew of them (the Oxonians) really seem to contemplate the expediency cf the severance." You will observe, that this Dissenting writer allows the Tractarians to be the most consistent Churchnieii, but insinuates (and you may possibly choose to agree with him) that the doctrines of the Church itself are " Popish:" So it has ever fared with the Reformed Church of England, standing midway between Popery and ultra Protestantism, or Dissent. " Ilia veteris correctio," says Mosheim, speak ing of the English Church, " gum Britannos .-EQUE a pontificis, atque a reliquis famiilis, quw po nti- Lis dominationi renunciarunt, sejungit." You may call this Popery. With the Anglic an Church, 1 desire to protest against both Popery and Puritanism, and all 1 would ask of you is this :—if we who agree with the Oxford divines, are, as I have proved, the most consis tent Churchmen, do not nickname and revile us. At least allow us the same " freedom of opinion," you so often claim for the infidel writer. You cannot prosecute us for Puseyism : do not persecute us for our conscien tious belief. The progress of conviction you cannot stop—let us agree to differ. I cannot conclude without protesting most strongly and indignantly against your assertion, in a recent lead ing article, that the clergy are as a body remiss in visit ing the poor. Sir, time contrary is most emphatically the case! I speak from extensive observation—the practice of pastoral visiting is their glory and their pride. If " whole districts be found where the face of a clergyman is seldom seen," it is because those districts arc so large, from increase of population, that the parish priest is overworked, and unable to minister to such vast multitudes. Ask, in London, the character of Dr. Snort of Bloomsbury, or Mr. Tyler of St. Giles's. I myself have had from 15,000 to 20,000 souls com mitted to my single charge. What could Ido ? Often, after a day's employment in visiting in lanes and alleys, have I returned to my solitary fire-side, and a fresh sum mons has called rate forth from the untested meal to some new case of misery. Of my brethren in country cures, I can also speak from observation. Exceptions you may find no doubt, but you may discover the beautiful and true description of the poet realized in thousands of instances The Vicar's house is smother'd in its roses, His garden glows with dahlias large and new, Bees murmur through his limes the summer through, And on his seat, beneath them, often dozes A better man than calumny supposes, His living is three hundred pounds a year, But not 'of servants, wife, and children clear,' He gives away his common right and closes, And keeps no horse. When winter strips the tree, To poor men's homes his wife and daughters go With needful gifts of flannel, food, or fire, And made-wines for the sick." And now, Sir, I will trouble you no further. Al though you particularly oppose the Church and the clergy in se strong, and, as I often think, unjust a manner, yet I would fain believe that it proceeds, not from personal hostility, but from a mistaken view of duty ; and 1 would beg to part with no unfriendly feel ing, and remain, your Constant Reader, Jan. 1, 1841. AN ANGLO-CATHOLIC. CAMPAIGN OF THE ARMY OF THE INDUS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sta—ln a work lately published under the authority of Dr. Kennedy's name, entitled " Narrative of the Campaign of the Army of the Indus through Sinde and Kanhool, in 1838-9," that gentleman has, in a very un justifiable manner, digressed from the subject upon , vhich he professes to enlighten the public, evidently ,vit.h the view of introducing my name to notice, in a ,nanner as unfavourable, as I trust it will appear un fiunded. The publication of this book was first brought to my i;otice through the medium of your widely-circulated -oluinns, but the unenviable notoriety which Doctor Kennedy had acquired at the Cape of Good Hope, with he little benefit his anonymous writings had bestowed an the peace of the South African Society, during his ,journ at that place in 1836, but little inclined me to peruse his narrative of the Indus campaign ; and had it not, been for the facetious observation of a friend, I should until this hour have been ignorant of having shared with others that covert malevolence under which Doctor Kennedy has introduced me to public notice. Not having the honour of Doctor Kennedy's ac• Flu .intance, and never through life having had either pt;blic or private intercourse with him, caused me for a time to seek in vain for his motive, in having so gratuitously attempted to impose upon the public. "That I had been making myself conspicuous in the ease of the Raj i of Sattara ;" and to imply, that, as a naval officer, I must consequently be ignorant of ..iverything that did not appertain to that profession. That I had never held a public position that would have drawn a native chief to apply for my counte a'iice ;" and, in fact, " That I had come forward as the mistaken advocate of parties, of whose position I was io.norant." A perusal, however, of the pre. l a c e to the Doctor's book removed the veil, and presented to me the peculiar calling of one of the two near relations, " whose position," Doctor Kennedy tells us, "made it more than a mere twater of curiosity that they should be kept accurately informed," &c. &c. It was then, Sir, I discovered that the tims and attention of the historian had deserted their post to descant on the duties, and probably sympathise in-the feelings, of his brother-in-law—the companion and coadjutor of the Doctor's younger days, while practising of an Oriental Court—the now Political Secretary to the Government of Bombay—the late leading member of that secret commission who had condemned the Raja ; and, if the secret papers now printed speak truth, " the i.etive and zealous pioneer in clearing through and ar ranging that heterogent ous mass of said-to-be evidence, open which the authorities at home and abroad have evidently founded their opinion of the guilt; .tiid lastly, Lough not least, the official companion of Sir James Carnae, to the Court of the It ija, on the oc casinn of the dethronement of that unfortunate Prince. I have always been led, Sir, to believe that the most , ssential attributes of military life, which Dr. Ken ito:ily tells us has been his lot for twenty-nine years, are an open, manly frankness, an abhorrence of the distortion or mystification of truth, with a sensitive re gard for the feelings of others ; and it is with pain, , even in self-defence, that I arraign the conduct of Pr. Kennedy, as wanting in those attributes alike es- Oent;al to the soldier and the historian. , The truth of the Doctor's assertion, that " I had made myself conspicuous in the case of the Raja of patiara," will be best understood by the fact, that 11-1 to the period of the Raja's deposition, I earetully avoided interfering in his concerns, be yond the expression of my private opinion to my pr;- iAtc friends ; and receiving kindly, 3,et without vn. couragement, the agents sent to me by his Highness; and through which means I might have gained inforinl tion that might, possib;y, h-tve h em o f 3)ob6:; ssnce in the duties with which I had bean introArd by her Majesty's Gave:nu:cot ; yet, for the li.c,ts,of com mon courtesy, I was, by implication, not only accustd by the Bombay Government, in a letter to my address under the signature of the Dr.'s brother-in-law ; but in secret despatches from the same Government, to the authorities in England, of having conspired with Dr. Milne and the Raja's agents, against the British Government. Notwithstanding, this very gentleman, Dr. Milne, had been expressly authorised by the Su preme Government of India to explain the lt,ija's case : yet, monstrous as it is, it does appear by the papers now printed, that these expressly authorised com munications between the Raja and his adviser were secretly and systematically intercepted by the subor dinate Government of Bombay, and now appear at the India House, not as proofs of the Rija's guilt, but of the unbounded confidence his Highness had in the ultimate justice of that Government, which has, however, unheard, consigned him from a throne to a prison ; and it was through these machinations, and ru mours founded on them, that I was dragged into that conspicuous position which Dr. Kennedy so errone ously attributes to my officiousness, instead of, pro bably, the officious malevolence of some of the Doctor's friends. Dr. Kennedy's assumption that, as a naval °nicer, I must be ignorant of all that does not appertain to my profession, is too contemptible to require remark ; I notice it merely with the view of placing such a sps'ci men of arrogance in juxta-position with the humble daties which this medical practitioner so modestly assigns to himself, doubtless, in virtue of his medical cameo, when he stands forth as the gratuitous promp ter of a Minister of the Crown, the discoverer of all the real merit of those officers under whose command la was but a very humble subordinate ; and who not only dictates to, but finds fault with the confidential advisers of his Sovereign, in the distribution of those honours which were so nobly earned, and generally ad mitted to be as justly awarded. I have never wished, Sir, to obtrude upon public at tention the proceedings of my official life ; but I now feel called upon to establish that which 1 before had occasion to assert, and which Doctor Kennedy has had the audacity to deny, by stating in his book, " That I never held a public situation that would draw a native chief to apply for my assistance ;" whilst in the same volume be tells us that he has not been asleep during his twenty-nine years sojourn in India. But in truth, Sir, it appears that the Doctor is only awake to those subjects that suit the peculiar ends he has in view, and not only slumbers but sleeps over facts that would have aided him in the furtherance of truth.flad it not been so, Dr. Ken nedy must have known, by the public prints, that, for the last six years, I have been frequently and, if, I be permitted to say, distinguishedly employed in con rroLion with an Oriental Court ; I was especially ac credited by rne of these Courts, and conveyek as a present from it a 74 gun-ship, one of the most Onspi cuous, if not valuable, gifts, I believe, that was ever sent to a Sovereign of England. I had also been en trusted by my late Soveregn with a complimentary mis sion ; and at the very time when the Doctor presumes to assail my conduct, I was empowered by her Ma jesty's Government to conclude, on behalf of Great Bri tain, a commercial treaty with an Oriental State. These, Sir, are facts, at once as condemnatory of the Doctor's as sertion as they are incapable of distortion or mystification. by the utmost aid of his ingenuity ; but lest the Doctor should again be disposed to give his gratuitous advice to one of the Queen's Ministers, let me inform hire and his friends, that the President of the Board of Control expressed to me sentiments directly opposite to those with which the Doctor has so modestly assigned to him. Dr. Kennedy's malevolence, however, is not only directed at mP, but, under the same pitiful shield of protection, attacks by vague and mysterious insinuations the conduct of the Noble Lord who commanded the campaign, as well as that highly talented officer Sir Henry Pottinger, who conducted its civil and political duties. The difference in our position seems this, that the modest historian pointedly digresses from his subject to assail my conduct, but apparently with a better grace avails himself of the latitude of his office, to pour forth on parties conspicuous in the campaign, those feelings of well-known and long-engendered animosity against his Commander-in-Chief, and to insinuate opinions to the prejudice of Sir Henry Pottinger's arrangements, that might be acceptable to a clique of his own friends, whose policy and interests were alike opposed to those of the worthy Baronet. The spirit, Sir, in which this book is written, the reckless flippancy with which its author disposes of every subject upon which he treats, must be too appa rent to the reader to require observation, but gives a fair estimate of its real value as an authentic record. I appear, Sir, not as a reviewer, but in my own defence, and shall, with one exception, leave its numerous ab surdities to the correction of others ; but, lest British lives and property should fall a sacrifice to the criminally incorrect assertions of Dr. Kennedy, regard ing the capabilities of the Horham Kurachy ; let me caution the confiding mariner not to expect more than . flfteenfeet, instead of the Doctor's eleven fathoms, at the entrance of this port ; let him expect only an in tricate entrance to a small harbour for small vessels, and no shelter whatever for ships of any magnitude ; and let him regard its coast, during the south-west mon soon, as particularly dangerous. In conclusion, Sir, I beg to assure you that I do not envy the narrator of the " Sinde and Kaubool Cam paign," the laurels he may reap in the production of this book, nor the influences under which he has written it ; nor do I covet the feelings of the man who, like Dr. Kennedy and his ancestors, owes a debt of gratitude to India for the respectable position he fills in society, and who can deliberately stigmatize in the pages of history the sons of that soil, even when in the capacity of his own servants, with the appellation of " brutes ;" but I can pity the unhappy feelings of him who would prostitute the energies of his pen in the ostensible narration of an interesting campaign, and avail himself by that means of the excitement of public in terest, to widely calumniate a party unknown, unoffend jog, far distant, and unconnected with his subject ; and who employs the same covert means to gratify, at the expense of his military superiors, those petty feelings of revenge, the cause or existence of which he had neither the generous candour to declare, or the prudent sagacity to conceal. I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, ROBERT COGAN. Oriental Club, December 9, 1840. TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—As you haveadtnitieirthespeechof one more counsel on the opposite side, I hope you will favour me with a last reply. To a " Latitudinarian" (a not uncourteous opponent) I would observe that I still, under correction, believe, that the operations and scope of lingual criticism, and the experiments, and phenomena of natural science, present a difference of character pre cluding any analogy. ... As being honoured with an adjunct from Cambridge, I must know the names of Bentley and Porson with some subsequent ones from this and the sister Univer- sity— " Much renowned in Greek," of course they have introduced considerable improve ments. But, I would risk much on the answer to the following question. Would a person who had to de rive his ethics from the direct observations of Plato, or the interjectional, though noble ones of iEschylus, be led into fatal errors by versions and translations prior to these two great men ? Assuredly not. There was na such Cimmerian darkness. I have tested translations, ancient and modern, from four or five languages, living and lead, according to my bumble knowledge. In some cases I have thought the old translations better ; more in the spirit of the original. In cases where they were less perspicuous and elegant than the modern, they conveyed no unsafe idea of the author's meaning. My acquaintance amongst the clergy has been with men of sound learning, of more worth than wealth. They have admitted some errors in the translation, but, considering it to be generally very faithful, have thought that the disquiet attending a new translation would be the greater evil. [lad they thought other. wise, I am sure they would rather have died than have sold themselves to an unworthy purpose. Let me re mind any correspondent (whose aim 1 will rather think correctional than destructive) that one of the first " new translations" of " separate books" was by Lowth, Bishop of London ; which beautiful work, whilst it gives a poetic dress, makes no material difference in the sense ; let the 35th chapter be examined as a specimen. And, of mo dern criticisms and suggestions, I think a very fair por tion have come from the clergy themselves, which does not look as if they thought, or primarily cared, that their own " craft" would be endangered by lotting in additional light. I made a brief allusion to the Jews. Have the most learned Jew Rabbis ever asserted that the Christian translations of their Books were materially incorrect ? Believe me, Sir, that I conscientiously dare not be au enemy to the improvement in translation. This should, however, be the work of united counsel, not of one mind, however eager ; he may do his part. Any really necessary corrections might, I think, be soon made by a " Committee" fairly chosen. These might be inserted in their places in future editions, and an appendix (an extremely small number of pages) added to the present. For an entirely new t ranslacion the public mind ought to be considerably prepared. This brings me, Sir, to mention the reason of my writing to you at all. I would protect the unlearned, attached Christian from groundless un easiness. Let him believe the word of one who honestly believes himself able to speak on the subject, and who, for his own sake, would not deceive him, that he may place as much confidence in his Bible and Testament, as to all objects of information and satisfaction, as he did before persons of more reading than him.eit wrote on the subject in public journals, and that the f•w altera tions heF would find would only tend to increase hit ideas of the goodness and mercy of God. I am, Sir, your's, respectfully aid obliged, A CONSTANT READER, M,A. London, Jan. 1, 1841, MORNING EDITION. WALSALL ELECTION. TO' TIIE EDI TOR OF THE' SUIV. Dragon, Walsall, :Jan. 8, 1641 Ste-1 must express my surprise at the gross igno rance or misrepresentation of the facts at isFue on this special agitation. Error—if it he nothing worse seems to have bitten the Whig candidate, the Whig and Tory reporters, and the Whig denunciator of the League in the columns of our deceived friend of the Morning Chronicle. The Hon. Spencer Lyttelton says, in his far,twell address, " I had to encounter the avowed hostility of the agents of the Anti-Corn-law League deputed to oe pos me." The Hon. Gentleman should have k iown better ; for, on Monday evening list, when in the pre sence of some fifty of the electors, I desired to know his sentiments on the question of the abolition of the Cora law, he asked me how we intended to act as regarded Mr. Gladstone, and to which inquiry I replied that we should forthwith apply the test to his opponent, assuring him at the same time that our mission had no factious origin, and that our sole object was to mike Corn law repeal the electoral pivot here and every where else, without reference to the professed ‘Vhiggistn or Turyion of individuals. The reporters seem to agree that I went to Manches ter to procure a candidate, on the retirement of Mr. Lyttelton from the field ; whilst the fact is, that I have not left Walsall since I arrived on Monday night. But this, and the other half hundred mis-statements of fact, are trifles as compared with the extraordinary flounder ings of the Chronicle, in its laboured efforts to prove us wrong, because the Whig candidate was a bread-taxer. We are informed that Mr. Lyttelton was for a fixed duty. He was only for an inquiry, and stated that redly he had not considered the subject, and was there fore unable to say more. How very wrong of flat; League, when hundreds of thousands of men, wonaeo. and children are on short allowance of food, and all the great commercial interests of our country jeopardised. to be dissatisfied with the ignorance of a cornet of dragoons, who is ambitious to go to Parliament as the representative of a manufacturing town, that be mar begin to inquire about the propriety of an inhuman and anti•commercial bread tax ! But we oppose the Government. Is not that to as- siert that the - Ministers are bread-taxers ? For, Sir , we only oppose those who are the opponents of pleat/ for the people, and prosperity for the country. If the Government like not the electoral interference: of the League, let them provide Repeal candidata lf, on the other hand, they attempt to foist bread-taxers upon unfed constituents, let them not complain of the opposition to which they will necessarily subject them selves in the persons of their friends. Last Session of Parliament we were told that t 226 people were indifferent—that the pressure from witlaut was insufficient ; and Mr. Villiers was yelled at and, hooted down, and tricked out of a fair discussion by the enlightened Legislators of this bread-taxed uaLioto Well, Sir, the pressure is about to be increased, ;lea at the very first turn of tho screw the League are de' nounced as illiberals, because they are not Whigs, and because Whigs will be bread-taxers. _ _ N'importe - ; the President of the League will sit for Walsall, and we can afford to wait events for the eon', version of those who are n ow gro pi ng i n th e m i s t 01 misrepresentation. Believe me, dear Sir, yours, faithfully, JAMES ACLAND. ANTI-CORN-LAW AGITATION. SUFFRAGE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.. Stß,—Your well-timed and sensible article, on Toe' day last, on the necessity of union amongst Reforinere' will find a response from most of its readers. You tilers struck the right chord ; and it only wants a few rveti" lions, as ably touched, before its vibrations will be powerfully felt. You have rightly said, that in the / 1 ' riety of abuses which are sought to be redressed 13 /, different sections of Reformers lie thei r wea k ness , and that in centralization of object will be their power' The evidence of the past justifies your assertion. f ro people have heels signally defeated on the t w o grea t questions—Corn-laws and Extension of Suffrage--fe ! want of sympathy and union. The con t empt s h ow n bi the Members of the House of Commons to the of ° important delegations, and other petitions, p role, this. Would Mr. Villiers, last session, have a ddress o for a considerable time only 40 Members of that House' if the League whom he represented had been backed l a i r those who were seeking the extension of the Suffrage Or would the advocates of the people's petition 0 0 a former occasion have received that cold heartless, ba yet assumed sympathy, if those who had so ably agit 9 ; ted for the abolition of the Corn-l aws h a d b een : An d u ee to give their co-operation and supp or t t o t h e latter? ," would not have been displayed if the two beldies bts t been wise enough to concentrate their power. It w i , i be said, and with some truth, th a t a t th ese per i o ds tt was impossible to have brought these two po w ers 1 , have acted in concert. Too much doubt and j e aloulZ then existed, one party f e lt th a t t h e i nfluence w hi t ' was sought by the people would not (if obtained) be wisely exercised, whilst the other believed the agitatie a , of the middle classes was not so much directed to se; national evil, as t o th e i r own part i cu l ar interests. Thee; feelings were ch er i s h e d b y t h e i r common enemy, att"; however truo or fals e were t h e assumpt i ons of eit her party, sure it is the result was defeat. Now, one of these agitations scents for the presen t to have passed away ; at least so its sincerest trif.qv g t Messrs. Lovett and Collins, in their useful publicati° l3 l intimate. But will they an d o th ers , w h o h ave agitate' and been defeated, feel ju s tifi e d, an d b e content to re' main quiet, and rend e r no ass i s t ance to t h ose w h o are , a : now making demands, though not so extensive their own? I think we have no right to say eitl will, before some attempt be fairly made to win thei r co-operation. For it is idle to expect that any tue‘; sure of importance will no w b e carr i e d , unless bacie" by the working classes. To what, then, amongst th e various objects which divide the attention of Refornier o, ought their energies to be directed. What is most to obtain general support P Undoubtedly the most pr o ' minent and moat important agitations will be the A h T lition of the Corn-laws, a n d th e E xtens i on of the ST ferage, Ballot, &c. Whi c h o f th ese w ill b est un i te the energies of the people? T o so l ve t hi s quest i on s h o al' the attention of the true friends of practical reform b a directed. The Leeds meeting, which is shortly t o tisk ° place, and which will b e so numerous l y attended, seen's to present an admirable opportunity of fully discussle!, the propriety of some u n ited movement. I t i s to , hoped there is sufficient right feeling on the part of tbs people's leaders, to induce them to suspend for a per°, the questions they have had most at heart, and 00c " more to unite for some given object. What is to prevent such gentlemen as Mr. Sturge' Mr. Smith, and Mr. Cobden, whose exertions for e, cheap loaf cannot be too highly valued by t ile ; public, meeting Mr. Marshall and his I,l l °' l / 1 labourers for the Suffrage, &c., a id e d b y O'C o P4e and other Liberal members, and to their number unit ° the co-operation of such right-minded leadera of O a people es Mr. Lovett, and let their deliberations b O , turned to that measure which wo u ld ensure the greatcP am ount of energy and uni o n. L et t h em weigh well tb e position they have separat e ly t a k en, and their chance o f success. It' whilst divided they believe their success to be distant, unite for the one which is most likely t o ob' tain the greatest amount - o f un i on , an d t h en, as you have justly observed, let that measure w hi c h w i ll unite most r first tried. You believe the Corn-laws ought to take w e lead—but have the Corn-law League reason to expect a greater measure of support from the people and their r e ' presentatives than they experienced last Session ? a rt there any symptoms of relaxation on the part of the lanle lords ? Has the agitation made any impression on tr value of their estates ? Do they display anything Ili insecurity ? Do the people gener a lly fe e l sangu i n e o f any change at present ? The enormous p r i ces whie, are obtained for land when thrown on th e mar ket 1 . 13 ' sale, and the increased rentals which are so read 4 given, is a proof that a firm belief exists in the or'' cultural districts that they will remain nearly as ',al are, if ever altered at all. Th e l an d e d propr i ety rs secure in their present position ; they see (and t' de trut h is to be regretted) that the agitation will be -confined to the manufacturing districts. The lectures and discussions emanating from t he League have done much in agricultural cities and b°, roughs to prove the evils of the Bread-tax ; they lo ve made its operations better understood by the sh° 9 ; keepers and labour ers ; b ut at present they dare n ° make any decided stand against the interest which they are surrounded. Any attempts whi ° have been made by those who have had honest) ? and daring to make it, have had little influence, for ch ° mass of the people have been prevented from joining , ,. them by the threats and inti m id a ti on w hi c h h ave be" used, and this it is to be feared will continue to be ` , lt e case so long as corn retains even its present enornina price. The measure can never be carried without co-operation of the traders and labourers of the a to p; .en l j tural district, unless some such powerful allies as, 0 , b° harvest and bad trade should come to their asxi s tanc e ,' What are the chances of support to H ouse it A d So' (rage, Ballot, &c. Nothin g i s more popu l ar an d mare d,; sired with town constituencies, aed Rani , , u h a ly t ° . smaller ones, than the Ballot, and it has alr , ady p olo; ful support in the Ho use o f Commons. There i 4 agency that would so un d erm i ne t h e icratic 411 ence, even with the present eenstite 'enejell, as the Bal iand it would be still m ore f e l t as, the f r ,,. „ h i„ is i s e tended, and m os t Reformers ri;,. e fully coax' ,need that f present suffrage needs extension,, and th e; b es t bans e , that extension at p rose , nt t h ey b el i eve to be h°lll-i ' hold--it is a middle course now Teeocu i s ed even moderate Ref ormers . F or t hi s- —the it a llot g o , the shortening of Parliaments both e l ectors and no electors may be induced to make a itruggle. " °ullt o hold Suffrage will give the franchise to a fart porti°,, ..f those who have tried, but leave failed t o o btion' e , greater extension, and those ex.eluded may f. tidy roe sumo that if it could be obt aine d , the tune vi Tau bj brought much nearer whe n th eir f ull demand °via recognised and paid. If the people will rveolvV tg secure these, tl jey gill / L