The Sun. — London, England, 1841-07-03 00:00:00

EN_LINING SUN. TO THE ELECTORS OF MARYLEBONE. GENTLEMEN, r BEG you Will accept my thanks for the honour the 'IL you have this day conferred upon me in again returning as•one of your representatives. I shall follow the same course of public conduct which 1 haze already pursued in the four preceding Parliaments, and I feel confident by so doing, I shall ensure to myself a continu ance of that support which you have given me upon the pre sent oceasion, an d t h at when the time of trial again arrives, I shall be able to fight the battle with the same certainty of suc cess with which I entered upon the late contest. I beg to remain, Gentlemen, Your most obliged and faithful servant, •65, W impole-street, July 2, 1841. B. HALL. Tp T :HE ELECTORS OF MARYLEBONE. PGENTLEMEN. ERMIT me to return you thanks for the me zeal and e n th us i asm w i t h w hi c h you h ave suppor t e d You h ave ac hi eved a victory that will have its effect LhrOughout the U n it e d Kingdom, and you have taught the Tories that they must no longer look to this Borough for sup- Port. 1 am, Gentlemen, Your obedient and grateful servant. CHARLES NAPIER. 67, __Baker-stre e t, J u l y 2, 1841. ,_ TO THE ELECTORS OF LIVERPOOL. rirGENTLEMEN, HOUGH the election, now terminated, ha s resulted in my defeat, I have still the agreeable duty perfor m of thanking you—each and aIIJ-for the kindness, I 1 .1 " 1 1_ may say, enthusias m w ith w hi c h, th roug hout my canvass, b have been almost every where greeted. From my political PPonents even I have generally received the utmost courtesy; :Id the condu c t of those parties who, though agreeing with in opinion, have withheld from me their zealous support, only renders me the more deeply grately to that large majority et Reformers who, by their assistance, as well as by their na tes, have given ti c so gratifying a proof of their approval of Y ' v iews as a polian, and ef their confidence in my inte grity as a man. d tve rY feeling of p ersona l disappointment is absorbed in a "per regret that monopoly and exclusiveness Should have t a , gajn triu mp h ed, and that L i verpoo l , ow i ng a ll i ts greatness lisr.l.l_nme manufactures on the one hand, and to foreign com e ;fee on•th e other, should have given countenance to politi oat doctrin es equa ll y i n j ur i ous — nay ru i nous —t o bet's. By refusal to admit the commodities of other countries, we necessarily lessen the foreign demand for the production of our t w ? . ; while the high price of food, consequent upon our pro tective system, as it is called, diminishes the home demand ,` manufactured articles, "lowers w?ges, and cramps taitonthe same time that it starves the industry of the na „. ~ These principles are so obvious and so important, ' a t might be difficult to understand how, in a large com ae t,i r o c n ia , l , town, a tow n at on ce the, inlet and the outlet of the nwealth--they should not have received the support of intelligent member of the constituency, were the means inmown that have been unscrupulously resorted to in order to sure their defeat, which, as some imagine, means their final °, r crthrow. N o misrepresentation has been too gross, no rnis :!atement too too a monstrous, no argument too absurd, no prejudice et unr easonable, no feeling too base, to be enlisted in the , u re of ena c t ments b y w hi c h t h e f ew pro fit an d th e many r• Th e h a ll owed names o f religion and patriotism have be, e prostitut e d i n d e f ence o f a system that, if persevered in, roust be fatal to England's greatness, and that is not less op posed to th e willofGd than it is injurious to the best inte rests of man. ,„ 'tegrettin g deeply, as on public grounds I must ever do, th e result o f this ele ction, I would indeed be unworthy of the P ri nciple s I hold did I entertain the slightest doubt of their t b e a e sucecess ; th e y ma y be suppressed, but they cannot _ destr oye d : their triumph may be delayed, but it cannot be anave.rted ; t h e i r success may, it is true, b e at too l ate a per i o d, Q all Englishmen, worthy of the name, may see and de r ore fhe causes that have been long sapping the founds ; of the country's prosperity, when the season for applying rein ed) . has for ever passed away. But I would fain be ,l(*,'e that the great mass of the English people will not long ;nT, themselves to be blinded by the mists which a selfish er i stry would spread around them ; that they will treat as f _eY deserve the fallacies of those who presume to say that it is s r their country's good that the necessaries of life should be line ; and that they will el e long demand, as with one voice, that ea of Mliey—at once generous, expedient and just—to which isuenlightened patriotism and pure philanthropy alike point. bj a ta v ined by this belief (though the election here has ended ele n c u t nil raionsbl),, and whatever may be the onresult even of the ee I regard the ywesent ctest, which, so fa g r as I rel.. con cerned, shall not be the last—as but the beginning of a s of cont es t s , t h at w ill not cease unt il t h e a b o li t i on o f a ll restrictions en i n d us t r y an d t ra d e s h a ll e ith er h ave been achieved,op by the pa r ty w h o p ro t es t aga inst thei r inj u stice and iin 'eY, or ,ru ng unwillingly from those who now profit by lof in ' ar id who w ou ld p ersua d e o th ers th a t th e y are th e sour ce teteral welfare, as they certainly are of their individual gain. hth is n the oth er quest i ons regareling which, in the course of in :le et i on, you have been called upon to decide, I have no atr now to sass: to these, when the excitement of the 4 ggle has ceasjd, I may have ether opportunities of direct- Your attention. Meantime, though I have not obtained Th ": honour of serving you as your representative in Parlia „thnt, I will still labour for the promotion of your welfare in er ways. I f I cannot serve you as I would, I will at least ser vt you as I may. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your faithful servant, JOSHUA WALMSLEY. Wavertroe Hall, June 30, 1141. LONDON and BRIGHTON RAILWAY COMPANY. 1 , 1 ,‘ TRAIN \Nil] leave the LONDON STATION at TOO i.Y-sTRE ET, for HAYWOOD'S HEATH and back, on t„ c , E %nAY N EXT , the 6th July, at Eleve n o ' c l oc k, t o con vey AT 2, Shareh o ld ers w h o may apply f or Ti c k ets on or b e f ore sth irst. By order, A THOMAS WOOD, Secretary. ugel-court, Thregmorton-street, July 1, 1841. NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE A C EVRANCE and DEFERRED ANNUITY SO Noti x, 26, CORNHILL, LONDON. July 1,184 1. y 1, 184 . TEPtE ce ,„ l3 hereby Given, that the HALF YEARLYnnIuNm "I the the rate of Five . Poundo per cent. per a botome payable Stock of this Society, due on the 3 . oth ult., will "i e r a Yahle on the 10th instant, and Proprietors may re %le smile at the O ffi ce of the Society on that or any other " el 't day, between the hours of Eleven and Three. 3' order of the Court of Directors, F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Secretary. ATIoNAL LOAN FUND SOCIETY, LIFE ` IA FIL GRANTING S SURANCES, O DEFERRED ANNUITIES, &c. No. 26, CORNHILL. Capital £500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament. EIRECTORS. J. ": L AMIE MURRAY, Esq., Chairman._ sg J o b son , m .D. F.R.S. s I John Rawson, litu ate ' r iMth Frith, E sq. J e h n R i dd e ll Stode.; t, Esq. Gordon, Esq. Clement Tabor, E sq. r flo Lia ng i ey, En. Joseph Thompson, Esq. P r o —.lor Wh eatstone F. R. S. AUDITORS I Professor Graves, A.M. F.R. S. ' 0 2.1 0 O W v W. iAltir— 'S. B. WoolhouseF. R. A. S messrs. weet, Sutton, , Ewens, and Omman- ney, 6, Basinghall-street. up iles the ti e LIFE ASSURANCE. , i'a perfect sec ur ity t o the p o licy holder of a large ;111'10 capita n ,c' l %t and accumulating funds, the following is one Pri rk i ni , nY of th e a d vantages w hi c h b e l ong exclusively to b of Life A ssurance an d Deferred Annuities on expe n Y t h' Society, viz.—Power to borrow (without de "4 or :orfeiture) Two-thirds of all premiums paid f T he an Yof Asmrance. ass iiri ” led is a short Table, showing the Annual Premium H___loo on the W hole Lite, sr for a Term otil_) on the Whole Lite, or for a Term LIF : ...._ Port E. Ag e, A. B. Without With For One For Five •••.......... Profits. Profits. Year only. Years only, 21) -- p* 3 . (1 x . s. d. X. s. d. Z. s. d. 4 0 ,13 7 1 17 4 017 0 017 6 40 2 4 4 2n 3 019 6 10 0 40 13 8 33 3 1 13 10 Ii 0 --- 6 0 f l 4 2 413 6 113 0 116 6 l' ‘ l o. -----1-- -- . -----1_ 7a 4 (3 0 0 39 6 tb• • Tv,,,, -- ;; 4 'irds of Profits divided annually amongst the Assured. h i l PERRE D ANNUITIES DEPARTMENT . a ‘Cef Yt . - ',' Plan exclusively developed by this Society, si n gle " t.. 0 ' t " Atnuit is made , not only to answer the sem i e th e e bje a c d t . , ''antar4r,eZeeed' m t the entire benefit of a! eil,-iset neretoforui a l'eNl"thr.°,lgh separate ou investments in Savings' Ban s, I amount the entire benefit of all the ad tthroufore only obtained by the middle ard industrious I. ..ocieties, .oan ranks. at tkB 'llall y early or weekly contribution will secure ( t i h s e . k week 4 'p l e return for after life • thus-21. ].'.s. erannum the fol -I%aitl )at the age ) will ' gape the policyholder A ll , g option at of 2( , ~ ( 4 _,ltit y for ._; t . the age 0 . 1 fi..) pj,k ....... . , mainder of life... ......... £47 16 6 394 11 0 or a CAer). teithe ......... .....death. vrii_ peri a , ), _. _ e.. ..................... of 466 0 oat tken , liklii u ot life (of 50, 55, and 60) may be also a t. ,i, ar advantages. 144 en-thirds at any time lent on deposit of policy, being a l • iraY' available during sickness or want of empo3 in e tss er wa-thirds of all pa yments returned to representatives N t Premature death. one t. 5 i P°lic ies, as collateral money -security, for periods of t ti nY oth er ears, effected at lower rates than are c:ltarg uf rd co b n y .. -114 ae t ' l. "flier. (Ne T bles A. and B.), with option ..,,,..._ a for Life at th e e u a sual rates. p i, --- ---------___ F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Sec. •RI s ART BEFORE NATURE. h ' , seetring paradox has been solved by the ht-Akbeieries and Head Dresses made by ROSS and SONS, b I 'IY likb, ; 13 ISHOPSGATE-STREET, for alt hough i per isiefuh,-441, they at the same time possess that e egance and -4 mural'44 of contour otherwise unattainable. Being m ade . (P4rti of hair, hihlways looks easy and becomin . g, r,,,,da,iy in Ladies' Gentlemen's Perukes), being qu i te t ttter ,:t4,,t1 finished with their newly-invented partings, th e Zare Pere ""se a yresemb!ance to the skin, as to defy detection , v ()ssPerfeetl uniolui• IN% "a all( ' Su NS saving completed their extensive altera t4sts: 40 .1 v offer to the g Publie, on the Ground flrr, the tl,tetingeittlt!did apartments for Ladies' and Gentlemen s Hai n r of i.,) , ,i2,„ t l, arra...ging ; and request a visit, the first week in ft 4 lotu s , i ; t ° inspect the fashions. Anynmense assor t k meg eri ) • °llPeea, Ringlets, Braids, Rze. of the most beau i- IN Ptte n. Ladies' own hair made into Cha ins, Love r °r any other device required. I N ipil t „ „ it TURP'‘ItY for the CURE of STRIC- TkRA, GL E E the URETHRA, SYPHILIS, GONOR ,,_ N t , : Id urtATAAlrd:ail DISEASES of the PENERA ttiltlwedittatanding the a b O ot i • l en A st N it S e . tion is closed, Patients way 14 11 (Alr ° r j eeiv e the GRATUITOUS ADVICE of the Sur it°lti at '. aurtenay 42 Great Marlborongh-street,) by sp ms ow ri h ' • ' i f n r s e t tn e of f the Charity. Mornings 41 4 1 1 r ° 4"f Ay fte nda u n a ce e , ght to len in the < 4 ni )) ._:,_e en te Nine in the Evenings. On Sundays in the k‘'tK b ut not in the Evening. t 00p y v -, 1 "4-x COUGH CURED without ‘l l lA a -I' d ' e w Zi l, o o l ,edicine, by the use of ROCIIE'S HERBAL ll'e,(y4;Yonhousands(-4 children are cured annually by this re o'll,illtoe ilk•i, first attack, an immediate application of the 14, °I th e co l 1 9N will prevent the complaint taking any i k , "c,st e_ nstitution, and a few times may completely cure. t, ante gsas, one bottle will produce the desired effect ; and th:'Vl% y, can he so well calculated for children as this, for it ') ,- 3 " ill 'theine to be take ;nwardly. ~,Trap,,re Can this rnediei le hi' wine unless signed on 14 1 1 by ri,,' ``.I.,IIIOCIIE."' Price 4s. and 1/. 2s. per bottle. 'Li t gel afor c i Ed ' ar ds , 6 7, St. Paul's Churchyard . ; Sanger, lik,,e -street ; white 24, Cornhill, opposite the Royal ; and by Most dealers' in medicine. FICTITIOUS VOTES.—SCOTLAND. On the occasion of Mr. Gibson Craig retiring from the representation of the county, he intimated that he did so in compliance with the advice of many of his most zealous supporters, who had taken into consideration " the number of fictitious votes which have been placed on the register by the Tory party." We should have thought that, contented with the result, that party would have allowed this statement to pass without any obser vation. Their-agent, however, not satisfied with his -victory, must needs endeavour to conceal the means by which it is gained. He has published a letter to Mr. Craig, denying the accuracy of that gentleman's statements. This letter however, has met its answer from Mr. Lothian, and we think it is impossible to peruse the distinct and articulate statements of that letter, without coming to three important conclusions :-1. That the system of manu facturing votes was commenced by the Tories. 2. That it was carried to the greatest extent by the Tories ; and, 3. That it was practised for the longest period by the Tories. The mischief done in this way is, that the represen tation of the county is wrenched out of the hands of the local constituency, and transferred to itinerants from every quarter of the kingdom, who exercise the fran chise in as many different counties as the Tory mag nates think fit to employ them. Mr. Lothian's letter furnishes us with proof that he county of Edinburgh has been lost from that cause alone. We may explain, that if a landed proprietor chooses to give any person a conveyance to a part of his estate worth 10/. annually, not in absolute property or in perpe tuity, but simply during his lifetime, such person, as the law now stands, acquires the franchise. In this way as many votes can be created, as the number of times the es tate will yield 101. of yearly rent. A 1001. of rent gives 10 votes. In some instances, no doubt, the price of this liferent right is paid; but in by far the greater number it is not paid, and, what is more, is never meant to be paid. In this last case the proprietor guards himself against all risk of loss by keeping possession of the disposition, ostensibly for behoof of the voter, but, in reality, in se curity of the price, which is made of such an amount as that the interest to fall due on it, is just equal to the 10/. of rent which the voter should receive. In this way, no questions arise during the lifetime of the voter ; and at his death the life rent ceases, and there is an end of the matter. There are other life-renters of an unobjectionable kind, which must be distinguished from the class now alluded to : for example, mimsters and schoolmasters. in respect of their offices—husbands, in respect of their right in their wives' estates, &c. But the class complained of are those manufactured by the landed proprietor by means of dispositions expressly for the purpose of influencing the election, and of producing no real change of property whatever. Mr. Lothian refers to the instances where such were made in 1833 and repeated in 1834, on the Tory side. The numbers in these years, we are informed, amounted to nine. In 1835 sixteen, and in 1836 no fewer than forty-one were added, making in whole sixty-one, a number sufficient to extinguish the majority, by which, in this nicely balanced county, the first Liberal Member was sent to Parliament. Mr. Lothian further states, that down to 1834 not one, and in 1835 only one, vote had been made on the Liberal side. In regard to the subsequent period, we may leave that gentleman's letter to speak for itself.. It is quite true that in 1838 a considerable number were made by the Liberals in self-defence—a system, however, which was altogether put a stop to on that side after 1839. But down to last year inclusive it was persevered in by . the To ries, who have now put on the roll (after deducting those made by the Liberals) a sufficient number to de stroy, four or five times over, the largest majority of the natural constituency who ever voted at any election since the passing of the Reform Bill. Hay. ing achieved this feat, the Tories pretend to have great squeamishness about the manufacturing system ; and no doubt they are willing it should be carried no further, provided they be left quietly in possession of the majo rity which they have thus acquired. We tell them, how ever, what every man of sense feels, that their preten sions are mere hollow vapouring, so ong as they do not attempt to carry a legislative measure to exclude the non-resident itinerants altogether. Such is the duty of all honest men. If the franchise were confined, as it should be, to those who are really domiciled within the county, we unhesi tatingly affirm, that not Mid-Lothian only, but every county in Scotland, would at the present crisis have spoken out in favour of liberal measures in a voice which would be irresistible. Let those of us who vote in towns be stimulated by this consideration—let us bring to bear on the present con test that healthy, and vigorous, and united action, which is now looked for in some of the counties in vain—and which, we predict, will be the case wherever an intelli gent constituency are not overborne in the manner now exposed.—Scotsman. BOMBAY.—A singular revolution has lately been produced here in the newspaper trade, so to speak. The preparation of Newspapers for European circulation, now occupying more of the time and attention of the publishers than the getting up of papers for readers in India. The principal establishment here, that of the Bombay Timcs, began to send home monthly summa ries for the first time in October last, and then des patched betwixt 300 and 400. It now, issues about ten times the number ; and finding ordinary printing presses totally inadequate to supply the demands of the public, is about to introduce a printing machine. Two years since a few hundred newspapers only were sent home from India altogether ; now there are from 8,000 to 10,000 despatched by each steamer. This should by and by come to produce important effects at home. It is to the press of India that people at home must look for information on the affairs of India. No, 15,2)2 ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITU TION, REGENT-STREET. CARY'S DISSOLVING ORRERY, and the NEW DIS SOLVING VIEWS, of increased beauty (executed by Wrench and Smith), :with appropriate Music. SIXTY of BARWISE and BAIN'S ELECTRIC CLOCKS and MAG NETS working at the expense of 2d. p e r week MOl- NAU'S PATENTED CLOCKS, the PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS, and nearly Two Thousand Works which dis play eminent art, science, and ingenuity. The Microscope, Diver and Diving Bell, Popular Lectures, and beautiful Experiments. • CANTON, and other beautiful COSMORAMIS VIEWS i the Evenings, in addition to all the interesting subjects of the Morning. Opens at Half-past Ten o'clock in the Morning, and Seven o'clock in the Evening. Admission, One Shilling. CIHELTENHAM AND GREAT WES k_i TERN UNION RAILWAY. TENDER FOR LOANS ON DEBENTURES. The DIRECTORS of this COMPANY are ready to RECEIVE TENDERS of LOANS of MONEY on DE BENTURES, to be issued under the provisions in the Act of Parliament, and secured on their undertaking, in sums of not less than 2001., for terms of Four, Six, or Ten Years, on in terest at the rate of Five per Cent. per annum, payable half yearly. The Tenders must express the sums and terms of years, and be addressed to the Secretary, at the Company's Offices, in Prince's-street, Bank, London, or Cirencester. A limited sum only will be required. By order of the Board of Directors, A. MERRICK, Secretary. Cirencester, sth May, 1841. - - - - There is a net re9nue of 17,0001. per annum, payable half yearly from the GrCat Western Railway Company, for the use of the line from Swindon to Cirencester, applicable to the payment of the interest on the Debentures issued by this Company. TO SURGEONS. TO BE DISPOSED OF; in One of the Largest Thoroughfares in London, a SMALL PRAC TICE, with a CHEMIST'S %w k. . _ Particulars known on application to Mr. Humpage, 3, Fal con-court, Fleet-street, London. NOTICE TO RAILWAY TRAVELLERS AND OTHERS. VVINFIELD'S, late SHEARING'S COM MERCIAL ESTABLISHMENT, 2, REDCLIFF STREET, BRISTOL. The situation is central, and within Ten Minutes' Walk of the Great Western Raiiway Station. Commercial Gentlemen and others visiting this City on business or pleasure, will find every comfort and accommodation ; and it will be J. W.'s de sire to deserve their support and kind recommendation. ORIGINAL HAT AND FEATHERS, AND COMMER CIAL INN, MARKET-PLACE, DURHAM. GEORGE USHER respectfully informs his Friends, Commercial Gentlemen, and the Public, that he has entered upon the above Old-established Inn, which he has fitted up with every care to make those comfortable who may favour him with their support. The house is peculiarly well situated, and adapted for a Commercial Gentleman (to whom every attention shall be paid), being immediately oppo site the Piazza, and in the very centre of business. A large, well-lighted, convenient room for Commercial Gen tlemen having goods with them. The stabling is extensive and good. A Daily Paper. NOTICE TO RAILWAY TRAVELLERS. THE COMMERCIAL and FAMILY PRIVATE HOTEL and BOARDING ESTA BLISHMENT, conducted by • E. and M. VALE, No. 10, QUEEN-SQUARE, LIVERPOOL. Will be found especially eligible to Travellers and Families, whether on business or pleasure, the situation being open, pleasant, conveniently central, and within one minute's walk of the Railway Station. In the domestic arrangements no pains are spared to combine all the attention and convenience of an Hotel, with the quietude and comfort of home, at a scale of remunerating charges to suit the economy of the times. WHITE PEPPER, TWO SHILLINGS PER POUND. JOHN TAYLOR, TEA DEALER (Cor ner of Old Jewry, Clieapside, begs to announce to his numerous connexions and the public, that in consequence of the large quantity of White Pepper lately imported, he is en abled to reduce the price to Two Shillings per Pound, or Three Half-pence per Ounce ; and as one Ounce of White Pepper (being the interior part or kernel of the finest grains gathered when they arrive at the highest state of perfection, is, from its superior strength and purity, equal to two or three of the inferior ruhbish called Black Pepper, which is the small, imperfect, and shrivelled berries, and frequently little more than husks and chaff, families will find it not only the best, but much the cheapest, for every purpose. ( ~,p 7, ,,,,,,,, ~,,,,,.) , ,,t , ,,,z,w„,,,,_c.-1 7 e. - vvi- -- e,e7 \ p ---- f 1 / 41........ , • -, -- , . • v > P' , ,• • - i ...,, , , e , VAI---.; .., ~A A, - ~,,..„‘..._ . 4. v I,%'''re"-- . -414 1 ittn+ -.lC‘i - • 1-z i.T.,..... .... '.:1 0-,-, 00 a, - ~ ,,, . ....a, - DA ~., ,yw y., , • -, - ) -'-' 7 :11- ,-- _ -IV ilipt- laV •,' ~t ra r„,.. -- z - 0/T t WILLIAM. ~.~~zt^~~'T~ * Immo PRICE such high examples in his favour, the humble slave dealer of the district should feel himself in hone urable company, and really regard his occupation as one of re spectability and public utility. From thenee we proceeded to the City Prison, an old and loathsome building, where we examined two i unges of small stone cells, in which were a large numl per of coloured prisoners. We noticed five or six in a s Ingle cell, barely large enough for a solitary tenant, ant ler a heat as intense as that of the tropics. The keeper a tated that in rainy seasons the prison was uncomfortabl wet. The place had to us a painful interest, from the fat :1 that here Dr. Crandall, a citizen of the free :Mates, wit s con fined until his health was completely broke n down, al finally released only to find a grave, for the crime ofha ving circulated a pamphlet for emancipation, 'al -Awn by of .c of the friends who accompanied me. On inquir vof the ket per, he informed me that slaves are admitted int . ( his cells, and kept for their owners, at the rate of 34 cents, per day, and that transfers of them from one master to an , other same times took place during their confinement, th us ct orrobo rating the testimony o f th e k eeper o f t h e pi -Iva+ ;e gaol before-mentioned ; that this city prison, the p. roioep yof the people of the United St a t es , an d f or th e A thudding of which a large sum of your money has been ai Tnopri at2d, is made use of by the dealers in human be,u gs as a place of deposit and market ; and thus you, in com mon with your fellow-citizens, are made indirect pa; rtici pators in a traffic equal in atrocity to that foreign t rade, the suppression of which, to use the words of your Pre sident in his late Mess age , "i s requ i re d b y th e pt. iblic honour and the promptings of humanity." As one who has devoted much of his humble labo urs to the cause you wish to promote, I perhaps shall be 9c cused for thus stating these facts to you as they all passed before my personal observation in the course of a few hours. I shall deem it right to publish them in Europe, where I am about shortly to A3turn. :Re collect they all occurred and exist within the district of Columbia, and that those who elect the legis, l ators who uphold the slave system are justly responsitsle for it in the sight of God and man. Is it not all the .natural consequence of your electing slave-holders, and their abettors to the highest offices of your state and natio n ? Some of your most intelligent citizens have given it. as their opinion that fully two-thirds of the whole poj ela tion of the United States are in favour of the abolit ion of slavery ; and nay own observation, since I landed on these shores, not only confirms this opinion, but his convinced me that there is a very rapid accession to their numbers daily taking place ; and yet we have the ex traordinary fact exhibited to the world, that about 250,000 slave-holders, a large proportion of whom, bankrupt in fortune and reputation, have involved many of the north in their disgrace and ruin, hold in mental bondage the whole population of this great republic, who permit them selves to be involved in the common disgrace of presenting a spectacle of national inconsistency altogether without a parallel. I confess that although an admirer of many of the institutions of your country, and deeply lament ing the evils of my own Government, I find it difficult to reply to those who are opposed to our extension of the political rights of Englishmen, when they point to America, and say, that where all have a control over the legislation but those who are guilty of a dark skin, slavery and the slave trade remain not only unmiti gated, but continue to extend ; and that while there is an onward movement in favour of its extinction, not only in England and France, but even in Cuba and Brazil, American legislators cling to this enormous evil, without attempting to relax or mitigate its horrors. Allow me, therefore, to appeal to you, by every motive which attaches you to your country, seriously to consi der how far you are accountable for this state of things by the want of a faithful discharge of those duties for which every member of a Republican Government is so deeply responsible ; and may I not express the hope, that on all future occasions you will take care to promote the election of none as your representatives who will not practically act upon the principle, that in every clime and of every colour " All men are equal." Your sincere friend, ' JOSEPH STURGE. LETTER FROM EARL FITZ- TO THE EDITOR OF THE DONCASTER GAZETTE. . Sir,--I am induced to trouble you with a few remarks, in consequence of having observed that, in a speech deli vered at Thorne, Mr. Wortley is reported to have stated that, " Lord Fitzwilfiam said the repeal of the Corn-laws would not reduce the price lower than it had been for the last eighteen years." lam quite sure Mr. Wortley would not intentionally misrepresent any statement of mine, but, in order to give your readers a more correct view of the proposition which I advanced in the House of Lords, and which Mr. Wortley so very much miscon ceived, it is desirable to state it more fully and accurately. The conversation in the course of which it was made, referred to rents, and to the effect which would be pro duced upon them by the Ministerial measure. Your readers are probably aware of a statement having been made that it would occasion a reduction of one-third of the rental of the kingdom ; on the other hand, the proposition which I advanced was, " that any existing rent which was fairly calculated from the average price of the eighteen years from 1821 to 1838, both inclusive, (or even from the 20 years, to 1840,) need not be much reduced in consequence of the change proposed by Ministers." I then maintained this proposition in Parliament (as I will now in your columns), by showing that the average of the above-mentioned eighteen years was 565. Bd, and that, including the two dear years, 1839 and 1840, it was only about 58s. ; and, further, that the average with a duty of Bs. would probably be about 535. or nearer 535. than any other price. It is obvious that a rent calculated from 535. would be nothing like a third less than one calculated from 565. or from 585., and, having advanced these propositions, I expressed the be lief, which I continue to entertain, that, with an improving agriculture, prosperous manufactures, and a thriving population, land would yield in the first instance nearly as high a rent, and, ultimately, perhaps a higher, under the ministerial system than it has under the present Corn-laws. Having been led thus far, I will just observe, that I have been all along referring to a fair rent, but your agricultural readers need not be reminded that r en t s are . . not always fairly calculated. One of the many objec tions that I entertain to the Corn-law is, that it supplies landowners, but more particularly land valuer s , with a pretext for fixing rents too high. sixty-two, sixty three, or even sixty-four, has generally been consid ere d the price, which was to be secured to the farmer by the present Corn-law, and consequently this price has been taken as the basis for the fixing of rents. Nevertheless, the average of the last twenty years has been about 585., and (excluding the two dear years, 1839 and 1840) only 565. Bd. But though the average has been thus low, too low to enable the tenant to pay a rent based upon 635. or 645., the consumer has frequently had his table furnished at a much dearer rate—far dearer than if the Corn trade had been left free with a moderate fixed duty. This has been occasioned by the capricious character of the law. When in the winter 1838-9, the average, de pressed by the bad quality of the wheat, fluctuated be tween 755. and 80s., the price of such wheat as was fit for human food was 90s. or upwards, and flour was at 3s. or even 3s. 2d, a stone. This arose from the follow ing circumstance:—Vast quantities of the wheat of 1838 were unfit for the use of man, but nevertheless they passed through the markets, and thereby contributed to pull down the averages, to retard the admission of foreign corn, and actually to raise the price of bread. This is the most painful part of the whole question. The average being kept down, the duty kept up, and the foreign supply was excluded because the averages were depressed by the bad corn, while good eatable corn rose to an enormous height. I am, therefore, very far from saying generally (as Mr. Wortley supposes I did), that " a repeal of the present Corn-laws would not reduce the price lower than it had been for the last eighteen years." On the contrary, I believe that it would lower it materially at those times when it is desirable to lower it, or rather, that it would have a material effect in pre venting an exorbitant rise in the price of bread, corn, or flour, when, from the character of the season , such mi g h t be the natural result. At the same tim e , I believe that would not lower the average of any long peri o d so as to affect, in any perceptible degree, those rents which have been fairly set with reference to the average of the in it ionwsillarbee twenty nt t h y o e u a g r s h . T ha h v e e se no tw d o oub o p t P s ti e rd el clasontsis; they are otherwise.that I remain, Sir, your very faithful servant Wentworth, June 28, 1841. PITZW , ILLIAIL MUNIFICENT BEQUEST. ---We have much sa tisfaction in learning that it appears from a l e tt er , f rom the Lord Bishop of Ca s h e l and Waterford, to Sir John Newport, that the suit respecting the munificent be quest h of the b late Mr. Fanning to the p oor o f thi s c i ty , and Burin which as een pending in th e C ourt of Chancery of Englg so many y ears, and i n which Sir John Newport interested himself much, is at last happily terminated by a decree of the Chancellor, directing the Master's report thereon to be con firmed, and that the sum of 34,000/. stock in Three per Cent. Consols should be forthwith transferred to the credit of the Board of Charitable Donations and Bequests in Ireland, for the benefit of the 'poor of Waterford. The transfer is expected to be made on the earliest day of Transfer, viz., the sth of July. Sir John Newport has been for a long series of years most assiduous in tracing out and sat i s f actor il y esta bli s hi ng t h e c l a i m o f the city to this munificent bequest, and the venerable t Baronet h as now t h e grat i f i cat i on of see i ng his indeN t - gable lab our successfully consummated. The Right Rev. th e L or d Bi shop of Cashel, since his translation to of to this See, has b een th e act i ve and colleagueuntiring _ Sir John Ne w p or t i n th e ma tt er .— Waterfo r d Mirror. comeA tostlrigehntgatinmsetannilemeangoefr,reinsotlhuetticonalvandaoss. recently ,et the seals on Jus tice of the Peace, whilst proceeding the goods of a deceased lady . as t a e rests of an only daughter, said protection i insane, rests whour p ris de e e d lar b e y d -os with the expense of the tthheatsushdedeneppappeertahneceseaolfs tbheiisngdapuugthtz, intending not to be chargedet mad, as it has been re operation, me from marrying 0_ ported ; two ad • and-twenty toagommyy liking,mother and preventedleeke locked me u pmy mother should live ; long as to any one again, a S and here I am to look after my own in my room. a l ec then made a vow, never to speak I have kept to it, concerns." n The lady appears but in her n o person wayaffie e s much ted in men tally by her long confinement , al tered, and she is now her 40th year. LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1841 SPIRIT of the - PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. CHRONICLE.—The Tories, smarting under their failure to carry the Boroughs of England by storm, of bribery, and intimidation, have resolved on a coup de main in Middlesex. We forewarn the independent electors of that county that a plot is hatching against the " Father of the House of Commons," the venerable and consistent Liberal, George Byng. This veteran Reformer, for upwards of half a cen tury the honest and consistent representative of two genera.. tions of the Middlesex constituency, is to be opposed. A secret meeting of Conservatives yesterday concocted the plan. A co vert canvass has already commenced, and a fox-hunting squire is the probable Tory nominee. We have reason to believe that Reynard will be turned out of the bag to-morrow (Sunday.) We rejoice, however, to hear tbsp he will have an instant and sharp run. A second candida• ,in the Liberal interest, will follow him without delay. We anticipate, there fore, the return of two Reformers for Middlesex, and we urge the local ccmmittees immediately to re• organise their forces. We also warn the Constituencies of every English and Welch county, re taining a Lii,erai candidate, to be on their guard, and prepared for opposition. The Tories do not rely on any gain in Scotland or Ireland ; and thus grievously disappointed in the boroughs of England, they are cLmspiring to make up their numbers in the counties. We, t,"crefore, earnestly advise the Li berals in the country to organise opposition, whatever their chances, wherever opposit,on is practicable. bet the Tories at least be made to pay for their " rotten coun ties." We point to the noble struJgle now pending in South Derbyshire, where Mr. M. Gisbene is opposing Col ville and Munday. We may run the Tories 0i.7 1 : of many seats. A whistle may be bought too dear, and we know that several Conservatives will not face a contest. The Liberal gains in Bath, in Nottingham, Lewes, Hereford, Gloucester, Stockport, Preston, Walsall., Greenwich, Marylebone, Stoke, Brighton, Bolton, and South Shields—have sorely disappointed the Tors.' calculations. The Times and Standard pompously put for ward their gains among venal freemen and bought watermen of the city of London ; but Mr. Walter's retreat from Moscow (Nottingham)—the great triumph ever Gladstone Brothers in Walsall, and all other sickening losses of the Tories, are care fully left without comment. We repeat, that the ingenuous members of the Conservative clubs do not conceal their chagrin at their small success in the boroughs ; and an ex. Chancellor and his ally, a welLknown Qe,cketeeig.fieviewer, openly express their opinion that a "working majority" for Sir Robert Peel is now not to be expected. TIMES.—Such a powerful and noble spirit now reigns throughout the land, that nothing but the grossest neglect or mismanagement of those entrusted with the details of our election interests can disappoint the expectations of honourable men, or leave the assailants of our constitutional monarchy a shadow of criminal hope to rest upon. The great cause of Conservatism, supported as it is by all that is upright and intel ligent•in the nation, proceeds triumphantly to its destined goal —the command of official power throughout the empire. Its course, as we have said, can be checked no otherwise than by errors of commission or omission in its appointed servants. If the means at their disposal be not put forth with energy, and directed with skill and vigilance, they are guilty of a crime amounting to no less than treason against the public weal—a crime of which an entire century may not repsir the consequences. Greatly and successfully as has the Conserva tive battle during this election been fought, in many places where the promise of victory was least flattering, it must, per haps, be also admitted that where materials most abound they have not been employed or sought for with corresponding vi gour. Wherever a strong Conservative impulse exists, it is the duty of those who undertake the guardianship of the cause to turn that right sentiment to immediate profit. Wherever men fitted for Parliamentary duty are to be found, it is the busi ness of those who constitute themselves managers of the constitutional interest to summon such gentlemen into action, and in the name of their country to clothe them with the rights, obligations, and responsible character and elevated rank of representatives of a people struggling not for mere prosperity, but for moral and political existence. We have hinted that more might have been done ere now for the metropolitan county of Middlesex than at present seems likely to be realised. We are sure that for the great and important district of West Surrey twice as much might be still accom plished as has yet, at least publicly, been proposed. Why should the excellent gentleman who has hitherto represented the Conservative electors of that all but metropolitan district, Mr. Trotter, be left any longer unaided in his arduous office by a colleague of like principles to his own ? ADVERTISER.—So far as the elections have yet pro gressed the Tories have undoubtedly gained the advantage of a few seats, a circumstance well calculated to excite as tonishment, considering the nature of the questions upon which the country has been appealed to for its decision. Stripped of the complications of financial theories and the meshes of special pleading, the great question now at is sue is whether it be more advantageous to a country drawing the whole elements of its existence from manu facturing industry and commercial enterprise, to have food and the necessaries of life from &cheap or from a dear market? To facilitate the accomplishment of all things necessary or de sirable to the existence or enjoyment of man is the great end of an elightened civilization. fie who devises means for pro ducing two blades of grass where but one had previously grown, has been truly designated as a benefactor of his species. This aphorism, however, has been reversed by the monopolist ; and those who now claim the suffrages of the British constituencies in opposition to the proposed modification of the prohibitory duties, base their pretensions to popular favour on the mon strous iniquity of allowing the people to have but one leaf, where otherwise they might have two ; and to the disgrace of the English constituencies these pretensions have received confirmation in the majority of elections which have as yet taken place. Yes ; notwithstanding the notorious fact of the ruinous fluctuations caused by the prohibitory duties in the corn trade, whereby one day the market i s f orce d t o i ts maximum standard, whereat foreign corn may be admitted at the lowest duty of one shilliitg, which is insignificant as a matter of revenue, and the neat day the market is glutted, so as to prevent the native grower from obtaining a fair price for his produce, and even the landlord derives only a limited ad vantage compared with the evil inflicted on the rest of the community; notwithstanding all this sacrifice of general to class interests, to the eternal shame of the borough constitu encies of England, a majority has declared in favour of the faction who resist the reduction of imposts so pernicious in their operation, and so unproductive to the revenue. HERALD.—We see, with great pain, that the Conservative cause loses in Mr. Freshfield, who is defeated at Chipping Wy_ combe, one of the most upright, intelligent, and useful of its advocates ; a gentleman whose rare felicity it has been to pre serve during a long Parliamentary career the respect and at tention of both parties. We fully appreciated, in his last ad dress of thanks to his former constituents of Penryn and Fal mouth, the high feeling which induced him to decline the offers of support tendered to him by the latter of these boroughs, lest his acceptance of them should seem to compromise the disinterested and public-spirited efforts he had previously made in its favour, with a view to retain its pre-eminence as a packet station. But we thought, and still think, that he carried this principle too far. The result of his appeal to the constituency of Wycombe confirms our exception to the step we speak of; and the prejudice which his party sustains by his defeat still further corroborates it. He is a person, however, who must soon, again, recruit the ranks in which his services were always so constitutional and effective. But if Mr. Fresh field have erred a little on the score of a refined feeling of delicacy and good taste, the public will be at no logs to find a compensating principle of thorough-paced, unflinching, open selfishness,—and the most intelligible type of senatorial assu rance in the person, and the epistle of Mr. Joseph Hume, the ejected of Middlesex ; the palmed-upon Kilkenny,—the now re-jetted of Leeds. We are about to recur to a letter which we need not introduce by any such an announcement as that of the handsome robber in the play to the fair listener, "'Tis Mazzaroni,—the brigand—who sings ! " For, when we say that we allude to the epistle of an unscru pulous state-tinker, willing to work three holes in the constitu tion rather than forbear the reforming of one which he has assisted to make himself, and wandering about the country from one constituency to another, soliciting ems ployment, and professing to work at the cheapest rate for his employers, every body must anticipate that "'Tis Joseph flume, sirs, that sings' Wha wants me ?' " In his letter to " Mr. Low, the Secretary of the Whig-Radi cals of Dundee "--(what a berth ! but, probably, no sinecure, as we suppose that the gentleman's principles are, for the most part, marksmen)—Joseph wheedlingly writes--" It would have delighted me to have represented. Dundee, but I was prevented from looking towards it by Sir Henry Parnell being in possession." Alas ! this unwonted respect in the Greek Joseph for possessory rights, is, like some people's repent ance—a very short-lived emotion. In the very next sentence, his native greedinesss breaks out again l Like some old pike, vacillating, in the favouring covert of the sedges of his native lake, between his intense desire to gulp the tempt ing bait and his habitual cunning and sagacity at " w'awc the hook" —so, our Joseph eyes the Dundee trader furtively at first ;—then dashes halfway at the line ; arrests his own course midway ; swims round and round the depending prize ; now rises, now descends; half rejecting, but aeon returning to the tempting morsel—then his keen eye detects the danger, and like other varieties of the economical'shark-fish, he turns from the danger and seeks the most obscure and muddy soltitude in which he can conceal his vexation and his disappointment, and —snap up some easier and smaller fry. POST.—We had occasion a day or two ago to explain one part of the machinery which had been set in motion, with a view to protect the Administration from the disgrace that, it was felt, would have been inseparable from the rejection of Lord John Russell by the electors of London. We allude to the nine Conservative liverymen, Government clerks, residing in Chelsea, who were compelled by the threat of dismissal to vote for the Noble Colonial Secretary. But it was not only by the exercise of intimidation upon legal voters that the Go vernment party laboured to secure that result which they regarded as vital to their character and interests. They brought to the poll persons not legally in possession of the franchise, and had them enrolled as voters in favour of Lord John Russell and the other Ministerial candidates, in numbers sufficient, we believe, not merely to make up Lord John Russell's majority of nine over Mr. Wolverley Attweod, but to make tap Sir M. Wood's comparatively large majority of 298 over Mr. Alderman Pirie. We will here present to the public a small specimen of th e manner i n w hi c h t h e Minis terial party in the City of London have procured the return of their two favoured candidates. In one small part of the com paratively small Ward of Coleman-street no less than five false RussellS o t he r d e u n p huocueu ß enropi thv u rp:ot ea r henrLd n ocewru , torah( leptetNiheuaimi corporation upwards vfirnaue 9 y: pd , .03fiwftf9c0i from . 3rntnmdi ohoo o soBetn n thfsoheoe r ofeorf e nhmffis g poi thei offices se t rsos e sehmo r s 0 , aneuwt .votedmonths votes have already been detected in Lord John Russell's poll. Lord l J j O h hn n register,smonthsee rsevNpao ago, f a c7 T oh n : a d a2 k nLs. e e t do h n dßrB e h doo y: fb ej u F a ho s r orh e i e utm - nn y n ßd a r o be w t dytr Jamesssit n-ehle the H t oc, and have been pulled down some months. 3. Charles Roach Smith, No. 356 on register, voted for Lord John Russell, upon the qualification of a shop and rooms at 47i, Lothbury. The house has been pulled down some months, and there remains nothing but a vacant space. 4. Henry Wilson, No. 9,557 on register, voted for Lord John Russell upon the qualification of house No. 42, Coleman street. He had removed rrom these premises for some months. 5. Thomas Holloway, No. 9,701 on register, voted for Lord John Russell upon the qualification of the house, No. 25, Coleman-street. He was once the partner of Mr. Trucman, who still occupies the premises, and in that capacity was re gistered as joint occupant. But the partnership was dissolved a considerable time ago, and Holloway has no longer anythi ng to do with the premises. We hope that the Conservative Association of Coleman• street and other wards will each pursue to its completion an investiga,ion similar to that by which the circumstances above stated have been revealed. Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Bouverie has ar r i ve d in town from Malta. Sir Henry had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday at the Colonial-office. MONEY MARKET and CITY NE WS SJN.—The mercantile accounts by the overland mail arein no respect flattering. Every where the mar ket: are suffering from the effects of a long-continued cesation in the demand for, and a consequent accumu latim in the stocks of, imported goods. The supplies, of mechandize in China are described as being immense. Tit India markets are acted upon of course by the state of hose in the mother country, where its staples have for ruled low. afternoon there was much buoyancy evinced in th( Foreign Exchanges. Bills at three months were dravn on the leading continental cities, at about the folowing rates :—Paris 25f. 62c. to 671 c. ; Amsterdam, 124 1 to 5 ; .Antwerp, 12 31- ; Frankfort, 15 0 ; Ham bugt,, 13 Hi to 11 ; and Trieste, 9 57 to 59. Die Funds still wear. every appearance of firmness, altioug,li money is worth currently 5 per cent. Con sol. realized 891- to 898` for the opening, ex.-div. ; Ex chequer Bills realized 9s. to 12s. premium ; Bank Stock ro 1 per cent., viz. to 169 and 1691 ; the Reduced Thee-and-a-Half per Cents. were at 99 to * ; and the Thee per Cent. Annuities were worth 894 to 90. India Bolds were at par to 3s. premium. ?he Peninsular Stocks were rather drooping, but the Soith American S ecur i t i es ra lli e d a little. Spanish Ac ay( Bonds were at 218, an d P or t u guese New 32 and 318 Brazil St oc k was h eavy at 68. Belgian Bonds wen marked 101, an d D u t c h Fi ve per Cents. 1002. Co lom)ian brought 208 t o 21, an d B uenos Ayres 201, being ratter improved quotations. There was not much done in Railway Shares. Great Western brought 27 to 261 ; the Fifths, 6:1 ; and the Lonlon and Birmingham, 69 prem. Brighton were 3 :to : Manchest er and eds, 174 ; Midland Counties, 11 4 1 and Birmingham and Derby 39 discount ; National Provimial Bank of England, + prem. RTING INTELLIGENCE. \LUDLOW RACES.--WEDNESDAY. The LudloW Suso:es of 20 sovs. each, 10 ft., and 5 only if de ' clared, with 30 sovs.' added. Once round and a distance. Lord Powis na Fat Jack, aged (Marlow) 1 Mr. Flintoff's Prudence, 5 yrs 2 Mr. T. Walter's Sir ark, 6 yra 3 The Maiden Plato of 501. Heats, as above. Mr. Walter's Miss Whinney, 3 yrs ... (Stagg) 0 1 1 Mr. Peel's Meerut, 4 yrs Mr. Smythie's bc by Safeguard, 3 yrs Sir. Gough's Fausta, 3 yrs Mr. George's Tippoo, 5 yrs ........ . . The Oakley Park Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 251. added. SP Heats, as above. Mr. Botfield na Henley, 4 y rs Mr. Robinson's Finality, age d Mr. Cowley's Spangle, 6 y rs THURSDAY. The Gold Cup Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 20 added. Twice round. • Mr. Denham's fby Pantaloon—Souvenir, 3 yrs (Stag) 1 Mr. Fowler's Prudence, 6 yrs ...... . . 2 Mr. 'Walter's Sir Mark, 5 yrs Sweepstakes of 15 sovs. each, with 30 added. T. Y.C Mr. Ovsley's Happy-go-lucky .. (Bradley) 1 Mr. Fowler's The Pacha ... 2 Mr. T. Walter's Guz Beg... 3 The Bozough Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 10 added. Bests, as above. Mr. Durham's f by Pantaloon—Souvenir, 3 yrs (Dodgson) 0 1 1 Mr. Walter's Miss Whinney, 3 yrs 1 4 3 Mr. E. Peel's Rancour, 3 yrs Mr. Botfield na. Sportsman, 4 yrs Mr. Goigh's Greenfinch, 4 yrs The Sottk Shropshire Stakes ,bf 5 soya. each, with 20 added. Heats, Ludford Stakes Course. Mr. Bogeld na. Henley, 4 yrs (Jones) 1 1 Mr. Barrow's Catharine, aged CARLISLE RACES.—THURSDAY. The All Aged Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 30 added. Heats, mile and a quarter. Mr. Ramsay's Neptune, 4 yrs 1 1 Mr. Orde's Queen Bee, 4 yrs 2 2 The 7ally-ho Stakes of I sovs. each, and 10 added, once round aed a distance, were won in two heats by Mr. H. John stene's The Returned. LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER. FRIDAY EVENING. lavritrooL CUP.-3i to I agst Charles the Twelfth and Orelia; 10 to 1 agst Orelia; 15 to 1 agst Milksop (taken) ; and 25 to 1 agst Retriever. GOODWOOD Cur. -7 to 1 agst Colwick (taken). TO THE ABOLITIONISTS OF THE UNITED STATES. PHILADXLPIA, JUNE 7, 1841.---I was commissioned by the Committee of the British and Foreign Anti- Slavery society to present a memorial from them to your President, and proceeded to Washington a few days age, accompanied by John G. Whittier, of Massa chussetts, and a friend from the State of Delaware. It was my first visit to the seat of legislation of your great republic. On our arrival we went to the House of Representatives then in session. A Member from Maryland was speaking on our entrance, who was the author a resolution which had been carried in a former Congress, excluding nearly three millions of your coun trymen, on whom every species of wrong and outrage is committed with impunity, from all right of petition, either by themselves or friends. He was advocatingthe re enactment of this very resolution for the present Congress, and stated that he had a letter from your President, ap proving the measure. Although I believe I do not speak too :strongly when I say an attempt to enforce such a resolu tion by any crowned head in the civilized world would be inevitably followed by a revolution, yet it seemed evi dent that no small portion of your present members were in favour of it. It was with no ordinary emotion that 1 saw the venerable ex-President Adams at his post, nobly contending against this violation of the rights of his countrsimen, and I could not but regret that, with one or two e - ,ceeptions, he appeared to find little support from his younger colleagues of the free States. The same day we visited one of the well known slave trailing establishments at Alexandria. On passing it we were shown the costly mansion of its late proprietor, who has recently retired on a large property, acquired oy the sale of native-born Americans. In an open in r closure with high walls, which it is impossible to scale, with a strong iron-barred door, and in which we wer told that there were sometimes from 300 to 400 persons crowded, we saw about fifty slaves. Amongst the num ber thus incarcerated, was a woman with nine children, who had been cruelly separated from their husband and father, and would probably be shortly sent to New Or leans, where they would never be likely to see him again, and where the mother may be for ever severed from every one of her children, and each of them sold to a different master. From thence we went to Alexandria city gaol, where we saw a young man who was admitted to• be free even by the gaoler himself. He had been seized and committed in the hope that he might prove a slave, and that the party detaining him would receive a reward. He had been kept there nearly twelve months, because he could not pay the gaol fees, and instead of obtaining any redress for false imprisonment, was about to be sold into slavery for a term, to reimburse these fees. The next morning I was desirous of handing to the President the memorial, of which the following is a - " ADDRESS to the President of the United States from the Committee of the British and Foreign Anti- Slavery Society. _ - " the head of a great Confederacy of States, justly valuing their free constitution and political orga nization, and tenacious of their rights and their cha racter, the Committee of the 13ritish and Foreign Anti- Slavery Society, through their esteemed coadjutor and representative, Joseph Sturge would respectfully ap proach• you in behalf of millions of their fellow-men, held in bondage in the United States. Those millions' are not only denied the political immunities, enjoyed by the citizens of your great republic 'generally;' and the equal privileges and the impartial protection °kite -civil law, but are deprived of their personal rights ; so, that they cease to be regarded and treated, under your other wise noble institutions, as men, except in the commis sion of crime,when the utmost rigour of your penal sta tutes is invoked and enforced against them ; and arc re duced to the degraded condition of chattels personal' in the hands of their owners and possessors, to all in tents, constructions, and purposes whatsoever.' " This is the language and the law of slavery - and upon this law, guarded with jealousy by thei r political institutions, the slave-holders of the South rest their claims to propertyin man. But, Sir, there are claims anterior to all human laws, and superior to all political institutions, which are immutable in their nature— claims which are the birthright of every human being of every clime and of every colour—claims which God has conferred, and which man cannot destroy without sacri lege, or infringe without sin ; personal liberty is, among s t these, the greatest and the bst, for it is the root of all other rights, the conservative principle of human asso ciations, the spring of public virtues, and essential to na tional strength and greatness. . " The mo — nstrons and wicked assumption of power by man over his fellow-man, which slavery implies, is alit• e abhorrent to the moral sense of mankind, to the immu table principles of justice, to the righteous laws of God, and to the benevolent principles of the Gospel. It is therefore indignantly repudiated by the fundamental laws of all truly enlightened and civilized communities, and by none more than by that over which, Sir, it is your honour to preside. " The great doctrine that God hath created all men equal, and endowed them with certain inalienable rights, and that amongst these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' is affirmed in your Declaration of Inde pendence, and justified in the theory of your constitu tional laws. But there is a stain upon your glory. Slavery in its most abject and revolting form pollutes your soil ; the wailings of slaves mingle with your songs of liberty ; and the clank of their chains is heard in horrid discord with the chorus of your triumphs. " The records of your States are not less distinguished by their wise provisions for securing the order, and maintaining the institutions of your country, than by their ingenious devices for rivetting the chains and per petuafing the degradation of your coloured brethren. Their education is branded as a crime against the State ; their freedom is dreaded as a blasting pestilence ; the bare suggestion of their emancipation is proscribed as treason to the cause of American independence. " These things are uttered in sorrow, for the Commit tee deeply deplore the flagrant inconsistency so glaringly displayed, between the lofty principles embodied in the late charter of your liberties, and the evil practices which have been permitted to grow up under it, to mar its beauty and impair its strength. " But it is not on these grounds alone, or chiefly, that they deplore the existence of slavery in the United States, manifold as are the evils which flow from it, de moralising as are its tendencies, fearful as its reaction confessedly is on its supporters : the reproach of its ex istence does not terminate in the institution which gave it birth : the sublime principles and benign spirit of Christianity are dishonoured by it. In the height of Divine truth, it stands revealed in all its hideous deformity, a crime against God, a daring usurpation of the prerogative and authority of the Most High. It is as a violation of his righteous laws and outrage on his glorious attributes, a renunciation of the claims of his blessed. Gospels, that they especially deplore the continuance and support it re ceives among you ; and, in the spirit of Christian love . and fraternal solicitude, they would counsel its imme diate and complete overthrow as a solemn and impera tive duty, the performance of which no sordid reasons should be permitted to retard, and no political considera tions to prevent. Slavery is a sin against God, and ought therefore to be abolished. " The utter extinction of slavery and its sister abomi nation, the internal slave trade, second only in horror and extent in the United States to the African, and in some of its features even more revolting, can be argued by the philanthropists of this country only on the ab stract principles of moral and religious duty, and to those principles the people of your great republic are placed, on the side of freedom, beyond every nation of the world. "The negro, by nature our equal, made, like ourselves, in the image of his Creator, gifted with the same intelli gence, impelled by the same passions, and redeemed by the same Saviour, is reduced, by cupidity and oppression, below the level of the brute, spoiled of his humanity, plundered of his rights, and often hurried to a premature grave—the miserable victim of avarice and heedless ty ranny. Men have presumptuously dared to wrest from their fellows the most precious of their rights ; to inter cept, as far as they may, the bounty and grace of the Almighty ; to close the door to their intellectual pro gress ; to shut every avenue to their moral and religious improvement ; to stand between them and their Maker ! It is against this crime the Committee protest as men and as Christians, and they earnestly and respectfully call upon you, Sir, to use the high power with which you are invested to bring it to a peaceful and speedy close. " May you, in closing your public career, and in the latest hours f your existence on earth, be consoled with the reflection, that you have not despised the afflictions of the afflicted, but that, faithful to the trust of your high stewardship, you have been ' just, ruling in the fear of God,'—that you have executed judgment for the op pressed, and have aided in the deliverance of your coun try from its greatest crime and its chief reproach. " Signed on behalf of the Committee, " THOMAS CLARKSON. " London, March 8, 1841." I thought it most candid to address a letter to the Pre sident, informing him of the character of the foregoing memorial, rather than take advantage fora merely formal introduction to present it without such an explanation. To this letter no reply was received, nor was there the slightest allusion made to it by the President at a subse quent introduction which we had to him. It may be pro per to state in this connection, that memorials of a simi lar character bearing upon the slave trade and slavery, signed by the venerable Clarkson, have been presented to different heads of government, in other parts of the world, and have been uniformly received with respect. Previous to our departure, we visited a private slave trading establishment in the city, and looked in upon a group of human beings herded together like cattle for the market, within an enclosure of high brick wall sur rounding the gaol. The young man in attendance in formed us that there were five or six other regular slave dealers in the city, who, having no gaols of their own, either placed their slaves in this establishment, or. in the public city prison ; the former was generally pre ferred, on account of its superior accommodation in re spect to food and lodging. On my making some remarks to the young man on the nature of hi s occupation, he significantly, and I think very justly, replied, that "he knew of no reason for condemning slave-traders, which did not equally apply to slave-holders." You will bear in mind that this was said within view of the Capital, w h ere s l a ve-holders control your national l eg i slation ' and within a few minutes' walk of that mansion wh ere t: slave-holder sits in the presidential chair, placed there by your votes, and it is certainly no marvel that, with THE NEW PARKS. (From the Medical Gazette.) In the brief and disturbed session of Parliament which has just been abruptly brought to a close, no measure was passed that is likely to prove more beneficial th a n that for the formation of a park in the eastern district of London ; for it is sincerely and confidently to be hoped that the benefit may not terminate in this single improve ment, but may be only the first-fruits of the more strict attention which late years have found legislators ready to pay to those things, which, though they may have little or no immediate influence on the existing conflict of parties and of general political principles, are yet of the highest - importance to the social condition and health of the lower orders, and to the well-being of the community. It has been boasted that, considering its size, London is better ventilated and drained than any other city in the world ; and in its ordinary meaning the boast is a very true one. For considering that the difficulties of cleansing the earth and air of cities increase in a direct proportion to their size, it is indeed marvellous, and worthy of boast, that they should have been in any fair measure overcome in London. But it should not be for gotten, that just in proportion to the size is the increase of the necessities for purifi ca ti on ; f or it is only in huge cities, like our own, that a great majority of the inhabi tants are compelled to be all day exposed to the noxious influences of accumulated impurities. In smaller places the evils of the homes, even of the poorest, may com monly be in a few mi nu t es escape d f rom ; and without trouble a poor man may obtain at least as much of the advantages of open air and exercise as in London are obtained by the inhabitants of the more central squares. But the mechanic of the metropolis can do nothing of this kind : he himself, when his day's work is over, is too tired to walk three or four miles to the nearest open public ground ; and for his children, the only place in which they can be allowed to stroll is the nearest alley that is not so great a thoroughfare as to be dangerou. In the drainage of London there is comparatively little room for improvement ; at least the general plan and management of it is excellent ; its defects are only local, and depending chiefly on the negligence of the in habitants of certain districts. But for a supply of fresh air, what we require is, that in every district the inhabi tants should be within half a mile of some large open place, into which the children of the lower classes might be permitted to resort with safety. And this can only be attained by increasing the number either of squares and places, or of parks on the plan of Victoria Park, and increasing them in even a greater ratio than the popula tionis augmented. _ The ad - vantages of parks and open spaces are by no means confined to their affording facilities for exercise and recreation ; they have a more constant and wide spreading influence upon the purification of the whole slowly-changing volumes of air. There are hundreds of places in this metropolis into which the wind never finds admission, in which the air is never perceptibly moved, and in which the only change it undergoes is by the gradual mixing of its impure gases with those of adjacent space:., and of the upper strata of the atmo- , sphere. Nay, even amon g the wider streets, there are many through which a free current is very rarely blown; and the Londoners, or at least the majority of them, shrink before a breeze that one from the provinces or the coast would. hardly notice. It is probable, therefore, that by far the greater proportion of the change of the air which is effected in the metropolis is the result of the mixture of the gases composing it. But how slow a process this is, one may easily judge by the perceptible (we had almost said the palpable) difference between the air of an alley and that of the wide street or other space into which it opens. A part of the gases generated on the ground and near it are, indeed, by the greater heat there, soon carried to some distance above it ; but that which is thus disposed of is but a small part of what is rendered impure ; nor are the heavy and most noxious of the gases thus most rapidly carried off. Indeed, it is probable that by this process the change of air is, as far as it concerns the health of those who breathe it, and who constantly render it more and more impure, almost unimportant. The only effectual natural process for its purification, in the absence of the wind, is the gradual mixture of the gases, in accordance with Dalton's law that the interspaces of one are as vacua to the particles of another. . __ _ In those quarters of the town ii\which squares are tolerably numerous, or in which the close set houses of the poor are intersected by the wide streets inhabited by the rich, there is probably already provided the best means of rapid 'ventilation of which they are capable— at least in the present condition of things, where build ing land is more valuable than gold mines. But in other quarters, not now containing the residences of the rich, and therefore (with an utter disregard of health in the anxiety after wealth) close packed with manufactories, warehouses, and stores, the interspaces between which are filled by the houses of the poor ; in these, since a number of smaller open spaces cannot be afforded, some very extensive one, as near as it can possibly be made, is absolutely necessary. Parks, or other similar places, therefore, should be established in every district not already possessing squares or wide streets ; nor should any part be closely covered with buildings for an extent of two square miles, without some such provision for the purity of its air. In proof of a common error, we may observe, that while much is said of the necessity of establishing large parks all round London, very little is said against the scheme of building over the largest open space in its very centre. A plan, it is well known, is in agitation,' and, unless some urgent representation of its evils be made, will certainly be adopted, of covering nearly the whole of Lincoln's Inn-fields with new Courts of Law. dy almost as The sole advantage anticipated from the plan is that so licitors will be able more conveniently to attend to the progress of their cases ; but surely this is quit e an in sufficient reason for the probable infliction of unhealthi dneensssely on a inhabited large as surroundinganyo ther oth district,in e metropolis.alrea Her Majesty Queen Victoria has been graciously pleased to forward to the Rev. Robert Bland, vicar of Tutbury, the sum of 401. on behalf of the infant school recently established in that place. — Derby Reporter. E VENIN G M. L E , PARIS 7 J ULY '~'bf.3at7i ham hliTeaearirii sts. rap iTv i i d hche lex he e ai e vg u eli t t i s. o a t t i rriud t ck_ li f i o - ; 4 1 ; other, stopping th e tongue NCii.ster'es:so quieting for ever the busy m sr, 7 yer's brain. One day alone :aidi had beheld the death-shadm- Gamier Pages, before funeil ling impatiently for the t a l i ' puty, M. Berryer,. senior, ss days he has been coffined, s. shred. _ But the memory of M. Beth shut up within the narrow chaC comb, or the fame of his good tered like his mortal ashes . vault. If history have - not I ‘ c him, yet, better than her a page, there are at this niomes , many warm and glowing s speak in no measured terms of lie has eternally heaped upoi families by his rigliteous, vi. wrongs. His whole life was pas.. ful duty, and if th e d o i ng goo d as all just men suppose, the guarai... Lance in heaven, Berryer's receptip , unseraphic, or his reward of little p... M. Berryer's eminence at the Frenc. great and equably sustained, while his depending on no adventitious eircurnstanc which of themselves often lend display to a m in. utterance, was orderly, powerful, and luminous.. Better dialectician, perhaps, stood not at the bar, and his penetration upon points of the air strusest nature, was unsurpassable. He pierced into the heart of false' argument like a poniard, and brought out upon its steel-point the peccant lie which sophistry and plausible rhetoric had shamefully striven to conceal. No orator of the capital was so dreaded, because none was sojust or true. Few, perhaps, at this distance of time, remember the first cause upon which he was en t gaged, the peculiarity of the circumstances con vected with which, no less than his fine ability eu the occasion, brought him brightly at once upon the legal platform. It was in the case of a .splendid sapphire, which a princess of Sinde might have coveted as a gem for her bracelet or brow. Berryer had in this to combat with most truculent knaves, and the wily accu sations which he had to repel as counsel for the vendor, were strange and almost unparalleled. The next case which added to his fame was that of the Mayor d'Anvers, when he strung the si ne ws of his defence to so matchless a pitch of violence' against the Imperial tyranny, and did all is' the cause which he stood for as advocate t h at h.. was possible for little less than despera tion tondo. At this period he entered the publishing world, witting fbrth a memoir entitled, "Effects of the Milita.7 Convention of July 3, and the Treaty of November 1815, relative to the accusation of Marshal Ney,"—a pamphlet-shaped work, which which was altogether remarkable for its strong dialectics and great erudition. Invested during many years with the charge of defending the in teres.ts of those subjects who belong to neutral powers, M. Berryer developed in these causes , the great principles of public claims and the rights of nations. He rendered himself equally signal in the affair of the infants Montebello(Lannes),where he pleaded for the minor of the first marriage. -Perhaps his final piece of pleading was never surpassed by even his earlier efforts, when his youth was fresh and vigorous, and the fire-blood of opening manhood ran in his bold veins. On this occasion he stood as defender of Fauche- Borel; the antagonist with whom he had to wrestle was Perlet, and gladiatorially he did his work. In this extraordinary process, lie laid bare with keen anatomic knife the ag ' eravating infamy of Perlet, and never was a finer contrast made than when he set the dark heinousness of the latter in opposi sition to the frankness and loyalty of Fauche- Bors , l. From the Grand Master of Malta he in hi s later days received the -venerable insignia of that order, and its cross suspended on his breast served to show the honourable recompense he had met win, after consecrating his time talc/ powers to the interests of that august order. How goodly an image of him has risen up in the person of M. BeiTyerfi/s, his son, is well known. He is likely to perpetuate his father's fatkie no less than his own, and his excellent pleading for Generals Debelle and Cambronne with the astute position which he on that occa sion assumed for the latter, asserting that his client, having then ceased to be a Frenchman by the treaty of Fontainebleau, was thereby able to carry arms against France in obeying his Sove reign for the time (viz. the Emperor of the Isle of Elba), showed him to be no less ingenious than subtle. France has good reason to be thankful, and at the same time proud, that Heaven, on removing the more venerable ornament from its bar, leaves that place not unworthily supplied by a son that treads in his footsteps, participates in his eloquence, and wears the mantle of paternal virtue. ' DISTURBANCES ON THE GLAS GOW AND EDINBURGH RAILWAY. For some days past great excitement and bad feeling , have prevailed among the labourers on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, arising, we understand, out of a quarrel between the Highlanders on the. one side, and the Irish on the other. So threatening was the aspect of matters on Monday last, that the local authorities found it necessary to call in the assistance of the military from Edinburgh. According to the latest intelligence from the spot, the excitement had somewhat subsided, and there was every appearance of the disputes being amicably arranged. The facts of the case are these : About a week ago some differences arose between the Highlanders and the Irish in the neighbourhood of Fal kirk, respecting a snuff-box that was to be presented to one of the persons connected with the railway. From high words the parties, on Saturday last, came to blows; and, according to the statement given, the Highlanders were considerably to blame in the matter. A rumour, happily unfounded, having run along the line that se veral of the Irish had been killed in the scuffle, a resolu tion was immediately come to by their countrymen to avenge their deaths on the heads of the Highland ers ; and accordingly an attack upon the latter was planned for Sunday last. The greater number of the Irish are, it seems, employed on the east, and the Highlanders on the west part of the line ; and it appears that the scene of the intended conflict was near Winchburgh. The authorities of Stir-- lingshire having learned the circumstances of the case,. wrote forthwith to the authorities of the county of Lin lithgow, forewarning them of the premeditated disturb ance, and requesting their co-operation in preventing the parties from meeting. This precaution was only in part successful. On Sunday evening, about seven o'clock, as a party of Highlanders were passing quietly through Winchburgh, on their way to their lodgings at Kirkliston, they were fiercely attacked by a large body of Irishmen, and some of them severely injured. One man in particular was nearly killed, having received se veral very severe wounds on the head, which for some time deprived him of co nsc i ousness , an d rendered it ne cessary to c onvey hi m to his lodging i n a pos t- c h a is e . He is even y et, we understand, serious, the local not out of danger- Matters having become thus autho rities co ns id ered i t prudent to send to F.AI i n burgh on Monday fo r t h e assistance o f t h e military --e portion of whom went out to Winchburgh on Mondsy, and an other on T ues d ay morning—there being i n 01 about g seventy infantry and forty dragoons. The object of the authorities was still toprevent the parties me., ting, which it was understood they intended to do on I:,u?s -day afternoon—the Irishmen having written to Edvi burgh for a reinforcement of their countrymen front the Grass-market and Cowgate, obeyed by a considerable number. About three o'clock which summons was on Tuesday afternoon, the Irishmen had assembled within three miles of Winchburgh, to the numuer of o . about 1,500, many of them armed with heavy bludgeons; and it was understood that the Highlanders were fast approaching, to meet them from the west in still larger numbers. The military were accordingly drawn up in front of the inn at W inchbur g h, and after loadin g their m us k e ts with ball cartridge , we re marched off to the scene of danger, where they placed themselves in front of the Irish, in time to pre vent the conflict. At this time the whole line of railroad in that neighbourhood was in commotion ; and the com mencement of hostilities was every moment ex pected. While those in the distance, however, were listening to hear the noise of fire-arms, their ears were assailed by the far more pleasant sounds of loud and reiterated huzzas, which, upon inquiry, turned out to be the good-humoured response of the Irishmen to the peaceful remonstrances of the contractors, Messrs. Gibb and Son, whose advice at once to separate was for tunately attended with the happiest resu l t. The im mense crowd gradually dispersed, and by h a lf- past fi ve all was again quiet The military then returned to Winchburgh, where they still remain. Great praise is due to the authorities of Linlithgow shire and Stirlingshire, and also to Messrs. Gibb and Son, for their praiseworthy exertions for the preserva tion of the peace ; and we sincerely hope that their fu ture exertions will be crowned with equal success. — Edinburgh Paper. NON-COMPLIANCE WITH THE CENSUS RE TURN.—On Monday last, at Newnham Petty Sessions, the Rev. William Black, rector of Blaisdon, in this county, was fined 5/. and costs. It appeared from the census paper, produced to the bench by the enumerator, that the reverend g entleman had written on it, as an ex cuse for not complying with the Act of 3 and 4 Vic., cap. 99, the following :—" The person to whom this paper was sent cannot conscientiously make any return, as he considers it highly sinful to number the people. See the twenty-fourth chapter of the second Book of Samuel, in the Holy Bible."—Gloucester Journal. DISTRESS IN KILKENNY.—From well authen ticated statements made at the meeting of the Board of Trade on Monday night, it appears that great numbers of the poor of this city, particularly the woollen opera tives, are in a state of starvation.—killicnny Journal. r ~