The Sun. — London, England, 1841-08-19 00:00:00

INIORNI , Tti SUN. THE RAJA OF S,„TTAB,A, AND TREATMENT OF HIS AGENTS BY THE DI RECTORS OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY. In The Sun of the 23d July, we deemed it our duty to direct public attention to the systematic ill faith and oPpression, the trumped up charges to colour th;s op pression, the wicked condemnation that followed it, and the scandalous personal treatment, ending in the death upon the high-road of the Raja's dearest friend and re lative, of which this much injured Prince and his family have been made the victims by the Government of Born- Y. We stated that the five days' debate at the India ouse elicited proof of the fact, that a majority of the Court of Directors have bestowed " THEIR WARM COM kENDATION" upon all these acts, even upon the act of secretly accusing the Raja of treason, sending a Com mission to his capital, without a word of announce ment, to try him behind his back, and positively, and 1 Y express order, forbidding a human being to be Present on his behalf, to cross-examine witnesses Who confessed to deliberate perjury, or even to Mite a note of the evidence ! This, in the deliberate Commendation of the Court of Directors, is their justice . and international law. The subsequent midnight seizure ; of the Raja and his sleeping family, like the most atro eious of malefactor's, their forcible deportation to Benares, and the confiscation of the whole of his private property, down to his flocks and herds—all acknowledged by three Political Residents at his Court to have been the Ra ja's own, as absolutely as any thing that belongs to any one of these Directors—is a further exposition of their justice and their law. Aye, they get up in their Court, the Court of Proprietors, and take God to witness they do justice to the nations of India, high and low, rich and Poor, Raja and Ryot, according to the solemn oath they have sworn. And they produce and print their sanc tion, their approval, and their confirmation of such con duct and such acts as these, as evidence of the sanctity With which they regard that oath. One thing they nuke quite manifest—their intimate conviction ttat their Willin g audience are knaves or fools. -Death resulted in a very few days to one of the vie- bin s from the treatment he received—" A noble fellow !" exclaimed General Lodwick when he spoke of and described that victim, the unfortunate Balla Sahib. The British public is little aware that.a similar tragedy was en the point of being rehearsed before their' eyes, in this city, as was acted on the road to Benares ; the victim In this case, too, another friend of the Raja's, one of his yakeels or agents, four of whom he deputed many Months since to England, to solicit in vain from the Court of Directors all that he has ever asked from his perse tutors in India or in England —a hearing. ; and who would have fallen a pray to sickness, wrought by distress of and to absolute want, if a generous hand, " Open as day to inciting charity," • had not interposed its aid, and by immediately minister ing that relief to the necessities of the sufferer, which the Court of Directors sternly and peremptorily denied to his respectful prayer, rescued him from being borne to Pauper's grave in a foreign land. The agent in question, the first whom the Baja de tilted, was a Mahomedan, of talent and education, named d aleer Af za l Ali, who, having been in England some years previous, was sent before, to prepare the way in a man ner, for the coining of three other persons, all 4 lindoos, subjects of Sattara, who were intimately acquainted with the Raja's affairs, two of them having t hose been his secretaries, and the other a relative. As nse individuals had never before quitted Sattara in their lives, hardly knew aught beyond its walls, nor Understood a word of English, they needed all the aid li ed guidance which the experience of their colleague c ould give them, in directing their course in the very novel world to which they were to be transplanted, by "'air sense of duty and personal attachment to their s overeign. Meer Ali, duly accredited, arrived in Eng land in December, 1838, when, as he states to the Court of Directors (Sept. 14, 1840), "in consequence of assurances that Sir James Carnac would amicably adjust all the existing differences " with the Raja, he refrained from addressing the Court. At the time he W as silenced by these assurances, the Court were in pos session of the folios upon folios of evidence, which have !teen raked and piled up against the Raja—a glance at the nature of which sufficed to make the future Gover ner, Sir James Carnac, declare, that he undertook to In the affair with the Raja in five minutes. .ta June, 1839, arrived two of the Hindoos, detail their numerous attendants. And here we sha ll retail the treatment which these agents, not British sub- I L e et's, but men of birth, rank, post, and consideration, 'go subjects of a reigning Prince, not merely guiltless of crime or offence, but who were clothed by him with a c haracter held sacred even by barbarians, received at t he hands of the Governor in Council, when, on leaving Sattara, they reached Bombay as the first stage in their n tission to England. The Raja had distinctly told the late G over nor, Sir R. Grant; of his intention to appeal to E ngland ; he made so little mystery of it that the Re tsident h a d no difficulty in hearing of the steps he wa s ta king, nor in learning the names o f all the p ersons who "a4l consented to undertake an errand to them so arduous a nd perilous, for the Resident first co mmunicated their names and purpose to the Government in November, ,7 38 , and, when they set out, their departure. Momen i„,'"us was the intelligence considered. The Governor in , s 'euncil, consisting then of three individuals, all Com vaily's servants, all of whom had repeatedly adjudged t he Raja to be guilty of every shade of crime they im puted to him, met in solemn conclave. They severally r ecorded in a variety of minutes, and parts of minutes, /vi th and without date, extending from the 12th February t 019 th March, 1839, their opinion that— b "With M—(a Frenchman), we have nothing to say, interfere with the natives we have a great deal, and we should e,rfere to stop them." th As a deputation from the Raja proceeding without "e consent of this Government, I should think these Person s could be stopped." " If the Baja applies to send such an embassy, we may refer the application to the Honourable Court, and await the Honourable Court's orders." - " The Raja of Sattara can send no deputation except .„through the authorized channel, and no such deputation "as been authorized. " The grounds on which these persons are supposed to be proceeding to Europe from the Raja of Sattara S hould be reported, and their names stated. " The Governor-General and Secret Committee to be informed." " The reference to the Senior Magistrate of Police should be made regarding these natives, and the Advo cate-General may be consulted, as to whether we can de tain them on any information we possess, as deputed Y the Raja of Sattara." " The Senior Magistrate should hand up the state !nent of each individual, which, it is presumed, he took la writing." " Colonel Ovans's letter, of the 18th instant, and the re sult of t h e exam i na ti ons t a k en by M r . B o yd, leave no doubt regarding the nature and objects of the mission Znitato proceed to England on the part of the Raja of r a . " Mr. Boyd should inform the principal persons, that W ithout are satisfied that, proceeding as they do the sanct i on o f t hi s G overnment , they 1611 find th emselves, mistaken in the expectation that they will be ``cognized in any public capacity by her Majesty's Go enunent or the Honourable Court of Directors. " The Ad voca te- General may also be informed of this de cision, in case he has any objection to offer to it. shouldp of all papers connected with the subject rec ommendation, be sent to the Secret Committee, with our earnest j ee ,enimendation, that the mission may not, on its arrival h il l ; :ngland, be recognised, either by the Court or by h er Majesty's Government. Their instructions may also , s e solicited, whether such mission should be allowed, or "°t, to proceed to England. i .." The S e cret Committee will determine whether this t'`Peeeding is in conformity with the Raja's agreement With Government." Rut these minutes, so creditable to the writers, and so Worthy of the occasion, do not, however, reveal the . I ", n h le story. The agents, fearing to embark in an glish ship, had secured their passage in a French "%W- V, the G. C uv i er , th e n o n th e eve o f sa ili n g for .P.or aux. Orders were issued to stop this ship and refuse er a port clearance. The agents were seized in their house by the police, carried before the senior magis trate, who first detained them as charged with a crimi nal offence, next severely interrogated them upon a string Of questions, which had been suggested by the Advocate- General, for the express purpose of frightening and con founding them. The same Governor in Council, be it *membered, had peremptorily denied legal advice to the lilaja. The poor men, alarmed for their lives, repudiated heir character of agents to the Raja, and declared them elves to be no longer envoys but private merchants ; hereu o n the magnanimo us Government branded the m impostors ; and although the as liars and 84 Perear 0i of the French shi p attended at the Felic e g li ce and repeatedly offered . to give bolld that o 'they should not communicateh with th e shore, as the ship passed down t . _e i c s o l a h s o t, u l t iis offer them, was rejected, he was compelled to sail 1 1 'nd they were made to forfeit the whole of the sum they gr ad for their passage. Three weeks from they y further Were. released by another solemn minute oetention and told they might now embarkfrformEnglanidr at their own risk, and on paying a second time for the i Passage. About nine months after leaving Sattara, t ey r eached Liverpool. What their reception and treat ent has been since their arrival in England, we shall describe in the words of a Director, General Robertson, who was personally acquainted with these native gritle mens when he was British Resident at the Cou' of l i ir master. The General, turning to and addressing is cotlearsue3 the Directors, said, " had these men been thieves and robbers, they could not have been treated worse. I know not what right there is to treat the liatives of India in this way. They had not bread to e,at- I myself was obliged to give them money to keep . tnem from starving !" " The earnest recommendation' of the Bombay Council was thus fulfilled even beyond the letter. Not only was " the mission not recog nised by the Court" (and such a Mission,• the Mission of a Prince secretly accused, and afterwards vio lently deposed!), but the persons composing it were re garded in the light of " thieves and robbers." Then came Physical want, to aggravate their hitter mental suffer ings- The confiscation of their master's private pro- Perty left them with no other pecuniary resources than those they had brought with them. These they hus banded for many months, with the frugality known only to the li m i te d personal wants of the natives of the East, feeding their minds with the vain hope that the aecents of truth, justice, and compassion would penetrate to the hearts of their master's judges. Their last shilling (Es aPPeared, ere these hopes fled. The health of the first comer, Meer Ali, who with his colleagues had been sub sisting upan the bounty of private frieze:ls ' now sunk under protrac t ed care and distress ; his life being in danger, he addressed the Court, praying that they would save it, by advancing him a sum sufficient to pay his debts, and enable himself and four attendants to return to India. The answer to this prayer, dated ono-and-twenty "aYs after (7th October), is before us. We give it entire. " Your petition, dated 14th September, requesting an advance of 7001., to enable you to return to India, has been laid before the ConiiOriiiTeciOTS, and, in reply, I am commanded to inform you that the Court cannot take into consideration any such proceeding from one only of the individuals at present residing in this country, as agents of the late Raja of Sattara. " J. C. mr,LvILL, Secretary." The terms of this inhuman reply, which left Meei- Ali the option of the grave or a gaol, so increased his disor der, that death would have 'put a speedy period to his sufferings, if a gentleman, Sir Charles Forbes, had not immediately come forward and paid the money required to extricate him from his embarrassments, and defray his passage to India. The other agents continued to live on in utter penury. At length, their credit ceasing, even for necessaries, and themselves dreading arrest for debt., they ventured to appeal to the Court, stating that they were thirteen persons in number wanting bread, and so liciting a 'trifling advance for their necessities, which might be paid out of the 80,000/. belonging rightfully to their master, or even out, of 4,0001. of jewels, his property, deposited with '`.k banker . at Bombay, the seizure of which the Governiment had sanctioned. This appeal, the India House 'Sectiotary acknowledges as fol lows, on the 7th April,'lB4l Your letter, dated 16th March (22 days before), respecting your pecuniary dOliculties, and request of an advance for 2,0001. has been 'received and laid before the Court of Directors, and I have it in command to state that the Court see no reason for complying with your request." On the 10th of April the -Agents again implored assistance, " They repeated that they were •in absolute distress, without the means of subsistence, and if not relieved should be compelled to throw them selves for advice and assistance upon the Lord Mayor ;" but they now pledged themselves " as a. matter of ne cessity," that if assisted and furnished with the means, they would leave England, and depart for India by the first convenient opportunity. On the 15th of May, thirty-five days after, the Court reply to the Agents, that in consideration of ticeir- pledge, their " distressed circumstances," and upon their having engaged their passage, an advance would be made to them (a con cession for which it is understood they are indebted to the humanity of Sir J. Hobhouse, of whom it must be recorded that he never kept one of their com munications more than a day unanswered). The sum was afterwards increased to 4,0001. ; it was advanced to them in the first instance by their bankers, Messrs.. Forbes, Forbes, and Co., and only repaid upon this house producing proof to the Court of Directors that the Agents had actually embarked and sailed. The Court further de scended to require from this house "a statement of the appropriation of the money." There is a remaining part of this correspondence too truly characteristic of the Agents and of the Court to be passed by unnoticed. The Agents, with the principles of men of honour, and with the gratitude of virtuous minds for the sympathy which Sir C. Forbes was the foremost to show for their fallen master, the Raja, and for the unvarying interest, kind ness, and attentions he had manifested to themselves throughout their painful residence in England, besought the Court of Directors, unknown to Sir Charles, to dis charge the pecuniary obligation by which he bad gene rously saved the life of their colleague, Meer Ali. The Court, of course, refused in their usual words, aping the style appropriated to Majesty. Immediately Sir C. Forbes became aware of the request, which proper feel, ings induced the Agents to prefer, he caused it to be in timated to the Court that he never meant to contaminate himself " by making the sum he had advanced to Meer Ali a subject either of claim or solicitation on the East India Company." We here close our notice of this dis graceful transaction. It is not posssble for language to heighten any part of it. It is in truth in strict keep ing with all the other portions of the Sattara, pro ceedings. The same men who inhumanly refused to ad vance a trifling sum to save the Envoy of a Prince from starving in a strange land, scrupled not to lavish 800/. of the public money upon a tavern dinner to Lord Keane ; nay, no longer ago than last week, they gave a large, sumptuous, and expensive feast, at the expense of the starving natives of India, to the persons called Scru tineers at the late election of one of their own body ! The thing seems incredible, though we assure our readers it is no more than the fact. These are the men, who are the rulers over the natives, and the disposers of the revenues, of all India ; these the men who call themselves the judges in the last resort of the Raja of Sattara, and condemned him unheard. All past experience of their deliberate deeds, as they come to light, contrasted with their despatches, forbids the future hope of shame or amend ment. But one course remains—" Cuncta frustra tentata, nuncimmedicabile vulnus, Ense recidendum, ni pars sin cera trahatur." Jo C.C. es) 1 at:4, 1 2 2 4 3 3 4 5 dis 6 dis ind 5 •uund 1 2 511; nuer Ince. 1 3 2 3 I dr the a nd ni!e. ; 2 ; 3 LONDON GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY. The half-yearly meeting of the Directors and Proprie tors of the London Grand Junction Railway Company, took place yesterday at the Company's office,6B, Cheapside, Mr. Cash in the chair. The CHAIRMAN said nothing had occurred since their last meeting calling for any particular remark. The Company was at present in abeya nce , an d th e Di rec t ors did not feel themselves warranted in putting the Proprie tors to any expense under the present circumstances. The Report, which merely detailed the expenditure for the last half year, was then read and adopted by the meeting. In answer to questions from Mr. Staunton and other Proprietors, the CHAIRMAN said the sum charged for solicitors' expenses (4001.) arose from their being com pelled to take legal proceedings against several of the Proprietors for non-payment of calls upon shares. There was a balance of 3,900/. in hand, and their liabilities were very small, and they had reduced the expenditure as much as they possibly could. They had paid 1,500/. as compensation to the parties with whom they had been in negotiation for the purchase of the land. They had, on the suggestion of some of the Pro prietors, employed Mr. Rastrick, the engineer, to pro pose some plans, but owing to the difficulty of raising the necessary funds, and the opinion then prevalent that short lines of railway would not pay, they had taken no further steps. The SECRETARY, in answer to Mr. Perkins, said the number of registered shares was 9,360—0 f theae 7,605 had paid up all the calls that had been made on them, and 1,510 had been forfeited. Mr. STAUNTON inquired how long the C( mpany was to continue in its present state ? The CHAIRMAN said by the Act of Incorporation the Company was to continue in existence till July, 1843, and after that period they would be defunct, unless in the mean time the project was revived by parties who had sufficient capital to carry it on. Thanks were then voted to the Chairman and Direc tors, and the meeting broke -up. MESMERISM, BY DE LAFON TAINE. We yesterday attended the adjourned exhibition of Mesmerism, at the Queen's Rooms, Hanover-square, where a very numerous audience was assembled at three o'clock, and continued with tolerable patience until half past five to await the promised production of magnetic results in the various volunteers who presented them selves for experiment. In three cases, which occupied half an hour each, no visible effect was obtained. In two other cases the manipulations of the Professor seemed to induce sleep in the patients ; but he himself declared that he was exhausted by his exertions, and would make no further attempts on this occasion. Very great dissatisfaction was expressed, and most loudly and harshly by some gentlemen, who in our opinion have been both intemperate and ungenerous in their inter ruptions of the proceedings on each of the former occa sions, and have tended greatly to embarrass and irritate M. de Lafontaine, while his demeanour has been through out courteous, frank, and, we must say, very forbear ing. It would be out of place here to offer an explana tion of the causes of failure, but we think that so far from confirming the charge of imposture the fai ure may fairly lead to an opposite inference. Success in all cases is not pretended, and if. the exhibitor wished to mete a false impression Ihy the aid of collusion, be would have obtained a sufficient number of subjects for any o:' the last exhibitions to counterbalance the effect of bis cl. Seats with genuine patients. We shall continue to attend his exhibitions, and note impartially all that we observe. THE PIC NIC PAPERS, BY VARIOUS HA NDS, EDITED BY C. DICKENS, ESQ. (Box), ILLUSTRATED BY G. CRUIIISUANK, &C.--" This long-looked for work," observes the Court Journal, "has peculiar claims on pub. lie attention. Whatever may be the future literary achievements of the great and admirable genius whose name it bears, nothing can deprive 'The Pic Nic Papers' of the distinction of being the first substantive work to which that name was attached on its issue to the world ; all Mr. Dickens's other productions having appeared periodically, in brief detached portions. The infinite variety and sterling merit of these singularly entertain ing volumes, aided by their numerous and capital illus trations by George Cruikshank, • &c., ought at once to command a place for them beside the most popular works of the day." TOM BOWLING, A TALE OF THE SEA, BY CAPT. F. CHAMIER.-" Tom Bowling," says the Sunday Times," is a novel of a very superior character. The stream of events flows on continuously. The imagination is hurried over half the world—rendered familiar in calm and storm, with the ocean—with the incidents and perils of shipwreck—with the storming of towns, and the fierce and fiery struggles of naval engagements. Captain Bowling is the beau ideal of a British sailor, and us he grows up, as it were, under the eye of the reader, put ting forth one by one his excellent qualities, attracting towards himself the regard of his superiors, the friend ship of hi equals, and the admiration of all those be neath him, his character alone is sufficient to communi cate a powerful interest•to the novel. In the course of the narrative we catch frequent glimpses of three very extraordinary men—Nelson, Collingwood, and Jervis, whose approbation is made to fall like a bright stream of sunshine on the heroic enterprises of Tom Bowling. Their sentiments, and the lofty structure of their cha racter, are represented truly, and shed an historical air over the narrative, which greatly heightens its interest." NEW RELIC OF BußNs.—About two miles from town stands a remarkable beachen tree, in fact, one of the finest in the whole district, upon which various persons have engraved their names, some so late as the year 1808. Among the first of these stands the name of Robert Burns, 1791, but whether carved by himself or by some other person .it is impossible to state with anything like certainty. From certain turns in the let ters, it appears very probable they were cut by the bard's own hand.—Dumfries Courier. QUAILS. —_A bevy of these rare and delicate little birds were discovered a few days since, in a small pa'..ch of wild ground near Beaulieu, on the road to Southampton. They were taken by the parties who first saw them to be young partridges ; hut an old sporting officer, the moment he viewed theta, pronounced them to be quails, he having shot numbers of them when so journing in the southern provinces of Spain. The above ibird is very seldom to be met with in a wild state in this country. LAMBETH ItLFORM FESTIVAL. Yesterday evening the electors of Lambeth enter tained at a public dinner their representatives, Messrs. Benjamin ilawes and Tennyson D'Eyncourt, in celebra tion of their late triumphant return fur the Borough. The dinner was served in the Rotunda of Vauxhall-gardens; every disposable seat was occupied during .. the evening, and the utmost enthusiasm seemed to pervade the Assem bly. A number of ladies were seated in the gallery. Wm. HAwEs, Esq., filled the Chair. On the right of the Chairman sat his brother, Mr. B. Hawes, M.P.; Mr. Warburton, M.P; Mr. S. Palmer, &c.; and on the left of the Chairman Mr. T. D'Eyncourt, M.P.; Mr. Larpent, M.P. ; Mr. Easthope, M.P.; Mr. Morris, M.P.; Mr. Hutton, the late Member for Dublin, &c. &c. The dinner having been dispoSed of, The CHAIRMAN rose to propose the first. toast on his list—" The Queen."—(Loud and long continued cheers.) Her Majesty had endeared herself to her people by the interest she had ever manifested in their welfare. It was rare in the history of any country to find a sovereign as sociating her cause with that of her people; and it was this circumstance which made her present Most Gracious Majesty the admiration not only of this country, but of the whole civilised world. —(Great cheering.) The toast was drank with unbounded applause. The next toasts were " The Princess Royal ;" " Prince Albert, and the rest of the Royal Family ; ' and " The People, the only source of all legitimate power." The toasts were all duly honoured. _ _ _ Mr. WARBURTON, M.P., then came forward, amidst great cheering, to propose the health of. Mr. B. Hawes, one of the Members for the borough. No duty, he would assure them, could afford him a deeper or a more sincere pleasure. He had been long and intimately ac quainted with Mr. Hawes, and in his belief there was no individual in whose industry and undeviatince recti tude they could place a greater confidence, or who was more worthy of representing their borough.—(Cheers.) No gentleman had ever given him a vote who did not anticipate how he would use it upon any one occasion, and no one had ever, in any instance, felt disappointed in his expectations. Consistency was the most valu able quality in a public man—(lsar, hear)—and if Tories themselves respected that quality, how much more was it entitled to the gratitude and confidence of the friends of freedom and' of justice ? Their Member, Mr. Hawes, had.the additional recom mendation of being intimately acquainted with those com mercial subjects which so deeply interest a metropolitan constituency. For his (Mr. Warburton's) part he be lieved that out of every hundred subjects he agreed in ninety-nine at least with their honourable representative. He agreed with him as to the necessity of extending the basis of popular liberty ; and he agreed with him in supporting those commercial improvements which would tend so materially to promote the happiness of the com munity, and to alleviate the distresses of the English people.. With the utmost pleasure, therefore, he pro posed the health of their esteemed representative, B. Hawes, Esq.—(Loud cheers,) The toast was drank with great enthusiasm. Mr. B. HAWES was loudly cheered in rising to respond to the toast.—He was happy to find that after having served them in Parliament, at least consistently, upon the principles he professed, they still continued to him their confidence.—(Hear, hear.) Anxious as he was upon that occasion to give expression to that gratitude, which naturally filled his bosom when he saw so large an assemblage of the electors of Lambeth met for the purpose of celebrating the late triumph of, reform in the borough—anxious as he was to express to them his acknowledgments for the honour they had done him, he would tell them, as he had often told them before, that the best thanks he could offer them would be the consistent advocacy of the principles upon which he had sought their suffrages.—(Cheers.) Of personal obliga tions to the electors he had many to acknowledge—the kindness, the disinterestedness, the zeal, the labour, and the anxiety which numbers of those around him had en countered, in order that he might have the honour of representing them in Parliament, might indeed well de serve a grateful return. But he knew them well—he knew they were men of principle, and upon principle alone he would address them ; and he should thank them by the services which, in his public capacity, he should endeavour to perform.—(Loud cheers.) They all knew that, at the recent election, they were somewhat taken by surprise ' • and he understood that Mr. Baldwin, who had been his opponent upon the occasion, had been pleased to say that he had pulled down his ma jority.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") But he would tell Mr. Baldwin, that he should ever look in vain for the suffrages of the electors of Lambeth. He would answer for the zeal—the unpurchaseable zeal of the electors of the borough, in upholding the cause of Re form, of which he (Mr. Hawes) was the humble and un worthy representative.— (No, no.) He believed that if the Tories ever again showed their faces upon the hustings—and he was told that they would, cost what it might—he believed that they would, in such a case, be defeated by a sufficient number of votes (if votes would satisfy them) to deter them from ever again con testing the borough.—(Hear, hear.) He had heard, however, cost what it might—that was the phrase—they would again endeavour to return a Conservative Mem ber for Lambeth. Yes, cost what it might, " there was the rule."—(Hear, hear.) Now what did it cost his Right Hon. Friend and himself during their late can vass ? Nothing but thanks.—(Great cheering.) And he would tell their opponents that they might open their purses in that enlightened borough, but that they would only meet with indignant reproofs.—(Hear, hear.) He was perfectly aware that in some cases he might have given votes displeasing to some among his constituents ; and every effbrt had been made in consequence to pre judice him in the eyes of many of his supporters. And what was the result ? Why he had again, by a most triumphant majority, been entrusted with the honour of representing the borough in Parliament.—(Cheers.) The history of the past, however, would teach them in future, even upon the rumour of a dissolution, to prepare for the contest.—(Hear, hear.) They were now on the eve of the meeting of a new Parliament, and, peradventure, a new Ministry. When he had, upon a former occasion, stood a candidate for the borough in the year 1835, he had offered himself in opposition to a Tory Government headed by Sir Robert Peel ; and he was likely, in conjunction with his lion. Friends around him, to be opposed to Sir Robert Peel in the newly elected House of Commons. He had, since he first soli cited their suffrages, lost none of his hostility to the principles of Toryism. A better acquaintance with the men, a more close examination of their principles, and a deeper knowledge of the interest they had in opposing the interests of the people—(Hear, hear)—had not in duced him to waver in the slightest degree in giving his determined opposition to the policy which they invariably pursued. He thought they were entitled to ask what course he meant to adopt upon the great questions likely to arise in the ensuing Session, and he should willingly give them every explanation upon the subject. Let him say, in the first place, that the expectations of the people in the Parliament that was about to assemble were great. Their friends were no doubt in a minority, but they looked to their energy and perseverance to supply their inferiority in numbers ; and, for his part, he believed that there was a spirit among them which would make the minority on the occasion almost a governing party. —(Cheers.) The public would expect in future some thing more than the mere struggle of parties—they would not be content to look on while "Tories mar what Whigs have scarce begun, And Whigs undo what Whigs themselves have done." They would expect, and justly upon the part of their re presentatives in Parliament, steadfastness of action and earnestness of purpose ; and even if those representa tives failed they should not at least fail from a want of honesty and exertion.—(Hear, hear.) For his part he did not know any subject upon which his constituents were not already acquainted with his sentiments. Upon the great question 0' trade he was an out-and-out free trader.—(Loud and long continued cheering.) And he was attached to the principle of free-trade because he believed it was based upon justice and upon truth, be cause every effort they made to place their commercial legislation upon a sound basis was an effort towards placing the legislation, aye, and the taxation of the coun try upon an honest basis—(Cheers)--and because while any set of men put their hands into their neighbours' pockets he held them to be neither more nor less than men voting dishonestly for selfish purposes.—(Hear') His Hon. Friend had stated that in ninety-nine ques tions out of a hundred they were agreed ; but he, for his part, should be at a loss to find out the hundredth upon which they differed. He agreed with his Hon. Friend in thinking that the Reform Bill was a measure in which they might introduce important improvements. He was an advocate, -too, for the removal of every enact ment which interfered with the honest exercise of the franchise.—(Cheers.) He was therefore for vote by Ballot.—(Renewed cheers.) He should not feel satis fied until two things were accomplished through the in strumentality of the Radical party in Parliament—the first of which was the abolition of Ecclesiastical Courts; and the second was the total abolition of Church-rates.-- (Loud and long-continued cheers.) He had ever been a friend to the principle of religious liberty ; and he was most anxious that they should all join heart and hand with their fellow-labourers, the Irish Liberals, in ob taMing a repeal of the grievances of the Irish people.— (Cheers.) This was a time at which the English people ought to arise and proclaim with one voice that no Go vernment should rule in Ireland which was not based upon the affections of the people.—(" Hear, hear," and loud cheers.) They ought to support the great leader of the Irish nation who had ever been the advocate of justice and of liberty for his country. His Right Hon, Colleague and himself were heartily united in principle, and they would continue to be so united, and to struggle in the same cause as long as they had the honour of representing the Electors of Lambeth. He should ob serve, in addition, that if the Tories when in power proposed just and honest measures, they should have the cordial support of the Liberal party. And if Sir Robert Peel should again play the tergiversator, they would offer him no opposition. If the Tories proceeded upon the principle of justice and of true policy all would rally round them, and endeavour to make England a State,— _ _ _ " Where wealth and commerce lift their golden heads, And o'er our labours, liberty, and laws, Impartial watch ; the wonder of the world." The Hon. Gentleman then concluded by thanking the friends around him for the many favours he had received at their hands. Mr. LARPENT then proposed the health of Mr. T. D'Eyncourt—a gentleman whom be bad known and re spected through life—who had been the companion of his youth, and the friend of his riper years. The toast was drunk with great enthusiasm. Mr. T. D'ErNcounT ackuo — wledged the toast, but in so low a tone of voice that he was totally inaudible throughout his speech. He felt duly grateful for the honour which the electors of Lambeth had conferred upon him, and he should endeavour to acknowledge his sense of the favour by a due discharge of his public duty. With respect to the position of the Liberal party, he was far from entertaining feelings of despair ; and he be lieved that if they remained true to themselves their cause would ultimately triumph. THE SUN, LONDON. THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, io , ti . The CHAIRMAN then proposed " The health of Mr. Easthope, the consistent friend of civil and religions liberty, and the opponent of Church-rates."—(Cheers.) Mr. EISTIIOPE came forward amidst cheers to acknow ledge the toast. He congratulated the electors of Lam beth on the triumph which they were then met to cele brate. He was delighted to find that they had sent to Parliament men who were the determined supporters of that civil and religious liberty which he was about to propose as a toast to the meeting. Unfortunately it did not always happen that the ministers of religion were the friends of popular rights. He was, however, happy to find among the order one splendid exception to that principle—the exception of one, distinguished by birth, genius. and learning—he meant the Rev. Baptist Noel —(Cheers)—the eloquent author of the " Plea for the Poor."—(Renewed cheers.) He was happy, too, to find that her Most Gracious Majesty had been pleased to manifest the interest which she felt in the same cause; by nomi nating the reverend gentleman as one of those from whom she was to receive the rites and consolations of religion.—(Cheers.) The great question now agitating. England was the claims of the labouring poor to that justice which would ensure to them the necessaries of life ; such a cause must finally prevail. Men might change, but principles remained fixed ; and numbers must dwindle when opposed to truth and justice.— (Cheers.) The Hon. Gentlemen concluded by proposing the toast of " Civil and Religious Liberty." The toast was drank with enthusiam. _ The CHAIRMAN, then propo , e.l:"Lord Fortesehe," and " Justice to Ireland."—(Great cheering.) Mr. HuTToN, the late Member for Dublin, responded to the toast. A vote of thanks was. then passed to the Chairman, and the meeting separated at an early hour. THAMES STEAMERS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR.—Your eye rests on abuses for their correction, and tempts me to place a few remarks before it, on the delay and confusion consequent on several steamers stopping at the Old Swan Pier, near London-bridge, on Sunday evening last. I bought a ticket for an iron-boat, and, on reaching it, was infbrmed it had to call on the other side of the river, and would return at its proper time. This was was reasonable, and I waited, walking about, and look ing at the boat ; but when it reached the other side, there it stayed ; and, on applying to the clerk, he said, "If it had been only live minutes over its time, he would return the money ; but as it had been seven, he could not ; and could only account for its delay by some part of the machinery being out of order." This was not the worst. On, its arrival, twelve mi nutes after time, whilst waiting to take in passengers, it became completely jammed in between four other ves sels—one small, and three Greenwich and Woolwich, larger. Thus nearly another quarter of an hour was consumed, making almost half an hour's delay, in which time I could have walked leisurely enoagh to Waterloo bridge, without standing a very good chance indeed of catching cold. But the remedy—what is the remedy ? There should be a distinct place for the larger, longer voyage boats, to stop at ; and they should be in a tier—one only to take in and let out passengers at a time, or forfeit heavily; and when a small boat is over-time, the money taker should be compelled to return the money for not fulfilling the agreement as to time, which is valuable nearly to all, as well as your obedient servant, A PASSENGER AGAINST HIS WILL, AND NOT THE ONLY ONE. Aug. 17, 1841. DUTCH AND GERMAN MAIL. NDIEGUEN, AUG. 13.—0 n Sunday next the 15th of August, her Majesty the Queen of Wurtemberg, and two Princesses, her daughters, with a numerous suite, is expected here by the steam-boat from Cologne. They will pass the night here, and set out the next morning by the steamer for the Hague._ . . TILE HAGUE, AUG. 13.—The commission of persons of distinction from Luxemburg hare arrived here in con sequence of his Majesty's intention to lay clown the basis of the future organization of the Grand Duchy, and to provide for its most urgent wants. His Excellency the Minister of Finance has announced in a report of the 10th, conformably to the law of 27th December, 1840. that the total amount of Treasury funds (Selma Kisbilletin) issued according to the law, was two millions of florins. TilE HAGuE, Auc. 15.—The King, the Prince of Orange, and Prince Alexander, arc expected to-morrow from North Brabant. The Queen of Wurtemberg is expected to-morrow or the next day. TUE HAGUE, Auc. 16.—1 n the Second Chamber of the States• General to-day, 41 Ministers were present. A resolution of his Majesty was read, by which the Minister of Finance is authorised to present to-morrow, at two o'clock in the afternoon, in the King's name, the Budget of 1842-1843, and Projects of Law relative to the finances. The Minister of Foreign Affairs sent to the Chamber copies of the Treaties of Commerce and Navigation concluded between the Netherlands and France, and between the Netherlands and the republic of Texas. Several petitions were received, and were referred to the Committee on Petitions. The Queen of Wurtemberg and her daughters have arrived here to-day. The King intends to visit the town of Delft on Wed nesday the 18th inst. THE HAGUE, AUG. 16.—1 t is affirmed that the Budget for 1842-43, will amount to about 70 millions of florins, and that it will include the revenue and expenditure of the Duchy of Limburg. FRANKFORT, AUG. 13.—We have received here to day from Berlin, the unfortunate news that the Com missioners of Prussia and Luxemburg have concluded the treaty by which the Grand Duchy joins the German Customs Union. DUTCH FUNDS.—AsisTEaDAst, Atm. 16 Blone 3 . Rills. Actual D , :bt, 2% Per Cent ..............»..•• 51 Jitto, ditto 5 per cent. IOIN 100 Amer t Syndic, 4% per cent .................. 91 td Ditto,tt (1 :1:t0 :n : 1 % 33 7 3 r cent—. 75% 76 Di Loan 1K37, 5 per cent. s Commercial Company, .v 4 p er cent 971 A 97% Exchange on London, One m0nt1i....... Two months Hamburgh, One month 35 51•3 4 Two months per cent. Dutch Papers, Aug. 17. AUSTRIA N FUNDS.—VIENNA, AUG. 9 Five per Cents. Blet a l l i ques Four per Cents. „..„. ....... Three per Cent s . ..... 766 Blink :Charns ........ .... ..... ...... —.lllgemeine Zettutvg. Au g . 13. SPAIN. The majority of the Financial Committee has presented the following report to the Chamber of Deputies:— " Art. 1. The Decree of the Provisional Regency of the 21st of January last, ordering the capitalization of the interests of the ho me an d foreign debts due or to ex pire at the close of 1840, is extended to the interests due ur to expire in the year 1841. " Art. 2. The Government will report to the Cortes the result of the capitalization executed in virtue of the present law. " Art. 3. The laws of the 17th of April, 1838, and the 21st of June, 1840, are hereby abrogated. " FERNANDEZ DE GAMBOA. " CESARIO MARIA SAENZ. "JUAN ALVAREZ Y MENDIZABAL. " Palace of Congress, Aug. 4." The minority presented the annexed counter project : " Art. 1. The capitalization of the interests due on the home and foreign debts, ordered by the decree of the 21st of January last, is confirmed, and the creditors are to be allowed an entire year from the date of the publication of the present law to make known their in tention respecting that capitalization. " Art. 2. The coupons of the interests due on the home and foreign debts, during the year 1841, shall be received for their integral value in payment of national property for one-half of the part corresponding with the respective titles of the Four and Five per Cents. " Art. 3. The Government will propose suitable arrangements to insure the perpetual and complete pay ment of the interests of the public debt from the Ist of January, 1841." M. Mendizabal had called a meeting of fifty capitalists, to whom he proposed to open a subscription to present Lord Clarendon with a testimonial of their friendship and esteem. A shock of an earthquake was felt at Seville about half-past ten o'clock in the night of the ith. SimiNl shocks were also felt at Cadiz, Puerto de Santa Maria, Xeres de la Fonteira, Ciudad Real, and Malaga. --- WEEKLY STATEMENT OF LON DON LETTERS, Ave. 18, 1841. THROUGH TIIE GENERAL POST. Four weeks ending Aug. 14, 1841 3,971,864 DittoCorre s a p s o n n e d a i r n l g y periodbe given 1840 of 1839 1,620,413 Increase since 1840 on the four weeks' letters 1,505,470 Ditto 1839 ditto 3,856,921 THROUGH THE DISTRICT POST. Four weeks ending . Aug. 14, 1841 Corresponding period of 1840 Ditto as nearly as can be given of 1839 Increase since 1840 on the four weeks' letters 138,506 Ditto 1839 ditto 627,243 THE REGISTRATION.--It should not be for gotten that Wednesday, August 25, will be the last day for leaving with the overseers objections to county electors. The Tories bestow much attention on those matters ; and the friends of Reform should not suffer themselves to be surpassed by their political adversaries. WINDSOR, TUESDAY EVENING.—ThiS day the annual revel in honour of her Majesty's accession to the throne, and in commemoration of the birth-day of her Majesty's august mother, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, was held by the Bachelors of Windsor and their friends. At an early hour in the morning the auspicious day was ushered in with the discharge of several pieces of artillery, which was continued at inter vals until the evening. About nine, 4.51., the Bachelors perambulated the boundaries of the Acre, and walked in procession through the principal streets of the town, pre ceded by a band of music. A variety of rustic sports, consisting of matches at cricket, back-swording, wrest ling, &c., afterwards took place, and for which suitable prizes were awarded to the successful competitors. At noon the 72d Highlanders were marched into the Home Park, and reviewed by Lieut.-Colonel Arbuthnot, the commanding officer. The celebration was concluded at nine o'clock in the evening with a grand display of fire works in the presence of several thousands of the towns people and visitors from the surrounding districts. The bells of the parish church and St. George's Chapel were rung almost unceasingly throughout the entire (inv. The subscriptions for the above fete will this year amount to nearly 100/., and includes donations from the borough and county Members, and the resident nobility and gentry of the neighbourhood. THE TAX ON SUGAR . TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—Having, seen it asserted by a Noble Lord, that the diflivential duties on sugar are only some 3-sths of a penny, I determined to examine the subject myself, and I find that they are nearly 4d. in the pound. The protection which the West Indies possess, and which protection operates as a tax upon the British public, amounts to a greater sum than the poor-rates of the country. I will endeavour to demonstrate the truth of this proposition : West India sugar is admitted into this country on the payment of 245. for each hundred weight : Brazilian sugar is admitted on paying 635. for every hundred weight; so that the West Indian has an advantage of 395. for each hundred weight of sugar. I use in my own house, on an average, 41bs. of sugar each week, which will be, for the year, 1 . cwt. and 6-7ths i and as I pay 395. per cwt. more for my sugar than what I should have to pay if there were a fair trade in sugar (that is, the Brazilians paying the same amount of duty as the West Indians, and as the Brazilians buy a million and a half more of manufactured goods from u's than what the West Indians do, they are entitled tt) sell on the same terms), the tax upon myself and family. amounts' to 725. Gd. per year for the benefit of the West Indian interest. The ; poor-rate upon the house I live in, is this year 365. ; so that I am taxed for the - benefit of my own country' nen 365., and for the benefit of the blacks in the West Irldian islands I am taxed 725. 6d. We are often told that the West Indians ate good customers of ours. They buy from . us 3,303.441/. of manufactured goods annually, and we have bought from them on an average of the last two years, 3,079,f 64 cwts. of sugar ; and as we have given them 395. per cwt. more than what we could have purchased it at from. the Bra zilians, if we multiply the quantity imported bry 395., wo shall then see what we pay for , the 'privilege of selling to the West Indians the cheapest inannfactured guods in the world. The amount will stand:thus:-3,079,664 cwts., at 395. per cwt..-6,000,3441. 16s. ; add" to this sum the cost of governing the West 1ndie5,:605,670/., and there will be a total of 6,606,014/. ; which sum we pay for the privilege of selling 3,399,441/. 'of manufactured goods. In other words, 2s. for the privilege of selling Is. worth of goods ! Now, what shopkeeper could keep his shop open on such a principle ?' No one could ; for the more business he did, the -sooner his trade would end. The total amount of poor-rate for England and Wales, in 1838, was 4,123,6041. ; being 2,482,4101. less than what .we are taxed in the shape of protection for the benefit of the black labourerS. And if we divicle this tax. by the number of the blacks ) on the West. In dian Islands, it will be about Bt. for each—a sum double what is allowed for the maintenanob of an Ergiish pauper in an union workhouse: : For whose benefit do we submit to an indirect tax of 6,606,1041. each year ? Is it for the furpose.of further ing the ends of humanity ? Is it Air the purpose of striking a blow at the slave trade ? Is it because the law-makers of this country have a strong desire to bene fit the condition of the 800,000 black, men who live in the West Indian islands ? No such .thing. The great monied men, the members of :the 'House of Common.% and the landed aristocracy of this country, own the soil of the West Indies, and it is for their benefit that we arc taxed. In consequence of this tax, - the,blacks are enabled to pay a greater rent to the owners of the soil ; in short, it is another Corn-law. Before this party will be conciliated, we must compen sate them in the same manner that we compensated them with 20,000,0001. for the emancipation of the black slaves, which, if they reckon at the rate of twenty years' purchase, will be more than 100,000,000/. If they can only persuade Its to compensate them'for the loss of their high rents, we shall then be at liberty to grind the black men into coffee if we like.—l remain, yours respectfully, JOHN HEYW 00D. Oldham-road, Aug. 11, 1841. LIBERIA. CLARENCE, FERNANDO Po, APRIL 5, 1841. Dear and highly esteemed Friend,-,--As I am aware of the deep interest you take in the state of Africa and her children, I proceed to give you a few particulars:—First, in reference to Liberia; and next in reference to the state of this island, on which myself and Dr. Prince have fur about three months resided. The persons from whom I had those particulars which I did not myself ascertain, have resided long at Cap e Palmas and other parts of the colony, and were chiefly Missionaries of the Episcopalian, Presybyterian, and Baptist persuasions. The extent of the territory claimed by the colonists reaches from Cape Mount River to the river Cavally. The map of the colony goes to the river Solymon, in the 7th degree of north latitude ; and Mien off the Cavally river, a paper signed by a Dr. Hall; was handed to me from King Bappo, in which the said King was recom mended to the favourable considei'ation of traders, on account of having granted gratuitonsly a large tract of land on the Gamily river, to the Maryland Colonization Society. Cavally river is twenty miles to the south of Cape Palmas, so that the line of coast claimed and par tially occupied by the different Colonization Societies, and comprehended under the term Liberia, is nut short of 300 miles. The coast thus occupied is not so unhealthy as is the Bullom shore, and Sierra Leone on the north, or as Cape Coast Castle, Popor, and the Delta of the Niger on the east. With these exceptions, and keeping off the mouths and marshy sides of rivers, the coast of Africa from Rio Ponga to the Coanga is much alike in point of insalu brity. In reference to the colony of Liberia, one fact appears evident from the united testimony of all I have heard speak on the subject, viz., that the health of chil dren born in the colony is better than it was at first ; and that coloured persons, after seasoning, enjoy better health than they (lid some years ago. Whites are still in danger from the accumulating fever, and for the most part look sickly and feeble, some, of the Missionaries have good health, and speak as if they could walk fur ther and bear more fatigue than they formerly could in their native country.. • I was informed that to enter into the causes of the wars with the natives would require a long explanation, in which different parties wou!d give different accounts,. according to their prejudices and interests. But one cause certainly was the prohibition under which many of the natives near Mesurado were placed in reference to the trade with the wsiels that visited their coast. This prohibition arises out of the selfish policy of the Colonial Government, which has induced them to lay a fine on vessels found trading with the natives, and to in crease the expenses on foreign trade by harbour dues, and the employment of a commissioned agent, so that goods are sold one-ninth higher, at, and near Monrovia, than on other parts of the same line of coast, and all im pediments and hindrances to trade are thrown in the way of the natives to force them to obtain their aupplies through the merchants settled in the Colony. This has been felt keenly, and in some cases has met with resist ance by the natives. Another cause is the attempt made to prevent the natives from fishing in Bassa Cove and other places, where they formerly employed themselves in fishing without molestation. In agreeing to allow the Ame ricans to settle, the natives never. .contemplated a curtail ing of their own rights, and privileges, but looked for great advantages from the trade promised them with America and Europe. They now feel themselves griev ously disappointed in these their too sanguine expecta tions. It is also candidly admitted that the Colonists have frequently acted unjustly towards the natives and oppressed them, and that injustice and oppression still to a certain extent continue. A considerable number were lately slain, at a station belonging to a Methodist Missionary, some way in the country behind M'esurado. The account has appeared in the Monrovia newspaper, and also in a Boston newspaper, in one of which I doubt not the statement has been seen by you. Dr. Prince and myself were distinctly informed that the tribe among whom the Missionaries resided gave them time to fly with their wives, children, aged people, and property ; and, instead of flying, the Missionaries sent to Monrovia for guns and ammunition, and resolved to risk life in the protection of their property. When the hostile tribe appeared the attack commenced, and the people were beaten off with considerable slaughter. When the defence for a time ceased, the assailants made an attempt to carry away their slain, but at this time the firing recommenced, and much injury was done to the flying natives. An unfeeling letter appeared in the Liberia Herald, written by one of the principal actors in this bloody seen, in which the Missionary disgraces him self by showing an utter want of the spirit of the Mas • ter whom he professed to serve. The Editor lauds him as a hero ; but his brother Missionaries highly disap prove of his conduct, and those of them with whom I conversed appeared much to regret the spirit of revenge that had been manifested on this mournful occasion. A short time ago a native who thought himself wronged by a colonist, who resided near to Cape Palmas, com plained, and from the Governor obtained redress ; this exasperated the colonist so much that he took his gun down, and as the native passed his farm, he fired, and it is said lodged a few small shots in the shoulder of the man he had injured. The native went to his tribe, and brought with him a band, who entered the house of the colonist, cut off his head, and the heads of two of his children ; the wife and the other children. escaped the fury of these barbarians. They left the place without any further attack upon the people, and escaped speedily to their country several miles distant in .the interior. I was assured that the late wars have had the worst possible effect on the minds of the natives, that they . are increasingly jealous of the po wer and influence of the colonists, and highly displeased at their proud and over bearing conduct. When their Kings or Headmen gave away or sold a part of their territory, they did so from the immediate advantag e of a lar g e .‘ dash" or present, or the future prospect of an increase of trade. They had no idea of curtailing their own comforts, or of bei ng overrun by persons from a foreign land. Then they saw only the favourable side, but they now see the op posite ; and, living in a part of Africa already teeming with a native population, and not very rich in soil, th e y find that the rising power of the colonists must be kept down, or that they must be driven inland among hostile tribes, jealous of any such encroachment upon their hunt ing or provision grounds. It was stated, as a thing se lf evident, that as the colony increased, wars would also increase, and that the spirit, cherished on b ot h s i des would make these, as much as possible, wars qf artermi natipn. The agreements made with the Afticans are nearly all decidedly unjust. A mere trifle is given for thousands of acres of land. The benefits of trade are put before the ignorant people in a fascinating manner, a footing is obtained, and force is used to retain it, and to extend, if y necessa- the boundary lines, as far as the aggresso rs thi n k proper to wish or desire. A small provision-ground, producing rice, plantains, is deemed a farm, and such provision -grounds are common in the colony, but as to the growing of cotton, sugar, or the like, no such thing prevails to any extent in an y part of Liberia. Horses, mules, &c., arc not nu merous, and are seldom p u t i n h arness, and oxen are too small to be thought of for the yoke. The hoe is the agricultural instrument in general use, and man is the agent by whom it; is employed. Only one saw-mill ex ists in the colony, anct no flour-mill, or other article of machinery, has yet been introduced. Formerly alavurs did visit the colony, but not now, ex cept at those places distant from settlements where slave faetories exist. Colonists, however, are not chargeable with giving encouragement to these factors, nor are they known to trade: with them at present in any direct or indirect way. At Cape Palmas there is no jetisdiction exercised over the natives or acknowledged by them, but several tribes are in amity here, and - on otf Aer parts of the coast with the colonists. The native towns close to the settlements at Cape Palmas, remain '4uite distinct from the colonists, keep up their own cost ams, and appear as far from any approach to civilizar_on or religion as if they had never seen the colonists r,r heard the Gospel preached amongst them. The peop'.e wear a small cloth about the loins, and are ornaments a with rings and gregres. One or two of the colonists have married natives at Cape Palmas, but these have rather receded towards the natives than suc ()ceded i,t improving the aboriginal inhabitants. Few attend worship o f G o d , an d these few are offended ley lte pride of the colonists, who show the same dispO i siA,ion to make distinctions in the House of God, that whites in America do towards their coloured brethren • there. In sending the children to school, the natives look for some advantage, and have not yet come to value learning for its own intrinsic worth. A few have em braced the Christian religion, but most of these arc from among the school children, who have for several years enjoyed the advantage of daily religious instruction from the devout servants of God, who have long laboured amongst them. Since the Bibla and other books have bean used in the school in the native tongue, as well as in the English, ,knowledge has been on the increase, even among the parents at home ; and it is hoped that the reading of these books at home by the native children, in the native tongue, will ultimately be blessed of God, to the benefit of many of the adult population. All here are engaged in trade except the Missionaries, Even the Governor has not enough to keep him, from those by whom he is appointed ; he is, in fact, the prin cipal merchant at Cape Palmas. There are four places of Nvorship,—a Presbyterian and Episcopalian, a Metho dist, lind a Baptist. All the Missionaries are from Ame rica. The Presbyterian and Episcopalian are sent to the riatives ; the Methodist and Baptist are chiefly employed among the colonists. Th e P res byt er i an Mi ssio nary has a printing press, speaks and preaches in the Grebo tongue, and has translated and printed several books iu that language. Temperance prevails in the Colony, and no rum is sold. Governor Musewarm is esteemed and loved, and unites a few of the colonists with him in the administration of justice. The colonists arc not in the least jealous of him on account of his appointment by the Society in America. They are content, not yet having confidence in them selves. The desire manifested by the colonists to return to America is so great, that if the vessels were supplied, such a number would leave in them, that those willing to remain would find themselves too few to protect themselves from the natives, and would therefore leave on this account. No ob stacle but the want of means prevents the return of the colonists to America, but this is a sufficient one, and con fines them to the land of their exile. It is readily admitted that individuals•have been found in the colony, who for present interest, have given incor rect views of its flourishing state, and that such state ments have appeared as must have been known to the writer at the time to have been contrary to the real facts of the case. I shall conclude this brief account of Liberia by giving it, as my opinion, from all that I have seen and heard, that the good set forth by the Colonization Society will never be attained, unless a complete change of plan be effected. The colonists must be men chosen for their work, and well supported in it. Righteousness, mercy, and love, must regulate the conduct of all towards each other, and towards the natives ; good and equal laws must prevail, and a great object aimed at must be the benefit of the native, -before any good will arise to him, from strangers on whom he l oo k s a t first with an eye of suspicion. and jealousy. As to any benefit arising to the colonists themselves, this is out of the question. Had their temporal good been sought, America would have been found sufficiently large to contain them all. If a few native Africans had desired to be sent back to their county}, it would have been bene volent to have done so, for their security and usefulness in the land that gave them birth ; but to ship off native Americans, almost, if not altogether by force, was at once cruel and unjust, and cannot have resting upon it the blessings of the Most High. FERNANDO PO-WEST AFRICAN COMPANY. I shall now turn to the state of the liberated Africans and others in the town of Clarence, where I now reside. When the British Government gave up their esta blishment here Lieut.-Colonel Nicolls sold the houses, &c., to a private Company for about 15,0001., arranging that Government should have all b ac k aga i n i n goo d repair, at any time, by paying a stipulated sum ; vessels were sent to take back the liberated Africans to Sierra Leone, and many of. them left the place, but a few were prevailed en by the representations of Captain Beccroft to remain ; and to these the officer, while in charge, acted • the part of a faithful friend ; but since the property was again sold, and came into the possession of the West African Com pany, little but oppression, cruelty, and injustice, has marked the conduct of their agents towards the people. All the houses and gardens formerly held from Govern ment are claimed by this Company, and a nominal rent of palm oil is demanded each quarter. All, if required by the Company, are forced to work for them at such rate as the agent thinks proper to give. No objec tion is allowed, if one is made and persisted in ; the person is handed over to constables, to be put in a place called a guard house, but more properly a dungeon, as it built in a cut across a narrow point of land, and its eaves are level with the surface of the ground. If resistance is made to the authority of the constable, or passion cause the person to give liberty to the tongue, he is flogged, loaded with irons, and kept as long as the agent pleases in this den of death. This last arrogates to himself the power of doing what he pleases, and boasts of being account able to none but the West African Company, from whom he says he has the fullest possible powers to do what he thinks proper. Besides this dungeon, he has a house on a small rocky island for persons to be banished to for a time. This is chiefly for women who quarrel in the street, or do any thing to offend the agent ; men have occasionally been sent there, but not often. Frequently men and women have been confined in the same place, and conduct the most arbitrary and despotic has been in dulged in towards all. Taken few examples :—A canoe full of refugees—four men and two women—escaped from the Island of Princes last year ; they after great hardships reached this island. They were sent off immediately to the dungeon—one of them soon died in it, the others re mained about foul- months, and were let out a little be fore we reached the island, but are still on the " black liSt," and are compelled to work for the Company for rations alone, i. c., without pay, having food only suffi cient to support life. Prisoners have two pounds of yam, cassava, or cocoa-nut and water—no meat, no salt ; those sent over to the island have a still smaller supply, and the poor kroomen who cut timber, and drag it miles out of the woods for the Company, have only five pounds of yam, rice, or cocoa per day, and one bottle of watered rum per week, and one piece of cloth containing seventeen handkerchiefs (made up for Africa) per quarter. Headmen have a little more. No meat is regularly allowed, so that the rum and the handkerchiefs often are bartered for monkeys to eat with the yams, &c. Another case of cruelty was the flog ging of three Kroomen, because one Headman said to another that these men intended to run away. There arose a demur about the work, and all refused to go out until they had their " palaver" settled. Two of the Headmen were picked out, and severely flogged, to inti• midate the others. A sentinel fell asleep, and being found out, got four dozen and three months in guard-house, and was to work in the garden all the day. While so employed some one lef t open the garden gate, and a cow got in and destroy e d some maize. The poor man, with his unhealed back, was tied up to a tree, and had two dozen more given to him before our window. My paper is full and so is my heart, but I could fill many sheets more with the op pressions and cruelties practised here. We have down right slavery, and the people know not where to turn for relief. Can you do anything for them ? C an a British public put an end to their voea ? Mr. Thomp son has gone to England. Call him and th e C ompany he represents to account for their conduct. I conclude, and remain your sincere friend, JOHN CLAIIIiE. TRADE BETWEEN RUSSIA AND - (From Alexander's East India Magazine.) This trade is based on a mere interchanoe of the respective national productions. On the part of the Chinese, it consists chiefly in the barter of tea for va rious kinds of Russian produce and manufactured arti cles. In the regular course the traffic commences between the dealers of the two nations in January, and concludes in March, during which period the Rus sians obtain about 80,000 chests of different sorts of tea, about one-half of which is destined for the annual July fair of Nishninovogorod, and the remainder is conveyed to Moscow, and other towns of the in terior. This barter forms one of the principal branches of Russian industry, and has a very beneficial influence on other commercial operations. The traffic is always active and flourishing, for there is constantly a great demand for the tea imported by the way of liiaehta, and many Russian products, not much in request in the home market, are disposed of in. large quantities to tile Chinese. The transport of the respec tive articles is very difficult, and, in consequence of the great distance they are conveyed, a long period must ne cessarily elapse before they reach their destination. The transport gives employment , on the Russian side, t o th e po pulation of 5,000 versts of country, for such is the ex tent of the distance between Perm, the most remote town of European Russia, and Kiachta, the extreme eastern point of Asiatic Russia. To this population the trade affords not only a sufficient subsistence, but even a considerable surplus gain. The Russian manu factories, chiefly in request by the Chinese, are woollen stuffs and cloths, such as ladies' cloth, Dutch camlcts, &c. The manufactory of the Counsellor Alex wicker in Moscow, produces these articles in the quality and form best suited to the fantastic taste of the Chinese. Next in order may be mentioned Rubnikov and Son, the brothers Babkin and Dobrohtov-Maikov, also of Moscow, as the most successful manufacturers for the Chinese market. They have distinguished themselves by the strange forms and fashions they give to the articles they produce in pieces of from twenty-five to forty arshins, and of different prices, according to the quality. Last year 40,000 pieces of Russian cloth were sent to Kiachta. The other gooods in request are plush stuffs, leather wares, particularly the favourite leather of Casan, and peltry, more particularly the lambskins of the Ukraine. All these articles are exchanged for SUN tca ; large capitals are therefore employed in carryin on this trade. The value of the Russian merchandis sent last year to Kiachta exceeded 24,000,000 rubles. The quantity of tea imported amounted to 80,000 chests, of which 35,000 were of the finest sort, the remaining 45,000 being of inferior quality. There are about thirty different species of tea. Of the green, which is distin guished from all the others in form and taste, only from 100 to 200 chests are imported. There is a verj remark able kind, called tile tea, the leaf of which resembles a tile in form, and has also much solidity. It i:sprepared in quite a different manner from common tea, being stewed with milk, butter, salt, and herbs, and serve.l 1 1 P as a dish. It is accordingly rather an article of food than beverage. The Russians do not use it themselves, gut sell it to the Armenians and Tartars, who distribute it to the Caucasian provinces and Eastern Siberia. The Cal" mucks, Kirghesis, and Bura.W, consume the greater vrt of it. Besides tea, the Chinese bring other articles t° Kiachta, the chief of which are satin, crape, pipes, to:, 'Et cakes of ink,- and colours ; but the value of these du net amount altogether to 30,000 rubles banco. Before the Rtis'sians, tile greater number of whom remain only a short time at liiachta, oiler to barter', they m eet and draw up in common a price current, to ;which they str:ctly adher e . It saves t h em muc h trou bl e in their dealings. The Chi nese a pp ear f ar snore ease, t° g 1 ; 11 off' their tea th an th e R uss i ans are to exchangt the3-1/4:- manufactures. The former have seldom any thinC,/ 31 1; at the close of the market, whereas the Russians ot. 'ea hold back considerable stocks. After the Russo-Aim:— rican Company, which has a great share in this trade, the most considerable Russian importers of tea are the Ko-. lessovs, Lobkovs, and five other mercantile houses in. Moscow, Bassin Kiachta and Medvednikov in Irkutsk. The great advantages of this trade, not only to the Russian merchants engaged in it, but to the inhabitants of the intermediate route of transport, was rendered strikinOy evident by the failure of the harvest and con sequent dearth in 1833-9. The employment then afibrded by this traffic proved a great relief to the poor people of those districts. It may, therefore, be looked upon as the most beneficial branch of Russian commerce, but more considerable funds are required for its develop ment than have hitherto been at the command of our merchants. . The little town of. Kiachta, on the river of the same name, distant only three versts from the •Chinese vil lage Maimadshin, is two and a half versts in circun der ence. All the wants of the inhabitants of Kiatehta are supplied by their trade, and the town ranks as a 1. 'cc port. In order, however, to prevent every" kind or smuggling, the strictest vigilance is observed day ann. night by the officers of the customs, and nothing importel or exported escapes inspection. As stations for mercan tile deposits must have market-places and warehouses, and as those of Kiachta are decayed, and have not sulli cient space for great stores of goods, an elegant new market-place is abo u t t o b e constructed,! for the expense of which 1,072,000 rubles are destined, in accordance with the architect's estimate. The merchants are also - building a church, which, though not yet finished, has cost 400,000 rubles. The houses, which are entirel7,- of wood, are large and spacious within, and have a hand some appearance. During the period of barter in the winter months the surplus population cannot be accommodated without difficulty, and lodgings are, there fore, very dear. The ordinary resident population does not exceed 400 of both sexes. Kiachta has fourteen merchants of the first guild, but only seven of them have fixed residences in the place. The others, who reside in European Russia. employ factors, and only visit Kiachta occasionally. A school for instruction in the Chinese language was . established in 1835. The young men. taught in it will be employed as interpreters. In 1840 the first seven. were dismissed, having completed their studies. The number at present in the college is fourteen. MARRIED.—On the 16th inst., at White chapel Church, Mr. James Davies, second son of the late Mr. Davies, of the North and South American Coffee house, to Susannah, eldest daughter of Mr. Thorn, far mer,Epsom, Surrey. Unpropitious weather, still I Rain and cold winds ! What. will become of the sliding scale ? What of those who have taken their stand upon it. The diffi culties of Sir Robert Peel begin to take shape and dis tinctness as the hour for his inauguration draws nigh. .Five hundred Sir Roberts rolled into one would not be able to maintain the present Corn-laws—to abandon them, will disappoint and kindle the rage of the long list of country gentlmen, M.P.s, who imagine that the seasons were made to wait upon their pleasure, and the heavens themselves to revolve about them as a fixed centre. These sapient philosophers would not allow of a man's having done his duty, if beaten at last, even if omnipotence were his antagonist —and should Sir Robert sacrifice himself in a bootless attempt to preserve his political consistency, these would be the first to trample upon his remains. They are sel fish and ignorant enough to gnash their teeth at Provi dence. because Providence is against them—but seeing that would be fruitless, they would gladly vent their dis pleasure upon the unhappy statesman whom Providence shall overcome. The accounts from various quarters of the country represent the crops as having sustained very partial, if any, damage. Such representations, however, are not to be relied on. They are usually com municated by farmers to journals circulating pin cipally among farmers. And it is to the far mers' interest, now, to prevent corn from rising until after the harvest. Few of our agriculturists could avail themselves of high prices until their corn is housed, for the simple reason that most of them have disposed of their stock already—and if, in consequence of the next averages, bonded wheat should come into the market before harvest terminates, the golden prospect now before the far mer would turn out but a gloomy one. It is, therefore, of importance to the landed interest to have favourable - re ports—that present prices may not be raised until the farmers can avail themselves of the advantage. We be lieve the authority on which we stated that the crops were already a fifth below the average, will be found to be borne out by the event. If so, the country must be prepared for a general crash.—.Nonco7fformi.-vt. COMMITTAL, ESCAPE, AND RE CAPTURE of A B URGLAIL —On the morning of Saturday last infor mation was received at the station-house of the T divi ion in the town of Staines, that on the previous night the premises of Mr. E. Carruthers, of that town, had been burglariously entered, and that the thieves had been dis turbed in their proceedings, having only stolen a silver watch, a tea-caddy, a pair of sugar-tongs, a glass sugar basin, and a rosewood workbox. Serjeant Burton of the 'l' division, having reason to believe that a well-known cha racter, named Collyer, had been concerned in the robber s }', traced him to Hounslow, and from thence to Chooham, Surrey, where he:succeeded in apprehending him, and on searching him found the duplicate of the watch in his pocket. On Monday he was conveyed before the petty sessions at Feltham, and fully committed to Newgate for trial. While awaiting the arrival of a cart to convey him to Newgate, he was allowed to remain in the bench-room on the ground-floor of the inn, the win dows of which, owing to the crowded state of the room, were wide open, when, watching a favourable opportu nity, he jumped out of one of the windows, and bounded with the speed of a deer across the country. In spector Otway, of the T division, and Inspector Dow sing, of the V division, who were both present, imme diately mounted their horses and galloped off in pursuit, followed by a number of policemen and other persons, when after a severe run the prisoner took refuge in Han warth Park, the seat of Mr. Henry Perkins, the brewer, whose demesne ' being cl ose l y woo d e d f or some time afforded hi m a • secure shelter from his pursuers. The police, however, immediately divided themselves into small parties and scoured the wood, and ultimately the prisoner was discovered in a high tree, and after much difficulty got down, when he was instantly handcuffed and brought back to Feltham, whence he was conveyed to Newgate. CROMWELL AT HOME.—The members of Cromwell's family were all persons of more than ordi nary accomplishments, intellect, and moral character, and there was the greatest love and harmony existing among them. "His own diet was spare and not curious except .Aio i t ay e publicN.treatments,ery week t whi c h l th were constantly c c e o r i s i s i t n a n the y a g r i m v en the not below a. captain, when he used to dine with them. A table was . ilikewise spread every day of the week for officers as should casually come to Court. He was a great lover of music, and enter tained the most skilful in pay and family. He respected all that science in his persons that were eximious in anyt 0 art, h. and would procure t hem to be sent o r brough t Sometimes he would, for a frolic , before he had half dined, give order for the drum to b eat, be i jocund clait dtfootwith g found u s a e r m guards, s , N kept; and o bootye u d a l of of the and would tell them what company th e y h a d rh a e k when and where they had d run k th e Ki ng ' s health on the and the Royal Family ; bidding them, wh en th e y table. N-er p e rmitted so lnetintl eo did it again, to do it more privately, and this without any passion, and as festivous, droll discour se ." He surrounded himself also with the master minds of his time: Milton was his Latin secretary and intimate ; Andrew Marvel was a frequent guest at his table ; Waller was his friend and kinsman • and the youthful Dryden was not left un noticed.—London, No. XX. GELATINE.—At least thirteen years ago, phi lanthropy and science united their efforts and invented the. gelatine ; that is to say, a new kind of food made out of a pretended juice drawn from the meat-bones. I remember having denounced this deceptive nutriment, and given it the name of button soup. For fifteen years they have been feeding with this famous gelatine the sick in the hospitals, the poor in the charitable establishments, and the prisoners in gaols. They were going to intro duce the article to the soldi ers barracks, when some. sceptical person said—" Excuse me, but suppose we see first if this food be really nourishing." Much displeasure was called forth by this doubt ; Science shrugged her shoulders, and proceeded, from a weakness with which she reproached herself; to make new experiments on the subject. It re sults from a Report signed by Messieurs Magendie, Chevreul, and Thenard, that the supposed nutritive pro - perties of gelatine have no existence : of two dogs, one fed with gelatine, the other with pure water,. the latter lived longer than the former ! Thus, thanks to the united efforts of philosophy and science, all those who, in prisons, hospitals; and poor-houses have been fed during fifteen years upon gelatine, have literally died of hunger. What an escape for the army !—Alphonse K arr. UNFORTUNATE ACCIDENT.—We arc sorry to observe, from the Jersey Gazette of the 9th inst., the death of Mr. William Clerk, fourth son of Sir George thliPn's't.w,haot was Gros u i n iF f zT u i in a that te ly drowned a r o t n . , Friday,of c u t i i i c o k 6 , island. It appears he had gone from Oxford, in company with two young gentlemen from that University ; and w hil e standing on the rocks, where they had climbed to see the tremendous surf, a huge wave swept him into the sea. So great was the swell, that no b oa t cou l d be brought into the bay until the sea subsided, when his bodywas found, on the Monday followi ng . M r. Cl er k was a young gentleman of high promi se , an d h a d l ate l y gained several prices for superior proficiency in his studies.