The Sun. — London, England, 1841-01-09 00:00:00

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UNDER. the INIANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRF. THIS EVENING. JAN. 9. Will be repeated Shakspere's 3IIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Theseus, Alr. Cooper; Quince, Mr. Bartley; Bottom, Mr. ; Flute, Air. Keeley ; Snout, Mr. Aleadows ; Snug, Mr. F. Matthews ; liermia. Mrs. Nisbett ; Oberon, Madame V(esti is ; Titania, Mrs. W. Lacy ; Puck, Miss Marshall; First Fairy, Miss Itainfortb. Aftcr which, The NEW GRAND CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME will be repeated, entitled THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO; OR, HARLEQUIN AND THE GIANT HELMET. Harlequin, Mr. C. J. Smith ; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway; Pantaloon, Mr. Mo-oili; Columbine, Miss Fairbrother. On 'Monday, The Midsummer Night's Dream, with the Now Pantomime. To-morrow, The Midsummer Night's Dream, with The New Pantomime. Doors to be opened at ball-past Six—the performances to zommence at Seveo o'Clock. Titkeis and plates for the Boat.: to be taken of Mr. Grogan, at the Box-ofEee, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may ue had upon application. 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In which the unrivalled Artistes, the Boleno Family; Mr. Soutliby, the Original Cloxn ; Miss Sharpe, Columbine ; and the ast4mishing Gyrenastique, Signior Felix Carlo, from Fran eoni's, at Paris, will perform : concluding with Brunning's Gland Morainic Synopsis of Syria. HIGH WATER AT LONDON:BRIDGE THIS nintutes after 2. I Evening ......17 minutes after 3 : 7 ) 1 % 7- ,‘ -14 ; F,:, Ziv ~.a-trt,. LONDON: SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, IE4I. A strange change has come over the most influ ential and, we believe, most numerous faction of the factioai Tories. The main principle of those unscrupulous persons was for many years that their will was to be other men's law, and they prac tically carried out their arbitrary decision by the most severe and cruel means. Opprobrious epithets generally applied, however, to the most numerous and most industrious classes, were amongst the feeblest weapons they used. Nothing was too bad for them to say of the people, and not much was too bad for them to do. Abusive terms were accompa nied by sharp laws ; and coercion, constraint, and t .rror were habitually employed, The steady sup • port the Tories gave to the penal laws in Ireland, and the vigorous resistance they opposed to all at tempts to procure the repeal, is one illustration o their conduct. The Manchester massacre and the Six Acts is another. Their resistance to the pro jects for lessening hanging is a third. A fourth is to be found in their determination to uphold mili tary flogging, and that abomination of abominations impressment. These are specimens of the manner which they enforced their will by cruel laws. C s and Church-rates may suffice as exam pl:s of the manner in which they fill their pockets or gratify their caprice at other people's expense. If they used less hard words than their opponents, which we deny—looking at their continued abuse of the bulk of the people, and at their persecution, li terary as well as legal, of every man who did not hap } en to believe as they believe, on matters of re ligion—they had less excuse for them, because they wielded the powers of the Government and the Legislature, gave to their will the sanctity of an enactment, and enforced it by the sword. Other men had nothing hut words with which to defend themselves, and might stand excused, though we know not that they do any good if they used harsh same hand, was a leading article, taking the Quarterly Review to task for exciting dread in . ' Irela►►d, by the horrible blue light, reflecting with much exaggeration the plots of the Romanists, which it has thrown up in the last number. The article is, however, remarkable when found in a Tory journal, and too strong a confirmation of the denunciations by which The Sun and other Liberal Journalists sought to stem the flood of virulence which was vomited by the O'SULLIVANS and M'GttEEs from Exeter Hall over the land, to be metely commented on, and therefore we transfer the majorpart of it to our columns. The rhodomontade of the Tory journals, in which the Post heretofore in dulged as much as any one, is now " stock exag gerations, convenient for the use of speech-makers in moments of excitement, and of newspaper writers when something strong was considered as appro priate to the occasion." In these "stock exaggc ratio►►s," however, lay the whole strength of PEEL, STANLEY, and Co. ; and, now that they are dis carded, on what pretext will they continue to make a species of legislative war on the Catholics of Ireland ? Instead of fostering the animosities between the professors of rival creeds, which has hitherto been the great business of Orange writers and Orange spoutets, the Post wisely recommends jus tice and kindness, charity in the largest sense, and concludes that if the Protestants act on these golden precepts, as they :have hitherto trampled them under foot, they will have nothing to fear. Joining cordially in the recommenda tions of the Post, we cannot neglect again to remind it that adversity has taught it and its party, and that the Tories never dreamed of moderation while they wielded the law and the sword. Little as they have yet felt of the many evils they for a long period inflicted on others, they no sooner begin to feel them. no sooner does the sword which they have sent to the bone of the multitude graze their skin—no sooner do hard words even begin to tell against them, than they become apostle of moderation. Let their new doctrines be fol lowed, because moderation will best ensure our vic tory, as it is the most opposed to the whole pre. vious policy of the Tories. We have not, however, by the above examples quite exhausted the proofs which we can extract from the Post of the present love of moderation in the Tories. On Saturday last it essayed to prove to Mr. O'CONNELL, that he was quite mistaken in asserting that the English Tories hate the Irish people. No, said the Post, The Tories of England do not bate the Irish people, but they ardently desire to see that people reclaimed from their bad habits, and capable of taking a better rank in civili.sed society. There may be some Tories so inflamed and injured in mind, by listening to perpetual extravagance, as to consider that Papist and ruffian, or Roman Catholic and traitor, are almost synonymous terms; but in England such Tories are neither nume rous nor influential. They are persons who have caught the infection of their politics from a certain deplorable class of Irishmen who have acted and spoken for many years as if furious hatred of those who profess religious error were true relip,ion, and as if the rude domination of themselves were the only just administration of a Protestant monarchy. 7 hese unprincipled and dan gerous persons, whose energy is often but the offering of drunkenness, and their patriotism dependent upon pelf, have in some degree imposed upon the English Tories by their impudence and perseverance in untruth ; but Mr. O'Connell should remember that this is but Me importation of an Irish vice, and it ought not to be charged upon England. This is very like what The Sun has repeatedly stated ; and it has more than once expressly warned the English Tories, that they were led astray by certain speakers and writers, who put forth their own Orange notions, nursed in the hot-bed of vio lent civic contentions—the offspring, perhaps, in some cases, of personal injury—as the genuine Protestantism of England. The Sun has warned the Protestants, that Church-of-Englandism was in its characteristics mild and careless, approaching to indifference, till these Orangemen and the Ul tras, whom the MINEILES, the PHILPOTTS, and others who are afflicted with the Orange disease, have inoculated, have lashed her into bigotry and fury. Now it is found that this game cannot be played out ; and now the political Tories, retreat ing from their auxiliaries, whom they so long coun tenanced, follow the lead of The Sun, and de nounce, if not by name, by implication, those who have for many years spoken—and, let us add, written—" as if furious hatred of those who profess religious errors, were true religion." On several occasions the Standard seems to have resented this desertion by the Post and its friends, and every now and then talks of waiting women and hangers-on of the Carlton seeking to ex change official salary for the wages of newspaper industry. It feels apparently that the remarks of the Post, such as those we have quoted, were di rected against it and its friends. The quarrel— which, however, is obvious—between the sections of the Tories, is one of principle, not of de gree, which time and return to office, should that ever take place, would only exasperate. We pre sume that Lord STANLEY may be considered as the head and representative of the ultra extravagant Orangemen, whose " energy is often the offspring of drunkenness," as Sir ROBERT PEEL is the head of the moderate section. The quarrel which is carrying on by the Post and the Standard no doubt represents pretty correctly the feelings with which these rival statesmen regard each other, though they suppress them for a political purpose, yet work together just as the Post and Standard have done for years past. The Walsall election seems likely to be preg nant with more important consequences than we have hitherto given it credit for. A writer in the Morning Chronicle yesterday, adverse to the Anti- Corn-law League, says— It is pretty evident that a body of this description, throwing all their weight in a large town into the scale against a Liberal candidate, will, in the present evenly balanced state of parties, generally ensure the failure of that cause. lam aware they do not in name throw this weight into the Tory scale ; but if the effect should be, as nine times out of ten it will be, to ensure the Tory triumph, I need not say that it is not very material under what name they carry on their proceedings. He admits, in fact, that the League can turn the scale against the Ministers, and throw the ma jority of the House of Commons on the side of their opponents. Such being its power, its will is declared by another writer of a letter to the Chronicle, who signs himself a " Member of the League," in the following terms : You complain of the conduct of the Anti Corn law League at Walsall , and ask , " How it will Serve the one question—the repeal of the Corn-laws?” I'll t e ll you how ; by making other Liberals yield on this question, to preserve their scats. You must remem ber that it is from want of support from professed Li berals, that the question is not carried. It is the Liberals in the House of Commons that prevent it ; and the Liberal party niay make up their mind: to this, either to grant Me repeal of the Corn-laws, or go out. S;r, you are quite right when you say, that "if the League pursue this course as vacancies may occur, or , xt a dissolution of the present Parliament, it requires not th e s pirit of divination to predict that the Liberal interest will he overthrown." You are quite right ; there is, there can be, "no mistake " about it ; for the League is too powerful for any interests ar party to oppose successfully. Seeing this, what should,. be the conduct of the great Liberal party' ? Let l' :tl,',Y, most decidedly to take up the question and wii t o 'e a 4 - The re arc but two among the Alinisters not Redealers to a greater or less degree. we can getng to n h say you, the two yield, and propose a settlement of the mat ter. IVe wit/ do our b repeal ; and, faill • best to obtain total and immediate thing that, will take the next best carry it ; they would ' Surely not ; the People Now, rally round them, and in the matter would end there ? ,should agree to unitewinl maintain that all Reform erswhich has madeon ; and they should the greatest progress i obtaining one grand mea sure, and then another, and so choose in the publictha t first min d , and has the greatest support out of I 1 words. But now the Tories begin to taste adversity. They no longer dictate the law, and no longer wield the sword. They have sense enough to per ceive at length that their arbitrary and cruel pro ceedings, their persecution of Catholics, Dissenters, Irreliionists, and the bulk of the industrious classes, were the main causes of their unpopularity, and of their consequent inability to retain or to re cover possession of office. Sweet, then, arc the uses of adversity ; for that section of the Tories which is led by Sir ROBERT PEEL, which is stigmatised by the Standard as the Carlton, and as seeking office, now not only uses itself the language of modera tion, but preaches moderation in conduct, and em phatically warns the Tories that they must be mode rate, and struggle against another section of the Tories in favour of moderation. This itself is a blessed change, and if the success of the Reformers, partial and incomplete though it be, have had no other good effect, and it has had many, it will re - dound to the advantage of posterity that it has abated the cruel arrogance, the brutal despotism, we may say the ferocity, of the governing Tories. But our readers will ask for the pro o f s o f thi s . If they read the Times, as who does not, they must have remarked the absence recently fro m that Journal of the abusive and bitter articles in which it was wont to pour forth the spleen and ill temper of its party against Mr. O'CoNsiir.t., and against the surpliced ruffians of Ireland.l If they read the Post, which fewer Tories, we are f afraid, ao thau ought, they vt ill daily find abund ant evidence of the change in its columns. Some days ago, it had an article against the violence and inso lent exaggeratio n of public journalising, directed against its heretofore fellow-labourers, the Times and Standard. Yesterday it followed up that by a laboured recommendation of moderation, and a complaint that writers " wh o are governed in their argumentation bygood sense and good taste,"are not sufficiently nor properly supported by moderate men. In the same jouri.al, and probably by the 7/ 4 • . TfiE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, JhNUARV 9. !SOU. doors. Were they to do so, they could, this Session, carry any one point on which they were thus agreed. On the question of the suffrage, opinions vary greatly, and we have not yet enough consolidated strength on any particular plan of extension. On the Ballot we come nearer, and perhaps could unite ; but on the repeal of the Corn-laws there is a far greater feeling than on any other question. The peti tioners last Session were a million and a half, a num ber as large as on all other subjects put together. The duty of Liberals is to join with us for repeal ; and it they refuse we shall, at all hazards, do the best we can for ourselves. If the Whigs are thus forced to go out, then, in opposition, they will perhaps be induced to unite with us, in order to get back again ; and if so, they would be sure to get back. The Walsall election, then, combined with the conduct of the League, will give a serious blow to the Ministers by the election of Mr. GLADSTONE, or compel them to make the repeal of the Corn laws a Cabinet question. Their fate, perhaps even the fate of the two great parties, and the very exist ence of the aristocracy, hangs on the issue. Of this we are well assured, that the League, which has hitherto stood aloof from all political parties, will exert all its influence, regardless of all political con sequences, to secure the return of Members pledged to the total and immediate repeal of the Corn-laws by all the towns interested in that question. Both the members of the League and its opponents agree that such a course will break up the Government, unless the Ministers were to resolve, which we think would be a wise policy, to propose some alteration in the Corn-laws. To carry on the Government and maintain those laws for a much longer period, is beyond the power of any Ministers, and the Whigs may as well have the merit and the benefit of pro posing to abolish them as Sir ROBERT PEEL. Whoever does propose it, though at first resisted by some of the landlords, will in the end be sure to suc. ceed. Notwithstanding what is written in the Tory prints, the author of the abolition would gain immortal honour, and we should much rather see that earned by the Whigs than the Tories. There is a doubt amongst those who are friendly to an alteration, whether the League is not wrong in stickling for total and immediate abolition. But no other course would satisfy the justice of their cause, and we will undertake to show, whenever our adversaries propose to surrender on conditions, that unconditional submission will be most advantageous for them, and most expedient for the nation. It will be time enough, however, to enter on that sub ject when some measure to modify the present law is proposed. We shall only now express our grati fication at the language used by a Member of the League in reference to the union of Reformers. To seek one thing at a time is wise ; and no measure is so important as the Repeal of the Corn-law. The dreadful breach which that law has made in our constitution will never be stopped by such successes as those at Acre and Chusan, glorious though they be, nor by a thousand victories. The safety of the State requires that the people be allowed to pro cure themselves food. We are a little surprised at the discontent shown by some Tory journals at the; result of the expedi tion under Admiral ELLIOT. When the diffe rence between China and England became known, a large party, both in Parliament and out of Parlia ment, deprecated the war, and exclaimed loudly against the cruelty of sending troops and ships against the peaceful Chinese. It was then gene• rally understood and agreed on—it was so stated in Parliament—that the expedition was only sent to obtain satisfaction and redress. The idea of seiz ing territory or devastating the sea coast, was re pudiated as unjust and impolitic. The expedi tion was only to use force to obtain redress, and if that could be obtained without firing a shot, not one was to be fired. The expedition no sooner made its appearance off the mouth of / the Peiho, and a steam-shi p crossed the bar of that river, demonstrating to 'she Chinese that the heart of their country, even Pekin itself, was open to our arms, than the head of the Celestial empire hastened to proffer us the satisfac tion we demanded. That seems all that we 'wish all that the best and wisest statesmen contemplated or proposed. No sooner, however, does the news of that eminent, and by most people unlooked-for, success reach London, than some of the Tories, who deprecated sending out an expedition at all, and foretold nothing but disasters, became all of a sud den amazingly warlike—scream out against the Ad miral and the Government for not having, as it were, dictated terms to the EMPEROR in his ca pital. They would have Admiral ELLIOT, like another CORTES, thread his way to Pekin, and make himself master of the EMPEROR and the em pire. This is quite contrary to the wish of the public, and the declared intention of the Govern ment. We are not yet correctly informed of the terms which Admiral ELLioT has accepted, but we are quite sure that they are consistent with the great principle avowed at the outset, of obtaining redress for our injaries at the least possible expense or mis chief to the Chinese. Chusan is not given up, and will not be given up, till the satisfaction is con►- plete. If any attempt be made to evade the pledges given by the EmpEaoa, as some of our Conten►- poraries suppose will be the case, England will then have a strong corroboration of the propriety of her conduct, and be completely justified in the eyes of all nations for compelling by war the Chinese Go vernment to redeem its pledges. A gentleman named STRACHAN, has just pub lished a pamphlet in Paris, on the Oriental question, and the Balance of Power, of which he has obligingly sent us a copy. Mr. STRACH AN'S name does not figure among the host of pamph leteers who undertook to advise the Great Powers how to act when it was known that they had signed the Treaty of July ; but any injury which Europe has sustained from his modest silence is atoned for by the startling boldness and originality of the counsel which he now tenders. The settle ment of the Syrian question he regards as a mere preliminary to the proper business of the Allies, which is to portion out among themselves Turkey, Egypt, and Greece, and send the SULTAN, King OTHO, and MEHEMET A LI, to seek sovereignties in the realms of PLUTO. Air. STRACHAN, pitying the Emperor NICHOLA S ' hitherto vain longings for a residence on the shores of the Bosphorus, would make a preset': to the CZAR of Constantinople, with all that now consti tutes the immediate dominion of the SULTAN. To put France in good humour, he would send OTIIO packing, bag and baggage, out of Greece, making a present of that classic region to Louts PHILIPPE; leaving England to appropriate undisturbed Egypt, Candia, and a convenient slice of Syria. Fot Austria and Prussia be has nothing left, and there fore he prudently says nothing about them. He naturally supposes that, like good Christian States as they are, they would be but too happy at witnessing the growing prosperity of their neigh bours. Our readers may suppose that Mr. STRACHAN is a bit of a humourist, and only cracks a political joke to amuse the mob of Paris. Th e y are mistaken, Mr. STRACHAN is as serious as a judge in the act of putting on the black cap. lie is troubled with no qualms of conscience, and makes no more of marching off with a kingdom than one of the Parisian chevaliers dindustrie would easing an i m uf b p ra a n ie c s e of thatamw.aTtru!hiEornsa snuff-box. n" It of the h is not in office to reward by some public employ mentte inucsau so congenial a spirit as Mr. STRACHA N. a thousand We received last night the Dutch Mail, wit news from the Hague, Amsterdam, Hanover, an St. Petersburgh. It appears from a letter, dated Hanover, December 31, that the KING has been indisposed for some days, and was unable to leave his bed. The Crown Prince still continued unwell, but his illness was not considered dangerous, as had been stated in some papers. His physicians, however, had recommended hrm to be careful of his health, and not to expose himself to the ait until the return of mild weather. The St. Petersburgh Jour nal publishes an Imperial rescript, conferring on Admiral STOPFORD the Order of St. George of the second class, and at the same time making the Austrian Admiral BANDEI RA, and Captain-Com modore NAPIER, Knights of St. George of the third class. The Madrid Papers received are of the 30. h ult. Most of the Journals were mad for a war with Portugal. It was confidently believed, how ever, that the question in dispute—the Navigation of the Douro, would be amicably settled by Eng land. The following decree relative to the titles of the foreign debt, signed by the Minister of Finance, appeared in the Madrid Gazelle of the " Art. 1. From this day is revoked the temporary measure of the Royal Ordinance of the 12th January, 1834, admitting the transferable inscriptions of debt in the Four and Five per Cents. to be converted into titles to the bearer of the same classes, the circumstance foreseen for the cessation of its effects having arrived. " Art. 2. The clauses of the 16th article of the 6th December, 1824, are maintained ; Ist, for the conver sion of titles to the bearer in nominative inscriptiOn payable at Madrid ; 2d, for the exchange of titles existing abroad far titles existing at Madrid. Necessary documents, the coupons of which bear the date of lEt May and Ist November, are to be prepared immediately. These new documents are to bear the day of the date of delivery in exchange for the coupons, without any alteration of the dates of Ist May and Ist November. (Signed) " GAMBOA. " Madrid, Dec. 27, 1840." The French Journals of Wednesday have been received, but their contents are of little political or commercial interest. More snow had fallen in Paris on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, than had been witnessed since the winter of 1814. Nearly all the Southern mails were in arrear, so that no news was received from the provinces. The fortifications of Paris arc to be continued without further delay or interruption. Strange as it nay appear, the Commerce is the only journal which has the judgment and the honesty to proclaim these works are desigi.ed to bridle the disaffection of the Parisian Liberals, not to protect the capital of France from what it is never again likely to experi ence, the invasion of a foreign enemy. As to the inconsistency of providing against the occupation of Paris by a victorious foreign enemy at the very moment when the French Journals are threatening all Europe with the yoke of France, it appears to have escaped every publicist in France. In the Chamber of Peers on Tuesday, M. GuizoT contrAicted the statement that King Louis PHILIPPE, when Duke of Orleans, had protested against the abolition of the Salique Law in Spain by FERDINAND the Seventh. The question in no way concerned the Duke, and though he might entertain a strong opinion upon the subject, he did not e xpress it. A rumour prevailed on the Paris Bourse on Tuesday evening that a courier had arrived that morning from Madrid, which he left on the 31st ult., with despatches stating that ESPARTERO had resigned the Regency, and that an insurrection had taken place in the Spanish capital, which obliged him to fly for his life. We do not credit one word of this rumour. The despatches of which the Spanish courier was the bearer had reference to the settlement of the navigation of the Douro question through the friendly mediation of Great Britain, whose proffered good offices were frankly accepted as soon as tendered by the Cabinets of Madrid and Lisbon. We suspect the story of the insurrection to be one of those stockjobbing inventions so shame fully prevalent in Paris. The Journal des Debuts has a clever business like article on the commercial interest of the differ ent European Powers in the settlement of the East ern question. According to the Debats political in fluence in Egypt can be useful to no Power not having immense possessions in India. Now France having but about forty-three millions of francs em ployed in trade beyond the Cape of Good Hope, which is not greater than the value of her trade with Turkey alone, has very little interest in sacrificing her wealth to maintain a political domination in E g ypt. Arguing on these data the Debals proves that influence in Egypt is an hundred thousand times more necessary to England than to France. It is admitted to be one of time great objects of M. GroT's policy to substitute a new T re ats,' for the settlement of the Eastern question for the Treaty of July. The Emperor of RUSSIA, think ing, no doubt, the quarrel a very pretty affair as it stands, refuses to make any modification in the Treaty to please France. Lord PALMERSTON said nothing—so at least say the German and French papers. But it is not such a peaceful victory as M. GUIZOT seeks to achi'mve, that will satisfy press. On th e con t ra ry the journals the n slau Fneh t r i e ncliorus against any and every Treaty intended to restore harmony among the Great Powers. They will have war or nothing. ally blood can wash out the stain which the national honour has received, in not being allowed to dic tate to all Europe. But we have happily discovered that the Journals neither represent the opinions of the French Count, the French Legislature, nor time majority of the French people. As for the Treaty of July, France having admitted the justice of the principle it embodies, we see no reason for refusing to substitute another for it, if such a concession will put France in a good humour with her neigh hours. Some concession is certainly due to M. GUIZOT and his colleagues for the firmness dis played by them under the most _trying circum stances in which statesmen could be placed. The KING, too, has established claims to the gratitude of every friend of p eace ; an d if such gratitude can be manifested by t h e a b an donment of a Treaty which is fast dyi ng a natura l death, in Heaven's name let th e requ i re d concess ion be made with a good grac e , an d further arma ments . thus save Europe th e ex p ense of The Emperor Nicholas has conferred the order of St. George of the second class on Admiral Stopford. The Monileur publishes a letter dated Corunna, the 19th ult., containin g some particulars of the loss of the Clyde, British steamer, by fire, on her passage from Newcastle to Gib ra l tar. Sh e was brought into Corunna still burning ; b u t h er C apta i n , f o r some unaccountable reason, refused th e a id o ff ere d hi m , a nd the vessel would consequently be tot a ll y consume d. Fortunate l y no l iv e s were lost. The St. Pet ers b urg h J ourna l s o f the 94th tilt. pub lish the imp er i a l u k ase of the sth, which authorized the Minister o f Fi nance to conc lude a new loan at 4 per cent, with the firm of Hope and Co., of Amster (lain. The Commercial Gazette of St. Petersburgh contains the following official a rticle The Minister of Finance has heard that ill-inten tioned persons had spread a report that the customs tariff was about to under o important mo difications to the prejudic e o f nationalg industry. We accordingly inform the manufacturers that these reports are without the least foundation." The Augsburgli Gazette states that Don Miguel was on the point of renouncing his pretensions to the Throne of Portugal. He would continue to reside in Rome with the title of Majest and Prince of Braganza, and would enjoy a port i on of the revenues of the property he possesses in Portugal. Letters from Vienna of the °Sal ult. state ant orders had been sent to the Austrian naval forces on the coast of Syria to winter in the harbours , of the Adriatic. Queen Christina arrived at Rome on the 9.4 th ult., and alighted at the ernv, Hotel d S • Spain. The Temps m ent i ons, " on unques ti o nable authority," the Square of that Mehemet Ali intended to abdicate, tinil ribAl in favour of his son Ibrahim. CIIANIBER OF DEPUTIES —Sur.TtNo OF JAN. 4. The Chair was taken by the President at half-past one o'clock. Marshal SAnstiani took his seat on his re-election, and Admiral Lalande on his election. The Order of the Day was the discussion on the Bill for Abandoned Royal Roads. The Chamber proceeded at once to the articles of the Bill. Art. 1, declaring that these roads might, with the consent of the Councils General of Departments and the Municipal Councils of the Communes interested in them, be classed by Royal ordinance either among the departmental or vicinial roads, was put to the vote and adopted. Art. 2. par. 1, placing the roads which were not practicable under the control of the Administration of Domains, was also adopted. Par. 2, declaring that they might become the pro perty of the nearest landowner, upon a fair valuation, produced some discussion and two or three motions for amendment. It was eventually referred again to the Committee on the Bill for modification. A discussion of little public interest then ensued on the Bill for the Sale of Land and House Property under legal judgment. Several of the articles were adopted, and the Cham ber then adjourned the discussion at a Quarter pas t Five. BOURSE —PARIS, WEDNCSDAY, JAN. 6. Pleat Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Pricy Price efe“ch 5 per Cents l-I I 1 1 1 9n 80 ... 111 80 4 per Cents 99 9 , 4 99 90 ... 9 i 90 119 90 3 per Cents 77 3.5 .. 77 35 77 '2O ... 77 35 of r'rance ! httitte hank I.ooot. SO lll3O ...1 1 00 ...1025 kelgian Bank 51-er Cent. 3 per Cents 6B 80 ... es 80 ... 68 80 ... 68 1-0 New Loan v.ipsh Active Y 5 l,i ... 25)4 24N 24 3 t Passive 6 ... 6 ... 6 6 Portimicse 3 per Cents 21% ... 21% ... 21% 211 x Neapolitan lOl 101 101 !iontan 99% ... ... 99% 99% I'AILWAY SHARES. St Gemini', Versailler.R. 11 405 405 ... 405 4. L.B. ..... ...... 3113 75 ... 307 50 ... 303 75 3117 50 Orleans .. S - rastairg to Bale 246 25 ... 247 50 ... 43 25 .. 2)7 50 MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, FRIDAY EVENING. A slight alteration took place in the Foreign Ex changes this afternoon, the rate for Bills on Hamburgh having declined at first to 13 64, though subsequently it rallied to 13 71. On Frankfort it improved a shade, viz. to 1484 to 4, but on Trieste it fell from 10 25 and 35 to 10 04 and 10 14. Paris was the same, viz. 25f. 525 c. to 574 c. ; Amsterdam 12 24 to 1, and Antwerp 12 24. The English Funds have been . steady to-day, and money was rather easier out of doors. Consols fur present de livery ranged from 891 to 894, and for the Account from 894 to t. The latest bargains in• each were at 894 to. Exchequer Bills advanced to 9 and 13 prem., and India Bonds to 5 8 discount. Bank Stock was 1 to 14 per cent. higher, viz. 164 to 1634, and East India Stock rose from 242 and 2434 to 244. The Reduced Three per Cent. Annuities were up to 894 and 904, the Three-and a. Half per Cents. 984 to 98 4 , the New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. to 974 and 984, the Old Three-and-a- Half per Cents. to 984, and the Lung Annuities 13 1.16 to 4. But a limited business has been done in the Foreign Stocks to. day, and any fluctuations that have taken Waco, were the result of previous operations. The Active Spanish bonds ruled about previous rates to-day, 244 to 241 for money, and 248 to 244 for the account. Portuguese New Five per Cents. touched 32 and 321, but at this advance there were scarcely any bar gains effected. Colombian Stock of 1824 was a little better, viz., 24 to 234, and Mexican of 1837 was marked 29 to 284. Russian Bunds got up to 113 and 1135 ; Belgian Five per Cents. were firm at 985, and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. brought 504. The Share Market was less buoyant, and prices had a slight tendency to decline. Great. Western Railw..y left off at 304, and South Western at 194 premium. Brighton vs ere .54 discount. (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, THURSDAY. —We have had an extensive demand for Cotton to-day at an advance, principal.y, ot id. per lb, The sales 10,000 bags, and 5,000 arc on speculation. We have received the Journal (f Antwerp of yesterday's date. Accounts from Athens of December 8, state that the Greek Government experience some uneasiness, and have given orders to arm the citadel of Athens, and to furnish it with ammunition ; they have also placed cannon on other parts of the city. A whole reg;ment now mounts guard at the King's palace. Squadrons of cavalry are placed in different parts of the town. The Greek capital at present resembles a place of arms. The cause of these movements is not known. The Greeks loudly cry out for the Constitution that the Three Powers promised them by their protocols. BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, JAN. s.—The National Funds ate still in general favour; the Actions of the Society of Commerce have not been sought after so much as the other funds, and they were lower than yesterday. Ardoin's Spanish is lower than yesterday. Prices from Amsterdam of the 4th of January :—Two and-a Half per Cents., 50*; Five per Cents., 961 Ar doin's Spanish, 221. The British Funds opened rather flat. They left cff yesterday at 89i a for the Opening, and may be quoted at present 891 fur the Account. Reduced, same as it left off; 89i 9); Exchequer Bills, 8 It) prem. ; Bank Stock, 162 163 ; India Stock, 242 244. It was reported on the Bourse of Paris that an insurrec tion had taken place at Madrid, and Espartero was obliged to fly the capital. It has not as yet had any effect on the Spanish funds. Spanish Active 244 4, same as it left off; Deferred 124 ; Passive 64 4 ; Portuguese same as they left off, 311 321 ; Three per Cents.. 194 XO4 ; Bra. zilian 704 71-k ; Colombian 234.24 ; Mexican 284 29 ; Peruvian 144 154 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 501 504 ; Five per Cents. 981 1. Snaftes. —Great Western, 29 30 prem. ; New. 134 144 prem. ; London and Brighton, 6 54 dis. ; Blackwell, 4/ 31 dis. ; Birmingham, 83 85 prem. ; Southampton, 58.4 59 per share ; Croydon, 121 1 per share ; Greenwich, 8 9 per share ; Manchester and Birmingham, 15 13 dis. Consuls at present 894 1; rather better than they opened at. PRICES OF SIIARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Great. Western Ditto New London and Brighten London and South Western 3B/ b9 to 534 North Midland, (New) JOINT STOCK BANKS. A ustralasia MINES. Real Del Monte, Registered ... 634 — Ditto Unregistered...... PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, JAN. 5. 3 per Cent. Consols Three and Half Stock 97} Grand Canal Stock ... Ditto Reduced Ditto New, 1830 971 Ditto 4 per cent 31 per Cent. Debs. 40/ Royal Canal Stock We arc still without arrivals to the present time, c•►nse. quently we have no intelligence to communicate. Con sots have been during the morning►, alternately buyers and sellers, at 894 4 for the 15th of January. Reduced, 90 894 90k : Exchequer Bills, improved, 913 ; India Bonds, 5 dis. ; India Stock, 244. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active 244 4; Portu guese 324 4 ; Colombian lower, 24 231; Belgian 984. In both of the markets little doing. Suaeas.—Great Western, 94;} 94; ditto New, 644; London and Brighton 441 ; ,S - outh Western 59 584 ; North Midland, new, 404 41. The letters from India by the overland express not yet received. LIVKSPOOL SITARS LIST, JAN. 7.—Eastern Counties, debentures, 51. 18L 6d. si; Grand Junction, half-shares, 5 / 16s. 6d. ; Quarter Shares, 534 ; Great Western, 894 ; Half Shares, 644 ; Fifths, 114 ; Liverpool and Man• chester, half shares, 901 ; London and 1 3;rmingham, 174 ; Quarter Shares, 284 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 26 ; Ditto and Leeds, 824; Midland Counties, new shares, 154; North Union, 83} ; south Eastern, 144. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. 40 ...... 55 ...... t•- Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red DO Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cons ...... .. 89i Ditto Old Annuities — •34 per Cent Red..— .. 9SA Ditto New Annuities... New 31 per Cent .. ... 97/ Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d 13 pm New 5 per Cent ... ...... Ditto 500/ l3 pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small l3 pm Jan. 1860 Oct 1859 ... l2 15-16 India Stock for Acct ... Jan. 1 860 FOREIGN FUNDS. A ostrian, 5 per cent... Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto.... Brazilian Bonds ... .. - BuenosAyres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent.... 113 Chilian, 6 per cant Columbian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent 24i Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, Deferred ... Danish, 3 per cent..... French,s per cent... --f. —c. Greek, 182.), spereont. Exchange .. Mexican, 5 per cent.... French, 3 per cent —f. —c. Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 21 per cent s' Peruvian,lB2s,6 per ct. ,Ditto, 5 per cent..... 984 SHARES. Bristol and Exeter (60 paid) Great Western Railway (65 paid) 954 Ditto New Shares (50 paid) „.„ ~ ... 64/ Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) ll London and Brighton Railway (SO paid) London and Greenwich Railway (20 paid) 8,/ Ditto Scrip. ( 2 paid) 34 London and South Western Railway ....., 584 Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) Ditto Quarter Shares ( 5 paid) lll North Midland Railway (100 paid) — Ditto New Shares (40 paid) South Eastern and Dover (28 paid )... . 14 COURSE OF EXCHANGE—( YESTERDAY). Amsterdam C F. 12 41 Gibraltar Ditto, at sight . 12 2 Leghorn. Rotterdam 2 U. 12 5 Genoa Antwerp l2 4/ Milan ... Hamburigh... ....ALB. 13 10 . Venice . .. 47 Altona ............. ....... 13 101 .Naples ... ............. .... 34- Paris, 3 days' sight 25 40 Miaow°, per oz 1201 Ditto, 3 months 25 65 Lisbon ... 52/ Marseilles .. .23 70 Oporto Bourdcaux... ...... ...... 25 75 Rio Janeiro 2B/ Frankfort on Maine.... 149 Bahia 27 Petersburgh, 3 U 5...... 37 Berlin Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M lO 3 Trieste, ditto. Madrid . 36 351 Barcelona 3si Seville 3s} Buenos Ayres — New York, 21 days' sight 46i Philadelphia ...... 46 PRICE OF BULLION, PER OZ. Portugal Gold Coink:o 0 0 Foreign Gold, bars.. 3 17 9 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 10,i Silver in Bars 0 45 Oii E 21. N TT- OD - • W LE Ai THE WALSALL ELECTION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Reform Cluh, Fri:lay, January S. SIR,—Tho position at present occupied by the PA , O - Corn-law League h by no one bees so forcibly anti laconically expressad as by yourself, when you said that the election of Walsall was capable of being made for Corn law repeal what the Clare election had been for Catholic Emancipation. I do not, with Mr. O'Connell, undervalue the ef forts of those liberal and accomplished men who for so long a period fought the battle of Catholic Emancipa tion in the English House of Commons. But Iso far agree with him, that [ believe had not the Irish Catho lics taken the matter into their own hands, the exclusion of Catholics from the rights of citizenship would still have existed. The literary and Parliamentary advo cates of Catholic Emancipation were s Arm of them men who professed attachment to the cause merely to serve their own ulterior purposes—some of them men who sincerely wished to get what they asked for, but who had also other objects to carry, many of them more important in their estimation—some of them men who would have postponed every thing to Catholic Emanci pation, but who were trammelled by pasty connections. And all of this motley band were hampered by the legis lative forms by which they endeavoured to accomplish Catholic Emancipation. The exclusion of Catholics from the Legislature was'part and parcel of that very legislative system by which they sought to emancipate the Catholics. Every form of Parliamentary proceed ings told for their antagonists and against them. They fought with their hands tied ; they opposed buttoned foils to the sharp points of their adversaries. But the Catholic Association was hampered by no conventional rules. Excluded from the pale of the Legislature, the Irish Catholics did not need to conduct their movement in consonance with the forms it had prescribed to itself. As the Austrian General complained of Nal,o'e.m, the Anti-Catholic party complained of the Association, that it " observed none of the rules of war' Parliament was for fencing according to the rules of art, like M. Jourdain ; but the Association, like M. Jourdain's housemaid, laid the foil lustily about their cars, totally regardless of parte and tierce. The Parliamentary and literary Liberals of those days were quite as much shocked with the irregular proceedings of the Catholic Association as the Tories ; they deprecated and de- nounced its violence—they begged and prayed it to proceed scion les regles, and scolded it because it would not. And yet the Catholic Association bu lied King, Lords, and Commons Into the grant of Catholic emancipation. The circumstances of the Anti-Corn-law League are the _exact counterpart of those of the Catholic Asso- ciation. The League has a strong minority favourable to its views in the House of Commons—an accorn- plished, generous minority, containing among its mem bers many gentlemen well versed in public business. But in Parliament, and conforming to Parliamentary modes,of transacting business, these gentlemen fight at disadvantage. There is a conventional morality within the walls of Parliament which prevents a man doing what he could (10 out of it, and enabling a man to do there without shame what would damn him everywhere else. "We cannot expect Mr. this, or Lord that, to vote with us on this question—he has a country con stituency to manage." "We must not push this ques tion too hard sit present, it would endanger (or, as it may be, confirm) the stability of Ministers." " Minis ters are not in the giving vein to-day—we must wait a more favourable season." And then an . insincere pro fessing friend, well acquainted with the forms of " the House," can so easily keep pushing a question back all the time that he seems to be eagerly urging it on, that no reliance can be placed upon the Parliamentary attack on the Corn-laws. The battle of the bread-lax repealers, ij won at all, must be won out qf doors. It is acting upon this conviction that the Anti-Corn law League has taken up a position independent of all political parties. It has turned a deaf ear to the in vitations of the Chartists. It has turned an equally deaf ear to the invitations of the advocates of House hold Suffrage. It has thrown its weight into the scale against Tories, because they supported the bread-tax. It is bound, in consistency, to pursue the same course when a professing Mi. nisterialist comes forward and refuses to declare against the Corn-laws. It is not quite cor rect to say, as some do, that the Corn-law question is not a political question. More correctly, the Corn-law question is a question of administrative, not of constitu tional politics. Now, party distinctions in this country, W hig, Tory, and Radical (if, indeed, there be such a thing as a Radical party) turn upon constitutional questions. Whig, Tory, and Radical differ irreconcila bly as to the extent to which popular control over Government ought to be conceded ; but there are many administrative questions upon which the Whig and the Tory may agree, while Tory differs from Tory. Of these the Corn-law question is one. The Tories con stitute the main body of Corn-law supporters at pre sent, but that is accidental, because the landed aristo cracy are at present the most important members of the Tory party. The Corn-law could not be an article of the Tory political creed before 1815, because, prior to that t'me, the Corn-law did not exist. About the time of the Revolution the majority of the landed aris tocracy was Whig ; had the Corn-law been invented then, we should have had the Whigs out-and-out Corn law men, and a section of the Tories (at the least) bawling against it. This is not a mere guess. Pitt payed homage to the wisdom of Adam Smith, before Fox recognised his merits, Tory Cabinets (Huskissun to wit) have made large concessions to the principle of free trade. On the other hand, we find both ‘Vhigs and Radicals entertaining narrow and inconsistent views of that question. It is clear then that the aboli tion of the Corn-laws is a question upon which Whig, Tory, and Radical may co-operate without sacrificing one iota of their principles. The bulk of the constituen cies may, and ought, to come to an agreement that whatever their representatives may be in other respects, they must be Corn-law repealers. It will be difficult to bring matters to this pass, but it is not impos sible. Single constituencies, and even more than one or two constituencies have been known ere now to merge their political differences for the purpose of carrying some local improvement, some harbour, road, police, or railway bill. What local improvements like these are to a town or county, the repeal of the bread-tax is to the whole kingdom. A majority of the electors may he brought. to see this truth. But somebody must begin —some sheep must leap the fence first. The Anti-Corn-law League has taken the plunge. Its members have declared that no candidate, however he accord with their views on other matters, shall have their support, unless be be pre pared to vote for the abolition of the Corn-laws. When men deliberately undertake to carry into effect a resolution so startling at first view to the prejudices of many, they also make up their minds to bo vilified, sneered at, run down in every way. They know the risk, and have no right to complain of suffering which they have braved with their eyes open. At the same time they arc entitled—nay, it is their duty —to de fend themselves against obloquy, because it injures their cause, making the timid stand aloof, and weak brethren fall off. It is for this reason that I ask your leave to add a few remarks to this already more than sufficiently lengthy epistle. The points to which I advert are the accusations against the League, of having been actuated in their movement at Walsall by hostility to the Ministry ; and of their having, by that movement, endangered the Liberal cause. First, As to the alleged hostility to Ministers. If I am walking quietly along the road, in the prosecution of my lawful business, and find a man planted there, for the purpose of making me turn back, am I to be ac cused of hostility towards him or his employers, be cause I lift Lim out of my way and pass on ? The Mi nisterialists placed Mr. Lyttelton in the position of candidate fur Walsall, to make the League turn back. The Ministerialists knew that the League was resolved, wherev. rit could, t oppose the return of candidates not hostile to the Corn-laws. They brought forward Mr. Lyttelton, friendly to the Corn-laws, and thereby challenged the opposition of the League. If there be any hostility in the case, the first overt act proceeded from the Ministerial supporters, who complain of the hostility of the League. On the part of the League, I have seen no indications of hostility either towards Ministers, or their candidate, Mr. Lytteltoo. The League has only said to Ministers, if you set up a candidate opposed to our principles, we cannot sup port him. To Mr. Lyttelton they merely said, Unless you are at one with us regarding the Corn-laws, you must look to find us against you. They have not spoken angrily either of Mr. Lyttelton or Ministers. But what have Mr. Lyttelton, and the newspapers un derstood to be the organs of Government, done to the League? They have misrepresented and vilified them. Mr. Lyttelton represents the deputation from the Council of the League as sent to oppose him, whereas it was only sant to learn his sentiments regarding the Corn-law, and to oppose any supporter of that law. The language in which the Globe and Morning Chro nicle of last week spoke of the League is too well known to require repetition. What hostility there has been, has been entirely on the side of Ministerial sup porters—(l have no right to attribute it to Ministers themselves): it is the old fable of the wolf picking a quarrel with the lamb in a modern dress. The wolf blames the lamb for occasioning the torrent of dirty words that proceed out of its own mouth. roe allegation that the League has endangered the return of a Liberal for Walsall, may be easily dispensed with. It rests upon the assumption that Mr. Lyttelton could have carried the borough. Mr. Lyttelton's friends never ventured to assert that be could carry it, till after he had withdrawn. In his retiring address Mr. L. complains—" Where I had every reason to expect prompt and cordial support, I have met with either lukewarm neutrality or decided opposition.' This was independent of the Anti-Corn law opposition to his claims, for he prtcceds to say, " In addition to those discouraging circumstances, I had to encounter - M.O R N NG Kt.) (Ycl • hostil ty of the agents. from the A,ti-Corn-L' s League." It is clear that ev,n holuiv his opinions r'' garding the Co , ai-!aws were avo,%ed, Mr. L ytte lton s prospects of success were anything bit c he e ring ; ;l d it is also `clear that part of the support he lux i was err . tamed by allowing a misapprel,nsion o f hi s r'' garding the Corti.laws to exist, for ins 1.,w-!y.ct, M . ' Befhan, in a letter to tit.. ifurni,g Cironiele. a !" 1 "• 5 the " secession of sever a' of our most aclive committee men, who eutert in Corn.law notions," as soon a , t hey knew Mr. Lyttelton's views. Mr. Sinai' MI V succeed or fail, but he is stronger than Mr. Lytteltae, for 8 1 i his supporters have had . a frank cxpiaiiation of opinions beforehand. • Let the industrious population of the e ouori remember these things. Let them remember wt , e 3 attempts are made to bully or seduce old milli burs into withdt awing from the League, or to preven t new ones from joining it, that the Liberal cause liss, tt anything, been strengthened by the substitution of :Ur' Smith for Mr. Lyttelton, as candidate fur W a l s all ; that although there has been hostility towards the League evinced by the partisans of Government, there has been none shown by the League towards Govern' ment. The League is independent of all parties—el° have nothing to do with any of them. It holds ou the even tenor of its way regardless of the effect it tall produce upon their interests, but without entertainia any ill-will towards them. Still more, let every labourer who has his meal cut• ,ailed—every capitalist who is kept in constant fear of the Gazette by the Corn-law, remember that men al only bound to act right—that consequences arc beyonu their control. Da we blame Huss, Sydney. W a llace , because their efforts were unsuccessful ? Were their efforts indeed un,:uccessful because they were martyr!' and the triumph of the cause for which they died yeas reserved for a later period ? " The Anti-Corn-l 3 League is on its trial," says the Morning Clamtiele. is; but that trial will not finish with the Walsall eleC tioa. If that election be lost many may fall off for time, but the best heads and hearts of the League Nib persevere, regardless of the storm of words whistling, round their heads. Their cause is just—their courses °I action is the only nna which the " impotence of 107 pose" on the part of our leading statesmen has I° 4 open to them. Their ultimate triumph may be deferred. but can only be deferred. A MEMBER OF THE LEAGUE. WALSALL ELECTION. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) The contest, being now finally settled to be between Mr. G. N. Gladstone anj Mr. J. B. Smith, Chairman I ol the Manchester Camber of Commerce,- - he forme r a staunch Conservative and supporter of the connectio n between Church and State, and the latter a Liberal 0 0 a thorough Corn-law Repealer,—is now proceeding n ea tively, and both parties seem sanguinary of success; Mr. G. having been first in the arena has now cornplet ee ' , his canvass, and from a placard issued by him Yej r tcray, we perceive he states he h as o btaioat : the pledges of a majority of the electors, and bi ° the utmost confidence of hying returned as the r r , presentative of Walsall. While, o n th e o th er the friends of Mr. Small seem equally certain of sn e. , cess. They state that so far from Mr. Gl a dston e ' having got the pledges of more than one-half of th e electors, he has not got one-third ; and that Mr. S.• ee far as he has yet proceeded, having not yet cnncludl his canvass, has been pr om i se d a l arge an d d ec ided majority of his calls ; an d more, t h at t h e able Isr dresses delivered by Messrs. Smith, Arland, and It 4lr son, on the nature and effects of the iniquitous COY laws, and the beneficial influence free trade would bn el a i upon Bri , isn industry, enterprise, and happiness, hu e ; caus:d many individuals who w ere supposed t° have pledged to Mr. Gladstone to withdraw their Orr , port in favour of the anti-bre a d-t axer . B etw i x t the'' , conflicting statements, there is o ne thi ng certa i n , th, e, it will be a hard fought. struggle, enhanced i n k e enne7 no doubt, on account of the very small majority sters have in the House of Commons, which we; every vacancy in the representation at present an obJl of much importance and anxiety t o th e i r f r i en d s , a s 'r e as to their opponents. Mr. Acland, the appointed lecturer for the Lesg et o l accompanied by Mr. Rawson, a retired manufacture r Nottingham, deliver highly interesting speeches. i) rather lectures on P o li t i ca l E conomy, to t h e inhabitan t, every evening, in the large room attached to the pled, Inn ; and wh a t i s most grat if y i ng, are well attea de Indeed, whatever be the result of the contests. Of, is no doubt the peopl e o f W a l sa ll w ill h ave reec i e nu of vast amount of valuable knowledge and an elevation rd moral character, which will in due season, richly re' s the labour bestowed. At the meeting l as t n i g ht, M r . S m i t h appeare d nil with Messrs. A s hwo r th an d B ees l ey , extens i ve 0 1 n e d, facturers from Bolton. Each of these gentlemen dressed the meeting in eloquent terms. They PA r o g cularly pointed out the serious duty the electors : r i st , to perform in the approaching struggle, and that % i r Lill being the first arena in which the great and , 3 4 1 portant battle of free trade was to be fou g ht, they, '. earnestly hope they would not fail faithfully to r i e i d - v e re • the trust confided to them. They triumphsn''' Mr, lute, several objections which had been urged by o l Gladstone's party through hand-hills, against the 'epee, of the Corn-law s , name l y , " t h at t h e pr i ce o f corn of gulates the pric e o f wages ;" t h a t t h e re peat _ 0 the Corn-laws would b e th e cause o f un i versa l distrcir throughout the country, &c. They called upon most, electors to do their duty, to form themselves I, e bo i o Committees, and exert their infl uence i n ever y I) ossi , way, to obtain the return of a man w h ose prinelP A, if practically carried into operation, will be their 1 7 0 vation. He also hoped that ere long they would boo, possession of their rights, of which they were an li t ° justly deprived. They called upon Mr. Gladston e v, come forward and di scuss th e quest i on f a i r l y an d opea and thereby enable the electors to decide whoa) , e/ t the better man. Th e y p rom i se d t h em to h ave a gr e et many visitors before the contest was over, and that n e A c e r in Walsall will there have been a tougher, hat o fought battle, a more d e t erm i ne d stan d- up fight, t''" the one about to take place. Addresses, we understand, have been received . 1. 00 seven or eight Anti-Cor o -l aw A ssoc i at i ons , ca lli n g °l'd, the electors and inhabitants to return an a nti-brc e o taxer. To-day, 1 und e r s t an d i s t o b e 40 61 .'0 first cumber of a wee kly p er i o d ica l, to c oat° r until the election is over, called the " Walsall V I C O bag ;" and until that awful time arrives, verilY 0 good old town will be shaken to th e very f ou ndatl e o , by the thunders of the Corn-law Repealer;, the il dg fi a sates of liberty, and the fr ie n d s o f h uman i ty, tru th. 3. 4 justice, who, praised Le God, have been sent ato° l3 Bl us to raise our latent spirit of love, freedom, virtne , , e i o intelligence—the Di v i ne port i on o f our nature —' becoming activity. Walsall, Friday morning, WINN= IMPORTANT TO OVIIRSEERS THE POOR. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. 1 Six—A case has lately been re p orte d t h at occurr-i before the Magistrates at Leominster, where ov ersee r had been summoned for negle c t of duty, at the bea rie l , of which the Chairman is rep orte d to have said, o°, was the duty of the churchwa r d ensto see th a t the ov'e'r 4,i seers executed their duty faithfull y. F rom the tnenil-0 in which the case i s reporte d, i t wou l d appear that t-s Chairman of the Bauch of M igistrates considered ti le r the churchwardens are the masters or superiors 01 0 those overseers appointed by Magistrates, and have labours of their own to perform as overseers ; that th e ' have merely to see that the others do their work P r ; perly, and not that the churchwardens are liable to equal shares of the labours of the office of o verse e deterwit the generallyoth er shrink ov erseers. ths duty, t c; , n f l e e s a s , t n l g ta t t h c e h u onusres eieri making the rate (being satisfied with merely putt i 4 their signatures to it), and also collecting the mor e l a and all other fagging parts, to those overseers apPo i te by the Magistrates ; while they, as overseers ‘",i, of poor, take little or nothing upon them. The worl the 43d c. 2, s. 1, are :—" The elturchwOr" 3 ,l of every parish, and four, three, or two au b s taoP h ." honseholders there, as shall be thought meet, shall " overseers of the poor." Hero we find no difference recognized, or gisll there in any o th er Act. The chur c h war d e n ie - overseer by statut e , an d b ound to take equal abler: of the duti es . t h trt f ore i n parishes where Par'ish between th emse l ve agree to divide the Par into di s t r i cts for fro collectin g th e poovrat• if there be two churchwardens and twe overseers e A P: pointed by M ag i s t rates , t h e parish should not be "•,.; vided info two districts, and the churchwardens real% idle whilst the other two collect one part each ; but 1 7 1 , parish s h ou ld b e di v id e d i nto four districts, each churc warden taking a part, the ny churchw ar d en or ot h er overseer doubting -J, p sition I have laid down may satisfy himself by dressing the Poor-law Commissioners, asking the lowing question Is a churchwarden b oun d by l aw t o ta k e u pon h iriv self the d u ti es o f overseer of the poor, in all tl i l in f; equally w ith t h ose overseers appointed by IW:l'w trates ?" And perhaps it will be as well at the e- o, time to quote the -13,1 Elizabeth, cap. 2, s. 1. at lean For several years I filled the office of c hurch when the p ar ish documents relaing to the poor vit s gned in the following manner : --------- Church ------ S wardens. Overseers °f the --- P o or. t he Thus givin g onl y equa l power an d a..thority t ° ciarchwardens with the other overseers of the poor. 1 am, Sir, yours, &e.. GOIZDIVS. Iln. 4, 1841. AN UNPOPULAR DUCHESS.—My Lord It° 111 ; 11) 7 treated the Duchess of Portsmouth yesterday r Greenwich ; she went thither and came back by 1 don't know but it was ;he wisest war, for the mob beglito to ask wli,t ,he COIII,S over fcr, and k%h , ctiler she thin ks . n , carry hack 100,000/. wider pr(tenco of arrears of P I ,t sions; nod some come .ut with it that she shall 11"tii,/, Christmas pies here.—Junies's Court and Times of I !jam IIL ", -- ~~ ~ ''West bets, Ltte 1) 4,1et, M t kik the ltterning. Hcr M Acta ham Mr. 13i laying t ; out eveni E x Minit.t er , in Portia Loarli s. Mr. Deou Tfiuryiny di Affiires Baron i acted bus': Th e A 1101uwt, 1 day at the The.; kldo ptiv • here, Lot' trrkine, ; Messrs. • heard for " Vidul v on the at below. Sir Wil Appel:ant, Sierra Le par t of t h e order dial) Ishotever his charac MOD] land, csta' capital of PAY the F when 30 PP , cel The ; count, int Menthers this hopel of Lord I The f Ways Was Sussex. PRIC selling at hove C a l "NI, arc ept sw ee time s to I as rations Pound eec gro , kere on cuur se , "—The 1. • I‘,l . l Th W o ar Shei (,;