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Els' c MORyNIN slrlN THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, SEPT. 22, Will be presented Shakspere's Comedy (with Music) of THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR.—Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Bartley ; Master Slender, Mr. Cherie.; Mathews ; Ford, Mr. Cooper; 'Fenton, Mr. W. Harrison ; Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Nisbett; Nlrs. Page, Madame Vestris ; Ann Page, Miss Raiuforth ; Mrs. ,luickly, Mrs. Glover. After which, PATTER VERSUS CLATTER.—Capt. Pat er, Mr. Charles Mathews. To conclude with, the Farce entitled BROTHER BEN.— Commodore Cutlass, Mr. Bartley ; Benjamin Bowles, Mr. Charles Mathews; Mr. Shuffieton, Mr. Harley; Mrs. Cut las, Miss Cooper ; Dorothy, Mrs. Tayleure. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to ommence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Cirees, ss. ; Second Pnce, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price. 25.; Gallery ls. Tickets and places for the Boxes Lobe taken o Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167, New Bond-street. To-morrow, London Assurance, with Fra Diavolo. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS TONES. Production of the Novel Military Old English Equestrian Spec tacle, the Waterloo of the 16th Century, with extraordinary effects, and powerful auxiliary aid. Pony Raced in the Circle. THIS EVENING. SEPT. 22 Will be acted the long-promised Equestrian Spectacle, called THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM ; OR, THE HORSE OF THE DISINHERITED; introducing Mr. Duerow'smag nificent Stud of Forty Horses, highlly-trained Palfreys, Fairy Peneys, Equestrian 'Troop, and Companies of both Theatres; embracing all the Military Exploits of the Great Duke of Marlbaroug,h, G-and Reviews, Battles, and Glorious Victories. After which, NEW SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, in the Largest Arena in the World, in which Madame Ducrow , Sig nor Hillier, the Great American Rider, the British Horseman, Signor Felix Carlo, and the First Artistes in Europe will appear. To conclude with, A DAY AFTER THE FAIR. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. Re-appearance of Miss Vincent, after her severe indisposition, in the character of " Susan Hopley," which she has already performed sixty successive nights. THIS EVENING, SEPT. 22. The highly interesting and pathetic Domestic Drama, called SUSAN HOPLEY; OR THE TRIALS AND VICISSI TUDES OF A SERVANT GIRL. William Dean, Mr. E. F. Saville; Susan Hopley, Miss Vincent, the acknowledged Heroine of Domestic Drama. After which, RAFFAELLE THE REPROBATE; OR. THE SECRET idISSION, AND THE SIGNET RING. Raffaelle, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Count des Monte. Mr. Dale ; Gablin, Mr. Howard ; Pauline, Mrs. Lee. To conclude with, in Three Acts, THE LIFE and DEATH of JAMES DAWSON ; or, the REBEL of 1745.—James Dawson, Mr. E. F. Saving ; Lambourne, Mr. Dale ; Charles Edward, Mr. Seaman ; Sim, Mr. Gardner ; Kate Morton, Mrs. Lee ; Sarah, Mrs. Howard. Boxes, ls.—wllen, 6d. Half-price to the Boxes only, at Half-past Eight. To• morrow, Susan Hopley, Raffaelle, and James Dawson. THE RAILWAY SUN, AND THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE NOW RE-PUBLISHED, PRICE SIXPENCE EACH. Sun Office, Aug. 30, 1841. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The communication of " P. P." will be attended to. "E. F. G." Neither. The existing Corn-laws were passed in 1828. The first Act was passed in 1815 ; a new Act was passed in 1828, and that has continued in force without any alteration up to the present time. The Leeds Mercury of Saturday did not reach onr.office. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Alernmg...... m►nutes after 6 I Evening 0 4 minutes after g. LONDON: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1841. At his late election for Dorchester, Sir JAMES GRAHAM gave au account of the changes in opinion which have taken place in some of our leading statesmen on the subject of the Corn-laws, which is, we think, remarkable as an index to the general change which is in progress, and which will, by and by, reach even those who are now the most urgent sticklers for those enactments which starve the people. Sir JAMES GRAHAM said— " If my opinions have undergone a modification—and I admit that they have, in consequence of my increased Rxperience and the altered condition of the country—l have changed in very excellent company. I changed my opinion on the Corn-laws with Mr. Huskisson, who brought forward a measure in 1815 which prohibited the introduction of foreign corn if the price should be less than 80s., and when he supported in 1827 a sliding scale, I advocated the same views, and I can say that nothing which has occurred since has induced me to change my opinion. There was Sir H. Parnell, another free-trader, the very pink of free trade philosophers. That gentleman advanced a step further than Mr. Hus kisson, anti proposed that no foreign corn should be ad mitted until it ;.ad reached the price of 955. per quarter. Then, again, have .1 - ,,ord J. Russell and Lord Melbourne been quite consistent in their opinions on the subject of the Corn-laws? What did T.ord Melbourne say in the House of Lords when the propozl to alter the Corn-laws was mooted in that House? He dec:ared that it would be an evidence of absolute madness in any one to make such a proposition. On the same subject Lord Melbourne again said that the agitation of so great and important a question would shake society to its very foundation, -would array one great interest against another, and that he looked forward to the consequences with considerable alarm. These opinions were, however, expressed before the Budget was brought forward. Lord ,T. Russell, also, in an address to the electors of Huntingdonshire, expressed very strong and unequivocal opinions in favour of the present Corn-laws,.and against any alteration." Here, then, is a list of five leading statesmen —sir JAMES GRAHAM, Mr. HUSKISSON, Sir H. PARNELL, Lord MELBOURNE, and Lord JOHN RUSSELL—who have, within a few years, be come converts from absolute prohibition to pro tective duties, or to no duties at all. There are few or no persons of eminence who have gone the other way. Lord ASHBURTON being, we be lieve, the solitary exception ; and his change was so clearly dictated by mercenary motives that, from having been an authority, the man has be come pitiably despised. Lord MELBOURNE and Lord JOHN RUSSELL, from having been out-and-out Pro-Corn-law men, have become converts, at least to a low fixed duty, if they are not ready to embrace the prin ciple of a totally free trade in food. Sir HENRY PARNELL, who is a studious, reflective man, " the very pink of free trade philosophers," as Sir JAMES GRAHAM says, is now a total repealer, - whereas, in 1814, he was for a prohibitory duty up to 95i. But Mr. HUSKISSON'S change, who is yet most improperly spoken of by the Tories as favourable to the Corn-laws, and was so de scribed by Lord SANDON on Friday night last, is still more remarkable. In 1814, when he wrote his celebrated letter to his constituents at Chi chester, he was for a prohibitory duty to a cer tain point, and then for admitting corn on pay ment of a high duty by a graduated scale. In 182 7-28 he was for a graduated scale, much lower than he contemplated in 1814, without any prohibition ; and, in 1830, he had become of opinion that the Corn-laws might be repealed with advantage to the landowners. So much has been said of his opinions, and so much weight are attached to his early lucubrations, that we must, in order to vindicate our . assertion d o an sa tisfy the reader, quote Mr. HUSKISSON'S wn - words. On the 18th of March, 1830, in a debate on the state of the country, after the sliding scale had been adopted, and after much experi ence in Parliament and in office, at a time when he was unfettered by any considerations of what was due to Government, and when he spoke, as he himself said, as . an independent Member of Parliament, Mr. HUSKISSON thus accounted for the public distress which prevailed in 1830 ; It appears to me, Sir—and it is well known to several of my Right Hon. Friends that my opinion is of much longer standing than the present emergency—that the main difficulty, not an occasional, but rather a habitual difficulty, ander which this country I.lbours, is the too great pressure upon the springs and sources of productive :ndrestry ; and that this pressure from the very circum stance of its being too great in ordinary tiqes, becomes excessive and is subject to fits of exacerbation from any Incidental casualty, such as an ungenial season, or any temporary derangem en t i n an y con sid era bl e brunch of our manuf. tctures or trade. To a casualty of this descrip tion we mist always be liable ; but it ought not to re duce us to s offering like that which we now endure, if we had been before in a robust and healthy condition. If I am asked the cause of this habitual existence of this too great pressur e , I can only state the impression of my pwn mind'. It is simply \ I ) 6fi The annual this, that in the distribution 3ri income ngva l o u t' e thein exc h a country, ng e , b thaty V -- - T--- - __ tiOr thing; hi i\hisicrhailsedmaetaind -- ~, prod ced by the labour of its inhabitants, and from which fun d at e derived the subsistence, the comforts, - and. I e . enjoy ments of all, fromthe Monarch to .the pea 4 t I say that, i n i ts distribution, the port i on o f it restt . ed f3r peproduction is now, and has been for some i time,' less than it ought to be, either for the well being of the t §thouring class. '.s, the immediate instrument of that repro- 4* , 4, 1 4 A 0 ,1 ClUt p, 4 * I4K I ' '- r=i-W•(< fr rA 4. ;N:.:.; ( "Cbt ffilun. duction, or for the due maintenance and progressive growth of the capitals by which their labour is called into active exertion. lam aware that in this :tatemept I have only said in other words, that the wages have been too low and the profits of fructifying or produc dye capital less than they ought to be but th re is an advantage in a discussion like the present in desciibing these evils, so as to trace them to their elementary causes. Many concurrent circumstances have contri buted since the restoration of peace to produce this un satisfactory state of things.—Hansard's Debates, New Series. Vol. 23. Mr. HUSKISSON, then, was convinced in 1830 that the distress of the country arose from the too great pressure on the springs of industry, and from wages being habitually too low. That lamentable effect took place under the Corn law; and it seems to have made such an impres sion on Mr. HUSKISSON'S mind, that in the same speech he afterwards repeated and enforced the statement as follows: . In the views which I take of our present difficulties, the main cause of them, in my opinion, as stated in the outset of what I have now addressed to the House, and which, that I may not be misunderstood, in substance I repeat, is this—that in the distribution of the annual wealth of the country, taking it according to the ordi nary and admitted division into rent, profits of stock, and wages of labour, the two litter, from a complication of con current circumstances, of which taxation is one, are now in the receipt of less than their just share. I may fur ther state that such a condition of society cannot long be considered without its laying the foundation of national impoverishment. From that time to this that state of society which Mr. HUSKISSON described has existed, but not without producing, as he predicted, great national impoverishment. The masses have become steeped in rags and wretchedness. In the following passage Mr. HUSKiSSON clearly traces the evils of that improper distribution of wealth he so much deplored to the high price of subsistence and to the Corn-laws : For a long time we have been the greatest manufac turing and trading nation in the world. We export for sale abroad in a manufactured state more or less of al most everything which we raise or produce. Of the the raw materials of our soil the export is next to nothing ; they are barely adequate, indeed, I may say, inadequate, to the subsistence of our population. Upon an average of years we cannot do without a supply of foreign corn; and of cheese, butter, and other articles, we have a large annual importation. OUR Com-Laws, HOWEVER EXPEDIENT TO PREVENT OTHER EVILS, IN THE PRESENT STATE OF THE COUNTRY ARE IN THEM SELVES A BURTHEN AND A RESTRAINT ON ITS MANU FACTURING AND COMMERCIAL INDUSTRY. Whilst the products of that industry must descend to the level of the general market of the world, the producers, as far as food is concerned, are debarred from that level. If the price of subsistence, that is, the price of those particular articles which we never export and are frequently com pelled to import, be materially dearer here than any where else, that dearness cannot be shifted to the arti cles which we do not export. It must fall in the way of deduction either upon the wages and comforts of the LA BOURERS, or upon the profits of those who afford him em ployment. Here, then, is one inevitable cause constantlg operating to keep alive a struggle between productive capital and productive labour, with a constant tendency in both to a bwer level, because the disadvantage under which they have to contend, arising from a difference in the price of the necessaries of life, is increased in proportion as the progress in improvement of rival nations approximates their manufacturing skill and industry more nearly to our own. _ _ Mr. HumussoN, very unlike the Tories who now quote his letter of 1814, to bolster up errors which he had discarded, was a steady friend to foreign trade, and expressly stated that our in dustrious millions, whom he cherished, would perish if our foreign trade decayed. He was, in 1830, afraid that our foreign trade would decay, and that England would be exposed to great miseries if the Corn-laws were continued. What he then foresaw has been, in a great measure, realised. The high prices kept up have fallen on the wages of labour and on the profit of the employers, and have reduced both, according to concurrent testimony from all the manufactur ing districts, to great distress. On a subsequent occasion, namely, March 25, 1830, when Mr. P. THOMSON, now Lord SYDENHAM, brought for ward a motion to equalise taxation, Mr. HUSKIS SON reiterated his opinions on the Corn-laws. He said : It was his unalterable conviction that we could not uphold the Corn-laws now in existence, toge ther with the present system of taxation, and at the same time increase the national prosperity and preserve public contentment. That those laws might be repealed without affecting the landed interest, whilst at the same time the dis tress of the people might be relieved, he never had any doubt whatever. A general feeling prevailed that some change , must be effected, and that speedily; nor were there any individuals more thoughly persuaded of it than those who moved in the humbler walks of life. Immediately subsequent to that period, how ever, political excitement and political hope made people think less of their distress; then followed till 1836 a succession of abundant harvests ; they were combined with succes sive reductions of taxation, and the coining into operation of numerous railroads, which enabled the country - to go without repeal ing the Corn-laws, and even without much com plaining of them, till 1838. Then ensued defi cient harvests; then further reductions of taxa tion became impracticable ; and then was realised Mr. HUSKISSON'S prediction—though taxation had, in the meantime, been reduced— that we could not uphold the Corn- laws toge ther with the present system of taxation. Thus Mr. HUSKISSON, from being a strong advocate of the Corn-laws, became a strenuous advocate for the repeal of those laws, and, as we have seen, actually denounced them, as not to be maintained, and as the cause of the impoverish ment of the people. Such great and consecu tive changes in his opinions, the result of much experience, combined with the changes mentioned in the opinions of other statesmen, not willingly adopted, but forced on them by circumstances, seem to us a clear indication of the course of opinion. It is hostile to the continuance of Corn laws, and they can only be continued by un ceasing violence. If by that they are to be maintained, the rent-ownees may rest assured that violence will beget violence, and from their injustice a system of disorder and misrule will overspread the land. Sir R. PEELS declaration on Monday night, " that they could not by legislation at once im prove the condition of the people," is well worthy of the serious consideration of the public. " All," he said, " they could hope to do was to lay the foundation for improvements, which _would make a gradual amelioration in the state of society." That is in truth the answer which he gives to the complaints of the people. He admits their distress, but he says Parliament is unable to relieve it. They must, therefore, suf fer on—they must die of starvation--they must rot out—the omnipotent law can do nothingifor them. This sort of language might be accepted by the people if it were used at all times, but the reverse is the case. Does an Orange landlord complain of the perjury of the Catholic peasan try, there is no doubt entertained of the power of Parliament to remedy the evil, and Lord STANLEY will undertake the task at sight. Are the Irish parsons obliged to sell their plate and their libraries to get wine and roast beef, or to lay down their carriages, Parliament will im mediately relieve them; and it takes a million from the toil-worn people of England. and chucks it into the lap of the Irish tithe owners. Do the landlords whose estates are mortgaged merely apprehend a foreclosure from falling prices, the Legislature can prevent it; and a Corn-law to raise prices and take away the bread of the poor attests both its power and its will. The Legislature is only impotent when the dis tress of the people is to be relieved ; it is power ful to coerce, 2nd powerful to plunder them. Sir ROBERT PEEL, however, mistakes the case. He is not asked to improve the condition of the people by legislation, but by putting an end to legislation. The Corn-law is the people's curse. They ask him to remove it. Their dis tress is not owing to any natural causes, it is ex clusively owing to unjustlegislation. The people humbly supplicate to have that removed. They want a bad law abolished, not another bad law enacted. Sir R. PEEL implies that the Legis lature cannot undo its own act. According to him it is powerful only to work mischief, and so impotent to effect good that it cannot even re dress the wrongs it inflicts. If the people are not, therefore, to continue to nail* they must help themselves. Self-pre- THE SUN, LONDON, IVETNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 22, 1841. servation, they must remember, is the first law of nature. Sir J. GRAHAM will tell Sir R. PEEL, if he consult him, and the former Right Hon. Baronet have not .changed his opinions since he published " Corn and Currency" in 1826, that if he cannot relieve the distress, he endangers society by pretending to admi4ister the Government. "The paramount duty of every Government," says Sir JAMES GRAHAM, " is attention to the interests of the community, of which the labourers must- form the great majority; THE RIGHT OF PROPERTY ITSELF iS instituted for the good, not of the few who possess wealth and honours, but of the many who have them not ; IF THE MAJORITY BE DEEPLY INJURED, THE PUBLIC PEACE IS ENDANGERED; IF THE MAJO- RITY WANT FOOD, PRIVATE PROPERTY BECOMES A NUISANCE." At present, according to the SECRETARY of STATE for the Home Department, the public peace is endangered, and private property is a nuisance. For this alarm ing state of things the Premier alleges—the com placent, smirking, bustling, courier-despatching, speech-making Prime Minister, declares—that Parliament can find no remedy. At the same time he has displaced a Govern - .nent which of fered a remedy. Poor people, says this preten der to statesmanship, I know you are starving, but I can't help you, and I will not allow you to help yourselves. It is clear, from past experience, that union is necessary to enable the people to obtain re dress from the aristocracy. On this account we regret that there should have been an interrup tion to the unanimity of the meeting held in Southwark on Monday, even more than we re joice in the great number of persons assembled, and in the powerful speeches which were ad dressed to them. The meeting will, notwith standing this drawback, have an excellent effect throughout the country. If there were at present the least chance of uniting the bulk of the people in favour of the Charter, we should have no objec tion to pursuing that object; but there is not ; while, as the bulk of the Chartists are favourable to the repeal of the Corn-laws, there is a great probability, by using common discretion, of being able to unite all classes for its attainment. We cannot, therefore, too strongly reprobate such attempts as were yester day made at Southwark to thrust in on meetings, having for their object the removal of commer cial restrictions, including the Corn-laws, reso lutions for the promotion of the Charter. They only serve to defeat the purpose of the Chartists. They nourish the arrogance of the aristocracy by at once convincing them that they have nothing to fear. We must add that this conduct on the part of the Chartists is heartless and cruel to their suffer ink fellow-workmen in the manufacturing dis tricts. It is but too clearly and too abundantly proved, that thousands of human beings there are reduced to the last extremity of want. It is sup posed, asserted, and, we believe, demonstrated, that the total and immediate repeal of all the starvation laws, would give immediate relief to them. Employment and food would both be instantly obtainable. That hu mane and noble end can, however, only be reached—justice can only be wrung from the bread-taxers—by a union of the suffering people. Under these circumstances a few crotchety or misled Chartists, or unfeeling leaders who consider only their own ambitious purposes, present themselves at all meetings, and, with a wicked, dog-in-the-manger spirit, prevent their fellows from getting food, because they cannot immediately get the suffrage. The injustice of the aristocracy is great, but the heartlessness and cruelty of these meddling Chartermongersare,to the public and to their own starving fellow-creatures, quite as injurious. Following out these remarks, we repeat that there is no hope for the people but in combina tion. Manchester has done well, South wark has followed its excellent example, Glas gow is about to imitate, and, we hope, surpass it, but these few meetings are not enough. Meet ings must be held all over the country, and the procrastinating, cunning Premier, who evi dently designs, by the slow but effectual means of penury and starvation to crush for ever the now humbled spirit of the people, and so be enabled to curb and drill them after the true Tory fashion—the cunning Premier must be at once convinced that his designs are seen through, and that the people will not be con ducted by the painful process of a winter's star vation to the Tory goal of perpetual tyranny. The Paris Journals of Sunday have all reached us, with Madrid Papers of the 12th inst. They contain no news which was not anticipated in our Afternoon Edition of yesterday. The following extracts from them are all that remain to be noticed : The Temps announces that searches were made yester day at the shops of the dealers in arms to ascertain whe ther the regulations are executed, and if the barrel's of the fire-arms are dismounted, &c. In these visits seve ral sword-canes were seized. Positive information was received on the 16th at Grenoble, not only that the census had been resumed at Saint Barnet, without difficulty, but that the doors of the houses had been opened to the tax-collectors. The writs for the arrest of the instigators of the resistance made on the ;first day, to the controller have been executed. Twelve persons have been arrested and conveyed to the prison of Gap. Others have fled to avoid falling into the hands of justice.—Le Constitutionnel. The Emancipation of Toulouse of the 16th says— " Yesterday our garrison was under arms in the bar racks, where all necessary preparations were made to put our city in a state of siege; all the posts were dou bled. It is probable that these arrangements will be con ' tinued to-day. Otir population has remained calm amid all these demonstrations, which it attributed to serious news received at the Prefecture." The census has commenced at Cascapare. It is expected that the inhabitants of that town will close their doors, as those of Toulouse did. Several persons who were arrested in the late assem blages, have been set at liberty.—Le Commerce. It is most discreditable to the Governments of France and England that they both are con tracting a loan, and augmenting their debts in a season of profound peace. Their schemes for raising the wind are both published at the same time. They are a hopeful pair. THE DILIGENCE OF NEW BROOMS.—Sir Robert Peel surpasses Lord Melbourne amazingly in his attention to business, and no doubt the country will be so much the better governed. We every day read such announce ments as the following in the Tory Journals, set off with large type :—" Despatches were sent off this morn ing by the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel to her Majesty at Windsor."—Courier last evening. " A Treasury mes senger was sent off with despatches this morning for her Majesty, at Windsor Castle."—Standard of Monday. Besides these the meetings of Ministers with Sir Robert Peel, and of law officers with Ministers, which are re corded every day, are as numerous as steamers in the river, or horses in the street. John Bull will be at once satisfied. " How they do labour," he will say, " how well we are governed ; these are the right sort of lads." Softly honest John. Do you remember the old adage, " The greatest talkers do the least they say." All the quacks that have ever existed from Paracelsus to Peel, have been great and pompous talkers, making a great show, sending their servants hither and thither, as if the world were not wide enough for their energies. Boz or Marryat, we forget which, perhaps both, with great knowledge of quackish nature, makes a doctor who wanted to get into practice, hire a person to rap at his door at night, to show that he was in vast repute. On the same principle, if Sir Robert does not actually send his Treasury messengers to her Majesty daily and hourly, the Tory Journals do it for him. He is a phy sician, according to their reports, in wonderful repute. Lord Melbourne at least managed affairs in a much more quiet manner. Mn. WAKLEY AND THE TORIES.—The mutual com pliments which these parties bestow on each other begin to excite the notice and the suspicion of the public. On Monday evening Mr. Wakley, speaking from a Tor) bench, said " that all Sir Robert Peel required was time, and he considered that was but a fair demand." " It was but a reasonable request, and he thought it would be unjust to refuse it." Mr. Wakley, therefore, speaking out in his own behalf, in behalf of the Radicals of Finsbury, thinks it unjust not to allow Sir R. Peel and the Tories time to consolidate their power, and time to starve down the people to their purposes. For this or some similar good turn-, the Standard of last night thus praises Mr. Wakley :—" The best speech of the night, after the speeches of Sir Robert Peel, was unquestion ably that of Mr. Wakley: in which the Hon. Member for Finsbury, with candour and manliness, exposed the unworthy delusion attempted, when it was pretended that either the Ministry or the Legislature could by any act afford present relief to whatever distress exists in the manufacturing districts. We earnestly recommend Mr. Wakley's argument to the attention of those who fancy that corn can be made cheaper in seasons of scarcity by a substitution of a find duty for the sliding scale." Our own report does not slow the Hon. Member actually de fending the Corn-law;; but the Standard, which is no doubt well infornickimplies that he did, and praises him accordingly. Mr Wakley cannot suppose, at this time of day, that he pan serve two masters, the Tories and the people, and worship at once God and Mammon. SLAVE TRADERS It:WARE.—Lord Brougham mada an astounding declaration in the House of Lords on Monday evening, to which it seems advisable to call the attention of the gentltnen who compose the Companies for carrying on minhg operations in the Brazils and other countries by slaves. Lord Brougham said, " Various Mining Companies were formed in this country, which carriel on their operations in Brazil and Cuba, working their mines by newly- imported slaves from Africa, who wet illicitly purchased by the agents of these Companies, ilthough such agents well knew that the importationof the slaves was Wegal, contra band, and piratical. Whatever might be lawful to a fo reigner in his own country, it would not lie felony if he purchased a slave in my part of the British dominions. But if a British subjet so participated iii slave- trading, that is to say, by tle purchase of a newly-imported slave, in a country vhere the importation was by law declared to . be piratical—such British subject could be seized in this country, tried, and convicted of felony. Three years ago he vould be punished with death, but now he would be lithle only to transportation for life, whether such trade h the country in which the act was done were legal or illegal." If this be the law, it is quite clear to us tint Messrs. Irvin.. and Co., with all their friends and auxliaries, are at this moment, if the facts can be proved that they are engaged in working mines with slaves, and buying new slaves for the pur pose, liable to be tied and transported for life. We should like to see tie law put into execution against great offenders. LEITIL—On Saturday the duty on foreign wheat hav ing been lowered to one shilling, occasioned consider able stir in the port. In the course of the (lay duty was paid on 130,000 qua'ters; yet, the duty being so low, the receipt of the Ctstoms for that day was only about 6,7001. So confident were the merchants that the ave rages would rise, tlat a number of vessels which ar rived during the wee( lay in the dock with their cargoes without breaking btlk till Saturday, when. instead of bonding it, they pad the duty and immediately com menced unloading. The carters and porters are at pre sent realising high gages—the former making 305., and he latter 10s. 6d. pe• day. EXPRESS FROM PA FRANCE. Accounts from Paris of Monday state that the funds still continue to improve, This circumstance was ascribed to the absence of haste observable in the terms fixed by the Minister of Finance for his proposed loan, and to the rerfect indifference with which the proceed ings of the disaffected were viewed by the public. No emeute occurred in Paris on Sunday night. It woull appear that the rumour that the assassin Quenisset was giving information was incorrect. The Quotidienne states that the infante Don Juan, second son of Don Carlos, had fallen from his horse at Salzburg, and broken his arm. The Prince, however, was doing well. As soon as his arm be completely well, he is to leave for Switzerland, with his brother Don FErnando. Prince George of Hanover had returned to the capital from Norderney, where the sea-bathing bad done his Royal Highness much good. The Emperor of Russia arrived at Warsaw on the 9th inst. SPAIN. Our Madrid letters .of the 13th inst state that the Queen's sister was slightly indisposed. On the 12th M. Astor gave a grand dinner to the members of the Spa nish Cabinet. The Five per Cents. were done at 25-a for cash, and 25 7-16 I e 13-16 26 at different dates. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. SUPPLY. __ ___ MINORITY who voted for the Amendment of Mr. Sharman Crawford, that the House ought to inquire into the Dis tresses of the People before granting Supplies. Bowing, Dr. G ibson, T. M. I'rotheroe, E. Brotherton, J. Granger, T. C. Rennie, George Bryan, George flarford, Summers Thornely, Thomas Cobden, Richard Hawes, B. Walker, !t. Collins, W. I Napier. Sir Charles Yorke, H. Redhead Dennistoun, J. Ogle, S. C. H. Elphinstone, Howard Philips, Mark TELLERS. Ferguson, Colonel Plumridge, Captain Williams, W. Belden, J. , Crawford, W. S. SECRET SERVICE MONEY. MINORITY who voted against the Grant of 19,6001. far Se. cret Service Money. Bryan, George Morris, David TELLERS. Fielden, J. Pechell, Captain Williams, Wm. Harford, Summers Wakley, Thomas Crawford, WS, Hindley, Charles of 4,4641., to complete :e of the Roman Ca -12. Marsham, Viscount Mas erman, John Murray, C. R. S. ushbrooke, Colonel Sibthorp, Colonel MINORITY who V 4 the sum necessar tholicColkie to tl Allix, John Peter Antrobus, Edmund Boseawen. Lord Cochrane, A. Dawnay, Hen. W. Dickinson, F. H. Forbes, William Fuller, A. E. Goring, H.l). MAYNOOTH. , oted against a Grant to defray the chart he 31st of March, 1F Grimeton, Lord Grogan, E .ward Hamilton, Lord C. Hayes, Sir E. Inglis, Sir R. H. Johnson, W. G. Lawson, Andrew TELLEUS. Lockhart, William Plumptre, J. P. Mackenzie, W. F. Campbell, A. FUNDING OF EXCHEQUERBI LLS The following official notice made its appearance ra ther unexpectedly this morning : " Treasury Chambers, Whitehall, 21st Sept. 1841. "It having been considered advisable by the First Lord of the Treasury and the Chancellor of the Exchequer to fund a portion of the outstanding Ex chequer-bills charged on aids and supplies, dated in March and June last (or in any antecedent month, provided the same have not been advertised to be paid off), not exceeding five millions in Three per Cent. Consolidated Annuities, subscriptions for the same will be received at the Bank of England from nine o'clock in the morning to one o'clock, p.m., on Friday the 24th, Saturday the 25th, and Monday the 27th inst. " The terms upon which it is proposed that the Exche quer bills should be funded, are that one hundred and twelve pounds and two shillings Three per Cent. Conso lidated Annuities shall be given for every one hundred pounds principal of Exchequer bills ; and that the said Three per Cent. Consolidated Annuities so to be created, shall commence from the sth of July, 1841. " It is proposed that the parties intending to subscribe to this funding, shall deliver sealed letters at the Bank of England, specifying the sums for which they intend to subscribe, accompanied by sealed parcels, containing, in Exchequer-bills, a deposit of 201. per cent. on such sub scriptions ; and that at one o'clock, or as soon after as possible, on Monday, the 27th instant, the Bank shall declare the total amount proposed to be subscribed for, allotting to each party, in case the whole of the subscrip tions should not exceed the amount of five millions, the whole sum which he may have offered to subscribe ; and in case the whole amount offered to be subscribed shall exceed five millions, then such proportion only of the sum tendered by him, as the sum of five millions may bear to the whole sum offered to be subscribed. retain ing in such case the deposit of 201. per cent. only upon such amount. " The further instalments will be payable as follows, viz. : " 20/. per cent. on or before the Bth of November. " 20/. per cent. on or before the 20th of December. " 20/. per cent. on or before the 31st of January,lB42. " 20/. per cent. on or before the 14th of March, 1842. " Subscribers will be allowed to pay Exchequer-bills in advance, and to receive the interest upon the amount of Exchequer-bills for the first instalment, from the date of the bills up to the 27th of September ; and upon the amount of the bills for each subsequent instalment, from the date of the bills up to the day when the instalment would have become due. " Subscribers will be allowed the option of paying money in lieu of Excquequer-bills, to the extent of one half on the amount of the Exchequer-bills subscribed for, upon paying 12s. for every 100/. so paid in money. "Subscribers paying money will be allowed interest, at the rate of 21 per cent. per diem, from the day of de posit up to the days on which the instalments are payable. "Subscribers completing their whole payments on or before the 2d of January, 1842, will be entitled to the first half-yearly dividend on the said Consolidated An nuities at the sth of January, 1842. " Scrip receipts will be issued at the Bank in the usual manner." LITERAT URE. CHARLES CHESTERFIELD . 3 Vols. Colburn, London, 1841. _ As we noticed thi tale from time to time, when it appeared in successive portions in-the pages of the New Monthly Magazine, we need say no more on the present occasion than that it is now re-published in three volumes, and will, no doubt, be as popular as any of its author's other fictions, with the sole exception, perhaps, of the " Widow Barnaby," which is decidedly Mrs. Trollope's master-piece. THE DRAMATIC WORKS OF WYCHERLEY, CONGREVE, frc. Part I. Moron, Limdon, 1841. • The plays of these eminent dramatists have already been published by Mr. Moxon in single volumes, and are here re-published in monthly parts, the first of which is now lying before us. The work is got up with singular neatness, and even elegance, and at a cost which will bring it within the means of all classes of readers. ANOTHER BLESSING OF THE SLIDING SCALE.—Large as have been the importations of wheat during the last month, they have scarcely benefited the British ship owner at all. As there never was any reason to expect that the ports would remain open more than a week or two, there has been no time to send out shipping from this country to fetch the grain purchased The great point has been to get it here as soon as possible, and the effect has been that all the shipments have been made in vessels previously in the ports whence it was shipped. Under the present system the British shipowner loses almost all share in this trade, of which it happens this year that he stands greatly in need, for freights to all quarters of the world are exceedingly low.—Liverpool Times. We regret to say that an Englishman has been condemned by the tribunal of this town to twelve months im.. prisonment for one of those crimes that should never be heard of among Christians. We unders tand that his offences had b e e n for some time known to the police, and that he had been warned to change his life, but in vain ; the old sinner would not listen to wholesome advice, and he is now suffering the penalty and disgrace attached to his vices.— Boulogne Gazette. All our docks are now so crowded with ships, that the fla g, announcing that no more can be admitted, has been flying for some days. This is, is a great measure, to be attributed to the numbers of foreign vessels, loaded with wheat, which have arrived within the last few days.—Hull Rocking ham, of Saturday. S li RI PA ARV OF NE IjV AND üblic Opratott. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. The Nat;onul of Saturday was seized for an article on the present disturbed state of France. The Presse very properly condemns this proceeding on the part of the French Government. The Ministers have their own Journals all ready to correct the misrepresentations of the Opposition ; and, by seizing such papers as the National, they only tacitly acknowledge the inability of the Government to controvert their statements. Be sides, by seizing a Paper for the falsehoods contained in one article, they indirectly bear evidence to the truth of the contents of every Journal not seized. This is what constitutes the dangerous influence of the French Oppo sition press. The French Government has authorized the raising of one-third of the loan of four hundred and fifty millions of francs (18,000,0001.), granted by a Bill of the Cham bers in the last Session. The decree of the Finance Minister, rentlating the terms for raising the present instalment of' one hundred and fifty millions of the loan (8,000,0001.), will be found at length in another part of The Sun. There can be no doubt. that the French Government, in selecting such a time fur raising the loan, seeks to convince Europe that its credit is not lessened by the e:neutes and the attacks upon the dynasty of July. A secondary object is doubtless to throw some capital into the market now drained by the raising of the fortifications of Paris. The disorders in Paris continued on Saturday night, and it was expected that they would be renewed on Sun day and Monday. On Sunday the number of persons arrested was 120. At seven o'clock the streets in St. Martin and St. Denis were filled with rioters, and all the shops were closed. Considerable resistance was offered to the National Guards and the police, but by eleven o'clock order was restored. The Spanish Government recently made an offer to that of Portugal of 6,000 Spanish troops to quell the Miguelite insurrection in the Algarves. This offer has been declined, greatly to the annoyance of the Regent, who regards the refusal as dictated by the partisans of Queen Christina in the Portuguese Cabinet. It was rumoured in Madrid on the 12th, that the Go vernment had serious thoughts of prohibiting the impor tation of any 'persons of colour into Cuba. There are already 800,000 blacks in that island, and the arrival of more might excite them to imitate the example of Hayti, by turning the tables upon the whites. The Infante Don Juan, second son of Don Carlos, has had a tumble from his horse at Salzburg, by which his arm was broken. The accident would not affect his life. When recovered, he is to leave Switzeitland with his brother. PARLTAIKEZTTAN.T. The Speaker last evening, in compliance with the understood wish of the House, postponed the first meet ing of the Selection Committee on Controverted Elec tions. After the recess, Sir Charles Napier will bring for ward, as he gave notice, a motion to place a naval man at the head of the Admiralty ; and Mr. P. M. Stewart, before again going into a Committee of Supply, will move that the distress of the country be considered. Sir Robert Peel consented to Sir Thomas Wilde's motion relative to Ripon, thereby tacitly admitting that Sir Edward Sugden ought to have vacated his seat be fore, and a new writ was accordingly ordered to be issued for that borough. Mr. Wakley having on Monday said that Sir Robert Peel had not said anything which could lead to the in ference that Parliament would be prorogued till Febru ary, Mr. Villiers asked Sir Robert to what period it would be prorogued, but Sir Robert declined to give any other answer than that he could not say, it would depend on circumstances. Mr. Ewart moved a series of resolutions to assimilate the inquiries of private Committees to those of judicial tribunals, but after a brief discussion withdrew them. Mr. Rennie moved an humble Address to her Majesty to fill up the holes of the Serpentine, &c., in order to prevent skaiters being drowned, but, after a few words from the Chancellor of the Exchequer, withdrew the motion. Sir Robert Peel obtained leave to bring in two Bills, one to continue the Poor-law Commission, and the other to continue certain expiring laws. The Bills were brought in and read a first time. Colonel Acton expressed his great regret that he had the night before gone into the wrong lobby, and voted for, instead of against, the grant to Maynooth. Sir Charles Burrell informed the House that 800/. had been given for a picture by Perugino, which was bought by Mr. Beckford for 50/., and is worth very little. So the money of the hard working people is lavished. _ . - • The Navy Pay Bill was read a third time, after Capt. Berkeley had called the attention of the Government to the fact, that the sailors who are paid in the Mediter ranean lose fourpence on every dollar, or the twelfth part of their pay. In a Committee on the Lunatics' Bill, Mr. Wakley made a useful and sensible speech, exposing the errors and defects of the Bill, and doing justice to its merits. He moved that it be continued for one year, instead of three, but finding that Sir James Graham would vote against him, he withdrew the amendment. We regret this, as the measure requires improvement. The House did no other business of importance, and rose at an early hour. PUBLIC OPXNXON. The Morning Post treats wiLh great contempt the idea that the country is dissatisfied with the present Minis try, observing :—" Even the opponents of the present Government—such of them at least as have any preten sion to reasonableness—allow that time for considera tion is necessary, and that a Ministry which has just come in ought not, in justice or in prudence, to offer to the public permanent measures of great importance to various rival interests. The " motion " of the whole country is merely an imaginary motion, and all the ho nours which belong to it are likely to be engrossed by such interesting localities as New Brentford and Whitechapel." The Advertiser thus refers to Sir Robert Peel's first Ministerial declarations in Parliament :—" The speech and the moment, in themselves, constitute a portraiture of the times. The pen of Tacitus might, in vain, labour to reduce within a circle of more compressed limits the picture of events : that speech, and that moment—they live in mutual relief, exposing the insolence of the Mi nister, and that temporary exhaustion of power, under which a series of unconstitutional procedures had mo mentarily placed the people."—lt is not so much from "exhaustion" or indifference that the country is now apparently 'quiescent, as from that, love of fair play for which it has ever been, and we trust will ever be, remark able. It is unwilling to stir, except from a deep-seated conviction that nothing is to be hoped for but from strenuous agitation; and the late Tory declarations will tend in no slight degree to produce this conviction. The Chronicle remarks, in allusion to Sir Robert Peel's want of decision and straightforwardness on the Corn-law question :—" In his present position, Sir Ro • bert Peel can only play Mrs. Candour at the expense of his own character. If he will not allow us to consider that the election of a landlord's nujority has ascertained what is to be the'state of the law affecting the importa tion of corn,' he is bound by his own previous profession, in ,Tune last, to tell the public what he means the state of that law to be ; and if it is, as his conduct intimates, open to alterations, what he intends those alterations to be. Of course we mean, not in subordinate and unimportant details, but what they will be substan tially, and in their bearing upon persons engaged in commNrcial speculations.' If unprepared to do this, he should have cast no uncertainty over the subject. He should have quietly left it where it had been placed by the fact of his monopolist majority. He should not have destroyed an immense advantage' for the sake of cajoling the people into an expectancy which he has no reason for believing he can ever satisfy. He is practising a delusion now, as he did before."—To expect boldness and decision from Sir Robert Peel on the Corn- law question, is as ridiculous as to expect eloquence from a Sibthorp, or statesmanlike sagacity from a D'lsraeli. With such a colleague at his elbow as the Duke of Buck ingham, and such a monopolist majority, to keep a wary eye on his movements, as the Ninety-one, the Right Hon. Baronet cannot be decided, even if his turn of mind allowed him to be so. The Herald is of opinion that the Tory Premier is at perfect liberty to do what he pleases with the new Poor law, for that he had nothing at all to do with it, the nra iure having been exclusively one of Whig fabrication. Our Contemporary appears to forget t hat the Right Hon. Baronet was one of the chief supporters of this law, and that it could not have passed without his concurrence is : "It is false to assert that S ir Robert Peel bound to the present Poor - law ;he is no more bound ito ts vices and errors than he is not to alter the timber duties or improve the corn duties. Sir Robert Peel was content t o give the Whig Poor - law , what the Whigs refuse to give him—a fair tria l ; but for having done so, his course in office is not to be embarrassed by all its defects, its cruel administration, and its heartless officials. The Whigs alone are responsible for the present Poor-law ; and for it, so long as memory lasts in England, their party will be handed down to execration from age to age, as the poor man's enemies." The Times is exceedingly displeased that Lord Mor peth should have accepted a public dinner from the Irish Reformers, and condescends to read hi s L or d s hip a lec ture on the subject in these terms:—" A high-minded officer, more concerned about publi c i n t erests t h an a b out p e rsonal vanity, would, under all the circumstances, have peremptorily declined such a dinner. Lord Mor peth. knew perfectly well the Repeal principles of the great majority of those wh o meant t o di ne hi m . Equally cognizant of the fact, that how sincerely soever he himself may be attached to British connexion, the treat was really given to him by a disaffected party f f rom a conviction sub rosy that their guest had essentially pro moted their objects by his official influence, his Lordship was bound to have repudiated in the most emphatic manner the very discreditable compliment which they wished to pay him." The Ipswich Express makes the following comments on what it calls the " first act' of a Tory Ministry :" Sir Robert Peel has spoken as Prime Minister of the Restoration, and has plainly told a suffering people that to relieve their distress he will do nothing - . The esti mates of his predecessors are to be taken without altera tion, and the deficiency of the revenue is to be met by a vote of credit ! And then the Legislature is to a djourn until February ! ! There can be but one cause for t his impolitic proceeding—namely, Sir Robert Peel's utter inability to manage his high-flying, aristocratic Cabinet. The I3ulton Free Press observes :—" Let the reader peruse our brief notice of Sir R. Peel's evasive speech in the House on Thursday evening, and, in connection with it, our report of the great meeting . held at MFI-• chester on the same day, and ask himself if our shuffling Premier is not paving the way for a violen t revolution. Quem Deus vult perdere prius dementit. Had a speech like that which we find set down for Sir R. Peel in yes terday's papers been published in waggery, by anticipa tion, it might well hav e been pronounced a burlesque. ' The Cambridge Independent remarks as follows c n Sir James Graham's recent speech at Dorchester :—" Sir James Graham's speech was altogether a miserable failure. After a deal of abuse bestowed upon the late Whig Administration, the Right Hon. Baronet did not tell his audience a syllable as to the measures which the Tory Government intended to introduce. Indeed, wherever we look through the speeches delivered by members of the Administration, at the recent re-elec tions, for anything tangible or straightforward as to Sir Robert Peel's course, it is all labour lost. Our political future is still a secret." MONEY-TRADE-COMMERCE. The state of trade at Bolton continues in an alarming state. Hundreds of poor people are seen strolling about the streets for want of better employment. In Wiltshire the condition of the labourers is frightful. They cannot find employment, and are driven to commit petty thefts to keep body and soul together. COMMERCIAL REFORM. A meeting was recently held at Bolton for the pur pose of forming an Anti-Bread-Tax and Free. Trade Society, and a Committee was formed to meet weekly, and commence their crusade against the famine•laws. A public meeting of the inhabitants of Stratford, Es sex, was held yesterday evening at the Bird-in-hand, to memorialisethe Queen on the present state of the Corn laws, and to-4y: the inhabitants of Camberwell, Peckham, and Dulwich are to meet in the Lecture-room of the Anti-Corn• law Association, Hill-street, Peck ham, for the same purpose. .A.GI 4 2.XCULTUILAZ. At Mereworth,fiTton,amr Wateringbury, the hops come far short in quantity. The frosts of a fortnight since appear to have stopped their vegetation greatly, keeping them very small, especially the goldings. NAVAL AND MILITAIZY. The steam-ship Acadia, with the Canada and United States mails left Liverpool on Sunday for Halifax and Boston, with nearly 100 passengers. Lieutenant-General Murray, formerly . Governor of Demerara, died on Thursday last at Paris, in his 60th year. Lieutenant-Colonel Slyfield, who succeeded to the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the • 60th Regiment upon the late decease of Lieutenant-Colonel Molyneux, died a few days since at St. Thomas's. The 72d Highlanders seem to be great favourites at Court. Another field-day sham-fight took place on Mon day in the Home Park, which the Queen and Prince Albert, with numerous courtiers, viewed from the Vic toria Tower, who seemed highly gratified with the excel lent manner in which the various movements were per formed. • LAW AND POLICE. Richard Eustace and Mary Ann Haggart, charged with the murder of William Hazzard, aged 74, at Greenwich. on Saturday last, were brought a second time before the sitting Magistrate on Monday, when the policeman stated at length the circumstances of the case. Both prisoners denied the charge, and were remanded until Saturday next. On Monday a young Irishwoman, named Hogan, was brought before the Magistrate at Hatton-garden, on a charge of attempting to drown herself in the New River. Having been seduced, she was turned out of her situa tion, and being refused all relief from her seducer, and being without a friend in this country, she attempted self-destruction. Every attention was paid her by the Magistrate, and a small sum given her from the poor box, till she could be admitted into the workhouse. At Union Hall James Glenee was committed to take his trial, for attempting to stab John Lewis Kitchen The complainant stated that the prisoner had been dis charged from his situation, in consequence of certain re presentations which he considered himself called upon to make to his employer, and to that circumstance alone he attributed the assault. A butcher of the name of Thompson was fined 51. at Thames-street for an outrageous assault upon a boy ten years of age, who he said had annoyed him, and pulled the tail of his coat on Saturday. According to the evi dence of two women, the defendant seized the boy by the jacket and trousers and dashed him on the ground, where he lay for some time insensible. At Lambeth•street a mar. of the name of Wiseman, said to be in excellent business, and also to have come into the possession of considerable property by the death of a relative, was charged with obtaining goods by fraudu lent,pretences. He was remanded till two other parties implicated in the transaction are to be brought up. ONEERING. It is stated on good authority that a spirited contest on the part of the Reformer* would successfully contest Portarlington with the Hon. Dawson Darner, lately ap pointed Comptroller of the Household. On Friday the official declaration of the poll was made at Sunderland by the Mayor. The precise numbers de clared were, for Lord Howick 705 ; Mr. Attwood 463 ; giving Lord Howick a majority of 242. The Westminster Registration is proceeding with, and the parish of St. Anne's, Soho, numbers 20 new claims, and 54 objections by both parties. In St. Clement's Danes there are 18 new claims, and nearly 150 objec tions from all parties. The result of the Sunderland election has induced many to augur that a successful opposition to the Tory party will be more than ever established at Westmore land against Alderman Thompson. Lord Lincoln was on Monday last re-elected at Not tingham without opposition. Sir Edward Knatchbull having been appointed to tho office of Paymaster-General of the Forces, was on Mon day last re-elected for East Kent without opposition. SPOT TING. Mr. J. W. Lassels, of Liverpool, lately caught with the fly, at Born, in Norway, 2,1541b5. of salmon, in the space of 23 days. The two largest fish were caught on the 6th and 19th of July, one weighing 281bs. and the other 301135. COURT-FASHIONABLE._ His Excellency Earl De Grey is expected to return from Dublin Castle in the course of the week. Sir Edward Sugden is expected to leave his seat at lhames Ditton, at the close of the week, for Dublin. The Duke and Duchess of Bedford arrived in town on Monday from Woburn Abbey. On Sunday last, the Bishop of Bath and Wells (Dr. Law) attained his 80th year, and is in the enjoyment of excellent health. WISCEIMANEOUS. Yesterday was the anniversary of the murder of King Edward the Second, in Berkeley Castle, at the instiga tion of his Queen. None of the monasteries adjacent to the Castle would receive the murdered body of the King, except Gloucester, where he was buried. The late Secretary of the Sunderland Chartist Associ ation, Mr. James O'Neil, was drowned on Monday while bathing in the sea off Hendon, near Sunderland. A Ili lgian paper states that the steam-ship, the British Queen, is preparing for a voyage to Constantinople. An advertisement in the Times states that an extra ordinary fasting man, named Bernard Cavanagh, is now exhibiting himself at the Hanover-square Rooms. If the Tory Ministers refuse much longer to alter the Corn laws, " extraordinary fasting men" will be by no means an uncommon exhibition. The monopoly system , is a capital recipe for producing them. At a recent Protestant Association Meeting at Wy combe, a clergyman declared publicly that the " return of a Tory majority of ninety-one to the House of Com mons must be attributed to the Great God of Heaven alone I " RUMOURS OW THE DAY. Unless the meetings throughout the country produce an impression, Sir Robert Peel and the " tyrant majo rity " Parliament will sit only about three weeks longer. Tuesday the 12th of October is the day named for the prorogation. The Duke of Buckingham has been supplying small sums of money to ills agricultural labourers to enable them to migrate to Manchester, where half the manufac turers are out of employment. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert drove in a poney phaeton to Adelaide Cottage, and re turned through the Home Park this morning, and her Royal Highness the Princess Royal was taken her usual airing. • Prince Albert enjoyed the sport of shooting this morn ing in the vicinity of Cranbourne Lodge, attended by Viscount Sydney and Sir Edward Bowater. In the afternoon her Majesty and Prince Albert left the Castle in a pony pliton, his Royal Highness driving, attended by Lady Portman, the Countess of Rosslyn, Hon. Miss Lyster, and Viscount Sydney, in a second carriage, and by Colonel Wernyss, Sir E. Bowater, and the Earl of Rosslyn, on horseback. , HiA Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived in town yesterday morning from his residence at Kew. His Royal Highness went in the afternoon to Kensing ton, and afterwards proceeded to Kew, attended by Baron Knesebeck. Baron de Nieumann, the Austrian Minister, on a special mission, visited the Earl of Aberdeen at the Fo reign -office. The Members of the Ecclesiastical Commission had a meeting yesterday afternoon, at their Office in White hall-place. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from tha Governor of Sierra Leone. THE WEATHER.—NOON, SEPTEMBER 21. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELA I oE-STREET. 29.96 In. Barometer .............. Thermometer... 65 [ Highest ........ 66 Lowest ...... 46 Wind E. —Freezing Point 32 Deg. The Gazette of Upper Germany, in an article on the militar y . force of France as compared with that of Prussia, Austria, and the Germanic Confederation, states that Prussia. which has 14,000,000 of inhabitants, could put on foot an army of 532,000 men, and that Austria, with 32,000,000, could, by adopting the Prussian system, ' put in movement an army of 1,216,000, whilst the Ger manic Confederation, it says, could, arm y its populatio n furnish a n s, effective r,rhe;°°°eas 'France, says this Journal, could not o 370,°°° e a nCons answert it u - l ' i r ien Th raiselan onl y equal to the above, by at least a million. tionnel observes, in reference to the above, that m ight be given to it, but very properly adds ' the situation orn calculations. ing bet of t F hi l n ß gs E i . s_too o p n ac m isc on fo t r ia s y uc m h between twelve:and one o'clock, a fire occurred in the bed-roum of Mrs. Beavely, residing at No. 15, Carnaby - t reet, Golden-square, occasioned s by her two sons, Charles, ag ed 10, and George, aged 8 years, playing with some lighted wo od during her temporary absence, by which the bed and furnitu re in the room were burnt, and also themselves in s o dreadfu l manner that they were removed in blankets to the Middlesex Hospital, where they both lie without any hopes of recovery. It was with difficulty the house was saved. GOOD ADVICE.—Never -present your gun ac cidentally, while s h oo ti ng w i t h anot h er , or i n joke, or indeed at all, at anything that you do not intend to hit or Sportsman. . VS MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEI' CITY. TUESDAY EVENIN,Cibe The Stork Market was completely boulererse to-day, b) notice from the Treasury for funding fi '1 of Excheque ve mi tons _ ,Monet' Bills, and Consols dropped from 89i to 89i for u" and from 90A and to 89i and 4 for Account. Exchere Bills were Is. to 2s. higher, viz , 12 3 / 4 to 15s. premiu m fo y, large, and 143. to 17s. premium for the small Bills. East Ind Bonds brought I s . t o 4 3 / 4 premium. The New Three-awl -a" Half per Cents. dropped from 98i and 99 to 93g and 8. - b y The Foreign Securities also receded; being - acted uP° 3 4 ,, the same causes as those which affected our awn market ; er tive Spanish Stock realised 214.. to a decline ot t° d t ,e re cent. In the Portuguese and South American Stocks t'' h was not a single operation. Cuba Bonds were at 67, Mp h, at 81 to 80i, and Dutch Two- and-a-Half per Cents. at sig The Railway Shares were flat, and to effect sales lower Pr' ce a , ~„,, were submitted to. B: ighton Shares were 4i to 4i, 81 ac .. 1 - 1 ,61 148, and North Midland 34 discount. Great Western re" ; 12, and London and Birmingham Thirds 20A premium, op The foreign exchanges were rather firm this afternoon. , to Paris bills were taken at 25.60 to 65, on Antwerp a t 12.,1 ., 3i, on Hamburgh at 1 3.9} to 10, on Frankfurt at 149 to t!Ve and on Trieste at 9.50 to 51. Hamburgh was a shade than on Friday last. The following are the official returns of the exports ursu blti; lion from the port of London, for the week ending Th" last : Silver Coin to Rotterdam 41,0 00 oz. 19 SP Hamburgh .. ... .. 50,00 0 „ Bars Ditto (From The Sun of last Night.) had LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, SEPT. 20.—We hi ' B o lo a very fair business in the Cotton Market to-de'' , ,'" e b a let, amounting to 5.000 bales. Speculators have taken 7 0 oa r and expo.ters 400. The market is steady and rather in ' a of Ll holders. VERPOOL SHARE MARKET, SEPT. 20.—We t tI4 one transaction to r e cord i n this d a y' s proceedings a Stock Exchange, Grand Junction Half Shares, 9 9 i.. a „ bee MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPT. 20. -- "a r est more doing to-day in Shares, a n d the M ar k e t is firm. dip Western, 78% ; • Manchester and Birmingham, 22; l' ° "1; and Birmingham, New, 321., 23 1 ‘; Eastern Cuunt ies itoo Manchester and Leeds, Quarters, 17 s . 6d. prem. ; - Bank of Manchester, Q. The notice which has come down to I the city this rac'rb-ec for the funding of five millions of Exchequer Bal., g t. ia with the French loan, has caused a decline of i P er ' 690 Consols. they being now quoted at 89* for Money. for the Account. Spanish Active Stock opened at 2. 1 . 0 1 Portuguese Five per Cents. 30i ; and the Threes. 14:(°,110 Consols continue flat at 89* for Money, and 9 0 i Bon ds Account. Exchequer Bills are 12 15 preminni ; 1 premium. erY The business doing in the Foreign M ar k e t has "`;, o n a v osti limited. The following are the only transactions:"7;if per Active Stock, 21i; Danish, 81 ; Dutch T wo -and-a''' - Cents., 514, ; Ditto Fives, 102 i. 51 0. There has been but three bargains done in th e 4,51; Market up to the present time :—London and Brighoe' Ditto Blaekwall, , ; South Eastern and Dover, le' The grand panacea of the Peel Cabinet, for the fin ee j o bi embarrassments of the country has at length been dis cl° o ' ‘ • the notice from the Treasury relative to funding b ,()43 , ctlY Exchequer Bills. Now although we are not dispese u ! Coy to quarrel with. Messrs. Peel, Goulburn, tin ",iO5 for the plan they have hail recourse to, s o peoe a loan necessary, for such it is to all intents and pulTn ol sei' must take leave to call to their minds the cavilling au', entious objections of the party in which they rank, " c r o der Spring Rice adopted a precisely similar course, 50 , l inne t much more pressing circumstances. Being on the CotP ° ,'' the Ministerial benches, however, makes a wonderful PT oil' in the sentiments of some men, and we suppose the f r,W , : g ia; , not be deemed by any one bomb-proof against the l> Ur ge u rge charms of office. We have a word or two besides le cr oa against the constitutionality of any Minister of the c oo' borrowing what money he pleases, without asking t"„oer sent of • the people, whose pockets will have to for 'the payment of it. The sanction of Parliament Ufl'ost thing is done is very little consolation, this being merelyis tritely styled " French leave," and we are not por e * Ito allow that, because Spring Rice set a bad esanalo e ' re fer Goulburn should follow it. In other points, it is certainli gee . able to prevent gambling in the funds by converting E li g ee Bills in lieu of taking an open loan. After clearing i";, Gr ket of five millions sterling of Exchequer Bills, the O f bill* vernment will have a cleat stage for another issu e.* which poor John Bull must accept. Consols, Account, 89H ; Spanish, 21i 22. • MORNING - SUN_ CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS.. Bank Stock lndia 5t0ck............ ••• 4p 3 per Cent Red. — ,Ditto Bonds ........ ...•••• ..... 3 per Cent Cons B9i Ditto Old Annuities ••• .., 3i- per Cent Red — Ditto New Annuities..: i 6 p 0 New 3i per Cent 9Bi Ex. Bills, 1,000/.... 2 1a ,60 New 5 per Cent — k Ditto 50 01 •..••••• • il , Long Annuities to expire I)itt Small. -• • • ....., Jan. 1860 .. Bank Stock for OPg• "" ..... Oct 1859 'lndia Stock for Acct•••• 89 ,1 Jan. 1860. Consols for Acct ... . ... •• FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent... Portuguese, 5 per cen.• ..., Belgian, 5 per cent — Ditto , New Ditto.... .. .0 .... Brazilian Bonds — Prussian, _5 percent. ••• ~. Buenos Ayres. 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent.....! ~.. Chilian, 6 per cent...... Ditto, Nletallic ... . ........ n ii Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent ...••• lei Ditto, 1824. — Ditto, Deferred. .. .. .. •••• ....z. Danish, 3 per cent....... 801 French, 5 per cent. ,- --f ,e. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent. Exchange ..... : ~ ...4 Mexican, 5 per cent. ... French, 3 percent. --"! bli Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 21 per cent, ••• . I N Peruvian,lB2s, 6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent. ...... 7. , SHARES 77 Great Western Railway (65 paid) ........... 4 51 London and Brighton (50 paid)... .. . ... ... • • l a London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid)••• -- London and Birmingham (90) ........ ••• 521 Ditto Third:. (32 paid) •....,... ........ 231 Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid) .. ............ 7 6 Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) ....•••• .66 North Midland Railway (100 paid) .. 6 ....... 1 6 South East. rn and Dover (38 paid)... / COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERD'" A : 46,1 Amsterdam CF. 12 7 Gibraltar ....... 3O ', 4 0 Ditto, at sight - ^ '' 0 Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 71 Genoa ... .............. ..• .1 Antwerp l2 61 Milan ...... ... ........... 1 1 Hamburgh M.B. 13 13 'Venice ................ •••• 391 Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 50 Palermo, per oz ....... • . 0 Ditto, 3 months ...... ... 25 70 Lisbon ................... • 01 Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 80 Rio Janeiro ............... 96 Frankfort on Maine... 1491 Bahia ................ .., Petersburgh, 3Us ... 371 Buenos Ayres . . ..... : . i; t 4/4 Berlin-- .. 7 New York, `2l days 14 .46 %, Vienna, effec. fl. 3M. 950 Phi1ade1phia........ . . ....... 0 0 Trieste, ditto 955 PRICES OF BULLION 17 a Madrid Cadiz Bilboa 4 1 Barcelona Seville PROVISION LAWS. GLASGOW, FRIDAY Evirsimo.—According to . ale;vok, the gentlemen in charge of the requisition for ealllit f;e meeting of the Parliamentary electors of:Glasgow , cot oti, purpose of considering the very distressed state of the f ot s tv and the alarming prospects of the ensuing winter , ari d° 4o 6 „ll rialising ;the Queen, praying her Majesty not to rr°3.oo two Houses of Parliament until they h av e entered °P h ie t o consideration of the Corn and Provision•laiss, w hic opinion of the requisitionists, are the main cause of the e a re, sufferings of the people," waited to-day upon the L,ost e( vost. His Lordship, who is a Tory, and who has twic.c.osroo, cessfully stood for the representation of this city, ha, s ', l ,,e to the above very respectful and numerously sign e d complied to call the meeting, but with the worst gr ace ful l His Lordship, after a delay of two hours, returned the ing answer : 10 1 ' " Glasgow, Sept' I _ l 7 s it igeto„llf "I am desirous at all times to afford my felloWer;beeviii opportunity of meet i ng for publie objects, and -bich comply with the requisition so respectably signed, " t to been presented to me. tat° °f 01 4 " Impressed as I am, however, with the irrlrr iy subject of the Corn and Provision-laws, and deel''': be P ere ' timing in the existing distress in the country, I e on. j a t b mitted to express my regret that it should have beel: advisable to prejudge the course which may be' ig'e to Representatives of the people in the new Parliarneo_ aOO ' ti it appear to me either usual or very courteous to th'efiegipt call upon her Majesty, at the commencement of tbetia,b/ exercise her Royal prerogative in the manner indite 111 terms of the requisition. h p r ebr c .; " But in deference to the requisitionists, I rhi s 0 1,1 public meeting of the Parliamentary electors of " ti " .'" 0 0/ the purposes stated therein, within the Trades' Jl a t it " ford-street, on Wednesday next, the 22d cur rell l3 o '' o'clock. JAMES CAA- f r • 1 , / ft, NEW vENrni p ,A F Tm ie N - A , R B J:C- 3. ' 27 : ,t i, irar _ ---- . ~,, „ . 1. Office of Woods, Aug'. us e' 0 0 0 SlR,—The progress of the works at the new Pl oi datt' s 4 1 liament, and the necessity of laying down the t° the 11 ileo l which the flues for warming and ventilatin g na 1) , -• ne s o are constructed, induced me to desire Mr. Barry ,it arr iii t to make a joint report on these subjects, by vvh , C7„ e i t tila l ipi that a sum of 86,0001. will be required for warming , ' fo lio a v n e cl ut se il c a u ti r n in g g T t o h w e e b r ui . l . d . i . n .. g . s . ....... ............ accordin g ti? the . g o/ statement : '3% ti • ............... .. .. 7 .. Air and chimney flues in the watts ..••• Apparatus . . ................................................... .., X44'''' For securing the buildings_ from fire—Fire proof fl oors under the ro of • 420,6 bu Brick floors on iron beams between the prin- - 21 4 1 ' 6 / ... u pper stories...... cipal and /fix 6 _l e We( I must observe, that in thi s sum M r . B a rry he! i -, -n c a l e n _e r ,; ( l l su m of 20,0001. for a ce n t re t ower, not i n t e nded , nal plan, but which will b e so constructe d as to sui t s F;e new system of ventilation which he considers will t o ioo addition • to the beauty of the structure. lam aavi iii `oe e ,, t d commend so larg e a sum to the Treasury w i t hout th 0 . 00/7 0 ,J of Parliament, although a considerable p o art will l /lud el l under any c i rc umstances, if the Houses ar e to be .111,1 ventilated on the s y s t em a d o pt e d by Dr. Reid i e . 0 , ge temporary H ouses , an d w hi c h ap p ears to me to fi l° satisfaction. far t i , a ken c o From the prices at which contracts have been • s itli works already in progress, there can be no doubts,, oo or!, and attention, that a considerable saving will take ! tee original estimate that was sanctioned by the Come'Rthe 05ef two Houses and I therefore request you to bring is'„ul before the House of Commons, as the state of the er°, o v dr v o it necessary that some decision should be con!: to delay ; I will only add, that no unnecessary 4i:l,Zr. Bei,e,; place in bringing this subject forward, and that t he woo delivered in his estimate as soon as the state 0 „ f , lowed him to do so. I have, &c. NC 8 41. t c The Right Hon. F. T. Baring, &c. gt, / ds W es tminster, A u g'', c oo o lij Du, ,A OOP My Lord,—l beg to submit for your Lordsb/P 14 y t tion, a drawing of the river front of the new °2! heig!' l , t , ment, showing the effect of a central tower of the ver itio oo ? di am et e r required by Dr. Reid for the purpo se hes itell o according to his first suggestion ; and I have rot_ _ rote, 01 expressing my opinion, that the adoption of sue %1 ek e the design would considerably improve the,gee o f importance of the intended building. I have,gg's' The. Viscount Duncannon. CHAR L P BE MAN T.' F. Whitehall, Treasury Chambers, Sept. 14, 1841. •• ;QI A petition, already most nurner" sl y n i, a p will shortly be presented to the House of Cair o o uli l that the Guardians of each Union may purchase Q for the poor free of all duty.