The Sun. — London, England, 1841-04-20 00:00:00

MORNING ED ITION TO THE INDEPENDENT ELECTORS OF NOTTINGHAM. SicwTL EM EV - • I Nottingham,. April 15, 184 _ - THE lamented Death Of, Sir RONALD FERGUSON having occasioned a vacancy in the Representation of your town, I am induced, by the flattering promises of support which I have received, to offer myself as a Candidate to succeed him. To replace a person so distinguished by professional ho nours, liberal principles, and consistent political conduct, and who has so long occupied a large space in public estimation, Joust ar. all times and to all persons be a disadvantage; and it is peculiarly so to me, whose walk in life has been exclu sively-confined to commercial pursuits. But lam told that it is the wish of a large portion of your constituency, looking to the various and complicated interests of your great manufac turing town, to seek a representative in that class of persons who ought, from long experience, to be familiar with those important subjects of commercial and domestic policy upon which its prosperity so essentially depends. I come forward as a warm advocate of Liberal principles in commerce as well as in politics—l will support no class in terest, adverse to the general welfare of the community—l feel in their full force the evils of the existing Corn-laws, and I shall give my cordial support to those who seek their repeal. Anxious to secure to the voter the free exercise of his privi lege, I shall support the Ballot, or any measure calculated to secure that desirable object. Although not insensible to the inconvenience of frequent changes, yet I shall he ready to concur in any practicable plan for the extension of the suffrage ; it being my conviction, that as the varied classes of the community rise in education and independence, they should successively be made partakers is the choice of the national representation, and, without pledging myself to an y par ti cu l ar course , I shall be prepared to support such a shortening of the duration of Parliament as may be required for the public benefit. lam myself a sin core member of the Church of England, but I do not approve of taxing, by means of Church-rates, persons who do not lbolong to it, and I shall therefore vote for their abolition, trusting that means may be devised for maintaining the exist ing fabric of the places of worship without affecting the re ligious scruples of others. Feeling strongly the inadequacy of the present means of instructing the people, I shall, as I have always hitherto done, give my support to the most extended system of national edu cation, The Poor-law Amendment Act being now the law of the land, it will be my study, as well as my duty, narrowly to watch its operations, and to prevent end correct its abuses; and I shall look to the manner it may affect the working elssses, as the princil al point to be considered in any future legislation up on th e su bj ect . It, is upon these grounds that I submit my pretensions to you, confid en t t h a t I s h i ll b r i ng t o your service an anxious desire, and a determined will, to promote your welfare to the Bost of my abilities, and trusting that I may in some degree compensate for their inferiority by diligence and zeal in the dis •harge of your Parliamentary business, and of the general duties of your Representative, should you be pleased to place those great trusts in my keeping. The limits of this; address will not enable me to entertain other matters, upon which you may wish to know my opinions, but I shall at all times be ready to give the fullest explanation of my principles. I hare the honour to be, Gentlemen, with great respect, Your very obedient servant, G. G. DE H. LARPENT. On Monday neat, April 26, will be published, the Third Vo lum 3 of • THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE RIGHT HON. HENRY GRATTAN. By HIS SON, HENRY GRATTAN, E?q., M.P. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. MRS. MABERLY'S NEW NOVEL. On Monday, April 26th, in 3vois:posi 8;;., with Portrait of the Authoress, from a Painting by W. C. Ross, A. R.A., THE LOVE MATCH. By MRS. MABERLY. Author of " Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-qtret Orders received by all Booksellers. Now ready. in 2 vols. small Bvo., FRENCH. STAGE, and the FRENCH PEOPLE. Edited by THEODORE HOOK, Esq. " An excellent book, replete with wit, humour, life, 'and character, with inimitable anecdotes, combining to form a his tory of very remarkable persons wbo lived in an age as re markable. M. Fleury, the author of these rema r k a bl e me . mows, was distinguished by his performance of Voltaire's cha racters, and in the court ot that monarch of wit, genius, learn ing, and of everything connected with eminence in literature and all intellectual pursuits, he became soon introduced into the society of all that was gay, rich, distinguished, titled, ta lented, and profligate at Paris. His volumes are full of highly entertaining matter—of anecdotes of the greatest variety and asterest."—Despatch. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. T HE IT IS 4 T R A TA .TE h ST . 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POSTSCRIPT.-9th March, 1841.— HEINE BROTHERS have the pleasure to state that they remitted to-day, 9th March, 1841, TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND POUNDS to Lon don and vicinity, resulting from the Distribution gist inst. ___ THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. IUIDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, APRIL 20 Will be repeated the New Comedy, in Five Acts, entitled LONDON ASSURANCE. Sir Harcourt Courtly, Bart., Mr. W. Farren ; Max Hark away, Mr. Bartley; Mr. Charles Courtly, Mr. Anderson; 31r. Adolphus Spanker, Mr. Keeley; Mr. Dazzle, Mr. C. :Mathews ; Mark Meddle, Mr. Harley ; G race arkaway, :Madame Vestris ; Lady Gay Spanker, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mrs. Pert, Mrs. Humbv. After which will be repeated, the Grand Romantic Fairy Ex travaganza, entitled BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Beauty, Madame Vestris ; The Beast, Mr. W. Harrison ; John Quill, Mr. Harley ; Dressalinda, Miss Ftainforth ; Mar rygolda, Miss Grant ; Queen of the Roses, Miss Lee. To-morrow, London Assurance, with Beauty and the Beast. 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Smith. To conclude with the New Farce, entitled THE UNIFORM; OR, TWO MEN AND ONE COAT. , Characters by Messrs. J. S. Balls, J. T. Haines Neville, Buckingham, Hedop, Mrs. H. Hugh es , M rs. W. D aly, .fi e , Pieces. Entirely New Scenery and Dresses for all Three • -"THE CHINA SUN,SI- 'REPUBLISHED A FEW DAYS AGO, IS NOW ON SALE, With all the LATEST NEWS. E RAILWAY SUN WILL BE PUBLISHED TOWARDS THE END OF THIS MONTH. MOH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS 'AY. ...... 49 nunutos after 0 I Evening 10 minutes after I LONDON : TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 1841. It was very properly remarked by Mr. Bno- THERTON, at a public dinner given to him at Salford, of which a report appears elsewhere in The Sun, that the chief reason why the Govern ment has done so little in the way of reform h as been the disposition, and, particularly, the supineness, of the pelple themselves. The Hon. Member referred to Lancashire, and styling it very properly the hot-bed 'Of reform, for it is the centre of that new population from which all reform must come, he asked, how could the people look for progres sive improvement, when they returned for Lan cashire thirteen Tories to neutralise the votes of thirteen Reformers ! What Mr. BROTHERTON said of Lancashire is nearly true of the greater part of the empire. A great multitude of the people, most of the parsons, the bulk of the landlords, and a considerable number of the opu lent m st;:.-inanufacturcrs, are Tories; they ~ • ' ... 4%.« •.1 . ... •...4 . , 7 1 : ',rzr . ~:,,,,,.... ' .10 , ' ".. - . .41 if Air. 3 r ...e - . 1.4..€.4), , ....j . "111 .: .*. 'h a ' , . a '' . ,11, .I, i t . ; I:' .. 777 '''Clit&r. =litP; ~ - • . ar , ---- -- 40 , ...i...„ , I t ..,....WM. send to Parliament almost as many Tories as Re formers; and the Ministers, whatever .may be their inclinations, are obliged to comply with this balanced state of public opinion, and almost to stand still. At the Salford dinner Mr. GREG pointed out, we think, one great source of this neutralization of the - popular power, without perhaps intending it. The Hon. Member referred, with something like apprehension and dismay, to the Chartists. The stout-hearted, well-fed, lusty middle classes have really been more frightened by a little idle Irish vapouring—for most of the violent speaking and writing has been done by some great 0' or other—and a few torch light meetings than ever they were by the armies and threats of BONAPARTE; and their fears, their terrible mistrust of the people, have driven them to sacrifice Reform, as they supposed, to obtain security. They have acted foolishly. Had they exerted themselves to obtain bread and freedom for the people, instead of penury and prisons, discontent would have subsided, and those political reforms, which are necessary to adjust legislation to society, might have been ensured. We are quite clear, there fore, that the bulk of the middle classes are as much to blame as the Ministers for the slow progress which Reform has lately made. We do not wholly exonerate the Ministers. If they had acted as boldly to the landed gentle men as they have to M. TRIERS and MEHEMET ALl—if they had explicitly and manfully stated that the condition of the people absolutely re quired those practical measures Mr. BROTHERTON speaks of, the landed gentry, like M. Timms, would have quailed before the force of truth, and Ministers would have been able to carry into effect their own views. But they have been more terrified by the opposition of a few Whig Lords and Commoners than by the whole force of France, and they have sacrificed the prosperity of the country, and their own real greatness to a very idle fear. One bold measure, throwing them- SWves on the honest and just feelings of the People, would have placed them far beyond the reach of such pitiful politicians as my Lord Asti- BURTON and Mr. BENETT. They have not adopted this course, and hence it is that Correspondents at Nottingham and else where, ask us, What have the Whigs done ? We are rather surprised at such a question from Nottingham, because the Whigs gave the Nottingham citizens, with others, a Municipal Reform. If they have not given the stocking-weavers the abolition of the Corn-laws, the weavers will probably remember that not above one Tory voted for Mr. VILLIER'S motion, that Sir R. PEEL and all his friends spoke and voted against it, and that two or three of the Ministers spoke for it, and the bulk of the Whig party voted for it. If the Ministers have done no thing towards abolishing the Corn-law, the reason is that a few Whig LordS and Whig Squires, combined with the Tories, would not allow them. We may say the same of many other things. Five or six sessions of Parliament have been wasted by the squabbling resistance of the Tories to the measures for reforming the Corporations of England and Ireland, for commuting tithes in Ire land, and other measures which the Ministers proposed. The • Ministers—and we blame them for it—have not been earnest enough in abolish ing Church-rates, and in getting rid of the rate paying clauses of th e Reform t; but to blame them for not extending the franchise, when they were not allowed even to extend the time for pay ing the rates—to blame them for not abolishing the Corn-laws, when they were not allowed to pass a Bill to authorise the grinding of wheat in bond, is as absurd as to blame a man for not running, who is so overloaded that he cannot move. If the people want reform the only way to get it is to command it, and as long as the people are in different to the subject and sell their liberties they will not have reform and will remain en slaved. One thing the present Ministers, or rather Lord ALTHORP and Earl GREY'S Administration, did, for which they are much blamed by the lead inglory journal. The aristocratic Times, the par sons' journal, condemns them for passing thd new Poor-law, and it hopes to hoist Mr. WALTER into Parliament on the condemnation. Now that law When passed was almost universally ar proved of. Very larg9 majorities of both parties carried it through Parliament. Few p etitions were sent against it. The complaints of the old law were numerous and just, and, so sanctioned, the new Poor-law had 'all the characteristics of . a popular measure. At any rate it was the parsons' and the landlords' measure. One of ifs great patrons was the Bishop of LONDON. It was chiefly intended to save the, landlords' and the tithe-lords' pockets, and to this day it is zealously supported by the parsons and the landlords throughout the coun try. It is not a Whig measure, but a measure of the clerical and landed aristocracy.. It is little less than shameless, therefore, for the Times and Mr. WALTER, the supporters and protegees of the parsons and the landlords, to essay an en trance into Parliament for him by abusing the Whig Ministers as the authors of the Poor-law. When Mr. WALTER and the Times denounce the landed aristocracy and the priesthood we shall give them credit for sincerity and honesty in denouncing the Poor-law. We do not mean by these remarks to exonerate the Ministers from all blame ; but where they, following the old practices of the Constitution, have scourged the people vita ;-ship; ; , the Tories would have scourged them with scorpions. The worst that can be said of the Whigs is, that they are too much like the Tories, and it will be a dis ,,race to the people of Nottingham to elect a worse enemy to the public liberties even than any Whig. We chew attention, on the 9th instant, to the Rev. Ml'. PARKINSON'S pamphlet, in which he explains that one great source of error in at tempting to heal the disorders of society, is our ignorance of each other. We enforced his view, and applied it to the Legislature, which we then maintained, is essentially ignorant of the wishes and feelings of the people, for whom it pretends glibly to legislate. To us it seems to try stu diously to preserve its ignorance, and sometithes it wastes the public money in order to keep out the light. We refer, for example, to the "First lteport of the Committee ou Emigration, Scot land," which has recently been published. That Committee was appointed " to inquire into the cio l i . i(litio ll of the population of the Islands and kifngli!and.s ofScotland, and into the practicability aft . ordan g the people relief by means of emi gration. evidently to the a t' l l . vurds " population "and "people" lower classes, not to advo cates, agents, writers to the Signet, ministers of religion, and factors; and if any thing were re quired to make the matter clear and certain it would be supplied by the tern "emigration," all the genteel classes we ha ve alluded to spurning t h e aid andvaadtev.iceloihfethiengLuti!rg:_srlaetluait-iengt,o til:epil t i, wholly 'llion to e lilytottuhie condition of the lower class of the Highland community, if the Committee or the L eg i s lature had reall . y n wis n h o e t d to to h l a y trusted to true thing e thing of their conditto, hearsays and guesses, ought it not to have called before it some of those people ? There can be no doubt it ought. We affirm that they should have been the chief persons examined, that it should have been first ascertained from their own mouths, what is their present condi tion, what was the condition of their predeces sors, to what causes they ascribe the change, if any, and how they think their condition can he improved. By pursuing such a course the Committee, instead of Mere conjectures as to what the past condition of the people was, or their present condition is, might have got at an approximation to the truth; but it has done no such thing. We will prove our assertion by co- PYing the names and callings of the persons examined : Mr. John Bowie, Writer to the Signet; Robert Graham, EN., Advocate ; Mr. Charles Robert Baird, Writer in Glas gow ; Rev. Norman M'Leod, Minister in Glasgow, D.D.; Rev. John M‘Leed, Minister of Morven ; Mr. Alexander M'lver, Factor ; Thomas Rolph, M.D., Resident, Upper Canada; Mr. Andrew Scott, Factor; Mr. A. H. Mackinnon, Writer and Landowner: Hon. C. A. Hagerman, J u d ge of Canada; Mr. Alexander Macdonald, for merly Province a KofeUlpppr geutMr. Thomas Knox, Chamberlain of Lewis; Rev. Robert M'Pherson, Minister in Inverness ; Mr. Duncan Shaw, Factor, North Uist. - Upon the evidence of these gentlemen, not one of whom is of the people, some of whom have a mere business connection with the places THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY; APRIL 20, 1841 is not necessary to travel beyond the first page or two of the evidence to find ample reason, we think, why some of the "population from Harris or Skye were not brought to London, as well as writers from Glasgow, and factors from Morven, to give evidence before the Committee. The object seems to have been concealment rather than to make known. At the very com mencement it leaks out that "during the.war kelp fetched a high price; no quantity that could be made was left unsold, and the proprietors laid out their properties with reference to the manu facture of this article, and a large population were encouraged to settle on their land." The proprietors then did not hesitate to divide their lands, and most of the crofts intended for one family, had on them two, three, and sometimes four." At the same time, we find these pro prietors and the Government united in giving bounties on the herring fishery; in consequence of which bounties, let it be especially remembered, " very extensive fishing vil lages were erected along the coast." But it turned out that the bounties, though they caused the villages to be built, and encouraged the . increase of the population7—to enrich the landlords, could not secure the sup ply of herrings or the supply of food. The mi gratory fish did not obey the same laws as the bounty, and a multitude of persons were col lected on the sh ore , who appear not to have had the art of following the herrings into the deep sea, and, when they came no more into the lochs, could not catch them, and were destitute of subsistence. We see, then, that the landed pro prietors and the Government, with its bounties, are the really guilty parties in this case. They have treated these poor simple Islanders and Highlanders as cattle. They stimulated the in crease in their numbers as long as that could serve to supply the kelp market and catch the herring-bounty. If the people themselves had been called before the Committee, instead of factors, adVocates, parson.;, and Canada Judges, some inkling of the truth might have broken in even on the darkness-loving Committee, on the Legislature, and on the public. But that was to be kept out, and so the few simple fitcts were covered over with learned theories, and far fetched dissertations by Rev. Doctors and Canada Judges. WALTER'S friend, Mr. WHITEHEAD, boasted for him at Nottingham, that lie had voted against the Corn-laws, we have looked back to HANSARD'S Debates for the proofs of that assertion. We can only find three divisions on the Corn-law question during the time that Mr. WALTER was in Parliament. The first was a motion made by Mr. FRYER, in 1833, for which Mr. WALTER did not vote. The next was a mo tion made by Mr. Ht7ME, in 1834, for which Mr. WA LTER did vote. The third was a motion made by Mr. CLAY, for which Mr. WALTER again did not vote. Thus on two out of three occasions, when he had an opportunity in Parlia ment of recording his vote against the iniquitous bread-tax, Mr. WALTER was not found to take the poor man's part. On what ground, then, does he assume the name of the poor man's friend? The working man is not a pauper -31r. WALTER proposes only to befriend paupers. _____.________ • The letter si gne d " L." on the high price of butcher's meat, is well worthy of public atten tion. Our Correspondent is quite correct in say ing that the tax on provisions makes grievous inroads into the comforts of the middle classes. It is, in truth, somewhat mean in the nation to give its gallant defenders 65., 10s., or even 20wdeshfa.etn i a-day . half-pay, accordin g t o t h e i r ran k , and then mulct them of 20 or 80 per cen t. o f given,ltis, to als e o n , ric a h h t e h a o rt se leas the p y roc h e a e v d e . L ing on the part of the aristocracy to sti enxiutiag l.aayteaallnocetl:er classes t o i m i tate t h e i r splendid and yet to prevent them having , the me ans of comfort b selfishaxation. We t wish that the middle clas'ses would take our Cor respondent's remarks seriously into considers . Lion, laarniedslobredyso.nd ill(' reachlp:operly . don, and by a deteimined and resolut e proceed comforts an t d the th i e ut l ri tr c l i r a e l r ..s ' ing place their, own ' v ear3re not says that adequat e t o the daily increasing populati on. That is a our Our of food plain and palpable fact, and that fact co exists with, and is of itself a complete c on _ demnatien of, the corn and provision laws, which are said by their friends to be intended to him ALIsoN, and following the Morni ng P ost , secure our people an ample supply of f oo d . ' Mi. ' have insisted with much vehemence lately 011 much the great capabiliti es which the country yet pos sesses to supply f oo d for a larger popula tion than at p resen t. They have enumerated the acres tilled and the acres untilled, and they to grow food for the people. It is impossible, say that there i s a n a b un d ance o f land on. which in qtestion, and with the people into whose con dition the inquiry is to be made, and two of whom have no connection whatever with the Islands and Highlands, and may never have been there in their lives; without examining a single person of those whose condition the Com mittee was ordered to inquire into, it comes to this 'conclusion : They considered that they shall best discharge their duty by submitting to the House that portion of the evidence which has already been received, and' which, imperfect in some respects as it necessarily is, may have the effect of showing the great importance of the subject they have endeavoured to in vestigate—the urgency of the distress that periodically prevails, in the Western Highlands and Islands of Scotland, arising mainly from the excessive population; and also of calling the attention of the House to the necessity of considering some efficient remedies to alleviate the existing evils, amongst which, that which appears from the evidence to be of primary im• portance is a we ll arranged system of emigration. ' A very natural and to be expected conclusion from the sort of witnesses examined—a conclu sion, we may well say, come to before they were examined, at least by the Chairman, and to which their examination was, we believe, to give a colour and supply a pretext. What strange no tions these Committee . men must have of evi dence—of the nature of 'the facts to be inquired into, ,to have called before them Justice HAGER MAN and Writer BAIRD, to learn something , about the condition of the inhabitants of Harris and Skye, and not to bring before them one of those inhabitants. Such a proCeeding seems to us an outrage on all common sense and all philosophy, and vitiates, from beginning to end, all the investigations and conclusions of the Committee. Unfortunately, 'a similar mode of proceeding is generally adopted by Parliament, and by its Committees. While masters know nothing of their workmen, and neighbours know little or nothing of each other, the Legislature is satisfied with the hearsays or foregone conclusions of theorists or interested persons; and on all questions concerning the people, rarely or never examines the people themselves. We know not, however, that it would be of use were the House to act otherwise, for it would legislate after the inquiry as before, on the pre-conceived theories of its Members, on their passions, or to gratify their short-sighted. interests. It may as well spare us, therefore, the expense and mockery of a one-sided inquiry, intended only to justify some equally one-sided legislation. Our readers will probably be surprised to learn that besides the expense of Committee rooms, clerks, printing, &c., the expense of these one-sided witnesses amounts to no less than 4361. —yes, 4361. spent to gather guesses and conjec tures to justify false conclusions and beguile the Legislature and the public into a liking for con tinued darkness. When such is the basis—the initiative of a wholesale system of dealing with the population, and the people whose condition is thus ascertained through the medium of comparative strangers, not one of them being ever consulted, either as to what is his knowledge or his feelings, what is the cause of his distress, and what he wishes done for him, can it excite any surprise that legislation gives no satisfaction, and that it .fails, nine times out of ten, to attain its object ? Such a mode of treatment implies, disguise it how Mr. BAILEY and his Committee may, that these Highland lairds and writer bodies yet consider the population to be slaves, who may be dealt with as the proprietors deal with cattle. But that mode of acting will not now do; and if they have not laid' aside the habits of clan chief tains, the people have outgrown the customs of servitude. when we look on Stowe Park, on the extensive grounds of Goodwood, on the domains of Clumber, and on the many hundreds and thousands of acres parked off for the pleasure of the bread-taxing aristocracy, to deny for one moment that the capa bilities of our own noble land are not yet Miff pro perly appropriated to feeding thepeople. But, with ail these vast. capabilities, the people are starv ing ; the people cannot get food ; the people are ground down, by poverty and hunger, to despair and crime. The Corn-laws, then, have failed to call out the capabilities of the soil, if they have not locked them up; and the co-existence of those ca pabilities, boasted of by the Corn-law advocates, with the want of food, is the severest possible condemnation of the Corn-laws. We agree with Mr. Ausort and the Post that England is blessed by the ALMIGHTY beyond other countries, and that her teeming and fertile soil is matched by the industry and skill of her people. We agree, too, with Mr. J. D. HUME, that with our heaven -bestowed capabilities, facility, and skill, England might be the most abundantly supplied and the cheapest of all the countries of the earth. At this monient she is able to export horses for the supply of France. Her climate is admirably adapted to the rearing of cattle, and her green grass hills, never wholly buried for a long period in snow, subject to no avalanches or destructive torrents, offer advantages for this purpose which are not pos sessed by either Switzerland or Holland. The skill of our breeders, too, is great. Why is it, then, that England has not a great abundance of meat for her own people, and does not export horned cattle as she exports horses? The reason is clear. To export, price must be lower here than where the goods are to be sent. But we pass a law expressly to raise price here, and to prohibit exportation. The Corn-law raises the price of everything grown on the soil, and is, pro tanto, a prohibition for the farmer to export the produce of the soil. It lays a grievous restraint on the industry of the agri culturists. We can show, too, that it. prevents the capa bilities of the soil being called out. Those who are engaged in cultivating the soil must make a profit by the capital and labour employed. The Corn-law only raises rent; and the farmer is merely the tax-collector for the landowner. At the same time it raises price, and consequently places an artificial limit on profitable cul tivation. It makes seed corn and the food of cattle and of the labourer dear. It en hances the expense of cultivation. The land lords' tax operates exactly like the parsons' tax (the tithes), which, by taking something from the farmer and something from the labourer, makes it unprofitable, and even impossible, for them to live by cultivating the soil, before it would be unprofitable and impossible if they had not to give the tax to the landlords. The Corn law is the cause why the admitted capabilities of our soil cannot be called into activity by the skill and industry of our people. Since our 'observations on the Nottingham election were written yesterday, we have seen the report of the proceedings of Mr. WALTER'S friends at Nottingham, and we have seen this day's Times. In Mr. WA LTER'S speech not a word is said about the Corn-laws. The subject is carefully eschewed. In the Times the destitution of the industrious classes is dwelt on. A quotation is made from the charge of the Archdeacon of LEWES, in which it is said that the " necessity now imposed on the agricultural la bourer to eke out his scanty subsistence by all the meaniin his power,forces parents to take theirboys away from school if they can get any employ ment for them," &c. The Times then proves to us that the agricultural labourer is just as badly off under this Corn-law as the manufacturing• labourer ; but yet the Times, exactly like Mr. WALTER, does not say one word against the Corn-law. It harps, like him, on the Poor-law, which has no effect;; whatever in lowering the wages of the labourer, or in depriv ing the industrious man of employment and food. So engaged are both the Journal and Mr. WALTER with the Poor-law—which, though as much a Tory measure as a Whig measure, they use exclusively against the Whigs-- that they have not a word to say against the tax on the poor man's bread. At the meeting at Nottingham a Mr. WHITEHEAD, who called himself a Radical, vouched for Mr. WALTER that he had voted for a repeal of the Corn-law, and is ready to do so again. But that assertion is contradicted by the careful silence, on this vital question, to the people of Nottingham, of the Times and Mr. WALTER. Their conduct is much more significant than Mr. WHITEHEAI)'S words - ; and till we see a direct change in the po litics of the Times, and till we have a distinct declaration by Mr. WALTER, we shall say that both the Journal and Mr. WALTER have imitated the words and adopted the opinions of Lord ASHBURTON on this subject. The Austrian Observer of the 10th inst., which we have received, contains the following import ant announcement : News received by express from Constantinople, dated the 29th ult., announces that the p resent M inister for Foreign Affairs, eschid Pacha, has been dismissed from this post by the Sultan, and replaced by Rifaat Bey, formerly Ambassador of the Sublime Porte at the Court of Vienna, who has been named Pacha and Minister for Foreign Affairs. The Minister of Commerce, Fethi Achme& Pasha is also replaced by th e preient C a pit an P ac h a , Said P acha, - brother-in4an- of the Sol, taxi Tahir Paella is appointed Capitan Pacha, Great Admiral. The dismissal of RESCRID PAULA prepares the way for the amicable 'settlement of the Eastern question, as RIFAAT BEY is known to be fitvour able to a modification of the finnan for establish ing MEHEMET ALT in the hereditary government of Egypt. 4ESCHID PACH.I bated the - VICEROY as cordially as Lord PON6ONBY himself; whose rumoured recal broke the only prop upon which the Foreign Minister could lean for s u pp or t, op posed as he was by the united influence of Austria and Russia. Private advices state that before taking office RIFAAT BEY pledged himself to Baron STIJRMER, the Austrian Internuncio, to 'concede every claim made by_the VICEROY in Isis - - remonstrance to the Suur.us. This is well so far. In a European sense the downfall of any Cabinet wa desirable which threatened a re newal of hostilities between the SULTAN and his vassal. But as regards the internal administra tion of Turkey the change in the Ministry is un fortunate. RESCIIID PACHA was the advocate of reform on the most extensive scale, and in all truth reform is much wanted in Turkey. By the arrival of the Braganza steamer at ilmouth on Saturday evening from the Tagus, we have received advices front Lisbon of the I:2th inst. No change has taken place 'in the Cabinet. ft was reported in political and com mercial circles that the Government was anxious to conclude the long-pending treaty of commerce with England. The Finance Minister, Baron Timex, 'refused the terms upon which the Bank of Lisbon offered to advance money to meet the demands on the Treasury; adding, that rather than Mike such a bad bargain for the country, he would issue Treasury Paper, which would be received at its full nominal value in liquidation .of all Govern ment taxes. The ex-Minister Baron SA•BROSA died suddenly from an attack of apoplexy. He was buried with military honours. Social and physical improvements are of slow growth in Portugal and Spain. We are there fore not much surprised to learn that little has been yet done to improve the physical and moral condition of the people. No efforts appear to be making to extend education, to cultivate regula r habits of industry, and to popularize a better system of agriculture. The Government clin gs with fatal tenacity to the old system of restric tions upon commerce, ignorant of the great truth, that, in the arithmetic of taxation, t*, and two, instead of making four, do not always make one. ,But the Portuguese Government ne ver dreams of inquiring into the effect of taxation upon consumption. The consequence necessarily is, that every fresh impost, instead of increasing e Public revenue, actually diminishes it. The French Minister at the Court of Lisbon, M• de VARENNEs, was about to return to France, having obtained leaVe of absenc from - his GO- vernment. There is very little for diplomatists to shake their sage heads about in Portugal. no importance. On the previous day (Good Friday) the Duke of VICTORY performed his de votions in all the churches of the city in succes sion, and at each of them he presented 31. 4s. to be distributed among the poor. A Bill to ena ble the Government to collect the taxes till the Budget could he regularly brought forward was presented to the Chamber of Deputies by the President of the Council. The Five per Cents. were done on the Bourse at 25 11-16 for cash, and at 26 7-16 at 60 days. The Paris Journals of Friday and Saturday have all reached us. The extraordinary credits for 1841, amounting in all to two hundred mil lions of francs, were voted on Thursday, by a majority of 105 against 57. On Friday the question of the occupancy of Algiers by France was brought forward, but as M. GUIZOT stated that a campaign was about to be undertaken against ABD-EL_KADER the Chamber came to no vote upon it. As, according to M. TRIERS, France cannot live without a passion, she can indulge in few bobbies less dangerous to the repose of Europe than in wasting her energies in acquiring an extension of her sterile conquests in Africa. Galignani's Messenger states that the Cham bers will not be dissolved. The question was mooted at a Cabinet Council, when the majority of the Ministers declared themselves opposed to a dissolution. We certainlyieannot discover any grounds of complaint against the Chamber of Deputies, as at present constituted, on the part of a French Minister. The majority are always ready to vote whatever way the Cabinet thinks proper. They never trouble themselves about principle, or consistency, or anything of the sort. If they want to see, or hear, or decide upon any question, they employ the eyes, ears, and understanding of the Minister of Public Works, by which they save themselves a great deal of trouble, and establish a claim to be remembered when there happens to be a job in the way. With tools so pliable, what Minister could find in his heart to be out of humour ? In the course of the debate on the Enlistment Bill on Friday M. CORRI proposed that the chil dren of foreigners born in France should be liable to the conscription. MM. GUIZOT and ODILLON BARROT opposed this as unjust and illi beral, and the motion was.consequently rejected. The Duke of Orleans has returned to Paris from St. Omer. " It is said," says Galignani, " that eight creations of Peers will be made at the christening of the Comte de Paris, and that a further nomination to the Upper Chamber will be made, principally among Deputies, at the end of the session. Among the names for the first list those of Admiral Mackau, General Barrois, 81. Target, and M. Horace Vernet are mentioned." Another petition of the French residing at Monte Video is to be reported on to-morrow in the Chamber of Deputies. The object of it is to obtain some means for the protection of our countrymen, who having withd rawn f rom t h e tyranny and the vengean ce f Rosas, are now in danger of feeling their effect in consequence of the enterprises of the Dictator. It cannot be denied that the treaty concluded by Admiral Mackau has the political power and the confidence of Rosas. Being relieved from the blockade, he has been able to turn all his forces against Lavalle, anti having this moment nothing to ear from his adversary, he is going to divide his efforts against Monte Video, and the Oriental Republic. In this conjunction the 8,000 Frenchmen settled in that republic are exposed to the greatest danger : the blood of Varangot, one of their country men, who was assassinated at Buenos Ayres, under the eyes of Admiral Mackau, during the negotiation, warns them that their only chance of safety is in the effectual protection of their Government. Will 31. Guizot grant their protection to the Oriental Re public Which, during the long blockade of the river P 1 de, afforded to our Admiral all kinds of good offices ? Will he grant it to the French, whose interests are blended with those of Monte Video, and whom the enterprises of Rosas threaten with spoliation, death, or banishment? The honour of France is interested in this question. Al ready much injured by the treaty, it would be ruined for ever if Monte Video should be given up without protection or as sistance to the reprisals of Rosas. The Ministry must explain itself. If the Chamber has shut its eyes to the deplorab:e treaty concluded with Rosas, it ought. at least to show oome sympathy with a Government which was our ally in our contest - with the Dictator; it ought, above all, to show its solicitude tor the 8,000 Frenchmen who were in so critical a situation. Let us hope that we shall not see in the Plate a second edi tion of the affairs of Egypt.—La Gazette de France. BOURSE.— esattS, SATURDAY, APRIL. 17. first Highest Low.st Last Price Price. Pric k . P r i ce French 5 per Cents ll3 85 ... 113 90 ... 113 85 ... 13 1)0 4 per Cents 4O ... 119 40 99 40 ... 99 40 3 per Cents 7B 16 78 95 19 +ink of trance 30 ;tank 0, 0 001. Stares 510 ...0160 1,0001. St am 1075 ...1073 Bank 5 ; , er Cent. New Loan lOll4 ... L 13-6 ... 10:34 ... 101 , 4 N per Cents. ... 52 ... 52 ... 12 ... 5 1'3 % „, 24 ... `Sr;i ... ... , 2 1 ' ... Deferrad Portuguese 3 per Cents ... 20 20 ... 20 Neapolitan 193 • 95 ... 1(8 93 ... I tl3 95 ... 93 Roman BAILWAY 3%aHAREt 103% 103% ... 103% St. Germ a in Versailles.R. B B7O ... 373 SU ... 379 ... 312 50 L.B 240 ... 245 .. 24G ... 245 iouen Alontpellier 4 to Cette ...... 245 ... 245 Strasuurg to B a l e ! . ,38 75 ... 238 75 ... 237 50 ... 28 75 'clgiai Dutch :1 aq,A POST-OFFICE.-011 the motion of Mr. Goul burn a return has been laid befbre the House of Commons of the number of chargeable letters which have passed through the London General Post-office (inwards and outwards) since the first general reduction of Postage on the sth of De cember, 1839, dividing the time (as far as prac ticable) into periods of four complete weeks each, and distinguishing as regards each period the unpaid, paid, and stamped, and total number of. letters; also a similar return of the estimated number of letters fin. the year immediately pre ceding the reduction. The following extracts show the rate' of increase since the 30th of March, 1839 :—Vor the four week s ending on that day the totalnumber of Jett ms's passed 'through the G.eneral Post-office was 1,604,356. On March 28th, 1840, the number had increased to :3,372,667 ; and on the 27th of March, 1841, to • 5,060,127. • Under the old rate of postage the number of paid letters was about one-sixth part of the Whole, while for the four weeks ending Mareh.27, 1841, the number of paid and stamped letters was about eleven times as great as that of the unpaid, the numbers being' 4,624,739 paid letters, and 435,388 unpaid. For the United Kingdom the total number of letters including franks delivered in one week, ending . the 2 4 eNovember, 1839, was 1,585,073, and in the week ending the 22d November, 1840, it was 3,456,115. The ne t re v enue tbr the year ending the sth January, - 1839, was 1,659,5001., and for the year ending the sth January, 1841, 465,9'27/. The cost of management iii 1839, was 756,099/. 5 and in 1840, 903,677/. -- ----- MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, MONDAY EVENING. The funds to-day were in a firm position, and in the opinion of many there is a good prospect for a rise between this and the next account day. Appearances at present are certainly in favour of this supposition. For immediate transfer Consols have realised 901 to I and for the Account 901 to Exchequer Bills remained firm at 13s. to 15s. prem., and India Bonds at 2s. prem. to par Bank Stock was at 172 to 1721, India Stock ad vanced to 254, the Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents. realised 98 to k, the 'Three per Cent. Annuities Bt' to 1, and the New 'Three-and-a. Half per Cents. 99k to 1 . 'l he Foreign Securities have been rather inanimate to day, but they have supported fully the previous rates. The Active Spanish Bonds have been marked 23k to 1, the New Five per Cent. Portuguese Stock rose , to 331 and 342, closing at 34k ; and the Three per Cents. were done at 201; Mexican Bonds of 1837 advanced to 301 to ; and Col om bi an were at 221; Peruvi an were steady at 17i, and Brazilian still were flat at 691; Belgian Bonds rose to 103, but did not leave off higher than 1021; Danish Bonds were not higher than 771, but Dutch Two and-a-Ralf per Cents. improved to 521. A ready market is still to be found for Railway Secu rities, at good prices. The latest bargains were at 31 for the Great Western, at 15 for the New, at 8 for the Fifths, at 70 for the Birmingham, at lj. for the Greenwich scrip, and at 34 premium for the York and North Midland. Brighton were 2k, Blackwall at h. Manchester and Leeds at 34, Birmingham and Derby at 28, and Eastern Coun ties at 13} discount. London and Westminster Bank New Shares advanced to 2i premium. (From The Sun t f Last Night.) The Lisbon Mail has arrived, brought by the Braganza steamer. The intelligence from that quarter will be found in another part of the paper. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, APRIL 17.—We have had a very quiet market in the cotton trade to•day ; 2,000 bales only have beer, sold, and these entirely to the trade. There is no change in prices since yesterday's report. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, APRIL 17.—The transac tions at the Stock Exchange have been limited, but the price of Railway Stock in which business has been done remain at the last quotations. Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, 271 ; Grand Junction, 211, Hale Shares, 105, Quarter ditto, 28k; Chester and Crewe, 52k ; Great Western New Shares, 65 ; London and Brighton United Company, 47 •, London and South' Western 5/. Shares 445. 6d. ; Midland Counties, 891. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 17.—We have had a good inquiry for Railway Stock s and prices are fully maintained, and the market closed healthy. London and South Western, 58; ditto, Tenths, 2/. 4s. ; Manchester and Leeds, 66i 67 ' • ditto, Halves, 2Si ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 35i North lAlidland, 784 ; Liverpool and Manchester, 199; Bank of Manchester, 7i We have received Hobart Town papers to the sth December. These paper s are di rect . Th e last intelligence was by the way of Sydney theli k th . December. Nr:w 144171,5itt, Al n ET, OCT. 31.—Bread, I. per 21b loaf; frastrtiar, ls. p lb. per carcase ; fresh butter, Is. 4d. Letters and papers from Madrid, of the 10th instant, have reached us. Their contents are of to Is. 10d. ; Java coffee, Is. 3d. to Is. 6d. ; flour, 42/. to 45/. per ton ; Yorkshire bacon, Is. Id. to Is. 6d. per lb. ; mutton, 9d. to Is. per lb. ; fresh pork, sd. to Bd. per lb. per carcase ; fresh ditto, 5/. per barrel; New Zealand potatoes, 8/. to 10/ per ton. HOBART TON MARKET, DEC 3.--The grain market con tinues dull, and 'without any variation in our former quotations. Wheat ranges from ss. to 6s. per bushel, according to quality. We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yesterday's date:— BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, APRIL 16.—A1l the National Funds have improved on the fall of yesterday. and the prices are better. Business was animated. Ardoin's Spanish was in general offered and remained after the closing at 19 7-16 to 1 ; Coupons, 18i a 181. ANTWERP, APRIL 17.—Twelve new Steamers will be built during the year for the Cologne Society. BRUSSELS, APRIL 15.—The new Min,isters have entered upon their functions this morning. We have received the Hamburgh Mail of the 16th April, also the papers of the same date, bringing the Exchange upon London the same as per last Account, 13 4 ; Gold the same, 428 ; Metal, 107* ; Bank Actions, 1,660. Great are the inquiries this morning respecting the Presi dent steamer, but nothing is known respecting her safety to the present. time. All now depends on the arrival of the West India Mail, which we may expect by Thursday or Friday next. Consols opened this morning at the closing prices of Satur day, 901 for the Account ; Money, 904 3 ; with nothing doing as yet; Exchequer Bills, 13 15 prem. ; Bank `tock, 172 173; India Stock, 254 256. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active has rather i►l proved—left off 233, at present 23* ; Deferred, 124 Passive, 53 3 / 4 ; Portuguese, 335 ; Three-per-Cents., 20*; Brazilian, 69 70 ; Colombian, 224 23* ; Mexican, 303 1 ; Dutch Two-and• a- Half per Cents., 52*; Five per Cents., 234 1,1. SHARES.—Great Western, 30 31, New, 141 15* prem. ; London and Brighton, 24 1 dis. ; Blackwall, 5 3 / 4 * dis. ; Bir mingham, 68 70 prem. ; Southampton, 571 58 per share; Croydon, 131 14 per share ; Greenwich, 81 per share ; Man chester and Birmingham, 15 14i dis.; South Eastern and Dover, 15 14* dis. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Birmingham and Gloucester 100 ...... 79* Great North of England ... ..... 80 Great Western Ditto New London and Brighton London and Birmingham......... 90 fork and North Midland... JOINT STOCK RANKS. Colonial • PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, APRIL 17. 3 per Cent. Consols Three and Half Stock 97i Grand Canal 5t0ck......... 5t0ck......... Ditto Reduced Ditto New, 1830 Si per Cent. Debs. 9l Royal Canal Stock Both the British and Foreign Markets have been inactive during the whole of the morning; consequently we have not a feature worth attention in either of the markets. The only topic of conversation in the City entirely relates to the President steamer, of which, up to the present hour, we have no intelligence. All is conjecture, with various opinions on the subject. We have a number of arrivals this morning, but most of them old dates. Consols remain as in the early part of the morning, 90 1 / 2 for the Account ; Money, 90,1- ; Exchequer Bills, 15 13 prem. ; Bank Stock, 1721 ; India Stock, 255; India Bonds, 2 premium. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active 234 ; Portuguese, improved from 334 to 34i ; Three per Cents., 20i ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 524; Five per Cents., 98 3 j 4 99. In Shares scarce anything doing, hut the prices rather higher. Birmingham and Gloucester, 79i : Great North of England, 65 ; Great Western, New, 65 ; London and Brigh ton .174 ; London and Birmigham, 159. Consols, Account, 00i, buyers; Mexican, 31:4 31 ; Portu guese, 344 s ; Spanish, 2.34 A-. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Burk Stock ... 1724 India Stock 2554 3 per Cent Red. B9i Ditto Bonds 2 par 3 per Cent Cons . .... 94 Ditto Old Annuities ... 87i 31 per Cent Red........ 98k Ditto New Annuities... New 3.1 per Cent 99k Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d 15 pm ' New 5 per Cent Ditto 5001 l5 pm Long Annuities to expire , Ditto Small l5 pm Jan. 1860 ... 124 'Bank Stock for 0pg.... Oct 1859 l2 13-16 India Stock for 0pg.... Jan. 1860. FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent.... Portuguese, .5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent 1024 Ditto, New Ditto Brazilian 80nd5.......... 69i Prussian, 5 per cent. Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent — , Chilian, 6 per cent — 'Ditto, Metallic -.. Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent 23k Ditto, 1824. 224 ,Ditto, Deferred ... Danish, 3 per cent 77i IFrench, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange— ...... —f. —c. Mexican, 5 per cent — French, 3 per cent. —f. —c. Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825 — Dutch, 24- per cent. ... 52* Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et l7i Ditto, 5 per cent 99 SHARES. Birmingham and Derby Railway (100 pd) ... 72 Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 p) 79k Bristol and Exeter (60 paid) ... ........ ... .. 36 Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid • ...... ..... 9i Ditto Debentures ( 4 paid) S Great North of England Railway (E 0 paid) 65 Great Western Railway (65 paid) ... 96 Ditto New Shares (50 paid) 65 Ditto Fifth (4 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid) London and Blackwall Railway (25:pd) London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) 159 London and Greenwich Railway (20 pd).. Ditto Scrip. (3 paid) 4-1, Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ...... ... .. • 664 North Midland Railway (100 paid) ...... ... 80 South Eastern and Dover (33 paid)... 18i York and North Midland Railway (50 pd) 84 HAMBURGH MAIL. I PETERSBURGH, APRIL 3.—We learn, from pretty good authority, that the Emperor has, within these few days, gi- , en his consent to the making of an iron rail way between St. Petersburgh and Moscow, which has been projected for some years. It is to be executed by a Joint-stock Company, which has many offers from foreign countries, of persons willing to take part in it. In this case it may very probably be commenced this summer. The late Chevalier Gerstner had made the preliminary survey of the line. The Emperor has enjoined the Ministerial depart.. ment, and all the higher branches of the Administra tion, to limit, as much as possible, the number of per sons employed in the offices. Orders have been given to tax the passports of all Russians travelling to foreign countries, as directed by the Ukase of Ist September last year. STOCKHOLU, APRIL 6.—lt is said that very im portant intelligence respecting the Sound Toll hes been received from London, and that this important question may be settled to the satisfaction of all the parties in terested. Three Estates of the Diet (without that of the Nobles) had petitioned the King that the Diet m i g ht b e closed on the 15th of ALY. A letter from the King was presented to-day by the Minister of the Interior, in which his Majesty says that though it is manifest that the long duration of the Di e t is a.great expense -to the csuatzy, he will not clos3 it till all tho important mattcra now under discussion, especiely.the R7form of the na tional represeatatl'on, are decided. Tnu.j the session may continue till the end of October. HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, Arun. 16, Bills. Money Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares l6,i A nglo-Ittissian Loan 107% 107F4 Russian 5 per Cent. !st series, Certific a t e Inscription, Ist Se•ws lO l ,, Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th Se,ics ll7 Mai Ditto in Certificates New 4 per Cent. (1840) 8;44 t' ,11 ,4 Dutch ,ctual Debt, 2x, pe Cent 5014 504 Ditto 5 per Cent Poli , h Bonds New ticket Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cell* NA wegian Loan, 1831, 4 per Ctii: .. - Spanish, New 5 per Cents. 163 EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURG, APRIL 16.-13 6%.—Two months, 13 4N. STOCKHOLM, APRIL s. —. Seventy-five days, 11. 47. BItEMLN, APItiL 13 —Two months. 6 M. VIRNNA, APRIL B.—Three months, 9. 45. BELGIAN I, UNDS—BRursELA, APRIL 17 Actual Debt, 234 per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Ccnt 10 0 ,4 Loan of Thirty Millions, 4.per C ent . llO 3 per Cent, • Thirty.seven 70% --------(1i40) ROM Loan of City, 1632, 4 per Cent Bl% Society ot Commerce, 43,iper Cent lOO Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent .. E 0 !ig National Secicty . — Exchange on London (short) .—Brussels Papers, April 17. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, MONDAY.—The Queen rode out this morning in a pony phaeton and four, attended by the Duchess of Bedford, Lady C. Cocks, and Hon. Miss Cavendish. His Royal Highness Prince Albert accom panied her Majesty on horseback, at►ended by Colonel Bouverie and Mr. George Edward Anson. Lord Lii ford and Colonel Wemyss also attended her Majesty. The Princess Royal was taken her usual airing this forenoon. In the afternoon ber Majesty and Prince Albert went out in the Park in a pony phaeton, his Royal Highness driving, attended by the usual suite. Viscount Ebrington took leave this morning and the Lady Isabella Wemyss also took her departure from the Castle. The Rid and Countess of Uxbridge, the Ladies El4nora and Constance Paget, the Right HOP. Sir William Fremantle, Mr. and Mrs. Chaloner, and the Hon. Henry and Mrs. Ashley, will have the honour of joining this evening's dinner circle at the Castle. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at Gloucester House. Viscount. Ebrington arrived at his residence in Gros venor-square yesterday morning, from a visit -to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. Despatches from the Governor of Gibraltar were re- ceived 3 e•terday at the Colonial-office. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Lady Arabella Baring arrived in town yesterday morning, from their residence at Lee, Kent. Sir Robert. Peel (now at Drayton Manor), ac companied b y th ree o f hi s so ns, attended on Tuesday e ven i ng last a m os t i nterest i ng l ec t ure on chemistry, delivered' b y D r. Arnold, of Tamworth, in the Town Hall there, to the mem bers of the Library and Reading Room. MONUMENT TO HENRY HUNT. --A meeting of the friends and admirers of the late Henry Hunt (late M.P. for Preston) was held on Friday last, in 111 r. Scholefield's rooms, Manchester, for the purpo,e of a d opt i ng measures " to erect a monument to Mr. Hunt's memory." The exertions of Lieutenant Tracey, the Gover nor of the Westminster Bridewell, have not been successful in obtaining any additional information to enable him to judge of the truth or falsehood of the story told by the unfortunate girl, so strangely discovered in that prison in male attire. MORNING- EDITIOI4 WARNING TO THE VETOI A VOICE FROM ST. RULE. Churchmen of Scotland, beware l You a re Crapea on goSsather, oval. a yawning abyss be, What ! do you deem th a t th e p eo ple of Seothl made no progress since th e d a y s o f Beaton end Will they now l at the bidding of Churchmen, f a t down" cathedrals anti upset goveftiiiiehts Yl r contended under and against ci v il as well as ec• e % oppression —the Council and the Star Chamber -4 Clavers and a beastly Laueerdale. They had a stake at issue—an enormous priz e to g ain.—anal people's heart and hand to ba c k ti em . But yo u!. ~bil contend ye for? Are the laws oppressive in ,i) State ? There are l ega l a n d constitu tional I ' ll o amending them. Is patronage a burden ? 1111 "011 burden removed, as was the late methcd of Parllaire election. Petition, plead, plan, plot—do all th ing : t tit RESIST—not the Government, but the laws--n% patrons only, but the British Parliament, and the h f ig oid d court of legal a pp ea l. y ou are runn i n g blin d ' co l against a wail of adamant, from which you rd in shivered f ragments , Th an k G o d, the lawf,j'etioe] many for all th e wrong h ea d s ( an d t h e i r name is which the Church contains. Your Veto law V pia bif had it been legal, might have wrotiglit b c ritl well) has b een &Mired by competent e u ` b o le Illegal. Your suspensions and censures 1 106 101 set at naught and laugh, d to scorn. I r°t/ brit/ shown excellent teeth, but have not been able to lid o them into play. There has been much cry. b ut ,,,, 4 :,!" wool—much v a p our i ng an d fli ng i ng, , b ut on , plishment. Lik e t h e H ig hl anders i n t h e bat Colloden, y ou h ave torn with your teeth At the 01 non's mouth, w l u l s t th e s h ot was l o d ge d whlc", to blow you to a t oms . I n t h e name o f corvine! ) :Oh and sound religion, abolish patronage root and l ll but give us something tangible in its stead. o hill matter to be left wholly to the " varium 11,0 1 vulgus?" Oh, that' some "courteous laird svole".! e s' out," and then w e s h ou ld k now w h et h er or ant a ri.• , dent to 9y, from known an d acknowledged deride; others that we k now not o f ; f or i n that vast, use. unfathom e d, w h a t ev il s may ar i se " must g i ve us P a „, t ,ot Back ! back back! not by inches, but by fee ,kne e by fact, but by furlongs. Recall your anatheenT7,l your " brutum fulmen"—spike y our ece l as ielt'ci 0 1: 0 ' artillery —resum e t h e a t t i tu d e of submissive en % s c ry cat citizens— an d w h atever you can agree leVnicefellf 13 e pedicnt for th e we lf are o f your Zion wil l be 04e/ and legally as sure d t o you . I h ave seen mot h ; fier since first I patroniz e d th e t oes o f a Saint-' t ,,'",fre r then, the Culdee, the Papi s t, t h e P rotestan t, W o rth' byterian. In all these changes there was 0° Oe' quake, and bl oo d, an d v i o l ence ; but, in the 1 0 ; 0 ,par MAN wa s a d vanc i ng as a thinking being' . ,,, - 0 1 11i making another and another successful move 40 1 chessboard of improvement. The P a pist PO `„; lb / when misrul e h as k ept hi m i n i gnorance ) 5 4 Papist of ancient times. The Prelate now i S 10, 6 Prelate 'of " th e t wenty - e i g h t years ' persecu ti°°' e te°' the Presbyteri an now i s not t h e narrow an d cen ts set' though honest, zea l o t of' the League and C ( l, - e eP It is even admitted now that heaven PAY ie proached i n a cassoc k an d surp li ce as W ell 11 '0,0 Genev a c oa t an d k nee -b uc kl es. No wond e r' niefo 01 that our Kn oxes an d our Shields arid our di' cannot arouse the great mass of the people oe t " u blei of yore. There is no want of apostles--zenN ug A'div and eloque n t ; b u t th ere i s a want of conver ts a a ",iske ciples. The torch is lighted, but the heath will fire. The foxes are driven forth with their ignite 401 but the fl ame d oes not sprea d , t h e fi e ld t h r one "be they pass is wet and incombustible. Be ` 111 ;t1 0 taught—" obey the laws " in the first place ; n' s I se you can with a better grace plead for a c hange , have already given pledge of obedience. 0 1 ' Given from our hi g h t ower thi s 29 t h d ay o f Marc GOD SAVE THE QUEEN. Qrll' ADDRESS TO 'FHE Is ere It is a pleasant faith which holds that tbl r the e the germs of g oo d i n every t hi ng ; w hi c h 1204i : 4 40 ` man, in the lowest depth s t o w hi c h hi s o wn v c "" reel passions, or other uncontrollable circumstance' (rod have have plunged hi m , i s not a l toget h er divorced Ito God and goodness, and, of course, which bol ds be in all sects, political or religious, there filaY t heie redeeming features,—men who aro better 6' l , n an d class, and ;who may be the means of purifYing' t he,' elevating, and re d eem i ng t h e b o dy to whichito belong. We sa y thi s i s a pleasant faith ; 14° a l t of it is not ? Who says it is erroneous ? ''S r e s P,,. e oo e l a e-• Toryism, and w r it e aga i nst it, f ro m a con duty ; but among Tories there are men, not 3 00 4 whigger , o f whom we would w illi ng l y ca ll b ro thers. Whigs—we spe a k o f t h ese thi n gs, not in termf the. praise. We regard Whigs as the Laodiceans nineteenth century, creatures " neither cold n or ° h r :, —the halters between two opiniono, and, hypocrites, false friends, and cowards, afraid of ; but " consequences of bold and honest measures are willing to admit that there are amongst Wh y men capable of becoming excellent Radicals. , 0 speak of the bloated English Church ; and when; think of R athcorma e andsimilar scenes, we 0 9 ; , plead guilty of Using too strong language ; but, moreove_ th; 1 are, even in the Law Church, many pious cl i iit* ministers, though no apostles. And thee, Vi,efe t the political faith of the masses . W e d o not r . p rie t the Chartism of whi c h F eargus O'C onnor is let, lb ° —the Chartism whi c h k nows not hi ng o f charp,c 01 1° first of Christian virtue s ; w hi c h d eno unces o i . a de bio 3 differ : which would make converts after the the of Mahommed, with the Charter in one hand, B° Clit r. torch and dagger in th e oth er . W e d o n ot lik e co te° tism when it thus manifests itself, nor when '! be ilee i into all public meetings, acting the farce of . .i ls i ts let loose." Further, the Chartism which P er ,: o f the acknowledged leaders to become the Tories, and which shows itself completely ilo o „ r ai y, je the first and simplest principles of political ea*" not the Chartism after our hearts. f r ert pa id tom , oi But we never lost faith in the principles o f nor doubted that I. would ultimate) ifr y pur.., itself re' the errors of knaves and fools, and command . r It o wel me ta spect which its abstract principles so short, that it would become the law of the land' bai l „ d we the A better asp ec t o f thi ng . i s open i ng up, --11 To t he it with joy. W e h ave b e f ore us an ad d res s ' 4 A gior Political and So c i a l R e f ormers o f t h e Unit e ",, epi r4 dom," which bre a th es a r i g h t sp i r i t, an d yet Ad' of Chartism. But the Ch ar ti sm put f o rth in ' e aree l ' dress is of it kind with which no honest man cae 4 " Or and the plan recommended for obtaining it ra,g ry : mand the app ro b a ti on o f Si r Robert Pal P ' -s ' Ler Titres. ' outrg9 MUNICH, APRIL 10.:—A disgraceful 000; rook place the other d a y, t o w hi c h M r. - , had nearly fallen a vi c t im . A cc id enta ll y mee ting a ding 1. , procession, in which the Ki ng was t a ki ng a pa rt, Pa l bell* " streets, he neglected to pull off his hat as the Hot ble ."'ar"°l carried by. The snub,, in their incoinprehensi rudely bid him uncover hi s h ea d, w hi c h h e , either frn!nt;the ranee of their patois, or feeling conscientious scrnil le ,:i off point., neglected to do ; his hat was consequently ( 101-1 1 ‘ ;t rot!' , the mummers, inebriated as they were rather wit h t ' it i:a - th °De beer of Munich than moved by any real devotional /go feelings. He respond e d w ith an ar;jumenttim ad is tie the shoulders of the offenders, when. one and all, theY him tooth and nail, and, like a second Pentheus. he fallibly have been m ur d ere d b y t h em i n their bac c :; r eset' fury had not a body o f gen d armer i e t h oug h t proper `` him. d d e gl The town of Croyd on was l as t w eek a go.° l a tiee excited by a report which gained very general ci rcu it, op that the bodies of three children had been ro fe r u m n e ti rlfi ksj: cess-pool of a low lodging-house tbat was by a notorious character, and who bag recently ' D oe' town. It appears that upon this party giving ta l: d P ‘ire s , f s ' sion of the house, it was taken by a person eon, - of who bad the cess-pool emptied ; and while this eti e mploy 1 but course of being effected, the men who were ace , covered three bundles of a very suspicious aePee r c i r ca:e l it appears that they took no further notice of the tee so t stance at the time, and continued their work, an d Lo sreve r ' was all carted away. Immediately afterwards, !ifeatioll reports werc circulated about the town, and an IPPo u rebi was mado to Messrs. Keats and Matthew, the et wardens, and, from their knowledge of the char s be Fir' the man who had formerly kept the house, and O f tb o ; ties who frequented it, they deemed it neceels'ibtaiew searching inquiry should be instituted, and the,' 1 : ; , 0 sts' the assistance of Mr. Collier, the Inspector of me n tioned at Croydon, who immediately applied to sho es who had been employed; and having ascertained tu- i fact, he directed that the soil should be searched/ L as oP was accordingly done. It was then found that t", l `" c loth' cious bundles consisted merely of some old rags an' waY nag, and nothing was discovered tending in anY boo' w a rrant the suspicion that bad existed. The reP °th -cte d ' ever, had obtained such currency, and, as may be 011!_ . d occas i on ed so much excitement, that it has been O ul u t he ma tter of some little difficulty to satisfy the PO I° neighbourhood of the real facts of the case. a nd At the meeting of the Hastings Town `A o tb' on Tuesday week, the cl er k ma d e a communication , do e Board that be had been serve d w ith a writ for the to Mr. Prentice and other s , f or th e dinner supplied net { Wellington Festival l as t year. The Town Coen, bag fused to interfere, and came to a resolution that tbat...ose had no funds ou t of which to pay money for Oa Ply claimed. —Rochester Advertiser. , Oft Two young o ffi cers of the 25th regim quartered in Brecon, having been caught knocker bre,_ t he have had to replace the missing articles, and pa y 01. 1 " Infirmary.— Cambrian. _ kio g. great was the congregation of the young in t. THE SO RC E nt ES.—According toa,ncite.:tscourset:rPlieo's eg'f on Monday and Tuesday last, to boil tbe!? and exhibit their finery ; and numbers of ' c , d m e larger growth," found ample amusement at the 01_4 so o of 6. drop the handkerchief." Both days avere_c° l o filia showery, which detracted much from the enjoYrrealeouu`s. ago young-uns. The consumption of eggs was en;ancing, d the evening several rorms were opened for --ft alga so REDUCTION QF SUGAR DUTIES. at k ierce, were well attended.—Carlisle Journal. . —tee confidently in the London Journal of COMO have _ c oo mended to the Board of Trade that the duty y from Os' grown in British possessions should be reduced from Commissioners or her Majesty's Customs on r t ` ug sro to 9s. 6d. per cwt., and the duty on foreign suga r 63v. to 245. per cwt. rbildre ° rtt to 1 ' 3 4 Mn. 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