The Sun. — London, England, 1841-05-10 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION CHURCH-RA TES' . . --47 TO THE EDITOR OF Th— SUNS -rate steliar( Sia,-=-On Friday, April 30, ten Church. were, made in this town, and on Thursday last the y we. ` .e offeied.for,sale by public auction, but no bu, /Ors he we re found, .and the only auctioneer they could secu rice to-.v.n. soon abandoned the sale-room. And yt ahe more than 400. summons were served through ay parish for non-payment of Church-rates. Ts.not this the way to bring Christianity into ( 11 ' 3 re" pute, and to make Infidels and Socialists ; and is i t DOI; preparing the public mind for something like a civil cOni• motion ? If the Government does not soon do s, thing, the people in all probability will. The very elements seem at war with the system, fa" thit, morning the lightning struck the spire, and ea used considerable damage to it.—Your's respectfully, Dudley, May 8. SAMUEL COO K. ANTI-SLAVERY..SOCIETY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sre,—l cannot adequately express to you the ine7.ig nation roused in the minds of the abolutionists here at the, course taken by the London Committee—that of urging (+position to the Government measiwe on suga r. One feeling animates all. The following address s• ant off last night expresses the sentiments of the memo ;rs of the Anti-Slavery Society of Kendal, who have be en from the first uncompromising advocates of the e_ttin c tion of slavery the world over. I am, respectfully, • AN ABOLITIONIST FOR TWENTY YEARS. , • Kendal, May 8, 1841.. To the Committee of the Society for the Abolition of Slavery and the Slave-trade. Iik:SPECTED FRIENDS,—In the last number of the Anti-Slavery Reporter, received this day, we have rsad with., concern, that your body proposes to use th air strenuous exertions for defeating the Government irws, sure en the importation of foreign sugar. Without respect of party we consider the quest ion to be one- of so comprehensive a character, and so p (-o blematical as to its results, that we are not prepared to support you in at once condemning it, without furtl ter infovination regarding its probable effects. We should greatly lament if such a proceeding .on your part should publish to every slaveowner in Vir ginia Cuba, and the Brazils, that free labour, with at bonus of 12s..per cwt. cannot compete in the production of sugar with slave labour. This inference, though false,. is inevitable. Can any thing be more calculated to con firth • foreign slaveowners in their prejudices against emancipation ? Shall we congratulate you upon the powerful acces sion to your ranks of the whole mass of late West Indian slaveowners, now confirmed abolitionists ? Yes, gladly, if we believed them sincere. The subject is of such vast impOrtance, that we beg of you to pause before taking any further step. We ap prehend that much evil and probable division of our body will .ensue, if, on a question so involved, you follow out tie view expressed in the paragraph contained in the re port to which we have before alluded. We also think that it would have been desirable to ascertain the sentiments of the influential country mem hcrs! of our society, before taking a decided proceeding on this momentous question. (Signed) W. DILLWORTH CREWDSON, President of the Kendal Society. ISAAC WILSON, JOHN J. WILSON, JOHN WHITWELL, EDWARD CREWDSON, Delegates to the late Anti-Slavery Convention in Loudon. , WM. WHITWELL, Secretary. , TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Heytesbury, Bth May, 1841 SlR,—Last year, and for several tears past, hundreds of tons of fruit have been wasted on account of the high price of sugar. "If sugar was about 6d. per pound, I would get my wife to make some wine of those elder-berries that are dropping off the trees ; it would be very good in the winter to give the children when they have a cold." This was said to me last summer by a labouring man. If 'Ministers had lowered the duty on sugar to 20s. on Janiai!;,a and East Indian, and to 255. or 30s. on Foreign, it would have doubled the revenue, but as it is proposed, it will increase it 50 per cent., and the comfort of the population 100 per cent. The superior quality of West Indian sugar will always be a sufficient protection to the West Indian. We hope the Ministers will nail their colours to the mast. To propitiate the mock and real enemies to slave sugar, let 10 per cent. of the increase on the revenue be e.pencled in fitting out steamers to put down the slave tratle on the African coast. AN ENEMY TO SLAVERY. PORTUGAL By the Leeds steamer, which arrived at Falmouth on Friday evening with the Malta and Peninsula mails, we have received letter and Papers from Lisbon and Oporto to the 4th inst. The Leeds left Gibraltar on the 29th, Cadiz on the 30th of April, Lis bon the fid, and Oporto and Vigo on the 4th inst. LISBON, MAY 3. — Consequent upon the Duke de Palmella, as President of the Finance Committee, having represented to the Pretident of the Council, Minister at War, and pro tempore for Marine,.Count de I,torrifim, that the annual expenditure of the army, 3,300 contos de tseis (756,2501.) is snore than the revenue of the State can posiibly sup sort, his Excellency has consented to re duce it to 2,800 contos de re.is (641,6661. sterling), this Committee ha, it also in contemplation to oropose an increase of taxes on all property, and articles of interns: consumption, with an additional 10 percent. on the decimas, and .2;1 per cent. on the salaries of the civic public employes. By this /Jan its members are under the impression that the country will be em'bled to meet the yearly de ficit of 2,600 contos de reis (595,8331. ste;ling.) "The new financial agent for London, Alluded to by the Op vosilion Press, is the Baron de Lagos, who has the patronage of the Duke de Palmella, and the Minister of Justice; however ; in the now conflicting state of things, his appointment may be con.- sidered as in embryo. The Nobie Baron proceeds to England by this day's packet without having obtained any advantage that I can learn for the bondholders of the Portuguese foreign loan. Two criminals, M. J. Saldanha and M. Estevao Lopes, were hung on Friday for the murder of J. Estevao de Oliveira, a man in respectable circumstances, near Lisbon, five years ago, since which time the assassins have been in prison. M. E. Lopes was the son of the murdered man, and was instigated to commit the act by his mother, who had long been criminally intimate with the other assas sin, and proposed to get rid of her husband that she might live the more freely with her paramour, the inducement to the son being to come in at once into part of his father's property. Lopes was only sixteen when he committed the crime. They waylaid the father in the evening, when on his way from Lisbon to his coun- try.house, when he was held by Saldanha, and stabbed by Lopes is eighteen places, which, however, did not prevent his surviving till the morning, when he was found almost almost lifeless, but able to depose to the fact of his son being the person who stabbed him. The chief evidence against the prisoners was another son. The mother, there being a law which prevents the . secution of women, will be transported for life. Site had previously caused her own father's death, by denouncing him as disaffected to Don ;Miguel ; and he sunk under the persecution to which he was sub j,scted in consequence of the denunciation. Yhe Trinculo brig of war, Commander Coffin, leaves to-day for Engiumd. On her arrival there two Courts-martial will have to be held, bctli the First and Second Lieutenants having been for some time under close arrest for alleged insubordination. A curious scene took place in the river last Monday, in which this brig was concerned. A merchant vessel, the Miranda (English) omitted to salute Com- ManderCoffin's flag, which is usually done by lowering the topgallant f. believe the Captain of the merchantman had boasted that he wouhl pass without saluting; and pass he certainly did, but the moment after a blank shot was fired at him from the brig, which of paying - attention to, a ball was forthwith sent through his 4nainsail, when he thought proper to lower his topgallant sails, and Silas making off; but this would not do for Commander Coffin, who sent a boat aft. him, which fired at him again, and compelled him to return and sail twice sound the Trinculu, when he was allowed .to proceed. "The guerillas in the Algarve still continue their wanton and predatory incursions, and their numbers daily au , ment by the de. sertions of privates from various regiments of the line stationed in that ,quarter, upon, it is said, the plea of being in arrears of pay. A gang havi ig approached Odemira on the 21st ult., the National ( - Wands of that neighbourhood, to the number of 52, mounted and • on foot, dividing into three sections, sallied forth, and fell in with • them► at the farm of Ameixiacs, killing three, among them a de_ smertei from the 25th battalion of infantry, and wounding others, A -who; Lnevertheless, managed to escape to the woods. Some fire. armso three horses, a quantity of tobacco, and other objects, which they had just previously purloined, fell into the hands of the vie .tors. a From .`l) r, ineffectual fiscalization of th e excise-office of the city, a large ,:luantity of Pip es, conta i n i ng only water, have been cleat,* out r ci v Oporto, and on t h e i r passage filled with French brandy from vessels cruising aside for this purpose, thereby afford ing a ready introduction .into this country for contraband spirits. Her Majesty the Qut sep will give to-morrow, at the P a l ace of Ne a grand Dorn di n ner to the S pan i s h Envoy Do Manuel de cessidades, 0.! imitation have been i ssue d to all the Aguilar, to which ca rds diplornatique corps. ~ E xc hange upon London at 30 da y s ' si ght, 53i, per milrei. - " A. Y." LONDON UNIVEISITY EXAMI NERS. - We are quite at a loss to understand t;_ie principle on which the office.laearers of the London University are elected. Last year Dr. Tweedie was set aside, without any one knowing why, and Dr. Watson elected in his place. This year the former is re placed again, and the latter discharged , quite as unexpectedly as its the former case: The impression naturally produced under ordi nary circumstances would biz that the party set aside had, in some way or other, been found unfit; but the chopping and chang ing which this season has produced, shows that some other and to tally different considerations have been at work. Amongst those elected examiners oh the 9th of last month was Dr. Ferguson, of Kin g, by the CMIISIIIOII —nit's College; but he, staggered of Dr. Watson's name from the list, has tendered his resignation, as appears by the following letter : Si " " 9 , Queen-street, May Fair , 16th April. 11;141. my,Lord,—AePresideot of the Senate of the University of London,, permit Me to tender to your Lordship my resignation of the office of Examiner in Midwife r y , to which I had the honou r of being appointed on the Bth instant!' " The fact made apparent at the late election, that a faithful and efficient discharge of the duties of an off ice may nevertheless be followed by dismissal, has compelled me to withdraw myself from a . position which, though honourable in itself, may e n t a il on me also the implied censure of a rejection, I need not assure your Lordship, that coulJ I have foreseen the ramults to which I have alluded, I should have at once declined the otlk'r of those friends who did me the honour of requesting me to serve as an Examiner. And I have only now delayed tendering my resigr, ation a few days, that I might avoid the imputation of a hasty decia ion in so Important a matter, or the slightest appearance of disrespect towards that body of gentlemen over whom your Lord ship preside. " I am, my Lord, your Lordship's obedient servant, " ROBERT FERGUSON, M.D." These occurrences will render most persons—at least those who are fit for the appointments in question—rather chary about occept- Ins them.— Medical Gazette. The Leipsic Gazette announces the death of Gal% ini, the musical professor, at the age of 104. He wos a son of the celebrated singer Galvin], who died at Rome in 1825, having reached the patriarchal age of 138. .He was attached to the chapel of Pope Benedict XI V., and lived nearly through the whole era of the modern art of music. He had sung the productions of Carissimi and Paer, had listened to Corelli and Paga nini Fariitelli, and Rubini, and applauded at the opens of RosSini, as he had done at those of Handel. COURT The Queen held a Court and Pri vs, Council on Satur day afternoon at Buckingham Palace. The Council was attended by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Lord President, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Privy Seal. the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Foreign and Colonial Departments, the Chancel lor of the Exchequer, the Lord Steward, the Lord Cham berlain, and the Master of the Horse. Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint the Right Hon. William Lord Bateman to be Lord Lieutenant of 'the County of Hereford, his Lordship took the oaths ap prioted to be taken thereupop. Sir Augustus Foster, a member of his late Majesty's p r i c y Council, was re-sworn of her Majesty's Most Hodoorable Privy Council. The ;Jon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council in Waiting. At the Cow 7 t ~ Mr. Van de Weyer, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plei: ipotentiary from the King of the Bel gians, had an audiem"e of her Majesty. His Excellency was introduced by Viunt Palmerston, G.C.8., her CMa jesty's Principal Secretary if State for Foreign Affairs. Her Majesty gave audiences" So Viscount Melbourne and the Lord Chamberlain. The Court was attended by:the E1...r1 of Listowel, Lord in Waiting ; Lord Hill, Gold Stick in Waiting ; Sir Frederick Stovin, Groom in Waiting ;__ Lord Alfred Paget, Equerry in Waiting, and Colonel Wylde, Equerry in Waiting on Prince Albert. After attending her Majesty's Court, his Excellency M. Van de Weyer had an audience of his Royal High ness Prince Albert, at Buckingham Palace. The Queen and Prince Albert attended Divine Service - yesterday morning in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. Tile Sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr.' Mills. The Oervice was read by the Rev. Mr. Packman ; the Lessons by the Rev. Dr. Wesley, and the Communion Service by the Key. Dr. Wesley and the Rev. Mr. Packman. The Musical Service was Barrows in F., the Sanctus, &c., Davy. The Anthem was " Bow down thine ear." The Dean of Hereford was the Deputy Clerk of the Closet in Waiting. The Royal Suite consisted of the Countess of Mount Edgecumbe, Lady Caroline Cocks, Hon. Miss Cavendish, Earl of Listowel, Lord Robert Grosvenor, Earl of Morley, Sir Frederick Stovin, Lord Alfred Paget, Captain Francis Seymour, and Colonel Wylde. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty and Prince Albert yesterday and on Saturday. The Duke of Sussex visited his Royal Highness Prince Albert yesterday. The Duke of Cambridge visited his Royal Highness on Saturday, at Buckingham Palace. Viscount Melbourne had an audience of her Majesty. Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal was taken an it; ring yesterday in the garden of Buckingham Palace. Her Serene Highness the Princess of Leiningen at teneled Divine Service yesterday morning in the Royal German Chapel. Baroness Spaeth was in waiting on his Serene Highness. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dx Kuper. s The Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Hill had au diences of his Royal Highness Prince Albert on Saturday. Her Majesty and Prince Albert and the Duchess of Kent honoured the Italian Opera with their presence on Saturday evening. Their Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Leiningen accompanied her Majesty and Prince Albert. The Royal Suite included the Countess of Mount Edge cumbe, Hon. Miss Cavendish, Earl of Listowel, Right Hon. George Stevens Byng, Sir Frederick Stovin, Lord Alfred Paget, and Colonel Wylde. Lady Anne Maria Dawson was in waiting on the Duchess of Kent. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent attended Divine Service yesterday morning in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. Lady Anne Maria Dawson was in waiting on her Royal Highness. The Duke of Cambridge had a dinner party on Sa turday at Cambridge House. The company included Lord Hill, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, Major Stephens, Co lonel Keate, and twenty officers of the 60th Royal Rifles. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at the residence of the Marquis of Normanby (the Noble Marquis being indisposed) in Hill-street. All the Mi nisters were present with the exception of the Earl of Minto. The Council sat two hours and a half. Mr. Thornton, the Chairman of the Spanish and Por tuguese Committee, attended at the Foreign-office on Friday, and again on Saturday, on the subject of the claimants on the Government of Portugal. A Deputation, consisting of the following gentlemen, from Manchester—Mr. Brotherton, M.P., Sir Thomas Potter, the Boroughreeve of Manchester, Mr. William Read, Mr. William Gibb, Mr. Thomas Townend, the Town Clerk of Manchester, and Mr. Thomas Ogden Lingard, had an interview with the Right Hon. H. La bouchere, at the Board of Trade, on Saturday. The Russian Minister transacted business on Saturday at the Foreign-office. Despatches from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, and also from the Governor of Gibraltar, were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. I FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAIL. BRUSSELS, MAY 6.—On Tuesday afternoon great damage was done in various places by a violent thunder storm, accompanied with a deluge of hail and rain. At Binche the hailstones were as large as pigeons eggs ; several sheep were killed. At Namur and the environs the roads in various directions were inundated so as to be wholly impassable. We hear that cows and horses were killed in the stables. Much damage was done in some places to the iron railway. GHENT, MAY s.—On Monday last, the Nestor of all the prisoners in Europe, died in the prison of Ghent. Pierre Joseph Torte was condemned in 1773, to be broken on the wheel for having murdered a young girl. He was then 17 years of age. On a petition presented to the Empress Maria Theresa, his punishment was commu ted into imprisonment for life. .In 1814 he was set at liberty by Count Bichaliff, Hetman of the Cossacks, whose head quarters were in this city, but being desti tute of means of subsistence, of relations and friends, after thirty-six years' captivity, he solicited as a favour to be suffered to return to the same prison which had been so long his abode. The request was granted, and and he remained in the Rasphaus twenty-seven years more (in all sixty-three years), and died on Monday, at the age of eighty years. BRUSSELS, MAY 7.—The papers of this morning con- I tain the most affecting details of the damage done by the storm on Tuesday ; the chief mischief was done by the sudden inundation, but besides that several build ings were struck by lightning. POLISH FRONTIERS, APRIL 24.—The news that Russia will send this year a considerable army against the still unsubdued tribes of the Caucasus is entirely groundless. Russia has at all times had troops, but the nature of the country renders the development of great masses of troops wholly impossible. The contest will continue this year as heretofore in the only way that can be successful ; forts will be erected at certain intervals, and by that means more ground be gained from the enemy. We must hear in a few days whether the hopes will be realised of the publication of an extensive amnesty on the marriage of . the Imperial Prince. AMSTERDAM, MAY 6.—The Prince de Joinville, third son of hit Majesty the King of the French, is ex pected here on a visit between th 10th and the 15th of this -month. AMSTZRDAM, MAY 7.—We have a letter from the Hague, wlich says—" A general subject of conversation here is the diovery of highly important state papers, which throw an entirely new light on preceding events, and which have corile, by a particular chance, into the possession of our Government." (The writer then makes conjectures respectiog the state papers, which show that no dependence could be placed on his commu nication.) DUTCH FUNDS.—Amwritcoam, MAY 7. Money. Bills. actual Debt, 234 per Cent 51% 52 Jilt°, ditto 5 per cent. A met t Syndic, 454 per cent 9, ;ii 91 Ditto, ditto, 314 per cent ..... ........ 7454 743( Commercial Company, 414 per cent ..... 165} 1C5% Ditto (1535 and 1837) 5 per cent. 10154 102 Loan 1837, 5 per cent. 97% 975( Exchange on London, One month l2l 234 Twomontha It 9:04 Dutch Papers, May 8. BELGIAN M U NDS—BaussaLs, MAY 7. Actual Debt. 234 per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cant NO% Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 2)6 3 per Cent. 1-441) lOO% Loan or City, 18::12, 4 peiCent. ......... Society of Commerce, 454 per Cent lOO Bank of Belgium, 5 per 78 National Society Exchange on London (short) Brussels Papers, May 7. AUSTRIAN FONDS.—Vionna, APRIL 29 Sleeper Cents. Metalliques Fottr per Cents. ...........«.......».« ................« 9 9% Three per Cents. ................. ....... 77 Bank Shares ....... . ............ 104 7 Allgemeine Zeitung , PRUSSIAN FUNDS.--BERLIN, MAY 4. Prussianßills. Money. St. Sch glisuld E . n Sch.. h 4L, a p n e: l cal. 4 ,104 Iq~s per Ifachange on London, three rrionth e r,' 679 14 —Prussian ''"," M ay 5 • • - '5 Thirty.seven THE LIFE oF HENRY (RATTAN. —The third volume of this important work is now before the warld, and its materials prove to be, if possible, of still s ronger interest and value, both personal and political, than those of the two preceding volumes. Many of the letters now for the first time made public, from the great p ditical leaders of the day —such as Burke, Fox, the Marqui s W e ll es l ey, L or d Northington, Lord Castlereagh, Lord Charlemont, the Duke of Portland, General Bur goyne, &c., and in particular those of Henry Grattan himself —are of the highest interest and importance, and some of them, those, for instance, of Mr. Fox to Lord Northington, and the replies to them—throw a new light on the crisis to which they relate. Some of the extracts, too, from Grattan's speeches display the most dazzling eloquence, clothing the deepest political wisdom. The manner also, in , which the personal and domestic life of t it great Irish patriot is blended with his public career, a l•ls great interest and value to the work. ' BREATHE NOT ISIS NAME."—A chip o ;ris ocracy, living in the Broachn ay, hada very lcng and diffi c nit name , and nd or, a stranger t ry i ng to pronounce it t'other y his got entangled in hi s t eet h, an d h e cou ld not get i a disengaged g a :n until some one advi se d hi m to spe ll t h e word ht eekwa 7.ds.— Yankee Paper. CURIOUS CASE.—About six or seven years ago, Brotherton, the Edinburgh and Salton c arr i er , procee d e d to Salton Hall, w he re he received from the butler and house keepere sum o o h f is Bo w / a . , y to ho p m ay e f h o e r variou s was, according a r ti cles ebteiee d o of nth thE dinburgh . e family th to his a cc ount, set upon by two men, who knocked him do wn , and cut away the pocket containing the money, with whi c h could be obtained of th e direction a t th e ti me , b u t no •trace they made clear off. Investigation was set on fo ot in every robbers, and the case was allo wed having kept the money, a n d contr i ved the story o f t h e .. rtsuspi- to drop , not without so me suspicion attac hi ng to t h e carr i er himself informa (inn fr om hi mself. Within these few d ays , however, r o bbery to dive tion was received at the County Police-office that a man named Mitchell, li v i ng i n the Grassmarket, and anot h er name d Peas ton, living in Lasswade, were implicated in the robbery , they both havin g b een employed at the time of the robbery with a shoemaker in the village of West Salton. They were both ap prehended, and, after investigation, the men have been com mitted for trial.--Ayr Observer. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, M PARLIAMENTARY DI VISION. (Fiona the P otes and Proceedings of the - House qf Commons.) FRIDAY, MAY 7. POLL 0 C AND GOVAN RAILWAY BILL. Read a third time; Clause (Till Railway be carried over or under the Glasgow and Paisley Road, by Parkhouse, no part of the traffic to pass across the said road) brought up, and read a first time ; Motion made, and Question put, " That the said Clause be now read a second time :"—The House divided MAJORITY—AYES, 162. Abercromby, G. R. —Stirlingshire Hotham, Lord—Leominster A'Court, Captain—Tamworth Houston, G. J.—Renfrewshire Ainsworth, P.—Bolton Hume, Joseph—Kilkenny Archbold, Robert—Kildare Hutt, W.—Hull Attwood, W.—Greenwich Hutton Robert—Dublinßailey, Joseph—Worcester Irving, john—Antrim Co. Bailey, J. D.—Sudbury Jackson,Mr.Serj.—Bandon Bridge Baillie, H. D.—Honiton Johnstone, ... /I —llvwfriesshire Baines, Edward—Leeds Jones, T.—Londonderry Co. Baker, Edward—Wilton Kelburne, Lord—Argyleshire Baring, H. B.—Marlborough Lefroy, Rt. Hon. T.—Dublin Gni Langton, Col Gore—Somerset Barneby, John—Worcestershire Bateson, Sir R.—Londonderry versity Bythell, Richard—Yorkshire Lemon, Sir Chas.—W. Cornwall Bewes, T.—Plymouth Liddell, Hon. H.—North Durham James—Kirkwall Blackburne, Ireland—Warrington L oc h , Blair, J. Wigtoashire Mackenzie, Thomas —Ross Lowther, Colonel—Westmor e l an d Blake, Wm. J.—New port , Isle of Wight Mackenzie, W. F.--Peeblesshire Bodkin, John James—Galway Marshall, Wm.—Carlisle Bolling, W.—Bolton Master, Colonel—Cirencester Bradshaw, James—CanterburY Maule, Hon. Fox—Elgin Burghs Bridgeman Hewitt—Ennis Maunsell, T. P —Northamptonsh Buller, Sii* ' J. Yards —Devonshire Miles, Philip W. Skynner—Bristol Butler, Hon. P.—Kilkenny Co Mines, R. AL—Pontefract Canning, Right Hon. Sir S.—Lynn Milton, Lord—Malton Cartwrignt, Wm. R.—South Nor- Neeld, Joseph—Chippenham thamptonshire Noel, William 3E—Rutland Chalmers, Patrick—lnverbervie Norreys, Sir Denham—Mallow Chapman, Aaron—Whitby O'Connell, Daniel- Dublin Chichester, J. P. B.—Barnstaple O'Connzll, John—Athlone Childars, John W.—Malton Ord, W.—Newcastle-upon-Tyre Christopher, It. A.—Lincolnshire Palmer, George—Essex Cochrane, Sir T. J.—lpswich Parker, John—Sheffield Collier, John—P lym o uth Parker, T. A. W .—Oxfordshire Colquhoun, John C.—Renfrew Perceval, Colonel—Sligo Co. Courtenay, P.—Bridgewater Planta, Joseph—Hastings Craig, W. G.—Edinburghshire Power, James—Wexford Co. Crawford, W.—London Pewerscourt, Viscount—Bath Crewe, Sir George—South Derby Pringle, Alexander—Selkirkshire Dalrymple, Sir A.—Brighton Pryme, George—Cambridge Dcnistoun, J.—Glasgow Pusey, Philip—Berkshire De Horsey, S. H.—Newcastle- Rae, Right Hon. Sir Wm.—Bute under Lyme Rein, Sir John Rae—Dover Do.iglas, Sir C. E.—Warwick Rice, Edward Royd—Dover Drumit'ond, H. H.—Perthshire Riehards, Richard—Merinethsh, Dugdale, VV, S.—Warwickshire Roche, E. B.—Cork Co. Dunbar, George—Belfast Rolleston, CoL—S. Nottingham buncombe, Hon A.—East Retford Round, John—Maldon Dundas, Frederick—Orkney Rushbrooke, Colonel—Sal:Mr Egerton, W. Tatton—Cheshire Rutherfurd, Rt. Hon. A.—Leith Eliot, Lord—East Cornwall Sanford, E. A.—Somersetshire Elliot, Hon. J. E.—Roxburghshire Sharpe, General—Dumfries Ellice, Edward—St. Andrew's Sheppard, Thomas—Frome Ellice, Capt. A.—Harwich Sibthorp, Colonel—Lincoln Estcourt, T. G. 13.—Oxford Univ. Somerset, Lord G.—Monmeuthsli Euston, Earl—Thetford Sotheron, T. E.—Dev izcs • Evans, William—North Derby Stewart, James—Honiton Farrand, Robert—Stafford Stock, Dr.—Cashel Feilden, W.'J.—Blackbnrn Strickland, Sir G.—W. Yorkshire Fre ditield, fames Wm.—Penryn Strutt, Edward—Derby Gasket!, James Milnes— Weniock Stuart,] Lord J.—Ayr Gladstone, John N.—Walsall Stuart, Villiers—Waterford Co. Gladstone, W. E.—Newamon- Style, Sir Charles—Scarborough Trent Tancred, H. W.—Banbury Glynne, Sir S. R.—Flintshire Tennent, J. E.—Belfast Gordon, Hon. W.—Aberdeenshire Thesiger, F.—Woodstock Gore, Ormsby—Salop Thompson, Ald.—Sunderland Granby, Marquis of—Stamford Thoroely,Thos.—Wolverhampton Grattan, Henry — Meath Trevor, Hon. G.—Caermarth ons n, Greg, R. H.—Manchester Trotter, Jobn —West Surrey Grey, Sir Charles Edwara—Tyne. Vere, Sir C. B.—East Suffolk mouth Verner, William—Armagh Co. Grirnsditch, T.—Macclesfield Wallace, Robert—Greenock Hawilton, Charles J. B.— Ayles Warburton, H.—Bridport bury Wilbraham, George—Cheshire Handley, Henry—Lincolnshire Wilbraham, Hon. R. B.—Lanca. Hawkins, J. H.—Newport, Isle of shire Wight Wilde, Mr. Serjeant—Newark HindsJ , J. Hodgson—Newcastle. Winnington, Sir T. E.—Be w dley Hepburn,Sir T. —Haddingtonshire Williams, William—Covent r y upon-Tyne Wood, Benjamin—Southwa r k Hobhouse, T. Benj.—Rochester 1 Wrightson, W. B.—Northallerton Hodgson, Frederick — Barnstaple Hodgsonitd.—Berwick-on-Tweed Hogg, James Weir—Beverley Hoskins, K.—Herefordshire TELLERS. Clerk, Sir G.—Stamford Lockhart, A. M.—Lanarkshire MINORITY Antrobus, Edmund—Surrey Bagge, W.—West Norfolk Baldwin, Charles Barry—Totness Barnard, E . G.—Greenwich deamish, F B.—Cork Berkeley, Hon. F. H.—Bristol Briscoe, J. I.—Westbury Broad ley, Henry—East Yorkshire Broadwood, Henry—Bridgewater Brodie, W. B..—Salisbury Brotherton, J.—Salford Burr, D H. D.—Hereford Miguel& W.—Bradford Chute, W. L W.—West Norfolk Currie, Raikes—Northampton Darlington, Earl of—Shropshire Denison, W. J.—West Sussex D'lsraeli, B.—Maidstone Duncombe, T. S --Finsbury Duncombe, Hon. W.—Yorkshire Edwards, Sir John—Montgomery rwart, William—Wigan Fector, John folinet—Maidstone Gillon, Wm. D.—Linlithgow Gisboate, Thomas—Cariow Hamilton, Lord C. —Tyrone Hawes, B. -Lambeth Hill, Sir Rowland—Shropshire —NOES, 50. Hindley, Charles—i-shton Hurt, Francis—South Derby Inglis, Sir R. R—Ox. University James, William—Cumberland Jones, John —Carmarthenshire Kemble, H.—East Surrey Knight, H. G.—Nottinghamshir. Lister, E. Canliire—Bradford Lowther, J. H.—York Lygon, Major-Gen. Hon. H. B.— oriestirshire West. Marsland, Henry—Stockport Matthew, G. B.—Shaftesbury Phillpotts, John—Gloucester Redington, T. N.—Dundalk Roche, William—Limerick Round, Charles Gray—Essex N. Stanley, W. o.—Anglesca Steuart, Robert—Haddington, &e. Tallourd, Mr. Serjeant —Reading Turner, W.—Blackburn Walker, IL—Bury, Lancashire White, Andrew—Sunderland Yates, J. Ashton -Carlow TELLERS. Hastie, Archibald—Paisley Alston, Rowland—Hertiordshite LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEENS BENCH, May 8, THE QUEEN V. LATIMER. Mr. KELLY had to show cause against a rule which had been obtained at the instance of the Earl of Devon, calling upon Mr. Thomas Latimer to show cause why a criminal information should not be exhibited against him for the publication of a libel, lie was instructed to ap pear on behalf of Mr. Latimer, who was the proprietor of a newspaper called tilt Western Times, and the com plaint of the Earl of Devon was, that a publication had appeared in the newspaper reflecting upon his judicial character when presiding as Chairman of the Quarter Sessions for the county of Devon. As soon as it became known to Mr: Latimer that the Earl of Devon thought he had reason to complain of the article in question, he was earnestly desirous of promptly and explicitly dis claiming the slightest intention of throwing the smallest imputation on the honour, the character, or the motives of the Noble Earl. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, after the ample apo logy that had been made, the Earl of Devon had no wish to proceed further.—Rule discharged. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, May 8. WILMSHURST V. BOWKER. The Court gave judgment. The case came before the Court upon an application to enter the verdict for the defendant, non obstante veredicto, on the third plea to the first count. The action was in assumpsit on a contract for the salelicf wheat ; to which the defendant had pleaded that the wheat had been sold upon the terms that the plaintiffs should receive possession thereof upon transmit ting a draft upon their banker to the defendant, which they had neglected to do, and that, therefore, the defend ant was justified in stopping the wheat in transitu. The Court held that the contract set out was conditional as to the transfer of the right of possession, and that, there fore, the defendant was entitled to stop the corn in transitu. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, May 8. DUNN V. ALEXANDER. The plaintiff in this case is the individual who for so long a period has perisisted in his persecution of Miss Burdett Coutts, and the defendant is the gentleman against whom he brought the action, which was tried in the sittings after the last term, for an assault and false imprisonment in this Court, when the Jury found a ver dict for the defendant. That finding, of course, cast the payment of costs upon the plaintiff, who, failing therein, a rule was subsequently obtained, calling on him to show cause why he should not be taken in execution. That rule was on Friday made absolute in consequence of his not appearing either by Counsel or in person to oppose it, with leave to the plaintiff to have the rule re-opened if he presented himself next day. Mr. BAYLEY, seeing the plaintiff in Court, applied to have the rule made absolute definitively. Mr. DUNN then rose, and produced an affidavit to prove that he had been prepared on the first four days of term, and had had his motion set down in the paper, but that from not having had a day rule he had been absent upon the occasion when he was called, and that the cause in consequence had been struck out. He was, however, now present, and with their Lordships' leave would sub mit that upon the postea he was entitled to move for a writ of error. The CounT observed that none of his objections had been indorsed on the postea, and therefore it was impos sible for the Court to entertain them. That being the case the rule must be made absolute. Mr. DUNN prayed that he might be taken to the Qut-en's Bench prison, as the Fleet was so crowded as to be very fast from comfortable, not to say inconvenient. The COURT said that if such a removal were obtained it must be in the usual way, by habeas corpus. Mr, DUNN was then removed in custody to the Fleet. layman. Now, what were. the au thoriti es , leal and ec clesiastical, whose `dicta had beeri bronght forward to support the argument on either side . ? There wa only one case which had occurred in the Ecclesiastical Court on this subject, " Kemp v. Wickes," decided by Sir J. Nicholl in 1809. NOw the opinion of that Learned. Judge strongly confirmed the validity of baptisms per formed by laymen. His decision must necessarily have a great influence on the mind of the Court, especially when it considered the lengthened and elaborate judgment which he had given, and the deep attention he evidently had paid to the question. But the Court was bound to look for it self to the history of the Church, and to consider the views which had been taken by her eminent divines on this subject at different periods of her history. What had been the law of the primitive Christian Church with regard to lay baptisms ? The writings of Tertullian (from which the Court read copious extracts in the•ori ginal), the Legatine and Provincial Constitutions, and the opinions of the Fathers, proved that in early ages the Church allowed baptisms by laymen. Now it had been contended by the counsel for Mr. Escott that the tolerance of such baptisms was one of the errors which had crept into the Romish Church, and so here was an admission that during the possession of extensive power by that Church she allowed baptism by laymen. So, as far as the case at present went, this was the law of the Church up to the time of the Reformation. At this period, however, various alterations had taken place, but none were of any importance until the reign of Edward VL Now, in the new Litany which had been introduced in 1549, and received some slight changes in 1552, it was expressly declared in the form of prayer " for those who were baptised in private houses in time of necessitie," that baptisms by laymen were valid ; and it added, " let them not doubt that those so baptised are sufficiently baptised, and ought not to be ,baptised again." This continued till the reign of Eliza beth, and it now brought the Court down to 1575, when a convocation was holden of the province of Canterbury (though not of York), at which certain canons—fifteen in number—were drawn up, one of which prohibited the administration of baptism by laymen. Now, putting aside the question whether any such canon could have any force, except as showing the opinion of the heads of the Church at that time, this canon, the 13th, was never printed, and only two or three copies of it were now ex tant. Under all the circumstances, it could not be con sidered as in any degree altering the established law. Nothing so clouded, so surrounded by doubt and mystery, could. overture the principle and practice of the Church for ages. In 1584 and in 1595, the directions of the Rubric and the history of the Church alike proved that no alteration had as yet taken place in her laws on the point. And the Court now came •to a most important period. Immediately' after the accession of James, peti tions were presented to him by the Puritans, complaining "of baptism by midwives and women"—to this point alone even their demands were confined, and in conse quence of such complaints -a conference was held at Hampton Court on Jan. 1, 1604, an account of which had been given both by James Montague, then the keeper of the Chapel Royal, and by Dr. Cardwell in his " History of Con ferences" (p. 138), and also a more minute history of it by Dr. Barlow, the then Dean of Chester. On that occasion the King, who was most opposed to lay baptisms of all present, had said " that baptism ought only to be per formed by ministers, but," he added, "that he utterly disapproved of all rebaptization." After a long discus sion had taken place between the Archbishop of Canter bury ; Babington, the Bishop of Worcester ; Bancroft, Bishop of London, afterwards promoted to Canterbury ; and Bitten, Bishop of Winchester, the King, in the words of Dr. Montague, "won from them" that the words "lawful minister" should be introduced into the Rubric, and that any other person performing the rite of baptism should be punished. So the Hampton con- . ference amounted to this, that these learned divines, then and there assembled, expressed their disapprobation of baptisms by laymen, but their conduct on that occasion could not be construed into a complete alteration of the law of the Church on so important a point, by which lay baptisms would be rendered void. So, on the main question for the decision of the Court—the positive validity of baptism by laymen, when it had actually been administered—the law of the Church was, up to this period still the same, and that law was, "Non fieri debet sed factum valet." The principle remained in statu quo at the time of the Restoration. The alterations which had taken place in the reign of Charles the Second, by which amongst other things, the Rubric then in force was made (and it still remained so) the law of the land, left this point in the same position. After the conference which had been held in the Savoy, and the meeting of both Houses of Convocation in 1661, the Book of Common Prayer had been revised, and some changes introduced ; but in substance the law of the Church as to lay baptisms stood as before. At this pe riod the term " lawful minister" had been for the first time used, but Bishop Wheatley and other learned ec clesiastical authorities had strongly argued that the words were not intended solely to include those minis ters who had been episcopally ordained. The last pe riod to which the Court need advert—the last of any im portance previously to "Kemp v. Wickes,"—was 1712, when a conference had been held at Lambeth, an account of which had been given by Burnet in the " History of his own Times," and also in the "Life of Archbishop Sharpe." At that time it was clear that the decided opinion of the Bishops was in favour of lay baptism, for a declaration had been drawn up by them prohibiting their-clergy from re-baptising those who had been al ready baptis e d by l aymen . So much for the law as proved by the history of the Church, and the circum stances of each separate period. But many authorities had been quoted, to some of whom the Court was bound to refer. (The Learned Judge then read at considerable length extracts from the works of eccle siastical writers, Bishop Wheatley,Bishop Fleetwood, Dr. Waterland, Mr. Laurence, who, though a layman, wt.s learned on polemical subjects, Bingham, Kelsall, and " that most judicious and able writer, that universally respected and truly pious man, Richard Hooker.") From these authorities the law of the Church was evidently this :—She disapproved and discouraged in later times (though in the earlier ages of her history she had not even gone this length) all baptisms by laymen, but she held them not to be invalid when once performed. And she made no distinction between ordinary lay bap tisms and those which were heretical or schismatic. On that it was not necessary to say more. According, then, to this the obvious principle and practice of the Church for 1,300 years, in her primitive days, during the Romish power, at the time of the Reformation, at the commence ment of the seventeenth century, when the Hampton Con ference was held, of the eighteenth century, when that at Lambeth took place, and of the present, when " Kemp v. Wickes " was decided, the party now proceeding had es tablished his case, and the notice having been given to the clergyman, he was bound according to the canons and constitution of the Church of England to bury the corpse of the child, Elizabeth Ann Cliff. He had failed in proving his articles, and he had thus subjected himself to ecclesiastical censure. It had, with a most praiseworthy and benevolent spirit, been declared that the party proceeding was only desirous that Mr. Escott should be admonished and not canonically punished ; but the Court had no alternative, according to the canon under which the present proceedings had been instituted. It declared that a clergyman refusing to bury a corpse brought to him after due notice should be sus pended for three months ; and, accordingly, that sen tence ratist b 9 VQllOlll l le4 in, the costs of the prose.nt proceedings, The proctor for Mr. Escott immediately gave notice of an appeal. Sir H. JENNER occupied between four and five hours in the delivery of his judgment, during the whole of which time the Court was crowded. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM TILE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. CHRONICLE.—The Times and the Tories are well matched. Day after day the Times—not years ago, but within these few weeks—was urging Mr. Labouchere to attack the West Indian, Timber, and other monopolists, and boasting of the generous support he would receive from the Opposition if he threw himself fairly on the country. On the 16th March last, for instance, the Times told us that— " The measures introduced by Mr. Labouchere to the House of Commons on Friday evening for the relief of the commerce of the West Indies and the North American colonies. are a very scanty application of the principles which the Right Ilo" nourable Gentleman laid down, a very tardy advance in that able policy of Mr. Huskisson, which has now been ap plauded and abandoned for fifteen years, and a very slender instalment of those commercial benefits which the people of this country and of our dependencies demand from the legis lature It was justly remarked in the course of the de bate, that it is a galling spectacle to see the duties of the colo nies lightened, nhile nothing is done to remove the most onerous and unprofitable restrictions borne by the people of the mother country. The Times then enters into a detail of the alterations which Mr. Labouchere's proposition would effect, after which it proceeds thus " The principal motive which has guided the Board of Trade in the selection of these particular points of relief seems to be no other than the hope that they were so innocent or unimpor tant as to elide a vigorous opposition. Are the Government afraid to throw themselves on the good sense of the House of Commons and the country ? Have they not had repeated proof that the grand interests of our commerce will not be con verted by the principal Members of the Opposition into wea pons of offence ? We await the disclosures of the Chancellor of the Exchequer with anxious doubts—doubts not as to the financial embarrassment of the country and the manifest defi cieiusy of the public revenue, but as to the principle avid meansby which the Exchequer is to be replenished. For the only option which the Government is free to use consists either in extending the bases of taxation by enlarging and relieving the class of consumer!, or in narrowing that class and increasing its actual burdens, to the great injury of all trade and of the general welfare." On the 18th March, the Times, referring to various propositions for relieving the distresses of the labouring classes, observes— " But amongst those remedies, those which are undoubtedly most secure, most ripe, and most urgent, are connected with the improvement of our commercial system, and the extension of our commercial relations with other countries. " It is no slight addition to th e c l a i ms o f a c ause which has already so much justice and reason on its side, that they are backed by the most appalling statements of the present (testi.. tion and progressive decline of our manufacturing population. The sufferings of millions demand relief, even though that re lief were not identical with the truest policy of England. But the welfare of the mass is identical with the interests of the country ; and it is because the general prevalence and the ge neral loss have not been fairly measured against the particular advantage of a protected interest that the energies of the coun try are weighed down by an unequal and injudicious system of taxation. A.ll.4clmg to its former proposition to reduce the sugar duties, it observes--, With how much more weight should we have spoken, if we asked our rulers not only to benefit the p l an ter, and to in crease the revenue, but to fe e d t h e people by diminishing the Atitios op colonial produce—by adjusting t h e taxes on corn non system better ealculitted to avoid the evils of excessive away . the daties p w ri hi ech exclade ir us lim ibit mm #t 'ram et fluctuation 'in c and ente rohion, tud, itang to our own revenue,'' The Tine's then extracts a long passage from the Re : port of the 1-4tnd : li-top l with gommispmers, recommending e ( ) l2 c°ssi ms to the States Ay . fefernce 10 00 Y 10. 1841 tariff, to Brazil, and 0 Northern Germany, and proceeds to ob.,erve— "In short, whatever be the legitimate influence of •di plomacv on commerce, it is very evident that if we do not treat with other countries, other countries will treat witnout us, and that the extension of our trade will be impeded as long as such treaties last, since they are expressly calculated to give supreme advantages to the intercourse of those other countries. It is not so much the opportunity for successful commercial negotia tion that is wanting as the ability to improve it." In another laboured article, the Times reproached Ministers for not sufficienty attending to the interests of consumers, and even went so far as to- tell them that they were too easily frightened by the opposition of the timber monopolists when they abandoned Mr. Poulett Thomson's scheme for placing the duties on Canadian and Baltic timber on a more equitable footing. And yet this same Paper, which thus reproached Ministers with their timidity, and called on them to attack the mono polists, and assures them of the support of the Opposi tion, has the unparalleled effrontery to join with the monopolists against Ministers, and to applaud the dis honourable policy of the Tories. The critical conflict of parties upon the questions in volved in the Ministerial Budget commenced, but, as our readers will perceive, did not terminate, yesterday evening. It might have been supposed that, in cases of this nature, where, as every body knows, the point really at issue is a dif ferent thing from the question under debate, the country might have been spared the infliction of a tedious succession of speeches. What is the use of talking about financial propositions notori ously brought forward to serve a political and not a financial pur pose ? What rational object can be attained by prefacing with a series of dissertations on the principles of free trade and politi cal economy a division, which cannot furnish any test of the degree in which those principles are accepted in Parliament? On the other hand, we see no great advantage in expatiating for a week together upon the horrors of slavery, in an assembly which has really met to put an end to a political crisis by a vote of confidence or no-confidence in a poor-oppressing Ministry. We do not, of course, mean, either that Lord John Rus sell, when he utters sententious maxims about the impolicy of needless or excessive commercial restrictions, is playing the hypocrite, or that Lord Sandon is not perfectly sincere when he deprecates the Ministerial proposal, as to the sugar duties, on the score of its tendency to encourage negro slavery. But we feel that these topics are merely collateral to the point at issue, and that they are, on both sides, chiefly re sorted to for the sake of giving to a party struggle the imposing appearance of a conflict of popular principles. The arguments de rived fromthem weigh,no doubt,with both parties, but they are not the reasons by which their line of conduct has been practically determined. Free trade is thrust forward by the Whigs to cover the retreat of the New Poor-law, and to break the onset of its victorious assailants. Under the shadow of • a banner dear to many of her opponents, and by the help of a popular watch word, despotism hopes to gain time to rally her broken forces and to daunt her adversaries with the fear that in striking her down they may endanger something else which they would fain preserve. What can be said to profligate and unblushing aban donment of principl e lik e this? Notorious as the Times is for utter and reckless disregard of honesty, it is im possible not to be stfuck with its systematic calls on Ministers to proceed boldly with its free trade principles, in full reliance on the support of the Opposition, and its turning suddenly round, exclaiming the principles are of no consequence whatever—it is quite enough that by proposing them Ministers have brought on themselves the enmity of the different classes of monopolists, by whose help the Tories may drive them from office. The Times, we repeat, is worthy of the Tories, and the To ries of the Times. The views and honesty of th% party are admirably represented by the most unprincipled Journal in the world. We have been surprised to hear doubts ex pressed as to the course to be pursued, if the com bined and factious opposition of Tories and Monopo lists to the financial and commercial reforms now before Parliament shall bring on another crisis. That it will be so, in fact, is certain ; nor shall we be astonished if Lord Sandon's hypocritical resolution, so ably exposed by Lprd John Russell, is carried by a considerable ma jority. But we are surprised at the question of some well meaning persons in the streets, " Will the consequence be resignation or dissolution ?" Do these persons mean to affirm the Tory imputations on the Government, and to say that the propositions of Lord J. Russell and the Chan cellor of the Exchequer were solely intended to cover the retreat of the Cabinet, and to embarrass their suc cessors ? Has it all, therefore, been mischievous child's play ? Was Lord John Russell"s feeling description of the sufferings and privations of the poor at Bolton only brought forward to colour his picture, to justify his good intentions ; or, as his enemies would allege, to excite the animosity of the poor against other classes of society, and lead to ferments and tumult under the repressive policy of another Sidmouth Administration at the Home-office ? Or, were the motions for the repeal of the odious Corn laws, the reforms in the Budget and of the Financial Customs Bill, brought forward by a Government truly bent on relieving to the utmost of their power the pro ductive industry of the country from the trammels and restrictions of a vicious and antiquated com mercial code, and the oppressions of the national debt—the precious legacies to their countrymen of George Rose and William Pitt ? If they were not pre pared for an appeal to the country on the subject of the Budget, reflecting and considerate men will doubt ex tremely whether more mischief than good may not have been done by opening such wide and extensive schemes of change to the nation. They must have been aware, however strong was their own conviction of the justice of the principle on which they proceeded, however pressing were the instances of the industrious classes for its adoption, that there was not much chance of car rying their measures in the present Parliament. In fact, the present crisis 'must have arisen und er an y Government. Either new - taxation, or " a judicious alte ration of the protective and differential duties" became necessary the moment the expenditure of the country exceeded the revenue. Ministers knew that they could not depend upon a vote among their own supporters for new taxation. Even Lord Howick emphatically de clared that he would oppose either tax or loan till the re commendations of the Committee on Import Ditties had been tried. His Lordship's opinion was a fair index of that of Reformers generally, and provided that Ministers even if their measures had not been founded on their own conviction of expediency, were right in their esti mate of the prevailing sentiments of their party on the subject. The result of an appeal to the people against Tory combination, the Carlton Club purse, its ready application in the more restricted constituencies, com bined with the efforts of bigoted land-owners, East and West Indians, monopolists of all other classes—for they boast of their general confederacy—new converts to the cause of the Negro, the Anti-Poor-law, and No Popery cry, may even be doubtful. But that is the affair of the country. The Ministers will have done their duty, and may rest satisfied that, under their gui dance, whether in or out of office, if the country shall determine on the change, the truth will ultimately pre vail. There will, in any Milt, be a sufficient power in the House of Commons returned by the great towns, by Ireland and by Scotland, to prevent all the mischief that might have been apprehended by an unreformed Par liament, from power being transferred for a short inter val to the opponents of Reform, the abettors and sup porters of slavery, and the oppressors of Ireland. Dr. Lushington will repent of the silly course he has adopted in supporting Lord. Sandi:Ws:resolution. He' has, indeed, added little in the way of argument to the party to which he has lent himself ; but a name is something with the country, and we are sorry to see him throw away his reputation. The West Indians promise great things in tha way of supplying the British market ; but in the meantime the masses of this country are referred for relief to a contingency, To a well-fed gentleman in the receipt of many thousands a year a vegetable diet PONY 4 and then may be no great evil ; but the poor spinners and weavers can ill afford to try fur ther experiments in the way of starvation. To them sugar is a necessary of life. But why are the West In dians to have a monopoly of our market p It is clear that Dr. Lushington is throwing obstacles in the way of the great experiment now making whether free, labour can beat slave labour. It is only by supplying the, la bour market adequately that we can hope to beat the slave countries, and Dr. Lushington would diminish the motives to obtain a due supply of labour. In the mean time, by keeping sugar dear in the Bri tish market, while the Continental market is sup plied with low-priced sugar, he is giving a bounty to Continental trade, 4114 enabling it to compete advan tageously 'with this country, This, of' course, enriches the Continental consumers, and encourages the slavery by which the additional supply of sugar is obtained. 'I he protection to our colonists is quite sufficient, if it is not wished that they should have the exclusive supply of our markets at a monopoly price. The knowledge that if prices rise beyond a certain sum foreign sugars will be admitted, will stimulate them to exertions they would not otherwise make. Dr. LushingtOn is the real enemy of free labour, as he unquestionably is the enemy of the working population of England. POST.—Whatever indignation certain persons in the Government may affect at the supposition that the pro posed change in the Corn-law is al a trick to make an agitation in their favour, we still hold the opinion that it is a trick of that description, and nothing else. We are confirmed in that opinion by the rate of fixed duty which Lord John Russell has mentioned. It is quite ridiculous, and he cannot but know that it will thus be considered. The policy ,of fixing such a sum was no doubt to satisfy all persons of the Whig party connected with the land that the Ministers were not in earnest, and that they only meant the proposition as the means of get ting up a little popularity. Had a duty of 14s, on wheat beenproposed, it might have been thought that Ministers really contemplated the experiment of a fixed duty, and their party in the country might have experienced something like dread of what might happen. But when such a duty as Bs. the quarter is proposed, it is seen at once to be so preposterous that no Government could really have contemplated any such thing, The Minis ters know very well that they could have no more chance of carrying this than Lord John Russell would have of carrying Lord Melbourne on his back from London to Coventry, without letting him once drop in th e dirt. And this will be, in fact, the QXOII4O of the honest, very honest, Whig Adinlitistration to its country friends, " Pooh, pooh !" will the pleasant Premier oNQialin t 64 Didn't you see it was all a joke ? You couldn't really suppose that we had any idea of letting in foreign wheat on payment of Bs. quarter. We knew you would see at once there were reasons of State for the proposal, but that the actual carrying into effect of such a change was out of the question. You could not think I was mad enough to dO anything of that kind." Such we believe to be the true interpretation of the absurd measure of which the Go vernment has given notice. We btlive it to 6-7-espe cially in :conseo nern a what Lora John Russell has said—a ineic OfClc of a factious Government, which has nothing to depend upon but shifts and stratagems, and. which has now grown desperate from the wearing out of those tricks that hitherto have succeeded. • 81111784 gP4 1 1 . .-.7-4? weleeine' sound which .carried on its jae.tis:Odes the death-knell of the bread tax has rdy.erberated thiough the length and breadth of the land, and its re7eclio fell upon the ast,ol4o WiCif the Opposition on Vliday ffening tiAg o f aise of Com rflops 110 09 4041 Nte bristling with Anti- Corn-law demonstrations—the east and west are hurry ing to the struggle. Let a dissolution come when it may, the people are prepared. The energies of a waiting nation are now let loose, and the current flows majesti cally in one united and irresistible stream. The Man chester League, with a promptitude and probity which reflects infinite credit on its members; has come nobly forward ; and while it honourably and 'consistently ad heres to its just and unassailable principle that the trade in the first necessary of life should be entirely free, it declares its intention of assisting - the Ministerial project by which the iniquitous sliding scale of duties may be abolished. Situated as, this country is—burdened with Tory debt, and steepev l l'to the neck : from the withering effects of half a century of Tory misrule,—it is to be regretted that the exigencies. Of the* 'revenue should require any assistance from the importa tion of foreign corn ; but there is none who would not rather eat the bread of industry thtt.n that of idle ness, that would not much rather pay a regulated and un derstood duty to Government, than submit-to - an exorbi tant charge that the profit might go to the cash box of the already wealthy and over-privileged. Any improve ment on the present system, if it gives clearness to the plan by which the article is to be taxed, and will give a fixedness to the market that importation may be de pended on at stated times and seasons, must be accept able. The principle of free trade once admitted and sanctioned by the Legislature, will - worfc its way through all difficulties and sophisms, and ultimately become the leading feature in British legislation. To relieve the trade in corn from the thraldom of the landed interest is beginning at the right end. When Mr. Hus kisson first. broached his free trade principles, the landed monopolists were all complacency and acquies cense, for their ideas of reform went no further than to introduce French silks, laces, gloves, and other articles of gentle wear ; but now that the very handi crafts long injured by the partial application of free trade principles have a prospect of being benefitted by their progress, the whole political influence and anger of the Conservative benches is supervened to prevent, if pos sible, their accomplishment. The opposition may, perhaps, for a time retard the success of the proposi tion of Ministers—as they have delayed the comple tion of other important subjects—but the Government and the people once united on a given subject, truth and justice become irresistible, and triumph speedy and secure. ADVERTISER.—We all recollect the instance of the West Indian compensation. At first it was to be fifteen millions, then twenty millions, and that, too, in the form of a loan, and not of a grant. Everybody must remember the hubbub that was made on that oecasion—a hubbub so violent, that in the benevolent enthusiasm in which the nation was at the moment, it was quite forgotten to make the terms which it will now cost the country so much pains and so much cost to obtain. This forbear ance is made no account of by the West Indians, and the cry of " Ruin, ruin !" is made as furiously as the cry of " Wolf, wolf !" by the boy in the fable, with this differ ence, we fear, that the people of England, and not tho rogues, are to be the sufferers on this, as on every other occasion. To show the very preposterous character of this opposition on the part of the West Indians—how fla grantly dishonest !—we have only to call to mind the fact of the relief that has been afforded to them with re gard to the restrictions upon the trade of our colonies, ivhieh forbade them, on the one hand, to go to the cheapest markets for their slaves and for their fish, and for other articles necessary as materials of production, or for the subsistence of their labourers, and, on the other hand, to take their produce by the shortest cut to the most convenient and the most profitable markets. By the relaxation of the former the cost of production has been greatly diminished, and by that of the latter the cost of transport has also been diminished—which 'taken toge ther, and with the proposed difference of 50 per cent. be tween the duties on colonial and foreign sugar, is pretty nearly, if not quite, equal to any advantage which the co lonies now possess, and which ought to suffice to enable them to compete with any and every country in the world. If this be so, the argument drawn from the ten dency of the measure to obstruct the progress of the great experiment of negro emancipation in the West Indies, is all a dishonest Liam, got up to deceive the ho nest abolitionist of slavery, for these Lagos of West In dians know fall well that their pretences are without a shadow of foundation. STEAK NAVIGATION ON THE THAMES. The greatest activity prevails on all parts of the river n building and fitting out new steam-vessels, of all di mensions, intended for th e h ome an d f ore i gn serv i ce ; and the hip-builders, iron steam-boat makers, engineers and boiler manufacturers, have more orders than they can execute to time. The men are working over.hours at several yards and factories, and realizing large wages. The fame of London steam-boats and London - engines has spread all over Europe ;'and recently the Mongi bello, a beautiful steam-ship, has been launched and fitted out on the Thames for the Sicilian Government, and is one of the finest vessels ever designed by English artizans. She was built in Pitcher's yard. The fit tings up of the Mongibello are of a very costly descrip tion. Other steam-vessels are building on the banks of the Thames for the Sicilian and other Italian States. The building of six large steam vessels has been com menced at Northfleet, for conveying the mails be. tween England and the West Indies, and not less than 500 shipwrights are employed upon them. The iron steam-boat factory of Messrs. Ditchburn and. Marc pre sents a busy appearance ; they have recently launched two handsome steamers for the Waterman's Steam- Packet Company ; four others are in a forward state for the same Company, and a large iron steamer to run between Hungerford Market and Gravesend, for the Star Company. The building of iron steamers at Blackwell and the Isle of Dogs has become a very im portant branch of trade, and for rivers and shallow waters ,they are decidedly superior to wooden boats, for they are much lighter, they are not so deep in the water, they are less expensive, and there is no risk of their being attacked with the dry rot. The London and Westminster Steam-boat Company, running be tween Chelsea and London-bridge, have eight of these boats, called the Daylight, Twilight, Starlight, Moon light, Bride, Bridegroom, Bridemaid, and Bachelor. The Waterman's Steam-packet Company intend build ing twenty of these iron boats, at an expense of 3,0001. each. They are intended to ru n between Woolwich and Riamond. The Black wall Railway Company are making great efforts to improve their property by establishing a line of steam packets to run between the terminus at the Brunswick-wharf, Blackwell to Woolwich and Graves end. Three small steamers now leave the terminus every quarter of an hour for Woolwich, and the dis tance between London and Woolwich can now be ef fected in half an hour. The Blackwell Railway Com pany have also built three large steamers to run between the terminus and Gravesend. One has been voyaging between the ,two places for the last fortnight, and the average passage each'is about an hour and a quarter. Two are fitting out in the East India dock ; yesterday they appeared in a very forward state ; they are built very sharp in the bows, and are, indeed, regular clip pers. When those steamers are completed there will be a regular hourly communication between the Blackwell terminus and Gravesend. There are now 14 steamers carrying passengers daily between London and Graves end. In addition to those, others occasionally call at Gravesend, and there will soon be 3 from the Blackwell railway terminus. A powerful steamer, belonging to Mr. Napier, the engineer, called the Eclipse, has lately commenced running between London and Margate, calling at Herne Bay. Tills Eclipse is propelled by one high•pressure ergine, and her speed is wonderful. She performs the passage from Hungerford to Margate and back every day in about 12 hours, calling at Herne Bay going and returning. The two handsome steam vessels, the City of Canterbury and the Red Raver, which have been running between London and Herne Bay with so much success for several years, have met with another opponent this year in addition to the Eclipse —the Mercury, but the Red Rover and the City of Canterbury will never lose their fame. The old steamers are more commodious and comfortable than the new ores, and are built with a broader beam and with much greater strength than those which have been launched during the last two years. Everything is now sacrificed to speed, and many of the new steamers are very slight. They are very appropriately termed " bread and butter boats," and cannot bear a collision with a skiff. Ten steamers are con stantly running between Greenwich and London. but their receipts during the present season have not been sufficient to pay for coals, which may be attributed to the heavy pier dues and the formidable rivalry of the Greenwich Railway, which has a third-class carriage in which passengers are carried for 6d., being 2d. less than the steamers. There has been no increase in the num ber of Irish and Scotch steamships during the present year ; but they do a great trade, and (lady bring up large quantities of' cattle, pigs, and fresh meat for the London market. The Commercial Steam-packet Com pany are doing a steady but not very brisk trade. The General Steam Navigation Company, the most ex tensive in the world, with their able managing di rector, Thomas Brockelbank, Esq., are increasing their powerful and immense fleet of steamers. They have lately purchased the Wilberforce, a large steam-ship, for the Hamburgh station. The General Steam Navi gation Company have recently launched the Princess Royal from Wig ram and Green' s yar d , at Blackwell, end are fitting hr out for the Ipswich trade with en gines and machinery of 200 horse power. The greatest activity prevails at the factory of this company at Dept ford in fitting out new steamers. Last year the vessels of the General Steam Navigation Company carried more than two millions of passengers without the loss of a single individual, or any one receiving the slightest injury. This speaks volumes in favour of the safety of steam navigation when properly conducted.—Sunday paper. SANDWICH ELECTION.--[From a Correspon dent.l—SuriDAT EVENING.—Upon my arrival here I found the friends of both parties exerting themselves to the utmost to promote the success of either candidate, and the Tories having gained'coura.ge by the success which attended their corrupt practices 4t eanterbury during the late contest, now boldlj and unscrupulously endeavour by the same practices to achieve a victory for their nominee, Air. Lindiay. Th e mo re hardened in bribery, corrupt i on , and intimidation have been brought over from Canterbury, Dover, and other places to secure the Tory's retuvu i but I think the Reformers of this borough will be true to themselves, and defeat their manceuvres. The nomina tion, as has been already announced, is fixed for to-morrow, and there is scarcely any doubt but that the show of hands will be in favour ofSolonel Fox. ARCHES' COURT, May 8 THE OFFICE OF JUDGE PROMOTED BY MASTIN V. ESUOTT-REFITSAL TO BURY A WESLEYAN CIIILD. Sir H. JENNER gave his judgment in this case, which has excited so much interest among all classes of the dissenting community, It was a proceeding brought by letters of request from tho Court of the Diocese of Lin coln, by an inhabitant of the parish of Gedney, in that county, against the Rev. Thomas Sweet Escott, vicar of the parish, calling upon him to answer to certain articles touching his sours health, &c., and more especially for having refused to bury the corpse of Elizabeth Ann Cliff, the infant daughter of Thomas and Sarah Cliff, convenient notice having been given him thereof. The proceeding was instituted under the 68th canon, whereby it is decreed that "no minster shall refuse or delay to bury any corpse that . is brought into th e c h u rch or churchyard, convenient warning being previously given to him ; and if he shall refuse to bury the same (except the party deceased . were denounced— excommunicated majors excommumeatione, for some grievous and notorious crime, and no man able to testify of his repentance)—he shall be suspended by the bishop of his diocese from his ministry for the space of three months." The responsive allegation given in beh a lf o f the Re v . M r . E sco tt set forth, that "in the Rubric of th e Book of C ommon P ra yer, which was part and parcel of the statute 13th and 14th Car. 11., c. 4, in the order for the burial of the dead,it was enjoined that such office was not to be used for any that are unbaptised, or excommu nicated, or have laid violent hands upon themselves ; that the deceas e d h a d b een baptised by a minister, preacher, or teacher of the class of persons called Wes leyan Methodists, an d t h at any r i te or form of baptism performed by him was to all intents and purposes null and void, according to the articles, canons, and Rubric of the Church of England —that she was accordingly un baptised in the eye of the law and of the Church, and that in refusing to read the burial service at the interment Mr. Escott had acted in obedience to the laws, canons, and constitution ecclesiastical of his own Church." Long and. learned arguments were addressed to the Court in February last, and the C our t on S a turday delivered its judgment. Having referred to the portance of the present question, and the interest which it or Courtr ()m y,b these ps had naturally excited amongst large bodies of the com munity, the Learned Judge went at considerable length ttbohe that t n e et de v e e m n through the various articles of the allegatinns which had was iinn as n n question to eittbheerw side. From validity tl F e! i c s t m alle . d Pe np, T ar li o P i n 4 s was the point on which the whole dispute turned ; for it was of course admitted that the person by whom thp rite of baptism had been performed in this case--,a teacher of minister of the class of people known as Wesleyan Me thodists—stood on exactly the same footing as any other EVENING EDITION.___ CORN-LAW CRISIS. The following extracts from the Colc:trY Papers will give some idea of the e.xcitezneat which Lord John Russell's motion has created• (From the Kendal Mercury.) We " the people of Westmorland," were ver y glad' not vory lone- ° ago, to have L on d on news t wo or three day! after date. Now, the London evening papers are spread on the tables of our reading rooms by eleven o'clock the following morning. Under ordinary circumstances, the Ministers should have resigned. - But new circumstances immediately oros., which have sent the Irish Parliamentary voters, Bill into a temporary oblivion, and fi xe d th e a ttention 0 ' the whole country—of the entire United King,dorn---cli a question mightier, broader, d ee p er t h an t h e qualifica tion of Irish' voters, for it is a question concerning the life and death of Englishmen and Scotchmen, as well as Irishmen—a question that touches landlords, fanners, masters, and servants—`which touches capital and profit, labour and *Ages—a question, which, while it e xtends its influence over the civilised globe, and follows British commerce into the remotest seas, comes h ome to the British artizan, and glistens in the eyes of his children, when they mount his knee, and imploringly cry for bread. Last Friday week the Chancellor of the Exchequer opened his Budget. But before he did so, Lord Jolla Russell gave warning note of preparation, by hit an; nouncement of an intention to move for a Committee (A the whole House to consider the Acts relating to Corn' This was like a trumpet blast in the House. Then cam e the dreadful expose of the head man of the Exchequ r. The revenue of the country was a great way below expenditure—what was to be done ? New taxes Oli, no ! New taxes in a country whose industry has been so deplorably crippled, and which ought, to be prosperous and to a cer t a i n extent h a pp y ' Therefore, if no new taxes be allowable, wha t ' then ? Liberate the industry of the country ; ' l4/ longer shut it up within the prison walls of monopoly* for the benefit of the Governors of the vast House of ' Correction— " Open your doors, and let me gang free, I darna stay longer in bonnie Dundee !" is the mournful sOng of the Commerce of Great Rritain• The proposals of the Ministry do . not amount---theY scarcely come near—t o FREE TRADE : but they are approach ; and as we have all along advocated the exPe" diency of a gradual approximation, in order that all 11 ,3 Y„ be protected, and inj us ti ce d one to no b o d y, we calla?' but rejoice, in common with the country, in the propos' tion of Ministers. A fixed and moderate dut, on a o rn rd will lead to a steady an d h ea l t h y tra d e i n grain, 44.0 protection to farmers, and give employment to our Ina" nufacturers. It will pave the way to placinc , our e on r merce on a footing far different from the wild, fitful, ir regular condition in which it is at present ; and tho - agli„ we are far indeed from ex p ec ti ng a commerc i a l m i nium, we have at least a right to expect, that insti!ad or, j our commerce being sacrificed to the plough, it should be based on a system which will benefit plough sold con l 7 o merce together. us We are not now going to argue the matter, We hale . done so very recently and repeatedly ; and be the fate of Ministers what it may, th e step t h ey h ave taken •nar.,, given an impulse to the question, which not even wear'," Tory administrations could check. It is debating, nll over the length and breadth of the land ; every man u ' feels it to be a question vitally affecting himself, and therefore roused to its consideration. As to the miserable fallacy, that cheap provisions ply low wages, and that it is no matter to a wor - l'ung man whether the quartern loaf is a shilling or a six; pence, it may he left to die its own miserable death. It is fast expiring : the working man knows that in 18; 5 ",, and 1836, when corn was just half the price ol 1839 . anu 1840 (owing to abundant harvests), he had, more work and better wages than he has ever had since. Th e wretched argument means this, that the T.nore food a mail has for his family, the more miserable lie becomes ; and that is an vgnment which even a F eggar could answe r, for hAino* the difference between an empty and a futh wallet. We are more afraid about the result of the modificati ,, of the sugar* duties than about the Corn-laws. There are a number of philanthropic individuals in this country, with their heads and hearts so completely enlisted in the Anti-Slavery cause, that they are willing to maintain an injurious monopoly under the idea that they are prw motingthe cause of humanity. We give them full credit for their humanity, but it tAtust not run away with their judgment. There are people at home to be benefited, 115 ' . IA 45 . 1 as people abroad ; and by admitting foreign sugars', at a rate of duty quite sufficient to protect the. Wo - ,t Indies, we not only take care of our own colonies, but I,y opening commercial relations with slave holding cor.n . tries, we are opening channels for pouring into them 'Jur anti-slavery p r i nc i p l es wider and.,broader than any o cher we can at present command. The battle commences —or rather commenced—c° Friday night. All the great powers of monopoly are gathering together, to defeat the intentions of the Ministry. They may obtain a, temporary triumph : boy never will the industrious classes of. this country res t until they place their trade and commerce on,a footing, which will k ee p th em f rom wasting their energies in use - , less exertions —from " labouring in vain, and spending: • their strength for nought." re '1 [We recommend the following petition, drawn up are assured, by working men at Lewes, to the considerti tion ottheir class throughout the empire.] CHEAP FOOD ! FULL WORK ! HIGH WAGES ! In 1835, the price of Wheat, for the whole year, w 0 Thirty-nine Shillings and Fourpence per Quarter whole cost of the Year's consumption (16,000,000 gn sr- ters) was only 31 , 400 ,000 1 . leaving a large'smai to-be'e3. pended in manufactured goods of all kinds, which go' full empOyment to all. DEAR FOOD ! LITTLE WORK ! LOW WAGES In 1839, the price of Wheat, for the whole year, vAls Seventy Shillings and Eightpence per Quarter the whole cost of .the year's consumption (16,000,600 Quar ters) was 56,533,0001. ! ! ! leaving 25,000,0001. less to spend on manufactured goods of all kinds than 5 ,n 183 5, which has thrown thousands out of employuient, re duced wageS, caused starvation, disease, and death ! • To the Honourable the Commons of the United King dom of Great Britain and Ireland, 'in Parliament' assembled. The Petition of the undersigned Inhabitants of the, borough of Lewes, in the county of Sussexl, and its vicinity, Showeth,—That your petitioners consider themselves grievously oppressed by the operation of certain laws called the Corn and Provision-laws. That the avowed object and certain effect of these laws is to make * bread sell at a high price ; and to prevent all kimls of butcher's meat, if produced and brought from foreign countries, from being sold at all. That frdm a Report of your Honourable House, it appears that a greater amount of money is taken from the people by these laws than by all the other taxes levied by Government, and that the amount has been estimated nt fifty million pounds sterling per annum. That ?Jur petitioners are severely suffering from the want of profitable employment, which is felt alike by workmen and their masters ; and the want of profitable' employment your petitioners learn from the Reports of • your Honourable House, is, in a great degree, owing ta. the high price at which food is sold in this country, a nd . which high price of food it is the object of the Corn and Provision -laws to produce. That your petitioners' wages do not by any means rise and fall with the price of their food, as certain ignorant and interested persons have often asserted, but appear to your petitioners to be much more influenced by the de mend which exists from time to time for the labour of the workman and the production of his industry. That in illustration of this opinion your petitions r record with sorrow their mournful experience of the few last years, during which the price of bread has doubled,' - : while wages have barely advanced at all, and the con stoney of their employment has diminished. Your petitioners therefore pray your Honourable House =' forthwith to repeal the Corn and Provision-laws, and= by so doing afford a free scope to the industry of your petitioners, and remove from the ,legislation of the. • , ' 1 country the stria and opprobrium of withholding from the people their daily bread. .•rf, And your petitioners will ever pray. 'if °. • Art, I m (From the Liverpo o l J ourna l . ) IHE GREAT PROBLEM.—The great problem is now to : be resolved, whether the people of England are really • far enough advanced in moral courage and intellectual cultivation to see the right object of good goVernment, and to make efforts sufficiently strenuous to secure it. Long and often has it been asserted that the Ministers, were to blame for their timidity ; that they were behind( the spirit of the age ; that they had but to put the4p- : ?I , selves at the head of the movement towards free trade to be borne along by the enthusiastic voices of the peoplo ; that sordid monopoly would quail before the arouse giant of public opinion, as it did ten years ago, na o, o similar occasion. Well, the Minist ers have e done so. J. ! Tardily, but decisively at last, they have declared War • with the three greatest mont)polieS with which this country is cursed—those of corn, timber and sugar. They have declared war with them, not in the abstract, but in ' degree. On the result, vast material interests depend— interests to which even the existence of a Liberal Go vernment is subsidiary. It will decide whether, at the same time, trade shall be revivified, the returns of capi— tal and the wages of labour enhanced, and the revene • , augmented ; or, whether trade shall continue to dwinc le, and the people to sink lower and nearer to the zer) of misery, a vast portion of our population thrown on the land, and other permanent property, for maintenance, • and the deficiency in the revenue supplied by a direct ,;.; • abstraction from every man's earnings, in the shape of an income tax. In two words, the issue is national ruin, or national prosperity. (From the Carnarvon Herald.) The most remarkable result of the step about to be . • taken by Ministers, is the liberalizing effect it seems t have produced upon certain Tory landlords. They bee ,in to see that every restriction upon corn is neither m ire • nor less than a tax ; and as a fixed duty upon for A gri wheat would, to the extent of that duty, act as a tax upon the consumer, they are determined to resist to the very knife, " this attempt to iasten a bread-tax upon the people." So says my Lord Win chelsea ! So say they all ! Heaven bless them ! How kind they have grown ! They would, in sheer goodness • of heart, rather sell corn to the people at eighty shil lings under protection, than allow them to have it at fifty . under a tax. It is to hoped (in order that such charity be properly appreciated), they will condescend too explain how it is that a duty of twenty-three shillingsi, when paid as a protection to the grower, is less a tar.; upon the consumer, than six or seven shillings paid to • the revenue ; since, unless better instructed, there may be people silly enough to prefer paying a small sum to Government, rather than a large one to monopolists.. (From the Lancaster Guardian.) W e seek the abolition of the bread-tax, and nothing else will satisfy the people. Let this be solemnly gua ranteed, and the electors of Great Britain will, we most confidently pr e di c t, carry them triumphantly throug a it h tl dil ail COl rot CUT ate th e liki stri thu All an( spa tit 1