The Sun. — London, England, 1841-09-23 00:00:00

EVENING SUN CORN LAWS AND COYBIERCIAL REFORM. YOUNG MEN'S ANTI-MONOPOLY ASSOCIATION. A meeting e Voe Young Men's Anti-Monopoly Association was held at the, Allersgate Institution last evening, when the propriety of eriF ing a general meeting of the Society to memo rialise the Qr teen was agreed to unanimous'•. The meeting will be held :at Finshury Chapel on Monday nest, when a numerous attendance is anticipated. P 11 , 8 , :IC ro, 'M The e e EETING AT STOCKPORT. b onrho o d h ,4 bf the operative classes of this town and neigh thought ',tying lat e l y i ncreased to an alarming extent, it was this vi . olvisable to call a public meeting on the subject. With bore a - a requisiti on , signed by about 400 gen tl emen o f t h e e 4 -. Er ss s, was last week presented to the 3laeor, W. Andrew, 41-e complaining of the p resent di stressed state of the town, the ''-he propriety of memo r i a li s i ng t h e Q ueen not to prorogue .Aw. . House till t h ey h ave fully considered the Corn and Provi en-hews. _ In compliance with this requisition, the Mayor convened a Public meeting, which was held in the Court-house, on Mon- - day ev en i ng last. Long before the proceediugs commenced the S P C l i i.T lI S TG I EL LIGENCE. room was crammed almost to suffocation. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) The, Ni :AVAI L occupied the chair. . OSWESTRY RACES.—TUESDAY. .T , he C ;tip The 'Any. C. BAKER moved, " That the distress at present of 50!., added to a Handicap of 15 soya. each. Mile and a half. ex istir.o* i, unparalleled in extent and severity ; that from the (Cartwright) 1 dimi'maion in trade many factories are closed, many honest, 1 "r. Price's Prince Albert, 4 yrs 11Ir . .. •• •• 2 i,(l'estrious workpeople are without employment, or the. means Hornby's Champagne, 4 yrs °` obtaining •a livelihood ; that wages are on the decline, and Mr. Copeland 's Chantilly,:, yrs, and Hr. Clarke's The Mar got suffieieut, to proside for and maintain the population ; that ' pis were not placed. sene-fifth of the houses of this borough are tenantless, and at The Shropshire Stakes of 20 sovs. each, h ft, with 50 added. ihast an e qua l num b er pay i ng no rent on account of the poseerty I - Heals. -of the tenants; that the crowding of the population together is Mr. Price's Lady Abbess, 5 yrs (Cartwright) 1 1 highly prejudicial a nd i n j ur i ous to h ea lth ; th a t wan t o f erne. 1 Mr. 'Smith's The Maid, 4 yrs 2 2 P l °Yrnent, the unremuneratine rate of wages, the hieh prices . o f Mr. Kinchant nd. bg by The Earl, 4 yrs . 3 3 Provisions, and the general depression of trade, are . produ ;Si ve The North Shropshire County Members Plate of 501., added to a Sweepstakes of 5 soya. each, h ft. Side and a half bests. j ut' the deepest distress among all classes of her Majesty' , .. , sub_ to Mr. Bower's Lady Grove, 4 yrs . (Marlow) 1 I J t e h eta ; and that all these calamities are likely to increase 2 dr Mr. Saunders' Kitty Cockle, aged -- e'' anroachieg winter, unless memo are. adopted to, render 3 dr trade more flotri,hine and provisions more abundant, ~...hic h , i n Mr. Browne's Talebearer, aged and the ()pillion of this meeting, cannot be accomplished "sh list the • The Cavalry Officers' Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, 2 fr, in two heate by Mr. Jones' Dediamus. P r %'"at• system of restrictive commercial policy exi , h „. i. ), 25 added, were won ‘'ir' ICA LPH PENDLEBURY seconded the resole .ton, and said, that x,O eloquence was necessary to convince 0 of re vaitile distress. H e hoped that the petite an lem whi the p ch would ;;_ni'-tiete from th a t mee ti ng would be numc foully signed, and nr ioeht it would not be improper -if the fe male portion . of the l'ov.ulat iou also signed a petition to the Qu s le• A. CAMPBELL supported the t ten. .w solution, and con the gratulated the meeting on the feelir sr; wh i ch had b roug h t m together. He gave a detail of the existing dis. " t ress, • and said that he (Mr. Ca'er.pbell) had lately vi !ited eighteen famiLes, anti found that the income of the ti,rst• family amounted only to 2-1 - 1 • per day for meat and etuthi. • Ag to each individual ; the se ,eond, 2d per head per day ; the third, Id. per dab ; fourth, I. 4d., and so on in proportion. 1 . (- 1 ) faenity- had only an average of 4d. per head each day for ''''d aad clothing ; and there v ere many families in the bo rough whose present means did not average more than lAd. Per day, A sly „, ght opposition was offered to the resolution by a few Chartist=, who had coif' , turbine the meeting; le et it was passed with only three dissen tient.veices. - The Rev. H. BAT ,LEY moved, " That the Corn and Provi sion taxes (exacted fur the ex c lu s i ve b ene fit o f a f ew , an d not for the purpose of revenue), by denying the right of the peo ePle to exchange die labour of their hands for the food and other products of other countries, are the chief causes of the present smear r alleled depression in trade, and the intense and aggravated sr ,if er i n e s g of the people; and that they are unjust, eanchristian, and unscriptural." The Rev. Gentleman„ in an eloquent sr,; eeen, convinced th e mee ti ng o f t h e trut h of the re solution. The R ev. J. WADDINGTON seconded the resolution, which wad one nimously passed. He '...!oreocx, Esq., Town •clerk, moved the third resolution, svhich, was to the effect, that a memorial be presented to the Quo an, praying her Majesty not to prorogue the two Houses of F. arliament- until they had entered upon a full consideration oft he Corn and Provision taws. Mr. Coppock feelingly ad,..: ye tied to the present distressed state of the inhabitants, and rat) .r.omber of empty d welliegs in the borough. At the taking' f of the census, a few months ago, there were 2,155 empty deisell ings in the boroueeh. During the last seven weeks, the d-wsress (of the inhabitants 'had increased to an alarming extent. ) n the 'week ending, Arm. 6, the Board of Guardians gave, it 1 out •dons- relief, broad to the amount of 1,45711 is • Ate gust 13, 1,7051bs ; August 20, IX lilts. ; August 27th ' , 2. ;IbBlbs. ; September 3(e, 2,6501.b5; September [olh, 2,81? . .ths ; and September 17th, 3,3711b5. of bread were given 'in out-door relief. The out-door relief in money during thee same time had been acout 13,0/. per week. CHARLES lir.iosort, Esq., seconded the adeption of the memorial, and e,uggeeted that the statement of tb.e Town-clerk, Relative to the amount of out-door relief, be a tided thereto. This Was :av,reed upon, and the resolution was carried unani•• snously. . • A vete of thanks was then given to the Chairman, and the meeting separated. . A very is .rge meeting of the Political Institute was held ye , terciay e v ening ( Wednesday). at the Baptist Chapel, 148, Holborn, t u corwlder the urgent necessity of petitioning the Queen no' : to prorogue Parliament until something should be done t(s re.ieve the di tresses ef the country, and a petition. to that eff ect was framed, find reso . ved to be presented. LIVERPOOL JULY MEE PING.-IVEDNESPAY. The St. Leger Stakes of 25 sor,t. each. with 50 added. Ali!e and three quarters. Mr. Bell's The Squire, 3 yrs (Conelly) I Mr. Ogden's Brother to Harpurhey, 3 yrs Won easy. The Selling Sta,ke cf 10 sovs. each, h ft, with 50 added; the second to save his stakes, and the winner to be sold for 201 Mile and half heat?. Mr. Bell's La Sale Fernine, 5 yts ( Conolly )0 4 1 1 Mr. Wilkins' Clem o' the Cleugh, 5 vrs 0 1 5 2 Mr. Buckley's cby Laurel—Shochor a , 3 yrs O5 4 3 Lord Eglinton's Assagat, 3 yrs ... ...... ... 0 0 2 dr Mr. Worthington's Northendera, 6 yrs Mr. Osborne's The Emperor, 3 yrs Mr. G , odman's Sister to Cileneoe, 3 yrs . The first was a. dead heat between Assagai and the Laurel colt. The Palatine Stakes o'.' 25 Sovs. each, 10 ft, and a Gold Cup Mr. Gra add d. 2 miles. don's Clir. ker, 5 y rs ( ) Noblel Mr. Vansitt.yt's Sinollett, 6 vrs Mr. Bell's Thlrsic, 3 yrs The Lord Mayor, 5 yrs, Ernest The First, 5 ) rs, Naworth, 4 yrs, ri,emnant, 4 yrs, and amengardis, 3 yrs, were not placed . ___ AI3INGDON RACES.—YESTERDAY. The Produce Sweepstakes of M) 5 , 3v3. each, half forfeit. Ca One Mile. ptain clrardnor's c by Camel out of Cecilia ... walked over. The Cap Stakes of 10 sore, each ; second to save his stake, an' the winne r to be sold for 500. Mile and half heats. Mr. Duffield ad Vapour, 4 yrs ........ ••• ...... (Horseley) Mr. Et wa ll' s c b y Alulatto, out of Melody, 4 yrs 2 '..s r. Day's. Tamburini, 5 yrs • Mr. He r b ert ' s Arct i c, aged 3 4 , The o:td Berkshire Hunt Stakes of 10 sore. each half forfeit. Two miles. Mr. Roe's Stickler. aged .... Tile Holme Park Stakes of 10 says. each, five forfeit., with 15 added. Heats. Abingdon Course. Mr. J. Shackers Cantle, 4 yrs (F. lluckle) 4 1 1 Captain Gardnor's lEthon. 3 yrs 1 0 0 Mr. Blackstone na. Australia, 3 yr. Captain Fettat's Caliph, aged ... The Bran Sakes of 6 soya. each, with 25 added. One mile. Mr. Laycock'sb or hr f out of La•ly Buckingham (Crickmere) 1 Mr. T. B. Myer's Steam-whistle . Mr. Kinnard's b c out of Maria... Mr. T. M. Goodlake's eh f out of Beauty 4 BEDFORD RACES.---YESTEILDAY. The Duke of Bedf !rd's Purse of 501. Onco round anu a dis. Duke of Grafton's Nick s 3 yrs (Stephens) 1 Mr. Bradford's Vigilance, 3 yrs .. Mr. Stirling's Pocket Viper, Mr. Sotverby's Plimgari, and Hon. G. Ongley's Humility also ran. Her Majesty's Plate of 100 Guineas. Three n' 11r. Pettit's It. Francis, 6 yrs ... Walked over The Two Years Old Stakes of 10 Sors . earn, and 20 alded. Three quarters of a mile. LEICESTE - it. — - One hundred and fifty of the most respectable inhabitants of leice s ter, in one day, have signed a requisition to John Biggs, Esq., Mayor, to call a meeting, to cr.msider the propriety of memo rialising the Queen, and of petitioning Parliament to enter on the immediate consider-410n of the Corn and Pro 'vision -laws. Thi e Mayor has appointe.l . , thi s evening (Thursday) for a public meeting to be held '.,t the New Hall. Mr. Shelley's Joie Duke of Grafton's Lisburn AL. Beresford's filly and Dlr. Booth's St. Jean D'Acre also ran. • .......... (Pettit) 1 The Woburn Stakes of 10 Sov . s. each. Heats two miles. Mr. Booth's Benjamin, 4 yrs , .... ...(Sly) 2 1 1 Mr, Shelley's Hu on , 3 y rs 1 2 dr Lord Sandwich's Normar:oy, aged I :3RIGHTON. The' following is r,xtensively circulated in this town : "V 9 orki,ag rr.eti ! you pay a tax of tenpence upon every stone .of flour you d your wives and little ones consume. If there was not ran it famous bread -tax, you and your families might buy three loaocv, for the same money that you now pay for two. Upon ever y shilling you pay for bread, meat, bacon, eggs, vege tables, &c ~ you pay 4d. tax for monopoly. Down, down with the crud Corn-law." -- MURDER ".. - N EASTCHEAP. LATEST PA:tITICULARS THIS DAY. Mrs. Blexley, I F.e victim of her husband's ungoverned passions, still rdrvives, but she continues in a state of the most, imminent danger, and her ultimate recovery A ,. is 'exceedingly improbable. 'fhe murd erer i s not yet a ehended, and the general opinion is, that he committed suicide by throwing himself into the 'n a mes. immediately after the perpetration of his atrocious trim e. It appears he was traced to the Tower-stairs, there all further traces of him were lost. If he yet lives the police have no clue to the place of his retreat, but the probability is that he has drowned himself. The greatest ex citement prevails in the neighbourhood, and notwithstaning the drenching rain which has continued all the morning, the street opposite the house of the late unfortunate Mr. Burden has been crowded to excess. M ITC Ei A AI . Apa ‘blic meeiing of the Alitcham Anti-Corn-law Associ ation v sill be held at the Nag's Head Inn, Upper Mitcham, on _Month ty next,, the 27th inst., at seven o'clock, for the purpose et mor aoria:ising the Qaeen, &c. SALFORD. Yo two Mires ANTI-MONOPOLY A SSOCI A lum -....T EA PAs Tr.—The Salford district of this A ssoe ; :ation gave a tea lery at t the Salford Town-'call, on Montl-, y even i ng last, Mr. tclward. Herfcrd. the President of th`.: Association. occupied the Ch a i r, and the meeting was 9 ?Aressed by the Revs. Dr. Beard , J. W. Massie, Mr. C ll 7.lis, of Ohio ; Mr. R. R. R. Moore, and Mr. Cl i ilt on , ; :a animated speeches. Another Party would be trAd il'_ the same place this evening.--; .1 1 1/nra chester Guarrliar, THE BISHOP AND PARSON. TO TILE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR—Your Paper of yesterday contained a couple of letters which passed recently between a Devonshire Incumbent and his renowned Diocesan, Bishop Philpotts ' of Exeter. The upshot of the correspon d ence is, that the Bishop boln.ily took up the gauntl e t w hi c h t h e Rev. Gentleman had thrown down, and the public are to be amused by a religious discussion about Articles of Faith, which are subscribed to much more fre quently than they are believed. It Las been said, that " he who sits in a glass-house should beware of throwing stones ;" and in like manner ought an English Bishop to beware of raising, a controversy upon the antiquated Articles and Canons of our Act of Parliament reli gion. Every prudent Churchman had rather let error take deeper root from year to year, than risk the consequences of an attempt to amend by assembling a Convocation for despatch of business. With a silent Convocation, heresy, perjury, negli genre, and their numerous kindred, cannot, be corrected ; and it being well known, both at Lambeth and it Bishopsthorpe, that an attempt at religious Reform would increase the evils instead of removing them, no attention is now paid to anything but the temporalities of the Church. CARLISLE. A-.14T1-coitx _LAW TEA PATTY. —The Committee of the Carlit4e Ant.- , Corn-law Asiociation gave a soiree on Tuesday evening' I.a:A, to meet the Ministers of this City and neighbour imod wim 4ttr2nded the Manchester Conference, and hear their Rep4lrt. F,ir Wilfred Lawson, B::rt., of Brayton-hall, wa s cal dto l l le Chair, Be regretted the wretchedness of the courotry, It nd the miseries of the poor were daily inc reas i ng . Believav , t h e C orn -l aws to b e i mpo liti c an d unjust, he was ready ai all times to give his humble support in effecting their repeal. Th e Mi n i s t ers h av i ng ma d e th eir Report, which was most f avourably received, the meeting separated.—Carlisle Jour!, al. CAMBERWELL. meeting of the Camberwell and Peckham Auxiliary Anti- Ce rn-law Associations was yesterday held in the Lecture Er ,orn, Hill-street, Peckham, for the purpose of memorialising er Majesty not to consent to the prorogation of Parliament .ntil the distressed state of the country should be taken into 'consideration, and measures adopted with a view to the re moval of the exciting cause of that distress, the Corn-laws. Mr. Wimktesoe was called to the Chair, and opened the business of the meeting. Mr. BLACKBOURN proposed the first resolution—" That this me:eting views, with deep concern, the constant recur rence of distress amongst the manufacturing and labouring classes of this country; that in the op.nion of this meeting, the , itagnation of trade, and the high price of food, the mani fest, cause of such distress, are occasioned by unjust and im -politic laws, which prevent the free exchange of our labour with the superabundant agricultitral produce of other nations." —( Hear.) Mr. Blackbourn supported his resolution in a long ..tutd eloquent address. He dw sit upon the misery which at "present prevailed in the manufricturing districts. In Rochdale rthere were 176 families, card' individual of which subsisted upon 6d. a week each ; and 291 families subsisting upon RM. per week each individual ; t . here were also in Rochdale upwards of 3,669 families subsistin't upon an average on Is. bd. per week each individual.— ( Hear.) These distresses were the effects of the Coat-law',—they were the effects of laws which kept labour from. rece,viug its just reward, by closing foreign markets against our p ro d uct i ons, an d prohibiting the surplus grain of corn-gr owing countries from being imported, and so relieving the dis 4 xess v;hich subsisted to such a degree. Mr. Pritur 1 ;Row N seconded the resolution, which was 'unanimously carried. Some disturlaance took place here, in consequence of the re ested interru ptiores of the renowned Captain Ackerley, who at length becae Je su.ch a nuisance as to be obliged to be served with a forci' ale ejectment, aftei which the business of the meet ing procee'ied smoothly. Mr. lit.E.r.eis rose to propose the next resolution, praying that-her .1w lajestv will not consent to the prorogation of _ liament, &c. It would be observed, that it was not to the House of. Commons, which had so often treated the pee:`ie,sbie titions with - ne g l ec t, b ut to the Queen—to a ,v ~,, , „ a an ' d moths c—who had never re f used to l i sten to 'the wants and the - prayers of her pople, that this 'in..morial was to be pr esented. He trusted she would upon her people for supp art, she 'could find others who would Would it be credited that this country would submit tot / lie domination of a Cabinet whose policy was to male food and work scarce? The markets 'oft he world world be of ten to us—the agricultural productions of the world would be, at our service—were it not for such keys as the Duke a.; threkingham and Sir Edward Knatchbuil.— (Lokud cheers ;) J°H ll STOVE seconded the motion, and the meeting ad journed. The Bish - op of Exeter, however, is about to try his hand with a matter which the rest o 5 the Episcopal Bench have shrunk from with fear and alarm. " Alay God give bi ns i s good deliverance," as says the Sergeant of the Court when a Peer of the realm is to be tried on a capital charge; but I augur otherwise : for let an inquiry into Church of Englandism be once begun by authority, and who will be abl e t o say w h ere it is to end, or in what it will end? The Bishop, then, may turn out perchance to be nothing else but a puppet in the hands of an invisible agent, who for some very wise reasons may select him as the instrument for giving a practical illus tration of that well-known adage, " Quem Deus run perdere prius dementut.". I remain, Hr. Editor, your's most obediently, London, Sept. 121. Q. IN A CORNER. FUNDING of EXCHEQUER BILLS. The following answer has been returned by the Chan cellor of the Exchequer to parties who had applied to him respecting the proposal for funding Excheqw,„ Bills : " Downing-street, Sept. 22, - ( 6,11 . " Sir—l have had the honour of receivin e % yo ur l etter, in which you state th a t a d ou b t ex i sts in tk, minds of many persons whether, under the ProPo'':al f or f un di ng Exchequer Bills, of which notice bask e n given at the Bank, it will be competent to p: - ..4rscribers to make half the deposit in money ; '.. and ----- L 4 acquaint you that parties are at liberty to make .".all the deposit in money it they should prefer that 'aiurse, or if after h av i ng ma d e a de posit entirely in . E xc h equer Bi lls they should disposed o pay the w..sole of any subsequent instal.tnent in money, :they. wil 2t be at liberty to do so o n 'th e terms specified tn ' l ..ie original notice, provided the whole amount of money paid does not oxceel one-half of the whole sum subscribed for. " I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, HENRY GOULBURN." ANCIENT REC6It.I) of the CITY. Within the last week his been exhibited in the Town Clerk's-office one of the contracts between Charles I. and the City of London, fouat i a ld m h ongst the ancient recor d s i n t h e muniment-roo m at now daily ex am i n i ng and al.alrall,igwith,gerteheapuatrheoirimiseedntspearnsd otheronsare documents for such a series d of years mixed up together in 29, 164,,,,, and is The record confusion in the various , eys, in consideration of is dated May alluded to yand citizens of London, and con and the Mayor, ennimo-nalt is a contract between the Crown the King and his father, an assignment of certain lands, tene ments, and hereditaments divers great sums of money lent to rhe ou . nting in annual value to the im tn pression of the unfortunate sum of 12.4P6/. 63. 64. which is his name written King's sail upon the wax, cl in a bold hand, is in an o s e extremelyrepresented perfect state. On the with the him, ore side his Mak sty is rep in the distance are on horseback, and his gyhound keeping up with hi m old St. Paul's Cathedral, seen old London-bridge, which was ll se rn s t on each side, and suc ceeding reign. On the other aide the King in the in his robes on the t hrone , with the sceptre, t is represented in _re, supported by lions with flags. The contract is sign e d by the fol lowing individuals, whose seals are appended to the parch ment on each side of the King'God George :—,The R ev . F ather in George Lord Archbishop o f Cant e r bury ; the Right Hon d Thomas Lord Coventry, Lora Keeper of the Great Seal of England ; James, Earl of Marlborough, Lord High Treasurer of England ; Henry Earl 01 Manchester, Lord President of the Privy Council ; George Duke of Buckingham, Lord High Admiral of England; William Earl of Pembroke, Lord Steward of his Majesty's Household; Philip Earl of Mont gomery, Lord Chamberlain to his Majesty, and many other of the King's Counsellors and Bishops. Some of the land thus conveyed is in Enfield, in the coutity of Middlesex, and some in East Greenwich, in the county of Kent, and was sold by the citiz , iy, it is believed, in the fol lowing reign. The only land c:msigned to the ci!iz.m3 of Lon don by Cliarles 1., now in their possession, is what is called the Conduit Mead Estate, in Bond-street and its vicinity. HAMMERSMITH. Las ' t evening a pu bli c meet i ng of the inhabitants of Ham " m , el-4 .With and its vi c i n i ty was h e l d at t h e Latymer School m! .3 pursuant to a requ i s i t i on to the churchwardens, nu r,ei " eusly and respectably s i gne d , to di scuss the mer i ts of the ..... , - Ch z n- aws. A very large and respectable audience assembled. 4, !arl e i Brown, Esq., was called to the Chair. dr. Loserus moved the first resolution, to the effect— iieiie-- fhat the distreis o'; the country w as i n a great measure to ,_ attributed to the. Corn-laws, which raised the Vice of the es cries or, life for the benefit of parti cu l ar i nterests. " b '`-ealtair, BR IGGS h av i ng secon d e d the motion, it was carried 3 % i 'Pr,uslv. lit:ell% ' Nat. 13tan moved the secon d resolution . t+ That in the a l ia arli 4ment, pet i t i ons, signed by upwards of a million and ea r , . 1. of p eop l e, were ixesented to the H ouse o f C ommons, " t},,.""tly Praying fir inquiry i n to th e e ff ec t s an d operations of ~vet, orta.laws, with a v i ew t o t h e i r a l terat i on or repeal, which i t h lons have not yet been attended to." en"" e olution was seconded by Mr. FOWELL, and carried Ai nr .ously. sp eed WALDE N move d t h e third resolution, and after an able slog . h, contluded by mov i ng that the meeting give the expres ,s,,o tif its gratitude to h er most Gracious Mejesty for the roya l 4ei!,11 delivered by Commissioners to both Houses of Perim.- 4 , 1 , 0 n the opening of the present. Session, in which these coe. a id °r '„used :—" Her Majesty is desirous that you should f • mr yot - i r t 'm laws which regulate the trade in corn. It will be , a 1 t i , detertnive whether those laws do not aggravate the math.. , !actuations of supply, whether they do not embarrass tit atom ange the currency, and, by their operation, diminish ~.,e comm,arts.and increase } the privations of the great body of '2 NI, C.' un"." , • ..1 I,Y See() at etamation. tided the resolution, and it was carried by "Ir. %l ea rn , leriarned withsde-eoved clati on ma d e i P n rgthe ret, and deeper next resolution, t' That we have disappointment, the de 3lejesty'4 prese nt : "utile of Common by the head of her pared to submit an adviser,, th a t t h e Government are not pre ihlesPnt. Session otYPParr fur altering the Carn-law during the laatent • • The motion was second • A resolution, that it ward,e and agreedeto unanimously. noes for an inquiry into t ;in to petition the House of Com iew to their alteration oe le eff-et s of the Corn-laws, with a ried unanimously. - repeal, was then proposed and car- A mortal teas proposed a I resolved to establish an Anxiln'• agreed to, and after its being s mith, the meeting separateda7a tn te tii i C ou o r rn-la w in Hammer- A Coininissary o f P o lice, some days back, en tered the sh o p o f M. Pi cc hi, a d ea l er i n staluettes, and seized one represe n ti ng t h e Duke de Bordeaux, and another called the Venus a la Rose, for selling which he had not obtained the re quired license. While the Commissary was drawing up the proces-re r b a l, M . Pi cc hi , i n hi s rage, smashed the statuettes of the Duke de Bordeaux to atoms. 111. Picchi was yesterday sentenced by the Correctional 'frit:tine to ten days' imprison ment, but his wife, who was brought up with him, was acquitted and dischargee!. " A pri n s se ll er ," says t h e Commerce," thinking that the arrival of the Duke d'Aumale afforded a good oppor tunity for a profitable speculation, dttermined to publish a portrait of his Royal Highness. Unfortunately he chose an old plate of the Prince when mue't younger, ant!, of course, without his Colonel's uniform, his tri,,uqachicrs, or any indi• cation of his African campaign. On account of these omis sions the necessary licence far 1 üblication was refused by the censors, and the s'rintseller has had the whole of the impres sion left as a deadweight on his hands." THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1841. EAST INDIA HOUSE.- _ (YESTERDAY.) A Quarterly General Court of the Proprietors of East India Stock, was held at their House in Leadenhall street, which was also made special, for the purpose of considering the by-law, and other purposes. G. INALL, Esq., M.P., took the Chair at twelve o'clock, accompanied by the greater part of the Directors. The proceedings of the last Court having Leen read, the papers which had been laid on the table of the Houses Parliament since the last Court, were presented to the Court of Proprietors ; also an account of the super= annuations granted by the Court of Directors since the last Court. Mr. G. THOMPSON, before proceeding to the special buSiness of the day, begged to ask the Chairman whe ther he had received a notice which he had thought it his duty to send to him, of his intention of calling the attention of the Court to the case of the late Raja of Sattara ? The CHAIRMAN said he had received the notice, but that was not the proper time to mention it. Mr. THOMPSON had asked the question, because he had scan no mention made of his notice, in the adver tisement calling the Court, The CHAIRMAN—OnIy those notices given in Court appear in the. advertisement. - Mr. M. MARTIN (who had a notice of motion on the paper) objected in the. Court considering any business made special, 'Ton the authority of the Directors, be fore ti-at of which notice ha.l been given by a Proprie toz, tong previous to any intimation of the special ousiness. After a conversation, in which the Chairman, Mr. \Vigram, Director, and Mr. Weeding, contended for the right to bring on all business made special by the Directors, and Mr. Lewis supported Mr. I.ltonta-o!ncq's viaws, which were not presd, The CRAIRMIN said, the by-law, which the Direc , tors recommended that Court to give authority to the Committee en By-laws to repeal, prohibiting any Direc• tor, racer, or servant of the Company from trading within the limits o f t h e Ch arter, was ene that was passed in 1795, when the Court were plfteed iri . eiret4/IstatideB of a very different character from those hi whloh they were now placed. (1 - lear, hear, hear ' ) At that time they were deeily olvtged in trade, and were the only individuals who . wore perrniqed lti do so to India. Sines that the had tiAlt billy thrown open the trade to inclividikab Fir , S.'er3,- other description, but they had given kip the right of trading at all ; therefore the outset proposed to be obtained by the by 7. law no longer existed. That object was to prevent any Director, ()Meer, or servant of the Company rrntti in terfering with the trade which was ,carried rill tot° the benefit of all. The Conkpaity Were now, in fact, the et.ly parties who were prohibited from trading within 'he limits of the Charter. He and the Court of Direc tors saw no reason for the maintenance of the restrictioth They thought it now worked prejudicially to The in terests of the Company, for it narrowed the choice of the Proprietors of commercial men to seats Cs PiaW& tor& As it now stood, hardly any general mer chant would be able to olter hiinsell for the direc tion, which all would acknowledge to be a very serious evil. The Directors did not propose that any of the pro hibited classes should have the power of trattiv With India, properly so called, or with uny or the nations on the continent of India subjc3t to us, bat under the by law, as it now stood, they were prohibited frytti trading with any of our Atottalbui blituilin, or with South America, for the Charter embraced all parts, from the Cape of Good Ilope to the Straits of Magellan, which constituted a circle embracing nearly the whole world. Under present circumstances there was no reason for such a large disqualification, and, therefore, he would propose a resolution to obtain Mt alteration of the by law, to w hich he could not anticipate any objection. Col. Sir L. LtsitiN - MN (thq Deputy Chairman), se. conded the motion. Mr. WEEDING deeply regretted such an alteratitth came recommended to that Court by the Cottrt of Direc tors.—(He:dt) The reasons which formerly supported laws applied with more force at the present t.../ne than before. In his opinion it was inexpedient to to comply with the recommendation, because our commer cial intercourse with the Straits of Malacca was large, and over all the nations resident there the Government of India had too much power to allow the Directors, their officers, or servants, to trade without suspicion. in his opinion it would be a violation of the Charter, and he would propose an amendment in accordance with those pinions. If the by-laws were altered in accordance with the recommendation of the Directors, any member of the Board might become a proprietor in some joint stock concern trading with the countries under their Go= 7 vernment ; or they might become sugar planters, and engage largely in the importation of Hill CoLlies.— (Hear, hear.) The Directors would be placed in a false position, and it would be impossible for them to come to a safe conclusion, or one that would be respected on many questions that must come before them, and he would much fear such trading by the Directors would bring the Court into disrepute, and the Government of India into collision with the Government of this country% Ile honoured the character of a merohatit, because he believed that to commercial intercourse, more than any other cause, was to be attributed the enlightenment and civilisation of mankind ; and he would not abridge any of the advantages to which they were fairly entitled but he must say, that, in his opinion, the proposed alter ation was fraught with mischievous consequences ; that the effect would be to bring their duty as commercial men into collision with their interests. There was an other reason which led him to oppose the motion, namely, the oath imposed by the Act of Parliament. The Act contained that oath not only in 1794, but again in 1613, when the whole eastern world was thrown open. Still the Legislature imposed the same oath. Formerly it had been proposed by gentlemen behind the bar that they should be permitted to trade to Australia. If such opi nions prevailed, they could have establishments not only in the Archip e l ago ,. i n J ava, and at the Philippine Isles, but also at Candia and Colombo. The proposition, was contrary to the law of the land, and to the obligations imposed upon the Company. He called upon the Court to protect the Proprietors from themselves, by refusing to accede to the motion. Mr. LEwis, in rising to second the motion, said it ap peared to him that the alteration could not legally be effected in the manner proposed. It was perfectly well known that the power of making and consequently of ' altering by-laws, was vested by the statute of William, in the Proprietors assembled in a general Court. On this occasion the Proprietors were called upon to request the Committee upon by-laws to amend a certain by law, calling upon the Committee upon by-raws to do that which the Legislature said should be done only by the assembled Court of Proprietors. If it had been pre viously determined by a distinct valuation that such an alteration should be made in the by-laws, and had then called upon the Committee of by-laws to frame the alteration accordingly, such a course could have been perfectly regular. The CHAIRMAN said the amendment was to be sub mitted to the Court. Mr. LEWIS said no limit lulu been specified. The Committee were to alter tte section, so as to confine its operations to the I? the Committ, as places on the Cor: Indian Continent, an d t o o th er anent of India ; leaving it, i n f ac t, to should or to saywhat places on that Continent should not be included in the prohibitory e P ac '.inent ; whereas it ought to be done with the sane t'.on and consent of two General Courts. The Hon. Pro prietor then referred to a motion made by Mr. Randall Jackson in 1814, proposing an alteration in a by-law, in which the mover called upon the Court at once to make the alteration, and contended that that precedent ought to guide the Court on this occasion. Having said thus much on the manner in which it was proposed to make the alteration, he would say one or two words on the al teration itself. The reason stated for the proposition was, that the constitution of the East India Company bad been changed since the law was passed. The CHAIRMAN said the cause originally assigned for enacting the by-law had then entirely ceased. A num ber of commercial men had entered into extensive trans actions with India, and in consequence of that it was enacted that no Directer should be allowed to trade with India. Mr. LEwis said he believed it had originated in a much inure satisfactory reason. Tt was not merely to avoid the inconsistency and incongruity which must arise from any one member of a Joint-Stock Company, carrying on trade with India, and at the same time car rying on trade individually ; but to prevent a Diractor from using that knowledge and influence which he might possess in a sovereign capacity, fur the purpose of pro moting his own interests.—(Hear, hear.) It was to show to the public that they deserved to exercise the Sove reign power. That was one reason, .if not the sole and predominant one, which led the Court to pass that law. He asked the Court of Proprietors, then, to prevent the Court of Directors from injuring their characters as Soverigns of India ; and by rejecting the resolution, they would secure them against those suspicious conse quences, which he was cure would result from the al teration. Mr. HOGG said it appeared to him that the main ques tion for consideration was whether or no the alteration was, in fact, desirable. If the Court came to the conclu sion that it was desirable, of course the Directors would see that it was made in legal form. He protested against the line of argument which had been adopted by his friend Mr. Weeding. The question had been argued as if the Court of Proprietors and the public were on one side, and the Court of Directors on the other. He protested against such a line of argument. The suggestion from the Chair was, whilst the East India Company was a trading body, the Directors were prohibited from trading within the limits of the Company's Charter, because their private interests must come in collision with their duty as far as interests of the Company were concerned. The words of the by-law itself explained its meaning and the rea sons which led to its adoption. His friend last Wednesday said that their functions of sovereignty taight not to be mixed up with their functions as traders. Now he (Mr. Hogg) thought that that statement ought to be qualified somewhat, because he hoped always to see amour, the Court of Di rectors membe rs o f the principal amen; and mercan tile firms of this great city. Those gentle broug to the delib erat i ons of the Court of Directors m en ht most use fid knowled 4 e and inFormation. With respect to the alteration of the law, he beged the attention of the Pro prietors to the manner in which their choice was at pre sent limited. There was sencely a commercial firm in London that was not directly or indirectly connected with the trade to the east of the Cape of Good Hope. If the Proprietors thought proper to reject those persons, why let them do so, and if they would reject them they would thereby exclude Mr. Weeding himself, and the mem bers of the commercial firms of this city. The question merely regarded their interest in the extent of crittlo'''...;itics toc-c -sphere of their choice. If they thought proper ' - 443 tend that sphere, why then let them concur the's'er knowledge of the " secrets of the prison -house" tion of Directors fro:11 Gie ( j ou . if they thought that course Nadic..jou,, theta let the law remain as it stands. A s far tis his our. Hogg's) went, he knew of nothing which gentLetnen •••' !" . 7 , netted with a trading firm could, as a Director, become acquainted, which he could turn to his own pri vate interest, as a commercial man. He trusted that the • deliberation of the Directors would al wa3 s become known to . the public, ih o rd e r t h at the salutary i n fl uence o f public opinion might be brought to bear on them before the measures they involved were adopted and became law.—(Hear, hear, hear.) He thought that the reasons for excluding g en tl eme n connected with the trade of Indi a f rom the office of Director no longer existed, The sole object ot the Directors in submitting the matter to the consideration of .the Court was, that as the reasons which formerly led to the passing of the law ceased to•exist, it was for the Proprietors to say whether or not they were willing to alter it. There was no desire on the part of the Directors to urge the matter on them; it was merely a stiggestion which, if it did not meet with general approbation, gentlemen on that side of the bar would, he was certain, be most happy to withdraw. In answer to an observation of Mei Weeding. The CIIAIRMAN said, that he wished to ascertain what were the views of the Proprietors on the subject. Appli cations had been made to him regarding it, and he thought it would be wi se t o exten d the field of selectioia of Directors Mr. LINDSAY thought that if it was the wish of the Prom-Hun, the motion ought W be withdrawn, Mr.. MI - m.B was of opinion that there was great reason for altering the law, as he believed it to be a dead letter, Mr. Wri(lll:ii conceited that it would be better to withdraw the motion, on the understanding that it be re!erred to the Committee of By-laws, to consider the subjretawl report th ereon; as to whether i t was expe dient thilt the law should stand as it at present was. After a few words fr:im Mr. WEEDING, The CitAiiptizt said he was entirely in the hands of the Cthirt. If the Proprietorg vigre of opinion that the Ihotion should be withdrawn, he was diercaed to second the view taken by Mr. Wigram. Mr. THOMPSON said they were obliged to the gentle men behind the bar for so distinctly stating their views, breathe certainly the opportunities of choice that were given to the Proprietors were few and far between. Koine I.lon, Directors were of opinion that the heads of commercial firms shculd become Directors. He (Mr. Thompson) differed from that opinion. He thought they ought not to become Directors. If they fetifeSentlid find hurtortant firms. let them keep to those transactions which belonged to those, finny!, The Directors formed exclusively a political body. They ruled over 150,000,000 of human beings, inhabiting a country 500,000 square miles in extent. They had to attend to the interests of a vast empire, and they ought, therefore ; to look narrowly to the persons whom they geltleted its Direetdrs, The Directors were bound to de vote all their time to the affairs and the government of the East Indies ; and he thought gentlemen would not deny that, however broad their expanse of mind—nay, were It krcii pbsSibiti that their intellects %lere rendered larger thin they now midottbtedly were ; and were it pos.- Bible to extend the length of the day for theif delibera tions that increase of intellect, all that extent of time, would be raptired for the proper discharge of their duties. Then why engage in their counsels filen whose time was much occupied in the affairs of commerce ? Qqo of the meitilters Of the Cottrt advocated this propo ilioli out of a regard to India, yet employed_argunients in another place fatal to those he used to-day. The con dition of Italia demanded the whole of the gentlemen who pompocd the eventire body of this country. The Hatiilig ttild eientitife biiSinCea of India ough7, in his opinion, to be kept quite distinct. He should false the present opportunity of expressing his thanks to the Com mittee of By-laws, for the position they took on this oc casion; As the motion was to be withdrawn, he would hot say there than et{piess his thanks to the Court for bringing it forward. Mr. . TWINING begged to say a few words as a Member of the Cononatee of By-laws. If the matter was brought before that Committee he was sure it would receive eter . y consideration it deserved: In reference to the Cause of the subject at preSCot under diseussion, he was, perhaps, able to say what was the objeet when it was first brought forward by men whom he made the guide of his own laotitina l and in proportion as he followed theirs he found himself to be propotthmably correct, .He believed the By-law was passed to prevent East India Directots from trading in a 'private erpacity --(Hear, hear)—and if that restraint was not inter posed; very serious and extensite evils would follow.. The cireumstatices, how-eVer, had changed, and the at tention of the Directors was changed to other objects, which they executed with great benefit to themselves. It Was :1 question dl' much importance how far that barrier should be removed, If it came before the Cora mittee•of By-laws he could only say for himself and the other members of that Committee, that the matter would receive every consideration doe to its import ance. He considered the Court of Directors Was well constituted ; and the proportion of mercantile men in it was productive of greet benefit and that such men as Sir I. Read and Mr. Martineau were highly valuable to the Court. He would conclude by again saying, that the matter would ree,eitti 001 attention from the Coln- With.% ti liy-laws.—(Near, hear.) The CHAIRMAN entirely concurred in what hart {'alien from the last speaker, as to the origin of the by-law under discussion, and he was sure it would receive every attention from him. The motion was then withdrawn. Mr. WEEDING inquired if it was withdrawn without qualification ? The CHAIRMAN was understood to answer in the affirmative. PERMANENT LAND-TAX. Mr, M. MAttnN reqUested the attention of the Court to the importance of the subject he was about to bring before them, which had been brought under the con sideration of the Court at various periods during the last half century, and had' been mooted Ly men of the largest views and most philanthropic feeling—by some of the most distinguished Governors of India—by some of the ablest servants that were ever sent to that coun try—by i men in the prese n t C our t, all of whom con curred n his opinion, and bud endeavoured, from time to time, to draw the attention of the Court to this great and momentous subj ect , an d to b r i ng it to a full and final decision—he alluded to the fixing of the land-tax in India. He had, moreover, the opinion of the present enlightened Prime Minister of the country, that the great evil of the Court was the leaving unsettled ques tens of an important character, or bringing them for ward without a prospect of a speedy . decision. It was a question relating to millions of British subjects ; it in volved the financial and commercial relations between India and this country ; it embraced the elevation of the people of India in the scale of humanity ; it in cluded an enlarged consumption of British manufactures by India, and the well-being and prosperity of the Bri tish empire. Upon the first moment he visited India he gave his anxious attention to this subject, which he thought would be mutually beneficial to both countries. In the year 1828 he entreated investigation upon the subject. He might have done so at inconvenient times, and with too much warmth, but he trusted the observations he should make upon the present occasion would be delivered with temper and moderation, and, at least, he hoped the importance of the subject would not be measured ,b the weakness of the advocate.—(Cheers.) But there were many and dis tinguished advocates for what he was now contending, and amongst them was one, once a member of this Court, one of the ablest, and tit the same time most unpretend ing men that ever adorned the East India Company— he alluded to the late Mr. Edmonston.—(Hear, hear.) lle would not require more than acknowledgment of the principle, for he knew if that was once recognised, the mode of carrying it out and the time for its adoption might be fairly left to the Executive Directors of India. If the principle were adopted, they would soon come to a final settlement of a fixed land-tax. The proposition 'he meant to propose was an abstract one, but it was fre quently,made the subject of discussion. It was, that the British Government were not de facto or de jure pro prietors of the soil in British India•, and though it was opposed by the Hon. Proprietor behind him, and the Hon. Chairman in 1829, he was happy to find in des patches from the Court of Directors to the Court of Bengal in 1815, the principle for which he was contend ing was advocated therein. It was carried out with refer ence to 40,000,000 of British subjects so long as forty yerra ago. And they had proof of its good effects in the prosperity of that portion of the country to which it was applied, the increased security of the public revenue throughout the Bengal territory. Why, then, should not the same principle be applied with regard to the other 60,000,000 of their population in India ? If it was wise, just, humane, and politic, and proved to be so by the experience of forty years, to adopt such a principle towards 40,000,000 of their subjects, was it not expedient to pursue a similar course with regard to the remaining 60,000,000 ? His views were con curred in by the best and wisest statesmen who ever visited India, men of large and expanded views. The Marquis of Wellesley, whose language to you in one of his despatches was, that it was not desirable for the interest of India that the Government should act as proprietors of the soil o and collect rent from its cultiva tors. There could not he a doubt on the subject. But the excuse was, that it was expedient to delay. The language of their own bo d y admitted the principle he was contending for. It was admitted in a dispatch of 1792, that the principle of taxation between the Sove reign and cultivator was not sound. A member of the Court, who had distinguished himself by writing one of the ablest works on land ta xation, he all uded to General Briggs, said the right of the Sovereign to the soil never existed in the 'Endo or .31aborneclau Governments. It was true, from the time of Mahomet to Aurungzebe, the Sovereign had certain rights of property in the land, but not such as are now possessed. When they had such authority, he thought it was time le e feive the people of India a property in the soil which woad i2thbenefit the people of India and themselves. Again; hL: Thomas Munroe, who was intimately acquainted with thb k ingopriv;.a ftletpe land property can reseuts3•stenlinlndii, declares it i m pos se i 'le thatexist i in Indi a so l ong as one-third of the gross produce of land was taken away from thti. people. And, he would ask, was it desirable to reduce India to a state in which it would have no pri vate property? It could not be the interest of any person that such a state of things should exist. No state could rise above barbarism as long as any persons had the power at any time to take away so large a portion of the produce of the soil. Under such a system it was impeeeible that a permanent landed proprietary could over exist, c r that the people could be raised abo7 e , the condition of day. labourers. ~ Such had never b ee4l the practice in India until we had adopted this Flee so ruinous to ourselves. If they re r erred to tlie;rßibles they would find it recorded in the the 41st r. Genesis that during the time of the • chapter of , that they should giv,e the Sove reignwith food, he required _ ..,Lne in Egypt, when Joseph supplied the Egyptians the whole of thei r lands, and when they b ad done so lie restored them the ir lands agaiu on condition that they should pay one-fifth part of the produce to the Kine while the remaining lour parts were. left for their own use and for see d. Surel y , then, when the Bible -declared that four par ts out of live w ere nec*ssary for - the purposes of the cu ltivators of the so il it was not act ing the part of Christians to exact one-half, In dostae, previous to its coming into the possession of the British, the land tax actually levied amount e d on l y to one-sixth of the produce. In the South of India the lend tax at the present moment amounted only to one sixth. In Ceylon it amounted only to one-tenth. Merton, the great 'Endo° legislator, who thenrished about six hundred end eighty-eight years before Christ, said that one-sixth was a legitimate portion, but that in tune of war or under special circumstances, one-fourth might'be levied. Colonel Wilkes had shown that when ever the Mahometan rules of India had tried to raise a larger amount of hind -tax, famine and rebellion had been the invariable consequence, Shore Shaw, who heel expelled Humaloon; had levied a land-tax equal, to one fourth. There was some difference between that and 43 percent. Arungzebe had only levied'one-tenth, and the Emperor Akbar, in his instructions to the collectors of his land revenue, had directed that two-fifths of the amount of produce should be paid to the Government, and three-fifths shoUld be left for the cultivators. Allow Dein, who reigned between the years 1194 and 1215, had attempted to levy a land-tax of the same amount an that at present levied, and the result had been a famine. The utmost amount that had ever been levied by the Mahonnean Sovereigns amounted in money to about one-fourth the produce. In fact, every precedent that could be brought forward went to show that we had adopted a system foe which there could be no justifica hear.) In the Mysore, Hyder Ally had levied three-tenths as the land-tax, and there had been two rebellions against Tippoo Sulteun because he had attempted to buy more than one-third. When the British Government became possessed of the Government of India it had been deemed advisable, in consequence of the diminution of the revenue in Bengal, and of the destruction of the people by famine, to fix the amount of the land -tax. He had already partly stated the reasons which had induced those at that time in mithority to adopt such a course—they had wisely de termined to cooperate cordially with Lord Corny, dills for that purpose, and one of the reasons given for fixing the land-tax wee, that it was impossible to give a country in which there were only two classes, the Go venters and the cultivators, and that in order to do so it was necessary to raise up a third class—a class of landed Proprietors, who should stand between the Governors and the cultivators, and to do that no scheme could be so efiicacious as the establishment of a permanent land tax. He trusted he had stated sufficient to prove the feeeonableness of the first portion of his resolution, and he would therefore proceed to discuss the second - portion of it, which wan to the effect that the assessment of the produce of the land at the sole will of the Government, tended to defeat the rights of the cultivator of' the soil, and by preventing hereditary succession to lands, to ren der the British Isles insecure. In support of the prin ciple of that portion of his re:folution lie would also ap peal to their own documents. It was obvious that a fluc tuating assessment must deteriorate from the value of the land. The statement made in a communication, dated February, 1841, which he had received from a gentle men employed in the revenue department of time Madras Government fuLy bore out the views which he enter tained. Ile stated, that in one district in which the Lend tax had been lowered, the Ryots were now doing well, and had, in consequence, applied for Inure hand ; and that, whereas formerly great difficuley had ezisted in getting the assessment collected, tiro Ryots, since the assessment had been lowered, came in of their own accord and paid the money. That fact proved that, wherever they gave a permanent value to landed property, the people were impressed with the irnproveneent which had taken place in their condition in consequence, and paid the assessment cheerfully. What an advantage it would be if such a system were extended throughout India. One of the Governors-Ge neral had stated that one-third ofthe territory of British India was waste laud. He (Mr. M. M.) thought •he could produce authority to show that at least one-half of that territory was waste land. Now, if' by giving a per manent value to landed property, they could bring these waste lands into cultivation, how immensely would they augment their revenue and commerce, and, more than all, die happiness and prosperity of the inha bitants of that country. Mr. Fullerton, of Madras, had demonstrated the impossibility, under the present system, of there being any aristocracy (using the word in its best sense) to connect the Government with the peo ple of the country, and he compared the present state of India with what might be supposed to be the condition of this country if the landlords and farmers were all swept away, and all the population reduced to one common level. Mr. Thomas, of Madras, had shown that the natural result of such a course of proceeding as that adopted by the Government had been to reduce the people to the lowest possible scale of subsistence, to pro duce famines, and to prevent the increase of the revenue, or of the advantageous subjects of the States. That gen tleman had drawn statements sheaving the statistics of twelve villages in the Presidency of Madras, from 1801 to 1831, in which he had classified the inhabitants with re gard to property - , and the result of that statement went to show, that while from 1816 to 1831 there had been an increase among the occupiers of small holdings, Chiefly pauper Ryots, the wealthy Ryots had diminished km 78 to 28—that the majority of the occupiers were Mad SAW than pauper labourers. In these statements he (mi n 3L, f' t ,,i.:ad a remarkable confirmation of his views. Why had it nut thought adviseable to extend the permanent settlement to the whole of India? In Bengal, Bahar, and Orissa, wi ze it was in operation, the tax iiport land amounted to about 2s. Gd. an acre. It was importance to nutiee, that when tLs assessment was first laid on, it pressed so itenvily, that, beL re ten years had expired, the whole of the estates had passes tinder the hammer of the auctioneer ; and the Bengal Goe:eintwnt stated that never, in the history or the country, hart S:teh a change taken place in the distribution of private pro perty. At that time one half of Bengal consisted of waste lands, yet now those waste lances were all taken into cultivation ; there were fewer sequ eetrations of pro perty throughout that territory than in any other part of India, and the revenue was more regularly coh ,ected, and more regularly found its way to the public treasm and during the fifty years it had been in operation, the .cus,- toms, excise, stamp, and post-office revenues had trebleu, and every branch lied been equally productive. Had they adopted the same system in other parts of India, the same results would have fhllowed ; but instead of 2s. Gd. an acre, in some parts of India it was 10s. Gd., and in the Gnzerat it reached to 225. Bd. an acre. Mr. WARDEN (a Director)—Where is that stated ? Mr. MARTIN—In the evidence given before a Com mittee of the House of Commons. Mr. WARDEN—Probably it was meant to apply merely to the sugar lands of Guzerat. Mr. MARTIN-it had been stated by Mr. Rickards that in the island of Salsette the assessment amounted to a guinea an acre. The greater part of this fine island was in consequence waste land ; and that line island, which, from its situation with regard to Bombay, ought to be one of the largest of our commercial emporiums, had only very recently had the tigers expelled from it, and was lying waste in consequence of the enormous amount of the land-tax assessment. He trusted he had not exaggerated any statement re garding the land-tax. He thought that where they levied such a large amount of rate as one million, they would have no landed proprietors. The land-tax in other countries was nothing to what was levied in India. In England it was only ls., and, in fact, in the time of Wil liam 111. it was almost nominal. In France it was one fifth of the net produce. In Tuscany it was one-fifth of the net rental. In the Venetian States it was one-tenth, and in the Veronese States it was one-tenth. In Parma it was only 9d. an acre. In Bologne the taxes were only 2d. an acre. In China it was one-tenth of the produce, but so lightly was it levied that in parts it was only about one-liftieth.—(Hear.) In Peru it was one-tenth ; and even in the time of the Romans, When they spread their conquests over the whole world, they only levied a tax of one-tenth, and according to Levy, in Spain, it was only one-twentieth. No nation had ever levied such a land-tax as that in India.—(Hear.) Until they adopted a permanent system of revenue, their interests must be come deteriorated. Since the year 1829 the land revenue had decreased five lacs of rupees ; and it would still con tinue to diminish unless they fixed the land-tax. It was to the interest of their revenue to do so.—(Hear.) It was remarkable how little they derived at the present time from the present system of taxation. The amount of taxes in British India only amounted to 2s. Gd. a head, while in the United Kingdom it was 2/. ; in France, 1/. 4s. ; in Spain, I4s. Gd. ; in America, 15s. ; and so on in other States. The land tax had been fixed in Ceylon, and there was alteration in every branch in consequence. That island was rising with extraordinary celerity, and they had the means of making India the same. For seven years the revenue of British India had amounted in land tax to 70 millions of rupees, the salt tax to 54 millions, The Post-office three millions, and the Excise fifty-two millions. By the present system of the land-tax, they would injure the whole of these.—(llear, hear.) He hoped he had proved, as stated in the second part of his resolution, that this system impoverished the people, and he had shown how it deteriorated the revenue.—(Hear, hear.) He had the statements before him of the Bengal Commissioners, by which it appeared that this system produced famine. It appeared from various sources that this system was productive of famine, particularly in Bengal. In 1661 a tax was levied of 50 per cent., and the result was a famine. Shortly afterwards they came into possession of Bengal, and adopted the same system of taxation, and the result was that in 1770 the Governor stated that famine hrd destroyed nearly the whole of the country. Col. R. Pundits, who had been so distinguish ed in the city of Poonah, had stated a very striking fact, viz. that he found no farmer who was worth • 50C1., out of a population of nearly 13,000,000—n0t a farmer possessed of 5001. Jir John Monroe, after an expe rience of twenty-five years, declared that the system • adopted by the East India Company, with respect to the land-tax, was reducing the country, its revenue, and its proprietary.—(Hear, hear.) The third portion of his resolution with which he should conclude was—" That the occupiers and cultivators of , the soil of British India are entitled to obtain from the i 3r : , ti s h Government a fixed assessment, and a guarantee of h „.siiititrY occupancy, unmolested by arbitrary de mends ai.."l periodical claims, either by annual or more extended les-ses." He was aware it would be said tl.at granting . new leases, but they the Governnissjt was were founded upon the old principle. It was his firm impression that it was high time that somethi ng should be done.—(Hear. hear.) There should be improvement in their present system of revenue. He therefore urged upon them the con sideration of the land -tax. He did one shilling of their pr esen t not - ask them to give up revenue, but he was convinced that in fixing the land tax they would be enabled not only to obtain more readily their present revenue, but it would be the means of augmenting it It was not by crossing the Indus alone that would demonstrate to the country a disposition towards their interests, but it was by wisely governing . them and giving , stability to th e G overnment , by placing the happiness of the people in their own pos session. He regretted that some individual of longer standing in that Court, and of more experience in the subject, had not taken up this qusestion. There were men who had devoted their minds to this subject ; he regretted they bad not taken up this subject before ; for then he should have been content to have followed at a humble distance, for the purpose of giving them his sup port.--(Cheers.) He had brought the subject before the Court beeause he felt that it should be no longer delayed. He did not know any position of their Government, not even e:teepting its Ministry, that had greater claims on their consideration. He was sure they had the good wishes of every man in the country. Their was not a Christian heart that did not beat in their cause.—(Hear.) The great good sense of the country was awake to the subject. This consideration would conduce to the hap piness and prosperity of the people, and continued con pectin!' between that country and this kingdom. Major BRIGGS rose to second the resolution. He -Wag extremely sorry that some one of more consequence had not been called upon to do so. The Court of Directors hail assumed that they were the proprietors of the land in India. He should confine himself to that question alone. He was of the same opinion as the Hon. Gen tleman who had just sat down, that the land -tax, such ns then established in India, was the most pernicious that con!.l be imagined. The first authority he would re fer them to was Mr. Grant. The Hon. Gentleman here read a long extract from the works of Mr. Grant in 1786 to prove that the Court of Directors had no right to the property of the soil in India. The Hon. Gentleman con tinued—The Directors had said there was no harm in their taking the whole surplus profit; and Mr. Mills. in his exa )nination before the House of Commons in 1832, said that a country taxed in that way was not taxed at al!, and that the Board of Directors had a right to do this, as they were the proprietors of the soil. A similar opinion had lately been put. forth in the Quarterly Reviiw, stating that the very best mode of taxation was that of taking the -Jamie surplus profit from the cultivation. :Now he (Major Briggs) begged to ask who was to be the - ;ulge, what was the whole surplus profit? The cultivator of the land could not be the judge ; therefore it was left with the Governor tohe the judge ; and, assuming that to be the ease, the Governor would, of course, take to the utmost extent. He would ask them if they kept in their hands the right of taxing the people in this way, how many colonies they would have left in Australasia? Let a proclamation go forth, that the Governor would nei; allow any land to be cultivated, without paying, as taxes, the surplus profit—they would then see how mat y ships would leave the river Thames to be freighted fson those lands.—(Hear, hear.) Who would have ever heard of the present America, if England had for merly- said, Give us the surplus profit of the laud ? (Hear s hear.) Australasia would not have been occu pied ; they would have had no colonies at all if they had pursued such a principle as this.—(Hear, !mar.) He was prepared to prove that the Directors had no right. to the soil'of India. (The Hon. Gentleman then peoeeeded to read a great number of extracts from various works on India, and also from various dis pitches from servants of the Company, the ob ject of which was to prove that the present oc cupiers were the real owners of the soil, and not the Board of Direction.) He would not go into the question of how the revenue was collected. He was of opinion, with the Hon. Mover of the motion, the most just way to levy the land-tax would be to take a certain number or years, and then the average of the produce, and iix the tax at that rate for ever—(Hear, hear). — leaving out the waste lands for them to cultivate if they chose, thereby enabling them the better to pay their taxes. They had tried the present system for half a century ; they had advanced money for the purpose ; but stall the lands were not cultivated. (The lion. Gen tleuia a again referred to statistical accounts at some length.) He entreated them, both for the sake of the people and the Government, to look to that question with Enrol can eyes. A short anecdote occurred to him just then ; while he was in Mysore, an old man, upwards of sisveety years of age, who possessed a small estate, which yi aided him 400 rupees, out of which, the Government rec eived a tenth. In the time of Bulleir, this estate was taken from him, and the old man said the curse of Go vele. merit had been on it ever since, - for it only yielded forty rupees. He (Major Briggs) asked him how that could .be, and the old man answered that as the Governor took one-half of the produce, he could not think of cul tira:ing his land. He thanked them for having listened to him, and the lion. Gentleman sat down amidst consi derable Applause. The C; 'AIRMAN then rose, and said he did not think the abstr. Ict question a proper one for that Court. He deprecate :1 such a course, as it was impossible fur them to enter in that Court into a calm discussion of the question, so as to enable them to come to a just decision. He would say that the Court was fully satisfied of the truth of what had been stated, and that the Direction had an an: dc-us desire to promote the welfare of the people of In dia. He could only say that it was impos sible that any one could be more desirious of promoting, the happiness of the people than those he had the honour to call his colle agues. When anything was brought for ward it always received his utmost attention, and had done for twelve years. But he should deprecate the in troduction of such a question into that Court. He con cluded by moving the original motion. Mr. linow.g said he hold in his possession reeds that he had obtai aed while in India from persons holding estates, some of which reeds had been in the fwmilies from whom he obtained them, of upwards of 200 years old, which had been produced on the estates of the par ties now occupying the soil. Had there been such a boo!: as Doomsday Book in India this would have been proved. These facts were now open to proof, and these were the persons who were sought to be dispossessed of the soil. _ _ _ Mr. WE.F.DING would go back to the works of Col. Weeks, front which it appeared that there was no private property in India. ; it was all the property of the State. So vast was the consideration of this question that he (Mr. Weeding) Amid vote for the amendment of the Chai►•man. Mr. Sieoma.Ns said he thought the discussion itself was useful, because the more the attention of the Court of Directors was drawn to the subject the better, but he thought the proposition of the Hon. Mover of the motion was most inconvenient, and he therefore should support the view taken by the Chairman. After a few words from Colonel SYKES, An HON. PROPRIETOR moved that the Court should ad 'ourn, which being put was lost, G. fl'llomPsoN rose and said—He did not think it beearris l one Hon. Proprietor to tell another that they could ► no : discuss that question with calmness. Was it not discuss. , d somewhere out of doors ? He had been gratified that •lay with the knowledge that not one asser tion that lie et made in reference to the injurious land e.ontradicted. For two years and "'. l. zt country luta been his study. a-half the land-tax u.tax of India had L., 1.4 ,4? -I`l .41.., e:on with calmness ? If it was a men them Why not discuss this queN n. , it Ge w ntl a e s thei r let duty to question to be discussed bjs discuss it. Were they prejneliced remove this prejudice. Had they formed a bad o pi nion , let them show that they were wt:.' n .g. It was a duty they owed to the people of Englandand India. N u t discuss it with calmness ! Was there a want of calm ness in his Hon. Friend ? It was too much to hear that whtJi there was any opportunity before them ,:'.obtain evidence on that question that the Chairman depreoated the introduction of such a subject, because it could not be discussed in calmness. There was calmness in his Hon. Friend's face, and in all his-actions ; calmness even to the very end of his very luminous speech. He would appeal to their judgments and their sense, and ask was there any want of calmness in the gentleman who sat below him, who had given the result of his own expe ' rience (Major Briggs) ? ana yet they were told that the Court—the Chairman—deprecated that discussion, and when any question vitally interested the people of India it was deprecated. Now this we,'s a question coming home not to him (the Chairman)—n: it t o himself—they were Directors still ; but for the man whose happiness depended on their government. They had not increased their revenue in the new found—the ,new,d'i.colonieed country of Australasia. The little port of S:''-akton upon-Tees sent more tonnage than they did to all I.:‘•k'dia_; Now there was a cause for this. His Hon. Friend ' O Q; the Gallant Officer who sat below him, and who seconde. l. his Hon. Friend's mo.ion, thought that the cause was to be found in the vicious system of laud taxation. He (Mr. T.) could say it was not in the principle of taxation only, but also in the mode in which they collected it, by which they made their servants instruments of crime where they would rather be the administrators of justice. —(Cheers.) This question was introduced. They had their own Chairman to give information to that Court, who was in a situation to go to the very fountain-head of light on this metier, and who had searched all the works of writers on the subject down to the Hon. Mount stewart Elphinstone. The Board came into that Court us Directors ; they were bound to communicate all that they knew. They were bound to inform them, and they asked nothing unreasonable at their hands ; but in stead of that, sullen silence was observed, and the original motion was moved. In eight short months in 1838 60,000 human beings died of famine, and were they not to discuss that question ? He was prepared to go into the principle of the land-tax, but all that could be said, had been said by the gentlemen in the debate. He put it to themselves and the country. With respect .• to the land-tax, ;a antiquities—(Hear, i e t (Mr. H T h e a o i n , iis be o ar i ar i a gentleman had s t m e n e m o d f find o n f r i s • l L: ( f ) tar l k t i4l to as IL? ) —g o still further, and tak e hi m to t h e t i me of . ham,—he that was an inhabitant of this little and not an undistingui s h e d one . What said' the world, testi mony of Abraham o n th e su bj ect of the land-tax ? wanted to buy a burial-place for his • wife How did he get his ground ? "My Lord, hearken unto me :—the land is worth 400 shekels of silver. What is that be twixt me and thee ? Bury, therefore, thy dead." Let them show him the shekels they bad given for India ! Ire asked them where were the shekels they had given for India ? And yet those Gentlemen told them a fact of their being proprietors of the sail—a fact they would not attempt to support. But he had not done with Timour.—(A laugh.) What if there were owners to them ? Let them mark that. He would make the Gentlemen a present of Timour, and he wished them joy. " All the lands," said Timour, "if there be no Owner to them, should be annexed to the Crown lands ; hut it' there be an owner, and he be reduced to distress, let him be supplied to retrieve him." Who was 110 W the proprietor of the soil ? This was a aues tion vital to their honour, vital to their interests, coming home to the poor wretch who live d u p on rice, as well as to those who rolled in the luxury obtained *dome his labour.—(Cheers.) When would the quesiouebse eided, if not then ? There they were at iss ue. W he who uld quote from an authority well v ersed in the j_ siated7 et, ' . that of said—" Although the British p ower sup? 1.11 Beireel, we did not, it is tine, adopt , the Mahomedan but from the impure the sanguinary part of their creed ; fountain of their finan cial system dietwe, to our shame, claim the inheritanc e to a right tov,sebie7uv Pc°rn half the gross our produce of the land as a tax and i ' rocla e imed thismss have triump oup ling it at ti hed, we have invariably ante f right, coupling w" h the savage senseless doc s ht to toose lands being a l so t r ine of the proprietary g vested in the Sovereign, in virtue of the right of conquest" They saw it maintained that day. Either they were, or they were not, the lords of the soil. It could be soon settled, but it seemed they were not prepared to settle it after 200 years of trade and 70 or 75 years of conquest. The sense of justice contained in British bosoms would settle it for them, and, that would settle EVENING S that eey were not the lords of the soil. Their revenue was : (significant compared with the rich commercial'. of the country. They would think of the paltry • sixtcei millions of revenue gathered from 150 millions of pee ae living on a soil of fertility, and th e y wou ld cop oa.: 3 it with the fifty millions raised from twenty mith...n: of people in this country, while their land-ts..: man c :bat canntry of India a desert—a desert in all but the v.; and teeming luxuriance of the earth. It lvould. be , but they had made it poor. Let him look at the is: ue of this. Why were they obliged to discuss that ql estion of the land-tax in India at public meetings? It was. )ecause they would not discuss it there. They had et. er business to attend to, but he denied that they had .ore important business to attend to.—(Chee.rs) But ti ay knew the Indian question was a bore. They knew that the people of thin country were only waltin7:, and tat. it would be a long time before they wen. wide .eake - , and they thought things wo u ld lint their time 4 ;t. It was time they should consider this ques two. _.et them talk not of the previous question. Try could not discuss it with eahnness. W as h e not ? Hi' intended to be calm. Men belonged to that Court .-1 /0 Riled the sacred office, who were Mi n i s t ers o f the u 0,,,p fThcatid they not came there ? They a ll h a d o their pinion, 1.4 to firecause of the discussion, but he ass bad )een urged by en Honourable Proprietor, to look at with Europea./. eyes.' Give the pt , ,, i )le a fee-simple to the soil—adopt the sacred. princ. •ie urged by his Lon. Friend the mover of the inotio;(- -and India would bless them.—(Cheers,) Drive them liot from the soil—drive them not into thewilder ness, and 'from their villages. lire would say no me re on that cession, but whenever that question was bro'ig ht forward again he hoped he should :tot rise as he sat dm a at near;y six o'clock; but he should always be prepared . . as was duty, to vote " aye," that they were neither de Pad it, ,r de fare proprietors of the soil of British India- Mr. STUKER said be for one of the Directors never had an objection to go into that sabject ; but he could_ see no utility in discussing that question now. They must f.:•st getParliaraent to adopt their action. They were not he authorities that could decide such, measures, The most intelligent_ men in the country had considered the inject for years, and none had been more widely discussed. He had always studied thzt which was use ful, ant he could not see that any benefit was to be de rived f:orn discussing that question at that time. Mr. M,..ARTIN said, if he bad failed in Ins object in hrinLia9; forward this subject, and as they did not feel dispos.4l to discuss the question then, it gave him plea sure think that it might give rise to some salutary measui a being proposed.—(Hear, hear.) It sva:: then moved that the Court si.ould adjourn to to morrow (this day), at half-past twelve o'clock, and the meetho 4 ; broke up at a quarter past six. '.NCH AND GERMAN PAPERS. 1,1,7211 E, SEPT. 19.—From the answer of the h linister to the serration made in the section of the Second C.-1. =tu b e r of the States-General on the proposed budget for the year I it appears that the Government is of opinion that the present project of the budget is not contrary to the letter, &id is coui.,. triable to the manifest intention of the fundamental law, WI ch eracts that the budget shall be fixed for two year*, and tin t it shall always be brought forward a year before the.: expirati-in of that time, and as there is not yet any triennial' budget . , the obligation to produce it in advance is not binding. Fi.i. , iTING, SEPT. 18.—We had to-day the pleasure of see ing Lis Majesty's frigate the Rhyn, commanded by his Royal Hightt , ,s Prince Henry, cast anchor in our roads. His Ma- jes'ty h s granted a recompense to the crew of the English fish ing stw,ekWilliam and Mary, as a testimony of his satistaction at their having, in October, Ib4o, saved, at the peril of their lives, the crew of the Netherlands bark Mercurius, which was lost on the Kentish Knocl, near Ramsgate ; and the master, Richard Andre;', s, has received also a written certificate of his gooi conduct. The squadron that has been on a cruise for the exercise of the MC : is now discharged, and the ships have gone into the harbour of the Nieurve Diep, except the Rhyn. In some gardens at Arnhem and Nimeguen the apple and Far -t,. es are in blossom for the second time, and in some in ttanee- /he fruit is set, prolsablv in consequence of the early ripening of the first fruit, and the extreme fine weather which WC live enjoy. DUTCH FUNDF.—Amsmanam, SEPT. ‘.'.o. Alone:. f,ilts. A tlial D ,, ht, 2% per Cent ~,tto, ditto 5 per cc:qt. A nt.ut Sr:laic, .1% per cen , Ditto, ditto. n!.;, r‘er cent 7514 :6 I ~ :mnercial Company, 4i per cent 155% 156 ; , sttn (11! , 35 and 1837) 5 per cent. ...... I,. , sti 1837, 5 per cont. 1.7% i;% Exchange on London, One month l2 1)5% Two mon Ms ll 47% Hamburgh, One month 135 75 Twomonths 35 5J Dutch Papers, Sept. 21. IiELOIAN k' II NDS-13ausasta, SEPT. 21. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per C. , nt RN Loan of Thirty ;doti., 4 iscr Cent. 93 3 per Cent. -- -- Thirty.seven. —... 71% (1,,40) lo l 3i Lnzn of Cite, 1:32,4 per Cent. 9o)i Society et Comnwrce, 4N,per Cent !el% Rank of Belgium, 5 per Cent. ............. NationalSomety. .. Exchange, on Lontiok (short) -- ifrussels Papers, Sept. 21. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.- 7 VIENNA, Se r. 1 i rive per Cents. Metallieues f tic! per Cents. sisg, p I, ere pr.r Cents. h nit Z,*harcs lsr4 —4:llzenzeme Zeltuag. Sept. lb HAMBURG BOLIXENH A LLE, Styr. 18. Bills. Mnney A estrian 5 per Cents. ea. , Niarec A,. 10-Ituisian Loan Hi.% )11 , % lit; • , 47. n 5 per Cent. let series, Curti kat° Inscription, Ist Se:e.s 111? 101%, ii,.•:ian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th • Seri,:s Ditto )n Certiticate.s New 4 per Cent. (IMO) 8614 bri D..eh actual Debt, 24, pef Cent LO% 50% Dv •.. - l't:I-11 80n,14 New ticket A , •,.!....oatiislt Loan, 3 per Cent 75.11 74i S; • wegian Loan, Is:14, 4 per Cenz... Si: ~ i sh, New a per Cents. ld 9F% 9S MA LTA. Sae?. 10.—We have much pleasure in hearing that that very w:-e and political principle—of showiny our ships in the ports ff the Mediterranean—is beginning to be thoroughly carried out by Sir John Ommanney. We cannot say that this Ir, been :utliciently attended to ; indeed, we may say much I:eglected. We were exceedingy annoyed, some time ago , wl'en a I:ne-of-battle ship was sent by the Admiral on the wation. to visit a large port in the Mediterranean, where a Bri;islt ship had not been seen for years, to find that the worst and mo.t. iti-quipped vessel of all the fleet, had been dispatched. To me , ,';ion names would be invidious. Thy Powerful may be hourly Icoked for from the coast of Syria. On her arrival :he Admiral will transfer his flag, and the Bri - anhia will immediately go home. We understand tl , at munerwis followers will go over with the Admiral to the The 'fastings may also be expected every hour from England. We nay s , tert caps et a rendezvous of the whole Btiti:h Knack , I in Malta as the winter apprt:aehes, The Indus, 78, Capt. Sir James Stirling, Knight, arrived in pore. on the morning of the 7th instant, direct from Ports mouth ,which she left en the 4th ult. Tip, Vanguard, 80, Capt. Sir David Dunn, Knt., arrived here o. the 7th inst. from Soda, in Candia, which island she left on he 28th ult. We hear also that the Benbow had kit Soda f.r Malta. . _ _ The Carysfort arrived this afternotm. The Daphne left Smyrna on the 25th ult. f .r a short elitist.. The Magicienneis to lPatt! ';',nstantino:ile immediately for this port, bringing Lord Pomo . . by's heavy baggage. The yachts of Lords Desart and Reuel: zh were lying in the Dardanelles on the 28th nit. wait ing for t fair wind. The Dido arrived at Portsmouth on the I7th ut•., and was ordered to be paid off. Ti-o Government Inspector of Railways,. Sir Fredeiick Smith. after a very caref sl survey of the whole of the Brighton Railway, gives it as his opinion, in his Report, that t' is line is one of the best constructed, and consequently tine saieat . .n the kingdom. It is said that this conclusion is princits Ily induced by the great width and solidity of the em tsankrants. and by reason of the cuttings upon the line being :Ass - Pugh adhesive strata of chalk. It certainly presents many f,a 4 4o ;e: of great interest which are not to be found on other liens. Where a departure from the ordinary coach road has hithers, been effected, it has generally been done at a great .• the enil.ank. loss to ills a lovers of the picturesque, but here the elevation, of lovely a count; N to this, the invi 'tents secures a continually changing scene of a; as the eye could desire to rest upon. Added ocean itc..e not impeo.`d gceeting and health-inspiring breezes from ~ b e fore the ,‘ Town of Palaces, " made ‘ielieiously appat in their passage, and their pres o c t nit to the grateful traveller lota, hi" The Brighton, appears in "g three-quarters, a fast tiaiins reach this place it: period of time neither too long an hour acid threet l i m i t of :ter too shoi - t, n u 1 . , ,s ihe proud which : an he made one of the most delightful trlt busines , the science./ steam" has yet presented to ..ile man '' he ver y likely: seeker of pleasure, or the invalid. It a wieation be that tl is line will shortly be the principal ow n ' , tweets London and Paris. um ber of Ithe Ch. . • 'Chu Havre Journal states that t o tin' ; Um " - Commi rec of that place has sent a iemonrsrtaonoce_,itish 0., a .a cerf o n rnie r' gs ir :: t s: ter of Commerce, against the admission port. 717 t , I' File entry of t. e . diseha7e cargoes of tobacco in that tie other day. vessels we mentioned from that paper 1, about twenty- Ti.e body of a young ppcars to "fintaideeTee of e!egance, .near . the ront was taken out of the river yesterd.., re, , Yrseif in ourmg the alight, years of age, and dressed with du Cal rousel. She had thrl''earasol, on the wharf. leaving her bonnet, shael. are ri.men are now engaged in Lf•ITII PIER.—W° K ade at the end of Leith Pier,. ' re h m i n i vin rhe i rounded "11"isetrterminatira point of that de w- ' ' h as so -°°' formed de t r t'o connec ie pier with the ex-- 'Waal promena'de. in which h o e ' s . been so long t ime ontemplation. We tended portion. ly---h are intended to be driven into the Ka, observe the piles that . a state of forwardness; and we doubt for that purpose are'' L. pi _ y al forward. The proposed addition not th i work wibl f g e u t. a Edinburgh Advertiser. will ( " "nd 1,;(1)NseION OF SMUGGLERS.-- A very A PP11"-- esters ve seaure o f smuggled brandy was made by the inspee i and the offaceri of Excise on Mond ay ' ' B r istol p° lice tor of tte neighbourhood of Bridgewater. A few days since, List, iii the , informationthat there • rtn received were two tor 110swo Lisps. , with brandy stationed at a beer-h ouse at w aggoas laden ofc •tr The • i a village , omeise s ure inspector upon Cone , 'Jury , ... recei•.,tr this intimation immediately went in search of the ii sminselars. On arriving at Conaresbury, on S un d ay , i t was fount! ;!sat. the waggons had been driven away at seven o'clock that. e riming. They next traced them to North Petherton, at wli!eh village the pursuers arrived at three o'clock on Monday morning. On examining the waggons they were found to contain 133 kegs, each of which contained about four and a half gallons of spirits of brandy of very high strene.h. The men were immediately takers into custody, and the wsegons, with their lading and six horses by which they were i!vawn, seized and duly brandei with the Queen's mark. The it iisoners were then conveyed to Bristol by the railroad, and, le ing taken back to Bridgewater, were charged before Mr. George Brown. After hearing the case, Mr. Brown or dered Kirtain to pay a fine of 100!. to the Queen, or in default to be imprisoned for four months in Wilton gaol and there kept ta hard labour ; Richard Banleh to pay a tine of 5(11. to the Qtizen, or be imprisoned for three months ; and Charles Batik' , and Charles Edwards, against whom the evidence was not considered conclusive, were discharged. QUICK SURGICAL OPERATION.-0 11 Satur day seek, at Southerdown, Mr. Nathaniel Smith, surgeon, of this city, amputated the leg of Mr. B. Verity, son of E. Verity, Esq., surgeon, of Bridgend. and was not more than a minute and a quarter in the actual operation ! The patient, under the care of his father, is making rapid strides to convalescences —Bristol Mirror. r-