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LONDON : SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1841. DISTRESS IN LONDON, AND MORE PARTICULARLY IN SPITALFIELDS. " the Well !—lt is said in Scri p ture that Poor shall not cry unto the LORD in vain." T hey have cried, and their prayer has been answered! The Citizens of London, headed by their ge nerous—their patriotic LORD MAYOR, have responded to the call of distress in a manner so noble as to take the heart by surprise, till it found vent for its emotion in tears of joy ! But there is no glory in all this—it is only what man owes to his fellow man, when the hour of trial comes yet the difficulty is sometimes to find— " Men with hearts and hands prepared, The blessings they enjoy to guard." " No !" say the free-born and independent citizens of London, , c Our purpose is to sur mount every difficulty in a good cause, and what cause appeals so touchingly to the heart as that of charity ? The condition of the .poor to-day may be ours to-morrow—above all, it is our Christian duty to ' do unto others as ,we would that they should do unto us.' " The world is wide enough for us all— each man has the liberty of his own free action ; but while we sail on the ocean of ci rcumstance—with all the elements cheering us on in our adventure, if a portion more unfortunate than the rest should meet with shoals, and encounter the danger of ship wreck, is it not the bounden duty of those who are safe, to lend a helping hand to extricate them out of their difficulties? This really is the state of the present distress in Spitalfields—one ship, though a large one— (taking it metaphorically)—among a whole fleet. And, suppose the Admiral of that fleet should allow his ships in succession to perish for want of timely help—and, in this life, time is every thing—where would be the end of his fleet and his command? The ocean of time would an swer, " Thou hast been an unwary pilot—come and share the fate of those whom thou wouldst not or couldst not protect. Thy race is run, be cause thou wouldst not take heed in season." Even so is it with a great number of the poor sufferers in SPITALFIELDS and other places— they basked in the sunshine of prosperity, with out making due allowance for the shadows of the coming night. Their hearts were so full of joy and gratitude—it may be thoughtlessness—that they supposed the flood-tide of prosperity would roll on for ever. People running down the hill of pleasure never dream of the difficulty of re covering their mountain ground of independence ! The flood-tide of enjoyment leaves them on the dry sands of adversity, where they remain —to pine and starve ! From such extremity, Providence has wisely ordained, that one portion of society should, in brotherly kindness, relieve the other. In the present case that is being done, and done with spontaneous generosity.—" By whom?"— Ask not—but, 'go and do thoti likewise !' But if thou wilt have value for thy charity— know that the Citizens of London bestow their benevolence without value and without price !" With them—Virtue is its own reward. Since our appeal of yesterday to the charity of the humane, we are gratified to learn that the LORD MAYOR has offered his cordial support to relieve the distressed; in which he has been most unanimously supported by the CORPORATION of London, Aldermen and Sheriffs included. With such a respectable body, the only question is, who shall do most? We understand that Mr. Sheriff ROGERS IS to preside at a preliminary meeting this day, at twelve o'clock, to make arrangements for a ge neral meeting next week. In another column, we insert with pleasure two letters, addressed by that ardent friend of liberty Mr. NICHOLSON to the LORD MAYOR and to this Journal. Mr. NICHOLSON is pleased to give us the honour of originating this good work in the cause of charity, but we beg respect fully to disclaim it. Our maxim has been, and ever will be, " Honour to whom honour is due." We may have thought of such a possibility, and we did ; but we gave it no publicity—we were pondering overit, when Mr. THORNBORROW, the active friend of the distressed, called our reflections into being. We have no other merit but that of endeavouring to do our duty. After all, the question is not, in a cause of benevolence, who was the first to originate a good idea, but who was the readiest to contribute his mite according to his means. One may knock at the door of charity without hope, because the house is empty—but it happened to be our fortune to touch the door of human kindness when the heart was full; and behold the result!—the ME TROPOLIS outspreads her arms to clothe the naked and to feed the hungry. This is not our merit, but her benevolence ! (From the The Sun of last night.) We have just learnt, with inexpressible delight, that the good work of charity has gone on rejoicing in the City of London, and promises the happiest results to those forlorn people who but yesterday deemed poverty their heritage, but whose hearts will this day be filled with glad tidings from the active and untiring benevolence of the gentlemen who have taken up their cause, among whom Mr. WILLIAM THORNBORROW deservedly stands conspicuous. We understand that gentleman waited this morning on the LORD MAYOR, who received him in a most enthusiastic manner, and promised ail the support a CHIEF MAGISTRATE of Lon don could give in his official capacity. But Alderman PIRIE went further (we hope shortly to have the pleasure of adding Sir JOHN)—the LORD MAYOR said that his purse and his per sonal services were at the command of the Committee in so good—so praiseworthy a cause I Really this is true charity, and does more honour to Mr. PIRIE'S heart, than all the dignity of London could confer on the First Magistrate of the first metropolis in the w ()rid ! The CORPORATION Of LONDON have also taken up the cause as their own ! Nor are the SHERIFFS, as we anticipated, behind hand with their fellow-citizens. Heart and good will are the order of the day. The only wonder with them all is, that they had not thought of it before. But better late than never ; and now they are setting about it in earnest, as if anxious to make up for lost time. Certainly everything looks very aus picious, and the public Press will cordially fan the flame which benevolence has awakened in the heart of pity. But while time flies, the poor starve. Acting on this maxim, we understand that a preliminary meeting will be held to-morrow at the London Tavern, at which that modest but generous phi lanthropist, Mr. Sheriff ROGERS, has handsomely consented to preside, in order to make arrange ments for a general meeting of the citizens of London, and the friends of the poor throughout the metropolis. We heartily wish their bene volent endeavours the most distinguished suc cess. "Whoso ,giveth to the poor, leaded' to the LORD." The schemefor transporting the people on a large scale, in order to put an end to Corn-law agitation, to which we have called public atten tion, finds great favour with a large body of per sons in the City of London. To their disgrace, and to the eternal dishonour of a metropolis that was wont to take the lead in every good cause, they have never given the repeal of the bread tax the least assistance. They have, however, got up a requisition to the LORD MAYOR to call a public meeting, and h ave p repare d reso l ut i ons , petition the QUEEN and the Par liament to promote emigration. We never doubted that numerous classes, such as are de scribed in the lett er o f our Leicester oltt Correspon dent, would be m os t desirous to ve promote rn the e, scheme. By every ki n d of loan or Governme n t expenditure, these gentlemen find their advan tage; and to borrow money partly f rom them carry out labourers to fertilize the untilled lands they have acquired , or expect to acq u i re , in the colonies, is a scheme abounding in attractionq. Looking on emigration, when voluntary, as essential to the national prosperity, we shall re gret to see it jobbed by landlords and money lords, to stifle the piercing demands of the bread -taxed people. Since the world began, the history of mankind has tions. The system which has bee n g a go-ahead d scale, latterly spoken of as peculiarly characteristic of the Anglo-Americans, in contrast to the some what stationary population of Europe, is as old as the dispersion at Babel. In obedience to the command, Increase, multiply, and replenish the earth, the generations of men spread themselves gradually over its surface, one empire being destroyed and another founded as the successive waves of population rolled over and impelled one another, and, as they came from different directions, crossed and were jumbled together in one destructive confusion. We consider migra tion, therefore, to be natural to man, and as ne cessary to the welfare of his race, and the ful filment of the great purposes for which he has been created, as the continued propagation of the species. We make no objections to emigration ; we rejoice to see the time-honoured name and noble language of Britons spreading over the whole world ; but we protest against the Govern ment undertaking to promote it as a remedy for the existing distress. We shall protest at all times against Government meddling with the matter; but to meddle with it in order to get rid of the difficulties which at present result from improper legislation, deserves the most earnest opposition.. The Government is already overwhelmed with business, and all that it undertakes, from consti tuting a National Church to issuing an Exche quer bill, is done so as to disappoint the public hopes. It seems for ever trying a 'prentice hand on some new scheme which never succeeds. It is the most vague, gigantic, unfeeling projector that ever existed, carrying its crude schemes into exe cution—whether they relate, like the present in trigues of LOUIS PHILIPPE, to an ambitious ex tension of external influence and power, or, like the existing Corn-law, to some supposed aggran disement of a class at home—at the expense of the lives and property, the health and happiness of the people. We are, on principle, decidedly op posed —contrary, we know, to the Frenchified disposition which now unhappily prevails— to extending the operations of Government. With emigration it has hitherto had little to do, and it ought to be repelled if it endeavour to make that subservient to its purposes. Our great master, and we know none of his disciples who have yet equalled him in sagacity, taught us this important precept : " THE STATESMAN," said Dr. ADAM SMITH, " WHO SHOULD ATTEMPT TO DIRECT PRIVATE PEOPLE .IN WHAT MANNER THEY OUGHT TO EMPLOY THEIR CAPITALS, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but ASSUME AN AUTHORITY WHICH COULD SAFELY BE TRUSTED NOT ONLY TO NO SINGLE PERSON, BUT TO NO COUNCIL OR SENATE WHATEVER, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it." What, how ever, is a scheme of emigration in the hands of a Government but an assumption of authority to direct private people in what manner to employ their capitals ? The Government has no ca pital, and in the proposed case would do this: It would assume the direction of a capital tanta mount to the sum it borrowed, and would undertake to direct all who must use and all who must be sustained by that capital, to employ their industry and to use that capital in cultivating the land of some distant settlement. If the Government were not to assume that au thority, and were not to undertake this direc tion, it is clear that the capital and labourers would not go where the Government would di rect them. So to direct them, therefore, con travenes the soundest, the best established, and most thorough-going principle of the science first reduced into order by SMITH— the principle that every man is the best judge of his own in terest, and the most advantageous mode of em ploying his own capital and industry. The con travention is, however, only a continuation of the system of attempting to direct men to em ploy their labour and capital in agriculture in stead of manufactures, which the Tories approve of, but which the Liberals condemn. To carry out their system to all its conclusions is con sistent in them; but for the Liberals to object to the Corn-laws, and to support the Govern ment in directing emigration, is as silly as the recruit who mutilates himself to escape military service, and is made to pass his life in the galleys. On these general principles we oppose the plan of Government taking up the scheme of pro moting emigration. We should oppose that at all times; but for the Government to adopt it as a panacea for the existing distress, is an at tempt to bolster up one gross interference with capital and industry by another. The object of it is to prolong an act of oppression and injustice. If Ministers adopt the plan, it is to give a respite to the Corn-laws—to maintain and extend the dominion of the aristocracy and the priesthood. It is doubtful, at the same time, whether it will relieve the national distress. The number of persons who emigrated in 1840 was no less than 83,746; and, according to the accounts from the manufacturing districts, which state that our best workmen are fast emigrating—looking, too, at the vast number of uninhabited houses in the kingdom, 162,756, or one-seventeenth of the whole—we cannot assent to the assertion that emigration requires to be fostered by a bounty, or promoted by the interference of Government. We find from Parliamentary Returns that the number of emigrants who went to North America alone, in the eleven years ending with 1839, was 545,216, of whom 273,723 went to the United States, and 271,493 to the British colonies ; which gives an annual average emigration to America, during the eleven years ending with 1839, of 49,564. Last year the number was 65,520.• We have not under our hand any ac count of the emigration to all our colonies for the same period, but we should set it down at a low figure if we were to state it at 10,000 per year. Our readers are aware that, within a few years, several new colonies have been founded, and bounties have been given, from the sale of lands and other sources, to induce considerable numbers to emigrate. We may state, therefore, in round numbers, that 700,000 persons have emigrated during the last twelve years. Of late the average number of emigrants has in creased. Instead of any relief being the result, the difficulties of the country have increased year after year. Notwithstanding the formation of so many new markets, which, according to the Chronicle, should be so instantly ad vantageous, the distress and poverty at borne have in no wise diminished. It may be doubted, therefore, whether the fur ther transportation of labourers, and the further exportation of capital, will tend in any degree to lessen the distress; and unless that were quite certain, there is - not the shadow of a reason for the Government undertaking to promote emi gration. If the cause of the distress were inability on the part of the people to feed themselves, emigration might be a suitable remedy; but they are capable at this moment of buyingmore food, by the exertion of their vast mechanical power, than they could consume, did not the unrighteous and impious Corn-laws prevent them. There is no surplus population in England, there is yet plenty of land unfilled, plenty of mines un wrought, and plenty of persons in other coun tries ready and willing to purchase our pro duce. The cause of the national distress is a whole series of unjust laws, of which the Corn-law is one of the worst. There is no want either of a disposition in our people to emigrate, or places to move to. The wide world opens its arms to English artisans, and some are now to be fbund in almost every exist ing empire. They should rather be wooed to stay at home, by amending our legislation, than be tempted or driven in greater numbers abroad. Ali Act to raise a loan to promote emigration, horwever temporary might be its provisions, would wily add to the mass of unjust legislation. which already encumbers the statute-book, and. would inc rease the evils under which the people groan. '_'he promised letter from a C orre spondent at Edinburgh, r espect i ng t h e persecut i ons carried on :against the middle and lower classes in that city, is withheld, in order not to expose the writer to the tender mercies of the Inquisition. It may be convenient, however, to notice the prcccedings of the Town Council regarding the imprisonment of the Shop -keeper, for selling swe tatmeats on Sunday, in w h oe b e h a lf Lord KENTNAIRD generously subscribed three guineas. Evidently aware of the public odium incurred by :well relentless severity, the Corporation ap pointed a Committee to investigate the matter, who conclude their Repprt in these words : There is a suggestion they would respectfully make to the Magistrates in regard to future cases of a similar kind. The present prosecution was, it seems, gone into at the earnest solicatiou of St. John's Kirk Session. The Sub-Committee suggest, that when a similar application shall be made in future, it shall be in the perfect option of the Magistrates to accede to it or not, just as they may see fit; and either to refuse their authority altogether, or to grant it under such conditions as they may think proper. It thus appears that the Kirk was the insti gator of these persecutions; and, like the Ca tholic Church in the dark ages, made the arm of the civil power subservient to its malignant spirit. The Committee, sensible of the dan gerous practice of allowing ecclesiastics to point out how the law shall be adminished, rebuke the LORD PROVOST and his Non-Intrusionist colleagues ; and, in language not to be misunder derstood, tell them to beware of listening a third time (another victim is still in prison) to " the earnest solicitation" of Mr. GUTHRIE'S Kirk Ses sion. But these cases are only two out of ten thou sand. The inhabitants of Edinburgh are tor mented in every possible way by men who pro fess to be the followers of the Great Founder of Christianity, but who in practice are rebels against his divine laws and example. He loved little children—he rebuked, not his dis ciples who plucked the ears of corn, but the wicked Pharisees, Who made the observance of the Sabbath a cloak for every crime—he was forgiving and merciful, lenient to the frailties of human nature, and abhorrred the hypocrites who would inflict imprisonment or death for the slightest breach of vain rites and ceremo nies. " His yoke was easy, and his burden was light." Is that the character of the religion which these modern Pharisees are vainly at tempting to establish in a land of liberty ? The following statements, for which we have the best authority, will testify :—A man of the name of Bullock has been imprisoned since the 31st of October, for selling one halfpenny-worth of lolli pop to a child during divine service—all the principal reading-rooms in Edinburgh have been closed during the entire Sunday— a stop also has been put to the sale of milk, biscuits, and sweetmeats, to chil dren in the King's Park, a place frequented by the humbler classes on the afternoon of Sunday. For the last four weeks the police have entered and pryed into every room of all the second-rate hotels, in order to see what is going on—even the bed-chambers of the proprietor's wife and daughter are not secure against these myrmidons of the Inquisition. Not a drop of spirits or wine is allowed to any resident at an hotel, should he find it convenient to dine during church service. The Church in that devoted place is everything —the very press of Edinburgh appears to be muzzled, and Lord Provost FORREST and Mr. GUTHRIE, and the other ministers of the Gos pel, seem bent only on making people take seats in churches, in order that the ministers' stipend may be abundant. A day of reckoning, however, will come; the over bent bow will re lax ; scoffers and infidels will spring up in thou sands, as in the days of CHARLES II.; and even the divine religion of the New Testament will be brought into contempt by the outrageous conduct of these madmen. Are we to blame for calling them madmen, when we find one of the principal speakers at the meeting of the Town Council addressing his colleagues (and listened to patiently) in the following absurd language ? No Mormonite could indite greater nonsense : Dr. Macaulay said, some people might think it a small matter to buy and sell such things as had been bought and sold in this case on the Sabbath-day, but both Scripture and experience warranted them in viewing Yfiry differently even so small a matter as the purchase of a few sweeties. If not taught better, did not such practices whet the children's appetite for spirits ? and did not spirits excite to quarrelling, and lead to trial and imprisonment ? What was the use of inviting the chil dren to a Sabbath school, if immediately opposite the school there was a shop with sufficient temptation in it to break at least one of the commandments, which, in the school, they were taught to respect ? He demurred entirely to the sympathy expressed for a man who would thus tamper with one of the divine commandments. Much had been said about the misery which had fol lowed the prosecution. Undoubtedly sin must breed sorrow ; but that should be considered before the sin was committed. Had such men as Dr. MACAULAY and Lord Provost FORREST, and the Rev. T. GUTHRIE, lived in Judea during the reign of TIBERIUS, and been the chief men of the Synagogues, our SAVIOUR would have been crucified before his divine mission was completed, and the people of Christendom would have been still heathens, or Pagans, or circumcised adopted Jews. We direct attention to the energetic resolu tions adopted, with unabated hope, by the Anti- Bread-tax League at Manchester, on Wednesday, and inserted in another part of The Sun. We are rejoiced to see that the League continues steady to its resolve to promote measures, with all its power, for the total and immediate repeal of the Bread-tax. Nothing less will satisfy the justice of the case, and nothing less will they get so easily as that which justice commands. The Morning Post seems fairly to have lost its wits since it became aMinisterial Journal,and gives itself as many pert, ridiculous airs as a flaunting lady's-maid would be apt to do, who should sud denly find herself raised above her natural level. We can imagine how such an unduly elevated baggage would act. She would turn up her nose at all whom she absurdly imagined were her inferiors in station; talk ofher gentility ; and abuse the rabble in language borrowed—and vulgarised in the borrowing—from the fashion able Exclusives of the West-end. Just so is the Post now acting. It is a lady's-maid fancying herself turned into a fine lady, and called up from the butler's pantry into the draw ing-room. To drop metaphor, our shallow-pated Contemporary cannot get over the fact that it is thought worthy to be considered a Govern ment organ. It no longer knows itself; is ut terly oblivious of the past; and imagines that its political existence is now first begun. It dates from the day when the Tories, like the Goths and Vandals of old, made a successful irruption into the rich and sunny Italian clime of the Trea sury Bench. We hear no more talk of sympathy with the people,who were declared to be oppressed, trampled on, and 'deluded by the triumphant Whigs; all this is clean washed away from the Post's recollection ; and it now sees no party worth an instant's thought, but that which acknow ledges Sir ROBERT PEEL as its head, and i s graciously vouchs a fed to consider our Contem porary as an inferior organ. The " shocking vulgarity," "the Satanic ingenuity," the " dia bolical spirit" of that "crew of miscreants," the Opposition Pr ess, w h o are doing all they can to disembarrass th e country o f the heavy load of Toryism und er w hi ch i t is labouring, like the Titan of old beneath Mount ,Etna;—these are the themes which our fair Contemporary has now most at heart, and which she discusses with a flippancy that betrays the Parvenue in every sen tence. And wherefore all this vixen spite? Simply and solely because the Liberal Journals, The Sun among the number, are daily blurting out more strong, bold, home truths than suit the delicate sensibilities of Toryism ! They are making too deep an impression on the popular mind; they are stripping the mask off cant and hypocrisy; they are teaching the people to dis criminate between the true and the false in legislation; and are consequent l y ma ki ng M inisters s o seats, that our Contemporary d eems it her bounden duty exceedingly uneasy in their to come to the rescue of these u n h appy men. " A Marmion to the rescue, Ho!" Alas, our Contemporary is no Mar sy for her genteel neighbours, Mar rnion, but rat h er a Mrs. P art i ngton , w ho, f u ll of a fine symp a th y once rushed out of doors w i t h a mo p-sti c k ill her hand, to stave off the encroachments of that vulgar Radical, the Atlantic ! We should strongly advise the Post to stick to its old line of duty, and cultivate a gentle, decorous demea nour, as becomes a prim lady's-maid. It was always great in fashionable tittle-tattle; always so laudably pains-taking in its announce ments of aristocratic " Arrivals and Departures," that he must have been a shrewd Lord who could have moved a yard from his door without our Contemporary gaining cognizance of his movements; and we can bear testimony to its early intelligence whenever a West-end elope ment was on the tapis. Let it return then to these amusing chroniclings, and cease to embark on a crusade against the Opposition Press. The sword is not for the hands of a fine lady's-maid. The needle, the thimble, and the thread, are her fittest implements of power. Should our fair Contemporary, however, despise our friendly warning, and persevere in her pre s Pent ridiculous hallucination, we shall certainly feel it no more than our duty to advise the issu ing of a Commission de Lunatico Inquirendo against her. We have little room for comment on the meet ing held at Plymouth on Wednesday, to vote an address of congratulation to Lord JOHN RUSSELL, on his arrival in that quarter. We can not, however, omit to notice the impartial and judicious conduct of the Chairman, Mr SOLTAU, the Mayor of the Borough, during the occasional interruptions caused by the Chartists. He gave a fair hearing to all parties, allowed the Whigs to praise Lord J. RUSSELL, and the Chartists to abuse him and his party, and thereby secured that respect and authority which are invariably the reward of even-handed jus tice. Mr. SMITH told some truths which Lord JOHN and the old Whig party would do well to remember. They had in 1833 the most glorious opportunity that ever fell to the lot of any Government, of rooting up the seeds of Toryism, and improving and rendering popular the institutions of the country but they became afraid of the people who carried them into power, they truckled to their political enemies, and are now reaping their reward. Let us hope, how ever, that they will be benefited by adversity, and see that, without the lower classes, their prin ciples of government can never prevail against the grasping power and selfish interests of the Church and the aristocracy. By the Quadruple Treaty of 1834, France recognised the abolition of the Salic law in Spain. While Duke of ORLEANS, King Lours PHILIPPE signed a protest against the aboli tion of that law, as a junior Member of the BOURBON family, in conjunction with the then reigning Sovereigns of France and Naples; but when revo lution placed him upon the Throne of France, he united with England in acknow ledging the validity of an act by which the Crown of Spain was made to descend upon the head of an infant female to the prejudice of the claims of the brother of the late Sovereign. Upon this inconsistent conduct the Times of yesterday has a clever article, which we notice for the purpose of correcting a very serious error into which the writer appears to us to have fallen. The Times says:— The only solution which we can suggest to the inex plicable and inconsistent course which has been pursued by the Cabinet of the Tuileries on Spanish affairs for the last ten years, is that the interest or policy of the family has invariably been thwarting the policy and in fringing the good faith of the nation. As long as Don Carlos held the mountains of Bissay, the Quadruple Treaty was a dead letter, and Queen Christina's Ambassador, the Duke of Frias, was told in the most positive manner that the assist ance she had a right to claim would not be given, either then or ever. But when Don Carlos is safely lodged in the custody of the French police, and Queen Christina duly under the personal influence of her Royal uncle, his zeal in her behalf knows no bounds, and he is willing to lend to the unavowed intrigues and paltry plots of a fugi tive that encouragement which was utterly denied to the open necessities and official demands of the Queen-Re gent. In other words, the French Government will do for a Princess of the House of Bourbon against Spab, what it would not do for Spain against a Prince of the House of Bourbon—nay, more ; for it appears as much disposed to lend succour to Christina against the exist ing Spanish Government without either pretext or warrant of treaty, as it was to withhold all succour from her against Don Carlos in spite of an acknowledged right and an existing treaty. _ _ The mistake here is palpable. The King of the FRENCH was not less favourable to Queen CHRISTINA in 1835, and the three following years, than he is now; but his MAJESTY was then in no condition to stir, as he was endeavouring to form an alliance with the Great Northern Powers. His hopes of a marriage between one of his sons and the young Queen of SPAIN dated from his acceptance of the Quadruple Treaty. Had family ties such an influence over Louis PHJLIPPE, he would not have figured in the Grenoble conspiracy, and the Revolution which drove CHARLES X. from France to die a neglected exile in Austria. Besides, does not the writer in the Times see that, in assisting CHRISTINA against CARLOS in 1835, the King of the FRENCH would be exalt ing one branch of the BOURBON family in the person of the EX-REGENT and her daughters? _ _ The simple facts of the case are these :—Louis PHILIPPE protested, as Duke of ORLEANS, against the abolition of the Salic law in Spain, because it was then a matter of no con sequence to him, and was agreeable to the Royal branches of his family. When KING he consented to the abolition of the law because it was agreeable to England and Spain, and paved the way for the accession of one of his sons as KING-CONSORT in Spain. He first withheld support from CHRISTINA, because he was afraid of offending the Great Northerm Powers with whom he was negotiating alliances, and he afterwards lent underhand support to Don CARLOS, because the Spanish Liberals were carrying out their principles to an extent which threatened the exist ence of Monarchy in France. He now espouses the cause of the ex-REGENT for the same reason, and because unless she be re-in stated at the head of the Government of Spain his dreams of an alliance between his son and the young QUEEN must end in smoke. Throughout this affair, the guiding star of Louis PHILIPPE'S policy has been hisown interest and that of his children. For the BOURBONS, male or female, apart from his own aggrandisement, and that of his sons and daughters, he cares not a rush; to place his on upon the Throne of Spain, there is not a BOURBON breathing, himself and his children excepted, whom he would not see buried till the day of judgment at the bottom of the Red Sea. The Paris Journals are filled with the conclusion of the Report of the Committee of the Court of Peers, in the case of QUENISSET and his co-conspirators. They are, altogether, a set of as miserable devils as ever gave em ployment to a public executioner ; and an enemy of the French Government might sup pose that it was with a view to bring the Peers of France into public contempt, that they were summoned to sit in judgment upon such a gang of revolutionary scare-crows. To pub lish any more of the Report would be to fill our columns with trash, which no Englishman would have the patience to read. But for the September laws against the press, and the laws against public meet ings, such conspirators as QUENISSET and his ac complices would have no existence in France. The forcibly and openly-expressed opinions of the industrious classes at public meetings would soon convince such incendiaries that they had no sympathy to expect from the bulk of the community, and thus they would be checked at the very outset in their wild career of revolu tionary anarchy. Where the open expression of all opinion is proscribed, the wickedest men attri bute to the gagged multitude the sentiments of evil entertained by themselves ; and it is only the failure of their mad attempts at revolution which, convinces them of their error. Had virtue no voice, vice would soon act u n d er t h e i mpress i on that all men were ready to walk in her footsteps. In proportion, therefore, as public opinion is si lenced, is an encouragement held out to that treason which aims at the subversion of religion and Government. Yesterday his Excellency Lord,Cowley was visited by the Papal Nuncio, the Sardinian, Ottoman, Neapolitan, Belgian, and Greek Ambassadors, and the Bavarian, Brazilian, Hanseatic, and Austrian Ministers. The subjoined miscellaneous news from Smyrna is given by the Oriental Observer, of the 20th ult, :—" On Saturday a melancholy accident happened on board the Inflexible. A man and boy were employed aloft, when the boy, losing his hold, fell upon the man, and he in his turn losing his hold both fell into the sea. No sooner was the accident seen from the deck, than 12 or 14 of their messmates jumped overboard. The boy was saved, and but slightly injured. The man sank to rise no more. His body has not, we hear, been found. The Gazette de France states that General Cabrera was upset in a carriage, near Lyons, a few days ago, but was not hurt. " The falls of Kings"and heroes," it adds, " are now-a-days not of bad omen.'' The citadel of Barcelona," observes the Gazette de France, "which the Barcelonese are now pulling down, seems to have been built in order to exercise the skill of the French in taking fortresses." Ili 1649, under the Comte de Marsin ; in 1697, 'under M. de Vendome; in 1808, and 1823 the flag of France has floated over this remarkable fortress. Barcelona, as everybody knows, is on the sea-coast ; it contains 110,000 inhabitants, 10,183 houses, 360 streets, 2,000 gardens, and 7 churches besides the cathedral. The P a l ace o f the Governor, the Exchange, the arsenals, and the dockyards, are admirable monuments." The Brussels Observateur state: that Mme. Vander smissen, wife of the General, is no longer in secret con finement, but has been allowed to communicate with her husband in presence of the keepers of the prison. Messrs. Parent and Decrehen have been again interrogated. Up wards of 200 witnesses have been examined concerning this affair. The Gazette of Upper Germany has the following from Vienna :---" On the 7th instant, the grand fete of the musicians of :he Empire was celebrated is the large Winter Riding-school. The orchestra was composed of 1,072 musicians. The oratorio Paulus, by Mendelssohn, produced an admirable effect. The receipts are to be de voted to the erection of a monument to Haydn, Gluck, Mozart, and Beethoven." The King of Prussia has just conferred the decoration of the Red Eagle (3d class) on Baron Desnoyers, Mem ber of the French Institute. The Municipal Council of llaguenau has voted the sum of 500,000 f. towards the formation of the proposed railroad direct from Paris to Strasburg. BOURSE—PARIS, WEDNESDAY, Nov. 17. first Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Prict. French 5 per Cent/ ll6 15 ... 116 30 116 15 ... 116 25 4 per Cents lOl 25 ... 1 , 11 50 ... 101 25 ... 101 50 3 per Cents PI 25 80 25 80 15 ... 80 13 Loan Bank of France LaMtte Bank I.ooof. Shares 1038 75 ...1(38 75 ...1138 75 ...1038 75 5,000 f. Shares 5085 —.5085 ...5085 Rpssnan Bank,lBl.l 765 ... 770 ... 765 770 Belgian 5 per Cents. 5 per Centt., 1840 IO2M ... 102 1 4 ... 102% ... IQ2 i!‘singh Active F2% .. ti2j4 2;:a56 ... 1234 Neapolitan lO6 60 ... It;6 ... 101'60 tO6 68 Roman, ex. div .... 10234 ... 102 k" ... 1d34 ... 102% RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles. L.B. - 24)5 ... 205 ... 205 205 Orleans .. 481:50 ... 482 50 ... 4b2 50 ... 48! 60 itrasburetoßale,shares red. 2:32 50 . 232 50 ... 231 25 ... 231 25 THE EXCHEQUER BILL AFFAIR.—Itis generally believed in the City that Mr. E. Beaumont Smith will be admitted Queen's evidence in the Ex chequer bill affair, and that many disclosures have been made that will implicate other parties besides those already in custody.--Times. • The Gazette of last night contains a Treaty of Navigation between her Britannic Majesty and. the King of Sardinia, signed at Turin, Septem ber 6, 1841, which has already appeared in The Sun. DISTRESS IN SPITALFIELDS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin—Accept my hearty thanks for your ex cellent article in The Sun of this morning in behalf of the poor and really distressed people of Spitalfields. It is, indeed, a glorious Sun to the poor and suffering people in this district. I have enclosed to you a copy of a note I sent to the Lord Mayor on the 18th instant. You, Sir, deserve, and may justly claim the first prize in this great and good work, for ori• ginating this public undertaking. You have thus justified my feelings in favour of the press, expressed in my note to the Lord Mayor, namely—" That the public press, to its great honour, is always unanimous in pleading the cause of the poor and distressed." Now, Sir, the amount of the distress in this kingdom is most dreadful. The people of Scot land were the first to appeal to the benevolent people in London. The press placed that appeal before us. The answer was prompt, and the first fruit came from Sir Robert Peel, followed by some others of her Majesty's Ministers. Now, Sir, may we not fairly calculate upon Sir Robert's sanction and liberal support in favour of our own distressed fellow-subjects, and all her Majesty's servants ? May we not also calculate on the benevolence of all our Bishops and Clergy, our Princes., Dukes, Lords, and Commons, and all in authority over us? May we not fully depend on all our rich bankers, the great and wealthy mercha n t s , an d the thousands of private individuals who are blessed with the riches of this world? It is, Sir, to the higher_orders we must look to raise such a subscription as will be equal to meet, or in any degree mitigate, the awful distress which now exists in this once happy old England. It is not in the power of the middle classes to contribute. The distress now existing amongst tradesmen and shopkeepers is so great, that it is notorious there are many thousands in the City of London and its neighbourhood, who are unable to pay their Assessed Taxes, so that there is only one step down to place them on the list of charity. Your obedient servant, JOHN NICHOLSO N. dil, ''')\ :,:.* i , , 1 - 3 , 2 1 f, A •.>" sO l 4 10 , ‘iii,st , (" 1. _ _ _ .1411„, TO THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD MAYOR. MY LORD—The numerous meeting at Guildhall last night, held on behalf of the expatriated Poles, is a noble proof of the benevolent feelings of all classes of her Majesty's subjects, and that it is only necessary to adopt and organise a plan, in order to bring out the vast stock of benevolence which exists and lies dormant in this great me tropolis, for want of some tangible means of dis tribution amongst the famishing poor. The dis tress in Scotland has been placed before us by the public press, which, to its great honour, is always unanimous in pleading the cause of the poor. I take the liberty of suggesting to your Lord ship, whether something cannot be done in fa vour of our poor starving neighbours in Spital fields. The distress, suffering, and unparalleled misery now existing in Spitalfields, and which must be daily on the increase from the severity of the weather, can only be known to those benevolent persons who visit these poor families, with their numerous children in a state of nakedness, and existing on a scanty supply of potatoes. a lam quite sure that a great good might be done if some plan is adopted, under your Lord ship's patronage, to draw out the benevolent feel ing which exists in favour of our distressed neighbours, so as to afford them immediate re lief; perhaps something might be done at Guild hall, as the fittings up yet remain, and would save a great expense in adopting a similar plan, for the same benevolent object. I have named this to several persons, who all express a strong feeling on behalf of the poor in Spitalfields—all that is wanted is to bring it before the public under your Lordship's pa tronage. I beg to enclose you 151. 15s. as a beginning, and I hope, and have no doubt, that I can obtain a considerable sum if some plan is fixed on to carry out this good work.—l am, your Lordship's most obedient humble servant, JOHN NICHOLSON. 15, Fenchurch-street, Nov. 18. EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIND. The Western Australian Company's chartered ship Diadem, of 400 tons, sailed on the 17th instant for Australind, Western Australia. The embarkation of 165 emigrants from the depot, at Deptford, took place on Saturday the 13th instant, but in consequence of bois terous weather, the ship was unable to proceed to Graves end till the 15th. She was there joined by the cabin and intermediate passengers. P rev i ous to h er sa ili n g, she was visited by some of the Directors of the Western Australian Company ; and Mr. John Chapman, the De puty-Chairman, addressed them in language of atfectionaty solicitude for their spiritual as well as temporal happi ness. Captain Sweny, R.N., also addressed to them much salutary advice, urging them to maintain order and discipline, and finished by congratulating them on their encouraging prospects. The Directors then t o ok leave of the emigrants, who expressed to them their heartfelt thanks for the great care that had been taken to provide for their comfort and convenience. The emigrants consist of sturdy ag ricultural labourers and mechanics, with their wives and families, and are considered to be as fine a body of settlers as any that have left this country. LINCOLN'S INN.—The following gentlem en were on Thursday last called to the degree of Barrister at-Law by the Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn, viz.:— Richard Coote Esq., Albert Francis Jackson, Esq., Tho mas Young 11. Christie, Esq., Charles James Foster, Esq., John Bruce Norton , E s q ., Charles Bru ce Grmme Skinner, Esq., Robert Ralph Augustus, Esq., and Mar sham Elwin, Esq. SUDDEN DEATIL—Last evening an inquest was held at the Red Lion public-house in Upper King • street, Bl o omsbury-square, before Thom as W a kl ey, Esq., M.P. the Coroner, on view of the b o dy o f M r. John Bazeley Took, aged 62 years, a gentleman of very large fortune, whose death occurred under the following circumstances :—The deceased was residing with his wife and a niece, at No. 14, Southampton-row, Russell square, and. on Friday, the 12th instant, after hav ing eaten a hearty dinner, he laid himself on the sofa, and in a few minutes afterwards was discovered a corpse, having expired without a groan or struggle. His death is attributed to an affection of the heart, Verdict, 1 ' Natural death." MORNING SUN SUMMARY OF NEWS AND tittbitt OptzTion. " Who runs may read.„ of T th h e e POREIGN. • " R P e a p r o is rt p o a f p t e h r e s c o f o u l r V t e o d f n p e s e d e a r y s b r e r a n t g i v t e h e t o c Q o nueel i s s i se e n t and his accomplices. In substance it amounts to no mores than_ that the attempt upon the Royal PrinceS V. 5. directed by a secret Society, and that secret Revote, tionary Societies abound in France. This we predier would be the result of the September laws, and_ilea enactments against meetings for electoral reform. l ia d the laws not interfered with such meetings, and allowe the press to give free expression to the voice of pubY e consP _ opinion, there w ou ld h ave b ee n no secretira against the thron e an d th e lives of the Royal family- The Morning P os t, h owever , ena moured wit h tile spec i tacle which the trial of Quenisset presents to EUrq e d : y the state of French society, demands day a r o f the application of a September code to the t res s P bie Great Britain The Post is so Frenchly fash i°ntl es s that it would import revolutionary plots With the new ~ patterns of ladies' dresses and bonnets, The Post -weal:: divide the empire of London society between them odiso, of the Rue Honore, and the regicidal conspirators the Antoine Faubourg St. ! The Court of Peers has discovered no ground of ar tfl ; sation against M. Dupoty, editor of the Jour" h s - Peuple, who app ears t o h ave a l wa ys maintained the c out ratter of an upright, ami a ble, and clever man*, been being an able and popular writer, the police ha l e ela ong on the look out to entrap him ; and th e five I v dto lle was kept in solitary co nfinement was designe ruin his Journal. n it v .- i cl e e eb il se ) r i J PUBLIC OPINION. 'Con , The Times has an article on the subject of Mr. ‘-' d De , nell, in which it exults in the idea of his supP° se 4iia f v u e n rt c y tion a a n r d y, observes :- 0 - I. •' aTrihseingpovfmermty of the Pu .. 1 1, patriotism, is chiefly attributable to hisaows' of lucre and of the mob popularity the unproductiveness of his political ventures. ri • t , ar pear to have been the governing motive of all his p n r ' ac , movements. When he determined to abandon hi-:sZent tice at the bar, he did so, not because he was '„, to to fees, but because by inveigling the Irish milue- defy _.., l ine calculated that for the matter of a become his clients and tribute-payers, he S4'- ing StlbSidiarY to 1 t Liic speeches in each session of Parliament, he power sheu only have less trouble than formerly, but w ore th and a better income. Even when he refil a s 7 s to Chief Justiceship of Ireland, scandalously °T ; oiell him by the Whigs, the seeming virtue with i hiing he waived that venal bribe was merely. a wed, 3 speculation, securing, as he fondly nea.--._lnite higher reversionary stake. The national , 1 P e% . was the preferable milch cow, from which .20. , petted a more plentiful and exhaustless Y i t , t ,holi A c The secret of this violent tirade against th e el fel ° I " Lord Mayor of Dublin is, that the Tories st." - o e gthe' r few blarnieloo, dread hip influence, and are anxious to e°„ lle ,,` n tea t " fears under the very convenient disguise et c ' iitieifi n e a l ' twh V boau e uts r le e dt hw A le l eoy r au . :l o vdo ' h C tuhil o mde n T n h e ota l ro l yv really j e h a oii l sut l y rf anb t tea h ell, e isep p lvrae o eud o sne r c , rhhv d ei e an c ggi l sa i , n ai ii i iii o n sot gf reoco . 0. i rdte the temptuous silence respecting` him. The o' te-t e i by t '" O'Connell's influence may be always ascertaine it o by severity and frequency, of the abuse levelled at the Tories. of e ll ' i' The Herald remarks as follows on the subje ct t p roflt . gration :—., Qur colonies are certainly o ur O s , I s rir , neitr h le labour agonyb ()u r able external customers ; our population at h" ll3 ,. t ' e des ir. feePoui dsl,:hi ..descending t 00 intoftthh those sire pauperismpresent dependenciesl;v thousandsret c to tots s . e lev r er e e ssi st . o. : iii;b s e e r r i vices are in demand ; and by such transfer, Itnoity, who are now a burden on the rest of the cnawisehlers might undoubtedly be converted into valuable c o g state , of our products. New sources of revenue to new f i eltii new channels of employment for the poll e L n w ealt h l' for advantageous investment of the capital of t" e ce aror would, it cannot be denied, be created by th e e i r t f i elj ui ,i ment of emigration to the territorial colonies "` o nl y, an d enough to repeal the Corn ted Kingdom."—lf Ministers would be bold , ta" - .•",, • -oo'". be doing more practical good to the c ountry t e , bow' can ever hope to do, by their emigration sell:Top. ever judiciously planned, or vigorously follow ", e Corr The Chronicl e , reverting to the c uestion of the in Jo laws, observes :—" There is a remarkable contrns'ie O r ground of argument occupied by the t 'la contendh corn' w the Jr ties in the great controversy of the day upoa 0 a laws. The advocates of the taxes on * food that v ?t ar dustrY; tu e i de• of generosity towards manufacturing • in bene fit _ re fess not to envy, or desire to diminish, any they 7.. :. • rived from duties on articles of foreign mak e ;f its .1)-°' for securing to manufacture the whole ex tent thef pi: tection' against competition abroad ; and the /1 10 01 0 1 _laws, thheyan they in the modest plea for a like protection to t fair ors that all classes may be, as they say, aPci n $ factl"tr equal footing. But on the other hand the rintn tl i iberswi s affirm that they do not want the privilege th us ho sel o able and willing to do without it conceded and guaranteed ; they profess t .. t bel . et h , e! j ie t b t o volunteer to forego it, and they declare th e 10, be misnamed ' protection' does not enrich then?, : t heto impoverishe joy stowed upon their own products, it as bestowed upon tbe products of agriculture, a nd 6ecl to seek its entire abolition, being much MOre 5 r 5 whiC j rely on the natural course of trade and Prl 9-ts i:ceu fle.. would flow from unrestricted freedom altog of i n ce ..0 t he The late meeting at Sheffield added another ci t ies of many instances in which large and influent ial l'° f rO rd manufacturers have adopted this view, and cowe,,•,° e lve g to repudiate distinctly and emphatically, for ti'' - , s r ote° in he• tt p s r a in p c p i l p ic le at o io f n ' to pro a te gr e ic io u n it ' u ' of the The Post says:—" It is well for the clergi.,..assol bole - 4 Church of England, that they make it their spew, please another Master than that one %ch ich i. I . 0 1 )1 through what are called ' the channels of Po i ll o n_ j oss r nion.' So far as Radical journalising goes, tl . ; e d tit' which is dealt out to our established clergy.is 19 , qth ;b e l e rea.g,ainst which theY r ther a hard one. When they were less a ctive t . n . of tb are at present in furthering the great Pure parts: Church, whether in this kingdom or in rem ew hat n il , they were continually stigmatised by the somewhat ti athi e % gentle description of lazy drones, who cared for t h 1 .. but their own worldly ease and comfort. IC Ol , v th is fol_ s ll is no longer any peg left upon which to 11007 sol e e v ,,', hood, an opposite calumny, dictated by the s ane i s now Thei a r e z b urch'° st e l l Y " spirit, is directed against them. matter of accusation."—lf by the zeal of th ere ju _ the Post means their Puseyite zeal, then the.:,„ve t_" accused, for anything more absurd_rpore,le'rvitseyites, true religion, than the leading tenets of t a we cannot possibly conceive. , n g Eg e, C h li : ve s ent D s: VIONET-TRA.DE-C° —° Several merchants, bankers, and °t•linetro consideratio, requisition to the Lord Mayor to take ' at e to ;petition toll_ national emigration on a large s cale , a t -tax ; but Queen and Parliament on the s ubjee / doubt, to stop the cry against the Br" ii a lif o ' public will not be deceived. ton an d Or The steamer Columbia, from Dos . ~.rabie v an brought 20,000 sovereigns, and a cepa" ,„$, . /N r i ,,, of silver.and lots hire Soot tit , The iron-masters of Staffordshire u. f ' 0 ronl - iro .to save themselves from the ruin arising flake ot its price of iron, have agreed to diminish the , t, s c qt )e, one-fourth 'for six months, and accordin,)Yfirst oi „, with a view, 000 number of furnaces will be blown out on th e _ itel ea 11° J, cember, and of course one-fourth of the wu r d , e harg e employed, as colliers, miners, &c., will be then ' sir" . COTKIVEMRCIAI. razroara., 4 Vegl, m r, The members of St. Martin's Reform an", sone.,l e tion Society, celebrated the formation of an t , Si and the success they had obtained in the o e % a re, a Courts, at the Cambrian Hotel, Leicester-stl he e "' Thursday. It was stated that by proper exertion. t b, atl ce Of the Reformers could be doubled in the Pnflue" Ming them to c..nnpete with the whole 'Tory - ae rds hir throughout "Westminster. e ' Sta. ° 0 " The coal-meters and iron- masters of - n toof if and others, are invited to meet at Wolverhor".4cessot'. the 29th inst., to determine upon the measures:l,o,l-01 to obtain a total and immediate repeal of the ." h' NAVAL AND Tri.:ILIT.A.RV 1 -1' noreale Lord Suirdale, eldest son of the Earl in more, joins the 98th, Regiment for China. 1 ~...,s p O -,,,-e• Mr. Fraser has been engaged for severa day s X, surveying and removing the wrecks in Norwell", to t . :J e , The rotten state of-the Waterwitch vr as g sot, but I,ici chains cut completely through her at er ‘i s 43. e was o f quently the greater part was raised, allu." to as " d. ashore on Broadness Point. Mr. Frazer intends to raise the Vesper. sunk last Christmas off to . ' eo' LAW AND POIJCS• ge nt di e In the list of Chancery causes for the pr,e T rese nt o f there are 530 suits, including 40 relner ea , he list " Equity Exchequer," which are se t down in , „ if olst Vice-Chancellors Bruce and Wigra m. e P a In the matter of the bankruptcy of Whitmor e %, D , O , and Whitmore, bankers, add i t i ona l proofs to v:,' 0 0 0 amo unts were taken in the Court of Bankruptcy ore tVii day. The dividend, it is said, will not be ni in t NI from 3s. to 4s. in the pound, but the exact Ow'- , op' be officially declared in a few days. e. DI I .4 In the Queen's Bench, Mr. Sergeant 'Talc' oc iat o `: c tamed a rule to show cause why a writ of w0.,,,0iti should not issue to the Visiting Justices of 'the - 1 -'," O )1 11 e Asylum at Hanwell, commanding them to restoree:roo Tebbetts the use of the chapel, and pay Waal th of his salary. STATISTICS. (10 0 1 , 8 40, w oj itt" The number of Emigrants from the Usited I:il e ' g re i l ', 4 and their destination, during the year follow :—To North American Colonies, 27, 025 n 't GO,, States, 38,495 ; West Indies, 1,938 ; CaP,e_nd, SO' States, Hope, 513 ; Sydney, West Australia, 233 ; Port Philip, 3,2 u, 1 0 ' 3 _ 7 46. Australia, 2,911 ; New Zealand, 1,338. Total, ' ' . bu n ' . 7,811 ; Van Diemen's J:,' , sou' SPORTING• dn ‘r, to The Earl of Eglinton left tow n last Satur : in Yorkshire. teci l COURT- S PASIONAR 4 F+"ar e e % P ec , The Marquis of Northampt on and family' t ' 1 to pass the winter at Rome. ()Tote r P ar Lord Ashburton has pu rchased the c, Bo ller, Mr. Burr's estates, near Ross. Yord e 0 Lupton, the splendid residence of Sir J. _ -“,ro returned t° "•the w, anti his establishment have again __.s la Count Countess Woronzow intend eb)itmo ' a coO trY has been altered and improved, and the 11 0 e..... _ to at St.Petesburgh, and to return to t w ood' April. on the banks of the Tamar, the seat of Si ' " I tiodlw ° Lord and Lady Russell last week v isiw i d I4.a7reloW e ney, Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall. Commons, has engaged a house on the DO l' p r George Byng, Esq., M.P., the father of t h . .., - ,iso let ;eta for the winter. for the 11- Lady Holland has taken Fir Bank H ouse `eon