The Sun. — London, England, 1841-01-13 00:00:00

nary it appears, ho wever , t o ac complish the object, and it certainly does not redound much to the reputation of the banks, but more especially of the United States Bank, that in order effect the end proposed it has been necessary, as it were, to go a begging in other parts of the Union for the loan of fends with which to recommence business. The following is the list of contributors and the amount of contributions levied in New York in aid of the resumption of capital stock:— Dollars. Bank of Commerce in New York 130,000 Mechanics' Bank Bank of the State of New York Manhattan Company 50,000 Union Bank Fulton Bank Leather Manufacturers' Bank 555.000 Brown, Brothers, and Co. Prime, Ward, and King 62,000 George Griswold Nevins, Townsend, and Co. John Ward and Co. 800,000 It will be remembered that other considerable loans were advanced by the Boston and some of the Philadelphia banks in aid of the United States Bank. After the delivery of the President's Message to Con gress the report of the Secretary of the Treasury was laid upon the table. It results briefly from this document that the total available entries of revenue and other moneys arising from the issue of Treasury notos amounted, for the year now ended, Dollars 28,234,M2 96.643,656 The expenditure Leaving balance in tho Treasury only of ... I ,590, 856 The total receipts for 1841 were estimated at 24,723,473 The ordinary expenditure........ 19,250,000 Other payments Redemption of Treasury notes... 4,600,000 23,899,200 Lea►ing balance at the end of the year o r 824,273 The account is not very encouraging, more especially considering the ►arge surplus of revenue over expenditure in years antecedent to 1837, bat withal it exhibits an ex tremely prosperous condition of fiscal affairs by comparison with the late official exhibit in the Royal Oazetle here of Whig revenue and expenditure, where it appears that after formally announcing an excess of expenditure over income, to the extent of creating a large actual deficit at the Exchequer, that is an Exchequer in debt to all the extent, the Commissioners for managing the national debt acquaint the public with becoming gravity that it is not their intention at present to make any more purchases for account of the Sinking Fund. For the first time for many years, and as Mr. Woodbury the Secretary of the Treasury says, "such a circumstance as the cxpoi is at all exceeding the imports is believed to have happened previously only six times since the Constitution was adopted, and then never to an extent beyond 7,916,831 dollar:"—the exports of the United States were in advance of the imports for the year. Dollars. The exports were ..„ ... 131,571,950 Imports ... 104.805,891 Excess of exports on balance ... 2q.766,059 Since the year 1831 the i m p orts were invarialfly in ad vance of exports, and for the year 1539 stood as follon : Dollars. 157,609,560 ... 118,359,004 Imports Exports Resolutions had already been moved by Mr. Clay in the Senate arid by a member of the other House for repealing or otheraise stultifying the Sub-Treasury 811, and sanguine expectations were indulged in among the party by whom the election of General Harrison had been carried that a National Bank would ere long be proposed if not carried. It seems however hardly probable that so complete a revolution i❑ the Governmental system could be effected, whatever the inclinations of the ruling party, seeing that although a complete change hi the Executive from the President downwards of parties, that is of the majority and minority, in the Senate and the House of Representatives, cannot be materially affected for some time to come, if perhaps at all. By a vesiel from Pernambuco, date not mentioned, ad vices are said to have bee►► received from the River Plate to the effect that negotiations had been opened between the French Admiral Nlack.ru and the Government of Buenos Ayres, which it was thought would end in the re esbabl'shment cl friendly relations and raising the blockade. SUN.—The arrival of three New York packets to-day, caused activity in the American trade; and although the political news is interesting of itself, the commercial ad -vices were, of course, more immediately so, and were ge nerally considered favourable. It seems by the accounts from Canada that it is not yet determined which shall be the seat of Government after the union of the Provinces. The Foreign Exchanges were rather better this after noon. On Paris the quotation was 25.55 c. to 60c. ; on Am sterdam 12 21 to 1; oU Hamburgh, 13 7to ; and on Frankfort, 1464. The Fundi closed heavily, Consols at 89a for money and time, and Exchequer Bills at 9s. prem. India Stock, however, advanced to 2491, and Bank Stock was firm at 165. The Foreign Stocks had a downward tendency. Spanish Actives realised 244 to 4.; Portuguese, New, 31/ ; Bra zilian 701 to 71i : -.nd D utc h Fi re per Cents , 96i The Railway Snares were dull. Great Wcstern left off at 27, and the Filths at 64- prem. ; Brighton were at 61 to 6} discount. The experts of tho precious metals from the port of London in the week ending Thursday last were only 1,009 ouncesc,, silver coin to the West Indies. ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY. Yesterday the annual meeting of the members was ho Id, Benjamin Hawes, the treasurer of the Societ), took the chair, and the minutes of the various committee it-ico n:en caving been read and confirmed, The Secretary (Mr. \Vestropp) reported that in the lag. veer 224 easel of suspended animation had occurred, iu the whole of wgich only 11 were unsuccessful. The question of awarding medals, &c., to parties who d exerted themselves in saving the lives of others, 17 in number, had been referred to the general court. The thanks of the meeting were given to his Grace the Duke of Northumberland, for the earnest desiro he has always taken to promote the interests of the Society, and tae munificent donations his Grace has contributed to the funds. A letter was read from the Duke approving of the change of the rooms of the Society from Blackfriara to Trafalgar-square, and commending the exertions of the Society in preventing accidents in Hyde Park during the bathing season, where, notwithstanding more than 260,000 persons bad bathed, only 20 accidents had occurred, of which but two were fatal. The silver medal was unanimously awarded to Mr. Guthrie, for having saved a b o y f rom drowning at Great Yarmouth. The lad had fallen off a jetty into the sea ; 3,1 r. Guthrie jumped off a height of twenty feet, with his clothes on, and succeeded in saving the lad. The next case was that of Mr. M. R. Nightingale, in .lure last, saved a lad named Charles Cassel, who fell into a canal. Though in ill health, Mr. Nightingale, on hear ing of the accident, plunged in with his clothes on, but did not find the body. From a discolouration of the water while below the surface of the stream, he swam near the bed of the river, and grasped the hair of the youth, but, as et was short, he could not obtain a purchase, but succeeded its obtaining a hold on the shoulder, alter which he raised the body :o the surface, and swam to the shore. Mr. Nightingale nearly lost his own life in the attempt. The silver medal was immediately voted to this young man. A silver medal was also awarded to Captain M. G. Ifartin, for savin g the life of Mr. Keats, at Bideford. To Mr. Tweedie, the master of the Gilbert Henry, con vict ship, a salver medal was voted viva voce for having saved the child of one of the convicts sent out to Van Die men's Land. Capt. T wee di e jumped from the poop of the ship, notwithstanding there was a heavy sea, and, after gec at difficulty, recovered the child, who had acciden t/ally fallen overboard. This case was recommended to 'the Society by a letter from Lord John Russell, forwarded by Mr. R. V. Smith, and founded on a recommendation from Sir R. Franklyn, the Governor of Van Diemen's Lend. A commendatory letter was directed to b© sent to Miss Schneider for bier gallantry, if the term may be used, in saving her step-mother, who had f a ll en i nto deep Aver, i The young lady rushed n immediately and saved her step.. mother from a watery grave. It was a matter of regret to many of the members of the Society that a modal 'was not awarded. A silver medal was voted to Mr. Charles Duncan, of the Royal Mail Steam Co mpany's ship , Britannia, fur sav ing two lives in K . ngl , ton 11 . hour. This young gentle snarl had on a f o rmer occasion gallar , ~y 4 ,,i„,1 in saving the 1;:e of another fellow:ereaturo. To Thomas !farmer, a fiAherman, a silver rvdal was Atrardcd for saving a youth at Brighton. The last case uanod was one of great interest. Two brothers, while engaged at their business at Brighton, 'fell (the noxious air rendering them insensible) into a Less-pool. A man named Marchant, descended to their rescue, but became insensible. Knight, a policeman, hearing, the calamit y , i mme di ate l y d escen d e d, and sue ca'" in "^cti n After aI t g p g up Marchant, though much exhausted. tht ause, up ce.44 of the brothers. Again he escen ain went down aud grasped Knight dded ag and drew 141 body o f t h e second unfortunate person, but wasover przmored by the noxious air, and dropped the man, Knight birnself being drawn up insensible. Knight went down a third time, having recovered his senses, and brought up the body, but life was extinct ; both brothers died from the effects of the foul air. The Brighton Branch Society recommended this case earnestly to the parent association. The silver medal was awarded to Mr. Knight instantly. The Duke of Northumberland was re-elected president, 40d Earl Powis and Lord Grey were nominated to offices. Ile other officers of the Society were re -appointed. Thanks Isere returned to the Chairman, and the meeting Adjourned. FURTHER MORTALITY AMONG TIIE CON VICTS AT WOOL Is•rctr.—On Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock an inquest was held at the Duchess of Wellington, wich, before Mr. J. C. Carttar, on the bodies of f our convicts, nam e d G eorge F ran cis, William Fullien, James Turner, and William Hamilton. From the evidence of the surgeon, Dr. Bossy, it appeared that three of the men died from inflammation of the chest and fever, and the other from scrofula. Dr. Bossy added, that when any of the ccnvis complain of illness, they are remanded from work until seen by the surgeon ; and as their state of health will allow they are employed accordingly. Th o se that are not very ill are sent into the oakum ward, The Jury expressed themselves satisfied with the evidence, and returned a verdict--"'l'. at the deceased men died from nateral causeqi It was mentioned that a treat number of the convicts are-suifering fr om coughs and' colds. The Jury spoke very highly ot . the cleanly state in which they found the hospital ship. COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SO CIETY OF SCOTLAND. The Annual General Meeting of this Society was held at the Black Bull, Glasgow, on Friday the Bth instant, at three o'clock in the afternoon, for the purposes speci fied in the Articles of Constitution, when the following gentlemen were elected Office-bearers for the current year, viz.: James Lumsden, Esq., of Yoker Lodge, President, Mr. Geo. Robson, merchant, Glasgow, Vice-President. Messrs. John Smith, John Reid, James Morrison, and Patrick Scotland, Directors in room of the four who retire. Mr. James Gourlay, Treasurer. Mr. Alexander Borland, Actuary. Mr. E. Railtin, Secretary. JOINT STOCK BANKS IN SCOTLAND. The returns of the circulation of to 8 the I joi 3 n 9 t- .l s a t ci oc u k . banks in Sc o tl a nd, for the year 18 i sive, are much relied upon by the advocates_ of free ' issues. By the accounts furnished to the Comm! ce on Banks of Issue, these establishments give a circu lation of 3,497,7951., in November, 1834, from twenty one banks ; and 3,559,5091., in November, 1839, from twenty-eight banks. These accounts also show that during the immediate years the circulation has generally been lowest in the month of March, that it has risen in July . and at its maximum in No vember. Mr. Gilbert places great stress upon these tables, and the " beautiful regularity" which they exhibit. He says that it must arise from the local circumstances or habits of the country, and that it has no influence on prices. He is partly right, but more wrong than right in that statement. The periodi cal expansion of the currency in Scotland from July to November is occasioned by the increase in trade, which begins in July annually from the herring fishery. The herring curers require a large supply of 11. notes annu ally to pay the wages to the fishermen, coopers, boat ma kers, and other persons employed by them. This demand is supplied by the discount of bills and issue of their notes in exchange by the various branch banks in the towns along the line of coast ; and, again, in November the currency is further increased by the quantity of produce which is brought to market by the farmers, whose grain rents in the northern coun ties are payable on Martinmas Day, the 15th day of November. Mr. Gilbart says that Mr. Loyd's system would destroy this regularity. " In sonic y cars the circulation would advance from March to No. vember, and in other years it would retrograde." We do not think so. Mr, Loyd'a system would keep the circulation altogether more even and steady, but it would not stop the Scotch herring fishery, nor prevent the tenants from selling their corn and cattle. Mr. Gilbart is mistaken in supposing that the periodical expansion of the currency in Scot land has no effect on prices. Every one who has had an opportunity of observing the effect of 1 the flush of money produced by the bills distributed along the coasts of Scotland, during and at the termina tion of the herring season, knows that prices are thus invariably enhanced ; and that the easy accommodation given by the banks has led to overtrading in that branch of commerce, followed in the spring season by a tightness of demand and want of money when the bills fall due, which causes a reaction and fall of prices. No one will dispute that the Scotch banks have been generally well managed, and that they have tended much to the improvement of that part of the United King dom. They are part of the system of society, here. They are indeed, we may say, an elementary portion of it, for every man in Scotland who has scraped 501. to gether is generally a shareholder in some joint-stock bank ; and the Scotch have a confidence in their paper issues which is born with them from the cradle. Such confidence does not exist in England in paper-money ; and we have to consider the best means for regaining confidence in the eyes of the people of England towards the monetary system of the country which it has lost. We shall not likely obtain that object by mere analo gous reasoning from the Scotch system. We do not believe that the people of England would place faith in our opinions if we were seriously to argue that the surest way to stop fluctuations in prices, and to obtain safety for the public in their banking operations, would be to do away with all legislative control as re gards banks of issue, and to let any class of men who chose commence the trade of money making who were able to get circulation for their promises to pay. What would be the immediate result of such a system in the metropolis and throughout the country ? Why, banks would spring up as numerous as mushrooms in sum mer, and as ephemeral in their existence. Ultimately, it may be said, the thing would cure itself, and find its proper level ; that these fictitious establishments would speedily perish, and houses of immense capital and with most numerous proprietors would take their place. Be it so. That is quite possible ; but let U 3 reflect a moment on the cenvulsions whi c h wou ld first be suffered—th e p an i c , the misery, the swell of prices in the first instance, and the reflux in the sequel, which the commercial interests of the country would have to undergo before we could reasonably ex pect to reach the land of promise, and before the troubled waters would settle calmly down. The experi ment is too dangerous to be attempted ; and although there may be some risks in the change of placing the whole currency in the hands of a board of responsible officers appointed by the Crown, yet it is compara tively trifling ; and, as all are agreed that an alteration must take place, and that something decisive must be done, the best way is to adopt the simplest, and that which is attended with the smallest peril. Uni formity and steadiness are the two chief objects sought for, and to find them there must be but one controlling power. As Mr. Gilbert has referred to Scotland for a favourable elu cidatio n of the effects of competing issues, as giving rise to regularity, and keeping the currency within proper limits, we shall, on the other hand, contrast the state of things in the United States, when the currency in that country was under the control of a State bank, and when it was open to the free action of the various banks chartered by the separate States. The pic ture is thus drawn by Mr. Daniel Webster : " From 1820 to 1830, a period of ten years, there were created in the United States twenty-two new banks, and their creation added to the banking capital of the country but eight millions of dollars. During this period the Bank of the United States was in full operation, and nobody entertained a doubt but that it would be continued. How was it in the next ten years ? From 1830 to 1840, the increase of banks, instead of twenty-two, as in the preceding ten years, was three hundred and forty-eight ; and the increase of banking capital, instead of eight millions, amounted to two hundred and sixty-eight millions. Such has been the progress of bank expansion during the charm ing, the successful years of the experiment," We do not bring forward this extract from the speech of Mr. Webster with the view of attributing merit to the Bank of the United States. We have frequently pointed out the errors of the past conduct of that institution, and called upon the Directors to observe prudence and economy for the future. But we have in the above extract evidence that the Bank of the United States, faulty as i t was d ur i ng the pe riod when it existed as a national institution, and, acted as a controlling power, was the mea ns o f repressing over-issues, and that, when it ceased to possess the im press and influence of a national establieement, banks sprung up to a most mischievous ex'„eat in the United States. THE "MILITARY KNIGHTS OF WINDSOR. in consequence of the main-guard at the Castle not " turning out" t o p a y th e usua l mar k s o f respect t..) the ' corpse of a military knight in the progress of the funeral cortege to St. George's Chapel, Colonel Molyneux, the Commandant of the 60th Rifles, was applied to on the sub ject by Colonel Bassett, the Governor. Colonel Moly neux, however, not having received any instructions from the Horse Guards, declined to give any orders in re ference to the matter. The Military Knights (through their Governor) then made a representation to Lord 11111, the General Commanding in Chief, through Lieutenant- General Sir John Macdonald, the Adjutant-General, which caused an order to be issued by Lord llill (and which was promulgated at Windsor on Saturday last) to the following effect : The Military Knights of Windsor are to be paid the same compliments by the troops in garrison at Windsor es if they were on full pay ; and on the decease of a Military Knight, upon the Governor making an application to the officer commandin g the garrison for a funeral escort, a firing party is to be granted according to the rank, or re lative rank, of the deceased Knight." During the period the Ist battalion of the Rifle Brigade was stationed at Windsor (which was succeeded by the 60th Rifles) the usual honours and marks of respect were invariably paid (by order of the commanding officer, Co. lone) Brown) by the main guard, at King H enry the Eighth's gateway. Greater mortality has taken plac e amongst the Military Knights within the past twel ve months than during the &line period since the founda,ion of the institution. Within the time referred to four and one is now so dange rous l y ill that his n;'gdieelulstfi• havena ttiniasdt diedo a(i'llye ; rge S expected.ick er, late of the 11th Light D the embassy vr ba li s o cy co i m n mcahni f e , r , l the n 17 !! , 111 , r tt is of t o Lord ra :N i l s a e c d a r f t r n on cy l and he o undation, vice Captain Holmes, de lower to th e upper ceased. GRESHAM COLLEGE.-11911daV being the first day of Hilary Term, the Rev. Mr. Pullen, Professor of Astronomy to this endowment, delivered his introductory lectur e to an audience of forty-five persons. The prin cipal subject of the discourse was, the mode of taking ob servations from the earth's surface, with a description of the Transit and Mural instruments, with other objects of astronomical investigation. The Operative Anti-Corn-law Association have resolved to call their fellow -townsmen together at the Music Hall next Wednesday, where they will lay before them the workings of these law s , and expose the fallacies by which they are attempted to be defended. Sir Joshua Walmslcy, as an efficient and leading member of the Anti-Corn-law League, has consented to take the chair. —Liverpool Times. MEETING ol' CHARTISTS. BRISTOL, MONDAY EVENING —A public meeting of the Chartists of this city was held this day in a large and re cently-erected building, called the Hall of Science, and which is used by the Socialists as their public lecture and discussion room. The building is capable of containing 3,000 persons, but it was not more than a quarter full—a circumstance which the llpaktrt said did hot arise from any want of public interest in the object of their meeting, but from a tyranny exercised towards the working classes by their employers, whereby they were deprived of the free expression of their political opinions. After waiting about twenty minutes, Mr. Daniels was called to the Chair. Wm. MORGAN, a working tinman, moved a resolution to the effect that Frost, Jones, and Williams, had been ille gally convicted, and ought to be immediately pardoned. The resolution having been put to the meeting was adopted unanimously. After which, a Mr. FELIX SIMEON came forward and introduced an Address to the Queen, imploring her Ma jesty ;o grant her immediate pardon to the patriots. Mr. Wurre, of Wotton-under. Edge, who was intro duced as a delegate from that town, seconded the resolu tion, which was carried amidst loud applause. HENRY HUNT FROST, the son of John Frost, then came forward, and read a letter from his father to Mrs. Frost. The letter was to the following effect " Port Arthur, Van Diemen's Land, July 1, 1840. " My dearest Mary—The words Norfolk Island and Port Arthur convey to the minds of the English people places of extreme suffering. They arc penal settlements to which generally persons are sent who, being prisoners, have committed other offences in the colony. The punishment here is great, but the persous sent here are frequently old offenders. There arc various reasons assigned for sending us to Port Arthur; but, as it is impossible that I can be acquainted with the true one, I shall merely state the facts. lam at Port Arthur, a place to which the very worst of men are sent, and where human misery may be seen to, probably, its greatest extent. I was not, however, sent h ere f or w h at i s ca ll e d punish ment ; the Governor told us repeatedly that we were not sent to Port Arthur as a punishment, but to fill c e rtain offices. Williams is a superintendent at the coal mines ; Jones fills a situation at the juvenile establishment ; and I am in the office of the Commandant; that is, the Governor of Port Arthur. I am acting here as a clerk, and hitherto the labour has not been heavy. I am in excellent health—l never was better, and my spirits are very good, consider ing all things —much better than I could possibly have an ticipated. The climate is, so far as I have seen, very good ; milder, I expect, than our own country. The situas tion of the settlement must be healthy, we having a fine open bay before us. Indeed, from the appearance of most of the prisoners, and from what I hear, I think Port Ars thur is a very healthy place. So much, my love, for thi.a part of . the subject. " You arc aware that all letters sent from and received by the prisoners arc seen by the Commandant; and though 1 b:licve that that gentleman would not be very particular hi a correspondence between a husband and a wife. yet it is a great check to that freedom of communication which to be affectiJnate must be unrestrained. Politics are, I believe, forbidden, yet it is a subject very much connected with my affairs. There are various matters of a public nature which affect our situations. I shall, however, leave that subject till I hear from England lam of opinion that my letters will be perused by others besides the gentle man who rules here. I suppose the Colonial Secretary would be glad to have a peep at the letters of his old cor respondent. Well, I trust that if Lord John should break the seal of my letters he will have so much of the gentle man about him as to send them according to their address. " You know how much I suffered, and how much I dreaded sea-sickness. Strange, passing strange, that in a voyage of 16,000 miles I felt scarcely any sickness, nor was my stomach once disordered. So little do I now dread a sea voyage, that I like it. I shouid like, in a good ship and pleasant company, a voyage to almost any part of the world. We arrived at Symond's Bay, Cape of Good Hope, on the 6th of May, after a remarkably fine passage. There were some ships of war intended for the Chinese expedi tion. I had a long conversation with some military and naval officers, some of whom were in England during our trials. The first lieutenant of one of the gun-brigs had been at Newport. We left the Cape on the 13th. Our doctor put into the harbour for the purpose of obtaining fresh provisions, the scurvy having made its appearance on board our ship. I can assure you, my dear, that the Cape beef, although not the best I ever saw, was very acceptable after our salt provisions. We had no wind for several days after we left the Cape, and our progress was slow; but about the latter end of the month we had plenty of it. The greater part of the month of June was exceedingly tempestuous; on the Sth of June, Whit Monday, it blew great guns; the oldest sailor on board scarcely ever re collected such a hurricane; during the night many sup posed that our danger was extreme. The ship, an excellent sailer, tumbled about merrily ; the fore anti main hatchways fastened down, the mizen-hatch opened a little to admit air to the prisoners, through which opening the sea was pouring in streams, so that the hospital under the quarter-deck was half filled with water. The ship rode it out well ; the 13th, 16th, 19th, 20th, and 21st, were exceedingly boisterous ; however, on the last day of June we anchored in the Derwany, before Hobart Town. We were exactly four calendar months from England. We left Falmouth on the last day of February. Here we were immediately supplied with fresh provisions, principally mutton, and though what we had was much inferior to our English mutton, we thought it capital after the convicts' Bait junk. The next day our friend the doctor waited on the Governor, Sir John Franklyn, and, 1 hevu no doubt, did everything in his power for us. It is usual for the doctors of convict-ships to give each prisoner a character, according to his behaviour on board the ship, and the character Oren has some in fluence on the fate of the prisoners. We arrived on the Tuesday, and on the Thursday we were informed that the Governor would come on board on Saturday, and that we should be landed on the Monday morning at four o'clock. On Friday morning we were told that we must prepare to leave that day for Port Arthur. We were rather asto nished at this information. Port Arthur? a penal set tlement I—while the most able men at the bar contended that we had had no legal trial—while our case was, when we left, before the House of Commons. Incas intimated, I do not know how truly, that these were insliruc tions from the highest authority, and that it was in tended to f a v our us , O n the Friday evening we were taken on board the colonial schooner Eliza, and soon after the Governor came on board, and his Excellency addressed us for a considerable time, pointing out the regulations under which we should be placed, recom mending a certain line of conduct, and informing us repeatealy tkat we were not sent to the penal settle ment for punishment. As soon as the Governor left the ship railed, and on the next morning, Saturday, the 4th of July, the ever-memorable day, held in such esteem in the United States, we were landed at Part Arthur, the penal settlement for Van Diemen's Land. We were taken Into the Commandant's office, where the regulations for prisoners were read to us. They are, my dear, as you may suppose, pretty stringent, but I have no doubt I shall be able to observe them. We certainly were not treated as the generality of prisoners are treated on their arrival they are taken to the shoemaker's shop, stript quite naked, all their clothes taken from them and burned. They arc then put into the prison dress, gene rally yellow, sometimes black and yellow. We were not treated so ; we kept all our clothes, and we now wear some of them ; so far, there has been a great difference made. " I inlbrm you, my dear Mary, of these particulars, be cattse I wish the exact state of things to be known. I un derstand that a strong feeling was produced in the colony by our being sent down to Port Arthur, and I have no doubt that great indignation will be felt in England, Scotland, and Wales when it is known. It will be said that we are in the chain-gangs, and that we arc treated as the vilest of the vile. I wish that truth should prevail, and for that reason I have stated facts. God knows that the very best situation in Port Arthur is bad enough privation and suffering ; but our situation is one of comfort compared with that of many pri. soners here. Yes, my dear ; and with many well-edu eated and talented men. However, my dear, I am, as I said before, in good health and spirits, and prepared, as far as possible, to meet whatever is prepared for me. While you and my dear family have been anticipating the worst respecting me in the imagination, drawing pictures of hardship and suffering very different from those I expe rience, I have been engaged in the same work in regard to you, and, I hope, with as little truth. The greatest misery I ever endured was in Monmouth-gaol, fancying that certain things would take place, and then feeling as if they had actually occurred. It is unwise to be meeting coming events too favourably, because, as the mind is likely to be affected by anticipation, it is less able to meet a reverse ; on the other hand, to be continually looking on the dark aide is to be placed in a state of continual misery. I need only say that I am most anxious to bear from you and my dear family, and of the state of things in England, to which lam as much attached as ever. . . . . "JOHN FROST." At the end of the letter young Mr. Frost, who did net appear to be more than 16 years old, attempted to address the meeting, and thank them for their attention and the interest manifested in behalf of his father ; but possibly from the excited state of his feelings he was unable to go on, and retired. The meeting after passing some resolutions in favour of the people's rights and the Charter, quietly dispersed. COUNTY OF MONAGIIAN—RESIGNATION OF Ma. Lochs.—Mr. Lucas, the Tory Member for the county of Monaghan, has declared his intention to re sign the nexttlie presentationr d e issoluti o n o r i o ,a f r t l l i t a a n t l ent. l a s n e d h i f i l r l e a 7, o t e ft a m t taking this step may be learned from the following pa ragraph of his address to his con3tituents :—" The im portance which Irish affairs have of late years assumed, and are likely to retain, in the conduct of the empire, mutt render the position of an Irish repreicntative, at best, one of anxiety and labour; the manner in which they have lately been carried on in the House of Com mons has made it one of constant watchfulness and painful suspense. Deferred from day to day, and week to week, without appircnt reason ; hurried on unexpectedly with as little ; withdrawn, after long announcement, or left to be disposed of in a promiscuous heap at the end of the Scs- Sl.O, amidst burry :A -, confusion—the measures that re gard Ireland are a constant source of uncertainly, disap pointment, and vexation to all those who are called upon to take a part in thern."—Droyhed a Argus. MARRIAGE IN RUSSIA. --We hear that Count Anatole Demidaff has received an order on the part of his Majesty the Emperor, to return to this capital within a certain fixed time. The Governments of some provinces have thought fit to remind the subordinate autho rities of the following ancient regulation No officer either of the civil or military Service, shall be allowed to contract marriage without the permissio n of his superiors. Those who act in contravention of this order, will be in evitably punished according to law." To promote this eRd, the Conaistories are invited to co-operate by not cele brating any marriage of officers in the service of the State, unless they produce a rvrmission from their superior,,— Berlin Paper. LOSS Or THE THAMES STEAMER ON THE SCILLY ISLANDS. [FURTHER PARTICULARS.] News was received in Liverpool yesterday morning of the loss of the steamer Thames, Captain Grey, ply ing between London and Dublin, on the rocks of Rose vere; one of the Scilly Islands, yesterday week, and of the destruction of the captain ; crew, 14 passengers, and a number of recruits, making a total of at least 60 souls We have been favoured with two accounts of this deplorable event, the former being the substance of accounts received in this town from various quarters, and the letter being an extremely interesting account from the pen of a gentleman residing in the Island of St. Mary. They are as follows : We regret to have to state the loss of the steamer Thames, on the morning of Monday, the 4th inst. on the Scilly Island rocks. It would appear, from the situation in which the hull of the Thames was placed, and from the statement of the man who was saved, that the com mander had mistaken the Scilly Lights for those of the Long-ships : the commander, Grey, expecting the vessel would have floated next tide, as she made no water, re mained on board, keeping the other boats of the vessel by him. It appears that several of the crew, having taken one of the boats, left the vessel, but the Captain having prevailed on them to return and take the three females who were on board, they did so, when a number of recruits having jumped in, the boat ts as swamped, and all lost. A shore boat then came to the vessel, and the three fern des were taken from her by means of booming the boat off so as to prevent a similar accident from a rushing of she other persons on board. The vessel went on the rocks about five o'clock in the morning, after a tremendous night of snow squalls and much lightning. A strong north-east wind setting in with the flood tide, and the vessel having unfortunately listed to windward, from being smooth water a heavy sea arose, and the vessel was lost with those that remained on board, including, the Captain, remainder of the crew, four cabin passengers, and eleven deckers, with some recruits, " St. Mary's, Scilly isles, 6th January, 1841. " Gentleinen,—l beg the liberty of sending you an account of the total loss of the Thames steamer, of Dub• lie, which sailed from that port for Plymouth and Lon. dun on Saturday afternoon the 9.d instant, with a gene ral cargo, and sixty-five souls on board including crew and passengers, and dreadful to relate, only four persons saved. From the evid ence o f the sui.lVOrbi taken be , fore a jury, summoned this day, to inquire into the death of those bodies found on shore, which at present amount to nine men and one woman, it appears that the ship was a great way °tit of her etfurte, and when she made the Scilly Light mistook it for that of the Long-ship Light at the Land's End. The seaman saved says the Light was in sight when he came on deck at 4 a.m. (of Monday the 4th inst.) but how long the light had been seen previous he could not say, and that the other Bailors said it was the Long ship's Light, hut about halt' an hour after she shipped a sea that filled her, and stopped the engines ;• they then discovered the rocks around them, and that it must be Scilly ; the captain had sail put on her, the ship became quite unmanageable, and about five o'clock struck on some rocks near an unin habited island called Rosevere. A boat from St. Agnes, the nearest inhabited island, went to the ship, at imminent risk, and succeeded in taking off the wreck a Miss Morris, one of the passengers, and the two stew• ardesses ; the boat dared not near the ship fearing a rush from those on board, they had therefore to draw the females through the sea by a rope fastened round the waist one end on beard the ship-- , =the other end the boatmen had ; this was about half-past eight o'clock a.m., and shortly after a very heavy hail storm came on, when all hopes vanished of having any more assist ance from shore I the flood set in, and the wind in creased to a heavy gale, with very severe bail storms from N.E. to E.N.E., the boat which had the survivors on board, and another boat attempting to make the ship were both nearly lost, the former was not found till some hours after by a large pilot boat, when the people were taken on board and the boat towed into St. Ag nes # the scene of the wreck is about three miles to the N.W. of that island. " rise ship had only two boats ; one was stove in by a sea, the other some recruits got into, and lowered her into the water before aoy on board were aware of it ; two gentlemen jumped for her, but jumped short, sank, and were seen no more ; the recruits not being able to manage the boat, she soon filled, went down, and they also soon perished. Thus were sixty or seventy human creatures left without any means of saving them selves, and in such a dangerous place, three miles from any inhabited island, and, after nine o'clock, a.m. no hope whatever of any assistance from the shore. The seaman saved states that about ten a.m. the quarter deck began to give way (all under water forward), when the captain with about twenty more got into the main rigging. They were not long there before the main mast went overboard, and all soon perished, eitlß r by drowni4, or killed by the fall. At this time there were many more on the quarter-deck, when about eleven o'clock it was lifted up in a body by the sea, and afterwards separated into several pieces, en one of which this sailor stood with seven more fel low-creatures ; four only besides himself reached the island, Rosevere, a short distance from the wreck), the others were washed off whilst floating between the wreck and the shore ; when the raft reached shore, they were all washed off by a heavy sea, the man saved fortunately got hold of a rock, held till the sea receded, and then scrambled a little highe r up till he found he was safe ; he then looked round for the others, but never saw them. He soon began to look for shelter for the night, when shortly he found a porter barrel ; he knocked in the head, and crept into it, otherwise he would likely have perished of cold, the night (Monday) being very severe. Next morning, by break of day, he was taken off, as were also the dead bodies of seven men and one woman ; two other dead bodies were left that day, (Tuesday sth) in consequence of the wind freshening, and a heavy sea round the rocks. The two bodies left yesterday were brought to thi s i s l an d to day, ( Wednesday), the other eight were brought yes terday. The stewardess recognised the bodies of Jack, Quin, or Qui n l an , be (the ste war d), a seaman, Griffiths, a sto k er , name Lin eman, name unknown, taon recruitop hu e Dublin isne T a; mhaeannfoe't nhnamed was the w if e o f a so ldi er , a l k o n n n d o g w e o d n : e who also perished, as did also the infant which the mo ther was suckling. The names of those saved are a Miss Morris, whose father perished on board, a Mrs. Myers, first cabin stewardess, Mary Gregory, second cabin stewardess, and J. Nearness, " Unfortunately for this shipwreck, all the large pilot boats were high and dry when they would have been of vast service ; for, had they been afbat, they, early in the morning—say from seven till nine o'clock—in all likelihood would have saved every soul, as they are large enough, and could have received the passengers and crew from the smaller boats as they took them from the ship, but this could not have been done later than balf past eight or nine o'clock. It has been a most heart rending shipwreck. The frantic cr i es o f t h e su ff erers could be heard occasionally at St.Agncs. You are at li berty to make any use of this communication you please, only if published, I should wish that my name be with held. I have embraced the first mail leaving this for the main after this melancholy occurrence, therefore the information will be as early as any." WA TCEI YOUR DIVE DENDS.—The hoard raised round St. Bartholomew's Church, which is so constructed as to leave but a narrow pass;,ge between Threadneedle street and the Rotunda of the Bank, now converted into the Dividend Pay.office, is complained of as being in its prevent state a public inconvenience. Besides, light being entirely excluded by the awning above, it affords facilities for the depredations of the class of thieves who never fail to watch the Bank a t the pei iods of the year when the dividends are in course of payment. The speech of the Governor of Ceylon, on open ing the sessio❑ of the Legislative Council on the 16th of ast October, contains statements of the revenue of the colony. It appears that during the year 1840 the de crease on the cinnamon revenue has been considerable, the receipts on the duty being 53,0211. from January to August in 1839, and 26,01 Q/. during the same period in 1840, showing a decrease of 27,011/. The sales of the s into article during similar periods real zed 29,8541. in 1839, and 10,9581. in 1840, according to which the decrease is 18,896/. Had not the sale of the cinnamon lands produced nearly 5,0001., the deficit in the revenue would have been still greater. The revenue from arrack and toddy given for the same months 28,8411. in 1839, and 30,624/. in 1840, showing an in crease of 1, 7 83 /. ; while that of salt was 19,9031 in 1839, and 17,094/. in 1840, showing a decrease of 2,8091. These are the three great articles of revenue. Pearls in 1840 have produced nothing, and the Governor entertains no hope of an early improvement in that source. Ile thinks it an object of importance to consider hots the cost of the steam-vessel built for the purpose of protecting the pearl banks can be limited. Among the ordinances to be introduced during the session was sole for prohibiting the importation into Ceylon of foreign sugar, and also of su gar b e i ng t h e growt h o f a British possession into which foreig n sugar cou ld b e legally imported. For this the Governor cites as a precedent, the: ordinances of other colonial Legislatures, observing, at the same time, that the present supply of sugar is from Indian presidencies, which will not be affected by the or dinance, while the po or i n h a bi tan ts of the island would be equally independunt of it s opera tions, s i n ce they use a nit_ tive manufactare from th e pa l m -tree. The Arnission of coal and coke duty free, and also the redu:;tiola of the chi tiaincn duty by 61. in th e pound, were also proposed, all the three measures h av i ng b een ur ged un the government of Ceylon by the Ch am b er o f Commerce. The ortli. nanees respecting the coal and mkt!, and the reduction ef the cinnamon duty, were passed, which seems likewise to have been the case with the one respecting foreign sugar. High duties are levied on the followiiug articles, to protect British agricultural and tongues, 31 bacon, 28; per cwt. ; pork , salted, each ; grazing; interests 12s per civt. ; s..usages, 4d per lb; potatoes , 2 d per lb ; beer and mum, 3/ is id, or a b out :2s per gallon ; ale , other than mum, 2/ 13s : b eans , kid rri ey or French, 10 d per bushel ; fruits, variou s d ut i es; e ider, 211 3 p e l r O ,t hay, 245. per load of 36 t russes; l ar d, 8 :3s per bushel ; lentil s , per b ushel ; pearl bat le y , 17 .; c s ~ per ;onions, o o ton did per cwt ; must ar d an d care awa y, and marl other seeds. —Mr. :ITS G regor ' s E v a (qice beibre the Import Duties Committee, PUSEYISM AS IT IS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,--I was upon the point of offering a few remarks upon the above (which has been the subject of several cleverly-written letters, as well as of editorial remarks, in your valuable journal), especially when I saw the de scription, by " An Anglo-Catholic," of the retired and studious Puseyites, which contrasted so strongly with my own knowledge of their several characters, as only to excite a laugh. I will attempt to describe one, and " ex uno disce omnes." When I first became acquainted with him, he had recently taken the title of M.A., and shall not readily forget the ostentation with which he displayed his gown and hood before my unpractised eyes, or the elated — )ea, the triumphal tone in which he read aloud the Testamur," &c., which had conferred the envied title he bore, for he assured me that many of his fellow students " would have pawned their souls" for those slips of paper, which reminded one of blank forms for copier of Latitats. He had then recently undertaken a very responsible duty, in connexion with one of our oldest families. Instead of inquiries into the opportunities of extending his sphere of usefulness, he was soon buried in the con tents of the " ?vlitniment-room," and worked up to ecstacy by the " genealo- ' ical tree," which was two yards long, and embraced the descents and intermar riages of the whole family, from the reign of William of Normandy to that of Charles I. In one of our early conversations respecting the neigh bouring clergy, I was led by respect and affection to expatiate with tame warmth upon the ministerial zeal, devotion, and eloquence of our Curate, a gentleman from Cambridge, and an evangelical s:ivine. The learned M.A. turned up his nose (which was a snub) and echoed my words, especially " evangelical," with ineffable con tempt, and the unmannerly addition of " humbug." I was surprised, and perhaps showed it. He piqued himself upon discipleship to my Lord of Chesterfield ; and immediately, in an apologetic tone, gave a learned dissertation upon evangelical " Ivirnbug,” not retreating from but justifying the term. During the illness of the Vicar, he did some " oc casional duty," anti employed the intervals of his attend ance at church, in attempting to scour off the white wash wherewith some " Gothic wretches " had defaced the tombstones and monuments in the chapel which be longed to the family I have alluded to. The clerk wits highly amused by the duty of supplying the anti - Varian Puseyite with soap, flannel, and hot water, and could not halt, remarking that my subject was " the funniest clergyman he &et saw." Popery and Pusevism arc protests:sally prudent. My Oxonian soon found that Evangelism was" die besetting foible of the family and neighbourhood in which he lived, and that simple country folks could appreciate the ministerial labour that did not relax when Sunday's duties were fulfilled, but sought out, relieved, com forted, exhorted, or warned, as their cases required, although too simple to value as perhaps they should have done his literary4equirements anti antiquarian researches. He also found that his equals and superiors in birth and education were surprised at the closei.ess, as well as the texture, of his studies and pursuits. On a sudden Ile approved the curate's labours and his doctrines, and immediately entered upon a course of visiting, exhortation, &c., at the cottages of the poor- One morning he took up Pnanyan's •• Pilgrisn'a Pro gress," and opened upon Vanity Fair. I entered hie room just afterwards, and he remarked, as he flung the book aside, that it was an ill-concealed satire upon " the Church" (of England). Upon inquiry, I found that the offensive passages were, the description of the conunoailieg exposed for sale, bodies, souls, 4c. Passing a newly-erected chapel one day, he inquired what it was. I informed him that it belonged to the Wes leyan Method:sts ; upon which he said—" I declare I would rather see all England Roman Catholics again, than suffer these detestable conventicle: to spread over the country as they do. Then we should be a Church —but at present we are not." " Then do you consider the Ra:nish Church, a Church of Christ ?" inquired 1. " Oh, most undoubtedly I do," replied the Oxonian. I might repeat many similar traits of character, and be very tedious ; I will, therefore, only add that pride of birth, bigotry, intolerance, and self.love, were the pro minent and leading features of his conduct and conversa tion, and if there is any wisdom or truth in Holy Scrip• ture, then, " as a man thinketh in his heart, so is lie." More than once, when startled by his avowed opinions on politics, church government, doctrine, &c., I inquired if he expressed the opinions of his fellow collegians, to which he replied that " lie was proud and happy to say yes." Ile soon after lost his appointment, owing to his excessive pride and self-sufficiency. I am, Sir, Your obedient servant and constant reader, A PROTESTANT CHRISTIAN. REPRESENTATIVE GOVERN- MENT. THIRD LETTER OF SIR VALENTINE BLAKE, TO THE EDITOR OF TILE SUN. Sta,—ln my recent letters which you did me the favour to publish, I set forth briefly the origin of the Civil Constitution of England, together %vitt' the earliest interference by the Legislature, on the question of the Elective Franchise, the most valuable of the vested birth rights and privileges of the people. It is now my purpose respectfully to call your atten tion to the operation of the disfranchising acts of the British Legislature upon the analogous constitution of the kingdom of Ireland, and by which, it will appear, that even in those days of remote antiquity, it was the practical policy of the British Government " to esta blish the rights of Irishmen to perfect equality of insti tutions and franchise with their fellow-subjects of Egg land." We have it on record that, during the contests be tween the Henry's of York and Lancaster, the York interests predominated in Ireland, and that Lambert Simnel so far prevailed there, that Gerald Fitzgerald, Deputy to the Duke of Bedford, taking part against Henry VII., had Simnel crowned King of Ireland with great solemnity in Christ Church in the presence of the Chancellor and the Judges, and this coronation was actually confirmed by an Act of the Irish Par liament. The generosity of Henry VII. induced him not alone to pardon the impostor, after obtaining possession of his person, but he also pardoned the infatuated fol lowers of Simnel. Th:s lenity, however, was not duly appreciated, and soon after another pretender of the name of Perkin War beck, was acknowledged as the only leg;timate King of Ireland. Here again the extraordinary generosity of Henry was conspicuous, and instead of the scenes of blood, torture, and confiscation which in a succeeding reign occurred in Ireland, with infinitely less of provocation, the King sent over Sir Edward Poynings, with full rower to pardon every one, without a single exception, on the sole condition that the Irish Parliament would enact a law to restrain any future Deputy from calling a Parliament, or from giving the Royal Assent to any Act of Parliament without the authority of the King ; and the policy of the object of this was to prevent the possibility of any Irish law, whereby the Crown of [re bind might by such an Act be separated from the Crown of England, and with these terms the people and Par liament cheerfully complied ; and then by the enact ment of Poynings' law in the 10th of. Henry VII. all former Acts of the British Parliament, and of course the Acts of the 1 H. 5, c. 1, and 8 H. 6, e. 7, were extended to Ireland, and thus the repeal of Poynings' law in 1782 accelerated the Union. S, that in fact " we don't know whether we go too fast or too slow." I fear I am extending my observations to an unreason able length.-1 have the honour to be your most obe dient servant, VALENTINE BLAKE. THE NAVAL SURGEON, BY THE AUTHOR OF •' CAVENDISH."—We consider this novel to be the best that Mr. Neale has yet written. It is a very ad mirable transcript of naval life, told with great truth and feeling, and abounding both in incident and character. One of its chief attractions, to those who remember the original, will be the life-like portrait which the author has drawn in the character of Captain Howard, of one of the finest fellows that ever trod the deck of a man-of-war. We know not if it were Mr. Neale's distinctive purpose to paint this picture from the life, but, whether accidentally or by design, he has been most successful ; and in the noble traits which he hus given of the generosity, the kindness of heart, the courage, and the genius of Captain Howard, we at once recognise the attributes of one in whom were combined all the great qualities that, but, for an untimely death, would have led him to imitate even the lofty name which his father had created. The salient points of Captain Howard's character, as a bold and ac complished sailor, are finely brought out in the spirit stirring anti animated description of the running fight be tween the Epaminondas and the strange 74, whose his tory remains a mystery to the end. We have rarely read any thing more interesting than the account of this chase. Mr. Neale's powers are very various, and he sketches cha racter with great freedom and rapidity. His Dr. Caustic :s an excellent specimen of dry humour and singularity. Nor is he less at fault in the more rommtie portions of his narrative, happily blending a very interesting story with the shifting adventures of a naval surgeon's life. We should be glad to see that the case of the assistant sur geons of the navy had received the attention from the Lords of the Admiralty which the author very justly claims for that meritorious class of officers.—Morniny Herald. ARRIVAL OF THE " GREAT LIVERPOOL."— FALMOUTH, SUNDAY, JAN. 10, 1841, 10 P.M.—The pre sent is merely to announce the safe arrival, about two hours since, of the (Great) Liverpool steamer, Engeldue, mas ter, from Alexandria, &c., with the Indian and Levant mails, and about 20 passengers. The news she was ori ginally the bearer of front the East having been already received via Marseilles, deprives her arrival of much inte rest, and leaves but little to notice between Malta and this. 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The rublication of t e Evening Edition of THE &EN COM meneed at 20 minutes after Three. • ),, , 0.--; ,s• - . \.c ; l )14 \ 4p. Zan ‘'. nil* LONDON: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, IF4I. The Reform Act, the necessity of which the Times has not yet denied, by abolishing a number of boroughs before held by the aristocracy, places the Ministers of this country, let them be who they will, in a state of dependence on the upper and middle classes. That Act, incomplete as it was, and little as it has answered the expectations of the public, and extended, as it must be, to embrace the great mass of the disfranchised, in order to re store public contentment, was the consequence of previous concessions to the people. It was granted to their demands, arising from a conviction that the then existing system was no longer tenable. The successive increase of the democratic, and the successive decay of the aristocratic power, which ' compelled the several successive concessions al luded to, and will yet compel the still further con cessions now demanded by Reformers, leads to the conclusion that the progress which they indicate is natural and necessary. Sir ROBERT PEEL was one of the foremost Ministers to do homage to this necessity. His Jury law, his ameliorations of the criminal code, his very reluctant repeal of the Test Act, his still more reluctant repeal of the Catholic Penal law, were forced from him by public opinion. He and his party resisted them as long as possible. They were not able to have their own way as Ministers) they were compelled against their will to yield to the public sentiment ; - and yet they remained in office, they took on themselves the re sponsibility of passing those measures. though - they disapproved of them, and continued for months and years to gather the sweets of office, though de nied, according to the Tory interpretation of the phrase, the power of governing. They were not allowed to coerce the governed, the governed co erced them. Catholic Emancipation was actuallY kicked out of them by Mr. O'CONNELL and the Catholic Association, as Lord Jourr RussELL and the Dissenters kicked out of them the repeal of the Test Act. Yet those doughty, blustering heroes, those divine-right men, those angels, as they fancy themselves, appointed to govern and keep in order, by the help of their endowed priesthood, this puissant nation, condescended to continue to hold office till they were kicked out by an ultra rump of Tories, which they afterwards made their head, going with the Whigs. So greedy of office, how ever, were they while they were denied power, that it is understood that they would have carried some modified Reform Bill when Lord GREY resigned in 1832, had the nation been willing to allow the blustering cowards again to assume, with patronage and pay, the nominal management of affairs. Such being a brief but correct outline of the conduct of Tories in office—and it ought not to be forgotten that in 1835, when Si r ROBERT PEEL'S friends thrust him in once more, he adopted Whig measures, and attempted 10 gain the support of the Dissenters by guileful promises —such being the conduct of the Tories se Ministers, is it seemly in one of their organs to re proach the present Ministers with a willing deference to public opinion, and with a supposed determination, whenever it may -be strongly pro nounced by the constituencies, without the suppud of which they cannot carry on the Government, 1 ° yield to it whether in office or out of office? Our readers cannot have forgotten the extract of a letter from a member of the League, which we inserted in our Journal on Saturday. The Times makes that letter the subject of the remarks which we have copied into another part of The Sun, and which 0 1 first read very formidably. Stripped, however, of the plumage of rhetoric, the facts which this article states against Ministers are, first, that they do not nom as the Tories did, give way to public opinion ; anclP secondly, that they will give way, as the Tories did' when that opinion is so strongly pronounced as to break up, or endanger the breaking up of the Minis . , try. Their conduct might be justified, if necessari' by a Tory precedent ; but we maintain that it strictly according to the principles by which eYer l Ministry must henceforth be governed. Tbei have done nothing to satisfy the Reformers, becaus e they can do nothing. The Reformers are ne t united in demanding any one reform, and th e Lords are against all reforms. They hate amend" ment. But when the Reformers are so united an d so powerful as to give an impulse to public opinion i° any one direction, the Whig Ministers who acknoW' ledge the necessity of following public opinionl unlike the Tories, who deny it in principle, 140 . yield to it in practice—will endeavour, either t o office or out of office, to give effect to it. In e ll that we see n o thi n g b u t cons i stency , not hing an honourable attachment to principle. Let the Walsall election decide that the whole town poe lation will have none but Corn-law repeaters to I v present them, and the Ministers, who main!) . e r e ercise the power of the tow n p o p u l a ti o n, will, to t . servants of the public, become Corn-law repeal els. as They will do the bidding of the popular will? they acknowledge its supremacy, and will n ot, 11 ke the Tories, humbly obey it, and a t the same tite % hypocritically pretend to form and-chain it. The Times should have been taught, by its o wn experience, to spare such invidious remarks. did, with others, bully the Tories out of the rela tes which they were compelled to give. With other'' very powerful from wealth, still more powerful frr ° prescription, and more powerful than all from the daring quackery and hypocrisy, by an alliance O t f the priesthood, calling to their aid the powe rs, darkness—with these the Times has for five long Y ea h bullied the Whigs, and bullied them unsueeeer fully. Dark as it has painted their conduct, l II °, have not given up their Lichfield House c °11; pact, they have not yielded to Lord STAO O , and the bigots, they have not sacrificed O'C ° e d NELL, and, worst of all, they have not profee s vi , the least inclination to repeal the New POOr' lli . 11 5 If the Times had been able, consistently with is , allegiance to its new masters, to bully the gi u terF, in order to get the repeal of the Corn -la es it might have been successful. But it now ° lot that the great popular theory of free trade in b re bto is to become a living motive for action ; it sees th e its own situation, binding it hand and foot 10 Tories, precludes it from taking a wholes° part in the great movement of the town pop 61 : 1 0 Lion ; it foresees the certainty of a great success which it cannot participate, and, true to its pri lle t pies of conduct, it :tries beforehand to bully hf Ministers from doing what is right. As it 11 :, failed to bully them into repealing the New F° ° law, so it will fail in bullying them from giv il ' o f their assent to a repeal or modification the present Corn-law, whenever the tO llll da g population shall take up th a t great V-- t toa as it deserves to be, and as, apparently, the 10 population are now resolved it shall be taken 1 1: A)ready branded as a r ecrean t an d a reneg e from a noble c a u se , it i s on l y requ i s i te to eonvi n 0 the town popul a ti on t h at t h e Ti mes h a . s been unsuccessful bully against it, to place that j our . o , in the proper position t o w hi c h it s wanton ai ld chievous inconsistency must ultimately doom jt• Our " Bath Correspondent " informs us tirr' t ,: a meeting held in that city on Monday, at w irl o a host of the clergy of the Establishment Os present, they, and the rest of the gentry who b ! , met to dole out charity to th e people, were dis ,1 tiuctly and repeatedly told th a t th e peop l e wa vt b - , justice, not charity. As our Corresponden t ° . d g serves, this is a new, and it is a most graf if / 1 1 ,,, - feature in the character of the populace. It s" o f that they have acquired the ennobling sentim ol , o self-respect, and they disdain to receive 1)0 1 %4 alms a small part of the wealth which is extort N from them by law for the behoof of the Pr ics ls hood. They begin to discriminate between e i l v brought on by their own improvidence, inflieo u o d the hand of nature, or imposed by institutions; I 'd they see that the mass of their sufferings is e aus 4 by those who pretend to be their benefactors , a claim to be their guides and rulers. While they thus learn to despise the assumption of an iglie rti ho clergy they acquire a deeper reverence for ALMIGHTY. We are glad that their feelings and opinions ale g that turn, for it is impossible tha t 11) ;.. should continue i n th e i r present miserable e l° , dition, and n o t t race t h at to t h e h an d of the °0 ` p pressor, or to their own folly, without learniffig he ineffaceable lesson of infidelity and impiety. clergy rave, at their meetings to promote the Chi' d tian education of the people, about heathenism a s h infidelity, but they never ask themselves how in u these states of the popular mind are promoted by the contrast between their doctrines and their W C o e n . if 1 Y duct. e have frequently thought that d had resolved to make the people atheists, theY they follow no better course than to attribute misery which they, and the social institutions Wi *re t( 'ol e i c cier g3 of the thi s a it lee siasti i str uei they. to 4, the p It is i struct llecon these them 3 its peoph Pointr While t o the 1 ° 111 F CREA eiety, tended iniseril *gains liot i i, i n the tetity. We 11( P!Opos . l itnilai An ar on th c buti e 14 0 , 1 Poh l tio e i l not 'n ti Pos, EVENING EDITION._ THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, J ixNU AR Y 13. 1811. EVENING EDITION