The Sun. — London, England, 1841-02-08 00:00:00

L; LONDON: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1841. Though differing in opinion from Mr. WAR BURTON on the right of property, we rejoiced that he spoke out boldly on Friday week, and gave the world to know what are the principles which guide the gentlemen at Westminster. Both his opinions and his boldness are shared by Mr. MACAULAY, who denied, on the debate on copy right on last Friday, that property was a natural right, but who sail, using language such as we have frequently used, that " to deprive authors of their natural right should be looked upon a.: an act of legal plunder." Of course, he would extend the principle to all men as well as authors, and would admit, that to deprive the labourers or the manufacturers of their natural right to buy and sell, or trade with whom they please, as is done by the Corn-law, not for the benefit of the State, but for the sake of enriching the aristo cracy, is the worst description of legal plunder. Fortified then by the high authority of one of the law-makers themselves, we shall have even less repugnance than hitherto to describe the con duct of those who make laws to take property from one class to Ove it to another, as legal plunder. But Mr. MACAULAY 1101(18 "that property is the creature of the law;" he denies, like Mr. WARBURTON, a natural right of property, and at the same time, with something of the simplicity of the Tory Post, he objects to a metaphysical discussion in the House of Commons of the origin of property. I Ve are not surprised that the Right Hon. Gentleman should take this line, because we recollect that he put forth similar opinions at Edinburgh, with a view to silence the Chartists, in which he by no means succeeded. We should be unjust if we allowed Mr. MAcAu :AY, any more than the Post, to escape from an uvestigation of this subject by alleging that any 4,n - ;.liniticn of property may serve for the House of Commons, or by referring to the authority of PALEY that property is the creature of law. We had occasion to show on Thursday—in an article on the proposed reform of the jurisdiction in equity—that the great end of all our institutions Is to administer justice ; and as about nine-tenths of the business of the Courts relates to property, it follows that the great object of our laws is to protect property. A much greater number of laws, too, is made in relation to property than in relation to persons. Thus it may be unhesita tingly affirmed that the great mass of our insti tutions relate to property, and it is equally un seemly in the Post to tell us that on such a sub ject the Parliament may be contented with the brief, vague, and incorrect definition of BLACK STONE, and in Mr. MACAULAY to base an elabo borate argument on a definition of property,with out an attempt to prove it, which he knows i s contrary to that of our best writers. Considering the right of property to be the key-stone of all social institutions, we shall endeavour to show that Mr. MACA ULAY'S assertion, that property is the creature of law, is erroneous. We quoted a passage from Mr. LOCKE on Thursday, which expressly states that " the chief end of men's uniting into commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government, is the preservation of their property, to which, in the state of nature, there are many things wanting." That great philosopher, then, admits that property existed antecedent to Government and antecedent to human law. It was not to have a right of property created, but to preserve their property previously in existence, tb the preser vation of which, not to the creation of which, in Mr. LOCKE'S opinion, there are many things wanting in a state of nature, that men united under Government. If men have no natural rights, and if property be not one of them, they are altogether at the mercy of the law-maker, who, instead of having to make his laws, as BLACK STONE says, to accord with the laws of nature, will have no other guide for his conduct than his own wild imaginations or dreaming fancies. Mr. MAcAtaAv says expediency, or public utility, is the basis of the legal right of property. But how could the utility or the expediency of a law be ascertained, before it was made? Every day convinces us that legislators know little or nothing before-hand of what will be the effects of any enactment. They must have waited for the experience of the laws creating property before they could, from such a motive, have passed them. They could have known nothing of public utility and of public expediency, when they made laws establishing property. In fact, the theory of expediency or public utility is a modern inven- tion, brought forward by interested men to justify existing institutions, and was wholly unknown to those who took possession of the soil by the sword, and made laws, as was stated in the Edinburgh Review, by the sword to sai.poi t their possession. Public good and general expediency are con venient names, behind which landlords and others hide the most selfish motives ; but they are not very easily appreciable by the highest faculties with which any human being was ever endowed, and certainly are not to be measured by the herd of hereditary ignoramusses, plodding lawyers, cunning merchants, and un licked youths, the younger sons of the nobility, who compose our Legislature. We must prefer Mr. LOCKE'S opinion of the origin of the right of property to that of Mr. MACAULAY, and Mr. LocKE's opinion is as follows : " Every man," be says, " has a property in his own person that nobody has any right to but himself. The labour of his body and the work of his hand are his pro perty. Whatsoever, then, be removes out of the state that nature hath provided and left it in, he bath mixed his labour with it and joined to something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property. It being by him removed from the common state nature bath placed it in, it bath by this labour something annexed to it that excludes the com. mon right of other men. For the labour being the unques. tionable property of the labourer, no man but he can have a right to what that is joined to—at least, where there is enough and as good left in common for others." " Be that is nourished by the acorn he picked up under an oak, or the apple he gathered from the trees in the wood, has certainly appropriated them to himself. No ' body can dory but the nourishment is his. I ask, then, when they began to be his? When ke digested? Or when he eat, or when he boiled ? Or when be brought them home? Or wheu be picked them up? And, it is plain, that if the first gathering made them not his nothing else could. That labour put a distinction between them and common, that added something to them more than nature—the common mother of all—had dune, and so they became his private right." " Thus the law of reason makes the deer that In dian's who bath killed it; it is allowed to be his goods who bath bestowed his labour upon it, though before it was the commen right of every one. And amongst those who are accounted the civilised part of mankind—Who have made and multiplied laws to deter mine property—this original law of nature for the begin. ning of property in what was before common, still takes place; and by virtue thereof, what fish any one catches in the ocean—that yrrat and still remaining common if man. kind,—or what ambergris any one takes up here, is, by Me labour that removes it out of the common state nature left it, made his property who takes that pains about it." " But the chief matter of property being now," lie goes on, " not the fruits of the ccrth and the beasts that sub sist on it, but the earth itself as that which lakes and carries with it all the rest, I think it plain that property in that too is (ought to be ?) acquired as the former. As much land as a man tills, plants, cultivates, and can use the products of, so much is his property. He, by his labour, does, as it were, -inclose it from the common.l According to Mr. LOCKE, then, labour, which ADAM SMITH calls the only original purchase money of all wealth, is the source of the natural right of property ; that the existing right of property does not correspond thereto, with all its laws of succession, is no proof, as Mr. MACAULAY seems to consider it, that such a right has no existence, but merely that the exist ing right of property requires some revision, in order to be brought into harmony with the natu ral right of property. It suits bread-taxing landowners, pension-eating sinecurists, and tithe fed priests to contend that there is no natural right of property, because that is a convenient theory for their exactions ; but the industrious classes cannot admit it, without justifying all that legal plunder of which they now incessantly com plain. They may admit, indeed they must ad mit, that the right of the landowners to re ceive an additional rent from taxing the bread of the poor, that the right •of the tithe-owner to receive a large portion of the produce of other mens' industry, and the right of the pensioner to be maintained out of the taxes, are all created by the law, and, therefore, they must admit, so far as these rights are called a right of property, that the rights of pro perty is created by the law ; but that right of property the industrious classes are prepared to assert, whatever Mr. MACAULAY may say, is neither expedient nor useful.! Of Civil Government, book ii., dap. 5, sec. 28. Of Civil Government, book ii., chap. 5, sec. 30. The public may find pleasure in perusing Mr. GILBART'S graphic description, inserted in an other part of The Sun, of the tactics which should be pursued by Joint-stock and Private Banks, in opposing the formation of one National Bank of Issue, should such a project be entertained. We have heard too much of the evil consequences of the contest in the United States between the Banking power and the Government, to wish for any such contest in England; but, supposing it to arise, Mr. GILBART'S tactics seem well cal culated to make the issue doubtful for the Go vernment. We beg our readers not to suppose that by inserting Mr. GILBART'S remarks we assent to all his conclusions_ Like other men, he speaks for himself and his own interest; and we no more wish to see Joint-stock bankers making laws for the community than laud lords. Our laws must not be made to give predominancy to those who, as we stated the other day on Mr. HARDCASTLE'S authority, hav ing before stated it on our own, receive interest , on their debts. It ought never to be forgotten that a b an k er ' s prom i se to pay on d eman d , b y which he pretends to assist trade, is, in fact, a loan from the public. Now, the law must on no account be made to give privileges and immu nities to such borrowers. The power of borrow ing ought on no account to be limited by law, • • , , P.°, 4 .4 t d , • „ ' irtik • • for. 431.. unt MORNING EDITION TO CORRESPONDENTS.: Owing to the eopieus news from India and Chino, we bare not been able to find room for the letters of several correspondents " THE CHINA SUN," Which was lately RE-PUBLISHED, IS NOW ON SALE. Price SIXPENCE. Orden received at The Sun Office, No. 112 Strand. IN PROGRESS, THE RAILWAY SUN. With a MAP of all the RAll WAYS in the United Kingdom; containing all the STA TIONS on each Railway, and a great variety of Information and other particillarsi connected with Railways. THE CORONATION SUN, PRINTED IN LETTEES OF GOLD, WITH A BEAUTIFUL PORTRAIT OF HER, MAJESTY, THE QUEEN, Can be sent by post free to all parts of the Em pire. Price SIXPENCE. 8101 Office, 112, Strand, London. ALCOCK FOR EAST SURREY Four days only have elapsed since at one of the largest meetings ever held in this county, THOMAS ALCOCK, Esq., was nominated with acclamation to be the champion of the Liberal interest. A personal canvass at this late period is obviously impassible, but he has already visited many districts, and will attend meetings in other parts of the county, so as to afford the fullest opportunity of ascertaining his sentiments. We are delighted to state that we have found the independent Electors true to the great cause of civil and religious freedom. The returns now sent in prove that, by a cont►nuance of the noble determinations and exertions already displayed, success must, anti will be the result. COMMITTEES fer promoting the Election of Mr. AL COCK SIT DAILY at the following places : Central Committee . The Bridge House Hotel, Borough. Bermondsey ... Simon the Tanner, Long-lane. Rotherhithe Old Kest-road Lambeth The White Hart, Kennington-cross. Christchurch . . 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Just ready, in 3 vols., post Bvo., Or, MEMOIRS OF A COXCOMB. A Novel. " He was such a delight—such a soacomb—such a jewel of a man."—Byro a's Joarnal. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME YESTRIS. THIS EVENING, FEB. 11, Will be repeated Skakspere's MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Theseus, Mr. Cooper; Quince, Mr. Bartley; Bottom, Mr. Marley ° • Flute, Mr. Keeley ; Snout, Mr. Mead ows ; S nug , Mr. F. Matthews ; Hermia, Mrs. Nisbett ; Oberon, Madame Vestris ; Titania, Mrs. W. Lacy.; Puck, Miss M ars h a ll ; Fi rs t Fairy, Miss Raiforth. Ts conclude with The NEW GRAND CHRISTMAS PANTOMIMZ will be repeated, entitled THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO ; OR, HARLEQUIN ♦ND THE GIANT HELMET. Harlesnii, Mr. C. J. Smith ; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway ; Pantaloon, Mr. Moreilli ; Columbine, Miss Fairbrotber. Tosmerrow, a New Comedy, in two acts, entitled The White Milliner, with Two in the Morning, and the New Pantomime. Os Wednesday, The Midsummer Night's Dream, with the New Pantomime. Doors to b. opeaeil at ball-past Six—the perforraances to commence at Seven o'Clock. Dress Boxes, is. ; Second Price, Sc. 6d.; Pint and Second irees, ss. ; Second Prise, as. 6i. ; Yet, 35. ; Second Price. se.; Gallery, Is. Tickets and plac es for the Boatc to be taken of Mr. Grogan, at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets ).ay se had apon application. Private Bolt a to be had sear of Mr, Andrews, bookseller 167. New Bond-street. nOYAL SURREY THEATRE. Wonderful increasing . popularity—Ainsworth's Tower of Lon don—The Cask 'Vaulter, and Goosey Gander, with the ce lebrated scene between the Gallic Cock and the English Bull Dog, which has caused an extraordinary excitement in France, are drawing crowded houses. TNIS EVENING, FEB. 8. Will be :aged a Grassi Historical Romance, fantasia on and entitled TUE TOWER OF LONDON. The Tableau Yiyans, splendid Costume, and Appointments, from the Designs of tke celebrated George Cruiksbanks. After which will be repeated the Grand Traditionary Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND MY LADY LEE; OR, GOOSEY GANDER AND TYE SPELL-BOUND GOSLINGS. In which the astuishiug and iscreslible evolutions .f the Ca,k Vaulter will be given, as well as Brunaing's Grad Dioramic Synopsis .f Syria ; tlge Pautonninsie Characters by the unri valled Bolene Mr. S.utbby, tle Original Cloxis ; Miss Sharpe, Columeine ; and the astsnisking Gynivastique, Signior Felix Carla, from Fraaeoiti's, at Paris. NEW STRAND THEATRE. THIS EVENING, FEB. 6, And Every Evening during the Week, Mr. JACOBS, the Royal Ventriloquist, Modern Magician, and English Imnrovisatore, whose wonderful and extraordinary performances last season attracted many thousands of surprised and delighted spectators, has taken the abose Theatre for a short season; the Entertainments are entirely new from those of last year, the Tricks, Transformations, and Illusions per• formed with a splendid and gorgeous set of apparatus made ex pressly for the occasion, and the Ventriloquism greatly im proved by the introduction of a NEW PIECE, entitled THE LANDLORD AT HOME; or, Gout versus Family Griev tutees, in which Mr. Jacobs gives his astonishing imitations of twelve imaginary persons. Boxes, :N. 6d. ; Pit, is. 64. ; Gallery, Is. Second price: Boxes, 16. 6d. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, bd. To commence precisely at Half-past Seven o'Clock. Half price at a Quarter to Nine o'Clock. H:GH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS AY. Morning—.. 2 taiautiv after a I Evening 4l mautes after 3. THE SitN, LONDON:, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1841. or confined to a few ; the best guarantee that it will be exercised with safety will be found in its universal diffusion. We agree, indeed, with Mr. GunART, that the law as to Joint-Stock Banks requires to be re formed. He, however, thinks only of the banks ; he will allow us to *add, on behalf of the public, that as Joint-Stock Banks have necessarily a long purse, a summary remedy should be given to all the individuals who have claims on them. They should be compelled by some easy process, to pay on demand every promise which is presented for payment, and the property of all those members of the bank whose names and credit give credit and influence to the Bank should be answerable for every note issued. We approve of the improvements proposed by Mr. GILBART, but we require additional securities for the public. The Tories have cried out against Lord Mon- PETH'S proposition to make the franchise in 1.1•-• land depend on being• rated to die: poor in the surf of Si. annually, with a fourteen years' intc . rest in the hoidings, as Universal Suffrage. kis unfortunately no such thing. The present suf frage is one of 101. value, with fourteen years' lease, and that gives a miserably small con stituency. As Lord MottPETH said, his plan may in time increase the constitu ency, which will depend, however, on the landlords granting leases, but it seems doubtful whether .it will immediately augment it. In the course of his speech, the Noble Lord quoted five places in which the number of ten-pound electors now is respectively 200, 348, 223, 66, and 167, and on these respectively the number of these electors who would not be rated at 51., is 17, 6, 17, 20, 0, so that, in those cases, the constitu ency would be decreased by these numbers, though the new test might let in some who do not now possess the franchise. We do not admire the test for the degree in which it will enlarge the con stituency, but for the simplicity it will introduce into the whole system of registration, and because it will immediately put an end to the innume rable vexations which now annually grow out of the present system. Admiring the test for its simplicity, we would rather see it adopted in England, and made the basis of our registration, than see the new Bill establishing a Court of Appeal proposed by Lord J. RUSSELL pass into a law. Whether car ried for Ireland or not, it will not be for gotten in England, and will probably be a rallying cry throughout the land. We recom mend it to the consideration of our Leeds friends as something which the Whigs, having proposed it for Ireland, will be ready to give to England, and which all parties may unite to accomplish. The simplicity of the test of rating, if we must have any test, should recommend it to all classes, many of whom now scarcely know on what the franchise depends. Our readers will find in another part of The ' Sun, interesting and important news from Chusan, of the 24th of October ; Canton, of the 3d of November; Macao, same date ; Singapore, of the 9th ; Calcutta, Dec. 22; Bombay, Jan. 1 ; Lahore, Nov. 2; the Persian Gulf, Jan. 10; Alexandria, Jan. 23, and Malta, Jan. 28, brought by, and with the overland mail, which arrived at Marseilles, on Tuesday last, and was thence conveyed to London by express. The intelli gence from China is by no means so satisfactory as we had been led to expect from the last despatches. Except the disgrace of Commis sioner LIN, and the arrival at Canton of KESHIN, 7the mandarin, appointed to nego- [ate with Admiral ELLIOT the settlement tf British claims, nothing had been I:me of any moment. Both in China and in India the conduct of the ADMIRAL has created a strong feeling of disappointment in which it is isspossible for the Briti public not to partici ;Ate. Instead of pusyiing on boldly to Pekin, Ind dictating such terms to the EMPEROR as would have inspired the Chinese with a proper respect for the power of Great Britain, and in sured good treatment for all Europeans now trad ing, or who hereafter may trade, with China, the ADMIRAL allowed himself to be drawn into the meshes of negotiation, in which he is sure to be beaten by the craft and the procrastinating habits of the Chinese. In the mean time, his forces are rapidly diminishing by disease, the discipline of the remainder, from the necessities of the circumstances under which they are placed, becomes relaxed; and should a necessity for fighting arrive, he will find himself obliged to call upon the Government to fit out a fresh expedition. From the mo ment we learned that Admiral ELLIOT had returned from the mouth of the Peiho, on receiving a verbal and indefinite pro mise of a pacific arrangement of claims from an emissary of the EMPEROR, we began to entertain a suspicion that the gallant Admiral was not the man to impress the Chinese with any high re spect for our national character. The Admiral appears to have put himself entirely into the hands of Captain ELLIOT, to whose luckless blundering there is no end. We readily grant that there are instances in which it is the duty of a Government to allow to a brave officer an op portunity of retrieving errors committed from an excess of zeal for the public service ; but the contest which has arisen out of the opium question is not one of them. Captain ELLIOT, by a long series of overt acts, had satisfied every person of his utter incapacity to discharge with dignity and be nefit to his countrymen, the important functions with which the Government had vested him. He ought therefore to have been recalled on the arrival of the expedition at the mouth of the Canton river. It is a deplorable affair, that with nineteen ships of war, and four steamers in the Chinese seas, we should be compelled to record our belief; that unless the command is given to more able officers we shall be in no better con dition as to trade or compensation a year hence than we were a year ago. Notwith standing the pressing demands of the Ad miral, not a single prisoner taken by the Chinese had been released, and it was understood that no hostile steps were to be taken to effect their libe ration. What stronger proof is wanting of the Admiral's incapacity to conduct negotiations with Asiatics ? Would that Sir CHARLES N A PIER, in the Powerful, was off Chusan or Canton ! The British prisoners would not long languish in cap tivity ! - The news from Inlia is more satisfactory. Lieutenant-Colonel MARSHALL with only 900 infantry and a few horse attacked NVSSEER KHAN at the head of 4,000 Belouchees, and de feated him with the loss of 500 Belouchees, in cluding several principal Chiefs, and the Khan's stores and baggage. The British suffered little, and had only one officer killed. This brilliant action took place on the Ist of December among the hills near Katra, and was expected to pro duce important results. There is likely to be some ticklish business in Lahore. The widow of NAo NEHAL • SING, who has mounted the rnusnud, has, it appears, in con junction with the Prime Minister, been guilty of the murder of her husband, and KURRUK SING, in order to clear the way for her own assumption of Royal power. The proofs of her guilt are said to he in the hands of Lord AUCKLAND. The news from the Persian Gulf is very satis factory. No further attack had been made upon Aden, and the British troops there were in ex cellent health. From Alexandria the news is highly important and satisfactory. On the 21st the whole of the Turkish fleet, under the command of Admiral WALKER, sailed for Marmorice, and IBRAHIM PACIIA having been previously ordered to eva cuate Syria, the Pacha has fulfilled all the con ditions of his submission with perfect good faith. Commodore NAPIER was still at Alexandria, where it was most probable he would remain till the arrival of the Imperial firman conferring on the Pacha the hereditary Pachalic of Egypt. NEWSPAPER TWADDLE.—Lady Langdale was sitting next to Lord Hill the other evening after dinner, and on cracking a walnut (the skin of which was beauti fully var:egated) observed, it was like the uniform of the 11th Hussars; upon which his Lordship replied, with some p ettiilmess. that he was thoroughly sick of th e El e . 1 venth, and a;1 that belonged to it. We do not wonder at there. ply; but is it not his Lordship's own fault ?—Alligator. [What likeness there could be between the akin of a walnut and the uniform of the Eleventh, it is not easy to fancy; b u t the cracking of the nut miebt have suggested a simile, for walnuts, like officers of the Eleventh, aro broken for the good that is in them. A Cockney punster would give the thing another turn, and say, that walnuts, like the of ficers of the Eleventh, were broken for their kernel ]-- Examiner. MONEY and COMMEPCI, I O, NEWS. ( From The Sun, of Evening.) Consols opened this morning a shade lower, in conse quence of the information by the Overland Express from India, with the intelligence from China, which is not looked upon in a favourable view. Commis left off at 88% 89 for the Account, at present may be quoted at 881 ; m one y, 88%, with little doing as yet. Exchequer Bills, 3 5 prem. ; Bank Stock, 164 16.5; India Stack, 246 248. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active also a shade lower, left iff at 24h, at present 231 1 24 ; Deferred, 12* h ; Passive, 6h ; Portuguese left off at 31i at present 311} 32 ; Three per Cents. 191 201; Colombian 221 2:3 ; Mexican, 271 28 ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents, 494 50 ; Five per Cents. 98} 99. SNAUEs.—Great Western, 241 25h press.; sew, 11 12 preen.'; London and Brighton, 71 7 dis. ; Blaavvall, 4* 34 div. ; Birmingham, 84 86 pretn. ; Southampton, 57 58 per share ; Croydon, 12 per share ; G reenw i c h , 8 * I per share. Livaitrool. COTTON 111 A krET, PRIDAT.—EarIy in the week we bad a very fait demand, and the market appeared dis posed to improvement both in steadiness and priers, with firmness of holders; but since the report of the Mulches ter market of Tueiciay ( which was by no means favourable) has been received. there has teen a relaxation of firmness on the part of sellers, and prices are quite as low as on Friday last, the quotations of that day being with difficulty obtained for Americans; Surats selling at N I decline,.and other kinds without alteration. Speculators have talon (chiefly during the first three days) 6,000 bales of American, and exporters 200 bales The sales to-dsv are 4,000 bile, of all kinds. iIANCI:asTEt brocx I_:XCHA NOP., FF.B. 5.—A fair in quiry for ~ tares at slightly reeuced rates. Lancaster and Preston (new) 19i; :Manchester i std Bitmingham. ; Alant bevel and Birmingham Even ion, 21 2/. 18s. 9d., an t i 2/. 13t:. ; - h es" rl' 53 ; Eittern Co un ti es I),.ben t-uEastern and D over . 13 to 13k ; Man cLl:reP'denste:)rh 4 a nand to 4 Ld eeds, youtheds South ‘ , 72 Lt 721; ditto halves, 31 32; Manchester Assurauce, 9. _ The tollowmg letter received at the North and South Ame rican Coffee-house : " Commercial Advertiser Office, New York. " you will End in the Morning papers the account of the packet Garrick being ashore. We are now able to gave a few additional particulars. One of the hands of the vessel arrived here this morning, via New Brunswick ; he states that the vessel was lying to yeiderday morning in a dense fog, when the vessel was struck in a part where the shore was very bold ; she went a half sideways, and stuck fast. There is but little pro bability, he thinks, that the vessel will be got of). The pas sengers, and all on boar,i, will be saved. The owners have sent the American steam-vessel Eagle there. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Slaare, Great Western Ditto Fifths ... 4 .... St South Eastern and Dover JOINT STOCK BANKS. Provincial of Ireland 23 43} to Since the early part of the morning the British Market has a firmer appearance, and Consols may be quoted at 88i 89 for the Account; Money 81 ; Exchequer Bills also better, 3 6 preen. ; Bank Stock 164. Nothing done in India Stock or Bonds. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active 24, Deferred 121; Portuguese nothing done ; Buenos Ayres 22 ; Mexican 27i. In Dutch Securities also nottung doing. 'This is a very blank morning for speculating in the various funds It is the same in the Share Ma, ket—not 'single quota.. tion worth notice. The French mail is still due, owing to the boisterous weather. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDs. Stock per Cent. Red B9i Ditto Bonds per Cent Cons ...... .. 881 Ditto Old Annuities — 36 per Cent Red........ 98 Ditto New Annuities... New 3} per Cent ..... 97* Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2id 7pm New 5 per Cent ... ...... Ditto 5001 7pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 6pm Jan. 1860 Oct 1859... l2i India Stock for Acct ... Jan. 1860 .. Tp Cif PRRN-L (From the Sutinst.) The Walsall election was a lair stand-up fight be tween Corn-laws and no Corn-laws, small loaves and large loaves, abundance and starvation. There can be no dispute about this ; both sides tried their harries' ; neither money nor industry way wanting. Tit, Anti- Corn-law• League strained every nerve, all manutacturers threw in their influence, and yet the seven hundred electors of Walsall have decided by a majority of twenty-seven in favour of the little loaf against the hi. loaf, and of corn restriction against. free trade. We do not know what. other motives may have in duced thtse worthies to vote for starvation and stone, or whether they received a good thumping bores in the shape of hard cash, for abusing their privilege us electors, and imposing upon those who have votes th obligation of paying a poll-tax of so much per rain, so much per woman, and so much per child, to every country squire who chooses to live beyond his legiti unite means, and to muke the poor wretches who labour in our factories, work in ow mines, and toil in our on healthy workshops, pinch their corniteh‘, nod tor,v, proper rinautity wlmiesome food, in order that ttwso shooters of .acid poultry, awl towers of vermin, nosy render their oar, particular proptA.ties worth double a, much wool(' lie worth if the possessors were IlonrT4t trot,, and kept their hands out of the pot - :kcts their Fic , il • bc-,ur,. That toe Corn-I ws ere a rebbery, and a rel;!:;- . y as aggravated a ehareeter as ever e els eemmitted e ie o a the highway, there can be no dispute. Even the equire archy themselves vroui , l not dispute :t in private, eel they make but a shabby show of disputing it in The ten-pound house inlders of Walsall have new for mally declared theinselvee to be confederates in the rob bery, although th e y are among t h e multitude robbed. Whether heavily bribed or not, we neither know nor care ; but we should fancy that no men could be such fools as to assist robbers in robbing themselves, unless they received a propertion of the plunder greater than' that they lost by the robbery. Bribed, terrified ; or coerced, however, ma•ters but little : the plain fact is clear enough, that these ten-pound householders, who. havetthua made themselves parties to this wil t ilesaie robbery, are not fitted to be trusted with the suffrage at all, still less to be the only persons entrusted with it. Of this bread -tax, not one-tenth part is paid by these ten-pound householders ; and of the suffering and star. vation which this bread-tax creates, not one-thousandth part is felt by these ten-pound householders. The men who pay the tax to the landlords are the swarthy, ill fed, working millions, who are obliged to live uponteread, and upon bread alone ; who cannot procure meat, and who are compelled to subsist upon that vegetable diet which the Coro-laws render scarce and dear. These are the men who are really robbed, and these are the men whom the ten-pound householders assist in robbing. These are the men who have no votes, no voice, no means of defending there elves against the robbery of the House et Commons. We never have been friendly to the humbug of Uni versal Suffrage, or the brutalities of Chartism ; but if there is an argument-to be found in favour of either of these two, it is most decided:3, to he found in the ini quitous manner in which the ten-pound householders betray their trust, and, far the sake of a filthy bribe from some wooden-headed country squire, hand all their poorer neighbours over to want and destitution. - This Walsall election will make multitudes of Chart ists, and hundreds of thousands of Universal Suffrage agitators. If we were ourselves day labourers, we do not believe that we should be able to curb the indig nation which such an atrocious conspiracy against us would raise within us, or that we should be able to re sist the temptation of joining with every or any set of persons, whose object would be to knock up a state of society from which we should palpably derive no benefit, and by which we should feel that we were daily being robbed, and worked to death and starved. Something must now be done. We cannot go on in this way. If we do we shall soon have every work man in the kingdom cursing every man who has a vote, and combining to pull down the whole fabric of society. This Walsall election may be considered to have settled the question of the Corn-law . , at least for this session. Ministers, of course, will not stir in it when they would lose their places by doing so ; and the squires, after such a victory as this, will, of course, pluck up heart, and feel themselves strong_ enough to go on robbi n g at. least. tit T e years to com e . he greatest benefit which could now occur to this country, would he three succeseve bad harvests, and three years cf famine ; ever thing would fall before this, and the country would, eventually, be a gainer. FOUE6GN FUNDS. A ustrian, 5 per cent Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto.... _ Brazilian Bonds .. .. .. 72i Prussian, 5 per cent.... BuenosAyres,6 percent Russian, 5 per cent. . _ Chilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 percent... Spanish, b per cent 24 Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, Deferred .. 12i Danish, 3 per cent..... French,s per cent... —f. — e . Greek.lB2s, spercent. Exchange —f. —c. Mexican, 5 per cent.— French,3 per cent —f. —c. Di to, 6 per cent, 1825 Dutch, 2i per cent 5O Peruvian,lB2s,6 per et. 16i Ditto, 5 per cent..... SHARES. Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid)........ i Great Western Railway (65 paid) B9 Ditto New Shares (50 paid) Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) 9i London an Brighton (50 paid) Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) .. ...... ... Ditto New Shares (30 paid) South Eastern and Dover (28 paid) ..... ... 12i OURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty and Prince Albert attended Divine Service yesterday morning in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Sermon was preached by the Rev. E. Bouverie, who took his text from Genesis, chap. ii. verse 7. The Prayers were read by the Rev. Dr. Wesley, the Lessons by the Rev. Dr. Knapp, and the Altar Service was read by the Bishop of London, the Rev. Dr. Sleuth, and the Rev. Dr. Krapp. The Chant was Dupuis' ; the To Deum and Jubilate, in F, King ; the Sanctus and Responses, Davy ; the Au them, " God is our hnpe and strength" (Greene) was sung by Messrs. W. Knyvett, Hobbs, J. B. Sale, and Chapman. Sir George Smart presided at the organ. The Royal Suite included the Countess of Mount Edgecumbe, Hon. Miss Murray, Hon. Miss Lister, Earl of Moyne, Lord George Lennox, Hon. William Cowper, Captain Seymour, Colonel Wemys, and Colonel Wylde. On leaving the Chapel Royal the Queen and Prince Albert, attended. by their Suite, went to Marlborough house, Pall-mall. to visit her Majesty the Queen Dowager. Viscount Melbourne and Viscount Duacannon bad audiences of her Majesty en Saturday. The Royal Dinner party at Buckingham Palace on Saturday evening included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Viscount Melbourne, Lady Fanny Howard, Sir George and Miss Anson. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager arrived at her residence, Marlborough House, at litatpast five o'clock on Saturday afternoon. with her suite in several car riages and four, from Sudbury Hall. Her Majesiy's suite included the Countess of Sheffield, Hon. Miss Harriet Mitchell, Earl Howe, Earl of Denbigh, Earl of Sheffield, Sir Andrew Barnard, Hon. Captain E. Curzon, R. N., and the Rev. J. Ryle Wood. Prince George of Cambridge paid a visit to her Majesty yes terday. The Duke of Cambridge and Prince George attended Divine Service yesterday morning in Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley-street. A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign Office on Saturday afternoon. It was attended by all the Ministers. The Council sat three hours. MANCHESTER.—At the adjourned meeting of f . . te t it i b btfeei cectdadohbliamsbet bankrupt, i a lestrce, n .i k)agrs k f on irean r uit u ,tewpi. h p se tt:Oes i , tar e , I satisfaction." i y a:minia: :Code:nir fewio. to nfao furtherda iyk,: your , r . ,uoe s r i . swos questionsli i zwh e , g o r h s ua s(thiweniihmhs hearing,oF, ,ctih i l is w d eah a i hadiyteminloz furniture,ilus:Meni te3,r e toi a l rsf2set the oaihd o ujewiuped M t lure) oatb r r 0.: , , 1 ' n y Mr. scarcely j a e o mt, establishmentr os_.. see eTsn 1 aleot thati:b,nfiawcnel rkanmiuesfe:dtenttuscltdehy:2aier.tn, elhget3audotl,wpluel.rlinii . theill Fwabohsosti show . Mr. expensest h o M the or I 8 r a s . l s eS s eo rg im : h r u y e ooo 7 i nuo s ts 1,1. wish householdTt to t-r b e c th ia e , months °hi expenses t put he d b o a how ,much time dies tnat c ,ver ? Mr. Jacob Two years and a half. Mr. Foster—Then, besides that, there are rent and taxes—making it 2,538/. altogether; that makes it 1,0001. a year; and then the -genrral trade rdsm c uu l l u cirge p . d ueg e e ide n ;r d se s t . a e tsoei s 1 suggested di l Smith—Merelyi 3: vait perhaps te n s r l e . d ea l tet Saunders t . r xt a thpt e m i your l t i rh n . .ag expen-es are extra, and not in t Jacob a : cio, we think minds, hshe, cani n gentlemen,al s s ti stategh e n assignee)—What x ) h —po expenses heh this a h t i extrava gant ap was so ini in duced i .; the explanation o o n f l o , n oo t o h / a taye point.a r? A l l t r. i . Jacob—lt svery w welt known that I had a large house, and that I kept a good deal of company, and that the money has been spent. That is the only explanation I can give; I con't see any other; it has been spent. I don't think it very extravagant, 1,000/ a year, keeping a gig and horse, and a large esiabl se meat, 201. a week is soon gone. Some weeks cost a good deal less ; some cost, some more. Mr. Brierley—There were many journeys to Londorr? Mr. Jacob—Yes, and you'll find them in addition. There is no other information I can give on this point ; of course, the money has been spent Mr. Saunders—Do you mean to state, that the money has been expended on your household expenses ? Mr. Jacob—l do mean to sate it, and I have sworn to it. Arrer a lengthened examination, the usual form of depo sition was read over to the bankrupt, and he declared, that the books, accounts, and papers, be bad delivered, con tained a full and true disciesure and discovery of his estate snd effects; and also showed, after what mariner, and for what consideration he bad disposed of his goods, merchandiser, &c. ; and that he had not concealed or kept back any goods, merchandise, money, books, accounts, re writings. He then signed the deposition. Mr. Fester— You have heard this read over, and are prepared to say, yctt faithfullyhhroeeau creditors, i / t ' ob o e ors u so:ak h ttadseh:i the whole honestly of yourgiven u p p r 0 , papers relati ;v i a i , g c.ascnto t e o dudn it ytt , or conta:ning any ,t the and n b g a e l n l i m e fi b p t o o o r o k r f a s n y t a o n u t o d r pe fo rt r y, sho,auotrrsyepol property p h oef a r v t e ya i n i ie;ii,tohue your property. concealed p short, ro t p ha e t rt y y r h A e i v r e: Jaceb—Yes. You have been sworn, and you say, upon your oath, that this deposition is true ?—I do. The bank rupt then having passed his examination, the proceedings terminted about t,WeNe o'clock. BIRDS FROZEN TO DEATH.—The hapless Condition of the pour birds dieing the late snow storm was strikingly evinced in many instances, where forgetting their natural shyness, they forsook the fields and wouds for the warmth and shelter of the barn and farm-house. a: il s , A ) o i , 3u,, i n fft quite thegcash e i : seal , n near ludicroust deetibranchese),says—"iflna. a B I c i Balloter—.about Another starched i ti e l n tt: oa: s r) Aberdeenshire, gfe a ctrebau w :: lat r a r; sartei. tibGne,window, 1 oc:ldeui touching m:ednaao, tntsome oi:olamf dzte, soldier, p;w sight l n,ina(i: writingssrotf mare cat frozen s, raan storm, n: t ap u det wl w t s hil, 1 t was standing tiaoar n thdnh f aceldv vithe at sir igrsogT cart, days op;io u naeat e l , 1 as a b u t v NA nis co s t . ~31f , c o a pya '.: (3 — iatni i ie n in : ti er ,N n pE e a s ys s :s Ci vi e nit ri Ej er up . ls ; A 18%0 1' ,°oInV ALLOWED.—SS B after Y the let of Jenuary, 1842, a penalty of nut more than 101 nor less than Si. is iinwis,:d upon all persons who shall CURlpt'l or knowingly ark w ally young rrson, under the age of 21 years, to ascend a chimney for the purpose of sree sweeping it, or for extinguishing the fire therein. It also It is stated that the fitting up of the House of firbids chimney-sweepers empl o yi n g i n t h e i r b us i ness any Lords for the trial of Lord Cardigan will cost 2,000/. person under the age of sixteen years, wh e th er as an ap . The public have thus to pay 2,000/. because Lord Cardi- prentioe or otherwise, and imposes the tame" p ena l ty f or gan was pleased to call out and shoot Mr. Tucktet. This the violation of this prohibition. To reliev e chimney sweepers a their apprentices, and other children whom they may employ t tb . ey, must turn them over to the our times . p t i i e m e e e s. of f c eu i d rd a i l g is a n ri i s re s t h h o e u r ld to l u e ir r r e a l t e io g m a a te l d and lo co th st e ly o fr i t d r officers of the parish children which the employer resides, arid Barley. A dor.n duels by Peers iu the course of the expense and interruption such apprentices cor P are to be considered as set. tied in such parish. , oiler officers are to apprehend year would be attended with an of the business of Parliament that would compel the all chimney-sweepers public to call for an abrogation of the absurd privilege of the Peers.—Examiner. house. One abating to be paid to the b earer f or his PROCESS OF COPYING STATUES. A . th p o l u a t sta t en h ry n e , s in.trunient, a h s it er h t • to M. Callas, has been . . , the tac,..c w o h am e rtpi o siit r enlarge 'bed The King and Queen of tlaioecncsotFrredreionnngeThtohhuatrhsvdeenygeilovamestn.. ituroguNebnlEieow.o persona.an t o wieh entertainment theA nigonen sgt a since t hec the om amounted p ß a a tuo l y M , four thousand five hundred medal, s sinventedist assistance c b e e i o n e .f relief,Fa n ' an artist, o r w and statue,professe s with ex t t r h e t e m: extreme of f p correctness, y a w x i nterce, was a British officer, who quietly bore the offensive remarks of two Frenchmen sh hin ea se si l i f y, co a u n ld d n u t): wearing a Waterloo medal, who followed him for some time, with the intention to in taChno, filloans inconsiderablePthrecoersisg iin. iaoelust)ot.t. statedvi models,h‘t.ioc hsrerr ee l ,i la uin v bas - reliefs wood, marble , or . metal • to reduce sions without impairing _ harmony of its proper sult him. It is scarcely necessary to tell those who know lions, and to caocpysinteohn the artist ivory, or marble, the Commerce tbat this story does not contain a syllable of Lon don ; the Venus truth, and that the other French papers which have corn- with an accuracy distinguish . original from . the copy- All this the lto proportions of ITI Co el ; of Milo, still so beautiful, despite of her mutilation ; and r te t d j u o p u o n n ia i i t . , perfectly know it to be an invention... STAFFORD AND RUGBY RAILWAY (LAZE says a Paris Journal, " the e a ready admired," ~ with a truth scarcely o e l once o i f ra t b b le e . T Pa h r e . THE MANCHESTER EXTENSION. )--WC hear, on the best those venerable monuments of art at authority, that the application fur shares in this Company i tsr i we s a:r i rilfi i a g tfltn i h n 'ois , tnho a err r n e rae tP rc h ; pa o cel u fs l ' d ed • i n plaster, has exceecied the number to be created, and that the &en tle . an ' d their mutilated projecturns. NV marked several large bas-r e liefs b is ee si n gn d e is d s . olve T d h , u a s n i d n i'le'l,:: inniotsbtosfu3gitivdetaili deposit paid, and in a few days the Bill will be in Parlia ment. Could anything more decisively prove the good. : a t h n r e e w e o w n e e e weeks formed t the old Company decd sallied, hoe of the undertaking ?._Railway Magazine. e have also re ness.of therearlel arc seen with a of her ASTHMA BREAST PLATE.- - A neat lamp has the proportions of reduced upon steatite to been invented by Charles Henry Ackerley, E.g., est, and charming Copies. "—lnventor's Advocate. asthma. The merely pending it agaimt the'ch , tiere are In the French tariff' sixty-five prohi. the inhaling of the warm air throUgh the nostrils (the Majesty's Navy, for taus relief o at ego aketed with bitory articles Ipa are to be closed), is said to afford instantaneous a- d f , riisbi . tar.i most of them manufactures, whilst in the thei of the German Customs Union there is not effectual relief to the sufferer. The light used is wax can- r one, andatl '. air, where the I , t highest rate of protecting duty for national dle, and on entering a dwellog from the industry is only 10 per cent.—Courrier Francais. lamp is no longer required for it, medicinal purpose, it is I available for a lantern to light the bearer about the house, STOCKPORT COURT OF REQUESTS.—Henry by merely droppi ng the front slide. It is secured by Coppelt. Esq., town.c,erk of Stockport, bas been ap parent, and will probably be adopted generally by t h ose pointed Deputy -Clerk to the Court of Requests in that ' afflicted with that complaint. i town, in place of St. John Yates, Esq., resigned. A D:Tutation from the British Medical,—the Pro vincial Medical and Surgical,—and the North of land Medical Associations, consisting of Sergeant Tal. fourd, M.P. ; Thomas Wuklcy, Eql., M.P. ; fliorge Webster, M.D. ; Messrs. E. Evans, W. Farr, R. Culy, T. Carter, and W. Eales, had an interview with Lord John Russell on Saturday at the Colonial Office. Dr. Lushirgton, and W. Clay, Esq., Members for the borough of the Tower Hamlets, accompanied by John Burnell, Eq., Treasurer and Chairman, George Offor, Esq., Messrs. Waite, Wallis, Hall, Black, Morse, and Ward (Accountant to the Court), Com• missioners, and George Offor, Esq., on behail of the Deputation from the Commissioners of the Tower Ham lets Court of Requests, presented to the Marquis of Normanby, on Saturday, at the Home Office, a Memo rial relative to the evil under which the Court labours for want of a prison for fraudulent debtors. The Agent for Jamaica had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on Saturday, at his offi cial residence in Downing -street. Captain Seymour attended at Apslry House in the early part of Friday evening:, to make inquiry, on the part of her Majesty and Prince Alb.-rt, atter the heali.h of the Duke of Wellington. _ Mr. Mildmay, M.P., had an interview with Lord John Russell on Saturday, at the Coiouial.ofliee. The Marquis of Lansdowne had a dinner party yes terday at Landowne House. Lady Munro has returned to Farranee's Hotel from a tour. L Co •4 N C, nC.Z.` 7... v..,..,. r rie rol;owing is the Corn Circular Messrs. &urge. of Birmingham, for the past year " Birmingham, 2d month. 31, 1841. " We have delayed our Acnual Circular later that, usual, hoping to be able to publish our statistical informa tion ei , mplete to the end of tht, year; but we are rorry to we have not succeeded. Li adverting to the state the corn trade during the past year, we hare to iiol:ce considerable recluctitin (cousid. ring the aery superior qu '- lit) . of thi: year's growth) in the value of mot k'niis grain, as compiivd cz ith the corroapooding period ,ii 1840 ; the average prices of the kingdom being resin ctivy ;v f:illows:-1,4 month. 1840. wheat, 65: 5,:. ; b Hey, 39; 2.1 ; 40;. 4il. ; peas:. 40a. Id. ; rye. 373. ; 32,:. 10d. Ist month, 1541, 61.4. 81. •; h 2:1. ; ; w4e, I ; OW, 214. 7tl. " A variety of circumstances have contributed to this result, especially as regards wheat The estiaiatei.l goal city of free wheat and flour, the commencement e l f last yesr, was 550.000 qu,rters. ; and there ass enter e d fir home consumption during the tear, 2,463 013 qi.o-rtets. total of 3,013.013 crartsrs, Toe soick so, rod of 1840 is Pio..pqseil t•iot to have exceeded ai.o),000 Qt leaiiog 2 563,013 qu.oters, as the quantity e , ei.eeoimptien it, tietittico to oui . tiwri f.otoeth. Te e state of our monetary affair;., and th e f o d ese of ore or two considerable speculaieri in erilin, within the last ft - T; months, leis probably causeel toore of the foreigo wheat to he oresi.d on the nisi kit thin would otherw)se here been theca'?". The erop of 1840. there is rea , ..10 0 to believe, peeves to be more nearly an average one, than, eote,itforitig thy very tinge:del weather during part of last trimmer, ?flight have be- n expected, especia ly in must of toe eastern, midland and western districts of the kitiglom. her the stocks: of free, foreign wheat, nor those in the lands of the farmers, however, make it probable that we shall have a low range of prices during the present year. Tnere is one feature in the imports of wheat to which we alluded in our circular of last year, that we think has not been suffietently considered by those who have turned their attention to our probable future demand for wheat from fo reign countries. In the year 1833 the export of wheat and film. from. Ireland reached its maximum, and. amounted to 5.41,475 quarters of wheat, and 1,059,587 cwts. of flour. Slice that period it has gradually and uniformly d. creased, and year was only 59.522 quarters of wheat, end 180 476 owls. of flour, to the 5.a of lOch month; whl e , ourino toe same period, nearly doubt,. that quantity was imported into Irciand fruits English or foreign ports. " The duties on foreign wheat have fluctuated during the last year from 2s. Bd. per quarter to 275. Bd. while the average duty on the whole that has been liberated for home consumption is 7s. 2d. per quarter. The price of wheat in some of the foreign ports, as compared with the corresponding period of the previous year, is very much reduced ; this, however, has not yet led to much specula tion, though a few purchases, chiefly on Irish account, for spring shipment, have been made. Our stocks of free wheat tmostl3 of stale inferior quality) in Gloucester, are 19 570 quarters; 9,370 of o,lesia anti Bannot ; 5,100 Lower Belie; 1.800 Spanish; and 3,300 Datozic ; of bonded, 5,055 quarters. Our present prices are-Eng lish red, 7s. 6d. to Bs. 2d. ; whirr, 7s. 8-1. to as. 4d per 621hs here ; Dantzig, ds. lid. to 83, 6J. ; Spanish, 7s. lad. to ; soft Othaaa. 7s. to 7s. 4id. ; hard, 6s. 10id. to 7s. 3d. per 601 b. at Gloucester. " Tne crop of barley is generally admitted to have proved above an average in quantity, though very various in quality ; and the' price, as compared with this tints last year, of best descriptions is as 38s. to 503. and upon infe rior as 28s. to 33a. per quarter. se The crop of oats in this district is said to be very gond ; but the limited extent to which they are grown, . makes ii of little importance, as our prices are almost en tirely regulated by the supply from Ireland; and, although. it is the general testimony that the crop there has proved above au average, the qaentity imported into Gloucester has not been larger than usual, and the demand more than equal to that of corresponding periods in former years. " Although the crop of beans is reported to be an aver. age one, the quantity of last year's growth in hand a - as so small, that they have borne a high relative value, which may, in some degree, be attributed to their excellent quality. Present price, new, 16a. to 17a.; old, 18s. to 19s. per 196114. here. " We have had much less demand for peas than usual this year, and our arrivals have been small. They are no minally worth, for grinding, 153. to Ms. 6d. per 1961 b., and, for boiling, ss. 6i. to 6s. per imperial bushel here ; the consumption of the latter does not appear to be in creased by the relative high prices of potatoes. " Old foreign spring vetches have realized 63. 9d. to Bs. 3d., and new, Bs. per imperial bushel." • • GENERAL HARRISON ON SLAVERY. The following curious letter has been handed to us for publication. It is from General Harrison, the President elect of the American Union, and is in reply to a letter ad dressed to him on the 2d of Si ptember lest, by Messrs. Tappan Leavitt, and Dresser, on the subject of slavery Cincinnati, Oct. 1. 1840. " Gentlemen,—Your kind letter of the 21st ultimo came duly to hand. The subject on which you addrese. me, I look upon es one of the greatest importance to the people of this country, though I have generally re. fused to answer the numerous queries addressed to me, generally from my political enemies, knowing they have intended to injure me with the south. In my letter, however, to Judge Morr.s, of Massachusets, which thou g ht had the lib ert y to use i n any way that he t proper, except to publish, I expressly state my views on the abolition question. I therein state, that I joined an abolition society at Richmond, at the early age of eighteen; and that I have seen no reason to change my views on the subject since. And I will now further state, that I believe Congress has full and complete power to legislate on all subjects relating to toe district of Columbia, and should use that power by abol!sbing slavery in tile district. And although Con gress, perhaps, has nu power to interfere with slavery in the several States yet so anxious am I to see this Immense evil put down, that I would willingly sign a bill, should one pass Congress, appropriating all the surplus revenue for the purpose of purchasing the slaves, or for indemnifying the States that should voluntarily abolish the system. The appropriating the surplus revenue for this purpose is no new idea with me. It is one I have long entertained, and have more than once so expressed myself. and I hope yet to live to see so desirable an object accoroplished. " You are aware, gentlemen, that this is a delicate subj.;,ct for the peace of the south; and, whatever is done, should be done w.th much caution. You have probably seen my letter to Mr. Lyons, of Virginia. You will, o course, know what kind of estimate to place upon th,t+, written as it was to a southern man, and a slavenoaler. I have refused, gentlemen, t o ma k e promises or pkdges to any great extent during this can vssa ; but. as the great c(litest is so near at band, I have no hesitation m declaring the above as my sincere senti ments, arid hov you wilt find then to accord, at least in part, with y, ur am, Gentlemen, very respectfully, your ob,i:ent servant, '7 W. H. HARRISON." Slavery Reporter. he parish of Worsted extends ever 2.500 acres of land ; the population is about 850 souls. The Vicarage is i s the gift of the than and Chapter —the Vicar has never resided. On the death of the late Vicar, a petition, signed by ail the church attendants of the parish, was p r - sented in favour of the Curate, the Rev. Mr. Spordens, who, from his attention to the poor and high character as a clergyman, was universally respected No notice was taken of this petition. The great tithes of the parish are leasehold of the Dean and Ceapter, renewable every seven years on payment of a fine. The fine in 1833 was 6921 , but was raised to the exorbitant sum of 878/. 10s. in the year 1840 ; a reserved rent of about 60/. is also paid annually. Thus it appears this Holy Incorporation, has received somewhat more than 2,000/, in the last eight years from the parish, besides a law bill of 43/. to their agents. Now what return has been made to the parish charities? We have seen how their souls are cared for 1 The Sunday School, supported by voluntary sub ser porn , Its received 01 The Clothing Society, which owes its existence to the assistance of private benefactions, has received 01 The distressed widotss and other deserv ing objects of charity have received 01—from theDeeti an d Chapter. Charity coot ieth a multitud e of slim; God grant that the Members of this Holy Incorpirration ma not y ot want a germ! nt. Bu..it is not fur me a simdle diet, unskilled tit tht , science of the striaging phrase, to cif r my comments on the above facts —Correspondent qf die No. with Mercury. THE NEW PENNY PIECES.—(From a Corre spomient tit the A.thenceurn have just seen urine of the copper penny-pieces which have lately issued from the Mint. Of the devices, either of the obverse or reverse, it is not necessary to make any remark ; they are the work of Mr. W. Wy on, the Chief' engraver, and display the same grace and skill in execution Which characterize his pro duc:iot.s. Here, however, all commendation must ca rve , In all other respects, I can only speak of tais coin su term.; of disapprobation. First, as to the qu lily of the metal : it is 50 ill-prepared, that upon very many of the pieces the surface has broken up in flakets. Secondly, as to the striking : I have not seen a single pie ce w hi c h i s what is called well struck up—that is, the parts in highest relit f, as the hair above the Queen's ear, and the hedy of Britannia, are not cleat ly expressed ; the impression of r e . die is riot fully one entirely given. Yet we ii iv , at the Royal Mint, the finest macainery in the w‘ I . lsl for stiking coins--the same which, at the Soho Mint, where it was carefully worked and atteraled to, pro deeed coins which, at least as far as the ne'chanieal re sults are concerned, were unrivalled. Thirdly, as to the dies : they are evidently very badly made, exhibiting cracks and depressions. How many have actually been broken, we have not the means of ascertaining ; but I must be lieve that many dies have entirely failed, or the authori• ties at the M e t would not hesitate to throw aside those which are so evidently detective. In fact, they hare nit remaining a sufficient number of perfect dies to carry on the work. Fourthly, as to the surfaces of the coins : many of them are extremely rough ; but whether this arises from the bad quality of the metal, or from burning the die in the process of hardening, I am not quite certain ; but I believe both causes of imperfection have existed. I need only refer to the coins themselves, to prove the truth of the above renia:ks, and to satisfy every person, that the proceedings of the Royal Mint require investigation and correction. A FRENCHMAN'S IDEA OF CRICKET.—W e got up a tolerably god match behind the Hote , Rayai, on the beach at Di• ppe, for the amusrm,nt of the Duchess de Berri, in the star 1820. We mustered. r its ficulty. two elevens; the bowlers pitched their bails with scientific precision , the batters defended their wirlets with great skill ; short and long stops were on the alert; in fact all the performers acquitted themselves most ad m i_ rably. As soon as the first innings were over, one of :I L , party, who had been most active in the display f his athletic powers, approached the Duches s ' s carr i age in the expectation of being e ,- )mplimenied on his ex , ttions ; in stead of which one of the suite asked the gentler:la,, to h.s utter dismay and confusion, when dle game of crtehay was going to begin I—Sportsman in France. MORN ING tL - ---...: (Front th , Hampshire Teh graph: ) , ii t 3111 PORTSMOUTH, Fan. 6.--The LeoristA llit, 36. ..--,,„,,, Pringi sailed on Tuesday, Loin Plymouth for the Me'. raneau ; and the Endymion, 36. Ceptain the Hol Grey, the same doe, for the Ea,t I,dos• atb , The Iris, 26. Captain Nurse, aiTiv.sfl •t.•P i P T ' " el from this port on Monday, on her ic , :,) t' tt "' C') ' '' Afiica. The Warspite, 50, and Viii-lictii:i.., 50, Sr() bot rt) seeding fast at this port, for comatissionin:. The Lizard, steam-vess.d, Lielitvnani, Egeoutt , f 3iled to-day for Malta, t o uching at Pijrn outil a:,:: Fr,dll,'',, The Li‘erpo,l steamer, for Alexandria, Ic-ft 50,.:h4.,t ; ard tun eirly tni Monday ; hes had fifFy ris s r Aig , rs t'l, l ' . t o f"r Indic, of whom ciktven were ladie3; in athil:z un other ass geen , s for Gibraltar and illsiii. „ e Tne p voyage' from Falmouth to Aivaandri 3 " .4 ' r :4 formed by the Orietval in 12 days 91 h o urs. 6 h" '''' . o .)l days 2,i hours from Fillunitlifi to G.braliar ; ri :,„ bows from Gitiraltar to Malta ; 3 ~ !,, v 4 Inl - .I.lalto to Al,,x,,udria. ;ihe is Zlo'S returni,;l trorn l':g)P. l ' P .',,,pauta. a tl ' ir ' Cii i i ) g ri i ' : ' Fr t •a ( : - I;.t 7 ; i' t tilci:iesirts:ot:'Ll''iipe,h;oe,",',';:ll3ri ' ''' l'' ''. l ''' I''') KW', Ca • , A V N' I FIE - .loFti EXPADITWN.—The versfl ; a hich Were fa l'"'n'''''l 0; ~"'l on toe 30'cli uit. are net yet rllt 70. , “"ii, , Th." , It expected that they , t,' 1 I ;I:: tAC' lll . ii i ' WI '- 1:r 1r ' r t * '!W'illg iilt; pr, , ,tlt, mon th . P . 3 It niT it i 6n '0 ( i,l) , Ait it'll doss Shiti:. '7l, VI vent! between ti:e lof e.,ch. The Scudao will vrece,de the "; e".-- j u eBC. bt' ir Oleg , v:,,sels being now - enaagert in t' k in g 1 10 ' Stott s.. The Wilberforce was not to s;dl ft.i'd L i :la pool till I,st Mondaj, calling at Plymeutb, to ti4-1.-diiit her cemplement of mai ines, who arc ail volonteers!o er part icui,r service. The whole of the crews are cowl' f tho and, with the officers, are sanguine for the sliccedo I ° w , undettiking. On Sunday the 13th ult. a fad part of e persons compo y si i J. H. was preached at St. Bride's, Liver cool, bi t "" 2 ipoi H. S cart, minister of the church, to the pr... P El Bent, .it)) hi th eHourQ ueen , .a_ura s o e T e l o o ri N ci s Geor • gl-, Tweed, Rapid, Alban and Eon° 'steeples... • PROMOTION P At Spithead._p I* e ican. • • composing the ex edition. • • . it i of Master. ,_ , . to . .. nOth - APP.) • , INTMENTS M A NaDsteAriniVN.l:rffserrsY; tni.h,*ll4 Commander--:St. Leger. CO , .. ~ the C low ca. . - . . . . . 14" l a t .1* F. Matea—.l. E - B W . . Wainwright, B. E.. , •- sw ;;ltel.- Forster, and P. Volunteer Ist Class— M F a y r it , n. cfor Naval College. W. _ Inconstant.. Boatsw, Clerks—J. W* the Itfilos' iggens, and 'Wm. Burney, to toAlro r t. to th° Pique, vice Scott, deceased. ' til Mr. J. Fincham is i PllO Dock d - - Boatswain. George Busman, fMirnoislutlC:tneshl'iejleeCasF.c-arer:as.sieror. Fraser,. . (Prom . the Hampshire Independent. ) gog etip PORTSMOUTH, FRB. 6.—The City of 1 3 00 011 ' sailed on M on d ay l ast , f or Madras and Calcutta. , ot 000 The Overrissel, Blom, arrived on WednesdaYbrojest Amsterdam, to take in the cargo of the Bele" ea rtbf• for Batavia, th e l a t ter vesse l being reported nose! thy bar' The Tweed, C a pt. Douglas, still remains ha; bout awaitin g Ad ra i ra l ty orders : • a wl the Pelt of poi Capt. Napier, at Spithead. The latter in svo" officers and able seamen. - a asil The crews o f th e I r i s a n d P e li can h ave give- e pay to th e w id ows an d orphans of the late cre w , 1 , b o istao l ' The appointment o f M r. E msl i e, as " Surgeon of the Queen is cancelled. 0 beets Tne title of Pnsicianatl enera l o f t he NavY„ T b o i flos . abolished. an d tha t of " Inspector-General 01 pitals and Fieets" established in lieu thereof. The. Lords of the AdMiralty have directed 111 . 1t a t r,b , ships wear the colotics'Wer)k l 6y her Majesty's. ship stations they rn•iy . he,from ti i rne;to time emploY a " . alb I MORTALITY in the MET Rai rt ' The following are the results - of " A Table of L 7 b O r fro. is the Metropolis, shoring the Number of . De' ds ylbs all Causes Registered, in the week ending Se t "- di oe. 30th Ja ina,y, 1841," The Table is issued hunt ti lw of the Registrar-G enera l : W il e As ti r a • 10 ' Total. • Q..' Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases. 2 0 °„ 15 1 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses ...... Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of 2 10 350 la Respiration Diseases ef the Hea-t and Blootheasels ......... 21 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Di gest i on 7 6 Diseases of the Kidn.%ss, Sze. • Childbed, Dise ases o f t h e U terus, &o 2r 6 Disease., of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 8 ne i Diseases of the Skin, &c ' l Diseases of Uncert a i n S eat 103 Old Age, or Natural Decay Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intemperance 3 6 Causes not specified • 92 0 Deaths from a ll causes 1107 • .. Average Weekly D eat h s Deaths in the Averagee39.oo. Weak. Deaths' 1 1 39 Western Districts North Districts Central' District s 237 ..... 2 11' East Districts 277 23$ South Districts ...... 274 ...... ...... 92 6 Total 1107 ...... are 0 1 '4 It is stated that un d er t h e term M etro polis , „j a cls l l'd prised th e 32 di s t r i cts h ere i n ment i one d . Which CitY City of London w ithi n an d w i t h out t h e wa ll s , toe • r hiaPi" ( ' Liberties of Westminster, the out parishes 1 0,0 0 , 1 gall co p bills of mortality.—and the parishes of St. St. Pancras ; Kensington ; Fulham ; teeth (Chapclry) ; St. Luke, Chelsea; Paddingtoo) igarr a i l Stoke Newington ; St. Leonard, Bromley • ° t • ad bow ; Camberwell ; Greenwich ; St. Ni cholas eer Paul, Deptford; and Wool with. The population res for ye merated in 1831 was 1,594,890. Th e vreeklf a Aes tbf 1838, 1839, 1840, was obtained by dividing the the three years by 158. • General Register-office, Feb. 4, 1841. 'L• CANSHIS OF DZATW. Y We regret to s a y accounts Jrom m ba 7- 7 110- 2 • f 1 January, announc e th e d, at h s o f Lieutenant —°o( the of her Majesty's ship Modest, ; Dr. Csinrcl ie tb reg i ' Wellesley, and Lieutenant Vavagour, of the el v ment. These officers fell victims to the preV 4l hal esse at Chusan, which h as ma d e suc h deplersh co, among the British troops. Lieut nant Jerning l : o9 on the Wellesley, has been compell:d to invalid, and Lis passage to Bombay. • tom The last steam er f rom Gib ra l tar a nd Lis . 0 01 believe her name is the Tagus, arrived at F al 'd L° ll ' Friday last, the 29 t h i nst. , but her mail only re/ 161 '4,e 1 0 don, to be delivered to the public, on 31 " nd'Y tivl inst. Had this vessel beenpermitted to c"l‘c be Motherbank direct, she would have arrived o° ,l wo g , teght o'clock on Saturday morning, and her have reached London, in the usual course, at tttU (0 t , " ; on that day ; and forth w i t h h ave b een deliy ere. merchants. Many l e tte rs wou ld h ave been atT rer , e i rb ° „ 4 afternoon by t h e ma il steamer , which l e ft Flo ll° ,, s tetet" Monday mo rn i ng . but by t h e f o ll y o f pre ferring % Te ly Port, many valuabl e h ours are lost.—.lia 43l"f graph. fre t In Chichester and its neighbourhoo d 1 1 1 - oe sd" ) ; has returned w i t h increased • severity. On We-sod'- morning the thermo meter stoo d at 10 degrees', Thun.dsy morning the mercury was two degree viz., degrees, or 24 below the freezing point.• !Apr' AIONAIOUTII ELECTION. Mr. Octa y , lll ,: r .q° g ; win has, at the eleventh hour, come forwar d mouth. The county has not ben contested for century. The Duke of Beaufort is arivitij earth far Mor gan . Oil s° TIIE BEAU TIES OF S LAV ERY. —The At 45. Gazelle i azelte relates the b ruta l murder o f Major T* l 1 : • I.il Ctw t, ef. Crittenden county, in that State, by lat ity own Slaves. The negroes had absconded 1 ' 1 ' 1 " tion. M, : j nr Cl ar k went in pursuit a t horn, in C° At e ' di a with Colonel. James Martin. They became ofilararo° the puisuit , an d M a j or Clark came Up With tha l; t t ' a4 at.ttn.t. when they attacked him and brut hirn in I 3,l4rit'i 1" Shucking m anner , caus i ng i nstant desth . Co'''' io ttou' t was within heari n g of his crier. fur help, but beforenaatt4a r , :wit the spot the foul deed had been fail) . e Major Clark w as a native of the Sate of Nos' ' t 'no h hdf as lett. a wife aid infant child to mourn thei r °Se beresrement. The citize ns of Crittenden oilr'sci°l/; lerrnia g the facts ab o v e narrate d, inimedi s telY 1 ": ) ' o n 'b „ and apprehended the negroes, and hung t heca ut , nearest tree, as exampl es f or ot h er re f rac tory ,145e3 STEAM-PACKETS IN THE EA Sl '„t ; they Froth st, am pagi,boiB. are " dying hard " en ILO hay' are evidently near their e nd , mac hi ntry an d a ll. 0 s r , du:hag tins wint er , b een genet...ll to dap'. lat e h r t i ,1rb 1 . 1 4 riving here ( Alexa ndr i a ) front Syria Y ; and even that fe. rivng lieN' ( Alexincria) front Syria ; and of k has not sufficed i n t h e present case (I he a ' fro week)i•n to a;)le them to favo u r us w ith them Jo e j a France and England. John Bull has no tin' t° f making hi arrangents. LoNGEVITY. em —On Sunday last the funeral ° So u l o old man earned Caseley, a bricklayer, took p l a sm a t and amptora. He was 90 years and six month; g ild, e u tiq e d pall was b o r ne , by six ardent bricklayers. willer of ages :ages amounted t o 452 y ears ! A great nu n ' (1 . same tra , . e f.;11 ,wed him to the grave. theUntte Tl . e export of manuf ac t ure d goods to -•-- kes iden - ; Stves c‘ltinues extensive 'rho I w in, winch ,v sol on the 10th inst. fur New hear, have a large fraight, —Liverpool Albion• BISHOP IVot( ll l, a ve says that the inhabitants of Exeter wished t ° vs° s' . ad bead quarters of the troops fixed in that cl ty the he Dorchester, where it is genera lly und,rstoo3 .` iti n ot quarters were placed. " b ec a u s e t he Bishop v'''';. tin tislYs' low the regimental b ar d to pl a y to church 0 " ! t ared (In It is now stated that the. Bi , ,hop'a views are Exc rer , this question. If it be sinful to play the band 10 1 wal it is equally so in Dorchester. One day last week, as the three o'clock.dralooli train wss pr ci.eding from Cardiff, when it b a l rte., reached the Llsrideff station, and was goini, itjt h e rate, one of the passengers jumped out and fell joking th e rate, ore of the pe.senge rs jumped out 51t tbinnkionid face. Tanta bias a great outcry, every otee " •ro l " ) , 1° " 41 fellow h-rd lost his life, but he rose from t e lia d b appatently ur,hutt, except a cut on hie face. ilave fallen back int-tead frdtteind the wheels must himto pieeec —Carnarvon herald. i" og iNsCRIPTIoNis alit CHURCH BELLS•I7:Lco; uott-ai -i r parish hells to hay'r tip criptions 0 insc rir sixth be Il i or knell, at Corudall, has the follow' tion on it : " 1 tc., the Church the living call, And to the grave do summon dll. A TI LA. HANNAH, CLUrChWarue —nnlpshi•e Init.-pendent. gel li sillai,pox is very prevalua in Cl its neiglitNiurhotA, and has Inca the cau3a,of grist tality. ,I+ ~ , tio]