The Sun. — London, England, 1841-05-31 00:00:00

E D IT iON SIR ROttERT PEEL `S MOTION I „ FOR THE REMOVAL OF MINISTERS. ,„We judged correctly in supposing that Sir Robert p eel would not proceed to the extremity of stopping the. 'Applies ; but the stn which he has taken seemed to us S 4 much more improbable, that we did not think it worth %% : I , l ile to speculate on it in our conjectures as to his ec alr ,4 e. It was a maxim of the Duke of Wellington never to fight a battle without some object more sub stantial than the eclat of victory ; and we thought that S ir Robert Peel'was too skilful a general to risk an en gagement which'eannot alter the position and resources ef his opponents, but which must show declining forces on his side, if it eo not terminate in actual defeat.. Sir Rob ert has nothing to gain, much to lose, by his motion, j'which, if carried, will be pure supererogation ; if re ected, gratuitous: discomfiture. The vote on the Sugar Duties decided the case of. the Gov ernment in the present Parliament, and Ministers, w ho were not to b e deterred from t h e i r great duty to , he Sover e i gn a n d th e i r country b y t h a t division, will .. as littl e move d from the i r course b y any d ec i s i on o f t he same Parlianient to the same effect. ... tut it is obje , !ted that, though Ministers' -have the 1 1 ght to appeal to the country to decide between them 411(1 the confedentled monopolists, they are not 'justifiable hen office in defiance of . the existing . Parliament, , 3 111 t; at the' same time the convoking of another. The s answer is, Cant the case for the appeal to the country v not complete till the whole question between Ministers a % :? ( 1 1 the monopolists is before the public. The country p I L I not be in a condition to make its choices for the next 'rliament till it has had the opportunity of knowing what are the views of its present representatives upon every important branch of the Ministerial project. The Country„ must kn ow h ow t h e can did a t es f o r its confidence p, o Nw _ r -e to deal, n ot on l y w i t h t h e S ugar Duties, but with he Corn -laws and the Timber Duties. Before the pre sent Parliainent has declared itself upon all these great Illesth 'os, the ca se f or appea l i s imperfect in the most im portant respects. All the branches of the scheme must ..b.e discussed and decided on by the present representa ives ~s ~ li on ." the people, before the blic can be in a condi . - and to give judgment as to which. are the men to serve, t ut ll to defeat its best interests. But The}h E. : e v , 1 1 ed . , , , , ? .. e Which the. Tories feel the dangers of. - it , le ascious that their cause suffers by discussion, and . 0 ,,' y cannot escapea dissolution, they wish to hurry it 10 " ( , ) .so as to prevent a full hearing of the case against the , . n° P fl lies- Their logic is curiously inconsistent. They Il iTe t rt, in their proposed address to,the Crown, that Mi tble-er' cannot carry their measures, and they argue in in heir Prints and speeches that Ministers are net justified 3, d Prueeeding to submit those measures to the publie invent, by w hi ch they Must ultimately succeed or fall. the motion of Sir Robert Peel— po's' jhat her M a j esty ' s M i n i sters d o no t sufficiently * . iia b, sB the confid ence 'of the House of • Commons to '° them to carry 'through that House measures wh ich ti ley deem o f essent i a l im portance to the public a•eif . 'tr e, and that th e i r con ti nua nce in office under such ereurnstances is at variance with the spirit of the is 1 : pot declaratory of a judgment ; for how can there be s os i o t t 'i l i gnvent Without a h ear i ng ? It is rather political predic,in' or fortune-telling. At best it is one of those non: Which the authors imagine they have the rower of fulfilli ng . , f 4 ild hoar signifiCant is the suddenness of the change c .! tva teg'y hi the Tory camp. Uto the announcement oliiii:_lqinisterial project, the Fabian policy was relied that the adversaries, and they boasted that every week tr act existence of the Melbourne Ministry was pro sc,rriq, would give years to the succeeding Tory Go nt. Ment . The more rope given the better, it was said. p ree r as argued t h at t h e on l y d anger was, that th, Titation m i g h t prevent t h e comp l e t enes s of P a i, i ' V ilig disgrace and ruin. But suddenly the i , an Policy is dismissed, and the 'Government S to i . l a be carried by a coup de main. The change that . with out reason, for the Tory leaders see le to ontinue the Fabian tactics now would not it s n ' i )ing the Ministry to its causes of exhaustion, but velli e . l ` . , si u:..ces of strength. Time and truth are now ta a Cg } for the Government, and therefore the Tories cogrteianet.r.talevd.eSperate attempt to shorten the duration of the nibtit:rvail If they could succeed in this object it might certain impolitic effects belonging to the s x . 4 ; but how could - they reckon on succeeding, in_€pt through the weakness of Ministers in surrender thg. at. the first summons, their right of a hearing for th e measures on the merits of which they have to take A d e ,:ense of the nation. Such a folly on the part of their uto rsaries was not to be expected by any but prepos ll'islY sanguine or very desperate men. s ablee he project has already made great . progress in . t . ti o f avour ; but it will make more the more it is p or :‘, 3 l , i n t ? d every hour will add to the strength in sup of it. 'Time s fairly makes the admission that if Minis diarssorPect in the present juncture to gain a majority by th o - v tlig, no one can say that with Constitution requires toil l4 to relinquish their plan ut appealing to the ti i n tr , t rY. Sir Robert Peel, however, in his speech, contends the Government has no right to suppose that the opinion of al cn ,- try is at variance with that .. of the existing Parlia ri ,;,' a ,ild according to this position a dissolution could 41; " 4 -ally circumstances, be justifiable for the purpose A ar: . ' appeal to the people. But has Sir Robert Peel al l'j,rol this doctrine—has he always maintained that O a - 7: ll tent Was the only index of public opinion, and th a lat ;„l i w as' unwarrantable in a Government to suppose -4, 7 7ni ent of the country opposed to that of its repre- IV:' O h the 'f‘ f 15 v0 to a very remarkable passage in his speech 'e ' l eon% , i'PPropriation question in 1835, which, for the %%it) i ' e nee o comparison, we print in juxtaposition ~ e the doctrine which he has produced as suitable to ,E_.9l. iiwesent ccasion. l day lassoa Tours- Sir Robert Peel on the 2d , T . 4 ...Clit tay b,,;., April 1835. we may not h ave the ' True " You talk of your supre , . den f b " ve toe coaft- macy—of your power to con -221'. m e N e b ° ll/ t e House of Com- L trol the Executive Govern- 1 . your Govern -1 t i . t . leas -a,,urP:rtoviasps, as Mr. mmt ; let me whisper in ay, though ear, that although you are '.:_ux deitied it, if we triumphant here—though you ~". .f . ' _, ) , 1 the Rouse of Com- are enabled to fetter our wa rt:A 'sere are suff:ei nt in- sures in this House—yet the 'Zir that we possess the power you exercise does not (Ci l , e _ ne e a the cout.try.'— extend without these walls $ ll. - .t, r ; S and counter cheers,) with the intensity with which wi t h' - I. 4c 'w v! -"r, I sl.O tld say it operates within,—(Great i:o u ., t r • -Fox, it is flange- cheering.) We may be weak eco.,i n ,admit any other re- here ; but this I tell you op ' 4 '.'" inio en org„ n o f , public again respectfully, but with 00innin, the the House of a firm conviction of its truth, t it i ii+ 'vs, It is dangerous that there is a public opinion ~,'', ull.the implied or sup- which exists independent of eji ' Q ' . C: opinions of constitu- majorities—which is notcon and 4 ..in, 411 1-4 their declared trolled by votes—which it is 1141,4"11tpvi4e4 organ, the essentially necessary to pos . ''' -Coraniaßs," sess—in addition-to mere ma jorities in tha's House, I never felt more, convinced of anything than I do of the truth of• what I. have been stating ; I never felt more convinced than I do of this truth, that the public opinion will not sanction—it will with its submission, but it will not with its approbation sanction—your efforts, even if they are successful, to throw impediments in the way of the useful measures of Government."—(Cheers.) W hen .Sir .Robert Peel used this strong language, a sserti n g that the opinion of Parliament was opposed to te Prevailing opinion of the country, he dicl.not con e: paltetse.erpotting his boast to the test by a dissolution. danger there is, as he says, '4 in setting up implied or supposed opinions of constituencies I t t 4 t iNt their declared and authorised organs," be then ~..,. trr e a 0 .or no other purpose than an empty. vaunt, and .71itiout a thought of verifying his assertion by a itew a • s r ,- PPeal to the country. / 4 , 1 1 e very language which Sir Robert Peel so ground ytsl used in 1835, Ministers may now adopt with a . I,,'!' confidence. They may say to fine monopolist ma „. jay, " 'We may be weak here, but there is a public \‘ l) , i l i llon whi c h ex i sts i n d epen d ent o f ma j or i t i es , w hi c h I C not sanction . your efforts to throw impediments in ~way of th e use f u l measures of Government," Iliat Sir Robert's was a vain vaunt in 35 events Mo ved. He did not, i n deed he could not, dissolve C u ? carliam en t . . of his own calling, but the dissolu a-ft "0 the King's death brought his assertion to the test, oft 6 the opinion of the ecaintry, instead. of condemning 4,v overthrow of the Tory Government, and the policy Ministry which succeeded ft, ratified both by re *th.l--"I. ' ri g a Majority.. The smallness of' that majority itt indeed, he a tine subject for' scoff and sarcasm, but . a ,t-ttviptils, to be derided which can only muster so g ill 4 illaj4ity, Oat is!to be faought of•the party etcr „,3' boasting its po;:se;sitan of all the poiiers of th . s'untry,.. o _v. at i c4 cannot muster • any majority wha!ever, " .4 ! , 'ltPon-;t1le , rare and re; p 'et ible occasions of. the u , l' such as the Sugar Duties question ? ges4 • •t' V liohert Peel points to the elections which have tb . "re ~ suit' the.calling of this Parliament, in proof of t nl: 44l 44l l nPvilitrity ttf the Ministry. We have only to 074; le this; , sun what WO haVV , more than once: will i tinh-the Tories:always have :had, anilalways i a ave, the 'advantage in isolated cases, because they :, 9 riug - , - the powers of the sptirse, and also of another 4 . , to bear on single points with more effect than they Fan!distribute them in a general contest. But when Sir tle*rt Peel- is discussing the Ministry's .present prospect Wit! ;;t t i What inference is to be drawn from elections 41 I' !StP"fi4 tiefore the Government had produced its I v 41 tI. an ita tlig izelipt pc •tk 9iitintry and-the improve-' ent of its finances ' ' .--'We have denied that the victories of the TOties •in i..olated contests are to be taken as evidences of -opinion,. !:?,‘7, , ,•e . du not pretend that, in the state of things ante -74 ( t l l t3te. finnpaneement of the Ministerial project, wei_ gage'4 1 / 1 " . fe 9 h 4 file FIR! fi• majority in the event of- a: la ral fil:optom, lie snipit .. r ttbereil, is stirred by .he hePPO§ to It now PrAPOO 4 l= The people have now great okieets to call forth - their OX etrtions, and to reward them, ' Every individual not in, , rested in the monopolies has a practical good to strive t'"'—ilay more, even those interested in any one mono- V.lrt-yo 8.4 interest in the ab a t ement of the others,. and Fe 4.4, 1 : 1 4' ft, gain against any loss which they may il'rehcm.l. . ' • ',''' it ' .113- WY•chance whi9h the Tpyles b .. • 1, • , , aVe in hauling gainit thii 1;14n fm , FerflOYlllg the giqiCnities }cif the '`)"., , tl trY, hy relieving the Oveihurdened:' . i,' '''. } t' z ' 8 Oqustry, is certainly to arrest the discussion it vefote h is thoroughly understood, and therefore "- 3 believe folly in the sincerity of Sir Robert Peel, 44e YP he says that one of the motives of his pendin g tk otion is t o arrest or a b r id ge t h e Anti-Corn -law dis-- siou• The attempt will be abortive, and will only taage those who made it. It is the bad move of a bad Position. T All that we see confirms our first impression that the Tories will rue their forlorn lop Men like Lord -- . 4 ITT -- lt:If 4 . ilr !It. - irsley, who voted against Government, differing from it as to the Corn-laws, or as to the sugar duties only, will support it, nevertheless, against a party with whom they have nottgreement except on those solitary points. Whatever may be the result of the division, it can only more or less hurt the Tory party, impairing the former bad triumph, if not casting them again into a minority. As fo: the Government, its course cannot be altered one way 0.: the other by the issue of this debate. Two words sum up their resourses—discussion as full as pos sible, dissolution when discussion is complete. Sir Robert Peel has maintained his reserve as to what he would do to meet the financial difficulties of the coun try. He glorified his frankness at great length, boasted that he had declared himself on this and that question, and on all ordinary topics of legislation, but said that on the particular subject of finance he must be allowed to reserve his views. It is plain that he will not throw his pearls t) swine, but will peep them for official wear. In like manner, some time ago, an adventurer promised the discovery of an invaluable secret on the condition that e certain price should be subscribed for t he pay ment of it in advance. Give me place, says the frank Sir Robert, and you shall have my secret for the restoration of the. finances, but no advice gratis on this particular disorder. Sir John Hobhouse observed on the backwardness of the Tory leader— " The Right Hon. Gsntleman's career (he Will excuse me for saying so) has been one of general expediency, of ineffectual resistance, and ultimate concession. He has at tempted to swim against the current of public opinion, by which for many years he has been beaten back, and has landed upon shoal after shoal, and which has sunk .under him, and been swept away. If he has been saved, he owes his safety to yielding at last to that side which he has spent the best part of a valuable life in e ndeavouringtocombatin vain. The Right Hon. Gentleman has certainly not been the leader—perhaps it has been his misfortune, not his fault--but he has not been the leader of events, but has been dragged onwards by them. He has generally coire too late with his political disCoveries. He has been, on almost all occasions, obliged finally to adopt that line of policy which in an earlier period he has thought it his duty to oppose. It might be his misfortune, but I think the Right Hon. Baronet, with all his talents—with all his opportunities —with all his great party support—has shown himself deficient in one great quality that belongs to the character of a statesman, the satracity which reads the, ,signs of ,the times, and which foresees the conse quences them.--4dieers.') As - he has hitherto come too late with all his measures, so if he should now attain to power, his future measures will not be such as can rest on the principles on which he set out in life, and such as for many years he maintained as a private individual and as a Minister.—(Cheers.) No : he must administer the affairs of the country upon those principles I am happy to say upon which we have administered it so long.— (Cheers.) He can only act upon those principles." We differ from the last opinion, which is indeed in consistent with the preceding remarks. Sir Robert Peel cannot administer the .affairs of the . country upon the principles on which it has been governed by a Liberal Government, and at the same time continue his course of resisting good principles to the last, and acceding to them too late. The difference would be 'precisely the difference between the rule and the exception. For the one late and forced liberal concession of Sir Robert, there would be a hundred cases of obstinacy in resisting improvement in the ripe season for it. A line of action against the dispositions can never have any similarity to a line of action in accordance with the dispositions ; and this would be the difference between a Peel Government in its occasional extorted liberalities, whatever they might be, and a Liberal Government., whose measures were in pursuance of their wishes and convictions. The public may reckon on an occasional concession after great throes and struggles, against the grain, but never on a tenor of service, which is the distinction that does not seem sufficiently made in Sir John Hobhouse's speech. Whether Lord Stanley has any shame or any feelings we know not ; but if he has, Sir John Hobhouse must have touched them, not more sorely than justly, in this passage : " The Noble Member for North Lancashire . had asserted on a former night that the present Government, in the words of the poet, was 'nodding to its fall.' If it must fall, for himself he would 'say that he was quite ready to fall in such company ; as he and his friends had risen to power together, so he was ready to relin quish power with them. But they had kept together in their chivalry' for some years, and he saw no reason to believe that they might not continue their career for the correction of abuses and the lightening of the bur dens of the people. If he fell, it would" be with his friends, and he was better satisfied to fall with them than, like his late Noble Friend the Member for North Lancashire, to rise to any eminence, however lofty, among his enemies. —(Hear, hear.) He should be sorry to see himself surrounded in any situation by men whom he had once uniformly opposed, and supporting princi ples which in the earlier part of his career he had felt pride in resisting.—(Loud cheers.)" The debate is adjourned to Wednesday ; as yet it has been heavy and spiritless. Examiner. MELANCHOLY SUICIDE. On Saturday an inquest was held at the Windmill Inn, Lower-road, Deptford, before Mr. C. Carttar and a highly respectable Jury, upon view of the body of Miss Ann Castle, aged twenty-six years, daughter of the well known ship-owner of that name, carrying on business at Rotherhithe, who was found drowned in the Grand Surrey Canal on Thursday evening last under the fol lowing lamentable circumstances. The first witr.ess called was William Jones, of the Victualling-office, Grove-lane, Deptford, who saw a man named Nash dragging the canal for the deceased, and in about an hour the body was found. The deceased had on a figured dress, but no bonnet. Witness saw a bonnet, and bottle labelled " Prussic Acid—Poison." There was also a parasol picked up. The bottle was marked " Wil son, Druggist, Rotherhithe." Thomas Sadler, foreman of the carpenters, Commer cial Dock, said that he pulled deceased out 9f the canal. Jacob Myall, of Grove-lane, said that he left the Com mercial Docks at half past three o'clock on Thursday, and on going to the canal he saw a bonnet in the hedge and one string fastened to a tree. A paper was fastened to the bonnet. and a parasol and phial were lying on the ground. The note appended to the bonnet was written on ; it was the address of Mr. Castle, namely. Ann Castle, 11, Lucas-street, Rotherhithe. Ann Linton said she was servant to Messrs. Henry and Charles Castle. The deceased was a single lady, aged twenty-six years, and resided with her brothers, Messrs. H. and C. Castle. Mr. Castle, sen., came in the morn ing and told Miss Castle that her brother Frederick had been lost on board the ship Henry Wellesley in the Channel off the French coast. The deceased was very low spirited all the morning. She went out and returned without saying word, which was not her custom. She returned about two, declined taking dinner, but wrote a letter and went out, as witness supposed, to the post- office. CORONER.—What became of the letter ? Witness—l do not know ; it was taken away, but by whom I cannot say. The Coroner and several jurymen said that the letter ought to be produced, aps it no doubt contained the cause of the rash act. CORONER-It is important that the jury should see it. Witness continued—The deceased's brother command ed. the Henry Wellesley ; she was depressed at the news of its loss ; thought she would destroy herself. Charles V. Field, surgeon, Lucas-street, Itotherhithe— Attends the family ; saw the deceased about two o'clock on Thursday ; she was following her father home ; was always in good health ; her mind (lid not appear disordered. Witness understood that there had been a quarrel between deceased and her father that morning respecting a gentle man who had been acquainted with the family, her father wished her not to see him again. She was a high spirited girl, and felt the matter severely ; her father had written a letter to her on the subject. She had written a letter to the gentleman alluded to, who resid€d at the west end of the town. It was a sort of will, leav ing certain things, and requesting the gentleman would retain them for her sake. She was extremely attached to him. By the CORONER—Believes her father has copies of the letters. Charles Castle—Deceased was passionately fond Of her brother Frederick. Nothing but the sudden news of the loss of the ship could, witness thought, have induced the fatal step, and he denied what Dr. Field said about the difference between his father and sister. It was quite fallacious. This being all the evidence, the Coroner summed up, and the jury returned a verdict of " Temporary In sanity." Thirteen of the Jury out of sixteen signed the inquisition. A correspondent writes from Calais, that 01 Wednesday morning, in consequent e of a dense fog, the Eng lish schooner Hope, of Bristol, Captain Tuckey, from Han wich to Bristol, with a cargo of stones and timber, ran ashore half a league eastward of Calais. The crew were landed safely, but the vessel was not expected to le saved. In the afternoon of the same. day, the three-masted vessel, Henry Wel lesley, Captain Castle, from London to Hobart Town, with a mixed cargo and three passengers, went ashore near the former vessel. All the crew and passengers were sally landed, and it was hoped, if the weather should improve, that the ship, which had eight feet water in her hold, would he got off. ORDER OF ST. JOHN.—The decree of the Emperor of Austria for re-establishing the Order of St. John of it rusalem, directs that the buildings of this ancient priory at Venice, in the parish of St. Francis della Vigna, shall be destined to the foundation of the priory of the Order ; ar.4 that the Grand Prior shall receive 2,000 florins (convention), or rather more than 5,000 f. per annum. None but Austrian subjects can be appointed to the Grand Primate, and every facidty is to he given to Noble families in the Lombardo-Ve netian kingdom who may wish to make foundations connected With this Order. E How. MRS. DAMER'S DIARY. --Travels in the ,Holy Land must always be regarded as among the most valuable illustrations of the Scriptures, affording, as they invariably do, such abundant confirmation of ' their authenticity and sacred character ; but, notwith standing so much important commentary has been made public by Lord Lindsay and other recent travellers in Palestine, we have a Mass of contributions to the popular study of Biblical literature of a still more interesting character in this Diary of a Tour in Greece, Turkey, Egypt, and the Holy Land," by the Hon. Mrs. Dawson Damer—a lady of high literary attainments, who met' withsuch facilitieS for prosecuting her researches through out a country that may justly be entitled " The Cradle of Religion," as have enabled her to obtain an accession of Infopmation that cannot but be considered of unrivalled interest in every part of the Cbristian The following officers are promoted for the ser vice col the coast of China : —Commissions dated May 6, 1841. Commanders —Edward Belcher, P. G. Blake, %Wil liam Warren, Harry Eyres, to be Captains. Lieutenants— George Goldsmith, Henry hetlat, R. B. Watson, John Hay (B), John E. Bingham, I. P. Bower, to be commanders. Mates—Messrs. John Daly, John Hancock, G. B. Jeffreys, Rowland Edwards, Arthur Vyner, .G. C. Fowler, W. G. Lua.rd, to be Lieutenants. Captain S. B. Ellis, R./R., recom mended fur brevet rank of Major in the army. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, MAY. 31, 1841. POVERTY AGAINST PROPERT Y. There is but one ground upon which the power and peculiar privileges of the rich can be justified against the complaints of the suffering poor, and that is, their utility. That the)' spring naturally from the heart of society, and that they tend to promote its well-beings -7 it is upon these two conditions that the prerogatives of an hereditsry aristocracy are alone capable of being de t'ended. An hereditary aristocracy in the United States would be a monster of abSurdity. It could only exist there as an iwi ation of foreign institutions, forcibly and pe,lantically iraposed upon the people ; and, as they are at present situated, it would in all possible ways work them evil. The English aristocracy still exists amongst us. Many of the suckers, it is true, by which in old times it drew life and nourishment from the entire community, are hacked arithhangled ; Many of them are severed outright. But it still exists, though in a very questionable position. Vehe mently supported on the one side, more vehemently op posed, and more desperately hated on the other, than many persons are willing to believe, it has no particle of life to throw away ; no element of vital strength .can it sffifrd to squander or destroy. Like all other aristocra sies, it stands, and - can only stand, in the long run, upon its utility, upon its conformity to the inward spirit by which society is permanently possessed, and upon the addition which it contributes to the permanent well being of the people. In all sorts of pecuniary ways, a richly-end Owed landed aristocracy • may be a curse instead of a blessing to the people among whom it exists. It is quite certain that in France the generation of poor men which has followed the melting away of the old families, their titles and estates, in the revolutionary crucible of the last cen-. tury, has been far better off as to the mere outward comforts of life than the - poor toilworn and famished wretches by 'whoni they were preceded. It is quite cer tain that in France the breaking up of the old lauded monopoly, and the subdivision of property, have added very materially to the physical comforts of every two Men out of three in the kingdom. This social revolution may have been productive of evil in other respects ; but in this respect it has, after much suffering, produced good. How this should be it is not veiy difficult to under stand. The accumulation of 'wealth, in any shape, in the hands of one individual, confers upon him an im mense power over all around him. . Accumulation is not a mere question of political economy ; it is a question of politics ; a, question of social philosophy. If you decide to encourage the accumulation of wealth, whether landed or commercial wealth, in a feW hands, you decide prac tically to vest the powers of society in the hands of a few also. The possession of great comparative wealth, espe cially where there are many poor, involves the posses sion of great social influence ; and social influence speedily becomes, under some form or other, political power. Now, by what considerations can any. wise man be justified in recommending this accumulation of wealth, influence, and power ? By considerations of political economy ? By any hope that by virtue of the princi ples of pecuniary competition. supply and demand, and mammon logic, society will be made happier by means of one man being 'made very rich aad thousands being left very poor ? By no means. Upon these prin ciples, it is clear that the arrangement is an un mitigated evil. Preponderating and overwhelming wealth enables a, man to disturb fair competition ; to beat down the poor.and the needy; to command the mar kets, whether of labour or commodities ; and generally to place those of less wealth on an unequal footing with him as far as regards the business of money-makinff. . Great wealth is great power. Great power may be used either for good or for evil. If a landed proprietor wields his great powers according to the principles of supply and demand—that is, for his own exclusive pecuniary benefit, he wields them like a tyrant, and the whole in stitution becomes a nuisance and a curse. The wealth, then, of the man of rank is given him for other purposes than to enable him to live in splendour and luxury. It is given him to be employed for the poor, and - not against them. It is given him as wages for labour to be done, as truly as the scanty earnings of the artisan. It is given him to make him the protector of the needy ; the guide into moral and physical well-being of the ignorant end debased ; the adviser and instructor of those over whom he is placed in authority. •it is given him to enable him to practise self-denial ; to ac custom him to neglect his own pecuniary gain in zeal for supplying the greater necessities of others ; to induce him to set a bright example of every virtue ; to make him watch and think for the good of society, while the poor work and toil for it ; to hire him to be the servant of society, as the only honest means of becoming its lord and master. We say again, that unless. the owners of property—landed and manufacturing—use their pro perty in this spirit, the encouragements to its accumula tion, which exist in this country, have become a nuisance and a curse. Let " the respectable classes" look to it narrowly ; for that which is accursed they may be as sured is " nigh unto burning." To us, we confess, this is a melancholy subject, be cause, wherever we turn our eyes, we seem to ourselves to see too abundant evidence of the shameful neglect or positive violation of these duties, and 'consequently of a most fearful insecurity to the tenure upon which rank and wealth are at this day held. . These symptoms are to be traced on every side. Take the very subject upon which the entire country is now agitated—the case of taxation. - See how for the laSt three centuries, there has been a current flowing uniformly in one direction, drifting down the patrimony of the poor into. the garner of the wealthy. We speak not of the amount of taxation, for the riches of the nation have perhaps in creased more rapidly than its burdens ; but we speak of the manner in which those burdens are distributed. Look back to the times in which the main portion of ths regal expenses were borne by the Royal patrimony ; in which other public burdens were supported out of fines, fees, and forfeitures imposed im the estates of the great , nobles and feudatories of the Crown ;- in ,which military services were borne in kind by persons of property, as a condition of their tenure ; in which supplies were. voted by the Commons.at wide intervals of time, and were not required except on special occasions and for extraordi nary purposes ; in which taxes—tenths and fifteenths— were a direct impost (like the assessed taxes) upon property, real or personal, and the exceptions of one suit of clothes for the husband and one for the wife, one bed, &c." exempted from direct taxa tion all the poorest of the people ; in which customs and exercise were—not indeed unknown, but—in their ins fancy—light in amount, and imposed upon but few artkles ; in which ecclesistical landlords managed their' . estates leniently, and upon the avowed principle of en couraging their tenants to become prosperous and wealthy, and held so large a portion of the land that their example must have had its influence upon the pro ceedings of lay landlords, in which a large portion of the rent was paid by the Church, and other pious land lords—not in purchases of luxury and idle ostentation, but paid back to the poor, from whom it originally came, in the shape of liberal and charitable alms ; look back to these times, and compare them with our own. The patrimony of the Crown' is exhausted. The feudal burdens, which fell heavily upon the great landowners, were knavishly taken away on the restoration of Charles 11., and their place supplied by the taxes which now fall upon the poor. The burden of the army is shifted in like manner from the persons of property, and is now paid out of the taxes which fall upon the poor. All the current expenses of the State, enor mously increased, and doubled - by - the . interest of an enormous debt, which knavery and mismanage ment' have combined to accumulate,—all these are dis charged out of the taxes which fall upon the poor ; and which are now not occasional but annual. Customs and excise are not now in their infancy, but have reached a gigantic manhood ; and compared with the other taxes which fall more directly upon property, they compose . three-fourths - of the whole net revenue of Great Britain, —32 millions out of 44 ; and from them. there is no ex emption, except for total famine and total nakedness ; all the clothes sf the husband, all the clothes of the wife, every bed, and what is more horrible, every mouthful that the poor beggar receives from charity, all are taxed : the rich man has wickedly shifted from his own shoulders to the shoulders and • even to the unfilled bellies of the poor,. the burdens " which of old belonged to himself. • Out of these taxes, which fall principally on the poor, are paid, in addition to the whole current expenses of the State, a great por tion of the interest of that tremendous debt which was incurred by the - folly and mismanagement. to say no worse, of the rich men of former times. The Church is no longer the great landowner, but the land has passed into lay hands ; into hands which scorn the obligations of a trust ; into hands which wickedly profess to" do as they like with their own;" into hands which are employ,sl in grubbing about to raise rents as a sup 'port to ostentation and luxury , not in devising means to increasethe comforts and promote the prosperity of their dependants ; into the hands of men whose ancestor hav ing, in past times, confiscated and appropriated to them selves the patrimony of the poor, have found out that the very Poor-laws which they:Set up in place of the volute tary and graceful.charity of past times are an unendura hie tax, and that the poor, who;n, from the first moin'.tut of January to the last of December, they are robbing by every means that an ingenious exchequer prodigal of such devices can imagine 'or invent—must be coerced into pru lence, into savings against old age, oat of the famine of lie morning of life, by harsh . treatment, workhouse tests, fliSonuniforins, and all the studious contrivances of a sect of philosophers of whom Burke spoke when he Said • that `` there is no heart so. lord as that of a thorcngh.p wed metaphysician." Shame, shame upon you rich men and nobles! One by one you have set free your own lands from the burdens which they justly bore in the old Catholic times—the bur dens of war. of peace, and of charity ; one by one you have transferred these burdens to the poor whom you have thus vilely plundered. You have demoralized the country, as far as in you lies, by your rent-raising, money-scraping propensities ; and now having brought us to a state in which insurrectioas of the famished poor under King Lail, or Captain Swing, or the banner of the charter, are par dons of our system constantly recurring year after year, under more frightful and monstrous shapes, you resist .every attempt at . alleviation of this misery, and even threaten an augmentation of the evil if your advoin to power be not delayed, • Once more, then, wo warn the aristocracy of this em airy, as their •best friends, as heartily praying for their ?I'urolonged existence and power. They have .shionefully betrayed their trust in past times, and they have now come to such a pass, that t heir quiet and peaceabl e ex i stence i n time to coon. depends upon their correcting and amending the wealth error n • s. g them as wqges.w which are to: a o d f p their n e A r N b - a. ) y , Ili earned LI faithful work ; not to. be gluttonously swallowed in an e picurean indolence. They milk. sur render all such abominations as Corn-laws, a ll suc h g ha n t i e lg fu t l o p i r n o a t i e n c t tn now .strug i. They must restore to the po or whats as those which they are. they have robbed them of. They must 1earn40,4 e ,„,,,,, the nursing fathers of thosedestituteoyNsi : Tit ) 4.ce in the comm mwealth, they 41Te hound ti 4 4etisli:andPrOs ;,ecL. Unioss they: consent to themselves after this fashion, they o r thei r successors w ill o ne_day have bitter roason to remeiqber these words of inspiration : "Go to now ye rich Mem ; weep and howl for the miseries which shall come upon. you."— Tablet. ANTI-CORN-LAW ADJOURNED MEETING. On Wednesday last the adjourned meeting to receive the deputation of the Anti-Corn-law League was held. The stage .was crowded with gentlemen, amongst whom were many members of the Town Council. On the motion of Mr. Alderman BLACKBURN, Sir Joshua Walmsley was again voted to the Chair, amidst thunders of applause. HENRY ASHWORTH, Esq., was again introduced to the meeting. For four years past the trade in the manufac turing districts had been very distressed, and it would not be long before Liverpool felt the effects of it. The advo cates of the Corn-laws said they were a protection for equa lizing prices, but there was no Act of Parliament to pro tect mill property or the price of labour. As a proof of the depressed, state of the manufacturing districts, he stated that there were 2,900 houses empty in Manchester, from 1,200 to l,hoo in Stockport, 1,500 in Bolton, 1,220 in Preston, and 1,000 in Oldham, and about an equal number of houses tenanted, the occupiers of which could not pay rent. On coming down to Liverpool that day he saw a removal of furniture, and on making some inqui rie, he found that a man, With his wife and ten child ren, were going to the workhouse. The day before they had pawned their last bed, and that day they had not tasted food. He maintained the Corn-laws were not so beneficial to the agriculturists as they would make them believe. In passing through Devonshire a few 'years ago he saw beautiful looking little, cottages with the myrtle and hawthorn growing around them. He went inside of them, but . what did he find? There was a clay floor, very wet, and no furniture? There were men with only 7s. or Bs. a week, with which they could scarcely keep soul and body together. These were the class of men whom the Corn-law • land lords considered their .country's pride—(Hear, hear.) Would they consent to be their country's pride ?—(No, no.) He then proceeded to state in the course of advo cating the repeal of the Corn-laws, Chartists, when they were made properly to understand the question, becanal. Anti-Corn-law lecturers. In 1835, when the corn was cheaper by nearly one half than it was in 1841, the work men's wages were raised nearly five per cent:, whilst in the last named year the wages of the manufacturing popula tion were reduced 10 per cent. These were questions which they ought to consider well, especially as they would be called upon soon to exercise their franchise. They would, doubtless, be canvassed by all parties, and if they 'should go home and find their wives and daugh ters weeping for the black of the Brazils or the West In dies, they should ask them if they had began to weep fur. the bleeding industry of their own neighbours. Mr. Alderman BROOKS, from Manchester, was re; ceived with loud applause. 'He said the Whig, - Tory, Chartist, and Radical party were united in the manufac turing districts against the- Corn-laws. They had all heard•pf the story of a man. and wife fighting, and when some person came in to separate them they both turned on him and beat him off. That was just the way they should do—they should leave offfighting with themselves and fight against the Corn-laws. They talked of protec tion. Wily, anything that wanted protection showed a. weakness to start with. If they saw a strong healthy man going along the street, they would never say he wanted protection ; but if they saw a poor old woman crossing the street, and a coach coming, they would say, "Go away, old Woman." What they wanted was trade, and the sliding scale prevented them from making any calculations with regard to corn, and, in consequence, they were de prived of trade in that article, for which they could send out their goods, and when a scarcity came they were obliged to send out their gold, thereby crippling their trad. He had had a letter the day before from his tra veller at Walsall, and he was told he could get no orders, for there was nothing doing. There were fifty furnaces stopped there, and all this was caused by these laws. He believed that the manufacturers in his district had not made a shilling for the last three or four years, and he only wished the merchants and brokers of Liverpool would make inquiries as to the cause. After calling on the electors to act conscientiously at the next election, and " do unto others as they. would be done by," he said they asked for justice and a total repeal of the Corn-laws, and then sat down loudly applauded. Mr. Alderman COBDEN, from Manchester, said, in looking over the Mail, which some friend had been kind enough to send him, lie found that the meeting was described as having been attended by a few hundreds of people, and that they were chiefly of the " lower or de.rs." He was very glad to find that they had the " lower " class amongst them. He was glad to find it admitted that all the rubbish the bread-taxers had put forth about high and low wages had . not succeeded in deluding the work ing classes.—(Applause.) This brought him to remark upon a placard industriously posted in his town, and lie fancied they had had some of them in Liverpool, calling on them to remember that the low price of bread in Po land and Russia brought very low wages. Surely that must be the very last resource when they were obliged to draw a comparison between the condition of the workL. ing class of England, whom they attempted to persuade that they were well off, and the Polish serfs. He though they had a glorious Constitution and that their country was the envy of surrounding nations, and the admiration of the world.—(Loud cheers.) He thought that the persons who made this comparison always argued. that the working classes of this country were under the benign Government of a Church and State, who especially looked to their interest.—(Cheers.) Than connection had been enjoyed by them for a century and a half, and yet, when they wanted to prove that the working classes were not so bad as they were, they went to - Poland to compare them with the Polish serfs. Was it not a little strange they did not go to a place more familiar .to the people of Liverpool,—was it not strange they did not go to a place called America ? The bread-taxers asserted that bread governed the rate of wages, to prove which they went on the broad scale ; they went • north and south ; they said they did not care where they went, because the rule ap plied universally ; but how was it they did not get across the Atlantic, and test their rule by the rate of wages in New York ?—(Applause.) They might have called on the Irish in their way, and made their inquiries there too.—(Hear, hear, and loud applause.) He thought he saivone of those bread-taxing Commissioners going out on such an inquiry—going out on account of the Duke of Buckingham, who asserted that the price of bread governed the rate of wages. He crossed to Ire land, went to ~ T ipperary, and at last came to Mourne], and inquired :the last market price of wheat. What would it . be, - Sir' Joshua ? How much was wheat in Clonmel?"-7-(A voice, "695.") What was the rate of wages in Clonmel ?—(" 4d. a day.") And had they full work all the year round, for lie always liked to inquire that ?—(No, no.) Well, then, let him take his passage in the beau tiful Great Western, and land at New York. What was the price of wheat per quarter in New York, Sir Joshua ? (Sir Joshua—" 365. per quarter.") Well, lie knew something about the rate of wages in America, and made inquiries about it, but he had no doubt there would be some American citizens in that vast assem blage who would be able to tell them. They had lately had before them a statistical paper published by the cor poration of New York, in which it was shown that po licemen and watchmen, of whom the corporation em ployed about 700, got a dollar and a quarter per day, • or about- ss. 6d. ; and that was not a bad estimate of the rate of wages for unskilled labourers, but they would come down a little and say that the rate for unskilled labourers was four shillings per day ; and now they came to the perplexity of the commissioner in writin::: to his Grace ‘the Duke of Buckingham—" May it please your Grace, stopped at Clonmel, found the wheat G3s. a quarter ; wages 4d. a day ; men not fully employed. \Vent on to New York—wheat 365. per quar ter ; wages ought to have been 2i-d. a day, found' them 4s."—(Great applause.) He (Mr. C.) thought that must puzzle the philosophy of the Duke of Buckingham.— (Loud laughter.) But they would be told that if they went to America there were many things to be Coils sidered, and that it was not the price of bread, by many things that governed the rate of wagPst Ile Oft% would tell what it was ; it was supply and demand that regulated the rate of wages, Dl the Anti z Chmt.htw party want to diminish the rate of wages when they called out for more trade ? How could they get more trade unless they got more employment for every class of labourers ? Would they not need more por-, ters and labourers, if they imported more gacids Would they not need more ships, and that watt d give more employment to carpenters And if they built more ships, would there not be a greater demand for sailors, and would they not get better wages.—(" Hurrah, thaca good," said a son of Neptune, who happened to lie scatad in the front of the gallery.) Thp InMtigtl c$ Inge% after all, was the whole nas 3 4l€lll i 4 1 1(1 tila§ the bread taxers, although they had a o consciences, were shrewd enough to know that' the whole question rested an the rate of wages ; and they knew that if they oßld not, codt vine the working man that their \Ng I'VoAtld f.1.41t Alto bread-tax would soon come off, (mr. Q,) ham. they could not do that, and illerk ee . , Wurliing men would soon do away with VPlll , ltlWi4.—(Great applause.) 183 ti,. when wheat was 395, per quarter, he paid his men the same rate of wages as he did in 1838-9, wkla wheat was nearly double that price. He paid kkw.p i A by n scale or rate, andlit never was altelvi,-74wns itlways the same. - - Did the Duke ever make any allowanCo is paSIM hii. servants when the bread was clear ?---(‘';4o, ho.") In some ekk.U4 the rate of wags- was settled by an Act of Parliament. . In London and other ples-ea the fares of hackney coaches were settled by the Corporation. Thou sands of people, were dependent upon such employment., but did #iti ..4c4 say you shall have Is. for such a ftlW l itV.l when wheat gets up to so much you shall have Is, 6d., and when it rises still higher you shall have 2:3:? No : the law did not commit such an absurdity ; the law itself convicted them of falsehood .in laying down awl% A propotitlon. In agitating for the repeal e,f' the Corn laws, he was not advocating all (a . kiic.i.)Ao]ft of his own trade especially. He had lIP.N.`g. Watered into foreign trade, although he eatic4ldered that his home trade wa,i as innell dependent on the rep eal of the Coro_ laws - as the foreign trade. After alluding to the sneering manner in which the Mail spoke of the " lower orderS,l4 C. said he knew. of nothin that way mean except a . when a man prostituted hi a ta l ents avi d stated what was falsehood.—(Hg % hear, "Die.") He did not allude to Mr. Dix whati he mentioned talents. ___-(Loud laughter. and swl ‘ ause.) The Earl of Winchil, sea, at an azaAealhiqal meeting, the other daffy, squires I nc 1,0,11 -frog farmers.—(Laughter,) lie called them 4.17.1*0 'Or the 41W reason that Cobbett did, aiu, lie VVB,S a e0s(1 %me fbr giving names. They were al ways cr , oattilig. at the same time they were eating all nr ,......(Laughter.) Well, what did L or d Wi ne hil sea say ? " They (the Anti-Corn-law men) pre-tad that they will lose the fo rei g n markets far AL.Ar manufact ures if they cannot obtain Om, latead fbr their artisans, but their foreign tswla is a matter of p er f ec t i n diff erence la:. they "lose it altogether, provided they turn thew alitention to the home trade. Dins, apseapsethe genuine feudal aristocrat. lie thin put out the cloven foot of oppasi.tkan to commerce, before which feudal 0410,004 u was destined to fall.—(Applause.) 1 40 0 Winchilsea, and those who act with him, whether they represent Liverpool or not—(liear, hear)—would NAY AL INTELLIGENCE. (Fr in the Hampshire Telegraph.) PORTSMOUT R . , MAY `)9. —The Reindeer, 6, Lieut. Bisson, sailed on Wednesday for Gibraltar. _ The Pelican,'l6, Commander C. Napier, :oiled yester day for 1.41 - )op. _ , , • The Nautil - as, 10, Lieut. G. Beaufoy, came into bar hour' yesterde y to be paid off. , The Spitff :e -steamer, Lieut. Tringham, returned yes terday to W oolwich, to have her machinery made com pact, it b(a .g found insufficient for West India service ; she will (all here on her'wayla Barbadoes . . • The Fail - lb:ugh, 72, Captain Henderson, 'at Plymouth, will be '.retained in commission for general service. lAer Dorratt and a part v..of Marines are ordered for einbarka 4 ,ion for the West India station. Captain. Jervis J. Tucker . was en Thursday appointed to,comnr and the Dublin, 50 guns, Admiral Tliomas's flag The Fair Rosamond schooner, Lieut. Bullman, will be ready for sea next week ; sh e go es to the coast of Africa. We rejoice to find th a t th e sea men who have lately been detained in the service, on their ships having been put out of commission, havelpeen offered their discharges wi .1 all wages due to theni ; several have availed them selves of the offer, and have. promised to return after a short run ashore to thei r s hip s , retaining their ratings; the seainen of the Asia, the North Star, the Serpent, the Fair 'RoSamond, and others, are thus released according t 9 the, old custom of the service, the necessity for com pelling continued service having passed away. We trust that the seamen of the. Donegal, about seventy of whom did not return, are included in this order, and that their arrears of wages will be paid them, and that the letter 11 will be taken from their names, for having run from a ship, the Britannia, on board of which they had never put their feet. Admiral Sir Edward CodringtOn, G.C.8., Commander in-Chief at this port, has nomimated John Nicholls, Esq., Purser, U.N., to be his Secretary. A Court-martial was held on Monday, and continued on Tuesday, onboard the Queen, Flag ship in this Har-• hour, Hon. Admiral Bouverie, President, to try Mr.. joieph Hobb, Assistant-Surgeon of the Indus, for re peated acts of drunkenness. The charges, five instances in number, were clearly proved, and he was sentenced to be dismissed the service ; it appeared also he was much habituated to the use of opium. .• A Court-martial was held on Thursday and Friday, the 19th and 20th instantV. on 'board the San Josef, at Plymouth, to try Lieutenant IA; illiam Morris, Second, Lieutenant of the Trinculo, on a charge preferred by Commander Coffin, of neglect of duty, disobedience of orders, and contemptuous conduct, on the quarter-deck, on the 2nd of April last. The Court found the two first parts of the charge for neglect of duty and disobedience of order, not proved . ; but that the last part of the charge, that of disrespectful conduct, had been fully proved, anti adjudged Lieutenant Morris to be acquitted on the two former charges, and on the latter . .to be se- i verely reprimanded. . • Rear-Admiral Sir W. Parker, with his Secretary, B. Chimmo, Esq., and, his Flag-Lieutenant,' •M. Tennant, and the China Commissioner, Sir Henry Pottinger, , will embark on Monday evening, in the Great Liverpool steamer, Mr. - Engledue Commander, at Southampton, and proceed with the India mail, it daylight on Tuesday morning. In Ihrbour—Queen, Victory, Excellent, Dublin, Bel lerophon, Royal George, Bittern, Fair Rosamond, Nau tilus, Echo steamer; Diligence naval transport. At Spithead—Monarch, Indus, and Vernon. PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS. . - ---- PROMOTIONS.—The — following Officers are promoted for the service on the coast of China ; commissions dated May 6, 1841 : Commanders—Edward Belcher, P. G. Blake, William Warren, and Harry }lyres, to the rank of Captain. Lieutenants—George. Goldsmith, Henry Kellett, R. B. Watson, John Hay (b), John E. Bingham, .and J. P. Bower, to the rank of Commander. Mates—John Daly, John Hancock, G. B. Jefferys, Rowland Edwards, Arthur Vyner, G. C. Fowler, and W. G. Luard, to the rank of Lieutenant. Captain S. B. Ellis, Royal Marines,. recommended for brevet rank of Major in the. Army. AiPt3ExTmEsTs.—Lieutenant. — J. Fitzjames, from the Excellent to the Cornwallis ; E. H. Kenney, from the EXcellent . to the Dublin._ _ . Asgstant-Surgeons—J. Wilmott, to the Caledonia James Neven, M.D., to the Acorn. Mates--C. Snell, to the Queen ; Edward Hill, from the Indus to the Herald. ____ Midshipmen—A. Ratcliffe, to the Bittern. Naval Instructor and Schoolmaster—R. M. Inskip to the Impregnable. Second Engineer—A. Innes, additional, to the Victory for the Cuckoo. John Ward Nicholls, Esq., is to be Secretary to Atilt:li ral Sir Edward Codrington. PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY, MAY 27.—The Bellerophon, 80, Captain C. J. Austen, sailed. for Portsmouth la i sp Saturdaii. The Jasetir, 16, Commander F. M. Boultbet4; arrived; from Gibraltar, and has corneititOliarbour to be docked, having touched the ground in Tangier Bay. The Driver steamer sailed on Tuesday for Pembroke, with stores, and proceeds from thence to Cork to take a depot to :Fersey. The Savage, 10, Lieutenant Bmvker, arrived from Bristol on Tuesday, and came into harbour to refit. In Harbour—Caledonia, San Josef, Cornwallis, Jaseur, Tritrulo, Alert, Savage, and Carron. In the Sound—lmpregnable, Implacable, Belleisle, Edinburgh, and Acorn. • SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. INTELLIGENCE EXTRA. HIPPODROME JUNE MEETING, 1841. WEDNESDAY—Acceptances for the London Handicap : Retriever, 5 yrs, 9st 41b—Fitzroy, 4 yrs. 9st—l., 53 rs, Bst 121 b —Confederate, 4 yrs, Bat 1 11b—Molineux, 4 yrs, Bst 51b—Wel fare 4 yrs, Bst 21b—Brother to Prizeflower, 5 yrs, Bst—lsaac of York. 4 yrs, 7st 101b—Perseus, 4 yis, 7st 71b—Iliona, 4 yrs, 7st 61b—Busk filly 4 yrs, 7st 3113--Nicholas, 4y: s, 7st 21b — Carlos, 4 yrs, 6st 71b—Whisperer, 3 yrs, Est—Humility, 3 yrs, 101b—The Witch of \\Thorley Hill, 3 yrs, sst 71b. ASCOT HEATH,' 141. TUESDAY —Acceptances for the Ascot Stakes—Hyllus, 5 yrs, 9st 21b—Arctic, aged, 9st—Corsair, 5 yrs, Bst 131b—Bedford, 5 yrs, Bst 1 Ilb—lo, 5 yrs, Bst 51b--Broadwath, 4 yrs, Bst 41b— The Currier, 5 yrs. Bst. 31b—Benjamin 4 yrs, Bst 31b—Nloli neux, 4 yrs., :31b—Quicksilver, aged, 7st PA—Welfare, 4 yrs, 7st 111b—Janus, 4 yrs, ist 71b—Isaac of York , 4 yrs , 7st 51b—Monops, '4 yrs, 7st :A— Spangle, 4 yrs, 7st 21b Mona, 4 yrs, 7st 21b—Pluto, 5 yrs, 7st—Hellespont, 4 yrs, 6st I Ilb Mobarek, 3 yrs, Est 71b—Father Mathew, 3 yrs, sst 71b—Humility, 3 yrs, sst 41b. MANCHESTER, 1841. FainAY—Acceptanees of the Trades' Cup:—Humphrey, 6 yrs, Bst 11lb Wec Willie, 6 yrs, Bst lib—Bolus, 5 yrs. Bst —Rodanthe, 4 yrs, SA—Kingston Robin, 4 yrs, 7st 121 b Cornuto, 4 yrs, 7st 81b—Margaret, 5 yrs, 7st 71b—Hautboy, 4 yrs, 7st 61b—Clinker, 5 yrs, 7st 41b—Northenden, 6 yrs, 7st 41b—Th,-Prfaid, - 4 yrs, 7st 1 11b—Aimvrell, 6 yrs, 7st' llb —La Femme Sage, 4 yrs, 7st—Galaor, 3 yrs, 7st. MANCHESTER.—FitinAv EVENING. The attendance this morning was very limited, and "bespoke" anything but a good Derby settling. Coronation does not seem to have suited the little men's books. The numerous followers of Scott's stable look very blue upon their luck. A few offers were mado on the Oaks,—say 50 to . 20 against Lampeon (t) ; 5 to 1 bar one; 7 to I bar the Marqu's (off.) The Manchester Cup was not named. As far as we could gli an, the nominal prices are :--5 to 1 agst Kingston Robin ; 13 to 2 agst Clinker; 7 to 1 agst Cornuto ; boar agst the field. THE ST. LEGER.—We have not heard a bet laid since Coronation's victory on Epsom Downs. The adjourned meeting of the Town Council of Nottingham, on Monday last, gave to Mr. Wakefield the opportunity of moving a petition. to. the House of Commons for the removal of the heavy import duties, and especially of the unjust and impolitic Corn-laws. Mr. W. introduced his - motion by some observations, which at once do honour to his head and his heart, and they were ably supported by Mr. Cullen, by Alderman Wilson, and Alderman Hart. A show of opposition was made by Mr. T. H. Smith, but he, stood almost alone, •and on a division the petition was carried nearly unanimon4,.only the mover and seconder of the amend ment voting against it. This is a specimen of the feel ing in . Nottit*ham, and, indeed, throughout the manu facturing , districts, against the Corn-laws.—Nottingham .Review. . . e l. s e 1 17 ; 9 ( :c 4.6 6:sui:::ruipv4sarl3ienn:tatsens printers 69, pain t er s sailors I 2:28r0d, gardeners . an e ‘ev r r t yg g sei i .r n osse e 22, e ,39 : ,ss, glass-makersi2lao4u p, ; t rina h a irdres s ersst fis hmon ge rs esorss 11:0 shopkeepersl 155,1,: a:lbi lk e:t:ute i :l it luckily 4l), E : lei ' I l ' rtl U tioa. 1 l ilt ( 1.. ,,,d5. R E'T'URN ,aped hia o pne F da .ft THE (1,11,,,, TRADES AND OCCUPA TIONS OF•PERSONS TAKEN. INTO CUSTODY IN THE AIETRO POIATAN ' DISTRICT IN 1840.—Perhaps it is not generally known that no less than 70,717 . individuals were taken into custody last year, and that according to the returns in the po- Lee-sliber, there were labourers 2c3o,rke-l generally 921,8,c1ui0,5n, carriers i l sa s n l s , 12, bakers 141, bookbinders' ItA, bricklayers 908, brass-founders 287, brokers 9i, brush -makers 146, butchers eoleh 7asn4d, cabmen m i i Ic i e 9 r . s c ' i o t a ) , th c - a in r p a e k ri e t r e s rs 27 l 3 , s , cut lers 159, drapers ` 14 , 0 0 . 1 ) d , . b F e r a e t n e c r l s i 8 p k tii d , i s h v e 142, hatters 196, soldiers 464, sweeps paper-stainers medical m- n 7, 4l ,3d i md,; ( i , lp r l :i I ,l i v ei b : r. l 1 0 Be 9 smithsrl 1 pawnbrokers savgers246, 1,961, 107, shoemakers 300, tailors • 2,043, .tinkers and tinmen 418, tool-makers st-i watchmakers 203, watermcn 280, weavers 740, and ners i s professing no distinct trade or occupation, male and female'. -as I j ; e l6 l:.el d l Y er e s n, above, amounted ro 25,220. The above table also shows the degree of instruction of each persom so taken into custody. Those who could neither read nor write amounted to 23 938 I those who could read only, or read and write imi:lrfeetly, were 37,551 ; those who could read and wiite well, 8,121 ; and those of superior instruction were 1,107 ; thus showing, that in pro portion to education, crime diminished. \irl‘i,:i!,iii i.a s.titit.. A :ati.: N .d4Ela D ly,,,i ilc, LANDSLIP E l . at P si:ite A loiltisx,nllll. l ( .1:111v ' t,sEili S liii.,t,s.irlit,dp. l o -l i.y iii,s 7 v..l(g.,,,,o,,, z iell:e:e,v F irr,ll,notti l tilisye. E 4re,.(),,leti( l t.re:i.,.iri D tia.itst .— Liniiy:g A cl.,tl:eehr s ri t:eilme i l l gcii tE il r , min t ittae t t i :tei t ie rl iresr e oil ik : B : : : alp { to o t ossop-rolid; he 4:4lli'l'; (11-11' earth it b ill e 4 a t e ti :ln t:f il i l il tir.."( ei l l o ilil u r : e t s a ta l id :; I n u ti , lt b o N4N u vb4c , h tot P l lail etg. t°llll°.tlllll U. so by tbe, great donna the ).:,iges(b,,teMnetitrgsei:::: ;were seen h,.,15,, 'file ~,a and servant boy r l a . . ( s ) h a d a_i s i i d d e, ]lollytla that f t the cliff, at an altittuto PS P c T I Y .S CIPY:qoCL;-.0i;r1,? V. rature bas been very . i n i . ft I:letYith' the ii :I t ii. rh ud e - , i t stood At 58 a.eg,----Path llera.d. top show. Mi. tdarci Ellice tbit• -A sti ncirews) ' d , , paired off' viiiii;Mr. nobe ,t w rabn dif 'Tue. ay night i n favour of • for an• . iiT ! 85 deg,. in the s,liade, 1:1tile i on 111;m1,)ttileoitilie'S nrotton ,'add' ess,to the Crown to t4e into,consideratiedi:O e eases' , ofePPr§l,)ns cow - 114 9 4 fgr political offences, ~ ~ I j.,), MORNING EDITION. doom Liverpool to the fate of Tyre and Sidon, not be cause the, people of Liverpool had risen up as an abomi nation by their sins, but they would reduce Liverpool to ashes in order that they, the proud aristocrats, might sit in state a little longer.—(Hear, hear.) There was another fallacy always used in advocating this sub ject. They said, "We have no objection to a little corn corning in when it is wanted, but why deluge this coun try with foreign corn when it was not wanted ? There was just one little misconception in this, and then all would be right. Who was to judge whether it was wanted? Was it to be the man who sat in his silken palace receiving enormous rents from the poor, or the starving hand-loom weaver, and those • miserable wretches of whose miserable state they had heard so much ? After showing the evil effects of the 'sliding scale, he said that the only'two extensive corn dealers who had gone, so far as he knew, from the first for a total repeal . of the Corn-laws, was their own noble President and Mr. Joseph Sturge.—(Tremendous and continued cheer ing.) He then alluded to Sir Robert Peel and his slid ing scale. There was a time when that person was run ning about Lancashire a white-headed boy. His father was only a calico printer like himself ; and was it not a shame that a man so fostered should go forth merely to be the advocate of a selfish and feudal aristocracy ? (Cheers.) Yes, Lancashire had nursed him and fostered him in its bosom, and he had turned round and stung it. But what would Lancashire do now ? It would pull him down again. He was a Churchman, and lie learned his Anti-Corn-law creed from his prayer book, and he did not • see how any Member of the Establishment could, with consistency, or with safety to his own salvation, assist in upholding the bread-tax. What said the Liturgy ? In the time of dearth and famine, the following was appointed to be read : "0 God, our heavenly Father, whose gift it is that the rain doth fall, that the earth is fruitful, beasts increase, and fish do multiply, behold the desolation of thy people, mid grant that the scarcity and dearth which we do most justly suffer for our iniquities, may, through thy good ness, be turned into cheapness and plenty." Here scarcity and dearness are spoken of as being the same, and plenty and cheapness. Now what was the meaning of the Corn-laws ? Was it not to make corn dear ? for how could they make it dear unless they made it scarce? They had an Act of Parliament to make corn scarce, and yet they had a prayer in the Liturgy of their Church which made the clergy of their Church mock the Deity by using it.—(Hear, hear; and loud applause.) The Meeting shortly afterwards broke up. TORY-CHARTISTS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir—Having, for twenty-five years, joined' every so ciety of Reformers but that of the ToiT-Chartists; which no honest..man will join, I solicit the insertion of a few remarks in your liberal columns. I see by' yesterday's papers that the above-named enemies of the working man have issued an :address to the labouring classes, . urging them on to elect none but Tories in the approaching contest. Base, scoundrelly turncoats ! What, send men to Parliament who sanctioned the Manchester massacre, —who passed the. Six Actswho suspended the Habeas Corpus—who estahliSbed military law—who were com pelled by the people and the Sovereign to allow the Whigs to pass the Reform Bill—who, even now, declare that the people of. England shall eat dear bread, dear sugar, and dear everything, while tens of thousands are without employment, 'and dying for food ! SUpport men like these ? Yes ; the dirty, Tory-bribed O'Con norites avow it. But, mark, Sir, all that the M`Doualls, Martins, Walls, &c. can do, is—nothing ! Talk of the Tory-Chartists influencing an election ! How ? In Great and Little Bolton there is not one of the base crew can give a vote—not one. I dare them to prove that there is. I have heard that in Manchester and Salford there are not 70. The people now perceive, by the speech 'of Joseph Surface, that the Tories, in all kinds of cippresion and monopoly, are the same yesterday, to-day, and, ifthey • can, to the end. But, Tory-Chartists, Surface-men, humanity-mongers, and all the herd of banded monopo lists, must now be crushed. The :Arades - of England, who first support the agriculturists, and then export fifty or sixty millions to every corner of . the globe, will not perish for want, merely to haVe . added, in forty-five years, 300 per cent. to the rent rolls of a few hard-hearted aristocrats, who care not if the bulk of the people die of starvation if they can preserve the plunder. - Reformers, in the coming struggle, will be triumphant. Tory-Chartists, who never speak of lowering any of the necessaries of life, will be as dust in the balance. I am, Sir, your obedient Servant, CHARLES BAKE WELL. Moor-lane, Bolton, May 26. WOOLWICH—FRIDAY. • 1 ROYAL ARTILLERY. GENERAL ORDER, MAY 26. Two instructors in fortification being required at the Royal Military Academy, the Master-General has desired the same to be made known in General Orders, that thote Officers of the Royal Artillery who may be desirous of filling the situa tions may offer themselves as candidates. The salary will be ss. per diem, with quarters, or the usual allowance in lieu thered, according to the military rank of the individuals holding the appointments. Officers who are desirous to propose themselves as candi dates will signify their wishes to Major-General Sir George Whitmore, K. C. H., the Lieut.-Governor of the Academy. (Signed) H. D., ROSS, Colonel, eplity Adjutant-General. • GENERAL ORDER, MAY 26. The Master-General has, approved of the following-akera tions in the dress and necessaries of the Royal Artillery, viz., 1. The white trowsers to be discontinued on home service, but on Companies embarking for warm climates two pair of white drill trowsers are to be supplied to each soldier as a part of his kit, and for use at the station to which the Company may be sent. 2. The present soap-bag to be replaced by one of oiled silk. 3. A hair-brush to be added to each soldier's necessaries. 4. An improved set of straps for the knapsack and great coat (to supersede those now in use) to be supplied; patterns of which, and the foregoing articles, are lodged in the office of the commandant. 5. The badge on the knapsack to be done away with, and the knapsack in future to be plain. black. (Signed) H. D. ROSS, Colonel, Deputy Adjutant-General. GARRISON ORDERS, MAY 26. Lieutenant-General Lord Bloomfield is much gratified in conveying to the garrison Lieutenant-General Sir Hussey Vivian's perfect satisfaction and high commendation of the troops in the performance of the several duties yesterday, a* well as their soldier-like appearance on parade. The general court-martial, of which Colonel Cleveland, royal artillery, is president, have closed their proceedings, and the officers have been placed on garrison duty. GARRISON ORDERS ' MAY 27. Lieutenant-General Lord Bloomfield was honoured by his Royal Highness Prince Albert's commands to express to the garrison her most gracious Majesty's high gratification at the appearance of the troops at her reception this day, MAY 28.—The regiment was paraded under arms this mcrn ing to witness the sentence of a general court-martial carried into execution on Gunner and Driver E. Gale, of the Ist bat talion, who received a corporal punishment of 150 lashes for re peatedly making away with his regimental necessaries. W s , man will shortly be discharged as unworthy to'rentwiu to the corps. A HAUNTED HOTAR."...-OH Wednesday afternoon, the ancient house of 139 !garran, famous in the history of Scotch witchcraft:, Was stniek with lightning. After striking the top of one of the vents, displacing the cope-stones, and tearing up a portion of the roof, the elee-; tric fluid descended theeltiitnuey, and broke to pieces a Car, ron grate in one gfii 0 1 . Q, moms. Mr. Win. Houston, farmer, the occupalll i IN* kitting in this same apartment at the time, an was so much stunned with the shock, that a eon aiderable time elapsed before he recollected himself. After this damage, the subtle fluid twit along a passage, and ; - ,tp • peared to have got colamunication with the same staircase along which the c.onous maid ofßargarran was represented as bein i q carried by the invisible Muggy Lang, without tpuc.hing the steps. In this passage of the electricity one otihe steps wm blvlken. As was to be expecttA, 4.011.00,11'ti %wily and the neighbourhood 'kayo . been vri:4tly - alarmed, and as the superstitio* of their fore fathers is not yet altogether eradicated from the minds of the people 'e.t this district, a glimmer- , ing fear that the extAit. 3a connected with older deeds has pasted over. WOO minds than either one or two in . Ers- . 1( AllCt fill'&ll. Glasgow Chronic],;,, I cannot but think OlAr f4iend the Standard is "coming it rasher, won g,' when he speaks of the; ladies of hol t , INkairstes household as " the worth:Ass. feinglp a t golpf.4 . 4T.s.' of Ministers. Considering the 4-1 1 :Ac 1 w** tlll'. - erland, as well as other ladies corn p:,sing her Majesq-'s household, are of the very highe s t order of the English nobility, , I think the Editor intyt. have spoken of them in this manner from want of retice tion, rather than from malice prepense. Should a Tory oxorninent succeed, with the exception of the Percys, the Scotts (Buccieugh), and a thin sprinkling of the ancient chivalry of England, the ranks f rom which the female attendants on her Majesty must •be selected are - I of what foreignors term "the. dunghill Peerage," the Pitt aw Castlereagh creations. Now I presume our N wohy friend the Standard • would. b e hi g h ly i ndignant were the same epithets he has made use of, to be applied to the Tory ladies who may succeed, although those who li ve in glass houss: ought not to throw stones."Ecening Paper. -- , The !Standard, which olaiins for its ,party the character of " the Christian gentlemen of E 9 land, some short time since poured o u t the v i a l s o f its ahwe,,in language suit e d t o its own character, upon a member of the Administration, for voting on an important diviSion acme days after the funeral of his child. - But the. Stan dard can conveniently shut its eyes to the fact that .within two days aNr. the death of his son, and before tho tinnit had oloaed over his remains, Sir Edward Sugden was to 10,a seen as usual in his place in the-House of Commons ; and no doubt will be equally blind to the fact that Lord Granville Somers zt was as usual popping about the Tory benches its site House last night, although his - mint died on vile day before I—Globe. PAVIORS EXTRAORDINARY.—Three or four large mushroms in their anxiety to emerge into the visible world, actually performed the novel feat ofdis 7 placing a large paving stone„in one of our most crowd ed thoroughfares, on Tuesday /Ml.—Cheltenham Exam_ t.le HAY-MA I NO.—This important portionhe j o ie f ig i b_ farmer's duty has partially commenced in day hourhood of Sherburne, and in a few moat will l undant itsbe come their very general. . The crops are_ have In T o li s e crops of their yield, and superior in quality. a lv good, and the Clo ver were never known to be so universally good, flower fragrance imparted from the twain' . iruly delightful. of this plant to the passing traveller is —Ssherborne Journal. , Mr. CORN-LAws.—ln m Slade's Travels in Ger many Odessa ) will be found an and Russia (chapter on law, with reference to the important artiok on the. s C e o a rn_-_ orts and from Germany, mkt*. from the Black which our Legislatures would do well to peruse. THE GREAT W EsTERN .— This noble vessel sailed from in D EPART URE OP THE road at half-past one o'clock on Thursday. She hue 42 ssetigers, chiefly ladies, who wer e all in the highest spirits. !D a he hab a valuable cargo of silk s , and 24,0001. in specie. The day was beautifully fine, and th e in w ind fair, and bets are made that she Kill make the voyage 131 days- ' , . • THE RESOLUT ON OF WANT OF CONIIDENCE, Another interminable deb a t e On a most puerile mo tion, treated on one side at least in a most elaborately childish manner, has just set in in the House of Com mons. What an edifying spectacle it is to witness the Prime Minister expectant and the would-be saviour of his country, spending four mortal hours in an endeavour to prove that two instances of Parliamentary- crises, each of which was absolutely sun genesis and unlike any thing that ever went before or after, do not in all points resemble a third Parliamentary crisis, itself wholly special in its circumstances and unprecedented in its possible results. If ever mortal man or Minister created a precedent for himself which required a bold and sanguine tempe rament even to conceive the possibility of its success, it was Mr. Pitt in 1784. If ever there was another in- stance of a Parliamentary crisis which deserved the epithet of unprecedented, it, was that created by .Sir Robert Peel in 1834-5. If there ever were circum stances that justified a Ministry in stepping a little aside from precedent, and following,-the example of Mr. Pitt and Sir Robert Peel, by creating , precedents for themselves, they are the circumstances of this present crisis, in which an aypeal isp be made to the people to choose whether they will be 'siltt'vv,d by one party or fed by another. And yet the time '' n.ons is to be taken up night al i• k ; . i! I lit with historical disquisitions on what Fox sal t ,io. :5, and what Pitt did in 1784 ; and worst of all, w a Peel did in 1834, vnd what Hobhouse said in 1835: Of a truth, it must le a great blessing to be ruled by a man who is so great a master of form, so great a lo • of caudour, and so profound a student in the vote '. + ';.'•ta - alf a century ago, as the great Sir Robert. , 4 i .0';• , 4.;:, : 4,0 Of course it cannot be sup .. n '.. ii'..,.` . ment that the motion will have any result at -. ' 7 '2... gas it ends in the defeat of its proposer. In that case, in eed, it would be dearly seen to be a false move, and it would there fore refound with shame upon the heads of its authors. If it succeeds, Sir Robert can hardly expect thereby to deter the Ministers from a dissolution. The debate would seem to be nothing more than— " Much Ado about Nothing." Tablet. THE MOVEMENT. - PROGRESS IN STAFFORDSHIRE. This county well performs its duty in the present crisis. Agitation—the struggle to revive waning pros perity—the vital effort against personal starvation and national ruin—is bravely, zealously, and heroically sup- . ported in the county of - Stafford. Despite the ltypocri- • ' tical cant of prefessing ministers of Christ,—despite the sophistry and plausible falsehoods of pretended " far mers' friends,"—despite the tyranny of genes-aim land lords, kind masters, and merciful authorities,—the work kg men of Staffordshire are boldly and energetically up and doing, in the present holy crusade against the Bread tax -the present hopeful campaign against monopoly. We, last week, had to record glorious proceedings at Wolvsrhampmn,Walsall,Lichfield, and other places, We had previously narrated similar movements at Darheston, and in other parts of the county. In our present number, still more numerous instances are recorded. Bilston has assembled the largest meeting remembered there. Wednesbury has nobly seconded her neighbour's demon stration. The Potteries have beheld their thousands arrayed on the same side. Willenhall is active and almost unanimous in petitioning. Rugeley and Alrewas (the very centres of agricultural influence) have shown themselves of one mind. In short the whole district is roused from one end to the other, front the border where Copeland lords it over the poor workman's state of 'de pendence, to the extremity_ where Gladstone enjoys a temporary ,triumph at the expense of slave-gotten eold. An important responsibility devolves upan the h tiding Reformers at - the present crisis. It is their first. and most imperative duty, a duty far more uris,ent...Atan all other considerations to convene public meetings, and get up petitions, without: delay. Men of" Superior station are as much interested as mere labourers. Ihe landlord who is wise enough to know that, the interest of. the labourer is his , interest, inasmuch as labour gives to land its only value, must perceive this ; the matter who has sense enough to be aware that the rros perity of the workman is -his prosperity, inasmuch as domestic content cheers and stimulates the workman's daily toil, must see it also ; and those in public authority,' who are capable of 'discover:l7 that public order is-- never•so easily maintained as alien discontent has no. eXistence, cannot fail to admit The fact. But, above all;, ministers of religion are called upon to be foremost in promoting the proceedings reeommended. Christianity and the common dictutes-of charity and humanity leave them- no alternative. We cannot expect anything from the majority of clergymen of the Established Church ; as a.. body they are opposed to every measure which has r.or its aim an extension of the privileges and cornfor,s of" the people ; and it would be strange indeed, if, upon a: question which may be said to ttffect' their' own in comes, they were to act ditli,trently from their usua) course ; but from MiniSters of other churches—chili-o es which exist by virtue of their own merits, rather thr: n by tyrannous exactions —we do expect every cflOr,, to b e . made. They must rouse their respective floi Ks—their , . must offer up public prayers to the Great 'Disposer ;'' all events.?. If. our Bishops . (to their eternal dissg .e) v haYe nOt seen fit. at this crisis, to order that payers be offered up in lair oluirches•entreating the - .. , t h. ; i g ht" so to disposeThe'llt'art io f °lir orrtew :'s, n , to cause them - i r>.' ' longer to withhold from his people the daily I , , ea d i whiA•hc. in his infinite. bounty had . prcivided 'ln; then —let tit?. 11.0..im ! •'.1.1; )110 :lad Dissenting past', rs Shaw , , these fattimers imp in so riligio:i; .'47 ttA: exair'..d e 111 N o o no can ,b ‘ i,! .slial•eti from th. eawie. Ali g h itr', lo : rich ;Ind poor, must, caeh and all, 5e .. ,..e n eve " 1 " . serve it.—Staliordshire ExaluinPr, . . nerve t' PROPOSED OPV;S !'..NTI-CORN-LAVT Ait;ETING.—A reciikWann. was Presented •to the Mayor,. signed by 5,300 te ,- esuns, g men, inhabitants Off o the .borough 0? " workin SlP'..eliester," requesting that the Mayer would call Ir:A preside Over a public meeting of the work. ing classes, to be hold in the opeit sir. We believe that. the Mayor, haling, received the requisition as he wts,s about htiv.n,r.; home for I.tuidOn, promised that he wouU take tbci matter into, consideration, :and return an answer.- front The Mayor declines to call such arheedar, uncle; e.X.tating circumstances, on the ground a pu bi . , c meeting of the borough hna been kohl a few .nos P" , o for the satne object, and that a petition agreed iht tha t. meeting was now in course of oirmture; therebj e iff or d:_ ng to every inhabitant of tho •Weviugh an °Pl l .(w.unity .eecording his opinion 01031:ion to those laws. ilk requisitionists, as fur / V 'slt, on ree'...iving th e M ayor ' s they haVefrorSt, the mcetin,•-• nevertheless ; and IPtpea y the a vertise • edtnlied to it for Wedne s d a y - next, at eleven o'clock, to be tieitl in Stevensotl's-s quare , " f or t h e pur pose of ":otesting against the bread-tax." The requisi ti°r.staeld frineeting last evening, in Carpenter's-hall, Which was nearly full, Mr. - Warren, the president of the Operative Anti-il'Qrn-law Association, in the chair ; when it was determined that, ten of the requisitionists, on behalf oK . the whole, should eonvc.ne the, meeting, to be heldu# above. stated. • They also agreed upon a form of protest against The Corn amt. Provision-laws to be sub mitted to th, public meeting, and, if 'approved of, to be sent to all the temporal 'unit spiritual peers, and to all the Mendvers of the House t.ir Commons ; and it was deter- Wined that the tnecting should adjotrn till the effects of the protest, had btiZ4l seen - in the' cotes on Lord Fitz william's and Mr. Villiers' uu,titms on the Corn-laws. It was also tesolved, that Mr. Cobden should be requested to take the chair on Wednesday - .-3/"Onchester Guardian. For the borough of Leeds the Anti-Monopoly party have called out Mr. Hume and-Mr. Wm. Aldam, jun. • and the Monopoly party have invited Mr. Wm. lit4ett and Lord Jocelyn. The Reformers have wisely Ooren a Whig and a Radical, and the men they have !selected do theth honour. Mr. Hume is one of the most valuable public men in the kingdom ; and Mr. Aldam is a young man of excellent talents, high principle, and most liberal yiews, closely connected with the trade of this boreugh. Some'of the more ardent Radicals had t•onceived a prejudice against Mr. Aldam, in consequence of his nrit being decided on the Ballot.; but the explana tion. glieni in hiS-Address of his views on this subject, and' tlti.iii,rsonal explanation of his principles at a meet ing tsf thk Liberal electors yesterday morning, have quite removed every unfavourable impression, and won the respect an d co nfid ence ' o f th e e l ec t ors . After he had h i ad . an many qtte,stions put to him by those who 1 been most inclined to doubt, the vote of approbation was passed with perfect unanimity and the most zealous cor dialitv.—Leeds Mercury. The contract for conveying out the Brazilian mails has been taken, we learn, by a firm at Bristol. I L t is is bo in n: tended that the steamers shall run to the Brazi l: f to which port the bags and the passengers vi ill Le conveyed by the Peninsular steam-boats. BIRTH of A G t RAPFE.—On Thursday after noon-the Giraffe, at the Zoological Gardens, andthe R the offspring , Park, brought forth a fine male. The mo th are doing remarkably well. Since the opening of the Grea sed over it, n and the way, about two million passengers forty-three pas -e millions, and this t Wester number of of miles travelled exceeds has been performed without fatal accident to a single passenger -,Bath Herald. 'rued four horse coach, A new and well- p is the only coach on this route don:to Cheltenham. rh : he rail," and it and the Defiance calThtl just 81DB.eieP,a:Istarted on the road from Lon. which altogether avoids are, Benson, to Oxford. we believe, the only t wo t that now pass ria Henley and Hfs HANDs _ FULL. —A man is supposed to b e tolerably well occupied when he has a wife on On e arm a baby o n the other , car ryin g a basket and aeane in hi s hands a cigar in his mouth, and a ho p eful Heir holding on to th e s k irts of Ins coat. DEATH OF AIR. COOKE OF LU DL OW..--.. Cooke, landlord of the Angel Inn, Ludlow, was so horror stricke n with the attempt on the life Of Mr. Vv. Maekreth, by Josiah Mister, which occurred in his house, that in a few weeks after the event he was d e prived of Lis reason, and sent to a lunatic asylum. As his last hours approached, his reason was fully re stored, and he was, enabled rationally to supplicate the mercy of his Saviour.—Staffordshire Examiner. THE CROPS.—The wheats are growing beauti— fully, and are very forward. Some of them last week begin to acquire a tint of yellow, but the last few Warns days have so greatly revived them, as to excite hopes of an abundant har vest. Lent corn of all descriptions never looked better, and the green crops are heavier than they have been for several years. The grass land is equally luxuriant; indeed, the hay crops may be said to cover their respective patches of country as closely as a fleece.—Maidstone Gazette. The contract for conveying out the Brastbaza mails has beers taken, we learn, by a firm at Bristol. It is in tended that the steamers shall run to and from the Brazils front Lisbon, to which port the bags and the passengers will be con• veyed by the Peninsular steam-boats. We are authorised to state, that in consequence of the excitement which at present prevails in the country. the Installation of his Grace the Duke of Northumberland, as Chancellor of this University, has been postponed until nett year.— Cambridge Chronicle. Lord Brougham is expected in town next, week; g Ol till an'' bee:, 4 1 - 01 'psi/ n