The Sun. — London, England, 1841-08-31 00:00:00

MO RNI NG SUN It is not only the expense to Society, b ut the moral destruction of the men, and their unfortunat e , and from thenceforth mi sera bl e , wives and families. From that time, too, the bereaved wife may be shut up in a new union, if she cannot drag up her helpless children, though able to maintain herself—in this way women are constantly the victims of bad laws, and of the temptations of dis tress and misery into which they are plunged by the im pris6nmenti and transportation of their fathers, hus bands, and sons. " A FREE-TRADE MISSIONARY FROM THE UNITED STATES.—An address was delivered on Tuesday even ing to the me m b ers o f t h e M anchester Anti-Corn-law Association, by J. C urt i s, E sq., of Ohio, North America, upon the capabilities of that country to supply us with corn and provisions, lie stated that he was authorised by the public voice in the United States to state that nothing was more desired by his countrymen than to exchange their agricultural produce for the manufactures of Eng land. Be was listened to with great interest whilst he went into a great variety of facts, showing the rich re sources of the 'great west,' and at the close of his ad dress a vote of thanks w as unan i mous l y tendered to him by the meeting. We understand Mr. Curtis intends to make a tour through the principal towns of the kingdom for the purpose of explainin g the capabilitie s o f t h e United Stat es • t o supp l y the deficiency of food for our population"—Anti-Bread -tax Circular. Can any economist doubt that if our aristocratic legis lators prJrmitted our brethren in America to pa; the im mense sums they owe us by their flour, that our mer chants would have been paid their debts, and our work .men kept in employ ? Now, mark how these gew-gaw titles seduce those who -once were generous, and in some degree disposed to equal rights and equal laws : " We hear it rumoured that Sir Francis Burdett is at _Drayton Manor, fishing for a Peerage."—Sun. This plague spirit runs away with every thing that is :generous and noble in men's nature. It is not alone the renegades and the demented whom the law of primogeni ,ture, and the folly of hereditary titles seduce from the mobility of nature, and convert into subservient cringing idlers ; but those who have been great and useful, when they get dry and shrivelled, are made Lords, and become the parents of idle and useless men and women, despising work and promoting corruption and patronage, that they may be placed or pensioned upon society. The suppres sive effects of hereditary titles are more injurious than the positive, and they are blighting and destroying. It ia the black jaundice of the body social. THE STORM.—The thunder-storm of Saturday last raged violently throughout the Potteries. The electrie fluid struck a building at Hanley and did some injury, scorch ing a chileehair. At Burslem a large tree was struck, which presents a shattered appearance. Several little injuries were also sustained in various parts of the Potteries, but we are happy to hear of none of a serious nature.—Stafford Gazette. ‘7-1. Among t numerous interesting facts recorded in the ceilieila - urns for Scotland, the following affecting case - appea.F.suodekt e head of the parish of Kirkpatrick, Iron Grey, ir kendbright :—" Slcpt in a barn, a soldier's .. , - - -Az.-I, 3su l ow of a. bland regiment, whose husband and ten sons - falaiad '0 ILLUSTRATIONS OF ARISTOCRA TIC LAW-MAKING. " The cause of the general distress will be found in the selfishness and misgovernment springing from the great mon ster evil, the monopoly of legislation." Nonconformist, No. XVIII. We select from the daily papers, immediately suc ceeding our remarks upon the aristocratic principle, the following illustrations of the misery flowing from the system of hereditary legislation—the germ of all mono polies, and the well spring of selfishness : " At the Guildhall yesterday, no less than four indi viduals were brought before Mr. Alderman Kelly, who committed offences for the mere purpose of gaining the temporary shelter of a station house, and the chance of a crust of bread. Crime, therefore, is better off in Eng• land than poverty. To be entitled to protection, shelter, and food, a man must be a criminal. Such a fact, though there were only one in a year, instead of crowding upon us four in a day, would be an unerring indication that our legislation requires revision. " The process of debasement and degradation seems to be this ; scarcity of employment and scarcity of food, as they are felt in class after class, make one class press down on the other, and squeeze out the lowest to utter destitution. Amongst the humble classes there is a great deal of charity ; they help each other ; but when all find it difficult to live, they are obliged to deny succour to the most distressed, who are driven to commit offences that they may drag out their miserable existence a few days or weeks longer. We are much afraid that the misery which thus forces itself into public notice, bears only a very small proportion to that which hides itself, and perishes in obscurity. We are much afraid, too, that reckless despair instead of blithe and careful hope, is becoming, from continual disappointment, the preva lent disposition of our people ; and that those who deny them bread and a fair field for their exertions, will have to answer, not only for starving many out of existence, but for the moral debasement of all."—Sun, Aug. 12. The people are fast getting to know that forcible re sistance to the law is absurd, for the aristocracy have provided, and can provide against this—they can starve a sufficient number of the poor into ignorance and en listment as seidiers, and arm them to keep down the rest, and make them pay the instruments. Whilst the mass are foolish enough to be incited to force and rebellion, and the aristocracy can vote themselves secret service money, they will never want for spies to incite the igno rant, and gibbet them as terrible examples at once of folly, fraud, a:id bitterness. Both sections, too have con curred in (Silling and organizing a police soldiery that could be made more effectual for both purposes. If they would win equal laws the people must not resort to vio lence. If the practice of seeking a prison instead of the union should generally obtain among the starving and roofless that they may obtain food and shelter, the aristo cracy will find it a more difficult thing to deal with than an outbreak of physical violence. Two men were tried during the present assizes for kill ing a sheep, not with any felonious intent, but that they might be transported—the aristocracy having most benevolently enacted that the act, irrespective of the motive, shall be so punished ; and these poor wretches, desiring to be sent out of this happy country, gave in formation against themselves, that they might avail them selves of the wretched provisions of this blind law, made by the " Corinthian pillars of polished society." It is not only blind, but merciless, for the Judge said he had no discretion. Would such a law, with such a punishment, exist if poor men were represented in Parliament? Thus society is suffering the natural consequence of converting 'the new union-houses into a prison, and of evading the claims of the wretched upon technical points, whilst the poor grow desperate from want of food, clothing, and shelter. There is now, we fear, but little difference be tween the two shelters, except that relief is secured at once in the one case, and is protracted in the other. By this absurd law our wretched poor have now the power to compel the country to pay the expense of their emi gration to a place where they may be better off, and can not be worse. We proceed with our extracts:— " CAUFZ AND EFFECT.—The uneasy state of the public mind in Ireland, produced by the prospect or a Tory Government, has induced her Majesty's representa tive to recommend that an addition be made to the mili tary force in that country. We have, of late years, had the pleasure of reporting a reduction in the army sta tioned there. We have now the unpleasant duty of stating that a regiment of cavalry is ordered to proceed to Ireland forthwith, to be followed by two infantry re giments."—Sun. This is quite consistent with Lord John's intimation to the electors of London—which the Morning Chronicle called a state paper. In the outset of that pledge-myself-to-nothing docu ment, he volunteered this intimation to his Tory cousins : " It would be inconsistent with my notions of public duty to harass the Government of the day by vexatious opposition, still less to deny to the Crown the means bl maintaining the reputation of the country abroad, and in ternal quiet at home." Lord Ebrington, a pet Whig, is carrying out the hint, —if the section cannot give good measures, they can make the people submit to bad ones. The passage, being translated, means, "It would be inconsistent with my notions of duty to my order to deny to the order' the means of compelling the people to submit to laws in volving their starvation." Read again the paragraph—he falsely assumes that some one had asked him to harass the Government by a vexatious opposition, and to deny to the Queen the means of maintaining the reputation and peace of the country. Men resort to false assumptions to veil dishonest or indi rect purposes —his purpose was to tell the people that he considered the interests of his " order" more important than theirs ; and that though he was going out protest ing in words against the prohibition-of-food laws, he meant that the Tories should have the soldiery to com pel them to submit to those laws. He well knew there was no other cause for apprehension at home, and that the Crown was never more popular. Contrast the Queen's present visiting tour with the apprehension as to the late King's visiting the citizens. We do not object to the purpose, but we point out the anxious and unnecessary volunteering of the information, to show that the love of " the order" is paramount to the love of the country ; that is, as we use the word, of the interests of the people. With the aristocracy it is the class first, and then the people ; but the class at all events—it must be so whilst we have privileged classes irrespective of living merit. We proceed with our illustrations of the effects of aristocratic selfishness and its spirit : "GAME PRESERVES.—The extent to which the system of game-preserving is carried is almost incredible ; for not alone in the ranks of our proud and overbearing aristocracy are game-preservers to be found—the mania extends to tradesmen,—aye, to Liverpool tradesmen too, —and we are bound to say that the proceedings of the latter class are often characterised by a spirit of petty vindictiveness and spleen generally unknown amongst despots of a more elevated grade. We spoke of Lord Stanley preserving lands not his own ; the same remark will apply, in an equal degree, to the Earl of Sefton: The latter Nobleman commences with his preserves at Croxteth, and extends it through Kirby Simmonswood, Aintree, Sefton, Thornton (a township in which he scarcely 011138 an . acre of land), Altcar, to the sea—a space, as the crow flies, of some twelve miles in length, and averaging two miles in width. Lord Sefton should not put the county to expense for punishing tres passers on twenty-four square miles of land. Some years ago his lordship's keeper, Joseph Warner, of Altcar, was left for dead by some poachers, who were transported for the crime ; but the expenses of the prosecution were borne by the county. Within our recollection one of Lord Skelmersdale's keepers in Latham, was shot dead by a poacher, who was never taken. In Anglesea, the convict Chub now lies under sentence of death for the murder of a gamekeeper. We repeat, then, game pre servers should dip into their own pockets, and not into those of the public to pay for their w hims."--Liverpool Albion. THE SUN, LONDON. TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 184 _____ ............ MEETING OF DEPUTIES FROM meeting for the purpose of presenting their annual Report : THE JOINT-STOCK BANKS. To consider the propriety of a renewed application to her Majesty's Minist ers f ur an i m p rovement o f t h e laws ; The General Meeting o f D e p u ti es f rom th e Joint-Stock To consider, if th e Ministers s h ou ld re f use to i nterfere. Banks of England, Wales, an d I re l an d, was h e ld on F r id ay , at the British Coffee-ho use , C oc k s p ur - s t ree t, P a t r i c k M ax - whether it will n o t b e ex p e di en t f or t h e B anks to cause a Bill to be introduced i n t o P ar li amen t f or t h at purpose, and gener well Stewart, Esq., M.P., in the Chair, supported by Rob er t Scott, Esq., M.P. , Geo rge R enn i e , E s q., M. P., Si r Peter ally to adopt suc h measures as may b e d eemed of importance to Laurie, Joshua Walker, E s q., Th omas P r ic e , E sq ., an d a most the interests of J o i n t-St oc k B an k s . Upon these topics the Committee soli c it th e i nstruct i ons of respectable assembly of Deputies. the meeting, and they w ill now c l ose t h e i r R eport by giving a After the advertisement calling the meeti ng h a d b een rea d, m the , h account : the Chairman requested th e H on . S ecre t ar y t o rea d th e Report Ba state nc la ent in of e hand a ca s per statement, delivered at of the Comthe mittee o . Oliver Vile, Esq., the H on . Sec re t ar y, the last general meeting... .£9:24 3 5 .then d follwing REPORT. Paid : The Committee of Deputies r e-appoi n t e d a t th e G enera l Advertisements, newspapers, pamphlets, printing, &c £lB9 4 4 Meeting of Deputies from the J o i n t-St oc k B an k s , h e ld on the Solicitor's char ges ••• 55 0 4th June, 1840, transmitted a c i rcu l ar , un d er d a t e o f th e ith Room for general me e ti ng , P ar - September, through the m e diu m o f th e i r Ch a i rman , M r . Pa trick Maxwell Stewart, c o nt a i n i ng a s t a t emen t o f th e i r procee d - liamentary votes, post age , an d ings to that period. Th e y w ill now repor t th e procee di ngs petty expenses that have since occurred. The Committee, having been informed that the private bankers had obtained a return of the quarterly averages of their circulation, divided into separate counties, caused the following letter to be addressed to the chancellor of the Exchequer, re questing similar information on behalf of the Joint-Stock Banks:— • of a division in the Conservative ranks ; but what traces of division can there be detected in the speeches from the Conservative benches during the five days that have been passed in debate ? What sign of dis sension has there been exhibited on those benches ? Ur the ministerial side there was no doubt a rather undignifi(d fracas on Saturday, and we look for many such in the same party or parties, for they are now too weak to strengthei themselves by any Lichfield House compact of peace— but on the Conservative side all has been the most perfec' harmony. Sir Robert Peel's speech gives assuranc( that this harmony will be preserved undisturbed, because, fairly engaging with all the topics upon which ii is possible that Conservatives could ever disagree ; the Right Hon. Baronet has pointed out a course with reference to each topic that must render dis agreement impossible. That course is the Conser vative course—the course of policy that defends all inte rests and all institutions necessary to the national wel fare, but does not d e f en d the m , if we may so mis apply the word, by perpetuating their weaknesses. COURIER.—We have, on several occasions, stated our views of the prevailing causes of the present state of depression in the cotton manufacturing districts, which, on the evidence of facts scarcely to be mistaken by any man of common understanding and common honesty, however under the influence 'of party passions and mercenary motives grossly misrepresented or pur posely kept out of sight in the virulent harangues destined. much more for the exasperation than the in struction of the multitude, was conclusively shown to be almost wholly referable to the extravagant indulgence of a spirit of over-trading and over-banking mono poly among the manufacturers themselves, fed for years together by a congenial greeting of money making and speculative prodigality in the United States and elsewhere. These potents truths, which Mr. Alderman Cobden, who seems to have aspired like another Anarcharsis Clootz, to be the. " orator of the human race," was careful to conceal from his Manchester, Liverpool, Bolton, or Stockport assemblages of the working classes, he found it not so easy to shirk in an assembly like the House of Com mons, where vulgar declamation so soon find its level, and so the Hon. Member was heard thus to characterise the causes ofindustrial distress:—"What was the cause of their (manufactures) elevation from that prostration to which the country had fallen in 1830 ? It was clearly not a natural legitimate trade which then sprung up. From 1831 to 1836 the increase of our exports com pared with our imports, amounted to .20,000,0001., offi cial value. But all these goods were sent to America, where they were neither sold nor consumed, but de spatched in exchange for bank and railway shares, and state bonds. That was not legitimate trade ; it was over speculation ; the goods were not paid for. It should be borne in mind, too, that from the period of 1831 till 1836, there was an extension of the bank ing system in this country, increasing the number of banks by nearly 100, and extending their capital by nearly 60,000,C0C1 . The increase of the export and home trade thus facetiousl3 created, accompanied with the fortuitous. series of unexampled harvests, created a state of prosperity which enabled the Government of the day to move tranquilly on in carrying the Reform Bill and amending the Poor-law ; but it was a fictitious pros perity." Now, however, that the worthy Alderman find it politically more convenient to deal with facts than fic tion, he must needs fall into the same vice of exagge rating the truth as formerly when embellishing the crest , tions of fancy. .MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. CHRONICLE.—Foreign corn is now subject t) a duty of 13s. Bd., the average of the six weeks being 695. 6d. The object of the speculators is to maintain the present price, and to do so they will sell nothing but the best wheat, and keep back inferior qualities. This operation will continue until they get the general averages up to 725., when the duty will be only 2s. Sd. The probability is, that the whole foreign corn in bond, equal to about 1,000,0600 t quarter:, will then be entered for home consumption. That object once accomplished, the plan of operations will immediately change, and they, the inferior samples only will be exposed in the markets to bring down the'averages and raise the duty. The corn now in bond is chiefly, if not entirely, of last year's crop. The cargoes from the Continent of the yield of the present year have yet to come, and chiefly to be paid for. After the stock now in bond is li berated, it will be the policy of the holders to prevent new sup plies from abroad being brought into competition with themiin the home market: Hence we see how precarious the position of the future importers must be vi ho are not in the secrets of the trade, for by the time their cargoes are delivered in ware houses the aVerges' may have been so managed as to raise the duties again to a comparatively high price. Every person must admit that this trade is nothing more or less than a downright gambling, alike injurious to the revenue, as well as to the home-growers and the consumers. POST.—The transactions in Mark-lane during the ensuing week are loiked forward to with much interest. Speculators must have greatly overdone themselves by their purchases in June and July, and a general break-down among them is thought to be inevitable. 7he enly question is with reference to the extent of the mischief to be apprehended, and the precise period at which it will occur. A fall of a very decided cha racter in the value of wheat is expected, and it is to be hoped, for the sake of the consumer, who is obliged to pay so need lessly high a price for his bread, that this expectation will not be disappointed. The enormous rates established by the factors are notoriously founded more on a speculative opinion, with regard to the sufficiency of the home crops, than upon an actual deficiency in the supply. TIMES.—The accounts from Manchester state that another meeting of the creditors of the banking firm of Messrs. Dain try, Ryle, and Co., took place on Tuesday last, at which transpired some particulars connected with the stoppage. Ac cording to the statement of Mr. R} le, the party who was ex amined concerning the affairs of the establishment, it appears he had been desirous of bringing them into a soars of liquida tion even as far back as the year 1836, and would then have taken the necessary steps, had not the mismanagement of one of the other partners intervened and prevented it; and he says that in the year 1839 he waited upon Messrs. Whitmore and Co. in London, with the view of then arranging the affairs of the bank, and, although they wished for a reduction of the large balance that was then due to them, they did not enter into the business with him in such a manner as led him to believe that they would assist him in carrying out the plan by which he proposed to wind up. And now comes the sequel. As late as the 20th of June last he again waited upon them, and stated that he thought the debts of the bank were brought within such a compass, that if they would assist they might even now settle affairs. They stated that if he could do it by himself, they could have no objection, but they were not in a position to ad vance anything to effect it. He returned home, and then se ceived a letter stating that they would be compelled to stop the next day, which was the case. It therefore appears that these establishments have been in difficulties many years, and that they carried on business as long as it was possible for them to hold out. No financial statement of the relative amount of liabilities and assets was exhibited, as the bankrupts were not prepared with their balance sheets. On this occasion 72,6941. was proved, making a total of 288,4941., including the sum proved at the first meeting. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, AUG. 2S.—The vacant Regius Frofessnr ship of Modern History has been conferred on the Rev. Dr. Arnold, Master of Rugby School, and late Fellow of Oriel College. • Earl Fortescue has presented the Rev. M. F. Hewson to the living of Clonfinist, Ireland. The Lord Bishop of Hereford has presented the Rev. Thomas Hutchinson to the perpetual curacy of Kimbol ton-with-Middleton, in the county of Hereford. At an election held on Tuesday last, at Queen's Col lege, James Meyrick was chosen and admitted a Fellow of that Society on the Michael Foundation ; and Henry B. Barry wae elected a Scholar on the same foundation of that College. The Prebend or Canonry of Chardstock, in the Ca thedral Church of Sarum, has been conferred by the Lord Bishop of Salisbury on the Rev. C. A. Harris, late Fellow of All Souls College, vacant by the death of the Rev. Dr. Woodstock, late Canon of Christ Church. The Rev. Charles M. Mount, late Fellow of Corpus Christi College, has been appointed by the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells to be the Rural Dean of the Deanery of Bath. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, 27th Nov., 1840. (To the Chancellor of the Exchequer.) Sir—On the part of the Committee of Deputies from the Joint-Stock Banks, I beg you to favour me with permission to obtain from the Stamp-office the quarterly averages of the Joint-Stock Bank notes in circulation, distinguishing the amounts in circulation in the respective counties. The object of the Committee is to trace the effects of agricultural, manu facturing, and mining operations upon the circulation of coun try notes, and to show that the amounts in circulation are go verned by local causes, over which the banks have no control, and which are beyond the influence of the foreign exchanges. 1 have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient Servant, OLIVER VILE, Hon. Sec. And to Which application the following reply was received : Downing-street, 28th November, 1840. Sir—ln answer to your application on the part of the Com mittee of Deputies from the Joint-Stock Banks, that I should give permission to the Stamp-office to furnish them with the quarterly averages of the Joint-Stock Bank notes in circula tion, distinguishing the amounts in circulation in the countries, I beg to state that I apprehend the Chairman of the Board of Stamps, who receives those returns confidentially, will not con sider himself justified in giving such information without an express direction from the Government, and that I am not prepared to give such direction, considering that returns made as confiden:ial should not be made in any way public except for the information of the Legislature or Committees appointed by the two House of Parliament. I beg you will express my regret to the Committee that I cannot comply with the request made by them. 'Your obedient servant, Oliver Vile, Esq. F. BARING. At the commencement of the last Session of Parliament the Committee again solicited the attention of her Majesty's Minis ters to the imperfections of the law as regards Banking Com panies consisting of more than six persons, and on the 16th February directed the following application to be made to the Chancellor of the Exchequer:— Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, Feb. 16, 1841. (The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer.) Sir—The Committee of Deputies from the Joint-Stock Banks had the honour of communicating with you in the last Session of Parliament upon the defective state of the law with reference to such banks, and they have to acknowledge your courtesy in procuring the continuation of the Act which autho rized the Joint-Stock Banks to sue their own Shareholders civilly, and in adding a clause which enabled such banks to sue their Shareholders criminally. Other defects in the law have recently been brought before the notice of the public, both in England and Ireland. In England it has been decided that a creditor of a Joint- Stock Bank who has obtained judgment against the public officer cannot issue execution against a Shareholder without taking further proceedings in open Court, and it seems desir able that the Legislature should prescribe some process which should give a speedy remedy to the creditors, without being oppressive to the individual Shareholders. In Ireland it has been decided that the Act commonly called the Bankers' Act (33d Geo. 11., cap. 14) is still in force with regard to the Shareholders in Joint-Stock Banks, a decision which, if main tained, will have the most injurious influence upon the value of property in that country. Besides these defects, which have been the subject of legal proceeding, there are other defects, the principal of which were enumerated in a letter addressed by the Committee of Depu ties to Lord Melbourne, on the 30th January, 1839, a copy of which is enclosed. Had the suggestions of the Committee of Deputies at that period been embodied in a legislative enactment, the evils which have since been exprienced could not have occurred. The Committee, therefore, most respectfully request that you will have the goodness to take measures for obtaining from the Legislature a general amendment of the law with regard to Banking Companies consisting of more than six partners. • In the interview with which you honoured the Committee of Deputies last Session, you stated that you doubted whether you could attempt any alteration of the law with regard to Joint-Stock Banks during the existence of the Committee of the House of Commons upon Banks of Issue. But the Chair man ofthat Committee has stated that the Committee will con fine its investigations to the issue of nolee and will in no way inquire into the law of partnership, and, indeed, it seems obvi ous that whatever may be the decision of that Committee with regard to the circulation of notes, it will in no way remove those defects of which the Joint-Stock Banks complain. These defects are felt as severely by those Banks that do not issue notes as by those that do. The Committee of Deputies most respectfully submit these matters to your consideration, and they solicit that you will have the kindness to grant them an interview, to give them the opportunity of stating more in detail the injurious opera tion of those defects in the law to which they have referred. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient servant, OLIVER VILE, Hon. Secretary. To this letter no reply has been received, nor has any Act been passed to remedy the serious evils which result from the continuance of the Act 33 Geo. H., cap. 14, as regardsbank ing in Ireland : but it having been found that the enactment correcting in England the clergy disqualification which affected Joint-Stock Banks, did not extend to Ireland, the Act 4 Vic., cap. 14, was passed on the 18th May last, whereby the law in both countries on this point is now assimilated. The Deputies present at the last general meeting approved of the nomination of Mr. Stuckey and Mr. Gilbart to be ex amined by the Parliamentary Committee on behalf of the Joint- Stock Banks, and requested the Committee to exercise their own judgment in selecting such additional witnessess as might be deemed expedient. The Committee, having had this subject under their mature deliberation, and being deeply impressed with the importance of affording every possible information to the Parliamentary Committee, resolved to present for examination other persons connected with various parts of the country, who, from prac tical experience, were enabled to give the most conclusive evidence, and to place unreservedly before the Parliamentary Committee the working of Joint-Stock Banks throughout the kingdom. The Committee, therefore, requested Mr. Daniel Robertson, Manager of the National Provincial Bank of England ; Mr. Barnes. Manager of the City and County Bank, York ; Mr. Hill, Manager of the Staffordshire and Wolverhampton Bank ing Company; Mr. Wilson, General Manager of the Wilts and Dorset Bank; Mr. Bates, General Manager of the West of England and South Wales Bank, to attend as witnesses when ever the Parliamentary Committee would receive their evi dence; and, to accomplish this object, the Committee directed the following letter to he addressed to Charles Wood, Esq., M.P., the Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee : Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, 17th February, 1841. Sir—During the last session of Parliament the Committee of Deputies from the Joint-Stock Banks had the honour of re questing that Mr. Stuckey and Mr. Gilbart should be exa mined on their behalf before the Committee of the House of Commons upon Banks of Issue. In consequence of that application it was understood that these gentlemen should he examined in the present session, after the examination of those witnesses that might be pro posed by the private bankers. The Committee of Deputies have now further to request that, after this examination of Mr. Stuckey and Mr. Gilbart, you will have the kindness to examine the following gentle men : Mr. Daniel Robertson, manager of the National Provincial Bank of England (London); Mr. Robert B arnes , manager of the City and County Bank, York ; Mr. Henry Hill, manager of the Staffordshire Banking Company, Woverhampton. The Committee of ;Deputies are desirous of producing wit nesses from several districts to show the practical evils that would result from one Bank of Issue. It is the intention of the Committee that all their witnesses should be practical ab rikers.—l have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient servant, C. Wood, Esq., M.P. OLIVER VILE, Hon. Sec. • , To this letter Mr. Wood sent the following answer, and con sequently the only persons examined on the part of the Joint- Stock Banks of England were Mr. Stuckey and Mr. Gilbart :- 86, Eaton-square, Feb. 18, 1840. Sir—l have had the honour of receiving your letter, sug gesting the names of three other gentlemen as witnesses to be examined before the Committee on Banks of issue. I hav e no d ou b t t h at these gentlemen might afford valuable information, but I am sure you svirt see there must be some limit to the number of witne—s examined, if we hope ever to 1 briqittilsethelabours of the C omm i ttee to a close. and I should h o anar.unt - of loc a l it witne_sses on the part of th e P r i vate an d Joint- Stock B ankers Ir. England, the S c ot c h B an k ers, B ank of Ire land, and I sieh Ban kers, we have work enoug h f or some time, efotrhat we may obt a i n f rom t h em a sufficient I will, however, bear r• , in mind the names of the gentlemen suggessed incase th e Committee should think it d nafi b u y r stage of proceeding their dcall for f a "sa ble, ence.the i you, Your most.o r b o e c d ien zgs, The Cerarai to urther Oli v er Vile, Esq. ttee have b een inforinSeidg evid amensi D r y a . a t e h d al the P c a . Parliamentary Committee examined Mr. Hobhouse and Mr. Rod well on the part of the private bankers ; Alr. Wilson, on the part of the Bank of Ireland; Mr. Robert Murray, of the Provincial Bank of Ireland, on the part of the Joint-Stock Banks of Ireland; and that - they also examined Mr. Paul Moon James manager of the Manchester and Salford Bank, and Mr. Wright, a i vete banker, from Nottingham. The t wo last-named wit nesses are connected with banks that issue notes of the Bank of England. • A general meeting of Deputies from the several banks in Scotland was heist at Edinburgh, on the 16th of A ril, and after adopting several resolutions approvi ng of the pre sent system of banking in that part of the kingdom, appointed a deputation, consisting of Mr. Anderson, of the Glasgow U n i on B an k ; M r . Findley, of the Glasg ow arid Ship Bank ; Mr. Kennedy, of the Ayrshire Bank ; Mr. ni ne. of the Dun'tee Bank ; Mr. Crosbic, of the National Bank o f Scotland ; .31r. Patterson, of the North of Scotl Ind Bana, Aberdeen, to proceed to London, to offer themselves for ex amination by the Parliamentary Committee, and to protect , the interests of the banks in Scotland. The Parliamentary Committee examined only two of these proposed witnesses—Afr. Anderson and Mr. Kennedy. During the stay of this deputation in London, several of your Committee were in frequent communication with the respec tire members, and your Committee have reason to hope that ' this friendly intercourse will tend to promote a spirit of union among the Joint-Stock Banks throughout the kingdom. The examination of witnesses from England. Scotland, and Ireland occupied the Committee during almost the whole of the last Session of Parliament. The only results th a t h ave b een ma d e pu b l i c are the presen- dune 'tation to the House of Commons of two reports. [ADVERTISEMENT ' The first report was confined to the object of making prevs- PERSONAL 0 LI • RNA A 1 ENT.—A itiesiiitss 5 interest sion for more frequent andrnore accurate returns of the average work m ight amount of promissory notes in circulation payable on demand, i log modes of personal embellishment and the amount of bullion in the Bank of England. practised among different na tions and the chapter devoted An Act (4 and 5 Vic., chap. 5) has passed through Parlia- I , . to the teeth could not but prove ono of the most ultras • ment for these purposes. • ein the volume. Among many savage The second Report is not at present printed for the use of nations the practice is well known to prevail of dying the teeth the public, but it is understood to apply only to the evidence i black, which is esteemed_ a high degree of ornament; while, on taken before the Parliamentary Committee, which is to be 1 the contrary, our British fair, relying on nature for their at printed therewith. tractions, seek only to preserve the charms which she has so , From th ese P ar li amentary Reports, and from other sources, bestoWed on them, a n d en d eavour simply to preserve the , your Committee a re l e d t o b e li eve t h at the project of establis h. - 1 white and pearly character of the teeth. Among the various ing one Bank of Issue for the whole kingdom is not likely to means suggested for this obje ct, we wouldselect the celebrated be carried into eff ec t. ' Odonto," prepared by Messrs. Rowland, of Hatton-garden, The Committee have deemed it expedient to call this genera as the most admirable and perfect dentifrice yet submitted to the public. TING TO CONSIDER THE CASE OF MR. M‘LEOD. A meeting of the Colonial Society was held yesterday at two o'clock, at the Ceonial Club House, St. James's-square, the Right Honourable the Earl of Mountcashel in the Chair ' ior the purp ose o f cons id er i ng certain resolutions -':nick had been some to by the North American Com mittee on the case of Mr. M'Leod. The resolutions, which were of a strong. character, stated that the Committee had forborne to interfere while there ever had been 4piti hiipe of M'Leod's release, but since the decision of the New York Courts to send him to trial had become known, they felt bound to protest against the unparalleled outrage to which Mr. M'Leod had been subjected, and that in the event of any further atrocity being committed against him, they trust her Majesty would direct all the energies of • her empire to the vindication of the national honour, as it was only by so doing that we could ensure the safety of the inhabitants of our vast Colonial po-sessions. These resolutions were all confirmed by the meeting, which was addressed by Sir D. M'Dougal, Mr. M. Martin, and seve ral other gentlemen. The attendance was by no moans ne merous. RAIL WAY RETURNS. We extract from the Railway Magazine the sums re ceived on the principal railways of Great Britain for the week ending on the day of the month prefixed to each. The return applies only to railways with a revenue ex ceeding 1,000/., and includes the money received for pas sengers, parcels, carriages, horses, mails, and merchan dize Aug. 21. Birmingham and Derby 20. Birmingham and Gloucester 22. 'Eastern Counties 21. Glasgow and Ayr 1,622 21. Paisley and Greenock 14. Grand Junction and Chester and Crewe 10,268 23. Great North of England 1,486 22. Great Western 21. Hull and Selby 1,027 20. Liverpool and Manchester 21. London and Birmingham 18077 2G. Lond on an d Bl ac k wall 1,221 26. London and Brighton ' LB4B 24. London and Croydon 11. London and South-Western 6,762 6. Manchester and Leeds 1. Midl an d C ount i es 2,803 Newcastle and C ar li s l e 1,848 . North ern an d E astern 1,096 North Midl an d 4,851 North U n i on 1488 , York and N ort h Mi dland 1,822 18 15 3 - 213 4 7 Balance remaining, subject to some outstanding charges for printing, &c. ............ £7lO 18 10 EDWARD SMITH, Esq. a Director of the Sheffield Banking Company, moved the adoption of the first resolution. (For the resolutions see our advertising colu.i.ns.) He said the acts of the Committee had fully borne out the statements of the reso lution, and it was gratif) ing to the Joint-Stock Banks to know that their afftirs were under the constant attention of gentle men of first-rate talents, who, at the same ti me , rece i ve d no kind of comp ensa ti on . He was sure the operations of Joint- Stock-Banking in the country were not at all understood in London. The issues of country banks were regulated by the slate of trade in its district ; and were a Bank not to issue its own notes, they would hav e t o i ssue notes of the Think of England, or gold. And it was a fact that the inhabitants of the country districts preferred notes issued by banks with wham they were acquainted, to those issued by the Bank of England. If the state of trade demand ed an increase of the circulation it would be the height of folly for a Bank to say—we cannot issue notes because the fo reign exchanges are become unfavourable. The country cir culation could not be regulated by the foreign exchanges, but must be governed by those laws which regulated the trade of the respective localities. rHOMAS PRICE, Esq., in moving the second resolution, confirmed the statement of Mr. Smith, that the notes of local Joint-Stock Banks were preferred by the people( to the notes of the Bank of England. It was absurd to suppose that Banks could force out their circulation to an amount beyond what the wants of the district required. The CHAIRMAN, in putting this resolution, observed that he did not anticipate that the latter part of this resolution would ever be called into operation. It was his opinion that as soon as Parliament met for the dispatch of business, which, he believed, would not take place till after Christmas, the charters of the Bank of Ireland and of the Bank of England must come under the consideration of the Legislature, and then a general law relative to banking companies would be ob tained. No Government could refuse to entertain the subject. This resolution, however, would give the Committee the power and the means of fighting their own battles. Sir PETER LAURIE observed that, as the resolution referred to a letter that had been sent to Lord Melbourne, he was de sirous of hearing the letter read. It was accordingly read by the Secretary, when Sir Peter Laurie said that he approved of every word of it. ROBERT SCOTT, Esq., M.P., suggested that if the Commit. tee should be compelled to bring in a Bill of their own, he thought they should omit any reference to the charter of the Bank of Ireland, or to the acceptance of hills by the Joint- Stock Banks of London. It was observed, however, by several of the deputies, that if the Directors and' Managers of the London Banks were to fight the battles of 'the country banks, the country banks ought in return to fight the battles of the London banks. The CHAIRMAN did not imagine there would be any diffi culty in this case. In the renewal of the Bank of Ireland charter, proposed by Mr. Spring Rice, the right of accepting bills was conceded to the joint-stock bills of Dublin. In fart there could be no doubt that the Legislature intended the Joint-Stock Banks of London to have the right of accepting bills ; for the right of carrying on banking in London impelled the right of accepting bills, which was one means by which the business of banking was carried on. If the Committee introduced a bill, they would, of course, introduce such a bill as they wish to be carried, but it would be competent in the legislature to strike out whatever clauses they pleased, and the Committee would not abandon the whole bill because some of the clauses might be lost. JOSHUA WALKER, Esq., in proposing the fourth resolution, paid a handsome compliment to the gentlemen who were exa mined before the Parliamentary Committee; and Mr. SMITH, in seconding the motion, observed that to be examined by a committee of the House of Commons upon such a subject was a position in which, whatever talents he might possess, he should not liked to be placed. In reading the examina tion, he was strongly impressed with the idea that the ques tions were proposed merely with a view to embarrass the wit nesses. But no doubt this was a mistake. Of course the Hon. Members asked these questions merely to• increase their own information, and improve their own knowledge of the subject, and he hoped they would profit by the information they had received. Mr. GILBART, in returning thanks for the compliment, ob- ' served that Mr. Stuckey was absent in the country or he would have attended that meeting. The Committee before which they had been examined, instead of directing its inquiries into the conduct of the Bank of England in producing the pressures on the money market in 1836 and 1839, had become an instrument of attack upon the circulation of the country banks. The banks were thrown upon the defensive • but although it w as no t a very d es i rable position to. be called to answer any que s ti ons t h at m i ght be proposed by six-and twenty men who had previously studied the subject and picked out the most knotty questions to put to a witness, eet he did , not believe that th e cause o f t h e Joint. Stock Banks had suf-i fered in his ha n d s . All t h e w i tnesses examined last session were practical bankers, and he thought the evidence when it came out should be purchased by the Banks, and those Banks which had branches should purchase one for the manager of each branch, for the funds of a Bank could not be better employed than in purchasing the means of knowledge and information for those who were entrusted with the ad• ministration of its affairs. He thought, too, that managers I should read th e evidence with a pencil in their hands, and mark those passages which might be applicable to the local , affairs of their own bank, and get those extracts inserted in the local newspapers for the instruction of the inhabitants of the districts. The public press governed the country. and if we wished to influence public opinion in our favour it must be_by means of the public press. He should be ready at all , times, the interest eitherof the Joints- as a witne s Stock Banks or in any other capacity, t o p romote Mr. GEACH, in moving the fifth resolution, observed that as the resolution came into his hands it closed at the word " communication," but he thought it wss only an act of jus tice to lengthen it by the addition he had made. He had never known Mr. Vile until he had become connected with this association ; but the longer he had known him the more re spect he felt for the excellence of his character. His duties had been arduous, and he had performed them efficiently, ho nourably, and gratuitously, and he thought it was due to themselves that they should present him with some token of their respect. This resolution was seconded by Mr. HILL, and carried by acclamation. The CHAIRMAN observed that the sense of the meeting was so clearly shown that it was hardly necessary to put the reso lution. He had known Mr. Vile for a long time, and in darious capacities, and he was happy to say that in every respect in which he had had the opportunity of meeting Mr. Vile he could not discover anything about him that was vile but his name. Mr. VILE, in returning thanks, observed that he should have felt himself amply compensated for his exertions by the resole. tion as it originally stood, but the munificent addition which had been made to it deserved his most grateful acknowledg ments. He had undertaken the office of Honorary Secretary from a desire of promoting the interests of the Joint-stock Banks, and, although the duties had been in some cases ardu ous, he had considered that he was discharging a public duty. He should preserve the testimony of regard which the meeting had voted him as a memorial of the services he had been enabled to perform, and as a stimulus to any future exertions he might have the opportunity of making on behalf of the in terest of Joint-Stock Banking. The CHAIRMAN closed the meeting by acknowledging the rote of thanks which had been passed to him with acclamation. He said that, now he was again in Parliament, he should most zealously devote himself to the interests of the Joint-Stock Banks. In his youth he had seen the excellency of that sys tem of banking in Scotland. He wished to see that system, with all its excellencies, and none of its defects, extended throughout England. His had been the means of extending it, and he should certainly never desert it. Among all the im portant interests which demanded the attention of the Legisla ture, there was none more important than this, and none to which he should more zealously devote every energy he might possess. MEE" FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. CHRONICLE.—Out of evil cometh good. All men who, like Mr. Roebuck, are not very partial to the Whigs, but have no disposition to desert their principles, will have their dis satisfaction satisfied by the turning out of the Ministry, and their alarm roused by the coming in of the Tories. To these will be joined the Reformers who have been over-confident, and the Reformers who have been asleep. If an honest un derstanding prevails in the ranks of the Liberals, the majority of ninety-one will form a powerful bond of union. An oppo sition will be formed—not an " unscrupulous opposition," as that "forcible feeble" elr. Christmas, the present member for Waterford, Ventured to wheeze out ; but a national opposition, animated by a hearty and sincere spirit, and determihed, by all legitimate and constitutional means, either to drive Sir Robert Peel onwards, or to drive him out. Overwhelming, then, as is the Tory majority in the House of Commons, the ground of encouragement and of union for a national opposition is very strong. Sir Robert Peel is himself perfectly sensible of this. He feels keenly that his Goverument will be, what Mr. Hawes described it, a Government of " coalition and compromise." Lord Stanley and Sir James Graham did not dare to open their mouths in last week's debate. If such was their position before entering into office, what will it he when in it? They present points of attack for every opponent ; and scarcely a speech can be made without damage and disaster to them, and consequently to the Government of which they are to be mill hers. Not only will the future Government be one of coali tion and compromise ; it will also be one of disunion. TlMES.—However reasonable it may appear, from the division which took place between two and three o'clock on Saturday morning, from the non-attendance of Ministers at the debate of Saturday neon, and from the visit pa d by Lord Melbourne to her Majesty in the post-meridian of the same eventful Saturday, that the Whigs have by this time expressly surrendered their offices, we are unable to lay before our readers any positivs assurance that the fact has actually taken place. In ail probability, however, it will be announced this afternoon by Lcrd Melbourne and Lord John Russell 'to their respective Houses that they hold their situations only till their successors shall be appointed. Whether they have expressly resigned or not, can be material only in one point of view. Virtually, they are defunct ; but until their formal res;gnation shall have been actually given in, there is stili a danger of some malversation in the shape of patronage —some jobbing to make vacancies for friends —some new batch of Baronets, or, it may be, of Peers. Beware of the spent ball. A thousand speculations are afloat as to the formatit n of the new Government. One thing only is clear, that Sir Robert Peel, whether sent for in the first instance or not, must be its actual practical head,and must decide upon the dis tribution of offices to be submitted to her Majesty. But of the details of that distribution nothing is, and nothing can be, known. The same decorum and the same caution which have restrained him from specifying his measures, will of course re strain him from specifying his men. lie may contemplate the offer of office to some who may decline it altogether, or who may desire some different post from that proposed to them, or who, by possioiltty, may be unacceptable to her Majesty. He may wish for the assistance of some to whom, nevi rtheless, he can propose the positions intended for them only in case cer tain other influential claimants can be otherwise satisfied. To have disclosed his intentions beforehand would, therefore, have exposed him to all sorts of dif f iculties, would hare wounded the self-love of some candidates, would have given to others a clue for counteracting his arrangements, and, above all, would have had an air of assumption with reference to the Queen's choice which his enemies would have been sure to represent as disrespectful. HERALD.—To the general views on the subject of the Corn-laws, expressed by Sir Robert Peel in his most impres sive address on F r id ay n i g h t, we subscribe ; and for this simple reason, they are based on the principle of adequate protection being given to that section of the community which excels all others in the magnitude of the population and property belong ing to it. All that we demand is a Corn-law which will fully convey such protection, whilst it removes every unreasonable obstacle to the easy importation of that amount of foreign corn which the deficiency of the harvest and the badness of seasons, may render absolutely necessary. We shall, however, continue to offer a most uncompromising op. position to any amendment of the present law which shall realize the ends sought either by the manufacturers, or Earl Spencer,—the lowering of wages at home, or the raising of wages abroad. With Sir Robert Peel we ad vocate a graduated scale of duties in preference to a fixed tax ; because either the amount of the latter must be so low as not to convey protection to British agriculture, or so high as to be intolerable when importations of foreign grain are indis pensable. Besides, we repudiate the making a prime neces sary of life a permanent source of revenue, as leading to greater irritation and exacerbation of public feeling, and to more flagrant misrepresentations than even now exist as to causes of distress and industrial suffering. A fixed duty would be perfectly unbearable in years of scarcity, and its imposition is therefore only a long stride to a perfectly free trade in corn, and a complete dependence for food on foreign countries. It is impossible to name a fixed duty which is not obnoxious to one of these insuperable objections. ADVERTISER.—So long as the people only suffered from the defective and corrupt consitution of the representative body, so long have the Whigs pertinaciously adhered to the positions, —that the Reform Act should be regarded as a fi na l measure, and that orga n i c c h ange s h ou ld be deprecated as something equivalent to, if not worse than, revolution. Now, however, that the Whigs themselves have been expelled from office by the same perversion of the representation which had long kept the people excluded from their just rights, the late sticklers for finality may view from the opposition side of the House the Reform Act and organic change in a light far different from what they did when seated on the Treasury Benches. In ex pressing their hostility to a further Reform of the House of Commons, and delaying to bring forward measures for extend ing and protecting the franchise, the Whigs—as we at the time warned them, in frank but friendly terms—became acces sories to an act of political suicide, which the recent decisions of the Houses of Parliament have completed, and upon which the inquest of public opinion can pronounce no other verdict than that of fdo de se. That they foresaw the consequence in which their anti-progressive policy must have resulted, was evidenced by their fitful indications of a more liberal course of action ; but these virtuous intentions—the evidence of a suicide pausing in the act of self-destruction— always failed, from the absence of that moral courage neces sary to subdue their aristocratic predilections, to brave the reproaches of their class, and votantarily and boldly to take that position to which they are now driven, by the decision of profligate, corrupt, and despotic majorities an both Houses of Parliament. By a just retribution, Ministers have fallen by the same hands which they refused to deprive of the power of mischief whilst employed only in the spoliation of the people. It is true it was not the same House of Commons, but it was a House of Commons elected under auspices similarly and more excessively corrupt, that rejected almost all measures even ap proaching to practical and efficient reform, and declared their want of confidence in the Cabinet now in articulo mortis. POST.—The speech delivered on behalf of his party by Lord John Russell on Friday night, will naturally be read with great interest throughout the country. We are happy to be able to afford it the !praise of being more temperate, more business-like, and less disingenuous, than the speeches of the Noble Lord generally are. In every respect it was much more worthy of a leading Statesman than was the written Address from Mine). We do not mean to say anything peculiarly harsh or offensive to the Noble Lord, when we say that his speech was less disingenuous than usual. We do not believe that the Noble Lord,is a man indifferent to truth, but it seems to us that he has (perhaps unconsciously) adopted the habit ever since he became a leading Minister, of resorting to disin genuousness in his speeches,_ as if that wer e a part o f t h e legi timate artifice of Ministerial dtid Parliamentary leadership. If we did not feel fully convinced of this, and think that it was our duty to point out such a fault in a public man, we should cer tainly not advert to it merely for the sake of casting dis credit upon the Noble Lord, or of giving him annoyance, The Noble Lord has complained that the Conservative Opposition gave no sufficient reason for the vote of want of confidence which it proposed to the House. But presently afterwards the Noble Lord admitted that reasons had been given, first by the mover and seconder of the amendment, and then by Sir Robert Peel at the close of the discussion. Was not this enough ? The Noble Died says. however, that there was a great differenee anti discrepancy between the reasons given by Mr. Wortley, the mover of the amendment, and those given by Sir Robert Peel. Undoubtedly there was a difference, for, as the Noble Lord himself took notice, the reasons advanced by Mr. Wortley applied to the general conduct of the Govern. ment as the successors of the Government of Lord Grey; while the reasons advanced by Sir R. Peel applied to the pro • positions of the late Budget. tittt there etas no discrepancy in these rea-ons—no disagreement or contrariety. They were merely different reasons gathered from different portions of time. GLOBE.—Sir Robert Feel has succeeded, thus far, to a miracle in the gable he has played, and by mira culous means • for thispeWeitul eloquence that has been -usd in his behalf has been his own silence, while his abstaining from any declaration of what he shall do has given rise—we will not say with how much reason—to the hope that he will accomplish everything. He has up to this moment been wearing, in different eyes, the different hues of the camelion ; but he must now stand forward in his true colours, and declare the real complexion of his political principles. Some of the adherents pretend to find in his speech of Saturday morning the desired solution of the pro blem that has long divided the opinion of the public as to how Sir Robert meant to act ; and as the last scene of a melodrama generally brings to light a number of close relationships that have never been declared before, it is contended that the now no longer proximate Pre mier' when windin g u p hi s l ung and arduous part in The Siege of Downing-street, discovered unreservedly the nature of his relationship to all the subjects that have lately occupied the stage of politics. Bat we deny the fact ; and we affirm, that to us, at least, it is, as mysterious as ever what are the ties by which the man in the mask will for the future consider himself bound ; and though he declares himself wedded to the sliding scale, we are not sure that he does not sieritemplate running off from the present idol of affections as soon as circumstances may ren der such a trick practicable and expedient. Sir Robert has been wedded, before now, to so many objects which he has afterwards thought propee to put aside, that we shall not be astonished at his divorce from the slid ing scale, when he finds the connection likely to interfere with more desirable alliances. He has already given notice to the friends of the probable victim that he does not mean to be particularly tender in his future treatment, and has refused d'atrance the support of those who expect from him " the irrevocable mainte nance of the present Corn-law in all its details." We are told that this is " a candid and manly avowal," " leaving no sort of doubt" upon what his policy will be with regard to the matter to which it refers ; but we take leave to say that he must be an CEdiptis indeed who can divine from the above expression what will be the course of the new Minister. STANDARD.—Short as has been the experience of the first decidedly Conservative House of Commons elected under the Reform Bill, its conduct presents a striking contrast to the conduct of its predecessors of the last nine years. First, the unanimous election of a Whig speaker upon principles of justice and constitutional duty. Secondly, the adoption, by a majority of 91, of en Amendment more loyal and respectful in tone than the Address for which it was substituted. Thirdly, the re jection of a revolutionary addition to the Address by a majorityco n ne e e m f eno t oless th t e han wo 2 r 4 k -t ing l o 'h f is a is pa a r n lia a m us e p n i t c:iot o is f which, since the election had determined its character, it was predicted that it would be violent, disloyal, and overbearing. If we pass from the acts of the House, which are, indeed, the acts of the majority, and for which, therefore, the majority, when it is great, must claim all the credit—if, we say, we pass from the acts of the House to the speeches of those by whom it has been led, we find exactly the same spirit of moderation and loy alty. The speech of Sir Robert Peel, who has been justly called by Messrs. Ward and Roebuck the repre sentative of the majority, does not excel the speeches of his friends in these characteristics, although it surpasses them in extent, depth, and eloquence. The Ministers and their organs of the press have been flattering themselves for months with the prespect The Lord Chancellor has presented the Rev. Henry Hardinge to the Rectory of Theberton, in the county of Suffolk. THE FAUBOURGS OF BRUSSELS A QUARTER OF A CENTO!Y AGO.- The embellishments and improve ments going on in tife dtY of Brussels within the last twenty five years, have been gairieo,.t must be confessed, at a sacrifice of the picturesque. During the wi;.r the fines views met our eye immediately after quitting the rtes of the city. At the period we speak of, f rom th e c it y to ..._",'aerbeek . church, a nearly continuous lin e o f h ouses h a d not yet b-:,`'ldln,o exist: ene.e. A few country-seats and cottages, scattere, ..,„„re ; and there, filled up the landscape, without spoiling it. After ..`ag ing the ramparts, the road to Mon Plaisir presented a mole charming country walk than is now to be met with at two or three miles distance. Outside the Louvain gate, the densely populated faubourg of St. Josse-ten-Noode consisted of little more than the High-street and the ponds of Etterbeck, at pre sent comparatively dried up, rivalled the most delightful parts of Boitsfort. Th o faubcurg beyond the Namur gate was limited to the angles of the rues des Minimes and de Belle-Vue : a few paces further, and you were completely in the country,— at the ponds of Lxclles, or at the wood of La Cambre, which then extended to upwards of 500 yards on the city side of the Mendicity Depor. The faubourg, de St. Gilles was termi nated at the church and the wood called " The Forest," the last vestige of which has been purchased by a merchant anti converted into a delightful park. On either side, too, of the Alice- Verte were pleasant views; but now a street runs parallel with this fashionable promenade, and houses and shops inter cept our passage to the old chaus3ee de Laeken. While calling to mind what once was, let us not be understood to complain of what now is ; our only object being to invite the attention of the Brussels magistrates to the necessity of think ing a leetk about preserving or restoring to Brussels a portion of that picturesque scenery which has been, perhaps, too heedlessly sacrificed. It does seem as if the magistracy had not sufficiently borne in mind in how great a degree foreigners, and especially our own countrymen, have been attracted hither by the pleasant walks and drives around this capital. If we might be allowed to 0176 . : an opinion upon the matter, we would say that, previously to the coin:action of the buildings now erecting along the boulevards du Midi, (los Abet- toirs, Barthelemy, and de l'Entropont, it would be well for the municipal authorities—if they have left themselves the power— to stipulate with the owners of houses that a garden should he planted before each mansion. A like condition was made com pulsory, a few years ago, on every purchaser of land for build ing on the boulevard d u R egent; t h e same obligation might le again enforced in the ease of the streets erecting on the boule vard des Abettors. It is reasonable to believe if the land in the neighbourhood of the north station, as well as the quarters Leopold and Louise, were laid out as parks and pleasure grounds, the measure would have the effect of inducing an influx of respectable and wealthy families to the metropolis of Belgium, and he no inefficient substitute for the rural rides and walks which have been curtailed of their fair proportion. This above all—let not the threatened uprooting of the Botanic Garden, and the destruction of its hot-houses, take place as a sacrifice to the building mania of the day. Before quitting the subject, we trust that too great liberties will not be taken with the view from the rue Royale, behind the statue of General Belliard. Brussels Gazette. A circular order has just been issued by the Board of Admiralty, directing that all ships and vessels are in future to be fitted with wire-rope lightning conductors, on Mr. Edey's plan, which will not cost one-twelfth the expense of Mr. Snow Harris's. 011 the special application of the Cap tain, the latter may be fitted, should their Lordships approve of it.—Naval and Military Gazette. '• , COBBETT AND PEEL. The following is an extract from a little work by the late William Cobbett. It was addressed to the Tory Premier of 1834-5, and will apply equally to him in 1841. Truth is un changeable : " You and your party have always seemed to take it for granted, that the Reform of the House of Commons might have been avoided; that is proceeded from the ambition, the greediness, the love of power, and of pelf in the Whigs ; and that it was the Whigs who made the Reform of the Parlia ment, and who deluded the people into an expectation that Reform would do them a great deal of good. " This, Sir, was a capital error, and it has misled you all the way through. You are very fund of talking of the ' intelli gence' and property' of the country. With regard to the former, if you mean information and knowledge with regard to civil and political rights, and with regard to the true interests of the kingdom, the great possessors of this intelligence are to be found amongst those who live by their labour; and r verily believe that I could name a hundred weavers and mechanic's of the borough of OLDIIA 31, who possess a greater portion of this knowledge, and who are more capable of a profitable application of it than any hundred merchants of the city of London ; or than any hundred of those who are called country gentlemen, the whole of whom have been too stupid to learn anything; because too stupid to listen to any thing which militated against their own views, which have tithe; been sordid in the extreme, or the effect of mere animal pride. It was the people, the whole body of the people. that demanded and enforced the adoption of reform ; and, if the making of the reform had fallen into the hands of men who thought with the people on the subject, we should now have had a tranquil and most prosperous country, instead of being haunted by the fears of a convulsive revolution, and the fulfilment of all my prophecies, even to their most terrific extent; " Was it the despicable Whigs that produced . the Parlia mentary reform? What! it was they, was it, who caused the thousands of petitions, and the meetings all over the country, after WILLIAM the Fourth came to the throne? It was they who really threw the country into half a convulsion, by meet ingskind petitions for reform ? It was they who made the DUKE of WELLINGTON bolt out that silly speech upon the meet ing of Parliament, on the 26th of October, 18-31 ; it was they who created that indignation against him which compelled the King, out of humanity to the people of London, to rescind his engagement to dine with his citizens there on the Lord Mayor's day ! The DUKE is famous for shooting his bolt. He ap pears to think himself always in a camp. His uncalled-for observation, that county meetings were a farce,' has been flung in the teeth of his son, at meetings of the county,' in which lies the estate granted him by Parlia ment, and which estate was, in my opinion, most unjustly granted. Next came his equally uncalled-fur, and most insult ing declaration, that a House of Commons, with a major:ty in it noesinated by Peers, by rich Commoners, and by the Trea sury, was the best of all possible representatives of the people; and that, if he had to form a House of Commons. he wou!d come as near to it as possible, though he could nut expect to form any thing so perfectly good. Next, we had his gratui tous support of the Dead-Body Bill ; and now, at last, we have his voluntary, uncalled-for, support of the Poor-law Bill, and his question to MELnoiniNE whether it was his intention to introduce a rural police ; and we have your votes for the Poor law Bill, and your well-known predilection for the Bourbon like police. Marplots all the way through; apd you come to the peformance of your great and prodigious task, with all the heavy weight of these undeniable facts against you." SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. (LLOYD'S.) LONDON, Auc. 30.—Wind this day at noon S.W. DEAL, AUG.S.W., light.-29, S. to S. S.W., light.—Arrived the Jane, Wildern, from Brazils; Newcastle to Jamaica. Arrived from the River the Ganges, for the River Gambia; Oroniocto, St. John's, New Bruns wick; Windsor, Calcutta; Ant, Quebec. Arrived from the River and sailed the Douglas, from Montreal ; Queen, Mira michi ' • Wigeon, Port Phillip ; K a t e Ni c k e lb y, Ri o J an i ero ; her Majesty's ship Pique, westward ; Ida, Genoa ; Paramanbo, Surinam ; Lady Wood, Prince Edward's Island ; Kent, South Seas. LIVERPOOL, Auc. 29.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Colonist, Doswell, for St. Thomas's; Acadia (steaner), Boston, left 16th, and Halifax, 18th ; Robert A. Parke, Quebec; Five Sisters, Montreal ; Emily, Plumer, Picton; Crescent, Ca diz. Sailed the Kaliska, Manger, for Honduras ; packet La Guayra, Alexandria; Wise, and Mersey, Montreal; Cata rique, Clyde, and Jamaica, Quebec ; Josephine, and William Ripppn, Richibucto ; Plorris..P a l ermo; Alpha, onte Video ; Lord Ravensworth, Miramichi ; Betsey, Constantinople ; Mar garet, Messina ; Glendower and Echo, New York ; Parthe non, and Middlesex, Boston ; Howard, Savannah ; Liverpool, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Cornish Diamond, Leghorn ; Nova Feliz, Azoes ; Spbvnx, Malta. CROOKrIAVEN, Atm. :25.—The William Hinch, from Hali fax, got into Ilimlough Bay, between the Mizen and Sheep's Heads, this morning, during a fog. She is still holding to her anchors, and there are hopes of her being got off, if the wea ther remains moderate. PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 28.—Wind W.N.W. 29.—Wind .S.W. to W.N.W.—Arrived her Majesty's ship Pique, Lieut. Eastai ; Baron of Bramber, from Leghorn. Arrived off, the Parrock Hall, Parsons, China; Ontario, New York. BRIGHTON, AUG. 28.—Arrived off, the Forester, M'Arthur, from Tobago; Priscilla, Brazils for Haraburgh ; Jacobus, Rotterdam, for Batavia. STANGATE CREEK, Auc. 27.—Arrived the Blackaller, Watson, from Smyrna. DOVER, Auc. 29 —Arrived off, the Oliver Van Nord, Van Scoss, Java for Amsterdam. SOUTHAMPTON, Auu. 28.—Sailed Royal Tar, Gibraltar. COWES, AUG. 29.—Sailed the Arm a dill o, for New York. WEYMOUTH, AUG. 29. —Arrived the George Wellsford, From Quebec. OFF SALCOMBE, Auc. 27.—St. Ann's, Retalliek, Quebec. FLYmouru, A uG. 29.—Wind variable.—Sailed the Ber nard, for Quebec; George Cumming, Sierra: Leone. FALMOUTH, Af:g. 28.—Wind variable.—Arrived the Skip ton, Place, from Odet , ..a ; Montrose (steamer), Gibraltar, left the 19th, Cadiz 20th, Lisbon 23d, Oporto '24th, Vigo :25th ; Palermo, Clyde, and sailed for Palermo. Sailed the Mary, Young, for Mil , Ipswich (steamer), Jamaica; Mon trow (steamer), Southton. BRISTOL, AUG. 29 —Arrived the Fanny Palmer, from Smyrna, - Jane, Hardy, Montreal. sailed the Cosmo. for New York ; British Queen, Quebec ; Rival, Messina ; Camp bell, Newfoundland ; Bolivar and Rowena, Quebec ; William Ilannington, Miramichi ; Orator, Portsmouth, New South Wales. GLOUCESTER, AUG. 28.—Arrived Eliza, Wells, Miramichi SwAsszA, Aua. 28.—Arrived the Sumatra, Harvey, from Cuba; Pilot, Peterson, Valparaiso. Hum., AUG. 26.—Wind S. W. by W.—Arrived the Cove, Roberts, from Quebec. YARMOUTH ROADS, Atm. 26.—Arrived Jubilee, Quebec. NOTICE TO MARINERS. The following is a copy of a translated notice issued by the Portuguese Admiralty, and has been transmitted to Lloyd's by their agent at Oporto, respecting the soundings found in the River Douro, and on its Bar, during the month of July, 1841 : SOUNDINGS ON .THE BAIL. By W., W. S. W., and W.N. W. of the " Lages," above the " Banco," the soundings are found 26 to 27 palmos at flood of spring tides. E. W. with " Filgueiras," between the Rock " Bezerra" and the extreme point of the " Banco," close to the " Filgueiras" soundings, 29 palmos during spring t ides ; but this channel is not navigated, by reason of its extreme narrow ness. From the extreme point of the " Cabodello" to the course of the channel which lies between the " Labe d'Ahre" and the Rock " Afagamanadas," the soundings are 26 palmos and over, at low water IN THE RIVER. From the " Arrabida" Mountain to the " Lobeira de Ouro,' there runs a narrow channel along the Rocks on the northern side of 17 palmos, and close to the " Lobeira," of IS palmos at low water, and this depth is found as far as the " Lobeira de Sobreiras." Between the " Arribadouro" and the " Cruz de Ferro," the soundings are 18 palmos, and from thence to the extreme point of the" Cabodello," 20, 22, and 30 palmos. The Sand Bank still exists close to "Porta Nobre," which runs over to the south side, about a third of the width of the River. NoTE.—The Portuguese names are preserved as in the original, as when they are made use of by the natives, they will be understood :—"Lagcs," " Filgueiras," " Labe d'Abre," " Lobeira de Ouro," " Lobeira de Sobreiras," " Arribadouro," and " Cruz de Ferro," arc rocks. VESSELS SPOKEN Wrrit.---The Hillath, of and for New York, 25th, lat. 50, lon. 6, by the Skipton, arrived at Fal mouth. Renown,' of Glasgow, 17th May, lat. 21, lon. 6S ; Tanjnre, of London, for Bombay, 14th ult., lat. 2. lon. 21 ; Johanna Runt,t.llahia for Hamburgh, lat 39, lon. 39, by the Oliver Van Nord, arrived off Dover. William Walker, for Quebec, 23d, lat. 15, by the St. Ames, arrived off Salcombe. Cape Packet, London for Cape cf Good Hope, 21st, lat. 45, lon, 12, by the Baron of Bramber, arrived at Portsmouth. Salopian, Liverpool to Batavia, June 22, lat. 26, lon. 36 ; Kobert Ken, ditto, to Quebec, 17th inst., lat 45, lon. 29 ; Gleneira, ditto, to Calcutta, 16th May, off Madeira; Brilliant, Aberdeen to Quebec, 23d, lat. 49, lon. 35; William, of Sun derland, for Alirarnichi, Bth inst., lat. 46, lon. 55 ; Rainbow, Sligo to Quebec, 22d, lat. 55, lon. 11 ; James Moran, bound to Sydney, 22d ult., at. 1 S., lon 24, W. ; Herald, from China, 96 days at Sea, 29th. lat. 13 N., lon. 27, by the Laura and Louisa, arrived off Portland. Tennesse, London to New York, 10th, lat. 45, lon. 42 ; Thetis, Clyde to Jamaica, 16th, lat. 43, lon- 21, by the Ellen, Gillman, arrived at Oporto. THE MARKETS.-YESTERDAY. CORN EXCEIANGE. Last week's averages of English grain were moderate, but very large of Foreigli Wheat. The fresh supply, chiefly of new Wheat, was good, but middling of other Corn. The new 11, at 1 - :•at is tender and indifferent i n q ua lity, an d so ld with diffi cultlos 7s. reduction from la s t M on d a y' s pr i ces; an d o ld y per quarter lower. Barley unaltered. Beans ..." Wheat was k.:. and Peas rather los. -,.r. Oat s f oun d a h eavy sa l e at l ast week ' s week's prices. y:l c ot, terms. Flour dull at la:' UN,I)ON DUIONfi LAST WEEK. NIIRIVALS OF OITAIN IN .' r Wheat. s.73,. ksa,"`* - . ,P. tt. ° • English - : :,-,i ) ;.1 qrs. s, „, jimcx , Irish - ..--- e : s:' 'Sl - 5,357 trls r , reign micas ON an. Wheat,Red (old) s4s, 74.5. White (old) f lie,10841) s2s 55s -- Fine s"s. 6's. Superfine 625. 61s. - White (1841)., Ms. 635. --- :fine --Superfine O. /2s. -Foreienfree sth. 866. Ryt. 38s. 403. Carley 2tis. $2 - Grinding 32s, - Malting $25.353: • Malt Vs, 60, • -- Fine New 02s 635. • 0,4 FA) OF SFI P Beans, Small (new) 405.415. (old? ...... „_ S. Tick (new 35. 2 1 c, (old) ;Yarrow (new) 375.395. (old) —5. s. Bran k Oats, Feed -- New lSs.23s. Pol.tnd New Potstoe s. P.Te, } p 2U. '27s. -- Scotch '26i.`29s. Irish 16s. 19s. 235. Pease, Grey, New 3;s. 38s, - Maple New . 4Ls, - White 345. 3':R. - Boilers 37 .40- Flour Town (per sack).... 603.655. Second s6s. N••rth Country .... 50, .55, !Iran SMITHFIELD. The supply of cattle at market was rather short, with a good demand for the fine qualities; the middling and ordinary sorts a very fair trade. Of sheep and Lambs the supply was mode t. rate, yet the demand was not brisk ; the former about same as ho market day, the latter not so much in request. Of Calves !he supply was rather short, with a brisk trade, and prices rather higher. Of Pigs the supply was plentiful; find young porkers sold well at the present prices, the other ort s m good trade. Beasts. 2 7:75; Sliced and Lambs, 25,9 0 n, 4s. to 0 ; 672 ; Calves, 128.. Beef, 45. to 4 s. 10d, ; Mutt ss. ; Veal, 43. to ss. 4d. ; Pork, 4 s . to ss. ;- Lamb, 4s. Bd. to ss. 4d. and the transa c - TEA MARKET. There was much dullness in the market, tiens were on a small scale, prices still on the decline, and 2s. 21d. the value of Company's Congou cash. TALLOW MARKET. The market was quiet, but price s on the decline . p. y. Candle on the spot, 495, and 48s. 91 Lfor delivery in the last three months in the year. PROVISION MARKET. Butter dull of sale, and p rices with difficulty supported. Bacon in fair request. Prime meat at 6ls to 645. Lard firm, 72s to 78s for the best, with MA a fre ß e sale. HOP KET. The limited business done was at rather lower rates. The accounts are favourable from the Plantations. The duty is estimated at 170,000/. PRICE OF BREAD. 'She highest Trite of Bread in the Metropolis is 100 for the 41b Loaf. Docd Bread may be had at 91 MORNING SUN PRICES osF SEEDS. Per Cwt. I • Per Quarter Si w English Red Clover..,sos fO s St. a' .-• cm ' ••••••• -8 'ld Ditto Ditto —s —s —s'Rye crass —s 251 40 New Foreign Ditto —s 5Gs 20s:Pacey ftl'ags, • —8 ---8 Old Ditto Ditto —s —s —slLinseed iOr feedin g ~.---s 50s M New White Clover 48s 65s 72 s iDit to , for sowing ..-..--s 90 6 43 Old Ditto Ditto —s —s —s Ditto, for crushing ' ....—s 48s It. New Tre'oil —s 26s 46 5 Hemp .--s 48e 52 Old Ditto —s 24s 45s'C ana ryi Trcfclium —8 48s 70s Per Busbe I. English Carraway —s 46s 50s White Mustard...A% Od to 15s 01 Foreign Ditto .—s 44s 50s Brown Ditto 14s 6l to 17s ltd Coriander —s —s --s;Tares .................. 6.% l• PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, &c. p er 112111`. .61 17 0 Town Tallow ... ..... .......X2 51 6 Melting Stuff' 'd to 11s Ili Yellow Russia White 0 0 0 Graves . .....«.„.„.«.„..... i Soap Ditto 0 0 o,Good Iregs ..... ........ ..... 6 PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of Sibs, Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Melters)..., PRICE OF OIL. Rape Oil, brown, per ton ....X5O 10 Ditto, refined Linseed Oil 92' 0 LinsJed Oil Cake at the Mill (per 1000) l3 10 Rake Cake, per ton 7 7 COAL MARKET. Ships arrived since last market day, 99. d. Olaydon Main l4 C Walls End*North Dm_ Hebburn Main l7 6 Walls End Russell's Hetton Holy well Main lB 6 Walls End Stewart's Townley... .. ... West Hartley ......... Walls E A kewic*e and Co. 18 6 Tees Hartley ........ Walls End Clennell l6 0 W a ll s End Adefaide Walls End dog° , th Walls End Heaton lB 0 Walls End Richardson's Tee Walls End Hilda. Walls End Killingworth Walls End I , l4 , rthumberlaad 17 .'-' Walls End West Hetton , W. E. Braddyll'sHetton ... 19 9 Hartley Walls End Haswell. ... 19 9 Standrig Walls End Hetton 2O ii Stone Coal Walls End Eamlston ;l9 9 COUNT RY CORN MARKETS. Wheat. Barley. Per Quarter. Abington Andover Banbury Basi gstoke Cirencoster Coventry Daventry Derby Howden Rangerford 5111 ton Mai 4 en head Nottingham Wantage Warwick Winchester York s. d. s. d. s. ti. s. d. I s.'d. s. (1.1 8. ci , 8. d. 7A A 6 36 46136 40150 70 WAKEFIELD CORN ItIARKEf 1, Norfolk and Suflblk ..... -s. Efts. to 704 fine 725. - Lin. and Cam. -s. 65s to 655. fine Mt . - Yorkshire -s. 60s. to 625. fine lA.. .--•-• White -s. 05,. to 71s. tine 75': .......--...- Foreign, fted -s. ( '-?s• to 67c. fine 70;. ----....--- White -s. 705. to 713. one 725. Barley, Kerfolk and Suffolk 3O: to 333. fine 4% ..---.... Lio,nolnshire ..-- Yorks' , ltre Wold .. ....... t 91. to 31s. fine :2s. -- - Foreign Beans, New . --- Old . -s. to -s. line -.. Oats, Potato -..-.- Poland --- Friesland and Stna.:! -s -s. to f2os. fine 235. --- kealing ... .......... 12. d. to Md. pet Stone. Willing ........ ....................... .............. 31s. to 325. Od. pc r Loar; Malt --......... ..... --4. 40s. fine 435. per Loan Rapeseed ...... .. -/. Os. 34/. Os. 361. Os. per Last Per Bushel Birmingham s. d. a, d -60 6t Wneat, R, NEWCASTLE CO.RN EXCHANGE, Red. White. Wheat, Northumberland 70.. 7ls 725.78..) - Norfolk and Suffolk 7..i ;As 784. 82s. I .-.--- Berwick and Scotch... ....... ... 624. 70s . -,. 761. -- Foreign Rye, Norfolk and Suffolk 403. 445....... -s. -5. I - Foreign 29s. 30s -s. -s. I g Barley, Malting. Norfolk and Suffolk... -s. -s -s --*. ' r, - Grinding and Feeding ‘' , ls. alts. Malt, Norfolk and Suffolk it CO -s. ...P. cr. Beans, Small 3 - 1, t. 405....... -s. -s. t., -- - Tick .... 40s. 446 5. -5. 1. Pease, White 4os. 425. . ... -s. --... ---- Gray Oats, Northumberland, Potatoc 2 s ti -s --". --,. .......... ---..-... Feed - Foreign Flour (per sack) sls. 575....... - a. - -1 HULL CORN MARKET. Whitt (per Quarter) 72s. Vs. ;Bs. Red 7os. 745. 78s. Foreign 72s, 765. 785. Malting 223. 305.. 25. Grinding .Bs. I:9s. :30'. Oats, British Foreign (in- bond) Beans 36, 38s. 425. Pease, Grey .. 'lls. 365. 085 . Blue and White 365. 383.10:. Linseed s2s. :xis. ti2s. Flour (per sack) Rapeseed per 10 quarters) -1. 331. 95/. Wheat, Barley, SCOTCH MARKET, Wheat. Barley. Oats. Oltin 4bcrdecn Berwick Oolristream 27 to 2S 22 25 24 26 31 25 24 26 27 23 25 24 27 29 35 3ti 40 measure v, loroN ' Barley. 3)s 04 33s 0.1 32,01 33 t) 35 35 f 37 gg 32 tie to . 21 to 25 45 55 10 20 30 33 47 5d 17 19 28 SO 46 65 14 22 22 26 59 65 21 24 37 38 5q 60 22 25 -16 54 48 60 21 '2l. 32 33 43 56 17 20 30 32 51 60 20 25 45 48 • 60 67 25 35 41 44 aze of the iries throughout the country. .1 - 1 A DWI IRN MARKET. Wheat. Gate. Bettis Pca , :e. S2t. 01 2(ls 04 445 Od t -5 Od 74s tKI 253 04 425 Od 0 0 685 04 . 235 0 , 1 , 405 Od —s Od vvrage DALKErf.:I CORN MARKET. Wheat. Battey. Oar , . Pea'e. Bean . rust 81.5 Cu 388 al 4 , vss 01 41.5 04 445 Od Second ass 04 34 c 6.1 ,3s 8.1 425 Od 421 08 Third Ol5 01 285 It- , Si —3 64 ..... EDINBURGH ,e;ORN MARKET. Wneat. B a rlev, 1 Oat, Mean;. reas2. First B6, Ott 40z.dd. (495. 4.t. 46, Od. 4 n' Or T , S, co.! 7B 0 30 0 20 q 4l 0 43 0 Third Average price of Wheat.... ........... 31 4 .165. 0 90 0 6d. PRICES OF PROVISIONS lliinbai Elgin Inverness Kelso , " -7 3 8 ... •-.. ..- - 43 - Kirkaldy Perth I*.. The first Second Third Beef, per iv. Us. sd. to Os. Pd. Mutton 0 5 0 7 0 5 0 JO 0 5 0 7 Lamb, per qr. I 6 4 6 0 41 0 Quartern Loaf U 8i 0 9 P0tat0e5,111b....... 0 0 0 5 EMNI:URGH Per Sack of 2801 b. Imp. First Oatmeal £2 0 1, second ditto Buleymeai. ,1 JO P.asentyal I 8 0 Pot Barley from GLASGOW C Fresh.klutter, tk. F lld 10 Is. 01 Salt (110 0 11 Ditto, pe.' cst t 136 0 90 0 Eggs, pet S 0 P OatStrawil :ul.)_ 6 0 r. 0 Wheat 5 6 7 0 Barley Ditto ti 0 7 0 Hay, per 0 11 1 0 IBAL MAIL ET Per Stone. of 141 h. Imp. First Oatmeal... ..... . Second ditto ..... 0 Barleyßeal ......... Peasemeal to 455, per sack OLIN Alt RKET. Wheat, per 240th. s. d. s. d. British, old 366 to 400 new 320 360 Canada, 0 n Irish Barley, per 3201 b English 5B 6 29 6 Scottish 24 0 26 6 Irish Oat; per 2641 b. e. fl. 19 0 to Si: C , British 2O 0 21 Beans, per 2601 b. English Scottish Pease, Scottish 2l 0 Oatmeal,perl9lb 16,0 20 0 Flour. per MIN 52 0 58 CORNWALL (Calculated at 24 gal MARKETS. lons to the bushel.) Wheat. Barley. Oats a. d. to a. d. U 10 0 9 0 0 '7 7 —0 8 8 —0 7 6 0 8 '7 9 0 10 0 7 8 8 s. A. to s. d. 0 3 8 0 3 9 0 3 1 - 0 4 4 0 3 6 • 0 3 Si_ 3 0 3 4 0 4 0 s. d. to - 0 2 111 - 0 3 0 3 0 3 u . 0 3 9 ` - 0 2 2 b 2 6 4 —0 2 6 MINING INTEU.LIGEWCE. rr urea sold at Redrath lat. week... Toni. Curt. Qui . 2,835 6% 0 0 195 II 0 :id, 125/. Os. ed. opper 16.6511.195. Od _Average k tan ri DENT'S LECTURES ON WATCHES, AND OTHER TIME-KEEPERS.—An Illustrated Abstract from TWO LECTURES on the Construction and Manage ment of Chronometers, Watches, and Clocks, delivered by Mr• DENT, in May, 1841, before the Members of the United Ser vice Institution has been arranged for the information of general\ readers. The Abstract contains a statement of the relative merits of English and foreign workmanship, and an explanation of the different Escapements, with instructions for the choice, regulation, and management of all kinds of Time-keepers. The Pamphlet is published, by the Author, at No. 82, Strand, price Ono Shilling, but gratis to customers on application. SETS of PLATED CORNER DISHES, with or without Warmers. The price of the Set of Four, Dishes and Covers, without Warmers, varies from Eight to Ten Guineas. The Warmers are from Five to Nine Guineas the Set. Engravings of the various patterns will be forwarded, pos free, if application is made, post paid. The dishes are complete in themselves without warmers, and the handles take off, the covers thus forming four extra dishes when required. T. COX SAVORY, &c., No. 47, Carnhill (Seven doors from Gracechurch-street), London. TO FAMILIES FURNISHING. —IMMENSE SAVING.—RIPPON and BURTON'S new CATA - LOGUE, to be had gratis (post free), contains the prices, with • engravings, of every IRONMONGERY article necessary to the furnishing of a house of any size, 25 per cent. under any other old established house. They s ub j oin a few pricee'llem it any ample :—Nickle silver (so like silver as onl y to be told fro by the stamp, and as durable) table s p oons and forks, 12s• 22s ; per dozen; dessert ditto, 103 : tea spo ons, 5s ; cruet Wan balance, candlesticks from lOs ; warranted iv or y table knive ' ) s, to 16s. per dozen; dessert ditto , 135.; carvers , Per p ai r". ; article ex.. bronzed fenders, from Os; fire irons, from changed that is not approved o f. any Established 1820. No. 12 Wells-street, Oxford-street. ______.,.....-iisossa, gjs qt.a.tw'p r h oi ad tetaounx n tei , lit otrfy, HS•Northumberland, the lady ... ... . ' ---- B 7B Ty ali f- N On the 23d inst., at Bradley:. and heir. Ibinys,t.E, t . e aCircus, Greenwich, Mrs. J. V. .Lansdowne -place, _Brighton, Mrs. II of ( P )n rid t e h a e u H. On the 27th inst.., at , Northamptonshire, Thompson, of a son• g. oot, of a son. a Norfolk I -street, the wife of John F. On the 2.3 th inst., 0 n. Isaacson, E s q" - f a son. John inst., Mrs. in Coysgarne Sim, of Meeklen- On the 23th z are , u of a daughter. burgi•-sq_______ ---- theOnwitfheeo2f7ttinitset;• . Prier, of a2xs7oStrihe. Truro Elel.tone St. Atwell Soclnnn '..iskeard Launceston Camelford Penzance. 2uantity of Coppei Average Produce Quantity of tine C Amount of sale, S. to S. Si 80 ;f 66 74 7 8 62 72 74 61 72 7.2 77 53 8U (is h 4 5S Si :0 76 63 Si, - 713 70 71 s. to s. 29 33 27 35 20 35 3!) 3a '29 33 40 38 44 33 35 29 37 27 CO 32 35 32 28 NO 31 31 36 3o a. to a. 24 31 25 27 25 30 24 30 21 27 26 S 2 28 34 27 30 25 30 22 34 25 3 1 s 3 27 30 32 2 6 32 8. to 8. 40 47 36 40 40 45 37 40 30 44 42 45 29 2's 26 40 45 40 44 40 44 36 46 - 43 4I S. S. 33 41 42 44 38 -- 40 - 28 42 40 44 - 40 MARRIED, On the 31st of July last, at Jersey, John Lowden, Esq., of plackfriars-road, London, to Adelaide Lucy, only daughter of F. a Durand, Esq., of Sloane -street, late Paymaster of the 40th Regiment. At Sanchfield, near Glasgow, Eliza Richmond, eldest daugh ter of William Richmond, Esq., merchant, Glasgow, to Alex ander Winton, Esti , merchant, London. • On the 26th inst., .at. Childwall, near Liverpool, Christopher Fagan, Esq., of Calcutta, son of Major-General C. S. Fagan, C. 13., to Frederica JosephiLe, eldest daughter of the late J. Buckley, Esq. On the 28th inst., at St. Luke'.:. Mr. Thomas W. Pybus, of . Dawgate-hill, to Charlotte, second daughter of Mr. Churchill, of Bunhill-row. On the 28th inst., at Dover, B. Dren, Esq., of Streatham, Surrey, to Elizabeth, youngest daughter of the late S. Prentis, Esq., of Maidstone, Kent. DIED. On the 22J inst,, at St. Peter's, Port Guernsey, the Rev. Timothy Fysh Foord-Bowes. Dil., of Cowlam, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, and nephew of the late IlajorGeneral Foord-Bowes. On the 24th inst., Anne Newby, wife of Mr. G. Smith, . of Belvedere-road, Lambeth. On the 24th inst., at Richmond, Surrey, Mrs. Lastitia Brad bury, aged 69. On the 21st inst., at the Royal Naval Hospital, Plymouth,' Captain Hugh Nurse, R. N , aged 45. London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of 1 Nd. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand,in the county of Middlesex, Tuesday, Mist 11, 1841. Oits. Beans. .s s . jag a. d. trham... 15 0 19 9 29 19 9 19 0 14 6 IS 9 IS 6 317 17 9 19 6 17 9 17 0 14 9 4 ,:6 0 Pease. Beans. 2 2 2 0 1 Li