The Sun. — London, England, 1841-05-17 00:00:00

SPlttrr of tte PUBLIC JOURNALS. it our duty to be impartial), have shifted their ground in argu i ment, replying in effect to themselves and reasoning as if two con- FROM THE MORNING PArEas OF THIS DAY. tradictory propositions could stand together, or whether he CHRON ICL impatience of delay in. the dengue- contrast contrasted the pompous magniloquence of the premises ad meal cf t. ,tending crisia, manifestsd in the looks ant eonver vanced, on one stile at least, with the miserable inconsequence saiion of the Tories, is very entertsining, nor is it unnatural. a The Erielish To. y lawyers, gaping for the good things which and imbecility of the conclusions derived. from them, he would be equally disconcerted. And if he happened to know some- English Judge, and the situareperted arrangements for the retirement of more thin one thing of the lives and characters, of the former professions, tona to be created by the Bill for the .Reform of the Court of Chancery, may place at the im- of the actors on this motley stage, he might perhaps view the whose adhesion or of the present conduct and language on collateral subjects, mediate dispae to their al of their p rt ,has been confirmed atrons ; the Scotch Tory '° in the advocates, Whole discussion as a political game of blind-man's-buff, or a worst of times" by the y assurance of the retirement of pa rhetorical exercise of that peculiar school which teaches that language is the instrument for concealing thoughts. Under the Lord Presid en t, an d o n e or two other venerable or this description we sio not, of course, mean to include the naments of the Scotch bench, on the advent of a Tory Ca binet ; and th e Irish Orange lawyers waiting upon s and arguing with Stanle fairness an which d ability the real question at is a sue, a - similar providence for the successor to Chief Justice Bushe i or to deny the praise of sincerity to such men as Mr. Glad. and some others of his brethren, are in consternation for fear stone, Dr. Lushington, and several others who might be named the expression of feeling from the country may become stronger on both sides of the House. lt looks odd, to say the least of it,to see with the protraction of the debate, and still lead to some act . the champions of the West India interest arguing a s ugar dent between the cup and the lip. It is said, also, that Si question upon purely philanthropic principles, from an abstract James graham is suffering severely from the agonies of expec- horror of the slave trade. But it is odder still to hear Messrs. tation and suspense, tearing that India may escape his grasp, Hume, Hawes, Ward, and James, the champions of the New and that the alarm spread among the minor Tory expectants jobbers Poor-law and of infant labour in our factories, pathetically for places in diplomacy and at Court, and the Tory descanting upon the horrors of white s l aver y a t home, and of every description, toth in and oat of office—the one set to be told by a Whiz Lord of the Treasury (Mr. J. Parker), wailing for pensions on retirement, the other for places in the very Ses s ion wt e n th e Whi g s h a ve b een st ra i n i ng held by their confederates, through infirmity, inconve nience, and disqualification, for the happy advent for every nerve to carry out the extreme prin c iples of the Poor-law Commissioners, that "in preserving the rights which they have been so long desirous, is becoming very of the negro I opulation, they do not at the same time serious, and likely to lead to the most fearful conse forget the rights of the people of England,"—that quenees. We really pity them, and sincerely . regret that any „ feeling,: for the wants, the miseries, and the lust claims of the they are advocates of humanity, but their humanity suffering populetion should for one instant interfere with the is of a large character,"—that " they are as much advocates of humanity for the peg le of England as for the negroes of the fine castles in the air they have been building. The country West Indies." The people of England will never forget, that knows full well their only object. The old crib and manger of in 18.33 these same Whigs increased the permanent burdens of their new ally, the pride of Westminster—the loaves and fishes the country by a loan of '20,000,0001. for negro emancieation, good places for those in office—high rents for their sup and that in 1834 they passed a measure for suspending the con porters without—what in comparison with such considerations, stitutional rights, and filching away the legal inheritance, of the are the decay of trade in Leeds, Manchester, Glasgow Birming- English poor. And it. has a singular sound, when Ministers, ham, and Bolton, or the starving condition of the thousands of who do not suffer an ounce of sugar to find its way into the artizans now wandering about these towns in want of employ ment or bread ? and, as if to add insult to injury, in the union workhouses, represent that article as one of the necessa ries of life. desperate hope of covering their despicable designs, POST.—Everybody asks why this debate in the House of they would put on the new man and assume the hypocritical guise of the advocates of the Nigro. Of Commons is dragged on to such a tedious and wearisome length? The answer is threefold. First, that Ministers ex alt Tory attempts to practise upon the credulity pect to be beaten, which is a very disagreeable thing, and to the public this has been the lowest: and the basest. An Ant?! Slavery Orange and Tory Society ! ! The explosion at Exeter I which even custom has not reconciled them ; th e y, t h ere f or e, keep back the division as long as they can. Secondly, that Hal!, every day's debate in the Hones. of Commons, the meet in,gs throughout the coungy, have done much to disabuse the Ministers are very apprehensive that th e di v i s io n , w h enever it does come, will have the effect of turning them out, with very public, and to expose the Tory conspiracy against the interests little chance of getting back again through so clever a Palace of the people. Delay and discussion are, therefore, most es- trick as they managed two years ago; and that, as every sential, although necessarily disagreeable to the vultures, ho veringthey over their prey, as they suppose, within their reach. very latest hour possible their claim upon the Everything tends to encourage in us the hope that the Minis- sury for pecuniary competition. Thirdly, that they Trea ters will not disappoint our reliance on their energy and deci- have persuaded themselves that by degrees something like an sion, if their opponents should drive matters to extremities. agitation for " free trade in everything," as Joseph Hume When the time should arrive for the solution of the question of s, may be got up in the country, and give them a sort of ex resignation or dissolution, no reason short of the impossibility case for pretending that the country and the House are not of of dissolution will satisfy the country that it should be delivered o over, bound hand and foot, to Tory domination, without, at one opinion. Very probably all three m ot i ves are opera ti ng all events, giving the people an opportunity of making the best together, and as they are all of them very worthy o f te e pre sent Administration. But, whatever be the r eason o f th e de light they can against monopoly and restriction. We lay, the thing itself is very wearisome, and we h a d a l mos t sa id know the difficulties either way. When we urged this course before, we did so without regard to cal- disgusting. Viehope that, whatever trick or s t ra t agem ma y be at the bottom of this Ministerial policy, the C onserva ti ve s culations mace by either party, as to the chances of the returns to a new House of Commons. We know the opposi- will no longer submit to it, but comp e l th e G overnmen t t o ta k e ti ~n the Liberal party will have to struggle with in the coun- a vote of the House upon the question whi c h h as now b een be fore it since Friday week. ties, and against Tiry gold in the smaller boroushs. Still, we believe those most capable of forming a correct judgment see no reason to doubt as liberal a return as at the last election ; and think there are considerable chances of sonic improvement in it. Much, of course, depends upon the combined efferts of monopolists on one side, and upon the additional exertions which the hope of relief from their exactions may excite on the ether. But we own that there are, in our opinion,. even graver considerations, which would weigh in the decision of the question. The Government must have foreseen the extent of the present opposii ion to their measures; they could scarcely have celculated upon the assistance of the lauded Aristocracy in the repeal of the Corn-laws— of the East and West Indians, or Canadians, in interference with their monopolies. They must have looked to the people, solely, fur support to carry plans intended for their advantage; and to the effect of the expression of public feeling and opinion for else removal of the prejudices and apprehensions of classes, whose interests might be partially affected by the proposed change'. if they refuse to give the peop l e the opportunity of expressing tir-iropinior, and of throwing their weight into the sea c at another election, they may have done greater` harm than good to the cause of reform, whether in trade or in our institu tions, by the course they have taken. If we are to be delivered over to Sir Robert Peel, and it be left to his discretion when to disselce this Parliament and call another, what must be the inevitable consequences? A large numerical majority in the Moue! of Commons. brought together by a combination of class ' in terests with the Tory party, or rather brought in opposition to the general interests of the community , by the joint eterses of monopolists and the Carlton Club ? Nee feel confident N i t the Government has too mueh good sense, good feeling, add,patriotism, to subject the Queen or the prople to the oppresjon and danger of such a state o things. We say morh-•if they do so. the day of the refusal of their liberal and well-meant budget will be one of annual mourning for some time to come, for the whole commu .nity. Furthermore, we would impress upon Ministers the sdangerous consequences to which a dissolution by the Tory party must lead. We understand the smooth march of Sir Robert Peel's administration for the remainder of this session—possibly in another session of the pre sent Parliament, until the questions of taxation, or Lord Stanley's Irish Bill should be forced upon him. But then would come the difficaldes of his position. He must either go with the country, or with his party. The principles of the present budget, now fairly mooted, will be insisted upon by the • country. The Duke of Buck ingham, Lord Darlington, and their adherents will scarcely be more reconciled to them, even if supported with all the hypocrisy which has distinguished the oppoetion to the sugar duties. eir Robert will, probably, be governed by his tail in this case, as he was governed during the earlier part of his career in his censtent opposition to the removal of re ligious disqualifications by the bigots of Oxford. In fact, he knowa from some experience, whet the slightest deviation front a system of Toryine and o•angeism must lead to. He can 'pot reckon on support - tram the Whigs, nor would the Whigs, without the Radieid section of the - Liberal party, be sufficient to sufficient to counterbalance the desertion of his Tory allies, on the slightest symptom of concession to the pimple. His necessi ties • would, therefore, drive him to a . dissolution, for ,re ter n u merical power in the House of Commons, to .enable him to govern ag inst the principles of the budget. rHe may find i t from the sources we hate stated ; and what are the consequences? Who desires to see the battle fairly begun, between the masses, aggrieved by monopoly, possibly suirering the greatest privations fyom further decline in trade, their interests represented and supportel by the members cif the great towns of the empire, and urged and en forced boloilv by a hostile press on the one side, and the Tory landed aristocracy, banded with class interests, contending for • .exclusive advantages on the other? And yet this nay seem to be the condition of the country, if the present crisis is not dealt with calmly, prudently and with deterceination. Tory gentlemen, lawyers, and place-hunters—patience, we pray you. Your prey may still fall into your hands. We hope not ; but at all events, do not quarrel with those who feel deeply the gravity of the cir cumstances in which we are placed, and who are more con cerned in finding bread for the hungry, and employment for the distressed, than in pandering to the lust for place or poker in any party of the State. We pray, in sphe of your impa tience, for a little delay, and much more consideration, before it is decided that no other course cat' be taken than to deliver the affairs of the country to your benevolent and disinterested administration. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. TIMES.—By the New York papers it appears that the scheme of a National Bank, which many believe to be a favourite project with the present Government, is still much iseussed. Formerly the notion was prevalent of an entirely new and gigantic institution, to be raised by the subscriptions of the States, while now there appears to an inclination to believe thst one of the existing banks would be selected, and there are several conjectures that the New York Bank of Commerce would be preferred. The State stocks have ge nirally improved, principally because of the abundance of money ; and with respect to the State of Illinois, on ac count of the renewal of a loan due on the Ist inst., which it is expected will render possible the payment of the July divi dend. The New York market is altogether in a healthy state. The Revenue Bill that has passed the Senate of Pennsylvania, and at the date of the latest intelligence, was under discussion in the House of Representatives by the name of "Tie Relief Bill,' contains a clause which provides that the stockholders of the United States Bank shall be enabled to authorize the President and Directors to assign all the effects of the bank, each sharehoMer voting according to the number of shares entered in his name, in the ratio fixed by the old charter. The object of this enactment would seem to be to enable everybody concerned in the bank to make a general disposal for the benefit of creditors. POST.—The permanent funds improved a. fraction this morning, a change which is imputable to the necessity always existing day by day for the investment of moneys ander every aspect of our national affairs, and, as far as we can learn or judge, to that alone. Exchequer Rills, as well as India Bonds, again declined. The former are, in fact, rapidly run ning, as the latter had previously done, to a discount, and, apart from political considerations, without any inteligible cause. The value of such securities ought, however, in pro priety to be referred to, rather than that of Consols, as a crite rion whence is to be derived an idea, if not a positive know. ledge, of the popular feeling and popular expectation on mat ters connected with the legislative movements in progress and in prospect. The commercial letters brought by the Great Western steamer from New York speak more encouragingly of the state of trade in the United States. European manufactures were in some demand, and we understand that the orders which have come forward for fresh supplies from England are more liberal than had been looked for. This is no doubt owing in a great measure to the fact that the M'Leod affair was pretty sure to be amicably settled. ARRIVAL OF THE COLUMBIA. The C ambia steam-ship arrived at Liverpool on Saturday afternoon. She left Boston on theist end Halifax on the 3d inst, a-id has made fle passa4e in about twelve days. The following are the only extracts from the American papers of the slightest interest : LIBERATION OF M'LEOD,—Thc distingiihhed Charles 11. Delavan is again in town from Washington, where he spent the last two months. Mr. Delavan in forms us that at a Cabinet Council on Saturday. last, it was ageeed to deliver,up M'LQod to the British authori ties—and perhaps Mr. Delavan himself will be appointed to the important trust of making the delivery.—New York Herald, April 30. GENERAL JACKSON.—The newspapers have busied themselves very much of late with the pecuniary affairs of General Jackson, and considerable sentimentality has been expended upon a statement made in several of the journals that he had become poor by endorsing for his friends. The old Roman don't stand this, and has authorised a Pennsylvania paper to pronounce the story " false in every particular I.' We need not say that we are very glad to hear it. EXECUTION OF NEGROES.—HAVANNAIL—Havannah papers to the 15th have been received in New Orleans. The Courier says— " A few hours previous to the departure of the Natchez, intelligence reached Havannah that 62 negroes from Jamaica, believed to be abolitionist emissaries, had effected a landing on the south side of Cuba. Thirty of those black subjects of Queen Victoria had been arrested and ordered to be shot. The Spanish authorities were in pursuit of the others." The Bee, of the same city, says, that these thirty " were immediately arrested, tried, condemned, and ex ecuted." ADVERTISER.—There is but one opinion, we perceive, .amung the Liberal press as to the course which the Govern- anent ought to take in the too probable event of the Tories oh isining a majority on this debate. It is true that the Tory journalists hold a different language, which makes but a stronger reason in 'favour of it. The feeling of the country leo, which is daily becoming stronger on behalf of the Minis erial measures, constitutes another reason fur taking the bold, the honourable course of a dissolution, in preference tto the questionable one of a resignation. We agree with our Contemporary the Examiner, that there is no reason to believe that the elinistry contemplate the reverse, and that there ought to be question about the matter; but the voice of the charmer may not be without its influence, and there lure we. venture our .deprecatory growl. It is enough that the crooked and the wrong course has been suggested by the enemy ; it would he a foolish thing to abstain from utter ing our sentiments thretmh any feeling of delicacy, for by one of those caprices of honour, which sometimes dictate the wrong line of action, the proper line may not he taken, and there may afterwards remain nothing but lamentation for the general si lence on the subject. To the country, to the Queen, to them *elves, the Ministry owe a dissolution, as the only means of °Valuing strength to carry out their excellent measures. Till now a revisal of our teriff, the modification of our Corn-lawn, and the abeiitlon of monopoles, have been a dream, which it was pleasant enough to hope to see realised, but far beyond any present expectation. The subject, too, is in itself so com plicated, that the publie is only just acquiring a glim 3nerini notion of all the advantages proposed. And the Tories, skilful humbugs ! know so well how to appeal to the prejudices of the people, and to take hold of their most amiable A eengs—fin a wrong direction, that it requires a little time and opportunity to expose them. This debate will do much— in spite of the soft sawder of Sir Itubert Peel—to open their e y e s ; but it will not do enough. Every man in the country must be made to feel that the question is put to himself per wnally ; that he, and not his representative, incurs the re esibility of the resu lt. Besid es , how relishing it will be to Meet the Tories one he hnstings—to put them t o th e ques tion, and it may to the pledge. One, two, or th ree , with the subtilty of Peel, or the assurance of Stanley, may encounter, scatheless, the ordeal ; but the lesser fry will writhe under the torture, and mar their leaders' tactics. esamtious These are important atvantages, which m be lostt if w e did not give battle to the enemy at once. R Peel dissolve at his own time. fie would con trive sv esi l g " n, "' and let to interpose something between cne event and the other, which would damp the credit of the Liberals, and mend his own case. Strike wbile the iron is hot. Give the enemy no advantage. Let the p ublic see by the promptitude, the energy, add the uncompromising s manner i n which the battle is fought, that those snarlers who pretend that the present measure is only a party shift, and that the Government intend a cross f • fight, are adding another tb th e sha ft s ts o cal umny by which the Liberal cause has b ee it so foolishly injured during the last ..few years. We have watched for several years the steps of ,be Government, lamenting, indeed , at times the feeble giros of their movements, but o it. eompell,--I afterwards to acknow , , ledge that they saw their occasion, and took advantage pres , e ' nt is f not Still we must b e permitted 'to observe, t hat the one in whi c h they can indulge in too great nicety o t demean .our. Th e calm and aristocratic bearing that suits the i n' laee ,and the drawi ng - room , is inapt for the battle - fi eld ; nor is it a time to act accor di ng to the mere etiquette of party. It le nation's cause, wheel must be fought with zeal and enter pi2se, as if the very fate of the country depended upon the Issue, as in truth it does ; for without cur manufactures and .our commerce, our prosperity is lost, and the maintenance of them torten& upon the success of the Government mea esures The Tories (who, by the by, do not crow so 3oudly as they eid a :tee's ago, before the Anti-Slavery party ad repudiated the false tactics of their Committee, 4C.111 the countr; had had time es pronounce at all on the criest e m ) sa y that the Duke has threatened, if he come into power, ve again if th e citsso. Whip dissolve now. Be it so; on him be tee . responsibility. Thu is nething but a eesee to induce the Whiel : s to forego their opportunity. What would he do if he were _n power ? Why as he did in the Peninsula, and every where e se, fight when he could, an. be 'prepared for the veer battle when it came. So must the Whigs act. Dissolve and tight. It is not among impossible things, but very probable, that many Tories, when put to the question, wilt shun their own po li c y, and that many others will b e b eaten. We say again that toe case is new—that when the people know it in ail its bearings, they will decide rightly, an d t h at if we conquered in boroughmongering times, there are mo re th an ten ' , efeances to one that we shall succeed now, and that we shall a more liberal Parliament than we have had for many The Courier adds, " It was understood at Havannah, that 8,000 troops were about sailing from Cadiz for Ha vannah. Indeed, a few of them arrived last week. This looks as if Espartero was apprehensive of an attack on Cuba from some European power or other. THEATRICALS.—PARK THEATRE.—The state of the weather last night was enough to damp the ardour of even a more ambitions aspirant for the honours of Mrs. Siddons than Miss Clarendon is likely to prove, although we see it insinuated for her by some of the Fungus order of critics, that the mantle of the great actress is destined to rest on the shoulders of this, their latest protege. All this preliminary puffing is bad. And all the talent that ever manifested itself after a regular probation ' ivould have been most certainly blighted if subje c t e d to the foolish ordeal which this young lady has had to undergo. She makes her debut in Mariana, a part which Fanny liemble appeared in, and then tries Pauline in a city where Ellen Tree is still remembered. Can any one be astonished that the house is empty ?—Brahani is in the neighbourhood of Savannah, giving concerts.—Fanny Fitzwilliam and Buckstone played the same night at the American. Of John Povey's whereabouts we are not advised. ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE.—An attempted murder and. suicide occurred on board the steamer Clip per on Sunday evening last, while on her way from this As we could learn the particulars, city to Bayou Sara. it seems that Mr. Tiernan, an old and respectable planter of Point Coupee, had a sum of money stolen from him while on board the Clipper, and soon ascertained that it was taken by a yellow boy belonging to him some fourteen years of age. He did nothing to the boy at the time, but threatened him with a severe flogging on reaching Point Coupee. Shortly after Mr. T. went to his berth, lay down, and was soon asleep. The boy, probably in sogated by the fear of future punishment, procured a large butcher's knife, went to his master's state room, and stabbed him twice in the throat, inflicting severe, and it was feared mortal, wounds. He then fled to the bow of the boat, and, as the men were approaching to secure him, jumped overboard, and was seen no snore. We learned the particulars at Donaldsonville on Sunday even ing last, at which time it was feared that Mr. Tiernan would not survive.—New Orleans Paper. The notorious vessel the Malek Anhel arrived at Bal timore on Tuesday, from Rio Janeiro, under command of Lieut. Ogden of the U. S. Navy. The crew have all been arrested, examined, and committed on a charge of ' piracy. Joseph Nunez, the Captain, escaped at Bahia and was not retaken. Five young men are now in gaol in B roo kl yn, New York, for committing a most atrocious rape on a married woman, in Myrtle-lane. They were of a gang of fifteen, and strong hopes are entertained that those now at large will soon be secured. The poor woman we understand is dead. No punishment can be too severe for these in human rascals. MORE MORMONS.—The St. Louis Bulletin say s— " Two hundred and thirty-seven Mormons came up in the Moravian yesterday from New Orleans. The; are from r ad om are bound for Nauvoo, Illinois. - Westmoreland, Lancaster, and Yorkshire, England, MR. Fox.—lt is intimated that Mr. Fox, the British Minister, is about to marry a sister of the Russian Minis ter's lady, Miss Williams. The bridegroom in this match, should it occur, will be aged about 60, the bride about 16. —New York Taller. The Temperance Reform is exciting the most intense interest in Montreal. Meetings are frequently held and fully attended, eloquent addresses delivered, and during eight days 328 new signatures were obtained to the pledge. Its beneficial influence is felt, particularly among the soldiers stationed at that place. MANUFACTURES.—Numerous cotton manufactories have been erected within a few years at the South, most, if not all, of which are successful in their operations. In the city of Feyteville, F. C., six large mills have been erected, and the amount of capital invested is 11300,000. MORE ILL NEWS FROM FLORIDA. —The correspondent of the Savannah I?epublican, in a letter dated Pilatki , April 19th, sa ys—" I am sorry to inform you. that the war has broken out a new. I have just learned that all the Indians, save about twenty, have left Tampa—among them Wild Cat, and, in fact, all of any, note. They yeara. a plain man were desirous of understanding the question which has now occupied the House of Commons for the unexampled perioti of seven nights, and for that purpose deser t of tedious debat e were to wade throotth the dreary *hick those seven nights have produced, he might prs.bably rise from his task with all his idea+ of truth and falsehood ut teil? confounded. Whether he regarded the strange manner in which the speakers, on both sides of the house (for we teet have killed a couple of express riders. The bag con taining the mail has been found perforated with two bullets, one of which was found in a package of letters. I fear we shall hear bad news shortly from these Indians." Captain Ward, a passenger on board the ship Grotius, below at Boston, from Manilla, and last from St. Helena, reports that seven vessels, slavers, had arrived at St. Helena, with 700 slaves, prizes to her Britannic Majesty's cruisers on the west coast of Africa. The last that ar rived (March 2) threw overboard sixty dead slaves in sight of St. Helena. GOOD.—The following is said to be the last joke of Sidney Smith. He says that the Chinese affair is all picking (Pekin) and choosing (Chusan). ODD THEFT.—During a recent fire at St. Louis, a thief broke into a cabinet maker's shop and stole a coffin. REPEAL OF THE SUB-TREASURY—OR Thursday last, the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania passed a resolution, which had been previously acted on in the Senate, instructing the Senators and requesting the Re presentatives in Congress, to vote for the repeal of the Sub-Treasury-law, and providing that the Governor for ward copies of the resolution to the Senators and Repre sentatives. The resolution was carried by a handsome majority. HUMINIGGERY.—Thus a Correspondent writes us : " The people humbug the rascally banks by not paying up, and the banks in return humbug the people for their rascality. The merchants are humbugged by doing bu siness for nothing, and paying tribute to Columbus in every shape and form, which business assumes. The majority of the merchants are humbugged by the f ew selfish and mercenary ones, who refuse to give their aid in forming a Chamber oC. Commerce for the transaction. of business on honourable principles, and for a fair re muneration. The young ladies are humbugged by the beaux, who only flirt about them for pastime ; and, in fact, Mr. Editor, everything is wrong, and must be re gulated through your interesting Journal.' " That's a fact—all humbugs must and shall be journalized. 1) AnING.—On the 15th of February, a Mr. Taney of Washington county, Md. was awakened about midnight by a sound like the breaking of a door, in an adjoining room to that in which his family were sleeping. He sprang from his bed, seized a loaded rifle, and stood wait ing about fifteen minutes when the door was softly opened, and he saw his servant man by the light of a fire in the stove, with a large butcher knife in his hand. Upon his exclaiming advance one step and you are a dead man,' the negro instantly ran, and succeeded in making his escape to Pennsylvania. FIRE.---The cotton mill owned by M essrs . J ames Rhodes - and Sons, at Rhodesville, Thompson, Ct. was destroyed by fire on Wednesday night. The building was of brick, and eighty feet in length. It contained 3,000 spindles and 50 looms. It was insured for 10,000 dollars at the American Office, and for 12,000 dollars at the Manufacturers' Mutual Office, in Providence. The ori gin of the fire is not known. SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—WhiIe Mr. Martin Mikesell, Cambria county, Penn., and his wife, were absent from home at a sugar camp, their house took fire and was totally destroyed, with all its contents. When they re turned they found their dwelling in ruins; and that thre e little children left in it had perised in the flames. The Cincinnati Chronicle of the 17th inst., states that Edward Layton, the young man who had been arrested on the charge of having caused the death of Mr. Gris well, a Baptist preacher, was brought before the Mayor or examination. After hearing the testimony in the case, he was committed for trial on the charge of murder. GRAVE ROBBED.—A man by the name of Jackson died at Chenange, N. Y. two weeks since, and on the succeeding day was interred in the village grave-yard. During the night his remains were removed by persons unknown, for whose detection $5O reward is offered. MAIL ROBBERY,—The way-mail from this City to Albany on board the North American was robbed on Friday morning lust—the bags cut open, the letters rifled and thrown into the river. The first intimation of the robbery was given by the letters, which were seen float ing in the current near Stuyvesant. It is not known whether the letters were rifled on board the boat or stolen thence and broken open afterwards ; but in either case the remissness •of those in charge was most culpable. We trust this robbery will put an end to - the shameful carelessness with which' mails have hitherto been kicked about the decks of our steam-boats, as if they were sacks of potatoes. MURDER.—The Portland Argus states that Mr. Moses Butterfield murdered his wife and two youngest children in Sumner, Oxford County, Maine, on Wednesday last. Two others of the family only saved themselves by flight. Mr. B. has been hitherto a highly respectable citizen of that town, but has been subject to fits of in sanity. His alleged reason for murdering his family was to save them from eternal ruin at the approaching end of the world. He has been committed to jail in Paris. HONOURABLE.—It will be recollected that some months ago, four of our packet ships saved each the crew of a British vessel in distress. They were the Rhone, Cap tain Walton ; Stephen Whitney, Captain Thompson ; Columbus, Captain Cropper ; and Sheridan, Captain De Peyster. Yesterday, Mr. Buchanan, the British Consul, addressed to these commanders the following extract of a letter :—" I am directed by Lord Palmerston, to de sire you to express to the commanders the thanks of her Majesty's Government, for their praiseworthy conduct, and for the assistance which they rendered on the same occasions, and you will state to these commander's that her Majesty's Government intends to show its sense of their services, by sending to each of them a gold medal, so soon as the die, which is now in prepar a ti on , s h a ll b e finished."—Journal of Commerce. EXTRAORDINARY FIELDS OF ICE IN THE ATLANTIC. Great Western Steam-ship, Bristol Channel, May 14, 1841. Sir —Under the impression that ice, to the extent it has been seen this year, has never before been heard of in these latitudes, I give you the following particulars fofthe informa tion of your readers :—On Sunday, April 18th, the ship steer ing west, at six P.M., first saw one iceberg on the starboard bows ; and 7 30 passed it: at that time four or five others in sight. At 915 passed se, eral small pieces of ice— slowed the engines. In a few minutes after the ship was sur rounded with sight field ice, which appeared similar to a field I ran through on the llth Feb , 1839. This induced me to go slowly, with the hopes of getting through as I had done on that occasion, but by 9 30 finding it became closely packed, and much thicker, prudence dictated our escape by the same channel we had entered. I then stopped, and attempted to get the ship's head to the eastward by turning ahead and astern until there was room for her to come round ; in the course of this operation the ship had occasionally (at least) two strokes heel given by either wheel passing over large masses of ice. At 10 15 succeeded in getting the ship's head to the eastward. and by 11 entirely clear ; from that time went slowly, passsing several icebergs; the night at times very clear, the aurora borealis very bright. At 330 A.M. of the 19th, again got embayed in the ice, stopped, hauled short round on our keel. and steered E. by S., coasting the ice foretve or six miles; 4 20, kept her to the westward, running through innu merable icebergs until 8 30 when we passed the last iceberg and point of the field ice. When the sun arose the ice was visible as far as the, eye could reach in an unbroken line from N.E. by E by the northward to N: W. by W., at the same time icebergs innumerable in every direction, forming one of the most magnificent sights I ever beheld. The first iceberg we saw was in lat. 43, lon. 48 30, and this last in 42 20, lon. 50. I am quite sure there was an unbroken field of that extent, and from what I heard from Captain Bailly, of the American packet-ship United States, I have no doubt the field ice extended, with very little break, to lat. 40.30, where Captain Bailey fell in with it on the morn ing of the 18th. Several other ships also fell in with it in the same longitude, and were completely stopped, giving them an opportunity of kiting seals, which were on it in great num bers. Some of the icebergs I estimate a little (if at all) less than a mile long, and from 150 to 200 feet high. 1 his field of ice was in large masses, some of them not less than 20 feet square by six feet thick or more. The temperature of the 'water, when within two .mites of the first iceberg seen, fell suddenly from 50 degrees to 36 degrees ; air, 40 degrees to 36 degrees. When in the ice the water was 25 degi ees ; air, 28 degrees; during the remainder of the night and following morning, the water was not higher than 30 degrees, n or th e air higher than 32 degrees. Immediately after passing the last ice the water became 36 degrees, and the air 42 degrees. I am, Sir, &c. JAMES HOSKEN, Captain. RUMOURS AFLOAT. We know not how the present debate is to terminate, or not to terminate, nor when it will do so ; but we think there are two professed Liberals to whom some ad monition is required. We mean Lord Minto and Mr. 'l'. B. Macaulay. We believe they are both good men in their way ' • but why should they oppose the general sen timents of the Cabinet, professed and insisted upon by their colleagues, that it would be base on the part of the present Government, and destructive to Ireland, if the present Government were not to remain in office, to try a dissolution ? We fear, that Mr. B. Macaulay is a mere rhetorician, and has not the grasp of mind which suffices for the contemplation of all the consequences likely to result from the mad step of a resignation, and that Lord Minto is so irritated by the necessary recal of his relative, Captain Elliot, from China, where he ha: done immense disservice to the interests of his country, that he will not listen to reason, or abide by the decision of his colleagues. If so, the sooner that he and Mr. B. Macaulay are sent to the Tory side of the HouSe the better. The entire Cabinet are of the opinion that the present Ministry ought to remain in office, whatever the result of the present or future motions may be, until they can make a fair appeal to the country, and at a time when it will neither interrupt the business of Parliament nor put either young or old candidates to seats to any particular inconvenience. As to Lord Minto he has nothing to complain of. He has had everything his own way, and has feathered the nest of his family, if not also his own. Some awkward facts might be brought out, were he to swerve, for one moment, from the all but unanimous verdict of his col leagues. And with regard to Mr. Macaulay, the sooner he retraces his steps the better. We do not go the whole length with Mr. O'Connell in the declaration of his sen timents, although we participate largely in them ; but We must add, that any one who, in fiancial or other dis cussions, leaves 'lreland and repeal of the union out of the question, commits as Napoleon wouli have sail—not a folly, but a crime.—Morning Advertiser. ,NCE. NAVAL INTELLIGE (From the Hampshire Independent.) PORTSMOUTH, MAY 15.—The repairs of the chain pumps at the wood mills, in the Dock-yard, are in ac tive progress ; workmen are employed day and night to expedite thew. The great basin is now dry, and can not be used again until these works are completed. This will occupy about five weeks. The greatest surprise is felt by almost every one that the Vindictive and Warspite, two splendid so gun frigates, fitted up for commission, and ready for a pendant, should hav e b een put i nto ordinary to g i ve p l ace f o r the Dublin, w hi c h s hi p, in consequence of the repairs going on at th e c h a i n - pumps, will not be got ou t o f dock for sever a l wee k s. T he Vindictive, i t w ill be re mnmbered, h as a b attery bow, constructe d b y Mr. Blake, the master shipwright ; the merits of which, every one at all connected with naval matters, seem to wish to have tried. In justice to Mr. Blake, we think his plan of bringing four guns to bear on an enemy in chase, from the bow ports of a 59. gun ship, is so novel a matter in nautical affairs as to &terve attention. We lave said " novel," we might have said impostint. We can see no just cause why this ship, which has been so constructed nearly seven years, should not ere this have been put into commission. Why was she so constructed if she is not to be tried ? (From the Hampshire Telegraph.) The Diver, new steamer, arrived yesterday from the River, in charge of Mr. Henderson, Assistant-Master -Attendant, Plymouth. She has marines on board for the Cornwallis, at Plymouth, and will thence go to Pembreke, with the jury rigging of the Geys'r steamer, to be fitted to the Cambrian, a new 36-gun frigate, for removal to some other port ; she then goes to Cork, arid conveyslroops from that place to Jt•r sey, and carries the present garrison at Jersey to Cork, oiler which she will come to Portsmouth to be armed, fitted, and commissioned. Rear-Admiral Thomas is appointed Commander-in-Chief in the Pacific, as successor to Rear-Admiral Ross. The Dub lin, 50, in this harbour, was yesterday commissioned to bear his flag. The Soudan, iron steamer, Commander Bird Allen, touched at Lisbon on the 2d inst., on her way to the Niger River. The Apollo, troop ship, Mr. W. White commanding, ar rived at Gibraltar on the 27th ult., 44 days from Corfu, and 22 days from Malta, with the 2d battalion of the Gods Rifles, ander the command of Lieut.-Col. Ellis, for Jatcaira, and sailed on the 29th for her destination. The Jaseur arrived at Gibraltar on the 28:h. The Favorite, 18, arrived at Melbourne, Port Philip, from New Zealind. on the 6th December last. The Britomart, 10, Commander Stanley, was at Hobart Town on the I6t h December. The Winchester, 50, wal expected daily at Halifax, on the departure of the last steam packet, on the 19th of April. The Wanderer, 18, left St. Mary's, in the Gambia River, on the 20th March, for the Coast. 7he Brisk, 3, left St. Helena for the Coast, on the 25th of March. The Iris, 26, Captain Nurse, touched at Madeira from Plymouth, on the 4th of April, and sailed for the Cape of Good Hope, on the 7th. The Monarch, 84, Captain Chambers, arrived on Wednesday at Spithead, from Sheerness. The Volage, 28, Captain Elliot, sailed on Wednesday to Sheerness, to be put out of commissit.n. PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS. PROMOTlONS.—Lieutenant—Lord Henry Russell, to the rank of Commander. Mate—George C. Briggs, of the Van guard, to the rank of Lisutenant; Thomas Hodgkinson, to the rank of Lieutenant; G. B. Dewes, mate of the Blenheim, to be Lieutenant of the Herald ; 'l'. H. Sysaght, mate of Welles ley, to be Lieutenant of the Semarang. Clerks—Mr. Hooper, of the Blenheim, to be purser of the Sulphur; Mr. Loney, of the Melville, to be purser of the Semarang ; Mr. Norman, of the Wellesley, to be purser of the La.ne. APPOINTMENTS.—Rear - Admiral—Richard Thome., to the command in the Pacific, vice It 55. Captain—John Jervis Tucker, to the Dublin. Commander—Colson Festing, to the Dublin. L eutenants—B. Haines, John Elliott, and G. J. Burs!em, to the Dublin ; W. J. Lake, to the Bittern ; J. E. Tennant, to be Flag-Lieutenant to Rear-Admiral Sir W. Parker ; Wm. Walser Oke (add.), to the Royal Sovereign yacht, for service in the Asp steam-vessel; T. S. Scriven, ad ditional to the Victory, for service in the Cuckoo. Maqters— W. R. Mudge, to the Dublin; W. Jeffery, to the Bittern; Wm. Bartlett, to the Acorn. Second Master—Wm. Wilkins, to the Cornwallis; Mr. Frederick Wm. Paul, to the Merlin, at Liverpool. Master's A ssi=tant—William Palmer, to the Polyphemus. Pursers—James Sparshott, to the Dublin ; J. Mitchell, to the Bittern. Surgeons —G. W. Johnson, M.D. to the Dublin ; L. F. Cunning ham, M.D., to the Bittern. Assistant-Surgeons —N. Lyttleton, from the Queen, to the Southampton ; Dr. A. El hot, to the Garrison, at Ascension ; F. G. Graham, to the Dublin ; J. S. Burn, to the Bitt-rn. Mates—Chaves E. Molloy, to the Herald; John Cashman, to the Alligator; T. E. Sanders, to the Caledonia ; Edward William Vansittart, to the Cornwallis. Midshipman—J. C. Byng, to the Queen. Gunners—Al. Saunders, from the Vernon to the Cornwallis ; A. Parker, from the Pelican to the Vernon ; A. Richardson, to the Pelican. Boatswain—W. Smith. to the Bittern ; John Stanley, to the Dublin. Carpenters—C. Newton, to the Bit tern ; N. Richardson, to the Dublin. ..... ROYAL MARINES.—PROMOTIONS—Captain John Mon tresor Pitcher, of the Woolwich Division, to be Lieutenant • Colonel, and appoint e d t o P or t smou th ; Brevet Major John Buckley Castieau, to be Captain in the Artillery Companies of Royal Marines; First Lieutenants Wm. Clendon and Caleb Barnes, to be Captains, at Chatham ; First Lieutenant John Colliss, to be Captain, at Portsmouth ; First Lieutenants and Adjutants Peter Martin Mc Kellar and Wm. Wood, to be Captains, at Woolwich; First Lieutenant and Adjutant 'I hos. Stevens to be Captain, at Plymouth ; Lieutenants John Fraser, of the Chatham. Division, and Andrew Roger Savage, of the Woolwich Division, to be First Lieutenants in the Ar:il'ery Companies cf Royal Marines ; Second Lieutenant Chance Penrose Cootie, to be First Lieutenant, at Plymouth ; Second Lieutenant Wm. Grigor Suther, to be First Lieutenant, at Portsmouth; Second Lieut. Henry Edward Delacombe, to be First Lieutenant, at Plymouth ; Second Lieutenant Andrew John Buckingham Hambly, to be First Lieu' ent, at Woolwich ; Second Lieutenant Wm. Ramsay Searle, to be First Lieutenant, at Port•mouth ; Second Lieutenant, Henry Drury, to be First Lieutenant, at Portsmouth ; Second Lieut. George Spencer Perceval Baker, to be First Lieutenant, at Chatham ; Second Lieut. Frederibk Buckland Bluett, to be First Lieutenant, at Portsmouth; Second Lieut. Henry At kins M'Callum, to be First Lieutenant, at Chatham ; Second Lieut. Charles Louis, to be First Lieutenant, at Woolwich. The following gentlemen are ordered to be borne in the Ex cellent for instruction as Marine Cadets :—Messrs. Robert Boyle, C. H. Wilcox, Charles L. Barnard, John Elliot, G. E. 0. Jackson, Henry Spratt, and J. H. Jolliffe.. The following Mates gassed at the Royal Naval College on the 11th instant, for Lieutenants .—Messrs. M. T. Moles worth, (no ship); Henry S. Hellyar (Cornwallis) ; Augustus P. Arkwright (no ship) ; Henry B. Hardman (Volage) ; and Philip Hudson (Caledonia). Air. E. A. Wylde passed for a Commission in the Marine Corps. Jahn C. Weir, Esq., Agent at Haslar Hospital, has retired on superannuation. He is , ueceeded in his situation by Richard Ilallilay, Esq , from Haulbowline Island ; and John Elliott, Esq , Secretary to Admiral Sir Edward Codrington, is ap pointed Storekeeper and Agent Victualler at Cork. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. EPSOM RACES. In the course of the last few days the following horses have arrrived for their engagements at the enstung meeting :- I)EasY.—Van Amburgh, Marshal Soult, Knight of the Whistle, the Duke of Wellington, . Satirist, Mehemet Ali, Galaor, Ermengardis (also in the Oaks), brother to Phos phorus, c by Plenipo out of Bangtail, and c by. Plenipo out of Obelisk's dam. Foil. THE OAKS.—Lampoon, Chuznee, and f by Aluley Moloch out of 31rtery. Foil. PLATES, &c.—The Corsair. The Pl over , L a d y Liver pool, c by The Exquisite out of Alaresfield's dam 3 yrs, All Fours, Black Beck, &c. LATEST BETTING AT THE WEST END. DERBY 11 to 2 agst Ralph 6 to 1 a^st Van Amburgh—taken 8 to I agst Marshal Soult—taken 9 to I agst Coronation 13 to 1 agst Galaor—taken 13 to 1 agst Belgrade —taken 16 to 1 agst Prince Caradoc—taken 24 to I agst Ermengardis 1000 to 20 agst Sir Hans 1000 to 10 agst Rush's lot—taken 1000 to 10 agst Hereford—taken 1000 to 10 agst E. 0. Knight of the Whistle is gone to York. TO 7'HE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Stn,—Knowing the great influence of your valuable Paper, will you allow me to correct a very grievous error which ap pears in your columns of to-day? You state that the meeting of the Society, held on the Ist June, last year, when his Royal Highness Prince Albert took the chair, and accepted the office of President of the Society, is the same as that which yesterday ha-t William Allen for their Chairman, and Daniel O'Connell for a prominent speaker. Now, Sir, in this assertion you may give disp'easure to b.th the Societies. The Society who called the meeting held on the 14th May, never did, and never would find fault with anything Daniel O'Connell ever did, or ever could say. The Society which called the meeting at which Prince Albert presided, though acknowledging, heartily and sincerely, the benefit which the negro cause bad derived through Mr. O'Connell, knew that they should damage the cause on that occasion by giving a pre-eminence to that gentleman. The Committees of these two Societies address themselves to different portions of the public, and by this means, it is be lieved, that much greater benefit accrues to the negro than by their junction. Indeed, Sir, such is the i r.met.se difference of the gentlemen composing the two Committees, that they could not by any possibility amalgamate. 1 am, Sir, your most obedient Servant. May 15, 1841. JUSTUS. CORN-1 AWS IN 1815. We have been favoured with the following handbill, which is in circulation at Manchester. The persons who signed the requisition which it contains, were, as we ire informed, all Tories. Are the sentiments of this , _!lass changed now ? Are their interests changed ? The first name is, we believe, that of the father of Sir Robert Peel. It is; to say the least, a curious document ;we should not, be surprised if a finv weeks, or months, pro duced one of a Tory complexion as least as strong. " MANcnEsicet. IN THE YEAR 1815. —When the Corn-law was introduced into the House of Commons, at the commence ment of 1815, all parties, in the manufacturing districts, merg ing political differences, united in determined opr osition to the proposed bread tax. The following is the requisition which was pre,ented to the Horounhreeves and Cons. ablea of Man chester and Salford : " , We beg you would be pleased to appoint an early public t , meetin of the inhabitants of the tow-us of Manchester an d Salford,' to take into consideration the measures now pendin;; in the House of Commons, relative to the price of corn, and the propriety of petitioning Parliament against the same pass ing into a law : Robert Peel, William Kay, Philips and Lee, Thomas Feel, John Bur.on, William Sandford, James Gordon. George Fraser, Walker and Bower, Thomas Hardman, John Bradshaw, , James Hibbert, John Potter, Peter Ewart, Jer. Fielding, John and Thomas Cooke, Wm. Grant and Brothers Otho Hulme, Hargreaves and Dugdale, William Tate, Thos. Andrew and Sons Edward Turner, Andrew Tomlin, William Boyd, James Heald, Parker and Co., Oakde ii and Taylor, John Whitehead, J. R. Lamb, Watkins and Harbottle, J. Brooks, Chadwick, Clogg, and Co., James Nicholls, Thomas Hollins, Jos. Blair, Worthington, Parker, and Co., John Gray. Benj. Sandford, Jos. Litt, Brooks and Oughton.' " ' In compliance with the above requisition, we appoint a public meeting of the inhabitants of Manchester and Salford, to be held on Monday morining, the 27th instant, in the dining room of the Exchange buildings, at eleven o'clock precisely. " ' H. 11. BIRLEY, Boroughreeve " ' THOMAS WILLIAMS, } ~ of Manchesser. " ' JOSEPH GREEN Constables , " 4 R. HINT:MEV, Boroughreeve " ' RD. Btarnt,oss, , 1 Constables of Salford.'" " 'J. SHRItICATT 8 THE HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD.—The mother of the brothers, Rothschild, a woman of very advanced age and of most respectable character, continues to reside in a small house of humble appearance, in the Jews's street at Frankfort; an honourable feeling prevents her from quitting it. "It is, in that house," she says, " I have seen my chila!ren ssomtrence their fortune it is in that house that I wish to die." She is afraid that Heaven would withdraw its blessings from her chil dren if, through a sentiment of earthly vanity, she should aban don the rtsidenee in which she gave them birth. .- i ,K ~, .. ~: ,y, ~,,,;,,:u,E:,, CORN LAWS, &c. Four petitioners therefore pray, that not only may the limited relief proposed by her Majesty's Government be conceded, but that Parliament may at once proceed to revise the whole of our crude and injurious tariff of Customs Duties, with a view to the abolition of all taxa tion for any other than purposes of revenue, thereby strengthening our amicable and commercial relations with foreign nations, and imparting to our own people that comfort, happiness, and well-being, which employ ment can alone secure. The following petition was presented to the House of Commons on Friday night : "To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parlia ment assembled, "The Petition of James Wilkinson, of Leadenhall street, in the city of London. " Humbly showeth, " That, in Conjunction with others, your petitioner has already prayed your Honourable House for a reduction of the duties on sugar and coffee, so as to enable the working people of this country to obtain a Small portion more than they do at present. "That since your Honourable House has manifested a disposition to take the subject into consideration, the enemies of the British working people have become alarmed, and, under the mask of philanthropy, are en deavouring to circumvent the good intentions of your Honourable House, pretending to be shocked at the in troduction of sugar produced by slave labour. "'That your petitioner hates slavery of every descrip tion, both black and white, as much as he hates hypo crisy, cant, and humbug, and, therefore, hopes your Ho nourable House will not listen to the working people's ' enemies, but proceed with the good work ; should, however, your Honourable House be of opinion that sugar and coffee, produced by slave labour, ought not to be admitted into this country, your petitioner thinks all other articles, produced by the same means, including gold, silver, cotton, wool, dying-drugs, and tobacco, ought to be refused admittance also ; and this the work ing-peoples' enemies cannot, by any twisting or shuffling, successfully dispute. " Your petitioner, therefore, prays that your Honour able louse will cause such laws to be passed as will re duce the duties upon sugar and coffee to not exceeding 50 per cent. on the value of production from British pos sessions, and 75 per cent. from foreign parts ; no matter by what kind of labour produced ; or that all articles produced by slave labour be prohibited. " And your petitioner will ever pray. " May 7, 1841. " JAMES WILKINSON." I ANTI-CORN-LAW DEMONSTRA TION AT SOUTHAMPTON. A public meeting, convened by the Mayor, in com , fliance with a requisition signed by a large number of I the most respectable inhabitants of the - town, was held lat the Guildhall on Thursday. The hour appointed one o'clock ; but befsre that time the Hill was crowded almost to suffocation by persons of all classes, who ap peared to regard the proceedings with intense interest, and who evinced, as a perusal of our Report will show, a determined resolution to strain every nerve—to ex ert all their energies —to rid themselves of those laws whose real object is to swell the possessions of a small section of the community, by stinting a people's food, and at the cost of a nation's prosperity. The meeting was more numerously attended, and its proceedings were of more interest, than any which has been held in Southampton for years. The Mayor having taken the Chair, T. L. HARMAN, EN., moved the resolution that the people felt themselves aggrieved by the Corn-laws. Mr. J. R. KEELE seconded the motion. He came forward on this occasion because, as the father of a large family, be had good reason to fed interest in the discussion of this question. He bad been a long time making up his mind on this great subject, and had read a variety of opinions on both sides_without being able to come to a satisfactory conclusion until the List few weeks, when, on reading the Report of the Committee of the House of Commons on the Import Duties, a light broke in upon his mind, and he felt satisfied that that the Corn-laws were the most cruel, unjust, and unmerciful tax ever imposed on the people of this country,—(Che , ,‘rs.) He called on his trillw.b%v os . men ti assist the Governtnent in removing tiais tax. The resolution was carried unanimously amidst great cheering. Other resolutions to a sin ilar effect, and a p3tition, were unanimously agreed to. Thanks were voted to the Mayor by acclamation. The compliment having been acknowledged, the meeting broke up, after giving three hearty cheers for che ip bread, and three groans for the Duke of Buckinglidtll.—llampshi re Independent. CORN LAWS-LANDLORDS AND TENANTS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Stn,—Although the Ministerial project for amelio rating the wicked Corn-laws is still in favour of the landed interest, tie measure will not be carried if the people do not exert themselves. The aristocracy ought to be satisfi-d with it, and make the most of their estates by dismissing their afents, stewards, commissioners, &c., &c., and becoming more accessible to their tenants. Their estates, especially in the North of England, where the minerals are as valuab!e Ls the surface, are as productive to the above named gentry as to their owners. The best farms and mines are let to them and their connexions on low terms, and the other tenants make up for this species of fraud. Some landlords are ad - sised not to grant leases., so that their tenantry may al ways be at the mercy of their agents, whilst others who have aqetit4, with lawyers in their families, grant short leases which are drawn up in such unintelligible lan guage ;led wrting as to be peceetly worthless to the tenants if they should be such fools as to go to Law with their landlords. The aristocracy should take their affairs into their own hands, and give their tenants clear printed leases which may be understood, and which would not cost one penny exclusive of the stamp. Then they need not fear any change in the Corn-laws, particularly such a one as is proposed by the. Queen's Ministers. In fact, I believe, the cheapness of oats will be a great benefit to the owners and occupiers of pastuie land, for the export of horses from this country, will be immense. Young stock cannot be reared on the Continent, the winters being too cold for them to remain out, and take just the quantity of exercise nature re quires, and toe summers too hot and dry. Young horses shout') be out all the winter and have juicy grass in the summer, as,dvantages which they cannot enjoy on the continent. I am, Sir, your moat obedient servant, A MEMBER OF THE ANTI-CORN-LAW Manchester, May 12, 1841. LEAGUE. TO THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. Fellow-Countrymen,—The subject of the Corn-laws —a subject far more important than any brought for ward this Session—will be brought before Parliament in the beginning of June. Let us hope that the spirit. of " party" will be laid aside, and that all parties will enter the arena of Corn-law monopoly with the deter mination to give this important and great national question that calm and just deliberation which it de serves, and which the happiness and prosperity of the country demands. That there will be great opposition shown to the repeal of those laws by some narrow minded men, there can be no doubt. It therefore be hoves you, my oppressed countrymen, to exert your. selves, to send petitions to Parliament for the abolition of those accursed laws—laws that disgrace our Statute. book—laws that deny your children bread—laws that are consigning thousands of your countrymen to misery, starvation, and premature graves! It is a law imposed expressly for the benefit of a few rich and monopolizing landlords at the expense of the poor and industrious classes—you have, therefore, to decide be tween justice and oppression ; and remember, " He who allows oppression shares the crime." It is for you to say whether the monopolizing landlords shall any longer impose a burden upon the poor and industrious classes of England, mis-called free, while those and uli laws that cramp the industry of the people are allowed to exist. Arouse yourselves, then, my countrymen, and show yourselves equal to your task ; throw off the chains of Corn law monopoly, and prose yourselves worthy the name of free men, for " A day—an hour—of virtuous liberty, Is worth a whole eternity in bondage !" In conclusion, I call upon you to let Parliament feel the " pressure from without," that good may be done within. Call forth that mural power which carried the Reform Bill—array yourselves on the side of the poor —on the side of justice, humanity, and religion, and your labours shall be crowned with a glorious victory— the repeal of the tax upon the " staff of life." I remain, &c., &c., DEMOCRAT. City, May 6, 1841. RAILWAY TRAFFIC, &C.—The following is the total amount of traffic on the several railways in England and Scotland (29 in ail) for the last week, that is to say, up to the late,t period to a hid' the several returns are calculated, viz., total amount of passengers conveyed, 222,210. Total re ceipss (including passengers, parcels, carriages,horses, m?r clandise, &c.) 648604 COPY OF A PETITION TO THE COMMONS FROM THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, MANCHESTER, FORWARDED FOR PRESENTATION PER MR. LABOITCHERE, MAY 13, 1841. That your petitioners have heard with great satisfac tion that the dangers which beset the commerce of this country on every side, have, at length, arrested the at tention of Government. That in the opinion of your petitioners the measures proposed by her Majesty's Ministers, so far as they have been disclosed, tend in a wise direction ; and, although not so extensive as your petitioners would desire, are well devised for improving our external intercourse, re lieving, partially, the existing distress of our industrious people, and preserving internal tranquillity. That after a long, careful, and a nx i ous exam i nat i on of the results and bearings of our present commercial system upon the interests of the whole people of these realms, your petitioners do not hesitate respectfully to declare their deliberate conviction to your Honour able House, that unless a course of commercial policy more fair towards foreign nations, more just to wards our own people, and more consonant with the benificent designs of Divine Providence than that which now exists, be forthwith adopted, the most grave and ap palling evils will inevitably ensue. At this moment a very large proportion of people engaged in the manu facture of cotton are deprived of one-third of their cus tomary employment. _ SCOTLAND. ANTI-CORN-LAW MEETINGS. PERTH Towx-COUNCIL.—At an extraordinary meeting of the Town-Council, held upon Tuesday forenoon, Bailie Clunie in the chair, it was agreed to on the motion of Mr. Halley, to petition both Houses of Parliament embodying the statement, that, while the Council adhere to the opinion expressed in a former petition in favour of "an immediate and total repeal of the Corn-laws," they receive with cordial satisfaction the pro posed modification recommended by her Majesty's Mihisters, and petition for the adoption of the reform of the commercial system, in so far as that has been disclosed by the members of Government.—Perth Advertiser. DUNDEE.—In the course of this week, twenty-nine petitions from various public corks, for the repeal of the Corn .laws, have been transmitted to Sir Henry Parnell for presentation to the House of Commons. These petitions have been signed by every workman at the various works with hardly an exception. We understand that petitions are in the course of signature in a great number of other works and in the villages around Dundee. The petition for the repeal of the Corn-laws and the revision of the duties on imports, as agreed on at the - electors' meeting, will, we understand, be sent off to-day (Fri day) signed by about ten thousand electors and other inhabit ants of Dundee. We understand that the Rev. Mr. Gilfilian will deliver a lecture to his congregation, on the Corn-laws, on Monday, when a petition will be sent off ; and we tru4 that other clergymen will follow his oxample.—Dundee Advertiser. KELSO.—On Monday evening, a public meeting of the in habitants of this town, called by thy Convenery, for the pur pose of petitioning Parliament for the abrogation or modifica tion of the existing Corn-laws, was held within the Town-hall here. The meeting was numerously attended. Mr. White, Convener of the Incorporated Trades, was called by acclama tion to the chair, and a petition was moved, seconded, and una nimously adopted, there being only one dissentient yoke. The petition was ordered to be transmitted to the Hon. J. E. Elliot, member for the county, for presentation.— Kelso Chronicle. Anti-Corn-law petitions, have been despatched from the follow ing places : —liorrowsto wness , with 250 signatures •' Loan head, 160 ; Liberton, 120; B ro . anhouse Toll, 100 ; Uphall, 150; Linton, 149; Rodin, 116; Muttonhole, 60; Cra mond , 62. EA RLSTOU N.-A numerous and respectable meeting of the inhabitants of Earlstoun, was held in the Relief Church, on Tuesday evening last, for the purpose of adopting and trans mitting a petition to Parliament, for the total abolition of the Corn-laws. The Rev. Mr. Durie being present, was unani mously called to the chair. Mr. Tully then moved a series of resolutions, which were cordially responded to by the meeting ; after which Mr. Cranstoun moved that a petition be forwarded fir presentation to the House of Commons, founded upon said resolutions, which was unanimously agreed to. A Com mittee having been appointed to superintend the subscription of the petition and its transmission, and a vote of thanks having been given to the chairman the very interesting meeting then dismissed, after unanimously appending their names to the petition: STIKLINC. —On Tuesday last a very numerous and influen tial meeting of the electors and inhabitants was held in the Justiciary Court-house, called by the Provost, on the requisi tioa of a number of the inhabitants. Bailie Smith having been called to the Chair, in the absence (tithe Provost, various motions were made and agree i to, condemning the tax on corn; and it was carried by a large maj,rity, in opposition to a contrary motion proposed by a supporter of the Charter, to petition Parliament in terms of the rcsolutiJn of the meeting for the total repeal of the tax. MILNATEIORT.—A public meeting was held on Friday last, at Milnathort, with a view to petitioning Parliament against the Corn-laws, and all unnecessary restrictions on trade. Mr. William Shaw occupied the Chair, and various resolutions were passed. In Kinross similar mea,ures are in contem i lation. GLASGOW, MAY 13.—The petition from this city, in favour of a repeal of the Corn-laws, and of a revision of the import duties, after lying for only two days, had, on Monday evening, upwards of fifteen thousand signatures attached to it. It would be presented to the House yesterday. The second divi sion was sent off on Tuesday, and the third division last night. The number of the names down to last night is as follows : Signatures procured on Saturday and Monday ' Dos on Tuesday 6,160 Do. on Wednesday. Total number of names to the petition in four days only There were, besides, petitions despatched from a number of factories and other public works, on each of the above evenings. Signatures. On Monday the number was 25, having Ida On Tuesday the number was 19, having 708 On Wednesday the number was 6, having 2.25 Petitions 5O Sigs. 1838 On Tuesday a petiton was sent off, signed by no less than 86 Dissenting clergymen of this city and neighbourhood. The result of the four day's work is, therefore, as follows : Signatures. General petiti0n.......... Petitions from 50 factories Dissenting clergymen's petition Total number of signatures ... 29,214 —Glasgow Argus. EDINBURGH.—A few days ago, a petition to the House of Commons, praying for a repeal of the laws which now re strict the impoi tation of corn and all other articles of food, was forwarded from Messrs. W. and R. Chambers, publishers, and the various persons in their employment (upwards of 70 in number), to be presenttd by Mr. Macaulay, SLATEFORD.—Two petitions from this neighbourhood were forwarded, with Tuesday's post, to William O. Craig, M.P., for presentation to the House of Commons. One is from the parish of Colinton, signed by 351 persons ; one frt , m the village of Balerno, 108; one from the vitlagellof Hermiston, 41 ; and one from the workmen of Kate's Mill, parish of Co linton, 30. ANTI-Coax- LAW ASSOCIATION. —A meeting of the Anti- Corn-law Association was held in the Hall of the Royal Hotel on Thursday evening—the Dean of Guild in the Chair. There was a very large attendance of members, and all seemed delighted at. the prospect we have now of getting the Corn laws repealed, altered, or materially modifi e d. It was reso l ved to hold a public meeting on the subject, and a Committee was appointed to make the necessary arrangements tor that pur pose. At the close of the meeting tickets were renewed, and several new members added. It was also resolved that every exertion be made to increase the number of members ; and, to facilitate the entry of those who wish to join the Association, tickets were ordered to be left with the Committee, and may be had also of the Secretary at the Herald Office, and at No. 19, Constitution-street. —Aberdeen Herald. PUBLIC MEETING AT LEITH.__In compliance with a nu merously signed requisition addressed to the Provost, a meeting of the electors of Leith, was held on Friday, in the Exchange Building, " for the purpose of addressing the Ministers if the Crown, praying that they will net abandon the country by re: gnation of office at this important crisis of public affairs," Amongst those present were Adam White, Esq., of Fens; Rallies Thom, Muir, and Alexander ; Councillors Mitchell and Gibbs; Treasurer Watson, Convenor Ferney, John Veitch, Esq., of Woodside; James Miller, Esq. ; Robert Lauri*, E=q. ; William Ta)lor, Esq. ; James Hai', Esq., &c. Bailie Timm having been called to the Chair, observed that the absence of Provost Reoch from the meeting was in con sequence of the loss of one of his family--nothing but that would have prevented him from attending. Having read the requisition calling the meeting, he expressed a hope that those gentlemen who might address the meeting would have a patient and peaceable hearing. Mr. WHITE then rose and said, that an address had been prepared for the occasion, which the Clerk would read. The address having been read, Mr. White said, he hoped the ad dress which had nosy been read would meet with the approba tion of the meeting generally. If that was the case, he had to propose that it be immediately 1 irwarded to Lord Mel bourne. A great deal of abuse Lad been heaped upon her Majesty's Ministers, who had always been anxious to do good, and were prevented solely by a captious opposition from doing a great deal more. He hoped the adoption of the address he had the pleasure of moving, would be the means of making other towns and burghs follow the example of Leith.—(Ap plause.) Mr. BERRY seconded the motion in a speech of some length. Mr. Pnit.ir proposed that the address should be seat off without delay. The address having been again read, was unanimously agreed to, and thanks hayin g been voted to Bailie Thom for his conduct in the chair, the meeting, which was numerously attended, separated. XECUTION OF TIIE CROSSIfII.L lIIIIRDERERS.—Dennis Duolan and Patrick Redding were executed on Friday morning at Crosshill, about three miles north of Glasgow, in pursuance of the sentence of the Justiciary Circuit Court held at Glas gow upon the 22d ultimo, for the murder of John Green, ganger upon the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway. The two unfortunate men were conveyed to the place of execution in a cart, and leit Glasgow jail at eight o'clock in the morning, under a strong escort of cavalry and infantry. The crowd present at the execution was calculated to amount to about 50,000, but the greatest order and decorum prevailed, and the masses began to move off whenever the men were executed. In addition to a large polies force, there was upon the ground two pieces of artillery, nearly 600 men belonging to the 58th regiment of foot, and our troops of the Ist Huy al Dragoons. The General Steam Navigation Company's vessel the Ocean, J. Fife, from Rotterdam, arriled of the Custom House yesterday with the Dutch mail. -- SUGAR DUTIES. TO THE. EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR-I rejoice at the measures taken by her Ma. jesty's Ministers ; they are not only just, but demanded by the greatest number. The monopolists will now declare themselves the enemies of the people, and legis late for themselves to plunder the people. I believe the Whig Ministers will be stronger by a dissolution than ever. I hope the Ministers will come to the country with the cry of " Cheap bread and the Queen," a cry which w ou ld b e un d erstan d much b etter than the old cry of " Church and King." Some of the monopolists endeavour to make it appear that the dif- ference in price to the people on sugar would be about d. per lb, instead of which it would be about 2d. per lb. As regards slave sugar the public are deceived ; we are the only country that use West India sugar. is too dear for any country but this : and so it will be if 12s. extra duty is charged on foreign growth. Ti,e twenty millions is nothing compared with what are now paid. The people of England pay the West India planters on 248,000 tons of sugar, at 281. per ton—extra price for last-year 1840, at least a stun of 7,944,0001., a round sum for West India planters to roll about Cheltenham, Bath, and the West End, in idleness and luxury, at the expense of the poor sugar consumers. By the change in the West Indies the planters are great gainers ; forty-five labourers at 4e. 6d. for four days, do the work of 170 slaves. (See Mr. Gurney's West Indies.) I-hope if the monopolists are to govern this country, that the people of England will set up an Anti-Sugar Society, which will soon bring tl.ese gentlemen to their senses. The fact is, that the parsons, landowners, West India planters, all pull against the people, are they are all enemies to the greatest number ; but the time is last approaching when they will find the people will not be imposed on. I are, &c. May 14. TOCKINGTON. P.S. Cdo you inform me how it is that the very humane planters and anti-slave gentlemen, kind tender-hearted creatures as they all must he, should forget the free labourers in St. Domingo. Why not reduce the duty on their sugar and coffee, and let us have it. Perhaps you can also inform me the price 4)1 labour in growing a cwt. of sugar ; if it is 6s. we are then giving 6s. Ar nothing. There is no more reason why we should keep Wert India planters and land owners riding about in carriages, than we should keep the workhouses supplied with wine for dinner, and brandy for supper. • NG HDITION. CORN-1, A.WS. WESTMINSTER 11 - A requisition, numerously and respectably signed, haT-ifir been presented to the High Bailiff, requesting hint to - . ceinveve a Public Meeting of the Inhabitants of this City, to considet the propriety of retitionng Parliament for the Repeal of the Corn-laws, and a Modification of the Sugar and l um b er and other Fiscal Duti es . T o w hi c h h e h as been pleased to assent by the following Letter : " 40, Jermyn-street, May.ls, 18-11• " Gentleman,—ln reply to the requisition I have received from you, calling on mo to convene a meeting of the Howe' ho'ders (inhabitants) of Vie City of Westminster, to consider the propriety of petitioning Parliament for the Repeal of the Corti-laws, and such a modification of the Sugar and Timb er ' and other fiscal duties, as the meeting may deem re cessanl , I beg to appoint Thursday next, the !:Oth instant, for such meeting, to be held at Covent Garden, at twelve o'clock for one o'clock, precisely, •' Your obedient servant, "FRANCIS SMEDLEY." " To Messrs. Prout and other Requisitionists." The High Bailiff will take the chair at one o'clock precieelfi THE COUNTRY AWAKING.—THE ALTERNATIVE. --So great had become the dejection and apathy of the ceuntilt that we doubted last week whether the people would arouse them elves to suprort the gallant onslaught made by Ati,,i.tef. upon our evil genius —Monopoly. We now doubt no mote. It could hardly be expected th a t t h e country should pass at once from the freezing point to boiling-heat. But the thermomete r is rising ; and we shall yet see the combined phalanx of enoen polists and Tories, natural confederates, broken and overthrows by a demonstration of enlightened public opinion. We en not disguise from ourselves that we have a hard battle to Egh t 'e On former occasions we h ave str i ven to o b tain the means of good government. But the object now is the end contemr lated in our former efforts—plenty, and the happiness of the people. And if we need any other stimulus, let us look at the alternative that lies before us. We have at present— Failing Trade, Intense Misery, and A deficient Revenue. The Government perceive and boldly declare this state .o f things. Those appallin g t ru th s w hi c h h ave been reiterate d 1 0 the ears of the people and the Legislature, by the opponent; of monopoly, for several years past, are now acknowledged by the Ministers of the Crown. They propose a remedy, " le ' which goes to the root of the evil. .They recommend a ckanges entire in principle, most comprehensive in its range, but moderate in degree, to restore our trade, and relieve the people. who thus acqu i r i nge augmented resources, Will enjoy increased comfort, and thereby replenish the revenue. Ministers have rivals, who obstruct their measures. e ger to obtain their places. But if the Opposition should succeed to office, how do they propose to deal with the difficulties of our position? For Declining Trade, for the Misery of the People , they have no remedy. They avoid these subjects as if me sa.all for their notice; and when hard pressed, Me. GouI• burn tells us " they would let things alone." Then these be the chime of the Tories— Fall'ng Trade—They will let alone. The Misery of the People—They will let alone. For deficient Revenue—Two millions of New Taxes. While the Government offer for Failing Trade—The Abolition of Monopoly. Popular Misery—Diminished Burdens Deficient Revenue —Restored Prosperity. Between these parties let the nation choose. But to be 20 effective it must be an active choice. It is not enough to 511 1 —these Whig measures are good—pity they can't carry thetas The only language which befits the occasion is—. These Measures are good— This cause is ours— And we will carry it. Of this let the people be well assured, that no Government , Whig or Tory, can of itself succeed in such measures as these. We urge our countrymen, then to bestir themselves. 114 can never have stronger arguments than now. In all proba bility, they will never h ave greater power. Now, or never, is the time for exertion ; and the spirit of it must be, not the beli e of success, but a fixed and English determination to succeed.-- Sheffield Independent. WAKEFIELD. —The lethargy so long prevalent amongst th . .! reformers in W a k e fi e ld, respect i ng the Corn-laws, has aflengiii given was, the first sign of which m a d e i ts appearance on Sat day last. On th a t day, Joseph Holdsworth, Esq., peoprieforiv e _ the extensive dy e - wor k s, at Belle Isle, dr ew up a petiti on fire support of the Government measures now under consideration: embracing the duties on sugar, coffee, &c. ; and also in support of the project of Ministers for remodelling the laws relating to the importation of foreign corn, which, after receiving t h e vo luntary and unanimous signatures of his numerous and intelli gent workmen, was handed to other parts of the town for the same purpose. On Tuesday, a petition to the same effect , emanating from the pen of W. -lenry Leathern, Esq., went the round of the borough, and was numerously and respectably signed.— Sheffield Independent. If anything could add to the urgency, and indeed the inevit' able necessity, of adopting, in substance, some such measure; as the Ministry now propose, it would be the startling fact tha t our system of excluding the goods and produce of other coi , ' tries by prohibitory duties, is causing them to establish Inv nufaetures for themselves, and to exclude our goods by eountert prohibitory duties. A feeling of animosity i s create d ag ain' us, which manif es t s it se lf in such measures as the Prussian league, the American tariff, the intimation given by the B" t " zis of a hostile tariff as soon as the existing treaty expires, and in general, by the rapid and dangerous spread of an anti commercial system—of which we cannot justly complain , so long as we s e t th e examp l e o f i t as we now no' But this must be looked to before it be too late; and that makes the present crisis at least as impoi tent for the kingd"r as it can be for the Ministry. Napoleon, at the height of his power, could plan nothing worse than the anti-commercial sYs tem for the destruction of the pie sperity of Britain. We have lived to see the day when a system, which is rapidly producing precisely the same results, is keenly defended by the Tories and the monopolists. But the Ministers of our Gracious Queel have stepped forward in the spirit of a manly, just, and n ation: po:icy, and they o ff er to save t h e country. It rests w i t h t .e l people to give the ans wer ; an d l et i t b e g i ven now with th voice ant the strength of a free petiole as it was in the days of Reform.— Scotsman. We regard the d e f ea t b y the Tories of the G propositi on t o re d uce the duty en fo r ei gn sug ar, as a moatovernments grievous evil to the middle and working classes at home' Had this reduction been ass •n'ed to by the House of Commo" , Mr. Labouchere stated that the whole tariff would immediately undergo revision ; and coffee, whieh is now becoming, as this whO'esome berry ought to become, a daily necessary . a t. the working man's table, would soon be sold at one shilling instead of• two shillings per pound —and cheap sugar and cheap coffee might be enj o y e d b y t hi s country, without augmenting the evils of negro slavery in any part of the world—fir 50 per cent is certainly a protection of sufficient magnitude to the free labour producer. At present, after paying the West Indian planters twenty millions sterling, our industrious classes 1"!: being pinched, in or d er th a t more money may b e pu t , the pockets of these West Indian Shylocks. In the eyes of party men, the real welfare of the agricultural and commer cial classes appear as dust in the balance. When will the day arrive, when the public weal shall forM the ruling principle In the actions of our legislators ?— Hereford Times. - We think that the Ministerial budget is entitled to suir rt : It is net tariff reform--it is not free trade—but it is sometbil better than w e h ave at present, and i t is infinitely prefera ble to the additional taxes which must be laid on, if it is not car. ried. We would impress this practical, unexaggerated,,l; partisan view of the question on all our countrmen. ',"„ gift held out by Ministers is worth accepting. 'The motif opposition of philo-blacks and ex-slave drivers, of East Indian monopolsts and West Indian monokists, of rampant ultra.. Royalists and Canadian rebels (as the se Royalists call them) , is not more incon , ruous in its constituent members, than ill fallacies by whiclithey want to cloak their b ase, se lfi s h, short-sighted -end.—Edinburgh Weekly Chronicle. What we may truly call the grand struggle commenced on Friday night week ; and if it be terminated at the time 'we are writing, the result has not yet reached us. We shall endee; visor to communicate the result in a "second edition. We said—" if it be terminated." If what is wall' slated? The debate in the House of Commons may 1)°. terminated--Ministers may be in a minority Minister; may have resigned—Sir Robert Peel may be in c o mmon'' cation with her M a je s t y—or her Majesty may b e abet', to dissolve Pa r li ament , an d to appeal to the genes' ' sense of the United Kingdom. But in whatever oeY matters may stand i n L on d t n , t h ere i s around us all the signs and symptoms of a grei t mo -al and commercial Revel' tion—the " grand Debate" s ort.y begun. Here and there foo,ish Ch ar ti sts are st i l l squt akia t out about the Charter, and f still trying t o fill t h e stomachs of hungry I men with bit; I paper, and t a lk a b out prospect i ve political rights. But sensible Chartists are coming round; they see that a good re! and a good dinner are not, after all, very mighty impediment: in the w a y o f o b ta i n i ng pol i tical power ; and therefore—as been exemplified in Kendal—they are joining the ranks of the agitating free trailers, and swelling th e grea t current which begins, slowly, s t ea dil y , yet ma j est i cally, to sweep over al country.— Kendal Mercury. The whole country is aroused on the subject of the Corn; laws, and p e titi ons are pour i ng i n from all quarters in ' supP ° of the Government measure. __Aberdeen Herald. The petitions for repeal up to the 3rd May, were 204, th e signatures 83,779. Th e p etit i ons aga i nst repeal were I°' th signatures 7847. The proportion is as 11 to I!—Scotsman; The Town Council met to-clay to consider the impertn. questions in r e f erence to corn, sugar, t mber, &c., which ee Alai sty's Ministers h ave j ust declared their intention of mitting to the decision of Parliament ; and on TuesdaY compliance with such a requisition as has seldom been trey' ted to a public offic'r in Mancheste r , a meet i ng of the nibs tants of the borou g h t a k es pl ace f or t h e same purpose. I`;°' — e • of other meetings, held, or to b e h e ld i n this neighbourion. , with copies of petition; and memorials adopted, have so Inuit': plied upon us, that, in the unavoidably crowded state of oar CO' limns, we are wholly unable even to specify the m as we. 7: e have wished, still le s s t o g i ve any report o f t h em. We tlie rnc p h u e b s l t t e e r re a c ri t d in , g v% o .e f bel Tuesday itve, e l l be in asyu venturee a s to that such attempts at disturbance as were made at the Anti - Corn-law meeting, some two months ago, will not again be to; lerated. If any persons should go there in The caragter.a l public disturbers. they will he dealt with as public disturbers ought to be.--Manchester- Guardian of Saturday. A meeting was held on Friday of certain inhabitants, .treeles`' artisans, and woi king-men of the borough of King'isLynn, Norfolk, when a petition was unanimously agreed to in fa,vonr t t a c n r i e m o i r i t ne: to , of the reduction of the Sugar and Timber Duties, and for their peal of the CornAaws. A dutiful and well-written address was also agreed to, caling upon her Majesty to support her Ministers against the Tory faction that fermerly tried to force their way into the Palace. We regret we cannot find room for the petition and address. 'THE MOVEMENT IN IRELAND —MET' trio OF THE CITIZENS OF Du pus. —Under the presideneY of the tr, ly patr i ot i c Earl of Charlemont, the Liberals of th ' . , s city, incl u di ng a ll sections of the great Reform party, crowde d the Royal Exchange yesterday, to give emphatic, expression t, ° their undying hostility to the Tory. Orange faction, the heredv tary oppressors of Ireland. That meeting was—in numtierg , i n the standing and character of those who attended, and in the feeling of determined resistance to a resumption of rang sway, which p erva d e d t h e assembled citizens— everything 'A il ' . the crisis demanded. It was an example of energy and union ta the country ; but at such a period the Reformers in the pro vinces req u i re no examp l e to stimulate them to the promp t performance o f th e i r d uty, when the hand and the heart.° every honest man is required to sustain the Government in efforts on behalf of the people against the combined bigots a" , _ monopolists, who s t r i ve to displace that Government in crdai to maintain and increase their power of starving, grinding, oppres , ing the industrious classes of our population.—Dubi '- Evening Post of Friday. A very Babel has been created in both Houses of the Legislature by the word of fear pronounc•ed by Lord John Russell ; and if there be amon the Fr tc Trade agitators any men who know what the y y• would' b e AO' te, and possess courage and energy to put it in act, -- may say of our legislators as Cromwell. said of the Scots at Dunbar, " The Lord hatli delivered them into my lia nd." — Specfi:t or . THE lIAT TRADE.—There are more than 01 /!. thousa n d j ournemen hatters out of employ in London and the North of E ngland, in consequence of their demanding an aj': n_ vanee of wages arid regulation of prices ; the strike has Co tinned eleven weoks, and there is no ehan , :e of a settlem e This applies to the fur hats ; and as the country sl-,opkeerP:ni not get a supply of their beavers, they are compellei " silk, so that the makers of : the latter sort of goods itrit now r ea r ixg a rich harvest. Wit at *or and any a ,_—