The Sun. — London, England, 1841-06-21 00:00:00

YENIN EDIT lON VerRN-LAMS AND COMMERCIAL '.ll O REFORM. ?Vi a . uN sLnw.—Mr. Sidney Smith lectured at Hounslow on iii t "'Y ening upon the influencei of the existing Corn-laws. ;er the lecture, a resolution was passed attestative of the de ,ght and satisfaction felt by the announcement that G. Byng, had declared himself favourable to the commercial mea -7.e r e e of her Majesty's Ministers. 'I he meetin..T broke up with nsors for the lecturer, Mr. Byng, and the Ministers. petition rural population are forming societies to .1()n against Corn -laws. Troops of rustics with flags at: corntowards Crowborough-common with banners, " _ •bill," do ors. " Cheap Bread," &c., to a large meeting out, of l a W A L ES• —ANI • Corm- L AWMEETINGS. — An Anti- Corrn :iw meeting was held on Monday last in the open air, at B c h : ‘ ,7 r chrug . or. and another, on Tuesday aftern i oo v, n . , i_o at o _, About three thousand people attende‘, unu i, uziy condemned the bread-tax. E L .E uT----v:N- MO VE:dENTS. A v \ OF oNno CI IT - L or TWAY brieral raeetfg - - tr.--ParosußE q the Committee fet promoting the return TRICKERY.- of : t 67.1",iber0l 'cadidates for the reftesentation in Parliament I ,` - '?t:i of London, was lati . on Friday evening, at the th 4 e ' ttuall Tavern, Guildhaltl, Mr. Travers in the chair. From th e TIA'3.I speeches delietred it appeared that the canvass of at ; t'lectors for the Liberal interest were of the most favour , ge description, and that even in the Tory districts there were ti'l...derable e x cit e d t he for their cause. But that which th at excited the feelings of the meeting, was a statement tr' notices were being sedulously served by the Tories on the eel.raisinhabitants, who had already pledged to vote for t h e exer_ ti ons, ho ;so 'as to gain them over by treachery. T w EsT. r,.er, will meet with no second-rate y o . tinterb , last, field _ ' 41NsrEa.—Within an hour after the Tories took the °Perati n Friday week the Liberals quietly commenced their in s ii km- W e h ave i t from the best informed quarters that cu e ,. P r obability the present Hon. Members will walk over the At. - - • !ItnOvesEx.—The requisition to Lord Ddward Russell, in i.,llTig hire to start for the county, isaspitles the electors with the 11:tthat they will yet be represented hy two good Reforme e rs a . li e 1 1 1 Cldciasite: foferarTeadlis. litoozer, that Lord E. Russell has be t c a o r m t for and will therefore decline to s . r equest x• In that case the requisitionists have determined to less the Marquis a Tavistock to come forward. Doubt ro eve r)! Liberal in the county would cheerfully rally ond the ct d s tock. , r.i: a" ar4 of Byng and Russell, or Byng and Tavi a e u , e _ine following resolutions were passed unanirnously . at "1 -' Th "s • ine eting of the Brentford Reform Association : two t wo , „ at, in the opinion of this meeting, it is desirable that f k i r !ral candidates should he proposed for the count y o t se , s ,,x• 2. That as it is the opinion of this meeting that, The.; f i t , n !' Liberal candidate would be returned for this county, lio t ; ! , -d nk it desirable that no time should be lost in an tleeeetZig such candidate to the public." Several new members "exe r io l enrolled, and the meeting pledged itsed to use every his re -turn. 4 tO P ro cure a se con d Lib era l can did a t e , an d to secure (FRoSI A CORRESPONDENT.) ttlrte,l for Harley, Lord Oxford's son, has Iltin er ,', r this county in the Whig interest.' The Tories are ol ar ed ' IS, Sir John ' Walsh their candidate is . excessively . un an(' nothin z but coercing and intimidating the Fifty 11;ntrinIPest:vsinitillers can secure his re-elec . tion. A section of tbe lanoite with the Whigs to give Sir .John a lift back db .• 11 8 To c , (rnom A CORRESPONDENT.) ,P°a'r--The two Liberal candidates (Cobden and 'arc: 11;'and) have addressed the electors, and their return is a ckedidatairstove, the Tory-Chartist, has announced himself as Vr idav e 420 , and is feted by the Stockport Tories. On the , 3 t , Mr. Easby addressed an immense assemblage, and n vet toState, not which prevailed was tremendous, and, we rt.- naccompanied with personal violence. It der at P:airstow s scheme is only t . o go to the bus- Libel, sver hanself of a speech in villification of the ^ eluse 4.4ndid ates, and thereby attempt to damage . the good Ztasby tee-tade. In this he will be partly foiled, as Mr. nildata: Inshlicly announced that he will offer himself eluisy'o also, with the distinct understanding that b ( 'rtiv motive and intention is not to poll a vote,. but , r ty . i %Ito di9aect the Tory Chartist fallacies from the hustings, ary b I k giya an antidote to the nostrums of these receivers of rsitri"es• AN W e wi s h hi m G o d spee d . TI-TO RT ADDRESS TO THE QUEEN.—On Lis4, m or e respectable and influential meeting was held 'fPr e „. ° ! . e, at the paro c hial Catholic Church, for the purpose I ,' he r -4 'g an address oh Majest , praying her not to call h eral "hnils therh easla Toi t ies, r t r he avowed Y enemies of every Li e%te ver y e , and more particularly the enemies of Ireland. e et Iv a - 5 Z. Pr. Fogarty presided, when an Address to that anitnously adopted, and also a vote of en . tire confi- Pr es T'e seP t t he present Administration, and a determination 4 " stat e ° s4PPort the present Ministry, and their enlightened Aveta.bi alba.nlike Policy. The Address, numerously and res ilteell, jti li t g o n h c e d ; was for; arded to Viscount Melbourne, to be Majesty. —Dublin Evening Post. „ „ „ _ D ESTRIICTIVE FIRE. . t °t 4 I ' ll minutes p ast three o'clock this morning, the 'abe !' I lltaii; llaz e - pond,n ear Guy's Hospital, were a . roused by 1- e ham, 'AR out of a most extensive and and calamitous ß firy te a r t kkl II” • ° f llazeiond, in the premises of Messrs.. illi 14enutrrls, extensive oil-merchants, and which join d the e abiz et 8 °T Messra. Fishers leather-factors, and Mr. Ja e ckson . , 441 prqstn • er a t ker, all of which' have . been levelled to the ground. :ti!tecite,e,r,i3i7s,teiodotosheamount, it is stated, of at least 6 0 , 0001 . throwing menabo t u tr t i 7 u O te out of employment. b d solely to the want of , e4to r ; u vw l ' ar( l s s o s f is to o b u e r h attributed solely to the want of tKtliWl n , °an hour elapsed, and from eight t to u t e er . i ces'''here present before a single drop could be obtained. hip ;tentio'n—Ast4hie fli,ghwood, No. 102, wasthet'st‘e o a deep N 4l la r • - •,mrawn to a thick black smoke, intermixed with . d. l iT fl ame risin g up at the rear of the houses in t tl e az in e : 't,hita.,t'e instantly sprang his rattle, and knocked Zt il r l ie ot s h . er Sev eral police.constables came to his a u s p sistance, ti 'al t h e n started for the engines • but before their . t lt ern a b i tire raged with uncontrolled fury. The in ;TN], „,, e ti ature of the property, consisting o th f o oil and oil !_ , ?ier lt '' . 4,!,5' a ccelerating the spreading of devouring t..4,llserpebt,s pro.reretytantihes. after demolishing A essra . Billiter's and 1):, ', th e ~ , in took a south-s . vesterly direction, and 4 es at ~."'ober yard of the factories . and the hop ware , liari. ,nessrs. Nokes which are opposite to where the fire Q'til MI. 4t this junctur i e water ti w u obtained, and the fire in Pess ''. s e pla ce , h. q lift%,the devouringsv at e o le n tu ce en e t x g as uished. During the pro several very narrow escapes . of*le ti ii iat o te.l Y k art e r e ' tbe i oute the Chandos-street men were im ree r wall of Messrs. Fisher's house, t,sstaillyiltoallosudden a tremendous crack was heard, which was in tli,e, /,/ w ell by the falling of the rail ere they had time to c 'ta r4l ld b. tt , t the slightest information as to the cause of then andfit e • oen;,°Dtaine(l.° troth premises are insured in . the Su l _ t "eit o l f '4'e-offices The arched vaults, in which is an immense '''sid es h'Pero, •ar e pposed to have escaped the fire. Le above tl ' iere e are su iliout ten houses damaged. e.. ......................e...-,......... rhat Iv ti 0 ' i , L t;SAL E IN TIM II) AT I O N. I*.e '"t ' a ti me of considerable excitement lilzethe tlnio 4rit , there should be many instances of influence, enkpio,lllg Pretty part of nearly to intimidation, on the Nret j ted ers towards their servants,. is perhaps more to be t'irl P,' on ! Ila n wondered at ; and that, in the struggles l e : /tIr ined t _ ill tills town, such instances have not e oil'eve' "'" all Y "e party, wo are quite prepare , d to be otClen naturally sot' a harsh and desotic cnaracter, ext• ers- labouring- under an . excitement . so strong as tt . -01- 1 ,, : _, ~,,lioe fi,',‘ll their sense of justice, are unfortunately Tliti found on all sides ; and such men, whatever their t-elt l c4l3l)4li "s m• 1 'll occasionally try to forcy 01%1,0.1, leasers ;but it is somet in , tlliars,t,-..oarit t, toafinde'ea'AVni.didates hse.nrdinligewr''oninnd.thiris-, I N ° eMployers, and requesting them, in mantis eatillailzi'ded language certainly, but in language which .. Ile ul bti I e Inista , k en, to ceerce their servants and c r o 'el lithos-aralts e ha ve now before us a litithographed . ci - 'ettir-"graohed • C t mistaken, from the b, writi t ~‘,- , 1. we are no . ,„ bo , l- 1 g i , °I blr George Murray himself, and signed te . r . a :____ "'e can didates,—couched in the following tl.— -r. , • um. ' It ha s b e , Manchester, June 14, 1841. , att ent; been repea.edly and strongly pressed upoii . 'ttiv e ' Ol l by the executive Committee of the Conser 'las • il Pa/13', that there is one element of success which i, the °t lr i t t .heen s 9 fully employed as it might be,—that 4 ttti ori . g ituate influence which attaches to property, dash tt,"111(1 character in society. The number .ot Iran i 444 , "sest3i ng such influence in Manchester is very ( *l ‘? „ , i i and the preponderance of it is believed to be de s: t4l ne(? , ° , ll the Conversative side ; but it is much qu m e e ectirit l'ntther it has yet been exercised with the ‘ sa t _ 11 %1 {);',, utte rgY, and perseverance, which has charae e The insllse by the opposite party. tv„,,e_ portance in the existing crisis, ditil en 't i ,ee to the relief of the country from its present as well with ' 1 41'4, "es, as with reference to its future and permanent l?ars'e, does not seem to admit of any doubt. It ap- Dr"trnegtially clear that a favourable opportunity ilo m ve, t hos e 3 it self for recalling the minds of the people from l oner unsettled views and excited feelings which have too imiZ:nxereised dominion over them ; and to substitute the that "hi of moderate, reflecting, and impartial 4 M itt, 1 4 , 1 41 the state of the world has enabled men, for tie l iee. 11 -I)(l 'ate partizans to aciiiire. 1 , IL ( ' these considerations appear worthy of atten glent,r'ntlit us to request your valuable _ support to tl- 1 , 4e end the active exercise of your influen , c i ! '311t3 wh i. In aY be likely to show deference to you e o_p e i : 'erf —Th' e have th himour to be, Sir, your most b 4.:14 faithful hu e mble servants, 1 , 441 1 GEORGE MURRAY, WILLIAM ENTWISIiE. it, 4 (lic er t he parties to whom the ungrammatical 1, epistle nbt e se l, nor those who read it in our colu . mi ..,, ,, ss_ i l e l `Nitii P-3. moment what is meant by employing 11 431(1,7,4114e influence which attaches to property, station,. n- the!lt'll of tt . r , a eter in society." It is obvious, that the iiite for of the writers (who seem to have as little regard te th,7 relation of masters to their servants, as of verbs _ k 411,17 nominative cases) is to induce employers, and theirgl:trties possessing influence, to coerce and com lieti,jl-Ints and dependants to vote against the con- Pert : 1 nf their own consciences and to give their sup C/4eater ce,,oidates t• 3 whom they are opposed.—Mun ardtan. • - - RAILWAYS. 11,0Nzt (From th e Railway Magazine.) Gazette tha t : 4 . °N AND B RIGHTON.—The Brighton says ilti r , h nn BRlGHTON.—TheWednesday the first trip fr( ) ;Z i t l ir end of the line to Clayton tunnel, six i was made . on the `pith rlghtf.m. A train of seven carriages, decorated th e 114{.., conveyed about 170 persons up the line, for ,f, tI)1111!1)ose of viewing the ceremony of keying the arch terft, last length of the was Patcham tunnel, which _ nbe tit rrll( 'd ii 3• Mr. Strathare, the resident engineer. _ In th e a fortiiiit,Pht Clayton tunnel will be ready to admit ite ls 'age or trains, which will then be able to run i t h o I n a distance of ten miles from Brighton. Only elifiat three miles of the road swill then remain unfinished it s e - t : I A.a Portion of the line is in so forward a state, that t;, ) . 9Pletion will take place in about six weeks. The t•lan.) , have entered into contracts with some, of the a.8 1 :-Itoi t C ,,,,,i, proprietors , for the conveyance of the Dit4Fogers from Ilayward's-heath to Brighton, on the 0,. 14 , 1 oPening Of the road on the 26thinst. ti lt , '''4 ll A' to the difficulty of et tin-* ge.t.ng through tO . 11 , " : 1 , k in sufficient time, with a due regard vre st4lu"tY, though every exertion has been made, *rittill:;r that the opening to Hayward's Heath 14,k_ postponed to the middle of July. Though this a7 t rl a matter of prudence, and .can make no difler -4:lx(?,in the ultimat value of the ' line, the public, whose tti4W .seein s toee been more than usually intense 4 tia, the ening of this line, will naturally feel some hpintment, at this announcement. Nep!s:rot AND EXETER. --The traffic tvtr7ttig from Bath to Bridgewater, , upon this lin e , on the first heii,LaSs, abo u t 802 / . or 3 03/. each day. was At present, we ti t , —e, r r oost of th e coaches still maiutaiu their place on 094. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert attended Divine Ser vice yesterday morning in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The sermon was preached by took his text from the Ist, The Prayers were read 1- . 3 *.ie Rev. Dr. Sleath, who Peter, chap. ii., verse 17. v th - bf by the D . Dr. Wesle •e Eev. Dr. Knapp, the Lessons the Rev. Dr. Sleath, and the Communion Service by Wesley. The Fo- "icy. Dr. Knapp, and the Rev. Dr. sion to the Tim m of Prayer for her Majesty's Acces di - the Te De" -one—the Chaunt was the Earl of Wilton's, Respo” _au and Jubilate was King's, the Sanctus and t i s ..ses, Earl of Wilton's. The Anthem, "In Jewry - known " ( Whitfeld), was sung by Messrs. Haw , xins, Hobbs ' J. B. Sale, and two of the young gentle men of the Choir. Sir George Smart presided at the organ. The Bishop of Norwich, Clerk of the Closet, was in waiting. The Royal Suite consisted of Lady Barham, Hon. Miss Paget), Hon. Miss Anson, Lord Polthnore, Lord George Lennox, lion. Sir William Lumley, Sir Edward Bowater, and Colonel Wemyss. The Duchess of Gloucester, the Princess Sophia, and the Duke of Sussex, visited her Majesty and the Prince yesterday, at Buckingham Palace. Viscount Melbourne had an audience of her .Majesty yesterday. Her Majesty and Prince Albert left Buckingham Palace at half-past one o'clock on Saturday afternoon in an open landau and four to honour the Duke of Devon shire with a visit at his residence at Chiswick. The Equerries in Waiting, Colonelyem yss and Major-Gene ral Sir Edward Bowater, followedin a chariot, and four. Lady Barham, Lady in Waiting, Hon. Miss Anson, Maid of Honour in Waiting, Lord Poltimore, Lord in Wait ing, and Lord George Lennox, Gentleman in Waiting on Prince Albert, occupied another (open) carriage and four. Her Majesty and the Prince returned from Chis wick at half-past five o'clock. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by - the Duchess of Sutherland,. Hon. Miss Paget, Hon. Miss Anson, Lord Poltimore, Hon. Sir William Lumley, Col. Wemyss, and Sir Edward Bowater, honoured the Italian Opera House with their presence on Saturday evening. The Duke of Cambridge went to Kew yesterday morn ing. His Royal Highness attended Divine Service in the church in the forenoon. The Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge attended Divine Service yesterday morning in Grosvenor Chapel. Lady Augusta Somerset was in Waiting on the Royal Duchess. The Duke of Cambridge honoured Sir Henry Halford with his company at. dinner on Saturday evening, at his residence in Curzon-street. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday, at the resi dence of Viscount Melbourne, in South-street. It was attended by all the Ministers except Viscount Palmerston. The Council sat an hour and a half. The Committee of the Baronetage for Privileges met at the Clarendon, and transacted business on Saturday. Despatches from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, and also from the Governors of - Malta and Gibraltar, were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. LITERATURE. SIXTEEN YEARS IN CHILI AND PERU. w s Fisher, London, 1841. We fear that this narrative of a sixteen year's residence in Chili and Peru will go far to illustrate the truth of the old adage that " a great book is a great evil," for it is a heavy, bulky, octavo. volume, a considerable portion of which is almost unreadable, being stuffed with official documents, whose interest or im • portance has long since passed away; with long extracts from different authorities, local and otherwise, respecting Lord Cochrane's naval ac tions off the coast of Chili, while in command of the fleet of that province ; and with parti culars of the great earthquake of 1835 which did so much damage in the neighbourhood of Concepcion, and with which the majority of our readers must be already well acquainted, through the medium of the' newspapers of the time. The best, or at any rate, the most entertaining parts of the work, are those wherein the author describes in detail the manners and customs of the natives of Chili, their severe, protracted struggles for independence, and the disastrous political convulsions which have taken place, since the final emancipation of the province from the mother country, Spain, up to the period of the establishment of the Government now in authority in Chili. On all these points the author writes with the ease and decision of one who is thorovighly master of his subject, and his statements . wear all the appearance of authen ticity. In the course of some incidental allu sions to the earthquake at Valparaiso—that de structive convulsion which, in the year 1835, ravaged so large a portion of the South American coast—he relates a curious anecdote of a bigotted Catholic priest who, in his addresses from the pulpit, attributed the earthquake, and all the other evils that had recently be fallen Chili, " to the pernicious custom of reading heretical books." The Governor of the city of Aconcagua, the place where this clerical fire-brand held forth, was so struck by his dis courses that it gave him an " irreconcileable hatred against books," and he swore " upon the cross of his sword, and before the Lord of Hosts," that he would not spare any volumes which should fall into his hands. Accordingly, he issued strict and precise orders that all the books in the city should be collected, " and on a fixed day and hour, taken to the principal square, and burned." A pile was forthwith made, and the auto-da-fe commenced with a col lection of the Ecclesiastical Observer, which was declared to be a pernicious work; next followed. the Bible of P. Scio; but the spectators, impa tient of the destruction of volumes by ones and and twos, " committed the whole of the books to the flames, and saw them consumed!" Striking illustration this of the spread of intelligence and liberality in Chili ! The bachelor, Sampson Carrasco, who, out of his excess of the practical and matter-of-fact, made a bonfire of Don Quix ote's collection of romances; and the victorious Omar, who, from'sheer wilfulness, destroyed the Alexandrian Library—or at least is said to have done so, for the fact is somewhat doubtful—were paragons of enlightment compared with this thick-skulled Governor of Aconcagua, who was prompted to his disgusting task by mere igno rance and fanaticism. A HAND-BOOK FOR HAMPTON-COURT. Cunningham, London, IS4I. A neat, unassuming little.volume, embellished with several appropriate engravings, whiCh will be found very serviceable to those who may feel disposed, during this fine weather, to take a trip to Hampton Court, and see its paintings, gardens, grounds, &c. STRONG MOVEMENT OF THE IRON-WORKERS IN ABERGAVENNY TO REDUCE THE HIGH PRICE OF MEAT — PRICE OF IRON—STATE OF THE CROPS. ( FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) Several thousands of men who are employed:at the iron works at Merthyr, Dows, Tredegar, and Nant-y-glo have signed a most solemn pledge not to consume any fresh meat till the price is reduced to 4d. per lb. ; at present their dinners are principally of Irish bacon. Very few butchers attended Merthyr market last Saturday; not one tenth part of the meat was sold that is generally disposed of on a market day in the same place. I left Merthyr -yesterday evening ; on the road from thence to Abergavenny I met many butchers returning with their meat unsold. Bar-iron i 3 now selling at the Welsh Iron-works at 61. 10s. per ton ; large quantities may be bought still lower. Now is the time for railroL proprietors to 19. in a stock. In consequenc o the very low price of iron, wages have been reduced 15 per cent. This was indispensable, as the masters, for some months past, have been losing money. The bulk of the workmen are now earning from 20s. to 28s. per week.; Colliers, 18s. to 21s. ; labourers, 10s. per week. The price of bread at the Welsh Iron-works has no effect upon wages ; as a proof of it, in 1839, when wheat was ss. per bushel, the colliers were earning 255. to 30s. per week ; roller men, 39,x.t0 455. : puddlers, 245. to 365. ; carpenters, 21s. to 245. ; masons, 21s. to 265. THE HAY HA RVEST.— From Gloucester to Chepstow, and on to Abergavenny, including Herefordshire, the crops are most luxuriant, many very large ricks have been made and thatched without a drop of rain falling on them. There were some fine showers on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday last, which will he a vast benefit to the after grass, the gardens, and the w heat. Bay is coming down in price rapidly; it will be very cheap. Abergavenny, Jtine 20, 1841. RESIGNATION OF LORD PLUNKET.—The resignation of Lord Plunket—and at this particular juncture— has filled the Tory ranks with exultation and delight. We a-e not at all surprised at it. In the lottery of polities they have drawn a most capital prize—or, rather, the prize has been put into their hands, without ever passing through the process of the wheel. As to the trash which we read in the Tory papers, and which we find fluttering upon every Tory lip we meet, that the movement has been made with a view to provide for Sir John Campbell—to give him a retiring pension of 4,0001. a-year, we remliate it with the utmost scorn. What is 4,0001. a-year to a man of Sir John Campbell's practice and sta.- lion ? Do the persons who put such idle rumours into circu lation imagine that such a man would lend himself to such an arrangement, or that an administration which has been distinguished above all oth ers for retrenchment, eco nomy, and an uncompromising resistance to all schemes of the kind—could be influenued by any such motives? Again, as to the pretence which is put forward, and which the Tories have made their clteval de battaile, that the present move is an indication of weakness, it is equally ridiculous. It is, in short, an evidence of durability and strength. We re gret, we need not repeat, that it has been made. We think it should not be, but it is evidently one of those movements which are growing out of the general arrangement, in order to guard against the inconveniences of re-appointments after the new Parliament shall have assembled. They have committed a gross b:under who imagine that, divided as we are—dis tracted as we are—there is not still a point of reunion. It has been ingeniously hit. The Tories are rampant with joy, in the expectation of insulting the Whig nominee for the Chancellor —the Whigs are indignant at what they consider an affront to their foremost man. Both parties of the Bar remember the treatment which Lord Plunket received from their Eng lish brethren, when he was made Master of the Rolls in Eng land, during Mr. Canning's administration. Let the incoming Chancellor, whoever he is, beware of the application of the lex talionis to his own case. And this we say, irrespectively of parties. Sir Edward Sugden will encounter the same op position as Sir John Campbell. An Irishman is never made Chancello r of England—and when an attempt was made to appoint the first man in Ireland to the Office of Master of the lions, it wa s res i s t e d, and effectually resisted, by the English bar, W e are quite sure that a simila r game can b e p la y ed in Ireland, and with similar success.—Dublin Evening Post. TH sU.JN, LON DON. MONDA. Y, JUNE 21, 1. COUNTY OF CARLOW. ARRIVAL OF MR. O'CONNELL. The contest in this county w ill be one of the most im portant in the Empire. Mr. O'Connell has entered the lists against the exterminators—he has stormed them in their fast nesses, where their uncortunate serfs have been locked up at previous elections. The results are described in the :,üb ,,ined letter from a Correspondent of the Morning Register. Already victory is certain. The pincipal stronghold of the Irish Orange faction will once more be emancipated from their thraldom : CARLOW, FRIDAY EVENING. —Mr. O' Connell arrived here at nine o'clock •ni ednesday night, and so anxious were the people to see and hear hl m , th at severa l thousands remained in the street up to that hour, who, upon being informed that he was about to enter the town, went out to meet him, and greeted him with the m os t en th us i as tic plaudit's: Upon his arrival at Hanlon's Hotel he addressed the people. He told them that the triumph of liberty and geed government net only in the British Empire, but throughout Europe, ,depended at the present moment upon the men of Carlow. If liberty and free institutions triumphed in Britain, they would triumph throughout Europe; and on the other hand, if the base and crue l oligarchy which tram pled upon popular rights, sho u ld ga i n an ascendancy in these countries, the despots of other nations would be able to play the tyrant with impunity, and millions upon millions would continue to groan under the i ron y o k e of the most cruel des potism.- The present was a struggle between the peop le and the oligarchy which had trampled upon them both in Eng land and Ireland, for ages, and he had come to Carlow to tell the honest people there, that the et erna l honour and glory of put ting an end to that cruel despoti•m, was reserved for them, and that after-ages would look back to the men of Carlow as the true emancipators of their country. It an end were put to Orange supremacy in Carlow, it could hardly raise its head in any other part of Ireland. They all knew that his son was a candidate for the representation of the county ; he had come there to canvass fur him, and all he wanted the honest elec tors to do was, to vote according to the dictates of their own consciences—just in the same way as if they had no l andlord, or ally other earthly po t s er t o coe rce them, and he pro mised them, in the face of heaven, that if any elector should be persecuted, or injured in any way, for the honest exercise of his franchise, he should have full indemnity to the last farthing, if he (Mr. O'Connell) was to go round through Eng land and Ireland and keg it from house to house. For he had to tell them they were fighting the battle of the starving English artisan, who wanted cheap bread and employment, as well as their own.—(Cheers.) There should be one uni versal rally of the friends of freedom in both countries, and he promised them that, if success attended their efforts in Car low, there was little doubt that they would be triumphant else where. He called upon the non-electors to influence those who had votes to exercise their right of franchise for the good of their country, in opposition to any dread of persecution or pecuniary interest they might have.—ln a word, he called upon all, after due reflection, to vote as their consciences would dic tate, regardless of consequences, for he again assured them that no man should suffer for having voted honestly. It is un necessary to say that the Hon. and Learned Gentleman was re ceived with the most unbounded and enthusiastic applause. Yesterday (Thursday ), Mr. O'Connell, accompanied by his son John, Mr. Steele, Mr. Reynolds, Mr. O'Neil Daunt, Mr. Fitzgerald, the Rev. Mr. Maher, &c., proceeded to the fair of St. Mullins, in which barony the great strength of Bruen's sup porters reside. It was known for some days previously that Mr. O'Connell would attend the fair; and the people from the districts of Kilkenny, Wexford, and Wicklow, which adjoin Callow, flocked in thousands to meet him. Perhaps never be fore was such a multitude congregated in the same place—the numbers have been estimated at from 80,000 to 100,000, some 2,000 or 3,000 of whom were mounted upon excellent horses, and all manifested a degree of decorum and propriety of conduct which was perfectly illustrative of the great moral revolution caused by the spread of temperance principles. Mr. O'Connell proceeded to a field adjoining the town, and was addressing the immense multitude in language similar to that of the preceding evening in Carlow, when Mr. Charles Doyne, an Orange Magistrate, at the head of about 106 men, entered the same field, and proceeded to address his followers by calling on them to beware of demagogues, to support. their landlords, &c., and thus the rival orators con tinued for a few minutes, when the hearers of Doyne's vapid trash gradually fell off and came over to O'Connell's side of the field, where they were delighted by wit, humour, and elo quence. Some of the people became indignant at Doyne's conduct, and expressed their contempt for him by groans and hisses ; and, although no violence was offered to him, he re quested of Mr. Steele and Mr. John O'Connell to conduct him safely out of the town, which request they at once compliedwith. Mr. O'Connell and his friends returned at a late hour to Car low, and have been all the day sitting in Committee, making preparations for the movements of next week. The success of young O'Connell is now beyond the possibility of a doubt ; and It is the general opinion that Mr. Brownlow Layard will walk in for the borough without a contest. The scene at St. Mullins is thus described by the Correspon dent of the Kilkenny Journal : The rain began to fall in torrents, and continued to descend for several hours. The day became extremely inclement, but the crowds remained as motionless as if the sun were shining down upon them. There were several tents on the ground, but while Mr. O'Connell was present they were untenanted. Mr. O'CoNNEnn rose, and the cheering, for several mi nutes, was deafening. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman stated, that as the weather was so unfavourable for the objects which had brought them there, although, blessed be God, it would be so beneficial to those whose hopes depended on the harvest, he should not detain them long. He would attend a second sime in St. Mullins on Monday next, when he would address them at length. Mr. O'Connell then proceeded to give a history of Orange atrocities, when it was announced that Charles Doyne, agent to Lady Kavanagh and Lord Beresford, was stealing away the electors from the fair-green. At the extremity of the green a small group was pointed out, in the centre of which was' Mr. Doyne, urging them to retreat with him. When the immense crowd learned this fact, there was an immediate rush in the direction of Doyne, and he was soon effectually sur rounded. The carriage from which Mr. O'Connell had been addressing them was then drawn towards the spot where Doyne stood, or rather struggled, and when it reached it a triumphant cheer announced the delight of the people. This was too much for Doyne. Aided by a few drivers, he persisted in his exertions to get the electors away, and so exasperated did the multitude become, that but for the active and hazardous,cxer tions of Mr. John O'Connell, Mr. Steele, Father Maher, and others, as well as the restraint felt in the presence of Mr. O'Connell, Dos or and his followers might have suffered for their daring folly. At length he succeeded in escaping, bring ing with him several of the slaves of St. Mullins. During this riotous scene, the rain fell in a blinding shower, and it was difficult to observe the exciting occurrences which were caused lay Doyne's efforts to bring the electors beyond the magic influence of O'Connell's voice. When Doyne disap peared, the people resumed their places, and Mr. O'Connell continued his address. He commented strongly on the das tardly conduct of those who were afraid to allow the words of truth to be heard. It was impossible to take a single note of what was said, owing to the rain. His speech produced a powerful impression. Mr. O'Neil Daunt, Rev. James Maher, Mr. Reynolds, and others, subsequently addressed the assemblage in speeches that cannot fail to be productive of the best effects. Indeed, the influence of Bruen in St. Mullins has received its first great blow. On Monday next the second will be struck. The Rev. Daniel Maher, P.P. of St. Mullins, entertained Mr. O'Connell and a large party in the evening, after which the Honourable and Learned Gentleman returned to Carlow. To-day Mr. O'Connell and a large number of Liberals will be in Bagenalstown, to-morrow in Rathvilly, on Monday, at Newtown, barony of St. Mullins, and on Tuesday, in Carlow. A correspondent informs us that, whilst the popular party strictly act upon the Temperance principle, and limit them selves to the healthy and pleasant beverage of tea and coffee, the Bruenite faction have opened all the public-hou'es, in order to tempt the people back to drunkenness, that they may the more easily degrade them into their serfs and tools. Letters from Carlow, this day, announce that the triumph of the Liberal cause is secure.—. Dublin Evening Post. SPANISH BONDS. TO RICHARD THORNTON, ESQ., CHAIRMAN OF THE COI. MITTEE'OF PORTUGUESE BONDHOLDERS. My dear Sir--As a very important meeting, which takes place to-morrow in our borough, will deprive me of the pleasure of attending the committee, I have just sketche%l out tilf , outline of a plan for consideration, if you deem it worthy In the absence of a public meeting being convert( d forthwith for the purpose of knoWing the opinion of the bondholders as to the best line of policy to be adopted in future, I think it would be very advisable to have a short, clear, comprehensive, and appealing address to the Mem bers of Parliament, drawn up and forwarded to them with as little delay as possible,—one that would not take more than ten minutes to read, and calling upon them, when in Parliament, to demand that justice• should be done to the bondholders. Amongst the circum stances connected with these claims, I think it only due to the bondholders firmly to maintain that they were prompted to the consideration of these investments from a sympathy towards the sufferings of the emigrants, and in conformity with the divine and natural law which tells every man that he must look upon his fellow-crea ture as his neighbour, and entitled, if in distress, to his assistance and protection. After these addresses have been circulated, it would be advisable to have a list, headed as follows; and carried round to the committee-rooms of the metropolitan mem bers for their signatures, and which might be obtained in one or two days : THE; DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE'S FETE AT CHISWICK. On Saturday afternoon the Duke of Devonshire gave a splendid dejeuner at his beautiful villa at Chiswick, to her Ma esty the Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert. It was a very select party, the invitations being limited to not more than 120, so that tl:e visit of the Queen may be consi dered as private. The preparations, however, were governed with that prince) , allay which always accompanies the fetes of the Noble Duke. The grounds, owing to the recent rains, were beautiful, end the taste with which they are laid out is so well know to all the nobility as to render a descriptive notice altogether unnecessary. Her Majesty the Queen and Prince Albert, attended by Lady Barham, Lady in Waiting; Lord Poltimore, Lord in Waiting; the Hon. reliss Paget, Maid of Honour ; Cul. Wemyss, Equerry in Waiting ; and Lord G. Lennox and Sir E. Bowater whowere in attendance on his Royal Highness Pt ince Albert, arrived at a quarter past one o'clock, and on alighting from the Royal car riage, the Queen and Prince were received by the Duke of De vonshire and Duchess of Sutherland, and were conducted to the Grand Saloon, where were the Duke and Duchess of Su therland, the Marquis of Stafford and the Ladies Leveson Gower, Marquis of Normanby, Earl and Countess of Carlisle, and Lady Mary Howard, Viscount Duncannon, Lady Polti more and family, Viscount Morpeth, the Earl of Burlington's family, Lord J. Russell, with Lord Ribblesdale and family, Viscount and Viscountess Leveson and Sir J. D'Acton, Lady Dover with Lord Clifden and family, Lady Caroline Lascelles and family, Lady Charlotte Greville, Mr. C. Greville, Hon. C. C. and Lady Catherine Cavendish and family, Mr. G. and Mrs. Cavendish, Mr. R. Cavendish ' Mrs. W. Cavendish, Lady Fanny Howard, Mr. and Hon. Mrs. Brand, and other branches of the Cavendish, Howard, and Leveson Gower families. ..... The Queen and his Royal Highness partook of a sumptuous dejeuner, consisting of the choicest delicacies, and served in a style of great splendour. Owing to the uncertain state of the weather, her Majesty was unable to promenade the delightful gardens that surround the villa, and consequently the entertainment was within doors. At a quarter to five her Majesty and Prince Albert took leave of the noble host, and departed with the Royal attend ants for Buckingham Palace, the band in the vestibule playing the National Anthem, both on the arrival of the illustrious visitors and on their departure. A highly respectable assemblage congregated on each side of the road to the Duke's mansion from Turnham-green, and greeted the Queen and Prince with slight cheering. PORTUGAL: The Tagus steamer arrived at Falmouth on Friday evening, from Gibraltar, 10th ; Cadiz, llth ; Lisbon, 14th ; Oporto, 15th; and 16th from Vigo. She brought a Malta mail. Her Majesty's ship Hastings arrived at Gibraltar on the 7th instant from Tarragona. The steamer Great Liverpool passed Gibraltar up the Mediterranean on the same day. The Hydra steam-frigate arrived off the Rock on the 10th, on her way to the West Indies, from Malta and Carthagena. LISBON, JUNE 14.—The Ministerial crisis terminated on Wednesday last, in the formation of the following Cabinet, consisting of two members of the late Administration, and four new bards, viz.:-- President Of the Council and Minister of the Interior Finance War Foreign Affairs Justice Marine On the 1 1th, the new President of the Council appeared at the Chamber of Deputies, where, in accordance with the established usage, he explained the principles upon which his Administration purposed to act. It was their intention at once to withdraw the obnoxious project regarding the militia force, to effect all possible retrenchment in the public expendi ture, and generally to take as their guide the sense of the par• liamentaxy majority. To this, M. Costa Cabral, the Minister of Justice, added that for his own part he had yielded to the wish of his colleagues to withdraw the militia project, but that he felt assured that ere long the whole nation would of its own accord demand the re-establishment of that force. The Finance Minister stated that he would adopt and follow up the plan proposed by his predecessor for the payment of the divi dends to the foreign creditors by means of the contract with the firm of Sampaio and Guimaraes, which had been already laid before the Chamber for confirmation. The finances of this country are in so deplorable a state that their improvement is, or ought to be, the main object sought in every change of Government that takes place. Every now and then some new financier has been taken in hand ; and in every instance have the flattering anticipations formed at the commencement of his career been wofully disappointed at its close. M. Avila, who has now undertaken the ungrateful task, is yet untried, and never having had any experience in that lipe, there certainly are no grounds upon which to rest a hope that he will be more successful than any of those who have gone before him. The next dividends to the foreign creditor:, will probably be paid, but if they are so, it will be by means which cannot often be resorted to. The system of drawing the revenue in advance is an expedient which does not admit of frequent repetition, and must soon become impracticable ; and unless the permanent resources be raised to the level of the expenditure, or the latter reduces to that of the former, bankruptcy, final and irremediable, must ensue at no distant period. . The project regarding the contract with the firm of Sampaio and Guimaraes, for the purpose of raising funds for the pay ment of the next dividends in London, was to have been brought under discussion on Saturday at the Chamber of Depu ties, but it was found necessary to postpone it for a very im portant question stated by Count Taira, and the decision of which, as it would serve to test the strength of the new Ad ministration, it was thought inconvenient to put off. The procession of Corpus Christi took place on the 10th in. stant, and passed off very quietly, although for some days before it was (according to annual custom) rumoured that some poll. tical outbreak would occur. A decree, establishing the mode of selling the national pro perty yet on hand has been published in the official Gazette. Thy following are the different terms of sale, the choice of which is to be left to the purchaser :- 1. One-third in hard cash, one-third in papers of credit, one-thin in the old paper currency. 2. One-sixth in cash, one-sixth in papers of credit (floating debt), one-third in old paper currency, one-third in bonds of the funded debt, internal or external. 3. One-sixth in cash, one-third in old paper currency, three sixths in papers of credit. 4. One tenth in money, three-tenths in old paper currency, six-tenths in bonds of the funded debt. 5. One-tenth in money, three-tenths in old paper currency, six-tenths in papers of credit.. Of these conditions the fourth is the one which the foreign bondholders would find it most to their advantage to adopt, should any of them be disposed to make the trial. It is hard to say whether it would be adviseable for them to do so or not. If the property now offered for sale were as valuable as it is re presented to be, there could the no doubt as to the expediency of the step, for the odds seem to be that, in two or three years more, their bonds will have become mere waste raper. CANDIA. (From the Malta Times of the 31st. ult.) We continue to publish the proclamations of the insurgent Cretans, or Candiots. The dreadful excesses committed by the Albanian troops in suppressing the Greek insurgents of Bulgaria will only strengthen the insurgent Candiots—" Nous verrons." PROCLAMATION OF THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE INSURGENTS TO THE CRETANS. • The Executive body to the inhabitants of Crete. The representatives of the revolted Cretan provinces after having addressed the reports of the people (already signed) to the Three Great Powers of England, France; and Russia, hav ing in view the necessity of seeing a loyal Government esta blished, unceasingly and energetically to watch over the inte rests of the people, and for the future preservation of peace and public order, united in an assembly on the 12(24th) April ; and being then agreed, determined on establishing and have established an executive body composed of five individuals elected by suffrage as follows ; Mons. A. Chmretis, Presdent • Ch. Roussos Bourdoum bakis, Vice President; Geo. Condoxakis, Nicholas Bistakis Demetrius Chrysophopoulos, Members ; Theophraste Chzeretis, Chancellor. The Representatives, with the Executive Body, form a Council. The Executive Body, in announcing its rstablishment, espe cially recommends to the inhabitants of Crete union and good order. Given at Bale of Apocorona, 13th (25th) April, 1841. Signed and sealed A. CII/ERETIS, President. CH. ROUSSOS BOURDOUMBAKIS, Vice-President. G. CONDO X A KIS, N. BI STA KIS, Members. D. CHRYSOPHOPOULOS,} • (L. S.) T. CHAMETIS, Chancel!cr. THE EXECUTIVE BODY TO ALL THE OTTOMANS IN CRETE, Countrymen,—lt is now two months since, being armed, we have raised suppliant cries to the three great Powers of Eng land, France, and Russia, demanding, in the name of humanity that they would furnish us with the rights of men. Since then, countrymen, we have expressed either viva voce, or by writing private or published, those sincere sentiments which our actions have sufficiently confirmed. From what we can perceive, however, an insidious policy keeps you separate from your own interests. Already a governing body, both consultative and executive, has been formed, in order to look after the common interests of our country, and to watch over the tranquillity, good order, and pro.perity of its inhabitants, whose duty it considers it to be to invite you officially not to leave your houses and posses sions to the discretion of the first corner, that not being just, whilst the Government takes care of the general interests of the country as well as of your private affairs. As you well know, officious persons exist, enemies of our country, who, whilst they avoid the attention of those who watch, find plea sure in troubling your affairs in order to give motives for scandal. The Government invites yeu to come forth fearlessly with your families, and look after your own prop ert y , both real and personal. t suffices only 'that you behave decently and honestly, not manifesting any hostile disposition towards us, for you must be well assured that our demands are made as much with a view to your interests as to our own. For your further assurance it is necessary to inform you, that in the Reports we have addressed to the three great Powers, we have stated, " that the Cretans do not desire to drive out, nor do any injury to the Ottoman inhabitants of that country, but, on the contrary, that they may continue to reside in the country which gave them birth, and there enjoy their property, as well as the same rights and privileges as the Christians them selves enjoy without any exception. Such, 0 countrymen ! Such are our sentiments. Do not allow yourselves to be deceived by those whose interest it is to see both you and ourselves disappear from the land of Crete, the dear country of our birth. Given at Bale of Apocorona this 15th (27) April, 1841. A Chwretis, President. Signed Ch. Roussos Bourdoumbakis, Vice-President. and G. Condoxakis. sealed. N. Bistakis memebera. D. Chrysophopoulos. (L. S.) 'l b. Chmretcs, Chancellor. THE WEATHER.--Noorr, JUNt 21. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Barometer Thermometer— 68—Highest 69 ( Lowest ... 46 Ai S. W.—Freezing Point 32 Deg. Win , The inhabitants and passengers of the Rue Neuve Guillemin were thrown voinan into a h c a r d ue l l o s s t t at h e: r f r a e l a a s r o m n and anxiety three evenings ago by the following distress ing scene. A young fwrionndt window wieeff herfor the deathapartment en t on of h etrh the thihusband,third appeared at th e floor, threatening to throw her two children, whom she held in her arms, into the street, and preparatory to this act of madness, commenced casting d o wn various articles of her furni ture and household utensils. This fortunately occupied her a sufficient time to allow the guard of the neighbour ing post to ascend, break open the door, and prevent a catastrophe which appear ed to be immin e nt. Th e un happy mother was taken to an hos p ital, and soirte chil dren ieoftlt neighbours recehlayrittlaybolym' eunntdhesrtaogooka man h r t e ing hi ms elf in of h the care the same house from vexation at the misconduct of his daughter, and this event contributed to the derangement of the poor widow's mind.—Galignani. .. _ THE WORKING CLASSES. The working men of Kendal have sensibly and ju diciously expressed their opinion on the present crisis, in a hand-bill issued on Wednesday last. The working classes generally are close observers ; and although sometimes misled by inducements held out by the gold baits of the monopolists, their real sentiments, when calmly expressed, are in our opinion ever worthy of the highest regard and attention. On the state of parties in Kendal, the following remarks occur : " The working classes of Kendal, having considered the matter in all its bearings, look upon it as their im perative duty to come out and speak boldly and plainly, at a time when the electors Of the borough are being called upon to give their verdict for plenty or scarcity— cheap bread or the shackle of starvation, the continuance of the present accursed Corn-law. They, therefore, view with disgust and the spirit of determined opposition, so far as they are concerned, the attempt to foist upon them to be their representative in Parliament, a man untried and un known, but who, from the principles he holds forth, is manifestly opposed to those most vital interests, in the well-being of which their existence as a manufacturing and producing body depends. Electors of Kendal, we have no votes, but we are determined, notwithstanding, to use our legitimate influence with those that have, in returning a Member safely devoted to our interests. Who G. Bentinck may be, personally, we know but little; we speak of him merely as to the principles for which he has declared himself an advocate. He has briefly and candidly' given you his statement of them, and we, in like manner, would respectfully offer to your notice the objections which we have in reply." The address goes on to show that all our distresses originated with the bad government of the Tories, and that we are now feeling the immense and awful conse quences of their misrule. The bill is signed by the Chairman of the Working Men's Anti-Corn-law Asso ciation.—Kendal Mercury. As a proof of the popularity of Lord John Rus sell in the City, it may be mentioned, that in the ward of Cripplegate alone, which contains 128 voters, the friends of the Noble Lord have obtained 103 positive pledges 'or him A GOOD EXAMPLE.—MEETING OF NON ELECTORS.—Last evening a meeting of non-electors of the borough of Manchester, convened by p?acard, was held in St. George's Fields, in a hollow near St. aileorge's Church, " to take into consideration • the best means to be adopted in order to induce the shopkeepers and other voters immediately dependent upon the labouring classes, to support such candidates only at the ensuing election as will vote for the total, immediate, and uncon ditional repeal of the man-starvation acts." The non-elec tore were called upon with " peace, law, and order"as their motto, to unite as one man to shake the huge edifice of monopoly to its very base. Notwithstanding the rain, there was an assemblage of more than two thousand persons. Mr. Melhearne was called to the chair, and the meeting was addressed by Messrs. Finnigan, M‘Gowan, and many others whose names we did not hear ; and re solutions were adopted to the effect, that the non-elec tors, composing the meeting, having suffered and being still suffermggreat privation and distress from tho effects of monopolies, especially that great monopoly the bread tax, resolved to support those shopkeepers and trades men only who voted for those candidates that avowed tlkemselvcs for a total, unconditional, and immediate re peal of the Corn-laws. The resolution passed unani mously, and with loud cheers ; and it was determined that a committee should be formed to carry out the ob jects of the meeting. The proceedings were conducted throughout in the most orderly and peaceable Manner..-- nchester Guardian. It is really surprising how the Tories can put forward such an election list as they did in the Tinws of yesterday. Any person at all acquainted with elec tion proceedings must be struck with the gross misre presentations which abound in that list. We are.confi dent that if our? Contemporary . turns its attention honestly to it, it will at once perceive and promptly ac knOwledge the errors into which it has been led. The worst feature in theSe misrepreSentations is that they all tend one way ; but it is as evidently the bias of igno rance,. for the blunders are so gross as to preclude their being the inventions of any ingenious falsifier. Perhaps we may here notice a little circumstance which is a most strong proof of the probable stability of the - Govern ment, and of confidence as to the result of the elections. Mr. Le Marchant, who is better acquainted with the state of the constituencies and the state of public feeling than ahnost any other man in the country, has given up a permanent office of 1,5001.-a year to be appointed Se cretary' to the Treasury, an office which he must sur render upon change of Government.—Observer. SHREWSBURY ELECTION.--The contest for the representation of this borough has commenced wit intense interest ; and no wonder— for this is a vita: struggle on behalf of the working and trading classes here and everywhere, against oppressive monopolising classes. The candidates in favour of a new order of things—in favour of free competition in trade and com merce all over the world,' for the sake of promoting an interchange of benefits, and thus promoting civilization and peace all over the world—the candidates in Shrews bury, on these principles, are General Sir L. Jones Parry, and Christopher Temple, Esq., of the Chancery Bar.—Shrcicsbury Chronicle. Mr. Grogan, the favoured candidate for the City of Dublin, put forward by the Carlton Club, has saved us from what we had deemed a paramount duty— namely. a full consideration of the results of a Tory Go vernment in Ireland. Mr. Grogan, the organ of Sir Robert Peel, declares that " every man in the country must have seen before this how the fading, blighting, in fluence of Popery was now pervading everything in the land, and was it not time to uproot the. evil—to remove the withering blight of Popery?" In other words, the representative of Sir Robert Peel, the expounder of the Tory policy, would extinguish Popery in the blood of the Papists. Well do we know that Sir Robert Peel has no such diabolical—such downright insane intentions ; but then the party must be kept together by getting up the steam amorig the Orangemen. - Herrings have beep taken during the week upon our coast, but, we are sorry to say, not in such quantities as to render them universally obtainable by the hides trious classes. They are still selling as high as five for sixpence ; but should calm, warm weather ensue, we may expect a plentiful take and cheaper prices.—White haven Herald. THE CITY TRICKSTERS.—On the 29th of April last, a petition from the merchants and traders of the City of London was presented to the House of Com mons, the allegations and prayer of which are as fol lows :—" That your petitioners are of opinion that the present customs' duties and prohibitions are highly de trimental both to the g eneral trade of the country and to th e revenue. That they. have the effect of greatly enhanc ing the prices to the British consumer of many articles of first necessity, and of totally excluding others of foreign growth, thus giving wore than a fair and reasonable pro tection to individuals interested in the produce of the Uni ted Kingdom and its dependencies, and laying a heavy tax on the community without benefit to the revenue." Now, to show the greater degree of importance that was, at that time, attached to obtaining " such alterations in the ex cessive differential duties and restrictions as shall be deemed fair and just 'to the consumer and to the British pro ducer," than to the hackneyed distinctions of Whig or Tory, the following signatures of firms and inei vidual3 of the greatest commercial influence and personal respectability, but who have not been remark able for liberality. in politics, are sufficiently concludve : John Horsley Palmer ; Heath, Furse, and Co. ; Han son, Brothers ; Jacob W arner, Sons, an d C o. ; Samuel Dobree' and Sons ;P. and Van' Notten and CO. , Frederick Huth and Co.'; Bell and Grant ; A. A. Gow er,. N e phews, and Co. ; John Hubbard and Co. ; John Pirie and Co. ; J. and H.-Ranking and ,Co. ; Sampson, B a tard, and Co , ;B radbur y and Gre a t orex ;Chapman, M a rshall,' and C 0..; Robert Farrand. The, list nigh b „ l ar gely extended. With what face can these, or any of them, oppose Lord John Russell? LIST. "It being on record that one hundred million sterling and upwards has been lent by British subjects to various foreign governments, and on which the interest has been fraudulently withheld for a period fluctuating between five and fifteen or more years—whereby an amount of 5,000,0001. is annually withdrawn from this country, or in, other words, a tax of 5,000,000/., is levied on the nation at large,. and individuals in particular, without the solitary satisfaction of this tax re-circulating in the country, leading to hundreds and thousands , : of families, once in the enjoyment of every luxury and comfort in life, being plunged into the most abject state of wretch edness and destitution, we the undersigned are of opi nion this is a case which demands that protection from the British Government which will lead to justice being obtained." On the signatures of the metropolitan Members being granted, the same. should be printed and forwarded to all the principal towns throughout the United Kingdom, where agents, if not honorary, at a trifling expense, might be appointed through our individual influence with the London bank ers and newspaper agents, to pro cure the signatures of the provincial Members of Par liament, and prepare petitions to Parliament for signa tures by the electors at the time of polling at the elections. I do not think the expenses would be great, whilst I calculate on the result As very effectual. Should this plan be approved of our very excellent Se cretaries of State for the Foreign and Home Departments, could soon draw up a very powerful and effective address. With best wishes that the exertions of the Committee may be rewarded by a realization of their expectations. Believe me, very truly, yours, CHARLES COCHRANE. 26, Devonshire -place, Thursday, June 15, 1841. ----- We understand that Ste John Campbell is ap pointed to succeed Lord Plunkett as Lord Chancellor of Ireland. We rejoice in this appointment, from his long and able services, and from the liberal and iorbearirg manner in which he has executed the duties of his otlice as Attorney-Ge n eral; from the important and valua ble amendments of which he has been the author in the law ; but, above all, from his steady and un flinching attachment to the cause of reform. And we are sure our readers will appreciate both the consistency of his conduct and that of the Government in the appointment, when we state, which we do on unquestionable authority, that it has been conferred and accepted on the condition that the usual pension is not to attach to it on his resignation or removal from his new situation. PROTEST -- OF - LIBERAL PEERS AGAINST THE CORN BILL OF . 1815, The Dublin Evening Post has 'republished the protest of the Lords who dissented from the Corn Bill of 1815. To this document will be found attached the names of Grenville and Wellesley, accompanied by that of Chan dos Buckingham, the father of the present Duke : . " 1. Because we arc adverse in principle to all new re straints on commerce. We think it certain that public prosperity is best promoted by leaving uncontrolled the free current of national industry ; and we wit l, rather by well-considered steps, to bring back our coinmercial legislation to th e s t ra i g ht an d simple line of wisdo.m, than to increase the deviation, by subjecting additiona, l and extensive branches of the public interest to fresh syst,mis of artificial and injurious restriction. . "2. Because we think that the great practical rule of leaving all commerce unfettered, applies more peculiarly, and on still stronger grounds of justice, as well as of policy, to the corn trade, than to any other. Irresistible, indeed, must be the necessity which could, in our judg ment, authorise the Legislature to tamper with the sus tenance of the people and to impede the free purchase and sale of that article on which depends the existence of so large a portion of the community. " 3. Because we think that the expectations of ultimate benefit from this measure are founded on a delusive theory. We cannot persuade ourselves that this law will ever contribute to produce plenty, cheapness, or steadiness of price. So long as it operates at all, its ef fects must be the opposite of those. Monopoly is the parent of scarcity, of dearness, and of uncertainty To cut off any of the sources of supply can only tend to lessen its abundance—to close against ourselves the cheapest market for any commodity, must enhance the price at which we purchase it ; and to confine the con sumer of corn to the produce of his own country is to refuse to ourselves the benefit of that provision which Providence itself has made for equalizing :to man the variations of season and climate. " 4. But, whatever may the future consequences of this law, at some distant and uncertain period we see, with pain, that those hopes must be purchased at the expense of a great and present evil. To compel the:consumer to purchase corn dearer at home than it might be imported from abroad, is the immediate practical effect of this law. In this way alone can it operate. Its present protection. its promised extension of agriculture, must result (if at all) from the profits which it creates by keeping up the price of corn to an artificial leveL These future benefits are the consequences ex pected, but, as we confidently believe, erroneously ex pected, from giving a bounty to the grower of corn, by a tax levied on its consumer." . . . . . It assigns other reasons for dissent, and is thus sub scribed : " Augustus Frederick Torrington (Duke of Sussex) Dutton (Marquis of William Frederick Douglas) (Duke of Gloucester) Chandos Buckingham Grenville Montfort Wellesley King Essex Carlisle." DUNCOMBE FOR FINSBURY. - - - A numerous and highly respectable meeting of the electors of Finsbury took place on Friday evening, - at the Belvidere Tavern, Pentonville, for the purpose or enrolling themselves as committeemen, and forming dis trict committees to co-operate throughout the borough ins the re-election of T. S. Dun - combe, sq.; W. Nicholson„ Esq., in the chair. The names ea number of influentic inhabitants from the various parishes having been rea I over, they responded to the call, and consented to b c placed on the committee, and so great was the number 4 )f volunteers, that the list was speedily filled. Mr. HEWITT then rose, and congratulated the meeting on the efficient committee they had just formed, only required the selection of an appropriate and in fluential chairman to direct its energies with success. On former occasions Mr. Duncombe and the, electors of Finsbury had been so fortunate as to secure the able avid zealous services of Mr. Armstrong., an independent M a gibtrate of the county of Middlesex, in that capacity, a - , id in the hope that gentleman would again preside over tlu it future meetings. lie begged to propose him to the electc rs of Fiii. , bury as chairman of the Central Committee ; id the proposition being seconded, was carried by accla mation. Mr. ARMSTRONG then addressed the electors, by sa, y ing, that, arduous as were the duties of the office whit they had just invited him to fill, yet, in looking rouin the room, lie recognized so many coadjutors in his forms labours, and was surrounded by so considerable a portioi of the influential electors of this great metropolitan ho - rough, that he would not shrink from it.—(Cheers.) was now beaten ground to many of them, as well as hi m.- self ; yet he had hoped that the faithful services di w ing the three _Reform Parliaments, of their talented presentative—(Loud cheers)—would have protec/ ;ed them fiona the necessity of traversing it again. I consistent support of civil and religious liberty to its fullest extent, —his untiring efforts in the cause of l iu rnanity,—his- munificent support of the charities of the borough,--and his unwearied attention to its local ilzte rests, and even. the individual wishes of his constitue ots, and the confidence they had reposed in him,—had in duced him to hope that any mere pretender to their suf frages would have been deterred from a futile atte aipt to disturb the harmony and confidence which prevailed between the represented and their representative (Loud cheers.) He was, however, sorry to Say sucl i a pretender was in the field—(Loud cries of No Took e") —a pretender without hope, unmasked by the z. energy, and honest integrity of Mr. Duncombi 3 (Hear, hear)—in an attempt to use the influence of one of his many secretaryships and treasurerships to buy the suffrages of the electors with, with a view, perhaps, at so me future time, to sell them, and now in conseque. ice deprived of the respect of the honoura ble and high-minded, he hopes in a spirit of petty revel ige to annoy and put to expense a representative he cam 3ot displace. If Mr. Tooke was a Reformer at heart, he would not thus throw the apple of discord, with a vie n.' to catch the falling fruit, or by attempting to divide t;6R. Liberal interest, connive at letting in an opponent. - (Hear, hear.) Those cheers assure me you will grie vously disappoint him, and that if he appears on the hustings at all, he will retire from it defeated, ant 1 still more disgraced. Your honourable representative e has stood nine contested elections, and succeeded ii i seven, and were you to examine his recorded vote s and speeches, though doubtless they are as well know] I to you as to myself, you will find him the uniform sup porter of every enlightened measure having for its 01:P -eet the political, civil, or religious civilization of man— kind. I feel certain you will assure to this borough a continuance of those services, and put the pretender to flight, and, to effectually do so, will use your influence in your respective parishes, and with your friends and neighbours, to return your honourable representative, for the fourth time, to Parliament for this borough. Mr. RICHARD TAYLOR said he rose to propose a inkr- tion,;; - which he would give his hearty assent, " That this meeting pledges itself to give its most hearty, honest, and zealous support to T. S. Duncombe, Esq., at the forthcoming election," and took occasion to remark he entirely coincided in the character givan of that Hon. Gentleman by his friend Mr. Armstrong, but he thought his friend had placed that of Mr. Tooke in a too favourable light ; surely Mr. Armstrong, as a for mer inhabitant of St. Andrews, H o lborn, must remember Mr. Tooke the most violent of Tories, and so he remained, until, by changing his politics, he was able to cajole the constituency of Truro to elect him their represen;ative. Mr. Tooke was no Reformer. He was an impostor in po litics; if he professed himself one, it was to serve some similar purpose; he felt certain the electors ot . FinsburY would have nothing to do with him, and that the; would support the motion he now submitted. Mr. BROWN, in a few words, seconded the moi: so n, which was, like the former, enthusiastically carried. Mr. DuiccomnE, on rising to return thanks for thei, confidence reposed is him, and the promised support of the meeting, was asked by an elector, if, in the event of Sir R. Peel becoming Prime Minister, he (Mr. D.) would support him, to which the Hon. Member replied by an emphatic " No ;" but to that other question asked by the same gentleman, Mr. Duncombe said he would more fully reply before he sat down. The Hon. Member then proceeded to express his obligation to so large and re spectable a body of his constituents for appearing there on the present occasion, and congratulated them on having secured the zealous and valuable assistance of his friend Mr. Armstrong as their chairman ; they were under no ordinary obligation to that gentle man ; on former occasions, and on the present., he had left his family to come among them to assist in securing a victory, not to him, Mr. Duncombe merely, kit to the cause they all had at heart. He, Mr. D. re gretted the constituency should be put to this trouble, for he ventured to prophecy his adversary, Mr. Tooke, dare not face the honourable and independent electors o Finsbury, on Islington-green. The lion. Gentleman then denounced Mr. Tooke as the grossest impostor, both in politics and religion, that had ever appeared in public life. —(Cries of "True, true.") It is true, said Mr. D., and he was happy to find his character was so well known by the large and respectable assemblage before him.—(Cheers.) An honourable elector had 'asked him if he would sup , port Sir Robert Peel ; was it likely he would support one he had uniformly opposed for fifteen years, from the commencement of his Parliamentary career ? not unless Sir Robert Peel reversed his polities, and supported mea sures to which be had hitherto been an enemy.—(Cheers.) The same elector also asked him whether he would support the Ministerial measures respecting corn, sugar, and timber?—Surely the Hon. Electo r had- not watched his Parliamentary conduct, nor scrutinized his recorded votes and speeches on this important measure. He (Mr. Duncombe) had been always the determined enemy of monopoly in every form, and more particularly against any, monopoly that interfered with the privileges of the people, or the comforts of the poor.—(Loud cheers.) The Hon. Member concluded his animated, satis Fac tory, and eloquent address, amidst the enthusiastic cheers of the whole meeting. A vote of thanks to the Chairman, for ,his able aibd impartial conduct in the chair, being unanimously car - ried, the meeting separated, giving three hearty cheers for Duncombe, with one cheer more. POST-OFFICE EXPENDITURE. NEW SYSTEM. The cost of management has increased from about 750,000/. in 1839, to about 850,000/. in 1840. 4 Here of course the question arises whether this increase is attri butable to the increase 'in the number of letters. Th at this is the case to some extent is undoubtedly the fact, but as the Whole difference is as much as 100,0001., it be - comes an important question, what fraction of the in.- crease is attributable to that cause ? or in other words, how much of this increased expense would have been in curred had the postage remained on its old footing ? The most important item in the increase is in the transit of the mails, the cost of which, for Great Britain alone, was greater in 1839 by about 34,000/. than in 1838 ; and has again adF•anced by about 33,0001.. in 1840. The cause of this increased expense of nearly 70,0001. in two years is in some measure explained by a reference to the se cond column of the same return, where it appears that the payment for railway conveyance has increased in tla period from about 10,000/. to 51,000/. ; while a reference to the first column of the same Return shows that the ex pense of conveyance by mail-coaches, instead of diminish ing as the railway charge increased, actually increased with it. The explanation of this apparent anomaly is to be found, partly in establishment of the day mails, but chiefly in the fact that the opening of the railways, by diminishing competition on parallel lines, has produced donaille conveyance, amounting, an w. o a u u augmentation some e u the instances, chargeseven cost. From these statements it will appear that the causes which increased the expenditure of 1839 over 1838, were in full operation, so far at least as one important de partment is concerned, for producing a similar increase in 1840 over 1839. How far the increase in other depart ments had an independent tendency to continue, it is not easy to determine ; but that some increase would have oc curred, may fairly be inferred from the actual increase in 1839. Indeed, I may observe, that the increase in the transit postage paid toforeign countries (about 13,0001.) has no relation to Penny. Postage, and that the charge for con veying the letters of the office itself (about 10,0001.) is a mere matter of account, and no real increase of expense ; though of course it is needful to remember that both these items have their effect on the gross receipts. De ducting, therefore, these two sums, together with the 33,0001. mentioned above, we have a remainder of 44,0001. which is probably about the amount of increased expen diture fairly chargeable on Penny Postage. This in creased: expenditure is about six per cent. on the previous amount. It must here be observed, that of the whole increase of 70,0001. in the expense of transmitting the mails, no ap preciable part is referable to the reduced rate of pos h t e a r gc o ; . though of course so far as the increase in the num . letters is concerned, the new day-mails, however in number, must have their just credit assigned that most manifest of an increased rate of expenditure is not and as more overlt is also important to remark here, hatas t the effect in the year in which the increase rapidly the number of railways is i r l a s p idea of the pro bable f o u f rt t h r e a r ns a m ug it m ti e n n g ta t ti h o e n. 1 increasing, the item may be derived mails must be expected to bable future magnitude of this from the fact, that the p ra te of payment from the ways alone, is as high a s 47, This shows that the public Post-office to the Birminteg.ltonnoitola.npderGarnanntundJ.unction Rail [From Mr. pap i e n r. paystransmaisscioonnsihdyerraabillievasas.3 for the increased celerity of t Under the head " Great Britain" it the United Kingdom, 1 b m u ust be deducted from this amount. • The Return gives 903 6771. as the cost of management for is shown that 45,000 . CONTEST FOR EAST CUMBERLAND —A. t length the Tories have screwed their courage to the sticking place; and brought forward an unfortunate gen tleman to abide the pelting . of the pitiless storm from which, four years ago, Sir James Graham was obliged to flee for shelter to Pembroke harbour. EVENING EDIT N. I , ADDRESS TO THE VE NAL AND D CORRUPT ELECTORS IN THE UNITE Di KINGDOM. The country at this moment teems with addresses to incorrupt and independent' voters; but there does not exist, and never has appeared such a thing as , an ddress al u one addresses bed nel t re h nep o spi ivaegrs part of ..)of m u t.ahkei In the si a t ry y , coo o st a t notoriously p re y l o ll u i. t y i le t dv o d e o:, b o a u l iln d n c inconsiderable body. Every one is thinking you, their hey f a o n a y d d e addresses you, t tera a l n iet,hat.s,eof. addresses the which men pu'oli h. Yours are vet.; delicate and private affairs. For the first time it seems to us that you ought to be addressed. Do not ke alarmed. Do not for a moment suppose that we are about to waste words on you in reprobation of bribery, and the baseness of selling your country. Your reply would be the same as that of the Irish jobber who was reproached with the infamy of selling his country :—" Thank heaven," said he, " I have a country to sell." So you thank heaven you have a country to sell, and we are not so idle as to suppose that any arguments of ours could make you ashamed of such infamy We are not about to commit the folly of attempting to wash the blackamoor white. We know that there is no soaping such ns you. Our purpose is to address you with refer ence only to your own interests, and to show you what should be the state of the bribery market in the present great crisis. Our apprehension is, that the monopolists will over reach you and that you will sell yourselves too cheap from ignorance of what you are about in this momentous conjuncture. First you have to observe that none of the Precedents of bribery are applicable to present circumstances. Yen had ten pounds at the last election for voting for a can didate who would govern a third of the kingdom on the principle of coercion instead of conciliation. You cared not a rush for Ireland; you cared, as you delight to express it, for nobody but " number one." Well, but a new question has arisen, which extremely concerns this same " number one." What are the terms on which the same 101. is now offered ? For ten pounds you are to reject a measure of relief, the value of which 10 you may not be less than two, three, four, er five hundred pounds, more or less, according to the scale of yisur circumstances and transactions. Take pen, ink, and paper, and make a sober calcula tion of the amount of your portion of the bread-tax, the sugar duty, and the timber duty, and cast up what the saving would be to you from the proposed measures of Government, You have then to reckon the probable term of your life, and to multiply the yearly saving by the number of years which you may live. This cum you have to compare with the bribe offl3red you for the sacrifice of it. Let us suppose that you have a hundred a year, and a small family to support. We cannot esti mate your benefit from the reduction of the bread -tax, sugar duties, and timber duties, at less than eight pounds ; and let us reckon your life at twenty years purchase : this would give 1601, for refusing which saving a modest gentleman has the assurance -to offer you ten pounds, forsooth ! lie gives you 10/ to rob you of 1601. Why, you should offer him ten pounds, ay, and ten times ten pounds, to obtain for you the proposed relief. It would be well worth your while to compound for .the Iremission of the taxes in a bribe to your briber. It is clearly downright idiocy in you to fix yourself with a charge of hundreds for a paltry bribe of tens. We are prepared to prove that bribery ought to change sides, and that it is more your interest to bribe your candidates to support the measures of relief, than to take a miserable pittance to defeat the much larger benefit proposed for you by the Government. The calculation we have sketched out for you is far from complete. It doe's not include the advantages in which you may be concerned from the extension of com merce, nor the interests which your children have in the proposed relief. Your voice may now not only fix burdens on yourself, but on your posterity. Money saved is money got, and for a miserable trifle will yon sell away the handsome amount of money to be saved and got by yourself and your children after you, by the re duction of heavy and injurious taxes ? • It would be vain to implore you not to he rogues. 11-. A don't be at once rogues and fools. Have a care that the biter is not bit. The monopolist who buys your vote, buys at the same time the power of repaying himself tenfold, or more, out of your pocket. You begin repay ing him with the very next morsel you put into your mouth. As in the sucking pumps, you must throw down a cup of water to make the instrument work so as to bring up tuns, so the monopolist ,throws a few pounds into your pocket to pump it up again at cent. per cent. interest. The mouth with which you give your vote for him pays tolls to him in every morsel that it takes in. You are thus overreached, and heavily the loser by ribery. If the monopolist gave you a hundred pounds f ee your vote, he would not give you the equivalent for w h at he deprives you of. Now we know how useless it would . be to expatiate to you on the cruel injury you do to society' py selling your vote to those who support systems at restriction at the expense of its vital interests; if you profited by the bargain you would trouble yourselves little about the damage to the rest of the com munity, but yet you are not in love with mischief, it is pelf that you are in love with, and we are sire that we only do you justice in supposing that you would not do an injury to your country without some benefit to yourselves—much more, that you would do an injury to your country in which , you yourselves would be sharers. Now this is what you have to consider. One of our great satirists makes his prince of rogues once resolve on an honest line of conduct, because, after the moat anxious consideration, lie could not see how anything was to be got by a knavish course. This is precisely what we would make you understand.. We do not call t u i p o ir t use to the choice of any particular colour because of its 0f 3.-44 u h one b s t e y h — o A n v e c s : might r oil c e a s b sl e,c e a l invite ethetlBleatibted beauty—but we argue that you should be honest in this crisis because you have nothing to gain comparable with with what yOu must lose by any other course of conduct_ Your option is this : Government efibre you n greatt be nefit—the monopolist offers you a paltaT sum that you may forego the greater gain. What mu with a particle of sense, not to mention honesty to you, will hesitate as to the choice ? If you look at the thing in the gross, you will see at once what a bubble bargain the corrupter would drive with you. A great authority in financial statistics, the writer-of a tract called " The Many sacrificed to the Few ne the Food Monopoly," calculates the enhancement of prices by the system improperly called protective, thus : Gram of all kinds £21,860,928 Meat Butter and cheese - 4,246,666 Timber 7,600,000 Tallow £44,790,927 which it equal to seven-eighths of the amount raised by taxation for purposes of revenue in the year 1840. The same authority, in another publication on the in terests favoured at the public expense, estimates the ef fect, direct and indirect, of all to amount to ai burdc' of a hundred millions annually. Now we ask you to consider what is your limn in this enormous burden and what compensation fur it •can be any bribe that die monopolists can offer you. Why. they would bribe you by tens and burden you by hundreds. Their bribe is occasional, annual their burden to be continued through the bribe. Can you be 8* penny knavish and pound foolish as to accede to such terms ? You hear much, no doubt, of the sums subscri bed alt the Carlton Club for your corruption ; but, if: they amount to a million, they are but the hundreth rtirt of the burden which the monopolists annually • imp ose on the country, according to the quoted ealceletion of one of our y best practical economists. No' , if Tml• the venal and corrupt, bear but; a hundredth you . the equivalent of one years' part of the burden, a bribe of a million only gives are bribed with the compensation for one yesre charge,r years to c :iarge, and you and. you are charged 3' . 1 , 611 come, anti your children after you. Will. any t ar. oot of Bedlam consent to so ruinously - losingvery di a fferent gab,' ? Bribery heretofore has been a thing from what bribery is now ; has!' . to talk to you been, ark,d alwap must be, but it is vain • osterons folly, ~- t alive vs hn6 of that ; hu.: it is also, in this crisis,, prepoaurseb es- something for you are to he bribed to deny n i t o N i than tl ie bribe. But incomparably more i; 3:may say, " The monopolist may Kl , T___ oee . A. ,, • e mus e t Y . h o e ur va c l u u p e id o i f ty o . u i r n i a n y te r r i e t s. ' s l e t w i l l .n i l e- iitt-ih:e inl fad your cor triel:ttlPr°lllPs:hisiiiii:nia-nditandhll7.7.--ur ,would amount to then, give you bribes of hundreds, numbers,thousands, n t o d o A rise in Tour rupters not prepared to expeadan w the . inttirests which bad market corresponding , at one ofmild; would raise to mai you have at stake ii! beyondth the mean s of your buyers. sums constituencie s, vb iic ijnotto the prices of corruption x , r t your . hirrupters. You would on such terms c i r ' esent fain cy f briber• ~ ay in We have exemplified the p it ' the gross. We will liolv illustrate very small instance. You have rofession of oon h ear d a vvt p . cern for th e and agricultut tal labourers, interests of the f armers f both which c lasses some of you whom w e now s ome o ss doubtless are. Many of the el farmer and labourers occu pying cottages, with a lit - dde garden, small orchard, or the like, used to make their few pounds a y ea r by the sale of fruit for preserving. The high y ea r of sugart,, for the last two or three, y ears destroyed p. t h e market fur their produce, h . h w le wa 3 - left to rot, or thrown to the pigs. the monopolist ()tiers these poor peo ple a bribe of five or ten pounds to elect him, and to empower Min to put a negative on the reduction of the foreign sugar duties. Why, his bribe will not compen sate for the lost fruit of any one past year, to say no ' thing of the future, or of the enhanced price of food to the little farmer or labourer ; and, poor as the man may be, it would be better worth his while to sell his bed to give a bribe to the candidate to vote against the mono polies, than to receive one to enable the candidate to continue his burdens. The instance we have given shows but a partial effect of one monopoly, and that not the greatest ; but when such are partial effects, what must be the full consequences of the monopolies ? And you have all your own experiences, if you will but consult them. You are all to be found in the same category, or other of the monopolists' oppressions. Yon know what the misery of rising bread and falling wages is; or you know 'how your household economy has suf fered from clear sugar; or you know the bad thrift of using bad timber at a high price; or you know the evils of declining foreign markets through the refusal to take foreign corn in exchange, and the consequent forced growth of foreign manufactures.. And, knowing. these things, you know how to strike the balance between the large reliefs cffered to you by the Government., and the wretched bribe of the monopolists for the continuance of your injurious burdens and impolitic restrictions. ;the man who takes a bribe on such terms is not only a caw , firmed knave„ but a consummate fool.--Examiner. -•-• ,!1