The Sun. — London, England, 1841-04-17 00:00:00

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Moxon, London, 1841. .Mr. B rown i ng, the author of " Paracelsus," . 11 not, we f ear , add much to his reputation by this dramatic attempt, which he entitles " Pippa Passes "—why or wherefore, we are utterly at a loss to determine--and which, it seems, is the first of a series of plays intended to be carried on under the equally enigmatical title of " Bells and most Th e b es t, or at any rate the most intelthrible, account we can give or the pre sent dramatic effort is, that it is a collection of sc enes, strung together without rhyme or reason ; and that at the termination ofeach scene, a young Italia n or ta . lki g t ;irl, by name " Pippa" is heard singing, z in a dialect which, in places, strongly remindsus of the late Mr. Irving's ''Unknown 'Longues." The play, in fact, is throughout a quaint riddle, and as we are not CEdipus, but trnPle Davus, we cannot undertake to solve it. Yet there are some fine things in the drama; one sce ne in particular, between a woman and her paramour after the murder of the former's hus and, exhibits a play of the passions of alternate te nderness and remorse, which satisfies us that ,the auth or p ossesse s sterling dramatic powers. 4here are also severa l poet i c passages i n th e P i ece—a few of which we proceed to extract at r andom. And first, here is a speech of a roman , e youth t o hi s mo th er , the descriptive touches in Which are excellent : " Last year's sunsets and great stais That had a right to come first and see ebb The crimson wave that drifts the sun away— Those crescent moons with notched and burning rims That strengthened into sharp fire, and there stood Impatient of the azure—and that day In March a double rainbow stopped the storm — May's warm , slow, yellow moonlit summer nights — Gone are they, but I have them in my soul." There is much simple truth and force in the following apostrophe addressed by an enthu s!anic young sculptor to his mistress, who is sit ; With him in his studio, while he is endea 2Oring, but in vain, to proceed calmly and me "l°(lically with his statue of Tydeus : " Oh, my life to come? Tydeus must 1),. carved—tis there in cl— „tut how be carved, with you about the chamber? W here must I place you?' When I think that once • T h yl,, room, full of rough block-work, seemed my Heaven W ithout you Shall I ever work again ? G etfairly into my old ways again?— :d e ac h conception stand while, trait by trait, QTY hand transfers its lineaments to stone ? Will they, my fancies, lire near you, any truth ? The live truth—passinc , and repassing me — Sitting besid e me ?" ° SUMMER MORNING. • Hayward, London, 1841. Mr. Mill er i s a poe t w ho has studied in the hestdrawn school—th a t o f nature. All his images are rawn fresh from life, and suggested by his own f e elings, instead of being gleaned, second - hand, fr om ideas supplied by his poetic predecessors. This is particularly the case with his descriptions of natural scenery, and the various emotions they 1 , Bite, in which it is plain to see that the author si ls himself witnessed and felt all that he so h orning" and forcibly paints. His " Summer 4 torni ng " i s a poem w h o lly o f a descriptive cha- R l ter ; it is a s eries of homely rural pictures, ected with great skill ; vividly, but not taw ;lt, coloured; and finished with the care of one ewton's miniature paintings. We give a few c;!sages, which will serve to impress the reader I tti a highly favourable idea of Mr. Miller's poetic powers : On the far sky leans the old ruined mill, Thro' its rent sails the broken sunbeams glow, Gilding the trees that belt the lower hill, And the old thorns which on its summit grow. Only the reedy marsh that sleeps below, With its dwarf bushes, is concealed from view ; And now a straggling thorn its head doth show, Another half :hakes off the smoky blue, Just when the dusty gold streams thro' the heavy dew. And there the hidden river lingering dreams, You scarce can see the banks which round it lie ; That withered trunk, or tree, or shepherd seems, Just as the light of fancy strikes the eye. Even the very sheep which graze hard by, So blend their fleeces with the misty haze, They look like clouds shook from the unsunned sky, Ere morning o'er the eastern hills did blaze— The vision fades as they move further on to graze. What varied colours o'er the landscape play ! The very clouds seem at their ease to lean— And the whole earth to keep glad holiday. The lowliest bush that by the waste is seen, Hath changed its dusky for a golden green In honour of this lovely summer-morn : The rutted roads did never seem so clean, There is no dust upon the wayside thorn, For every bud looks out, as if but newly born ! The lines which we have marked in italics, sess infinite poetic beauty. The word ak l.reams" as applied to the river, is quite Spen -04n; and the line, " The very clouds seem at igeir ease to lean," conveys as perfect an idea of , epo 141 se as could possibly be suggested by the of a Nnation. The freshness, too, and the beauty j us " early morning landscape are happily Hi s( t 'rated by the image of the - buds looking out, as if but newly born." We quote one more Passage, which is remarkable for its cheerful, It tlimated character :- 1 How sweet those rural sounds fleat by the hill ! The grasshopper's shrill chirp rings o'er the ground, The jingling sheep-bells are but seldom still, The clapping gate closes with hollow bound, • There's music in the church-clock's measured sound. The ring-dove's song, how breeze-like comes and goes, Now here, now there, it seems to wander round ; 1 The red-cow's voice along the upland flows, His bass the brindled bull from the far meadow lows. 111/ IRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM Trig MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. (From the Morning Chronicle.) ta We regret to perceive by an account from Canterbury, in b r ether column, that four officers of the 13th and 14th Light to goons, at present stationed at Canterbury, are implicated thPleceedings which may ultimately prove very injurious to t k e nt They are described as Captain Byng Doherty, Cap ,' John Allgood, Captain Edmund Doherty, and Captain , q t l Goddard. Captain is a title often given by courtes to Vattern officers, and we presume that, in the case of at ~ s t two o f the s e officers, the title has been erroneously L te ll• On . looking into the new Annual Army Ct for 1841, published by Mr. Murray, we find be Henry Edward Doherty, and Charles Edmund Do -I,Y, Captains of the 14th, but the only Goddard 4,„% John Hesketh Goddard, a Cornet by purchase Lre 14th, on the 26th July, 1839 ; and the only Allgood, a 67eelot J. H. Allgood, Cornet by purchase in the 13th, on Z22d M ay , 1840. They are all, no doubt, young men, Zticularly the two cornets. The necessity for the interfe- I I Z;e of the police at first does not appear to be very clearly ate out, fur the officers are not described as having done any thief, either to person or property, but to have been merely Ole n o i s y, w hich in young men returning from dinner at O ight is natural enough. But the worst part of the bust was the language held by one of the of f icers, Cornet All- I, to two privates of the 13th—" Go down to the Prince of s tage, and tell your comrades that their officers are eu to the station -house." The message was not de red in vain. A body of soldiers released the officers iZa the station-house by force, breaking in the doors, and t r us g violence to the police. This was a serious con the len, as the young men will experience to their cost, for ea l are held to bail to the sessions, and it is not likely tint the itary authorities will overlook an offence which strikes at Xthe root of all discipline. How can these officers maintain Z e r authority over soldiers whom they have invited to violate e i laws o n their account ? We confe s s we are sorry for ~te young men who, step by step, have been led to acts of t s 'Pable indiscretion, which must prove ultimately most ruinous them. The only thing that can be said for them is, that the ser who sent for the soldiers must be a mere boy, and it is etilt to put an old head on a young pair of shoulders. (From the Morning Herald.) , The history and mystery of Puseyism is thus satisfactorily 'geed to the logical influenza which has so long pervaded the thools and quadrangles of Oxford. It never can now become 13/ e i demic at Cambridge, for they are there secured from it the opposite study of the mathematics. But in days of when the school logic was taught on the banks of the and when the disciples of Aristotle and BMW divided ‘st learned university, the Popish tendencies of many of the Z e se tutors is still a matter of record in the annals of lite e. The only logic worthy of cultivation is that large, h k jrehensive, and inductive reasoning —the business of 4tt 4 41 life—the bustle and activity of social, civil, and po v t e i L employments. This is the healthy food of the in -4,7746 The real sources of argument are to be found, not in 14;.!totle's Topics, but it - Übe daily exercise of the faculties on 4 ) i d " . , l4l l . affairs ; and the best method to detect sophistry is to `u ti fehance to the authority of fathers and schoolmen, and to I , l ,: t ain the free, independent, and searching spirit of the 1 1 ,,,tant reformation. Nor is the example a Pascal as a to be adduced as any exception to this argument. In 4 44 Provincial Letters" he reasons with all the wit and free aht,. of a Protestant. He was born a mathematician, and he 44 3 derided the technical methods of the schoolmen. These gi ft ." should now be republished and adapted to the exigencies t i a t Te present age. How many s t r iki ng exam ples might be en from th e 6 , Tracts for the Times," and from the wri sttl'elf our living Puseyites, to be shown up by his inimitable (From the Ting es .) It Would be affectation in us to deny that we look forward to te.,u°l contest for Nottingham with the deep est inte it;:„ It has h a pp en ed, by a dispensation w hi c h we cannot re as otherwise than providential, that at this critical season so u r. the Poor-law is actually upon its trial in Parliament, ' dux . t t „.. , nag that short interval of breathing time which Minis ,t,i4i_oave allowed to the country before resuming the dis.. th, t ot' already commenced, a vacancy has occurred in ws_rsre,presentatio n o f that very town whi c h, a b ove all b oa t 's, the friends of the poor would have chosen as the N ot at'Propriate battle-field upon which to test th e p e Is oe feelin g . Th e f r i en d s o f th e poor in N ottingha m seized th e opportun i ty, an d h ave sen t a requisition the se !u" whom even his adversaries must allow to be Pltbli c champion of the cause,—a man whose wh o l e 11 p has been devoted to the interests of the poor--who, kteCrilaraent and out o f Parliament has temperately, reso to Y , and without respect of or parties, stood forward „,7Pose thepersons sa . Poo r-law Amendment Act, and shown himself Itop i l L T sacr i fice ambition, influence, self-interest, and class- Poto-i7l,XLrather than make any compromise upon this cardinal ties, we speak not of Mr. Walter's personal character, or _a lta inments—upon these subjects others may speak 'oak propriety, because, perhaps with more impartiality, 4414 • tves But we clai m f or hi m th e pra i se o f bei n g pre .llll 'lOll. ,t• I Z the fri en d o f the poor, the persevering advocate of reeholuts, the undaunt e d and indefatigable foe of the So- Itot ouss.despo,ism ,• and we feel th a t this assertion can '4l4Bprtt . 5 1 1 ' 1 0 :1, except by tho se who, while they must in their tl t;rn ledge the benevolence of Mr. Walter's intentions, vie soundness of his jaclpzent. THE PRESIDENT STEAMER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Si A—Before the President had her keel laid I ventured to prognosticate, from her dimensions, that she would s not prove a fast goer, and before she was launched I expressed a strong opinion that she would be very subject to lose her rudder. The loss of her rudder, with a slight derangement in her machinery, would leave her at the mercy of the ever-changing winds in the Atlantic, and she need not be despaired of until after the arrival of the next Halifax steamer, which may be expected in about a fortnight hence. Should we not, therefore, say with Cassio of the Nob'e Moor,— " His bark is stoutly timber'd, and his pilot Of very expert and approv'd allowance ; Therefore my hopes, not surfeited to death, Stand in bold cure." Union Club, April 16, Yours, &C., A. B. C. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. (FROM TIIE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.) CHRONICLE.—The Funds have not improved to-days although the proceedings in the case of APLeod leave no doubt of a satisfactory termination—the case having been removed to the Court of the United States by certiorari, and a commis sion issued to take the evidence of Mr. Fox and the Hon. Daniel Webster. In the opinion of American gentlemen with whom we have conversed, these steps are considered to have been taken in order to pave the way for the discharge of the prisoner by legal process—it being quite plain that the only testimony which 31r. Webster or Mr. Fox can give about the affair is, that it is now adopted as a question to be decided be tween the two Governments, agreeably to the principles of the law of nations. It is most likely that Mr. M'Leod will ac cordingly be liberated so soon as the commission containing the evidence of Mr. Webster and Mr. Fox has been reported to the Court. At the date of the advices, brought by the Caledonia steamer, the British Queen had not reached New York, having been obliged to put into Halifax, with damage. Owing to her detention, it was not known that the bills drawn by the United States Bank on 3lessrs. Denison and Co. and Morrison and Co., of London, had been honoured. The Money Market, however, had rallied a little, and stocks of all kinds were looking up. The last cash price for shares of the Bank of the United States at New York was 16i to 17. Exchange on London, 7 to 71-. Mr. Hinchman's bill for legalizing the suspension of specie payments by the banks, and authorising an issue of small notes, had passed both Houses of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, but it was supposed by many that the Governor would inter pose his veto. The belief in Philadelphia. however, was, that he would rather allow the time allowed him of ten days to elapse without returning the bill, in which case it would become law, as silence in these points is held to be consent. Or, at least, that if he returned it with objections, they would not affect the vital parts of the measure, but only the details, so as to admit of the substitution of an amended measure, which would contain all that was required. The first measure which it is supposed would be considered by the special Session of Congress, is the tariff, in conjunction with the exhausted state of the federal treasury, and it is ex pected that. a duty will be imposed on tea and silk, and other articles of luxury, which are at present free. The currency also, and a national bank, with the distribution of the public lands, in connection with the subject of the necessity of local taxation by the States, will certainly occupy the early attention of the Harrison Administration, and he submitted by them for discussion in the special Session of Congress. TIMES.—In the English funds the business transacted was principally confined to sales, which, under the circum stances that stock was not so much in demand as yesterday, when the account was closing, and that the question between this country and America, by the deferring of M'Leod's trial, still appears open, caused some unsteadiness in prices. Hence the decline exhibited in the day's quotations. The New York papers contain a document of great im portance, which is the Bank Bill, passed by both houses of the Pennsylvanian Legislature, and presented on the 29th ult. to the governor. By this it is provided, that the banks of the commonweath are to be liable for the payment of their debts, as individuals are liable, and that the extraor dinary penalties shall be repealed. The banks are to have the privilege of issuing small notes to the amount of 15 per cent. on their capital stocks for a period of five years. The total amount of debts and liabilities, ex clusive of deposit, is not to exceed double the amount of capi tal stock. Ihe stocks held by the banks (excepting those of Pennsylvania) are not to exceed 10 per cent. of their capitals, but the case of investments already made is especially provided for, as with respect to these, none are to be reduced more rapidly than 121 per cent. every ninety days. No officer of a bank is to be permitted to loan its funds, persons eligible as Directors must own stock proportioned to the capital of the bank, and no one is to be Director of more than one bank at a time. With respect to dividends, no dividend at any time is to exceed 7 per cent., and the excess is to form a contingent fund, but during suspension a dividend of 5 per cent. is to be allowed. The Shareholders are authorised to reduce the capi tal to $14,000,000. This Bill, it is expected, the Governor will veto, and the privileges it accords to the insolvent banks seem to he most unreasonable. As for winding up their af fairs, the only measure to prevent further embarrassment, the banks, it is seen, have a renewed p rivile g e of issuing small notes, the most objectionable form of a paper currency, for the long period of five years, so that their liabilities will be in a fair way of increasing rather than diminishing. The share holders of the Banks are still to be allowed a dividend during a period of suspension, that is, those who have embarked in a concern with all its risks, and who of all parties are least enti tled to preference, are to receive their i ncome, while the in nocent noteholder is subject to constant depreciation of his property ; but at the same time it is impossible to tell from what source a dividend is to come while a Bank is in suspension. But perhaps discussion is wasted on a question to which, on the first view of the details, so many objections present them selves. The document is only worth adverting to as another form of banking in America. It may be interesting at this period to know the appropria. tions made for this year for the public services of the United States. They are set forth in full detail in a Report by the clerk of the House of Representatives, which shows that the appropriations for the support of the Government is $8,517,079 ; for the army, `6,041,919; for the naval service, $5,926,337 ; for. fortifications, $485,500; for the Military Academy, $`165,842; for the revolutionary and other pen sioners, $1,044,155 ; for the Indian Department, Treaties, &c., $1,000,968 ; and for private disbursements, $10,055 ; the total amount being $23,191,806. SUN.—The private letters from America give rather an unfavourable view of monetary matters, but notice in some branches of trade a slight increase of activity. No perma nent and extensive improvement in this respect is expected before the political questions now pending between the two countries are in a fairer train of settlement. Money continues very easy in the City, from sheer want of em ployment; but there are said to be some symptoms of a revival in our export trade. The Public Securities felt the influence of the indefi nite character of the advices from America. Consols for immediate transfer were marked 90i- upon the opening of the market; but subsequently gave way to 90, closing at 90 to I f. For May, the highest and only value was 90a to Bank Stock was steady at 172 to and India Stock at 254, but each of these rates was a shade below those of yesterday. Exchequer Bills were worth 15s. to 13s. premium, and India Bonds 2s. premium and par. The New Three-and-a- Half per Cents. were at 991 to. The Foreign Market was exceedingly dull all day. The Active Spanish Bonds realised 23 tot, the New Portuguese 33i, being per cent. lower; the Colombian 22i to and the Mexican 30i to The accounts from Mexico to-day are not at ail favourable in a political point of view. Peruvian Bonds were at 17i, Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents. were firm at 52, and Belgian Old Bonds were marked 1021, or + per cent. below the previous quotation. There is so little doing in this stock, however, that it is almost nominal. Danish Bonds were at 77i to There was some disposition to realize profits on the im provement in the value of the Railway Shares that has oc curred within the last day or two, and the consequence was a alight re-action on yesterday's prices. The bargains effected to-day were most currently on the following terms :—The Great Western 29k, the New 14 1 1 -, the Fifths 71; the London and Birmingham 69, and the South Western 18- premium. Brighton were 3z, Blackwalls4, Eastern Counties 13k, South Eastern 15, Manchester ana Leeds 4, North Midland 21, and Birmingham and Derby 30 discount. Colonial Bank Shares rose to 10, and Lon don and Westminster to 3 premium. The Foreign Exchanges were firm this afternoon, the accounts from Hamburgh being still favourable as regards the rate on London, which was on Tuesday last at 13 41. Here bills at ninety days were negotiated to-day as fol lows:—Paris, 25 67i to 70; Amsterdam, 12 4; Ant werp, 12 31 to -; Hamburgh, 13 9} to a ; Frankfort 150, and Trieste, 10 1i to 2i. THE SUN L LINES ON THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. TO THE ED.lTute OF THE SUN. SIR, —Having seen by your Journal, that the question is again revived as to the authorship of the beautiful lines on the burial of Sir John Moore, I think is may be interest ing to state what I remember on this subject, as tending to confirm Wolfe's claims to be the author. It was, I think, about the year 1810 or 1811, that my enthusiastic friend, Tom Steele, recited to me that effu sion of genius, stating at the same time that it was the composition of his friend Wolfe (not Woolfe, the late Chief Baron, who was also a friend of Steele's). This was the first time I ever heard the lines, but I never heard a doubt raised as to their being Wolfe's, who was generally designated as " the author o' the lines on Sir John Moore." At a later period I became acquainted with Wolfe himself, being invited to meet him by his friend and biographer, Archdeacon Russell, who is brother-in-law of the present Protestant Bishop of Meath. I mention particulars as to persons, as showing that the controversy may be easily set at rest during the present generation, by referring to individuals of high character and eminence, still living. Knowing these circumstances I own I was much sur prised when I first saw a doubt started in a work con s ected with the life of Lord Byron. With respect to the French lines adduced by " Sun tator" in your last number, though referring to an evert which took place long before the Battle of Curunna, it will be necessary to prove that they are found in a work of earlier publication before we have a f glit to conclude that the English lines, which appear to have all the cha racter of an original, are only a translation. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, W. S. VILLIERS SANKEY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. see in your paper of this evening a copy of some French verses taken from the Boulogne Gazette, which are unquestionably the source of the verses which have been called an " Ode," to the memory of Sir John Moore. You say "it appears there will be no end of claimants to this celebrated ode ;" perhaps so, at least, I shall mention one who has long been dumb, and he thought himself as little entitled to any merit for having written the lines as the table on which they were first scrawled. After the death of Sir John Moore, it was but natural tl at the unhappy event, the bravery, and the merits of the departed hero should be much talked of by the young and ardent then in service. Perhaps little else aas thought of by them, and they could little brook the obloquy which it was anticipated would be attempted to be thrown upon the me mory of the fallen hero. Indeed, a short time elapsed ere some of the ill-natured or interested began to show symp toms of kicking at " the dead lion." Some time after his decease, a young midshipman of one of his Majesty's ships lying in the Tagus, was ashore on leave, and enjoying his full tent of mirth, frolic, and mischief, as of all he was eminently capable, though posEessed of highly sen sitive feelings, and an ardently poetical imagination ; he was quite a boy —his education imperfect, and his judgment immature, of course. There was also at that time, at Lisbon, an old Frenchman, named D'Almand ( I am not sure the. I spell his name correctly), and he grew fond of the lively boy, who evinced a respect for age which he perhaps never showed fur anything else, except ing the softer sex. The French veteran repeated such parts of the lines (quoted in your paper of this day) as he could remember, for the conversation had been upon Sir John's death, and the observations of the boy called the verses to the old man's memory. I was present, and the lad borrowed of me a pencil, with which, on the table of the tavern where we were, he wrote, or rather sciawled, in his youthful enthusiasm, the lines which he called " The Warrior's Burial," and those lines are the same, save a few words, which have been since called " an We to the Memory of Sir John Moore." I was about to take a copy of them, but was assured by their young author that I should have a corrected copy on the follow ing morning, which he gave me on a leaf of his log book, and that very led, I think (at least I hope), I can, if necessary produce. But it is of little consequence, for tl .e real author of them is long since dead. I believe he was killed in the Mediterranean, in his Majesty's ser vice, and be never thought half so much of them as he did of some of Dibdin's ballads, though I have heard him sing them at the reque't of his messmates in a beauti fully soft voice, and with great feeling, to an old Irish air, the name of which I forget. Many copies of the lines were given away by Lim. I have been •so long .from England that I have heard nothing of the claims to the verses until I saw The ,Sun of this evening, and that is the only apology I have to offer for trespassing on your time. Your most obedient servant, April 15, 1841. R. A. [The writer of this letter has given his name and address and also the name of the young officer. We hope he will oblige us still further, and produce the leaf of the log book.] ODE ON THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Litteris operant dos, Lucido fulyes oculo. IluosoN edit., by P. Prout. SIR,—A gentleman who calls himself Scrutator, I suppose, from having the luck occasionally to find a mare's nest, has ex pressed, through the Boulogne Gazette, strange misgivings of plagiarism on the part of Chas. Wolfe in respect to the Ode on the Burial of Sir John Moore. Why, Sir, this gentleman must be considerably behind the literature of the age, or he would have known that the question has been long ago decided in the affirmative by the celebrated Father Prout, who concludes his unanswerable statement of facts supporting the originality of the French lines, by suppos in. that t. perhaps Wolfe Tone may have communicated them to his relative, the clergyman, on his return from France," modestly subjoining—" Fides sit penes Intorem."—P. Prout. I suppose this will be sufficient for Scrutator, but I beg to have one word with yourself, as you say " that Wolfe certainly left his right to the honour that has been heaped on him very doubtful ;" and I hope you will allow that you have expressed yourself, perhaps, hastily, when you take into consideration the following circumstances : In the first place, then, Mr. Wolfe acknowledged himself the author of this Ode to numbers, two of whom have already given their testimony in your own columns. Add to this Wolfe's stainless character, placing his word above suspicion. In the next place, you have the evidence of those who were present when the subject was first proposed to him, on which occasion he actually composed some of the stanzas, though not in their present order. Then, consider toe improbability of such a highlymoral cha racter falsely claiming wi:at could not exalt his genius in the eyes of his acquaintance, but might be the occasion of blasting his reputation for ever. Besides, you have, what in most other cases is considered sufficient of itself as establishing authorship, namely, the testi mony of the person who first publishes, and who in this case was Mr. Stewart, at that time Editor of the Newry Comfier ciai Telegraph, and who subsequently edited the Belfast News-letter. Add to all this the number of pretenders who at different times have appeared, and who have been signally defeated, and I think that you must acknowledge that Mr. Wolfe's claim has actually undergone the experimentum crucis. I have the honour to be, Sir, your very obedient servant, JOSEPH MARSHALL. Victory, Portsmouth, April 16. HINTON CHARTER HOUSE ALLOTMENTS. There are few places in which the allotment system has flourished so vigorously as in Hinton Charter House. On Monday last, April 5, the tenants sat down to the half yearly dinner, given to them by Mrs. Symonds, of Hinton Abbey, the proprietor of the land. The rents were punctually paid, and the dinner displayed a plentiful supply of roast beef, veal, and mutton. At one table presided Harold Brooke, Esq., and at the other the Rev. T. Spencer. After dinner Mr. Spencer proposed the healths of Mrs. Symonds, and of Mr. and Mrs. Brooke, which were received with the utmost enthusiam and drunk with long continued cheers. Mr. Brooke re turned thanks in a suitable speech, and proposed the health of the Allotment Tenants. One of the tenants then proposed the health of the Rev. T. Spencer, the tried friend and well wisher of working men. Alter the hearty cheering with-which the toast was rccived bad subsided, Mr. Spencer said ho was much gratified with the kind manner in which they had drank his health, for which he returned them his sincere thanks. Ue had also been pleased with the term " well- w isher," used by the person who had proposed his health. His conscience told him tint it was an appropriate term, for he did most heartily wish them well. But he was glad, after so many years' trial of the allotment system, that there were sub stantial advantages as w e ll as go od wishes ; for several years he had tried to introduce the system without suc cess, but at length it was introduced, and, at that time, be promised them that as long as they kept the rule=, they would find that Mrs. Symonds would keep her en gagements with them which were of the most liberal nature. She had engaged that they should have the land at 305. an acre, without rates or taxes :—bad she kept her promise ?—( Yes ! yes ! ' from all parts of the room. ) She had also promised, what was probably peculiar to this parish, that as long as a tenant observed the rules and kept his ground in cultivation, he should not only keep the land without danger of losing it in his own lifetime, but should, at his death, transfer it to his widow or son, so that all the labour and manure bestowed upon it should be for the benefit either of himielf his family, otherwise one might sow and another reap ; one family might labour( and another receive the fruits of those labours. After making a few remarks upon the importance of cultivating their minds as well as their gardens, Mr. Spencer requested Mrs. Spencer to read some extracts from a book describing some admirable schools, for the working classes, on the Continent, to which they listened with great interest. Mr. Spencer concluded with assuring them that, before ten years were gone by, there would be means provided, in England, for every working man to obtain for his children an education as good as that of which they had just heard. Though the tenants exceed to in number, there has never been any allure in the payment ei rent.—. Wiltshire Independent. - ' TENURE OF LAND. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—You have at last touched on the great cans cof cvi in this and all other countries. It is the large de mands for rent, or the monopoly price of land, which will be found, when we are a little wi-er, to encroach so seriously on profits and wages, or the funds on which the people subsist. It is the tenure of land, that most important of all political institutions, which is the cause of our social evils. Let the Corn-laws be abolished ti-morrow, and the effect would be an increase of wealth and numbers. Did we ever sec increase of wealth and numbers without increase of rent? Rent, then, would ultimately absorb all the benefits which would certainly accrue from that wise change. The land of England belongs allodially to the people of England, though the landlords by law are the present holders. The law has given the land to the land holders, and the law, therefore, can take it away. But the beginning of the beginning is a Property-tax, or a tax upon rent. Without this the abolition of the Corn-laws would be only a temporary benefit. Liverpool. J. H. THE CHINESE EXPEDITION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—When the expedition, that was expected to work a change in the disposition of the Chinese Government, and perhaps to affect its future destinies, first arrived off Macao, great was the exultation of our countrymen so long living upon hive, to see so many of their fellow subjects come to their assistance, and brighter praspects opened upon them. Well might their expectations be raised, when they saw such a force arrayed before them of men and ships, besides the vessels of war still to arrive. " Now," said the persecuted merchants, " we shall see something done to humble our oppressors at Canton. The Bogue forts sill be taken, the rivers ascended, and the great pro vincial city lay at our mercy. A strict blockade will be declared. All the junks, without exception, will be laid hold of, and every coercive measure adopted that may strai en or distress them, except reducing that large and populous place to ashes. We have, indeed, been hardly dealt with, and must have redress ; but, greatly as we bare suffered, far be it from us to seek it at the expense of the lives and properties of so many human beings who have bad no hand in the infliction. Let the city be taken, if it can be done without risk to its existence, in which there can be but little difficulty, and our triumph be made complete on the very site of our disgrace. Terms may be dictated to Governor Lin from his own palace by our Commander-in-Chief, sitting in the sanctum sancturum of Chinese pride and mock dignity, and the Imperial " yellow screen" be removed for the oc casion, that all men may see him face to face as the representative of a nation that discards all mystery in its dealings,, and t qually abhors fraud and violence. There is no other place in the empire where money can so easily be raised, or where it is so plentiful. Every exertion will be made to relieve themselves from our presence ; the means procured to meet our pecuniary demands, and per haps every other point adjusted. To satisfy ourselves that the final arrangement has the anction of the Empe ror, some of the men-of-war should proceed to the Pella°, and transmit a communication to the Court of the nature of our grievances, and the settlement we require, to en. force which, they may say—' We have already taken the Bogue forts, and the forces we left behind were about to possess themselves of Canton.' The men-of war, as they passed along, should enter all the ports that were accessible, and known to be places of importance far their population and trade, and destroy the fortifications and war junks. Cruisers should be left before them, to La:event the entrance cr exit of native vessels; and if men can be spared for the purpose, scud all they could lay hands on to sonic place where ibey can be safely kept until a final settlement may be effected. NDON, SATURDAY, APRIL l7, 1841. Then, and not before, all should be restored to their owners, as free from injury as circumstances would allow. Chusan can be taken at any time, if the other measures should fail of succeeding. An alarm will be rung from one end of China to the other, and the Court will hasten on an accommodation." _ Such were likely to be the sentiments of the residents in China, than whom none can be better judges; at least, it would sound like great egotism for any one here, who has been debarred the opportunities they have had, and altogether without their experience, to point out any other mode of proceeding as preferable. The reports from Macao, when the expedition left the Bogue ports and Canton untouched, all concurred in condemning such ill - forbearance. The forts should have been taken without any preface, and our demands then transmitted to Governor Lin, requiring peremptorily to be informed whether he was prepared to pay down the indemnity, or one-halt of it as an Instalment, and the remainder within a short period ; which being complied with no further ap proaches would be made to Canton, but, excepting the force at the Bogue, the remainder of the troops would be landed on one of the islands adjacent for refreshment, and there remain until the whole were paid ; and a treaty of commerce concluded b(tween us, securing to us such terms of intercourse as are observed between other nations, or as near an approach to such an arrangement, as we could expect them to make without upsetting at once the entire system they have hitherto adhered to with regard to foreigners; which, if insisted on, and extorted by force,would keep them on the watch for any opportunity to break through their agreement and disencumber themselves of the gives we had placed on their inclinations. Were it made a sine qua non that our men-of-war should be allowed freely to enter into any port open to our merchants, and submitted to by them, there could be no necessity for our occupying the smallest fragment of :heir territory as a point d'appui for our subjects. For instance, where could there be a better anchorage for them than the Second Bar, or Wham poa, when their draught of water allowed their going so high up? Notwithstanding their former scruples, there could have been no doubt now of their acquiescence in their entrance, if properly reprevented and urged upon them. How much more satisfactory would such a propo sal he to them than our keeping possession of Hong- Kong, or any other island t And how much less expen sive to us I When they knew that our ships would take '' French leave" and walk in whenever they pleased, it is :mpossible that they could hesitate a moment abort it. I am, Sir, your very obedient servant, London, April 13. AN OLD RESIDENT. TREATY OF COMMERCE AND NAVIGATON BETWEEN THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS AND GREAT BRITAIN. The republic of Texas and her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom . of Great Britain and Ireland, being equal ly desirous of affording every facility and encouragement to their respective citizens and subjects engaged in com mercial intercourse with each other, have nominated as their Plenipotentiary to conclude a treaty for this purpose, that is to say, The Republic of Texas, Gen. James Hamilton, &c. And her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Hon. Henry John Vis count Palmerston, Baron Temple, a Peer of Ireland, a mem ber of her Britannic Majesty's most honourable Privy Council, a member of Parliament, knight grand cross of the most hon ourable order of the Bath, and her Britannic Majesty's prin- cipal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Who, after having communicated to each other their respec tive full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following articles:— Article 1. There shall be reciprocal liberty of commerce and 'navigation between and amongst the citizens of the Re public of Texas and the subjects of her Britannic Majesty ; the citizens or subjects of the two countries respectively shall not pay in the ports, harbours, roads, cities, towns, or places whatsoever, in either State, any other or higher duties, taxes, or imposts, under whatsoever name designated or in cluded, than those which are there paid by the citizens or subjects of the most favoured nations; and the citizens or subjects, respectively, of the two high contracting parties, shall enjoy the same rights, privileges, liberties, favours, immunities, and exemptions in matters of commerce and navigation, that are granted, or may hereafter be granted, in either country, to the citizens or subjects of the most favoured nation. No duty of customs or other impost shall be charged upon any goods the produce of the country, upon importation by sea or by land, from such country to the other, higher than the duty or impost charged upon goods of the same kind, the produce of or imported from any other country. And the Republic of Texas and her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland do hereby bind and engage themselves not to grant any favour, privilege, or immunity, in matters of commerce and navigation, to the citi zens or subjects of any other State, which shall not be also and at the same time extended to the citizens or subjects of the other high contracting party, gratuitously, if the concession in favour of that other State shall have been gratuitous, or on giving as nearly as possible the same compensation, or equiva lent, in case the concession shall have been conditional. Art. 2. No duties of tonnage, harbour, lighthouse, pilotage, quarantine, or other similar or corresponding: duties, of what ever nature, or under whatever denomination, shall be imposed in either country, upon the vessels, or upon any articles the growth, produce, or manufacture of the other, in respect of voyages between the two countries, if laden, or in respect of any voyage, if in ballast, which shall not be equally imposed in like cases on national vessels ; and in neither country shall any duty, charge, restriction, or prohibition be imposed upon, nor any drawback, bounty, or allowance be withheld from any goods imported from or exported to any country in the vessels of the one country, which shall not be equally imposed upon or with held from such goods when so imported or exported in the vessels of the other country. Art. 3. The citizens and subjects of each country shall enjoy full liberty to go to the ports and harbours of the other country, where other foreigners are allowed to enter, to unlade their merchandise therein, to hire and occupy houses, and peaceably to conduct their respective trades and professions. The ships of war of both countries, respectively, shall have the liberty to enter freely and touch at all such ports in each country into which the ships of war of any other nation are permitted to enter; subject, how ever, to the regulations, laws, and statutes of the respective countries. Art. 4. The stipulations of the present Treaty shall not be considered as applying to the navigation and carrying trade between one port and another, situated in the dominious of one contracting party, by the vessels of the other, so far as regaids passengers, commodities, and articles of commerce. Such na -1 vigation and transport being reserved by each contracting party to national vessels. _ Art. 5. The high contracting parties reserve for future negotiation, at such time as they may mutually agree upon, the condition upon which the trade and navigation shall be regulated between the Republic of Texas and her Britannic Majesty's colonial posssessions in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. Art. 6. Whereas, in the present state of Texian shipping, the republic of Texas would not enjoy the full benefit of the reciprocity intended by this Treaty ; if no vessel were to be ad mitted into British ports as a Texian vessel, unless it had been built within the territory of Texas; it is, therefore, agreed that for the space of eigl.t years, to commence from the date of the exchange of the ratifications of this Treaty, any vessel where soever built, being bona fide the property of and wholly owned by one or more citizens of the Republic of Texas, and whereof the Master and three-f6urths of the marines, at least, are na- turalized citizens of the said Republic, or persons domiciled in that Republic by act of the Government as lawful citizens of the Texian Republic, to be certified according to the laws of that country, shall be considered as Texian vessels, her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire land reserving to herself the right at the end of the said term of eight years, to claim that the provisions of the British Na vigation Act relative to the nationality of foreign vessels shall be strictly applied to Texian vessels in British ports. Art. 7. Ihe Consuls and Vice-Coniuls of each country shall, within the territory of the other, enjoy all the rights, privileges, and immunities which are accorded to such func tionaries by the law of nations ; and it is provided that in the ports of each country, respectively, the authorities shall give all due legal assistance and protection for the apprehension, safe keeping, and delivering of all deserters from the ships of war and trading vessels of either country ; and all the powers and privileges granted in respect to the matters to which the stipu lations of this Article relate, by either of the contracting par ties to any other nation, shall be granted by such contracting party to the Consul, Vice-Consuls, ships of war and trading vessels of the other. Art. 8. If any ships of war or merchant vessels should be wrecked on the coasts of either of the high contracting parties, such ships or vessels, or any parts thereof, and all furniture and appurtenances belonging therunto, and all goods and merchandize which shall be saved therefrom, or the produce thereof, if sold, shall be faithfully restored to the proprietors, upon being claimed by them, or by their duly authorized factors ; and if there are no such proprietors or factors on the spot, then the said goods and merchandize, or the proceeds thereof, as well as all the papers found on board such wrecked ships or vessels, shall be delivered to the Texian or British Consul, in whose district the wreck may have taken place ; and such Consul, proprietors, or factors, shall pay only the expenses incurred in the preservation of the pro perty, together with the rate of salvage which would have been payable in the like case of a wreck of a national vessel; and the goods and the merchandise saved from the wreck shall not be subject to duties unless cleared for consumption. Art. 9. The exercise of the rites of religious worship and the freedom of conscience shall be reciprocally secured to the citizens and subjects of each country, by the Government of the other. The rites of sepulture shall be reciprocally ac corded by each of the contracting parties to the other; and there shall be no law passed by either GovernMent that shall violate the rights of property, or limit the power of bequeath ing personal estate, by will or testament. The citizens or subjects of the one country residing in the other shall not be liable, under extraordinary warrants or otherwise, to compulsory services, or to forced loans ; and on all questions affecting the rights of person or property the Courts of Judicature of the one country shall be impartially open to the citizens or subjects of the other. In the event of a war between the contracting parties, the citizens or subjects of the one country residing in the other shall, reciprocally, have twelve months, after a formal declara tion of the same, to depart with their property and effects, and without any hindrance or disturbance whatsoever. Art. 10. The present Treaty, when the same shall have been ratified by the President of the Republic of Texas, by and with the advice and the consent of the Senate, and by her Britannic Majesty, shall be binding and obligatory on the contracting parties for eight years from the date of its signature, and fur ther, until the expiration of 12 months after one of the high contracting parties shall have notified to the other an inten tion to terminate its duration. It is further agreed, that in 12 months after one of the high contracting parties shall have received from the other such no tification, this Treaty and all the stipulations it contains, shall cease to be obligatory upon either party. Art. 11. The present Treaty shall be ratified, and the rati fications shall be exchanged at London as soon as possible within the space of nin e months from this date. In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and affixed theret o the se a l s o f th e i r arms. Done at London, the 13th day of November, in the year of our Lord, 1840. (Signed) PALMERSTON. (L.S.) J. HAMILTON. (L.S.) ---- - _ __ EASING OFF.—The rush for office at the Custom-hou se there were only betwccr! 200 and 300 applications, and during a spnee is diminishing of ten rninutes,atagreat rate. Yesterday between the hours of 12 and 1, not a single office-se:ker made his appearance, and only three letters were sent in. If the abat e ment goes cn in this style, t h e C o ll ec tor will be able, in the course of three or four months, to attend to his official duties quite comfort. ably.—New York Herald. EPIGRAM ON MISS ANNE BREAD. " Toast any girl but her," said Nod, With every other flutter— I'll to content with Annie Bread, But won't have any bra her." —Anzetican raper, THE CLERGY AND NEGRO DR. GILLESPIE AND THE VETO. SLAVERY. Dr. Gillespie, the successor of the celebrated Latin scholar, Dr. Hunter, forTmany years Pro fessor of Humanity in the University of St. An drew's, has addressed the following letter to the Fifeshire Journal. It affords another proof, in addition to many we have already given, that the Scotch people, clergymen as well as laymen, are beginning to take a rational view of the Anti-pa tronage question, and to admit that the laws of the country must not be trampled upon under the fanatical pretence that they are contrary to the laws of Christ. Dr. Gillespie voted with Lord - Aloncrieff, Dr. Chalmers, and the party who carried the Veto law, which, as we foretold, has turned out no law ; and having seen, and experienced, too, the mischief which the Non - intrusionists have done to the beautiful fabric of the Presbyterian Church, he has prudently made his escape from the fire-brands. Would he not have shown more courage, and more wisdom, and more faithful attachment, too, to the "Church of his fathers, whose bread lie had bro ken,"—if, instead of declining, he had so licited again a seat in the General As sembly, in order to point out in his elo quent strains the dangers which Chalmers and his mushroom proselytes have brought upon a Church so long celebrated for the purity ofits doc trines, the exemplary character of the clergy, and the industrious and moral conduct of the people educated under their charge ? A speech of his in the General Assembly would have been of more avail than ten thousand letters like that addressed to a local paper. We are glad, how ever, to see symptoms of repentance, and have, therefore, great pleasure in publishing the letter : From the notice of my sentiments respecting the General Assembly taken in the Town Council of St. An drew's, and published in your paper of last week, as well as from sonic observations upon the same subject made in the Herald of the same date, it appears to me, that, considering the interest which, for some years, I have taken in the question of Church Patronage in particular, some explanation may be necessary to prevent mistakes injurious to my character on the score of consistency. I will therefore state shortly, I hope, but freely and f,ankly, and without any reservation or disguise, the circumstances which have induced me, under the present attitude which the Church preserves in regard to the civil power, to re f, aia from soliciting the patronage of my kind and in dulgent friends of the Town Council of St. Andrew's on the present occasion. I was early in life struck with some of the evils of Pa tronage as it was then exhibited, and my intercourse with Churchmen afterwards did not tend to weaken this im pression ; and so soon as, in the year 1814, I came to have a vote, and ultimately (after a noviciate of some 10 or 12 years) a voice in the General Assembly, I uniformly di vided on the Anti-Patronage side. Accordingly, in 1833 and 1834, I both voted and spoke in favour—first df 1)r. Chalmers', and lately of Lord Moncrieff's Bill—the now notorious veto law. But I openly declared, that, whilst I hoped the very best results from it, I was not qui,e sure that it did not run some risk of being resisted by the patrons as trenching on their civil rights, as the law of the land then stood, and still, very unfortunately, stands. In the eerlier enforcements of the veto law I took an interest, and gave several votes at least, in order to ob tain for the new regulation a fair trial ; and even when, last year, I saw that the Assembly were decidedly wrong in resisting tls e civil power, I still voted with the majority on this question—being unwilling that the Church of my Fathers, whose bread I had broken, and whose peaceful and honourable shelter I and my family had shared, should be trodden down, as it were, by the rampant foot of the civil authority—convinced as I then was, from what I was induced to consider good autho rity, that the civil power was about to GIVE WAY, and that a Bill was on the eve of being brought into Parliament to legalise the veto law, or even to secure something prefer able (which was exceedingly desirable) for the good of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland. Under this impres sion and belief—though greatly, as is known to the first minister of Cupar against my will—l countenanced and attended an Anti-Patronage Meeting the winter before last, in St. Andrews: but upon the express condition that the motion wich I agreed to make should not contain one worst commendatory of the conduct of the General Assem bly, but simply a strong appeal to Government to alter the law of Patronage as it then stood, and still stands. I can appeal to the crowded audience whom I shortly ad dressed, as well as to the county newspapers of the day which published the petition to Government, fur the truth of my statement. Observing, however, as time and experience, the great and the safe teachers, unveiled the true position in which the Church stood, as well as the fallacy of the " day dreams" in which many had been indulging, I found that I could not, as a Scotehman, as a citizen of a great and loyal community, set myself, as a Churchman and Pres byterian, in opposition to the known and repeatedly-de clared and acted upon law of the land. I saw, and still FCC, no safety for the Church, but much and inevitable danger and ruin, in her onward course ; and, in conse quence, have firmly resolved that, from henceforth, I will wash my hands of the business ; and yet I would not choose, nor could I well be expected, to oppose the friends with whom I have all along acted, and who, I am certain, arc proceeding (however, its my opinion, inju diciously) on the purest and most commendable mctives. These are the plain facts of the case ; and although I am as anxious as ever for the total abolition of Patronage, yet I would Ilse to know previously what is meant to be substituted in its stead ; for I am equally and even more averse t, the turbulence and prejudices of a mere mob of electors, as I am to the reckless and overbearing induction which may take place under existing Patronage. I printed a little pamphlet some years ago on this subject, and which was partially circulated amongst the members of Assembly, in which I proposed a scheme of my own, based principally on the elders of the Kirk •scssions—chosen not as at present by the arbitrary will of the clergyman, but by the heads of families in communion with the Church, being bound either to present these heads of families with a li m ited choice, or with such a person as they know will be generally acceptable. Till some such scheme to prevent turbulence and schism on the one hand, as well as violent settlements on the ether, be presented to me, I can have no part in those efforts which are now so ostentatiously and prematurely making for the total abolition of Patronage. 1 am yours, &c., THOMAS GILLESPIE, Professor of Humanity. St. Andrews, March 29. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) Scarcely do we now find a public meeting held on any occasion but the Clergy take an oppor tunity of expressing the satisfaction they feel that slavery does not exist in the British domi nions, such expressions leading many parties to suppose that they were advocates for the emanci pation of the negroes. This comes with a very bad grace from them, as it is notorious that the party favourable to emancipation had not more violent opponents than the Clergy. I took much pains and trouble in getting various petitions to the Legislature signed, and the most un courteous refusals were those of the Clergy. I would recommend, whenever a Clergy Man again comes forward publicly, and makes such a boast, that he should be asked if ever lie signed a peti tion in favour of emancipation, or whether he in any way exerted himself to procure the repeal of the Slavery-laws— as it is notorious that the name of not one in a hundred of the whole Clergy is to be found in the petitions presented to Par liament, and that ninety-nine out of every hun dred who were asked to sign such petitions, rudely and contemptuously refused to do so; and that emancipation was carried in opposition to their wishes and exertions. A STRANGE STORY. On Wednesday la3t the Governor of Westminster Bride well having reason to believe that a prisoner who vt as admitted under the name of " George White," was a female, instituted an inquiry, which confirmed his suspi cions. The girl, who is about eighteen years of age, after various attempts on the part of the Governor to get an explanation, made a statement, of which the; following is the substance : She admitted that the name of " White" was assumed, and said she was an orphan, and had always lived with her uncle and aunt in Sussex, who are a highly respectable family in that county. But, apparently fearful of publi city, she resolutely declined to mention their name or resi.lence. They were on terms of intimacy with a family at some distance off, and her uncle's footman was in the habit of conveying her occasionally there and back, unac companied by any of the members of the family. This led to an intimacy between them, and a short time after theservant suddenly disappeared. Dreading detection and exposure, she put on a suit of clothes belonging to her brother, who is at Cambridge, studying for the Church, and with a small sum of about 111., she secretly quitted her uncle's residence, and went to Chichester about six months since. She remained at a lodging-house some time, and on find ing her money exuendcd, parted with her clothes by the advice of the lodging-house-keeper, and, buying a smock-frock, the dress of a common farm-labourer in Sussex, she left Chichester and begged her way to London. Her adventures in the metropolis were extraordinary. Amongst other places, she hal been employed in the work-rooms of the Alendicity society, and from the 7th to 15th of March, in the work house of the Kensington Union, where slit was eight days under medical treatment all the time, being supposed to be a man, and her real sex remaining undiscovered. She had at times eralured the greatest privations, and was ulti mately committed from Marlborough street Police Court as a rogue and vagabond, under a sentence of six weeks confinement and hard labour in the 'Westminster Bridewell. Inquiry was made by Mr. Tracey, the Governor, at the workhouse of the Kensington Union yesterday, and that part of her story is found to be correct. She has been cross-examined repeatedly, but her statement con tinues to be the same. Mr. Tracey has written to several gentlemen in Sussex, for the purpose of finding out her relations. THE LATE MURDER tiT CUR- RAGHMORE. On Saturday last James Carroll, Esq., Coroner, held an inquisition on the bodies of Timothy Tierney and John Gleeson, whose murder we but briefly noticed in our last, and which occurred on Friday morning, at the hour of ten o'clock, at a small village called Curraglimore, on the borders of the Shannon, about seven miles from Nenagh. The scene of this melancholy tragedy is one of the most beautiful and romantic, and close to the demesne of Castle town. Tierney, who was about thirty-five years of age, was a very comfortable farmer, possessing about thirty five acres of land. He was married, and has left a young widow and fine helpless children to mourn his untimely end. The other (John Gleeson) was in equally comfortable circumstances, having upwards of forty acres of land, and has left an only son. What makes the fare of the for met more melan choly is, that his life was sacrificed by the hands of his own brothers-in-law, his widow being the sister of the murderers. Both of the unfortunate men were Ma thewites. Patrick Fury, examined—Was in a field at work on Friday mornieg between the hours of eight and nine. Witness and a man named Thomas Needham were cleaning oats. Tierney and John Needham then had some dispute about the grass. Soon after William Need ham came into the park, and told Tierney that he would not allow anything belonging to him on the grass. Tier ney said he would put them on the grass in spite of him. Both of them then began to argue, and took off coats to fight. Tierney took up the hook and commenced shout ing. At this time John Gleeson came down and said, " If it be fight you want, you'd get enough ;" John Glee son threw off his coat. John Needham, sen., and Jchn Needham, jun., James Denis and William Needham were there. Witness held John, sen., and John, jun. Did not sec either stick or stone with them. Whilst witness was holding the two Johns, deceased (John Glceson) fell at his feet. Upon looking down he saw his head covered with blood. Witness, upon seeing Gleeson fall, said, " Oh, 3e villains, ye've murdered the man." Thought to raise him, but could not. He was unable to speak ; assisted him home. Tierney was able to walk by him self. Witness then went for the priest and the doctor. Can't say if it was from the effects of the blows wh'a they received on that day, that they died. To the best of his belief it was. John Ryan examined—Was in the employ ment of Tierney ; was threshiug for him on the day in question. 'Went out when lie heard the noise. Old Need ham was arguing with Tierney. They were arguing about the grass of sheep. Needham said it he put his sheep there he would turn them out. James, Denis, and William Needham had stones in their hands. Saw Tim Tier ney and Gleeson knocked down by the three Needham'. Paddy Fury cried out that the man was killed. Witness helped to raise up Gleeson, and bring him home. Tier ney walked home. They lived for about five or six hours afterwards. Dr. Hobbs, of Borrisokane, deposed that he examined the bodies of the deceased men. John Gleeson had an extensive wound of the sc'lp, with a fracture of the inferior postern angles of the parietal bones, and the superior postern of the occipital bone, with a large extravasation of blood on the surface of the brain ; John Gleeson had a fracture on the left parietal bone, to gether with extravasation of blood ; the fracture of Tierney had the appearance as if it was caused by a bullet. The Jury brought in the following verdict That Timothy Tierney came by his death in consequence of a blow of a stone inflicted by Denis Needham; and th it John Gleeson came by his death in consequence of a blow of a stone in flicted by James Needham ; which wounds were given whilst the parties were engaged in a dispute about some grass land. , ' The police of Borrisokane visited the scene of outrage the next day, but the Nun urns had fled. There was much apprehension that the families of both parties would meet with injury from the excited feelings of the • several friends and relatives of each.— Nenagh Guardian. THE CORN-LAWS. Several excellent speeches were delivered at the meeting held in Clayton-square on Monday last, to pe tition the Legislature for the repeal of the Corn•laws. Sir Joshua Walmsley showed how closely dependent net merely the comfort and welfare of the working classes, but our very existence as a great and inde pendent nation, is upon the removal of the iniquitous tax on food, and of the numerous impolitic restrictions en commerce, which fetter the industry of the country, and render its vast resources comparatively unavailing. Mr. Thornely delivered a statesman-like address, the more valuable as it came from a practical man, long engaged in commerce, and thoroughly conversant with all its principles and details. Other gentlemen spoke well, and to the purpose, but the speeches of the day were decidedly those of Mr. Duffy, an operative tailor, and Robert Jones, a labouring man. Honed Ro bert speaks feelingly, and, therefore, well. He ap peals to his own experience and that of his fellow workmen, and that appeal is quite unanswerable. In 1833 he got good wages, and could then ob tain 91135. of bread for the shilling. In 1837 the shilling loaf was only , 11 lbs., and instead of having his wages raised, as they ought to hare been, if there were any thing in the assertion of the mo nopolists that wages are dependent on the price of food, he had to submit to a reduction of two shillings a week; so that he got not only less food for his money, but had less money to buy it with. " He always looked," said he, " to what his wife fetched home - from market on the Saturday night ; and what would be the use_ of his having 5/. a week if it would not fill her basket ?" This is hitting the right nail on the bead. The question is not what is the nominal rate of wages, but what will fill the basket, cover the back, and educate the mind ; and the practical experience of such men as Robert Jones on these points is worth a bushel of theories. Let the working classes only take the trouble to think— let them only, like Robert Jones, consider their own ex perience, with the inferences to which it leads, and they will no longer submit to the delusion which has been practised upon them. We are happy in the belief that this enlightenment of the minds of the working classes is in progress, for we are assured that, whenever that process is effected, the doom of the Corn-laws, and of all other restrictions on the industry of man and the free enjoyment of the bou nt i es o f li e tven , i s sea l e d at once and for ever.—Liverpool Mercury. - A meeting of the Kent and Sussex. Agricu ltural Association took place on 'Wednesday last at l'enhurst, in Kent. The ploughing match, which was vigorously con tested, was held in Lord De Lisle's park, and the ploughs were numerous and must ably and skillfully worked. After the labours of the day the party retired to the Lei cester Arms, where they dined, David Salomons, Esq , in the chair, the Earl of Delawarr, who was to have presided, having sent an arology expressing his regret at his tin_ avoidable absence. A number of the agricultural gentle men and the f rmers of the two counties supported the Chairman. In the course of the evening, which was spent most convivially, a great deal of agricultural information was elicited, and many other proofs were given of the utility of agricultural associations. ZANTE. EXTRACTS from a Despatch from her Majesty's Lord High Commissioner at Corfu, dated Zante, 6th November, 1840, stating the injury sustained in that island by an Earthquake which occurred on the 30th day of October, with Extracts from Treasury Minutes thereon. I arrived on the morning of the 30th ultimo, half an hour after the occurrence of a dreadful calamity, which has irreparably injured the whole town and island of Zanta. On proceeding through the streets I found them filled or encumbered is ith ruins; the bulk of the population still out of doors; the tiles and the shaken and disunited por tions of houses fallen or ready to fall ; very few of the houses, not even those most solidly built, had escapad ex ternal and apparent injury; and even where such was not visible, had suffered greatly internally in their furniture by the concussion. I regret to state that I found three of the school-houses wholly or partially de troyed ; the Resident's house is greatly injure], not habitable, I fear, with safety. The Courts of Justice, a tired building, reduced to a dangerous state, and no longer tenable. The Regency terribly shaken. Many of the churches seriously injured, some irreparably so ; some of the principal steeples cracked and brought into a dan gerous state ; and one so much so, that, with the consent of the Bishop, I immediately ordered it to be taken down. Innumerable private houses have been . injured more or less, many entirely destroyed; many poor and destitute persons made houseless ; upon the habitations of the poor indeed the greatest ruin has been occasioned, from these having been less solidly built, and in most cases formed r f unhewn stone, and no other cement than mud, and which crumbled to the earth at,tbe first shock. I regret to acquaint your Lordship that the devastation is still more general in the country than in the city, and that the distress is and will be infinitely greater ; and the means of the inhabitants whose huts and houses have so generally been destroyed or injured, afford little or no re sources for them to fsll back upon. On the esil November, after having inspected the mili tary works, I devoted myself to a personal examination in he city of the several cases of severe distress, which by my directions the inspector of police, is i:h some of his as sistants, had ascertained to exist ; some I found not only houseless and destitute of all means to cover themselves against the approaching inclement season, but actually in want of food ; I extended immediate relief in both respects so far as I could, and cLirtainly, for the moment, sufcient. I then proceeded to Scudicado, and there I witnessed a scene of desolation and ruin, of consternation and misery, far exceeding any I had previously seen in the course of these visits, and, I tray well add, in the whole course of my life. This village, containing a population of about 800 persons, is nothing but a heap of ruins ; not a house untouched, and very tew left standing. In all the other villages, even those most injured, there is covering left, which w ill enable the more fortunate to show their hospi tality and feeling for their unfortunate neighbours by giving them shelter, but here in Seudicado there is no shelter left. The site of the village is on a small bill, no .part of the surface of which is free from ruins. The fur niture, the beds, buried in the ruins of the houses, the de vastation is so great that no parts o f the fabric in the shape of planks are in a state to form fresh cover. I noted the cases of utter destitution, they are numerous. I intimated to those who had sonic resources of property, though at present none in ready money, that they might seek relief in the shape of loan out of the sum decreed by the Senate, and I acquainted the Capo that if they would send to the town a sufficient number of horses to carry out seven or eight hundred planks for the use of tha destitute, and to form covering for them, I would direct that these should be supplied gratuitously. This has Leen done, and small sums of money h ave, by my direc tions, been dispensed to the most destitute for immediate necessities, and to enable them to get shelter put together, should their fellow-townsmen either refuse to labour f or them gratuitously, or be too much involved in distress themselves to assist them. The material injury which the island of Zalte has tamed is extensive, and cannot be rated at less than 300,0001. sterling. I need scarcely tell your Lordship how utterly inadequate the revenue of these States is to afford any signifi cant relief, and I deeply regret te.say that since I have arrived here I have received very tad ac counts of the oil crop in Cotfu. I have set on foot a priva e subscription here, to which I have liberally contributed, in addition to a much larger sum I had previously appropriated to the immediate relief of the mere destitute and helpless persons. Tbis has been lIVEN ING EDITION. cordially and liberally seconded by most of the leacni: eople, an example which I have no doubt will be ;;;; 11 )wed in all the islands. The general distress of the poorer classes will be very much aggravated by the heavy losses which the signori in all parts of the island have sustained. Their country-- houses, exclusive of the damage to their town residences, have almost without exception been seriously injured, many if them entirely destroyed, and in general they aro become, ill many instances, rather the objects than tile dispensers of charity. They however have in general cow tributed freely to the subscription, but without adrancev on credit, either by loan from the Government or in some other way, they will be unable to restore or repair their habitations. This will have a serious effect in the country, not only from the signori being obliged to abandon their country residences, but from the want of assistance which the country people would receive, were the signori able to engage labour for the repair of their houses. I cannot express how greatly I have been relieved and comforted in the arduous and painful duties I have had to discharge, and the provisional measures which I promptly adopted on behalf of the Senate, by the effectual, prompt, and most paternal action of his highness the Presi dent, Sir Pietro Petrizzopulo, and the members of that illustrious body, in approving and confirming all I had done, in announcing their desire and determination to do whatever further is in their power, and even empowering me, in their name, to extend such further relief as I may deem necessary. _ _ EXTRACT PROM TREASURY MINUTES, DATED DEC. 31, 1840. Mite to Mr. Stephen, with reference to his letter of the 2d of December, that my Lords have learnt with the greatest sorrow the distress occasioned to the inhabitants of Zante by the late earthquake, and taking the circumstances into consideration, and adverting to the opinion expressed by Lord John Russell, my Lords feel they should be jus tified in making a small grant from civil contingencies in aid of the sufferers; my Lords, theref.)re, have directed that a sum of 4,000/. ahould be set aside from civil contingencies for that purpose. Lord Melbourne and the Chancellor of the Exchequer state to the Board, that her Majesty has been graciously pleased to direct that 1,0001. should be issued in aid of the distress of the inhabitants of Zante, out of her Royal bounty. R. GORDON. Whitehall, Treasury Chambere, April 1, 1841. AMERICAN PEOPLE. As f,r as the American people have had time enough to degenerate from their British origin into a distinctive national character, we are afraid that that character con sists, for the most part, in empty pretension and puff. Hissing begun their Republican career with a deep tinc ture of vanity occasioned by their kuccessful struggle for indcFendcnce, and having afterwards enjoyed considerable mercantile prosperity as the principal cotton-growers for the European markt ti, they seem to have strutted into a precocious and unnatural self-importance, as if their polll• tical and commercial resources had attainel a n aturity which, under the guidance of democratic infallibility, ren dered every chance of miscarriage an inconceivable thing. Like the Persian ambassador, who, on learning from Sir Gore Ousely the prodigious revenue of the English Post-office (before Spring Rice's time), was so oblivious of the local exigencies and facilities pro ducing that revenue, as to have determined that his own country, though neither conducting an extensive correspondence, nor furnished with suitable mail roads, should immediately reap a similar fiscal advantage—the equally sanguine Americans appear to have jumped to the conclusion, that because properly conducted banks cf issue, amenable to legal restrictions, and instituted by a substantial proprietary, have been found emineraly con ducive to public prosperity in old countries, therefore in order to possess themselves of analogous benefits, no thing more was necessary than to organise a board of needy Directors, get hold cf an easily-procured charter, open shop with a suitable complement of counters ar,d clerks, and scatter their paper responsibilities over the whole surface of their credulous aad confiding country. Ira general, not to speak of their unscrupulous defiance of the statutory regulations of such chartered forcing beds, they have nut only multiplied them in every district, without inquiring into their means of per manency, or whether they were actually called for by the fair necessities of the neighbourhood, but they have almost universally neglected the provident pre cautions which, alone, could secure the provincial success of these Banks, and their requisite credit in the remoter ramifications of commercial enterprise. The con sequence has been, that the speculations in question have both generated sled shared all the disasters inseparable from an unreal capital and from over-trading. For somo years the manner in which they ministered to the conveni ency and accommodation of their rcepretive vicinities (though often on usurious terms), as well as to the private ava,ice cf their Directors in divers forms cf traffic for bidden in their charters, imparted to them a plausible and adventitious prosperity. The day of reckoning was never thought of ; but when that day—which honest men who mean to pay their bills must always he provided for—was suddenly brought about by a no-confidence panic, such as every mercantile community is liable to, the pretended stock of these Banks, in nine cases out of ten, was ascertained to be non inventus eat ; scarcely a dollar could they muster to hon our their worthless paper ; their nefarious proceedings spread havoc and cons'ernation thoughout the entire Union; pecu niary distress became everywhere prevalent ; and many of the implicated parties, if they were not actually subjected to restraints of a sponging-house, had at least done every thin g in their power to deserve them. Aday or two ago, we briefly noticed the scandalous dis closures upon this subject which have recently teen sub mitted to the American' Legislature. In to-day's par r we give a faithful abstract of the remaining portion of the evidence; and, according to the explicit confession of these reports, which minutely detail the defaultarship of the various bubble-tanks throughout the republic, the sys tem genera'ly pursued has bean such as brings no ordinary disgrace upcn the popular domination inseparable from democratic governments,—a domination, which, judging from this particular instance, is scarcely more blind and resistless in producing interral distress than arbitrary and mischievous in shaking tae national credit. Ow ing to the supreme force of the popular will in the United States when a sufficient impulse of supposed self-interest calls it into action, it appears that an application for bank charters, backed by the provincial authorities who systematically league together—not for weigh ing, or, if necessary, overruling the wishes of their constituents, but ter implicitly carrying them into effect— has generally been complied with, as a matter of course. Precautionary inquiries and securities have been too gr. nerally disregarded ; nominal provisions and prohibitions introduced into charters have been carelessly trusted to ; and hence the disastrous upshot has been exactly what every provident calculator might have clearly foreseen. With regard to the almost incredible facts, authenti cated by the American commissioners, we can do little else than refer our readers to our accompanying abstract, con tinued from Wednesday's paper. The following are in structive specimens : " Nlictitoare.— This report commences with a statement of the condition of the Farmers' Bank of Geneseee county, from which it appears, from the evidence of the cashier, &c., that no set of books had ever been kept, that the whole amount of specie which appeared at any time to have been the bone fide property of the bank was about „g 1,560; that fraudulent attempts had been made to ex hibit the bank in a sound condition, in anticipation of the commissioners' visit, such as borrowing certificates from other banks ; sl'o,ooo in silver were actually paid into the hank by a party, together with two certificates, all of which remained in the bank a few days, and were then taken away by the same parties. In short, the condition of this bank was utterly rotten. " The report on the other banks, dated April, 1838, ex hibits a wholesale syst tm of fraud and rascality of the 'nest disgusting nature; :ix banks were found in such a condi tien that injunctions had been applied for and issued ; in the Jackson County Bank a horrible system of fraud was discovered, which we have no room to detail. Among other instances, 11 boxes were discovered, containing a superficies of coin, altogether amounting to $5,099 (reek. oning the coin found elsewher6), whilst the substratum contained lead, tenpenny nails, and window-glass broken into small pieces. Notwithstanding this, the statement of the bank, dated three days before, claimed possession of $20,000 in specie. On an examination of its affairs, there appeared a real deficiency of assets to meet the liabilities of the bankof theof s E 4 x 4 e , LO n l Exchange Bank of Shiawassee the Commissioners report that no part of the c(aPiicign ita l lst a oct appears ever to have been paid in ; that seven • coppers' were found in th e sa f e , b ut t h a t no o ther coin appeared at any time to have been the property of the bank; that there wear one counterfeit note of $5OO on one of the New York made b up, a banks; that far a atthes could b e cashi nthe ban ascertained,k, stated was by cer tificates_ of deposit, obtained from other banks. of Michigan contains an a ble and strenuously recommend a " The Report of the forcibleCommissionerstotheexpLoesgiesolaftuthree banking system gene rall y . they repeal of the gen eral ban Into the origin and On the Commissioners' inquiry transac ti o ns of the Gre nada Bank in Mississi pp i, we find banking law of 1837. that : A. C. Baine affirmed--Was elected a Director, but knew nothing of the organizaiion. There were no visible funds in Bank. He demanded the certificate of deposit, $50,000, from Mr. Royall, but he repled that it was not given him to be used unless he could not induce the Com missioners to take stock notes, payable and negotiable at the Brandon Bank. Mr. Royall admitted that the certi ficate from Brandon was a false one, or, in his own words, a sham.'" Matters in Ohio, and Indiana, were found to be equally bad. Violations of Charter, base swindling, ill ega l speculations, and general insolvency, are charged almost without exception against the entire swarm of ac credited pickpockets who have contrived to overrun those States. What renders the evil infinitely worse is the fact that nearly the whole of the principal local authorities in each State, being deeply implicated in these trans actions, have generally lent their official ipfluetice, by all sorts of collusive contrivance —not only to screen tic chief defaulters, but to enact local la" to enable them to continue their malversatione. Wholesale villany like this, threatening, the United States with absolute ruin, has latterly received a partial check, simply because its inherent elements of calamity could no longer be overlooked with safety by the central Govern ment. Unpardonable laxity, if not actual connivance, too obviously p reva iled in that quarter where there has ought to have b een the utmost circumspection and goodfaith . The wh o l e e xpose, however, will not be without its advara ' t o t, n o u i m a b a e u r I nt es s s r) g e tages. While the American democrats must doubtless lower , : in h av e suffered by their failures will naturally feigners who learn refere n t c % to practiset h, i h r ea n C a e t f i e o e n t a h l a wealth, • exerc ise a more p rudent distrust of them in future trans actions and ore own count r ym en, i n particular , may be e xpected to deduce from these occurrences a proportionably strong conviction of the superior soundness and stability of the public institutions under which they have the happi ,ess to live.— Times. It was stated at the Court of Gaol Sessions held at York on Thursday vt - cA that the contracting har. her of the pri6on k haves at the rate of nine beards fur a farthing.