The Sun. — London, England, 1841-05-25 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION note intend to proceed with that measure, and t would be hailed with the utmost plea s ire by thousands of his fellow-countrymen. Would the Right Hon. Hon. Baronet bring forward a Bill for the renewal of that measure ? He (Mr. Wakley) thought :of, ot, he hoped not, he believed not But still had he not !seen the warmest advocate of the measure throughout ? The Right Hon. Baronet had stated that when he ob tained office, he would take a careful review of all the circumstances of the country. But he (Mr. Wakley) would ask, could he not do that better, more carefully, when he had more time, being out of office ?—(Loud cheers and laughter.) He hoped on Thursday that something tangible would be promised, for it was most cstraOrdinary and without parallel in this country, that such te party as that opposite, should expect to attain eten to the threshold of office, unpledged to any one ieasure for the public good—tono one measure in which the public feelings or interest were enlisted—and tied to no one promise, for the breach of which the public < ould turn round and say they had not fulfilled their en gagement. To him such a state of things was very un reatiefactory. Between that time and Thursday, he trusted the Hon. Baronet would turn his attention to thee() matters, and let the House know what it was they had to expect when he came to that (the Ministerial) side of the House. If the Right Hon. Baronet would offer more for the benefit of the public a lan the present Ministry, then he should command his (Mr.lW's.) support.—(Laughter.) He was there to esrve his constituents and not to vote for party motives. Nothing in his mind could be so unsatisfactory as the eLate of parties in that House, and particularly the state of the public mind, agitated as it was, when so much dis lefts" existed. There was a little nursery tale he re eentbered, which nursery maids repeated to little child ren while playing with them. It was " open your mouth and shut your eyes, and see what luck will send you." :Idw, he would ask whether that was fit for them as Members of the Legislature? He thought the time was 1.-chosen, and he had unhesitatingly expressed his feel -5 ngs on that occasion. He thought that a great and noble tetaiSe was perillediby the time selected for fighting it. How eerer,-if Minister gel' bowed that they were sincere in mak ing those proposals, and determined to carry them out, he was convinced that they would be upheld by the public ; and that in the conflict which was to ensue they -would be, and must be, triumphant. He therefore, Letonging, to the small section called Radicals in that ;raise, earnestly entreated the Right Hon. Baronet to exercise his enlarged faculties between that night and Thursday next, and see if he could not propose something of more value than what was proposed by the Noble :gird. If he would only come forward—the Right Iron. Baronet shook his head, and he feared his applies feel would be unsuccessful—(Laughter)—with a eom te-ehensive scheme of Government—if he would only show them how the public expenditure could be decreased Mist the public income was increased, without adding the burdens of the people, he would from the Radical stion of the House receive that support which he would fully entitled to receive at their hands ; sitting , as e'ecfy did, in that House, not as the advocates and adhe x !nts of any party, but as the sincere advocates of the . se-lits and interests of the people.—(Hear.) Lord J. RUSSELL said he had thought that in the tgreeent, state of affairs, with questions relating to the rtadget, and other questions which were exciting a great ce•ssr, ee of interest before the House, it would have been :ghly inconvenient to proceed with the Poor-law e'euendment Bill. In the first place, it would have oeeeelloned a very protracted discussion without any f result.—(Hear, hear.) In the next place, in the pectation which every Gentleman seemed to have, t -it he 'was to account for his conduct on the hustings, e 2 ,, would have had a great many speeches made with r view rather to the hustings than to the House of Com i JILT. That certainly was his impression, and his reason fee not proceeding with the Bill. But if the Honourable t meleman thought that he had made that announce ✓ at in consequence of having at all altered his opinions ▪ th respect to that Bill, or with respect to any particu :le- parts of it, he thought it would be better at once to erthat there had been no such change.—(Hear, hear.) ith respect to the proposals of the Hon. Gentleman, he e aid give no opinion until they came on for discussion ; ta, he begged leave to say that, in postponing that Bill, ) still believed that whether those who then sat on that :le of the House, were the Government of the country, whether Hon. Gentlemen opposite occupied those • ts, the principles of the Poor-law Amendment Act ey Ise sound, that they were such as would commend t amass-Ives to any Government in that country, and such : any Parliament would adopt as the basis of a Poor ) e,---(Hear, hear.) SLANEY said he believed the measures pro eceel by her Majesty's Government were necessary. :Mclean should bear in mind the great change that / a taken place in the relative position of the ag,ricultu • and commercial population of the country. He thought vet ainne was a reason why there should be a revision rite commercial code of the country. It was abso lc ery nece s sary, for the welfare of the people, that the i r ,-.leral principles of free trade should be cautiously ex s Tined, and carefully admitted. He took this opportu ✓ yof stating these opinions, as no opportunity was af t: ded him during the recent debate. Sir C. GREY said that the Right Hon. Gentleman it R. Peel) had given notice of a motion for Teairsday next, that, if carried, would necessarily prevent discussion which the House looked forward to, both e..tie respect to the Corn-laws and the measures proposed I ' die Chancellor of the Exchequer, with respect to the I:ar,, duties and the duty on timber. If he could put it is 'the nature of a charge, he would charge the Right en. Gentleman with the design to stop the discussion os these measures, to prevent the people being informed 4 their merits before an appeal was made to them on tee subject in the usual form. He was desirous of re c the views which he had in voting as he did on t' e'present emergency, which he ventured to tell Hon. 4 sntlenaen involved a question of more importance than i::,'l yet arisen in the nineteenth century. The gauntlet I Tel been thrown down on that side of the House, which I in. Gentlemen on the opposite side had refused to take i' like true knights. The principle involved . ; the measure proposed by Government was, 'ether the prohibitory duties on foreign im reetetions generally would be taken off or not. (Hear.) So far from that question being taken on the other side, the object of the motion of which the it Honourable Gentlemen (Sir R. Peel) had given to ties that evening was to prevent the discussion of the to enure. He (Sir C. Grey) would still be opposed to e proposition relative to the Corn-laws, if brought for • , rd as an isolated measure. He would never givo his t, eport to any party for the revocation of those laws, rt lees it was promised at the same time that they would Leis?: forward measures for the revocation generally of t e prohibitory duties on foreign imports. As soon as I. ( C. Grey) understood that a general principle of I% K nature was to be adopted, he gave his support to the I ensure. A reduction of prices was not the greatest be e. it to be anticipated from a revision of our import i ties ; the principal advantage which would follow from t • measures of the Government was that they , would dr, en new markets to British industry, and would e. er additional employment for our manufactur iei • population. He protested against the course - raued on this occasion by lion. Gentlemen opposite, N seemed anxious to preclude the discussion of these g eat questions. He trusted they would be disap ineed, and that matters of such vital importance :to 3 • prosperity would receive the due consideration of rllament. rho resolution was then put and agreed to. ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE BILL. fr. BERNAL brought up the Report of the Adminis t v ion of Justic e (No. 0 Bill. iir E. SUGDEN then rose to move the amendment, which he had given notice, in the clause with re- E Vt to the Accountant -General of the Court of Chan- By the present Bill the funds in the Court of Ex c etquer were to be transferred to the Court of Chan ( y 'Judeahi conseque nce o f t h e appo i ntment o f two e 7 , the b us i ness o f t h e Accountant-Ge r,. 'are O ffi ce would be increased, and there • p nothing in the A ct now under cons i derat i on f :t- would prevent that officer from receiving lce or 8,0001. a year, w hi ch was far too much for th e s ; ice he had to perform. He, therefore, proposed as an eendment to the present clause, that the whole of the e s,, , „t aimes ses to be enjoyed by the Accountant-General of ler 'Court of Chancery should not exceed 4,000/. a year, a ; ;Alit he should pay into the Suitors' Fund the balance lirphis above 4,000/. He understood that an altera t had been made in the Bill since it was last before the eiee, and that perhaps would obviate the necessity of b - amendment. llllME.thought the House ought to be informed ' , t-lie real state of the case. He should certainly sup r •t, the proposition of the Right Hon. Gentleman, be ca ahe thought 4,0004 per annum an ample remunera,- t for any lawyer. sir E. SUGDEN said he had just learned that several e.,7ises had been agreed to during his absence from the Tr...ale. He did not complain of that, but as these .t :usee had not yet been printed, he should move that tt debate upon the Bill be adjourned. the ATTORNEY-GENERAL objected to the ad j. 'amount. He thought it would be injudicious, consi n, , kug the great responsibility attached to the office of 4 slxintant-General, to reduce the sum which it was • tspee4l to give him. GOULBURN said the best thing the House Q , -,:141o, under all the circumstances, was to postpone ti oilscussion till a future day. It was desirable they a' old have the clauses before them in order to form a r judgment upon them. L.)ed J. RUSSELL could not consent to the redac t 1 proposed by the Right Hon. Gentleman, in the r..;aments of the Accountant-General. He had no oh 'On to he postponement of the discussion, if it could • d tol any useful purpose; but he would remind the jt sse that this f unc ti onary held his office for life, and • not be removed without some gross dereliction of . • -1T on his part. They could not, therefore, propose, w. toyer the amount of his duties or responsibilities was, to buake any large reduction in the sum he had hitherto Vter a few words from Sir E. SUGDEN, 'fr. HUME said he conceived the motion for ad- I, -Intent ought to be pressed, if the Noble Lord (Rus k nns not prepared to agree to the proposed limita t of salary. ir. LYNCH bore testimony to the qualifications qtr to fill the office of Accountant-General. He ▪ not say that 4,0001. a year was not sufficient, but it he bt4tines3 of the Court of Chancery was to be he asked what right had the night Hon. Gen t :7.Art to seek to curtail the emoluments of the office ? g oj.uld not interfere with the vested rights of the p. woo . without giving him some compensation ; but t; . l there was rat increase of business, what better 4e , , )ctratition couhi be given than an increased premium? eould be more fitted to fill the office than the possed,tion of it. sr .:. Itman now in 7.. v. RICHAUDS supported the proposition for an in c. ',Au of' salary. „'t, AGLIONBY thought that the House should take 0 , to gonsider the proposition of the Right Hon. Gen tleman (Sir E. Sugden) before they came to any con clusion. _ The Bill was then postponed to Friday next. VICTORIA PARK BILL. Mr. BERNAL brought up the Report on the Vic toria Park Bill. Mr. HUME expressed his satisfaction that Govern ment had attended to the petitions addressed to them on this subject. They had acted liberally towards the north and the east parts of the metropolis, and he was now anxious that they should consider the situation of the south. Unless an opportunity were soon taken of securing some open place, such as that in the neighbour hood of Bethlehem Hospital, they would in a short time find it difficult to get any eligible spot. Sir E. KNATCHBULL said the measure would re ceive the support of both sides of the House. Mr. FRENCH complained that when so much was being done for the improvement of London, nothing of the kind was proposed for Ireland. Mr. E. J. STANLEY reminded the Hon. Gentleman that in the present session the Wide Streets Dublin Bill was passed for the improvement of the Irish metropolis. Mr. WAKLEY did not wish to oppose a vote for the accommodation of the public ; but it seemed to him irra tional to lay out so much money on the eastern part of the metropolis, when there was so much land on the north of the city to which the people had a right, and to which they were still refused access. He wished the Secretary of the Treasury would state when the 288 acres closed up in the Regent's-park would be thrown open ? He (Mr. Wakley) was quite sure that, while the public were kept out from so much ground to which they had a right, great dissatisfaction would be created by the outlay in the present instance. He was happy to hear the Hon. Baronet opposite (Sir E. Knatchbull) make the declara tion which had just fallen from him. The Hon. Baronet was willing to give the people fresh air, and he (Mr. Wakley) reminded him that fresh air increased the ap petite—(Laughter)—and he hoped the Hon. Baronet would recollect that on a future occasion. The people wanted bread.—(Hear, hear.) The Bill was then ordered to be read a third time to morrow (this day.) ORDNANCE SURVEY BILL __ The House went into Committee on this Bill. The clauses were agreed to, and the Report brought up. PUNISHMENT OF DEATH BILL. On the motion of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, the House went into Committee on the Punishment of Death Bill. The Bill having received some amendments, passed through Committee, and the Report was received. BANKRUPTCY, INSOLVENCY, AND LUNACY BILL. On the motion of the SOLICITOR-GENERAL, this Bill passed through Committee. ENTAILS (SCOTLAND) BILL. On the motion of the LORD ADVOCATE, this Bill passed through Committee. PARISH CONSTABLES' BILL. On tho motion of Sir E. KNATCHBULL, this Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Friday next. MAD-HOUSES (SCOTLAND) BILL. On the motion of the LORD ADVOCATE, this Bill was re-committed. The Bill then went through Committee, and the Re port was ordered to be received on Thursday. ___ _ _ ___ ___... - The Report on the Charitable Trusts Bill was re ceived, and the Bill was ordered to be read a third time on Friday, the 4th of June. The Vaccination Bill was read a third time and passed. COPYIIOLD TENURES BILL. Mr. J. STEWART moved that the Report on the Copyhold Tenures Bill be brought up. Sir EDWARD SUGDEN opposed the reception of the Report, on the ground of want of notice. He wished to discuss the Bill clause by clause. Mr. AGLIONBY said the Bill had been frequently be fore the House, and hoped the Right Hon. Gentleman would let it pass the present stage, and defer his obser tions to the third reading. Sir E. SUGDEN contended that the Bill was not pro perly understood, and therefore he should wish to have it discussed. He did not object to the principle of com mutation, but he did to the compulsory powers given by the Bill to the majority of copyholders of binding the minority. He objected to the commutation being taken as a corn rent, and he should certainly divide the House upon it. The provisions relating to mines and minerals required great consideration. The whole Bill required a discussion in Committee, at which he hoped the legal Members of the House would be present. The Report was then brought up. On the motion that the Bill be re-committed, Mr. J. STEWART denied that there had been even any desire to smuggle the Bill through the House. Its promoters had always courted discussion, but found that the opposition to it was concentrated in the person of the Right Honourable Gentleman, and that therefore during his absence there could be no discussion. How was it if the tenants objected to the Bill, that no petitions had ever been presented against it ? On the contrary, there had been petitions to be in cluded in its provisions. The Bill was no more compul sory than any enclosure Bill. The corn rent had been considered on the whole as the fairest for all parties. If the clause relating to mines were the only objection of the Right Hon. Gentleman, he was willing to give up that clause for the sake of getting the Bill paised. Mr. DARBY said he had before objected to the Bill. He thought the Hon. Gentleman was mistaken in sup posing that tenants would consider the Bill as beneficial to them. He would be happy to see the Bill passed in a modified form. Mr. G. HOPE thought the disadvantages of the pre sent state of the law were such, that persons who were most averse to the change would be glad to see the pro posed alteration carried into effect. Mr. AGLIONBY said that, in his opinion, this Bill was one of the greatest boons that had ever been granted to tenants. He hoped the House would consent to let the Bill pass through its present stage. Sir E. SUGDEN then withdrew his motion. On clause 8 being proposed, Sir K SUGDEN proposed the omission of the clause. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL supported the clause. Mr. WAKLEY said that if the Right Hon. and Learned Gentleman divided the House, he would divide with him. He thought it was unjust that the public should be called upon to pay the expense of the commu tations, as they would have to do if the clause were suffered to pass. Mr. HOPE said the compulsion was the same upon a minority of lords as upon a minority of tenapts. After a few words from Mr. BRISCOE, Mr. STEWART said the expenses would be paid by the parties, and not by the public, as stated by the Hon. Gentleman. Mr. HUME said this was a buying up of grievances, and that he thought they would be bought up cheaply. The House was about to divide, when, Sir EDWARD SUGDEN said he would postpone his opposition to the third reading. The Report was then agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be engrossei and read a third time on Thursday. The Report on the Court Houses (Ireland) Bill was received. The Report cm the Turnpike Roads Bill was brought up, and the Bill ordered to be read a third time on Friday. On the motion of the Hon. F. MAULE, the Boroughs Improvement Bill, and the Buildings Regulation Bill, sent down from the Lords, passed through Committee, on the understanding that if any Hon. Member should desire to discuss any of the clauses, the Bills should be rc-committed. DRAINAGE OF TOWNS' BILL. On the motion for the second reading of the Drainage of Towns' Bill, The SPEAKER said it was his duty to inform the House that this Bill gave the Commissioners of Sewers a power to levy taxes ; and that, therefore, it ought not to have originated in the other House. Mr. F. I%IAULE then moved that the Bill should be read a second time that day three months, and said he would, in the mean time, move for leave to bring in another Bill. ARMS (IRELAND) BILL. Mr. PIGOT moved the consideration of the Lords' amendments on this Bill. • Mr. HUME said he considered the Bill a stigma on the people of Ireland that ought not to be continued. The amendments were then agreed to, and the Bill passed. MILITIA. Mr. FOX MAITLE brought in a Bill to suspend, till the Ist day of August 1842, the making of lists, and the ballots and enrolments for the Militia of the United Kingdom, which was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time to-morrow. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL brought in a Bill to compensate the Clerk of the Peace in the County Pala tine of Lancaster, for his loss by the Incorporation of the Borough of Manchester, which was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Thursday. The other Orders of the Dv were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at Half -past Ten o'Clock. GROSS MISREPRESENTATIONS.--W e have had, as our readers are well aware, considerable expe riencelimss.es.rd by of the powers of misrepresentation the Tory journals both local and metro must avow our surprise at meeting with the ;but we g romance in the columns of the (London) Standa r win- Thursday, in reference to the recent public meetin d g °f in this town :—" Eleven, as we have st a t e d, was the hour appointed for the meeting ; but at twenty m i nutes b efore eleven, says the Morning Chronicle (the room h aving been by that time, no doubt, privately filled), ' Sir Thos. Potter took the chair, and Mr. Richard Webb rea d t h e resolutions, which were put from the chairby Sir Thomas Potter, and carried by acclamation.' And then, the real business of the day being over, the form of opening the door was gone throngh. And this is a Manchester Anti- Corn-law meeting." Of course, in Manchester, these statements will be laughed at ; but those who see only the Standard, may be inclined to think that there was some foundation for its assertions. The fact, however, is, as we stated on Wednesday, that the parties admitted by ticket, before the opening of the doors,.were a portion of those who had signed the requisition, and who were assembled, according to cus tom, before the commencement of the proceedings, in order that they might have the proposed resolu tions read 'over to them. 'These, instead of filling the room, as the Standard alleges, might possibly amount to about 500 persons ; but there were present at the meeting., probably at least 2,500 ; so that 2,000 persons were admitted niter the opening of the doors ; and, if there had been any intention to pack the room—that is, to introduce one set of persons to the exclusion of others who were desirous of being present, the course taken would have been perfectly nugatory, and the parties ad mitted into the room might just as well have been out side until the doors opened ; for, when that took place, there was sufficient room for all who were waiting. Nor was the room completely filled until nearly twelve o'clock, almost an h our a ft er th e p u bli c procee di ngs comme nced ; so that any parties who might be opposed to the objects of the meeting had abundant opportunity of being pre chose.—Manchester Guardian. sent, if they THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1841. CORN-LAWS. We insert the following to oblige a Correspondent, and hope the farmers will profit by it : Farmers of England, I have a laborious task before me ; you are such a ponderous solid body that I am suite afraid of' you, and feel myself forlorn, dispirited and sink ing ; what must Ido to make some little favourable im pression—what can I do to arouse some auspicious bias ? Why, I must turn to the ladies of your families, a race who would make any drawing-room brilliant with bloom ing health and real English beauty. There would be seen the faultless complexion, blending in unrivalled unison the fair and peerless hues of the lily and the rose. There would be seen the ever cheerful countenance, and heard the natural lively laugh. There, too, would be breathed the sweet perfume of pure country air. It is almost insupportable to change the scene in a moment to the desolate, destitute, woe-worn looks of the distressed poor in all our manufacturing towns ; but I depend upon findin. , that the finishing charm of tender feelings and hearts has not been denied, leading the possessors, though exempt from all difficulties and distress individually, to a generous participation in the griefs and wants of their fellow creatures. You are aware, ladies, what severe distress has prevailed throughout the last winter. Ido most earnestly intreat you to assist to the utmost to pre vent the recurrence of so much misery,—let us not be fed, and warmed, and clothed ourselves, and leave them again to so hard a Elite. Though my poor reasoning or per suasion must be as dust in the balance with your fathers, husbands, and brothers, to prevail on them to sign peti tions for the total repeal of the odious tax on bread, yours, I doubt not, would prove irresistible if calmly, gently, but perseveringly persisted in. Leaving all es sential proceedings in such excellent keeping I shall go to the past for a short time. Less than one hundred years since there was a pretty peaceful village in a fine corn county, comprising a neat church, the great house, half a dozen farms, and the cottages of the labourers employed upon them. Wheat then varied in price from six to eight or nine shillings a bushel ; still the landlord was satisfied, the farmers flou rishing, and the poor men contented, and not over worked. When the rents were paid a grand treat and dance were given to the numerous tenants. by the land lord—Sir John dancing with the matrons, and my Lady leading off with a farmer. These farms were all hired on twenty-one years' leases, and held by different mem bers of the same family from generation to generation ; thus the homestead, with its pretty garden and fruitful orchard, became a dear and valued inheritance, and the farmer had a heart to improve his land, knowing his descendants would be benefited ; for no tenant, in these good times, had warning to quit un less for unpardonable neglect, or inexcusable bad conduct, at the termination of a long lease, and no man would take a short one. Now, was not this a rational, wise, happy state of things, all in their proper stations, and able to live with just comparative comfort. In that altered village there are no long leases now, no feasts at rent paying, no security present or future. The farmers treat the landlord now, being expected to send a fat goose, ducks, or chickens, as their master may require. Far mers, are you not now serfs of the soil ? do you not hold your farms generally on yearly leases ? and are you not subject to be turned out for every paltry reason, and as your land is improved to have the rent raised ? If you are not slaves in body, are you not so in mind to your haughty masters ? Can you give a free vote at an election, or do you follow the lead of your landlord, though you know his using thus his power proves him to be no real gentleman, and that if he offers bribes, and you receive them, you both deserve to be transported, if punishment was justly apportioned to the magnitude and evil of the offence? All these abuses and miseries would fall with the destruction of the detestable monopolies. If you are careless about your condition and the present state of the poor, it is a melancholy proof that your shackles have degraded and sunk you below the proper level of the free-born sons of Great Britain. As the country becomes more and more enlightened you must be aware that Governments must rule on the large and liberal principle of general public good, and not for a hateful party putting gold into the pockets of the rich who need it not, and constantly taking pence from the poor who cannot spare it. I must remind you, farmers, that when you are ground too hard, your noble masters return you sometimes 5 or 10 per cent., a thing never heard of when gains were justly balanced ; and it is a wretched subterfuge, a pauper transaction. You ought to be able to support yourselves and your families by your land, and not to need this pitiful donation ; and I hope you will live to be heartily ashamed of it. Farmers, if you do not now make a noble struggle to throw off your yoke, you deser rie to be galled with it for ever. The hateful Corn-laws never did you any good, and never will. That you may have good landlords, long leases, and no injurious monopolies, is the sincere wish of ENGLISH JOAN. THE FREE-TRADE CRISIS. (From the Edinburgh Weary Chronicle.) The Tories, of their own accord, assumed a new name after the passing of the Reform Bill, and refused to be called anything but Conservatives. They must now, however, whether they will or no, receive another appel lation, and be known hereafter as the Plunderers or Mo nopolists. Sir Robert Peel has committed himself and his party completely to the advocacy of sinister interests,, in opposition to the interests of the public. He is the captain of a crew of pirates, who have at length, after a long chase, been compelled to hoist the black flag of piracy, after trying to skulk under all kinds of false colours ; but we have to fight them yet, and must clear our decks for action. It is something that we know their numbers and their mettle ; let us take care they do not get the weather-gage of us. It may be ques tioned if all the records of Parliament can furnish such an example of the hypocritical resort to false pretences, to bolster up private interests, as was exhibited in the line of argument adopted by the monopolists in the de bate on Lord Sandon's resolution. Lord Palmerston gave a masterly exposition of the pretended concern for dis oouragement of slave labour which has been made so much of to prevent us from obtaining sugar at a natural, in stead of a monopoly price. (From the Monmouth Merlin.) We appeal to the farmers of Monmouthshire, and ask them how many of them, possessed of long leases, have made money—nay, have ever saved their original capital, after deducting the expenses of living ? Has not the operation of the sliding duty been to buoy them up with false hopes of having perpetual good crops, or of having a greater awerage of them during the term of their lease than experience has warranted ? Have they not, conse quently, been induced to offer a greater rent than they could afford ? And have not their means consequently passed into the ,hands of their landlords ? How, then, can the Corn-laws benefit them ? The only benefit for them is to lower the landlord's rent ; and this is precisely what the Government measure, of a fixed duty, is in tended to do. Come what will, the Reformers are deter mined to fight the battle of free trade in Monmouthshire. (From the Somerset County Gazette.) PA twenty rats into a trap, and throw amongst them cheeee enough to feed twelve of them ; see how they will fight for the morsel, and almost tear each other to pieces in the struggle. In just such a manner as this are the people of Great Britain treated by the food laws. We live in an islam3 limited in its size, with a vast popula tion increasing at tile rate of a thousand mouths a day, and our legislators say, " You shall have no more food than we, the monopolists, are able or willing to furnish you with, and you must bake it at our own prices or starve." They throw down among the hungry twenty millions food that would not be more than enough for eighteen well-fed millions, and the result is the struggle for existence, the fierce, relentless competition for a bare maintenance, which makes life in this country a ceaseless round of toil and care. We are unfed, or half-fed, we may have money or money's worth in our pockets, food is offered to us abundantly and cheaply, but we are not suffered by this barbarous legislation to purchase a grain of it ; a famine is made by law ! an artificial scarcity is created ! and it is to abolish such a hideous violation of the benevolent provisions of Providence as this, that the nation at large is entering upon a contest with monopoly. In a cause so holy, a cause which has on its side reason, religion, justice, humanity, opposed only by a league of selfish interests, the end cannot be doubtful, though it may be protracted. The system of class legislation is tottering to its base, a few determined blows, well and vigorously planted, will ensure its overthrow. (From the Welshman.) A change in the Corn-laws is necessary as well for the interest of the farmer and the landlord, as for the prosperity of our commerce ; that change is now pro posed ; it can be attended with no evil, and has every prospect of proving the salvation of the country. Let every man, then, whether engaged iu agriculture or com merce, exert himself for the success of the Ministerial measure. (From the Leeds Times.) THE CouN MONOPOLY DOODIED.—The tide in favour of free trade has now set strongly in ; and if taken at the flood, it may yet "lead on to fortune." The working classes have long been suffering from the operation of Corn-laws, and the various other burdens upon their la bour and industry ; but they have hitherto complained, and petitioned, and agitated, for redress of grie vances, altogether in vain. No party in the State has deemed it of sufficient importance to take up the question of abolition of Corn-laws, on account of the suffering working classes. At length, how ever, the shoe has begun to pinch the the middle classes. the necessity of further profits, have awakened them to . Decaying trade, increasing competition, and diminishing extensive reforms in the laws--aspecially in so far as they relate to the exchanges of the products of industry. They also have complained, and petitioned, and agitated, for some time without apparent effect ; but at length a powerful party in the State has taken up . their cause, and declared for an extensive alteration in the Corn laws and Import Duties. There is a sufficient key to all this in the fact—that the middle classes are in the Imme diate possession of political power. tem W l h ve at must (From the Bristol Mercury.) arepur b srting ethe of ine b v o i l t s a t b er le ing consequence o o ly f the w sy h s y -' the prolongation of slavery all over the world. A pretty example we are setting to tempt foreign nations to give up slavery ! The eyes of the world are upon us, and what do they see ? We proclaimed aloud the supe rior cheapness of free labour, and we maintain a duty, amounting to absolute prohibition, to prevent free la bour coming into contact with slave labour! "Ay," slaves, free her e say foreign nati ons , "E ng l an d pa i d twenty m i ll i ons to hassinee ls hadmillions t opay this overth the likely e ty to keep and site freedom th may to tempt them to "go and do likewise ?" No : every penny we, by unjust legislation, add to the price of free-grown sugar, is an additional reason for the con tinuance of slavery in countries not subject to our sway —a premium paid to the slave-trader. (From the Kelso Chronicle.) THE CRISIS.--" The hour," as Lord Melbourne phrases it, "is come." After long years of suffering and sad experience, the people would seem to have aroused themselves from torpor and inactivity. The iron grasp of hunger has done its work. The energies of Britain have borne her up against the most monstrous system of monopolies which man ever devised, and the dire effects have become apparent in our crippled fi nances. The Ministry have met the emergency in a bold and candid manner. They have not shrunk from the avowal of the necessity of imposing fresh taxes on the people, or relieving trade and commerce by imparting a renewed stimulus to the intellectual and material capabilities of the country. The idea of contracting new loans, and still 'further burdening the country with an increased national debt, has been wisely discountenanced; and the reduction of duties on sugar, timber, and the imposition of a fixed duty on corn, have been proposed as the legitimate means of securing an addition to the national revenue. If the people listen to the voice of reason—if they will be guided by the dic tates of sound sense—of experience —of philosophy — their happiness will be established on an indestructible basis. But, on the other hand, should they suffer them selves to be cajoled hy false friends—by political senti mentalists—by wolves in sheep's clothing—by the Buck inghams, Winchilseas, and other Tory Peers of the day —they will plunge themselves in an abyss of calamities and misfortunes, from which they may never be able to emerge. (From the Southern Reporter.) The middle classes are with the Ministry, not merely those of their own political party, but Tories also. The pocket is of no politics but those of self-interest ; and a Tory manufacturer will not reject a just relief for an un just party triumph. There is no calculating what may be the result of a general election, grounded on great financial reforms. It is true, indeed, that the most pro fligate newspaper in the world, that unembarrassed liar, the Times, is, in its number of Monday, smoothing the way for smooth Sir Robert to adopt the very plan on which he seeks now to drive Ministers from office ; but if there be a principle of honour in Englishmen, they will spurn the man who recklessly sacrifices character and honour in a despicable pursuit of power. (From the Dublin Evening Post.) SIR ROBERT PEEL AND HIS PARTY.-140 man has been more scandalously maltreated by his party than Sir Robert Peel—no man has been more villainously attacked by the organs of the faction of which he is the head and front than the Right Honourable Gentleman. The lead ing mortification of the Tories is—they avow it—that they cannot go forward without him. They hate every bone in his skin, but then "the fellow," they are forced to ad mit, is so clever, so plausible, so handy at a sophism, talks away with such oiliness, and labours a topic with such a plenitude of diction—that he not only cannot be done without in debate, but that a Tory Cabinet without him— supposing the possibility of such a lusus naturx—would die in the moment of its birth. This the reasonable people in the coteries are ready enough to acknowledge, but they continue to express their hatred of the Right Honourable Baronet nevertheless—the Aristocrats, be cause he is alPlebeian, the mere place-hunters, the mere political traders, such as the Emmerson Tennents, the Ned Littons, and the Parliamentary small fry, because he does not choose to write himself, or to speak himself, down as an unprincipled and shameless rascal, with the sole view of obtaining office that lie might give them places. Sir Robert is not a political favourite of ours, and for our own part we are delighted at the keel-hauling he is receiving from his friends; but with regard to these the only feeling in the country is utter disgust. THE ST. LOUIS TRAGEDY. The St. Louis Republican of the 19th. inst. brings us the following particulars of the late dreadful affair in that city : MURDER, BURGLARY, AND ARSON.—We have never before had occasion to record such a complication of crimes in a single transaction as was presented to our appalled citizens on the night of Saturday last. About one o'clock the alarm of fire was given by the flames Im-sting out of the windows and various parts of the large stone store on the corner of Pine and Water streets ; the front of Water-street occupied by Messrs. Simonds and Morrison, and the rear by Mr. Pettus, as a banking-house, formerly Collier and Pettus. At the time of the discovery it was evident that the building had been fired in several parts, and the flames had made such progress, that it was impossible to save either the house or any f its contents. That it was the work of an incendiary was soon appa rent. Several gentlemen who arrived early, after some difficulty, forced open the door of the banking-house, and through the smoke discovered a body lying on the floor, near the stove. The body was taken out before the flames had reecho:l it and found to be that of Mr. Jacob Weaver, a clerk in the store of Messrs Von Phul and M‘Gill, who usually slept in the room immediately in the rear of Mr. Pettus's banking-rco al, with Mr. Jesse Baker, the clerk of Messrs. Simonds and Morrison. Mr. Weaver was found in the dress he had worn during the day, but his head dreadfully mangled. He kid been shot through the head, the ball entering above the left eye, and so near had the weapon been to him that his face and left hand were blackened with the powder, and the little finger nearly cut off apparently by the ball. His head was also cut open in sever al places, the wounds appearing to have been made with a bowie-knife or hatchet. Near to him, in the same room, was found the hat and handkerchief of Mr. Baker, but no traces of his body could be discovered. It is conjectured that he had been killed either in the bed-room or some other part of the store, and that his body lies buried in the ruins. In the banking-house there was a large fire-proof vault, in which there is at all times a large sum of money, and it is supposed that the murder was com mitted with a view of entering the vault. Of the manner, however, there is nothin g but conjecture. Mr. Baker left his boarding-house about nine for the store, and has not been seen since. Mr. Weaver was in company with a number of young gentlemen at a ten-pin alley, until about 11 o'clock, when he went to the store, and about the time he arrived the report- of two pistols or guns were heard in that direction by the people in the vici nity, but from the reprehensible frequency of such re ports, excited no attention. Some supposed the mur derers had concealed themselves in the store, and had previously despatched Baker, and killed Weaver when he entered. Our own belief, from all the circumstances, is that they entered with Weaver, and that the struggle and death of both followed immediately. After the murder they doubtless fired the house in several places with the hopes of consuming the bodies, and in the ex pectation that their crime would not be discovered. So far as there has been any means of judging, it is believed that the murderers failed in their principal pur pose; that of entering the vault. Owing to the heat, up to a late hour, yesterday, the door could not be ap proached, but when it was, it was found to be locked and could not be unlocked. The safe of Messrs. Simonds and Morrison, in which there was some money, was un disturbed, and it was, therefore, probable that but little booty was obtained. The loss by the fire has been very great. Mr. Pettus lost all his books and the books of Collier and Pettus. He, however, after three attempts, at great personal risk, succeeded in getting out a drawer under the counter, in which were all his bills receivable, amounting to near 200,000 dollars, the papers being very little injured. Most of the books and papers of the late firm of Hemp stead and Beebe were destroyed, and Mr. Hempstead's Messrs. Simonds and Morrison lost their journal and ledger, but saved several other books. Their safe was dragged out and the papers in it preserved with little damage. Their entire stock of goods, however, was con sumed. Their loss, including their own stock and the goods on storage and commission, is estimated at about 30,000 dollars, which is probably below the amount. They were covered by insurance to the extent of their own stock. The whole loss, including the goods and the building, may be set down at from 40,000 dollars to 50,000 dollars. From the house of Simonds and Morrison the fire ex tended south to the adjoining building, occupied by Messrs. Kennett, White, and Co., the roof of which was partially consumed, and for a long time we thought it impossible to save the building or the row ; but the firemen of St. Louis are indomitable; and by exertion, demanding of all the highest praise, the house of Messrs. Kennett, White, and Co. was saved, with the loss of the roof only. The goods in the store, however, were greatly damaged by the water, and the stock was very large. The amount of damage is variously estimated at from 10,000 to 15,000 dollars, fully covered by insurance. The wind setting in a south-west direction, carried the embers in great quantities over the buildings south of the fire; and nothing but the saturated condition of the roofs by the previous rains, and the exertions of the fire men, saved the row. The store of Mr. Bernard Pratte, on the opposite side of Pine-street, was several times on fire, and some of the window frames were considerably burned, but by the exertions of those from within, and the aid of the en g ines, no injury was do ne th e building, altho ug h M r . Pratte's goods suffered considerable injury from the water. We would rejoice to pause here in this sad recital, but there is yet a tale of woe to be told. About the break of day, the interior of the first building having all fallen in, Mr. Ansel S. Kimball, first engineer of the Union Fire Company, was standing on the side walk in Pine street playing on the fire through a window, when the wall suddenly gave way and fell outwards into the street. A gentleman with him made his escape, but Kimball was caught and crushed beneath the falling mass. His remains in a few minutes were disinterred from the ruins, but the vital spark had fled. Mr. Kimball was one of our enterprising citizens, a carpenter by prof ess i on , an d was on e of the contractors in the erection of the Second Presbyterian church. He was of irreproachable character. He was born in Concord, N. H., and came to this city from Boston in the fall of 1836, and has carried on his trade under the firm of Kimball and Webster. His circumstances were mode rate ; in fact, embarrassed in the general embarrassment of the times. He has left a young and amiable wife and children to mourn his loss—a loss to her which no sym pathy can repair, but for whose future comfort it is now the duty of our community to make a liberal provision. He, upon whom she leaned for support and protection, has been cut down without a moment's warning, and mkm labouring for the preservation of his neighbour's goo(S Mr. ;Paver was a young man, a bout 22 years of age, of excellent character, an d h a d he entire confidence of his employers' and the esteem of all his acquaintance. His parents resid, l 3 in the city, his father carries on the business of house-pa!nting, and is one of our most res pectable and worthy citizens ; ho removed to this city about three years ago from Washington city, and doubt less prided himself on the promise of usefulness which his son gave, but th e i c y h an d of death has destroyed the flower and crushed the parent's fond hopes. Mr. Baker was a young gentleman of about 22 years of this city. Ftirasssieaalcrinaes of age, the son of a respectable family. residing in Wor cester county, he was a MrieriyjeosfsecLonidnudcatil, pattern, and it is nothing more than justice to say that Viere was not a worthier young man in our s community. He has lived here a number of years, and e a p n h d e w p r o o f; from all with whom he became acquainted won the ap plause due to rectitude and worth. It would be impossible to describe the intense feeling which pervaded the community during the night and tut- desk, , suing morning, and, in fact, the whole day. Every one was shocked at the enormity and boldness of the deed, and felt, that whilst such crimes could be committed in our midst, and the guilty escape detection, there was no security to any one. At an early hour of the morning, without any pre vious call, a large number of the citizens assembled at the Old Market House, when the Mayor, John D. Dag gett, was called to the chair, and George K. Budd, Esq. appointed Secretary, when the following proceedings were had : " Whereas a foul and inhuman murder, together with arson, was perpetrated in our city last evening, by some person or persons unknown ; and whereas the perpetration of this horrible outrage calls for the most prompt and efficient measures on the part of the citi zens. Therefore, "Resolved—That the Mayor be, and he is hereby authorised and requested, without delay, to offer a re ward of five- thousand dollars for the detection and con viction of the perpetrators of the crime aforesaid. " Resolved—That a Committee of twelve from each ward be appointed by the chair, to immediately take such measures as to them shall be deemed expedient to ferret out the murderer or murderers. " Resolved—That the Corporation of the city of St. Louis be and is hereby requested to appropriate the amount aforesaid reward of 5,000 dols. to be paid on the arrest and conviction of the perpetrator or perpetrators of this horrible outrage and murder." After the adjournment of the meeting, the Mayor of fered a reward of 5,000 dols. for the detection of the per petrators, and the St. Louis Fire Company offered a fur ther reward of 300 dols. The city and country was paroled during yesterday and last night, and the citizens generally are using all the means in their power to detect the guilty. The key of Mr. Pettus's room was found yesterday in the alley running up through the square above, by a little aegro. Several persons were taken up yesterday and examined, without leading to any developments. The whole police and manf the citizens were on the a l er t, h owever , a nd we trustiat some light will yet be thrown on the dark transactions of Saturday might. POLITICAL PARSONS. The Guardian has attacked Dr. Joynes, the rector of Gravesend, for attending a corn-law lecture, and inter alia giving the sanction of his countenance to a political manauvre. Before we dispose of this attack in the man ner it merits, we must congratulate our contemporary on his new born zeal against political clergymen ; like other sudden and modern conversions, it is worthy of particular remark. " The Duke" and Sir Robert were suddenly con verted to the necessity of Catholic Emancipation, and opened the doors of Parliament to statesmen of that per suasion ; our beloved brother of the Guardian is as suddenly shocked at the clergy interfering with po litical 24 matters. Does he also desire to open the doors of Parliament and request the bishops to walk out ? Perhaps he is not prepared to stretch his principles quite to this extent. Well, we will not be too hard upon him ; let him just whisper into the ears of half his readers—rather more, we fancy—who belong to the cloth, that it is highly unseemly for clergymen to mix with party politics, and that if any of the many in this clerically-blessed county interfere at the next gene ral election, he will incontinently gibbet them in his columns, and hold them up to the contempt and execra tion of the " many thousands " who weekly listen to his patriotic denunciations. _ _ - But while we perfectly agree with the principle of our contemporary's remarks, we are afraid that he has not such a good case to illustrate them as we could wish. We much regret the same truths did not strike him a short time ago, when a reverend gentleman—we beg pardon clergyman, for clergymen are not always gentlemen—denounced the Queen, the head of his Ohurch, as a " Jezebel," and her Ministers as something worse ; or when another rev. clergyman took occasion, at Ash ton, to attack the Government as " democrats, infidels, and atheists," and called upon his hearers to oppose them to the last extremity. These would have been capital cases in point, but, unfortunately, our contemporary was not then converted to his present opinions. A lecture on the repeal of the Corn-laws is not a party matter ; at least our contemporary's friends say not. They claim, as the great leader of the free trade move ment, the late Mr. Huskisson ; nay, the present Lord Ashburton, one of their chief speakers, has done more to advocate it than any other man ; and their especial " Thunderer," of Printing-house Yard, has over and over again enforced its necessity, policy, and expediency. But though a lecture on the evil effects of the Corn laws may not be a matter of party politics, and though Dr. Joynes and the lecturer may have held and uttered the same opinions long before Government adopted them, still we think there are several matters in which the Rev. Doctor lays himself open to the lash of our contem porary. He is in truth a very strange man, and in most of his actions and opinions seems to do things differently from his brethren. During the good old times when the pulpit was perseveringly and most profitably used as a tool of the Government, Dr. Joynes refused to do any thing of the sort, and was for many years professing principles which shut him out from all profit and all ad vancement. Conduct like this was a censure by implica tion upon his reverend brethren, for which the Guardian should severely trounce him. __. _ _ Moreover, - when it was the fashion, as it is the fashion, to support the Church by "forced contribu tions," warrants for Church -rates, &e., Dr. Joynes positively declared that he did not approve of such pro ceedings, and wished the Church to be supported by pillars of faith and love, piety and charity, rather than by pillars of gold and the strong arm of the law. This was extremely heterodox, but as it was so very unusual in a clergyman, and Dr. Joynes could not do much mis chief by himself, it was passed over by his ecclesiastical Diocesan ; no reason, however, that it should be passed over by the Guardian. Again, the conduct of Dr. Joynes and his family may be greatly complained of by the other clergy. What a depraved taste, what a shocking example, it must be to see a Rector of a great parish, and his female relatives, instead of paying court to hierarchs, noblemen, Diem - hers of Parliament, or even the gentlefolks of the county, going day by day into poor and miserable cottages, inhabited by low-bred people, who may happen to be dying, and without medicine, or famish ing, and without food. Really such perverted habits and extraordinary conduct should draw down the ful minations of our contemporary, as being at total vari ance with the common practice, though they may pos sibly have led to the Doctor's opposition to prohibitory laws. As we wish to " help a lame dog over a stile," we throw out these few hints, which we think contain suffi cient matter to enable our contemporary to give the hete rodox Doctor a thrust under the left ribs, which, should he succeed in doing, and Gravesend be deprived of her present pastor (our contemporary not choosing to take the office himself), we could recommend as his successor the present Dean of York, or, should he not be procura ble, the Rev. Dr. Molesworth, either of whom will be more to our contemporary's mind, and much less deviate from established practices and principles than Dr:Joynes. —Kentish Mercury. THE THREE PARTIES, "GLORIOUS CONSTITUTION!" In the course of Mr. Villiers' admirable speech in the House of Commons, on Tuesday evening, he observed that " there were now three parties in the State—one of which thought that no justice should be done to the people ; another which admitted that justice was not done to them, but that it ought to be done, and that it could be done under the present Constitution ; the third party consisted of those who were hourly increasing in numbers and strength, and who thought that justice was not done and would not be done without a change in the Constitution." The three parties alluded to, we need scarcely add, are the Tories, Whigs, and Radicals. There never was a definition which fitted the case so well as this of Mr. Villiers; nor does he exaggerate when he says, that the third, .or Radical' party, are " hourly in creasing in numbers andstiengtli." We beliave that the great proportion of the thinking people of this country are rapidly losing faith in what is called " our glorious Coustitution in Church and State." That glorious Constitution is neither more nor less than a huge and overgrown lie ; and, as Carlyle says, " no lie can live." What is the Constitution to those who have not bread to eat ? What signifies to a bankrupt and impoverished people, that they have a glorious Con stitution, if under that very Constitution they have been reduced to want and beggary ? Of what consolation is the " Church and State " to starving hand-loom weavers, to half-fed agricultural labourers, to ruined merchants, to decaying tradesmen, to whole towns and cities of paupers ? Is not the Constitution which produces such results, rather a public nuisance and imposture than a l i thing which should be praised and honoured of mankind? "It works well 1" says some one. Yes ! For bread taxers, for established clergy, for sinecurists, and for all the hungry hangers-on of the monied and landed aristo cracy. But does it work well for the people ? A system of imposture ; an organized scheme of depredation, cor ruption, and oppression of the industrious classes ; a col lection of the pretences under which the aristocracy have been in the habit of carrying on an incessant war for the sacrifice of the universal to their own particular interest. The people want a real Constitution, not a sham : th e y will recognize a true Government, but they refuse any longer to bow down before an establi s h e d lie. It is to obtain a genuine Constitution which is the object of tk e " third party "of which Mr. Villiers speaks—the Rr„di.. cal Reformers of the United Kingdom.—Leeds Times KILSYTII.—On Saturday, a very respectable meeting of the inhabitants of Kilsyth was held, vi len it was resolved to come forward in support of Ministers in their at. tempt to carry an alteration of the Corn-laws, and a modifi tion of the duties on sugar and timber. The town of Cowes never was more healthy not a case of sickness prevails, though it i; so general in other parts of the kingdom; with a population of 5,000 souls there was not one death in the month of March, only three in April, and not one in May.—Hants Advertiser. E. Solomons and Co., Opticians to the Royal Family, have invented Voice. Conductors, by the use of which_ deaf persons will experience the most incalculable benefits. Al.. though they are formed on so small a scale as to measure only one quarter of an inch in diameter, yet no instruments hitherto ern ployed have proved so powerful and efficacious. When placed ire the ears, the wearer is enabled to hear, with distinctness, the voice of a distant speaker in church, theatre, or public assembly. Grea t praise is due to E. Solomons and Co., for their invention of tl.ie Patent Spectacles, which possess many decided and superior :ad_ vantages over all others in present use, being lighter in construe_ tion, and convey a refreshing coolness to the sight when engaged at any minute employment, either by day or candle light ; in fact, they seem, from their exquisite finish, to complete the triumph of this department of the science of optics. They are patronised by the Royal Family, her Majesty the Queen of Hanover, his Royal, Highness the Duke of Sussex, the Duchess of Richmond the Duke of Newcastle, the late Duke of Buckingham, the Marquis of Wei. leaky, &c. The patentees, being totally unconnected with parties advertisineunder a similar name, their address should be parti culai ly noted as a guard against all imitations—namely, 1, Old Jewry, . City; and 36, Old Bond.areet, opposite the Western Ex. change., El AMBURGH MAIL. ST. PETERSBUIiGIi p MAY B.—On the day of the mar riage of the Grand Duke Alexander, the Emperor issued a special manifesto, granting full pardon, or a diminution of punishment, for 35 different kinds of crimes. We give the preamble of the Imperial manifesto, and the first five classes of crimes pardoned which are the most im portant,,:—. " Following the impulse of our hearts, we have taken the resolution, on the day of the marriage of our beloved son and successor the Cesarewitsch Grand Duke Alex ander Nicolasewitsch, an occasion of so much joy to us, and to all our faithful subjects, to distinguish it by marks of our favour. Immediately after our accession to the Throne we declared our firm resolution to exercise the right to pardon given us by God for the general good, without thereby impairing the force of the laws. When we now pardon many not very serious crimes, and miti gate the penalty of others, we hope that th e c l emenc y manifested to the criminals will awaken in them the feel ing of repentance, and that by their future conduct they will justify our indulgence to their former transgressions The dispensations from payment of various claims hereby granted, are chiefly in favour of those whom poverty or temporary distress have rendered in ca p a bl e o f discharging the same, and we do not doubt that the indulgence will induce others to double their efforts to fulfil these obli gations. With these well meant intentions we graciously order— " I. To exempt from trial and inquiry all those who up to this day have been brought before the Courts of Justice for offences which are not connected with sacri lege, murder, robbery with violence to the person, usury, robbery, stealing the property of the Crown by persons to whom it is entrusted, coining, and forgery of the pa per currency. Those cases are not included with which private claims are connected. " 11. Criminals condemned to public corporal punish ment exempt from such punishment, and are only to be subject to hard labour. " 111. Criminals condemned to corporeal punishment and banishment to Siberia as colonists are not to suffer corporeal punishment, but only to be sent as colonists to Siberia. " IV. The exemption from trial and inquiry granted in the first article, is extended to all persons serving in civil offices and in the army and navy. " V. To military persons of every class, pea sants, and others who, up to this day have re tired into foreign countries, or deserted from their habi tations and regiments, we grant our most gracious par don,:if those living in the empire return to their habita tions in half a year, and those in foreign countries within a year, and the military return to their regi ments. This pardon does not extend to those who have fled to foreign countries to escape trial or punishment for rebellion and conspiracy, and endangering the inter nal tranquillity of the State. The ordinances respecting such persons remain in full force." STOCKHOLM, MAY 14.—Count V. Wrangel, his Majesty's Charge d'Affaires at liamburgh has concluded treaties of commerce between the kingdoms . of Sweden, and Norway, and the free cities of Hamburgh and Bre men, founded on perfect reciprocity. They have been approved and ratified by his Majesty, and will come into operation on the Ist of July next. The important question respecting a change in the re presentation is to be decided in the next diet.—Hamburgh Papers, May 21. BELGIAN WUNDS—Baussixi, MAY 22. Actual Debt, 2 3G per Cent. Rothschild's Lean, 5 per Cent... ..... Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per C ent........... 93 ' 3 per Cent — 1 --- .... 703 • 840) % Loan of City, 1&32, 4 per ( Cent. ........ Society of Commerce, 43oper Cent. lOO Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent.... ...... NationalSeciety.. ....... . . ........... — Exchange on London (short) —Brussels rapers, May 22. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vismwa, MAT 15 rive per Cents. Metalliques ........... .......... ...... 108% Four per Cents. .... ........... ••••••••••••••••• ........... 100 Three per Cents. • ••••••••• ....... •••••••••••••••••••• ...... NI 79 bank Shams ••-•........ .... . ..... ••••••••••••••••• ...... 1639 ...Allgemeine Zellung, Mayl9: HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, Max 31. Bills. Money Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares — 1643 Anglo-Russian Loan 1 0 ,% 108% Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate Inscription, Ist Se:ies. lO2 Russian 5 per Cent. Hops and Co. 3d and 4th Series 9754 97U Ditto in Certificates Ncw 4 per Cent. (1840) Dutch Actual Debt, 2% p c r C en t 5 1 1% 51 Ditto 5 per Cent...„-........... . Polish Bond s l4ll ...- New ticket Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. 75 7.534 MA %region Loan, 1834, 4 per Cont.... 11:7.3{ 1024 Spanish. New 5 per Cents. 153 38 EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURG, MAY 21.-13 B.—Two months, 13 6%. PRTYKSBUROH, MAY IL—Two months, 33% pence. STOCKHOLM, MAY 11.—Seyenty-five days, 11. 47, VIENNA, MAY 13.—Three months. 9. 453(. BERLIN, MAY 18. —Th ree months, 6, 19 HAMBURG MARKETS. GRAIN. Whom, Marts 288 to 330 Barley, Mecklenbargh 152 to 156 ------ Magdeburg 2BB to 3;.13 -- Magdeburgh... 150 to 159 Anlialt, white 288 to sal ----- Holstein 132 to 116 -- red ... 2 / 5 to 3`+o -- Summer ll4 to 132 -- Brunswick 2S3 to 230 Oats, Eider B4 to 104 Mecklenburg.. 858 to 333 -- Mecklenburg Polish 3OO to 336 Holstein 135 to 147 --- Holstein . 243 to 3001-- East Friesland lO2 to 111 Rye, Mecklenburg .... 195 to 213 Pease, Mecklenburg ~ '204 to 228 Dantzic -- Elbing and Ko.. Buck Wheat ins to 191 Miashurg lBO to 219 Rapeseed, Hanover ... 5t.5 to 616 - upland - Miga, Thirty.seven COTTON. Carolina and Tennessee 7%t0 9% Maranham B4 toe% Georgia. Ist suit 0 7 34 Marius 5% 5% 2d 7 7% Surr.ts ticl and 4th ... 6 ( Do w..ngo ..... COFFEE. Mocha 13 to 1334 Domingo 4% to 53 Batavia 5% 5% La Guayra. 4% 7, Sumatra Porto Rico 6% 7 1 4 Rio 4 5% llavannah 4% "..% Bahia 4 5% SUGAR.—(With 8% Discount.) Havannah, White 3to 4 Bahia, White „. 2% to 2% Brown 2 2% Brown 0 5fi 2% ' Hi° White 2% 4 Pernambuco, White ...2% 2% Brown Manilla, Brow ii, 2y6 to 2% ASSASSINATION IN IRELAND. (From the Dublin Evening Mail.) Extract of a letter from a Correspondent : Poor Mr. Hall was shot dead yesterday—he was au excellent and worthy man. One of his principal tenants, ' who lives close to this, was persisting in burning s ome ' land against his wish, and yesterday the poor fellow drove ' over on his car to remonstrate against this proceedi ng . He had just got off his car, and the servant had not taken the horse from under it, when he heard a shot fired, and. on looking into the field into which his master had gone, he saw him lying dead. No person was to be sewn, and. all the workmen had moved away, although L was to o soon for dinner hour. The horrible transacti , on occurred about eleven o'clock. He was shot with a pistol, and the ,miscreant must have been standing beside—perhaps speaking to him, as his white hat and write hair were both burned. The ball entered immed ; _ately under the left ear, and passed through the spin_al marrow, so that death must have been instantaneous The ball lodged in the velvet collar of his coat, afte:: having passed through the neck. There can be no reaP:on assigned for this mysterious and horrifying atrocity, but that Mr. Hall presumed to exercise the rigptP, of a landlord. He was, in politics, a Liberal—in , plavate life, a gentleman, benevolent and universally oeloved. Now, " property has its rights as well as its duties ;" and we fearlessly tell the Government from which that fatal maxim (fatal to the Irish country gentleman) ema nated, that amongst those rights the most sacred is thrJ right of protection ; which right, unless the Government be willing to extend, it forfeits its right to the obedience of the subject. Something must be done. The blood'. of the innocent is calling out for retribution against the misrulers of the land. An inquest was held on the remains of Mr. Hall, who was murdered on Wednesday last at a place called Uskane, near Borrisokane, before Mr. Carroll, tire Coroner, who was assisted in the inquiry by Captain Duff, the resident Magistrate, and Mr. Bracke, - a, the Police Inspector of the district. The first witness examined was John Connell, who was coachman to Mr. Hall. lie deposed thr At h e d rove morni ng ,his master on that at ten o'clock,", rom his resi dence at Merton Hall to Uskane, which they reached about eleven. When they alighted at gate Mr. Hall desired him to alight from the car, awl put up the horse in the stabl e . M r . H a ll t h en turn, from the avenue gate towards where there was son/ e , 6 beating " burning Witness " means sods of grass, burning for manure. ] itness waited with th e car f or. some minutes, thinking that some one would come and open the gate, and when he found no one, coming, he -- proceeded to unyoke the horse, and while so employed, he heard a shot in the direction in whi c h Mr. Hall. 'had gone. Witness pro ceeded :—lt was about 20P, •yards from where I was to where he was shot ; lorked in the direction in which I heard the report, b u t sr. wno person. I saw some smoke, but I cannot say whop pistol. I did not.' her it was the report of a gun or 6ink the shot was fi re d a t an y one . I waited till I I.r4d settled the traces, and then went in the direction i r . which I he ar d th e report, w h ere I f oun d my master * quite lifeless. whr To a Juror—There was a man p l oug hi ng i n t h e fi e ld we came first to the place, but after the shot was . .red th ere was no one w i th the plough. There were several men at work in an adjoining field who must have heard the shot, yet they did not stir. I found the de ceased lying on his right side with his face towards the ditch, and quite dead. I found a wound under his left ear, and having opened his cravat, I found the bullet at the other side of his neck. I then returned to the house and told a woman whom I met that Mr. Hall had been lot. I think the woman is a servant to Mr. Kent, the •tenant of the house. I then returned towards the de ceased, and ran along the ditch in hopes of seeing some one to assist me, but I could not. There were two men and two girls at work in an adjoining field about 200 yu .rds from where Mr. Hall was shot. I told Fitz gerald, one of the men, that my master was shot, to , which he replied, " Oh, murder !" They then came with me to where he lay. To a Juror.—They must have heard the shot, but they did not stir until I went for them. In about an hour after Mr. Hall was shot he was brouglit into the house, previous to which 15 or 20 persons 'mid collected about the place. The Coroner was of opinion that enough of evidence had been given to warrant the Jury in re turning a ver dict of wilful murder ; and it might net be advisable towards the furtherance of justice to exan sine others. Captain Duff, and several gentleman present, coincided in opinion with the Coroner. Dr. Hobbs deposed that he examined the body of the deceased, and found a wound under the left ear, which he believed to have been inflicted by a bullet fired from a pistol, which produced immediate death. Dr. Finucane gave similar testimony. Verdict—Wilful murder against somepersm unknown. The Nenagh Guardian of this mornin4 says :—We have learned that the ploughman, who wa.. at work i n the field, and alluded - to by Connell ilk his evidence; EVENING EDITION. has been arrested ; but it has been ascertained that 113 was not with the horses when Connell came to the spa: nor did he return for an hour afterwards. The deceased gentleman's pockets were turned inside out, and his watch and pocket-book taken away. Mr. Hall was about fifty-six years of age, and Wag married to the sister of Edward Litton, Esq., the Mein; ber for Coleraine, and he was principal in the firm °I Hall and M'lntyre, merchants, in this city, CITY PRIVATE BANKS. Those who have taken an interest in the operation' of banking and currency trade, scarcely imagine theinr; portant results that have f o ll owe d th e establishment or the " Clearing House," as respects the facilitation of the business, alike convenient to the private bankers of the City of London, to the merchants, and to ths trade in general. It would scarcely have been cre dited that, by a mere representation of value in the shape of bankers' cheques and bills of exchange (prin' cipally foreign), that in one comparatively small apart ment, near the old Post-office, in Lombard-street , business in one year should have been transacted by the passing of crossed cheques and bills to an amount fully equal, if rendered into hard cash, to pay off the national debt. Such is, however, the fact, astonishing as it may appear. The returns to which we wish to draw atten tion, have been furnished in pursuance of an order from the Select Committee of the House of Commons , which has just terminated an inquiry into " Banking and Currency " matters, with a view of reporting r° Parliament a plan for the better arrangement of bank' ing throughout the United Kingdom. This return will, we think, surprise many of the theoretical writers upon such subjects as those to which we have alluded. At present we need not go into any minute detail ase respects names ; but w e will vouch for the accuracy or the facts hereafter stated. In the year 1840, the amount of cheques and bills passed through the Clear' ing House " by Messrs. Barclay and Co. wa5...X107,000,000 11 Messrs. Glynn and Co 105,000,000 1 Messrs. Jones, Lloyd, and Co 104,000,0001 These three firms, in the aggregate, cleared, it will be thus seen, very nearly 316,000,0001. It would, we, think, be rather i nv idi ous to state the other names 0 ' those (3f banking firms of the city of London, who are entitled to the privileges of the Clearing House ; but we may class them with advantage, and sufficient to afford interesting information to those vOlo are desirous of i" telligence upon the subject. The amount cleared in the last year by Messrl. Masterman, and Messrs. Re' bests and Co., was from 85,000,000?. to 86,000,000/ 4 by Messrs. Barnett, Smith, Payne, and Smith, and by the Messrs. Williams and Co., from 46,000,00 01 • to 66,000,000/. The othei• private banking firms of tb e City, entitled access to the " Clearing House," range i° classes from 25,000,0001. to 45,000,000/. ; an d the lowest on the list are from 3,000.000/. to 8,000,0 001 ' In all, the amount of money passed through the Clear log House," in the year 1840, by the Private Banking firms of the city of Loudon—(of course, Joint-stoc k Banks excluded)—amounts to rather over 860,000,00' On a future occasion, we shall - be enabled to commune cats some other interesting details on this highly into' resting subject.—British Queen. THE MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD. The highest rrh e of tiredd L. the Metropolis is 914 d. for:the 411 g. Loaf. Gad Bread may be had at 734 d. PRICES OF SEEDS. Per Cwt. I Per Quarter . New English /Leo C10ver...56s 845 St. Fcin .... _ s ...I -- 4 Old L itco DIN) —5 —s —s' Rye Grass —s ...s '''' New Foreign Ditto......—s 565 805 Pacey Grass s ...41 .. -41 -- ~‘,. ,4s oid Ditto Ditto —s s—s Linseed, for feeding ...—o ~4 0 . "cos New White Clover 46s ses 63s r Ditto, for sowing .—o D.' F ps Old Ditto Ditto .—s 42s 46a'Ditto, for crushing „..-5 46s 4 ., ... Nov Trefoil —s 20 a 44 5 'H emp ..s 4211 4 " Old Ditto — a IN 368:Canary „—s 90 31°°i Trefolium —s 48s 70s1 Per Bushel. English Carraway —s 50s slsWhite Mustard .... t2s Od to 15: Gl a Foreign Ditto —s 44 5 50 8 B rown Dit to 143 od to 174 v,,d A Coriander —s s —s,Tares 6 s Cd IC 104" PRICE OF OIL. Rape Oil, brown, per ton £43 10 Ditto, refined Linseed Oil 2B IQ Lins,rd Oil Cake at the Mill (per 1000) l2 /V rtai e . ake. per ton 6 15 PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, &c. per 1121 b. Town Tallow £2 b 6 Melting Stuff al 1 Yellow Russia White l' 0 0 Graves . ..... ................... 0 1 6 Soap Ditto 0 0 0 Good Dregs —....„ ........ 0 5 PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of Sibs. Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Melters) ....... ..... "ss. S3,id' COAL MARKET. Ships arrived since last market .day s 104. aa, d. a. „ Buddle's West Hartley l7 6 Walis E n d Newmarch ....... 17 i Carr's Hartley lB 0, Walls End Riddell's. ..... ... 1 9 , 0 liolyweil Ma n IS 3' W.IE. Braddyll'sHett - on ... 2,.; 5 New Tanfield Moor • 15 0 W a ll s E nd East Hetton .... I' t, Smith's Pontop l5 0 Walls - End Hetto n ............ 22 0 Tanfied Moor 2O 01 Wall , , End Lambton —. .. ... 11.2 9 West Wylam ... 16 0 Walls End Ru sse ll' s H e tlon t'l , Wylam ... . Walls Ediewicke'and Co l9 9 Malls End*Seymour ' Tees... 1 2 6 Walls End Clennell CITY OF DUBLIN REGISTRY. Upon th e present sessions the Liberals have gained 81. 'r ile Liberal majority in the city of Dublin is noW over whelming. THE WILTSHIRE FLOODS. SUBSCRIpTION..° °° The Committee appointed to super_ intend this s ubscrir tion have published their re - port of th e ree ei?"' ,, and expenditure. The total amount subscribed was 4,1451. 13s. 2d. ; and the and small farMers—all Mats to cottagers, tradesmen , Of whom have been fully indem nified—amount, with 'expenses, to 3,0701. 15s. 7d. It must be borne in ro from the act ua l ar , aount of damage sustained ; the muniue indi vidual ; .nd, however, that this is very far ence of Lord Ashburnham and others having m a d e sons bein g extensive sufferers whose position in lire rend dered Oar good much of the damage, and many per; ' The av is b° rplus n hand—namely, 1,0741. 17s. 70.., to m ineligible to participate in the subscriptio n) a pp" ipriated to the erection of substantial cottages `.: zo'-‘ewton and each of the ravaged villages, under the „ 0 ,„ r, , dition of trust e e s , who are to apply the rents thereat!'" thf; purchase of coals and blankets, to be annually illj i t'ibuted to the poor on the anniTersay of the dread lo 'clood: [ADVERTISEMENT.] EPSOM RACES.—The influence of the sun and lust on the face and skin when travelling and pr°n l r e ; nading is a source of ser i ous i nconven i ence t o l a dies 01 delicate complexion, producing Sunburns, Tan, Freckl es ' and a harsh dry Skin. To successfully oppose these inn ° . ; vations, the ladies h ave a p ower f u l f r i en d i n Rowlant Kalydor, which, as a renovating a nd r e fr e shing wa sh ' will be found truly grateful, dispelling the cloud of 1 101- pour from the complexion, and immediately affordio! the pleasing sensa ti on a t ten di ng restore d e l as ticity w the skin, From T. J. Pettigrew, Esq., Surgeon, F.R.S" to Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, 39, Albemarle-street, Ple csaiill i opposite the York Hotel, an d 76, King Willi am-s t ree t, Ban k t° England.--" Gentlemen,—l have no hesitation in replying yc.ur inquiry as to the results obtained by the use of Vol . ire proved spect ac l es ; b e i ng i n th e constant habit a r eadini 4 0 writing for m an y h ours t oge th er by l amp -li g h t, i t i s b u t justice `, say, that your newly.invented spectacle lenses have afforded the greatest comfort. When I employed the ordinary pebbles!.., 'sever failed to experience in the morning a great irritation in . ryes. Since I have used your admirable glasses I suffer I'o o inconvenience of the kind. I shall ever feel grateful to rill g: t , friend, Dr. Blundell, for h a vi ng d rawn m y a tt ent i on t o the subi 6 , Believe me to be your's, very respectfully, T. J. Perrioalolt Stiville.row, Jan. 4, 1839."—" M. G. Sir Howard Elphlnston et ! leave to say that the Spectacles he has now had some time 0% - have fully redeemed the assurance of the Messrs. S. and 15. mo ns as to their excellence, and having found so much comfort advantage from their use, far preferable to every other ki nd :( Glasses which he has been in the constant habit of making ° e for a great number of years.-13, Norfolk.stroet, Park-lane, the at, ," of November, 1840." The M ess r s . S o l omons ' O pera ti v e 'Voice r. : e c ductor, when fixed into the c av ity o f th e ear, t h e f a i n test Wh l los at a public assembly is he ar d w ith di st i netuess.—No conne xion w' persons of the same name. —.4 with " SETS of PLATED CORNER DISHES, ; e is or without Warmers. Th e p r i ce of t h e Set of Four DISHES, or and Covers, without Warmers, varies from Eight to the Guineas. The Warmers are from Five to Nine Guiness_, let. Engravings of the various patt erns w ill b e f o rward.-A t ro free, if application is made, pest paid. Th e di s h es are c ome th e themselves without warmers, and the handl es take °'" covers thus forming four extra dishes when required. T. COX SAVORY, 6 ,01 Silversmith, &c., No. 47, Cornhill (Seven loom Grechurch-street), London. STEEL FIRE-IRONS, with Bronzed o at 15s. per Set, Bronzed Fender s , V s . A var i e ty 4) ' terns and prices, from the above-to 305., at which for° fenders are particularly handsome, with splendid scroll cellt' • richly intermixed with steel, the ends are steel, aad the St% porters for the fire-irons bronzed. Pilished steel fir e.iro from 4s. per set. Catalogues gratis, containing the prices of every article 0„ Furnishing Ironmongery. RIPPON and BURTON, Wells-street, Oxford-street- Established 1820. BIRTHS. On the 21st inst., in Gordon-square, th e l a dy of Barnard Watson, Esq., of at inst. , g On the 21s da the lady , of Henry Wilson, Esq., of St° ° ' langtoft, Suffo inst. lk, ef a son. On the 22d ,at Clapham.rise, the wife of W. P..• chardson, of a daughter. w itst On the 22d inst., at Putney-heath, tho lady of W. Esq., of a daughter. On the 2.ad inst., the lady of Francis Brown Lloyd , r' .l , M.D., of Myddelton-square, of a daughter, still born MARRIED. gav On the 22d inst ., at Trinity Church, Sloane-street, the ',ll. Charles Grenfell Nicolay, to Mary Ann, eld es t daughter 0. 13. Raven, Esq., of Sloane. street. fi• Oti the 22d inst., at Sit. Dunstan's-in-the-West, ba r ' Tiool, of Queen-street, Cheapside, to Louisa Emma , e '" daughter of Mr. Stephen Sweet, of Chancery-lane DIED. city the 14th inst., at Oporto, John Wy e , E sq ., of that O O A° n the 9th inst., at King's N ew t on , D er byshire, _ ov , Mar ia, widow of the late J. Capper, Esq., of Southampton.'" Bloomsbury. On the 21st inst., Henry William, third son of the Rev Elms, Itchingfield, Hor s h am , Sussex, aged 15. On the fast inst., Sa ra h, th e w if e o f Jeremiah Rosher, of Crete Flail, Northfleet, Ken., aged 72. od On thi3 f22cl inst., in Portland- lace, Susanna Brougho of Anthony Brough, Esq. P 501 1 On the 22d at Portsmouth, Frederick Richard, yeunges• of Car otain Basil Hall, R.N , aged 5. 1 , 1 ,. o.i the 2`'d inst., in Cambrid ge - s treet, Hyde-park, '"*. Will :inson, aged 71. v O n the 23d i nst., i n Arlington-street, t h e H on . Henry char d Molyneux, Lieutenant-Colonel of the 60th Rifles' J - 341 ,, 0 n the 23d inst., Emeline Susan, wife of John Sharpe , sirs eon, aged 32. n the 24th inst., at Cumberland-terrace, Regent's:l' Gea rge Pocock, Esq. f 01 ' On the 22d i ns t., a t St. Leonard's-hill, the infant son o ham Bernard Harcourt, Esq. 7 t et t Lt anion Printed and Published by MURDO 0 1 .ISd''1 0 No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 172, Str 49 /le county of Middlesex.—Tuesday, May 25 ; 841.