The Sun. — London, England, 1842-10-20 00:00:00

TIONAL ASSOCIATION HALL, 242 A HIGH HOLBORN. APUBLIC FESTIVAL to T. S. DUNCOMBE, Esq., M.P., for his Services in the Cause of the Pearln, in lho. Commons House of Parliament, will take place at the above Hall, on MorroAy, October 24, 1842. Colonel - T. P. THOMPSON in the Chair. The Tea will be on Table at Six o'Clock precisely. An ex cellent Band is engaged for the occasion. Single Tickets, I s. 6d. ; Double Ticket, to admit a Lady and Gen: leman; or Two Ladies, 2s. 6d. eaqh, to be had as fellows Lovett, 183, Tottenham-court-road. H. Hetherington, 13, Wine-office-court. G. Rogers, High-street, St. Giles';. R. Moore, 25, Hart-street, Bloomsbury. J. Watson, 15, City-road, & 5, Paul's-alley, Paternoster-row. And J. Crease, 1, Shoe-lane. W. L 0 VET T, Secretary. THE MINES AND CO LLERIES BILL. Now ready, in Bvo., price ös. TEIE MARQUESS OF LONDONDERRY'S LETTER TO LORI) ASHLEY, M.P. ON THE MINES AND COLLIERIES BILL. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough -street. 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To those ordering too late for being attended te, their remittances will be returned by first post. HEINE BROTHERS. Hamburgh, Oc t ober 4, 1842. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING. OCT. 20, be repeated the English Version of Rossini's Grand Opera of SEMIRAMIDE.—The Character of Semiramide by Sias Adelaide Kenaile; Arsace, Mrs. Alfred Shaw (from the principal Theatres in Italy ; Assur, Mr, Giabilei ; Oroe, Mr. Leffler ; Idreno, Mr. Travers ; Shade of Ninns, Mr. J. Bland. After which, the New Farce, called COUSIN LAMBKIN. Sq•iial Mulberry, Mr. Bartley; Captain Bantam, Mr. Walter Lacy ; Doctor Lionel Lambkin, Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Bantam, Mitr, Cooper ; Rosa Maynard, Miss Lee ; Dainty, Mrs. Humby. To conclude with TEDDY THE TILER. Teddy Mul lowney, Mr. G. Hodgson ; Flora, Mrs. Humby. .1)oors open at Half-past Six, and the Performances com mence at Seven.—Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. 3d. ; First and Second Circles 55., Second Price 2s. 6d. ; Pit 3s; Second Price 2s. ; Gallery ls. Tickets anal Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whit low, at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had. Private Boxes to be had at the Box-office ; of Messrs. An drews, 167, New Bond-street ; Mr. Mitchell, Old Bot.d-street ; and of Mr. Sams, Pall Mall. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING, OCT. 20, Will be presented a Drama, by Duuglas Jerrold, Esq., en titled THE HAZARD OF THE DIE. Principal Characters by Messrs. Lyon, 0. Smith, Maynard, H. Beverly, Wright, Paul Bedford, Wilkinson, Mrs. H. Beverly, and Miss Chaplin. After which, THE DAUGHTER OF THE DANUBE. The Imp, Mr. Wieland; Fleur-des-Champs. Mdme. Proche ;• " The Frightful, Spiteful, Old Bachelor," Mrs. H. P. Grattan. To be followed by the Burletta of DOBSON and Co. To conclude with NORMA. Poliio, Mrs. H. P. Grattan ; 'Yprnia, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Adalgisa, Mr. Wright. loxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors open at half-past six, commence at seven o'clock. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Continuation of the Nautical Dramas, in consequence of the immense overflows attracted by the heart-stirring acting of Mr. T. P. Cooke, the only acknowledged Sailar on the Stage. THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 20, Will be acted Mr. Albert Smith's new Drama, called BLANCHE HERIOT, which has met with most decided surc...s. Neville Audely, Mr. H. Hughes ; Hugh Laneret, Mr. N. T. Hicks; Herrick Erenden, Mr. J. Webster; Blanche Her Eeie, Mrs. R. Honner. After which, MY POLL AND MY PARTNER JOE. Harry Hallyard, Mr. T. P. Cooke; Joe Tiller, Mr. R. Honner; Mary Maybed, Mrs. R. Honner. To conclude with OF AGE TO-MORROW, embracing . the strength of the entire Comic Company. • Places and private Boxes to be had of Mr. J. Kerschner, at the Box-office, from eleven to four. HIGH W ATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. vernia?, ...... !"3 rniautes after 2 I Livening 23 minutes after 2. V 't.S) * P- • „..., \ : . k:\ " 44, 4/ • 1.• 77rI t LONDON THURSDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 20, 1842. We have already adverted to Mr. WEBSTER'S speech, and given it well-merited praise for the bold manner with which he confronts some be setting prejudices of his countrymen. It deserves closer consideration, from the informa tion which it gives of the state of parties in the united States, of some Ministerial projects, and the little progress which sound political know led4,s has made amongst the leading men of Anicrica. Upwards of a year ago, but not yet two years, the Whig party, like our Tory party, was triumphant in the United States. General HAI:BISON was elected President in opposition to Mr. VAN BUREN. The Democrats . or Loco locos were every where in the minority. The Whigs took as their watchwords, peace with England, a sufficient revenue, protection to native industry, and a national bank, or some analogous institution. They have, we hope, secured peace with England by a treaty which will be mutually advantageous. After a great deal of squabbling they have done something to se - Lint - 6 - A revenue, and by the same means, the tariff, they carry into effect the principle of pro tection. Their chief and most favourite object, however, a national lbank, is not attained, and seems as far off as ever. It is doubtful whether the tariff will survive another session, and all the arrangements, both for securing a revenue and giving protection, must, it is supposed, be revised. Like our Whigs, the Democrats com pletely failed thy their measures' to satisfy the public wants, and now, like our Tories, the Whigs in the United States are much in the same dilemma. Success in both cases has had the same result, and the general policy of the Whigs in the United States, and of the Tories in England, is condemned as insufficient and feeble by the actual condition of both countries. The two parties differ in one point. It is not necessary in the United States that the Cabinet of the President, or the President himself, should think and act in harmony with the Congress • but in England the Ministry and the majo r i t y are identical, and when they cease to be so the former is dissolved. Our Tories, except in the case of the Poor4aw, have carried all their mea sures ; the Whigs of the United States have not carried their principal measures. In this the two parties differ ; but they resemble each other in lia vi"g failed to answer public expectations after a great t r i umph at the hustings. How far the death of General HAnnisoer, and how far the feeble or unjust policy of the Whigs in the. United States, may have brought this about, it i s i mpossible to discriminate• but Mr. WEBSTER tells u s t h at he has been blamed by the Whigs for remaining in office with the Pre sident, whom that party elected to be Vice- President, and the Whigs of Massachusets have declared—in which they seem likely to be imi tated by our farmers in relation to Sir I. PEEL —‘.; for' a full,and finalseparation from President. TYLER." In truth, most of the members of Ge neral HARRISON'S Cabinet have deserted 'Mr. TYLER, and a short tenure of office has sufficed to split the American Whigs into unsatisfied and contending factions. Looking at the reception Mr. EWING'S national bank scheme received from Congress, and at the great difficulties which all the measures of the Whig Cabinet have had to encounter, we are inclined to attribute but little influence to General Hastaisost's death. His life could scarcely have altered the strength of parties; the measures at first proposed were those of his Cabinet, and we attribute the failure of the Whigs much more, therefore, to the short coming, to the impracticability, and to the injus tice of their policy, than to the death of the late President. Let us take Mr. WEBSTER'S own account of their policy on two great points on which the Amerimns are divided, protection and a national bank. He says, " they have succeeded in carry ing a law which is specific and discriminating, and imposes duties above 20 per cent." Such a tariff he describes as " the protection of domestic industry," which should be " inwrought," he says, " into the policy of all parties." The main feature of the Whig policy is a discriminating protection, as iris called, of native industry, such as that for which ourjandlords are always clamorous. But the protectionists in the United States have no such majority as our landlords ; and Mr. WEB STER'S important principle was affirmed in the long run by only one vote, given apparently more fitm weariness, and to get rid of unpro fitable discussion, than from the conviction , that the tariff was a good measure. It is advan tageous, too, only to the manufacturers of Mas sachusets, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey, and perhaps to some interests in New York ; to the agriculturists of the Southern and Western States, who are exporters, and who, like our cotton manufacturers, fear no competi tion with their own produce in their own country, it is injurious. It limits their markets in foreign countries, and taxes them 20 per cent. and more on all their clothing and hardware, for the behoof of the manufacturers in the Eastern States. The Southern and - Western States are those which are most rapidly increasing. Their interests are by far the greatest, and Mr. WEBSTER and his friends expect that they will submit to be taxed 20 per cent. in their c °conniption for the benefit of the minor interest of the Eastern States. With our opinions of what legislators call pro tection, but which we call spoliation, we must characterise the policy of the American Whigs, like the policy of our landlords, as essentially un just. But waiving that, is it to be expected that the Southern and Western States, which have already threatened to dissolve the Union, and have actually resisted an Act of Congress on ac count of discriminating duties, will, now that they have increased in strength, put up with fresh injury inflicted on them by the vote of one weary senator? Each State having a diffe rent government, and sometimes very different interests, there is a less strict union betwixt the States than between the counties of England. The Federal Government cannot long bind them all in submission to a rule which is partial and unjust to some. Suppose that Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Glasgow, and Birmingham, were each a separate State, united in federation with the counties of Rutland, Huntingdon, and Kent, which will about represent the relation between the two interests of the United States, would it be possible long to maintain those inde pendent cities submissive to a policy which was framed for the exclusive advantage of these three English counties? But the case in America is stronger. The communities there are new, the fresh sprung and fresh arrived population of the Southern and Western States have no traditional feelings extending through a thousand years, connecting them with the Eastern States as one body. They are exclusively governed by preSent advantages, and past recollections will not make them sacrifice a groat a year to enrich the inhabitants of Boston, and maintain the factories at Lowell. The policy of the Whig party, therefore, as expounded by Mr. WEB STER in relation to protection, is at once unjust and short-sighted, based rather on European opinions than American wants, and having been passed by a limited support and extraordinary means, cannot possibly last. Its nature, in rela tion to the people it is intended for, is just as un wise as the law which keeps food out of England —the maintenance of the one accounts for the failure of the Tories here; the struggle for the other accounts fbr the proximate ruin of the Whigs in the United States. In Mr. WEBSTER'S own descriptio❑ of his party, there is the strongest reason to believe that its partial and unnational policy cannot en dure. It is worth quoting, both for its own truth and for the resemblance it indicates between fhetions abroad and factions at home. In the United States the democratic party had fallen into general opprobrium, like our Whigs; and as here the Tories and Chartists united to get rid of Lord MELBOURNE'S Government, so there men of very different political creeds united to turn out Mr. VAN BUREN. Mr. - WEBSTER says— We came in as a party made up of men of different opinions —embracing every complexion of political creed. There were men of extreme state rights' opi nions—of extreme federal opinions —there were tariff men, and anti-tariff men. The country expected them, in a spirit of harmony, union, and cordial sym pathy, to agree to save her from the effects of the ruin- ous Measures of the last Administration. The Whole history of the revolution of 1840 preaches to the Whig party kindness, forbearance, conciliation, friendship, sympathy, and union. They have shown their forbearance by carry ing a tariff by a chance vote, after a long struggle, against the interest of the majority of the people; they have sacrificed the public union to their owa selfishness ; and instead of being remem bered hereafter as patriots, like 'WASHINGTON and FRANKLIN, they will appear in history, like cur landlords, as the blind and ignorant de stroyers ortheir country's greatness. Protection to industry is the sad slang, of men in the old States of Europe, whose whole being is a burden on industry ; and we regret to see it finding a home in the Western world, welcomed by such men as Mr. WEBSTER, 'vhen it is about to be given up here. We regret that he has not yet learned, to borrow the language of Miss MARTI NEAU, " that the true dignity of America is to follow out her own republican principles, instead of adopting the false principles and injurious policy of older and less favoured nations. If she would leave labour, and commerce, and capital free, disdaining interference at home and retalia- tion abroad, showing her faith in the natural laws of social economy, by entirely committing to them the external interests of her people, she would become the pattern and instructress of the civilised world." But her WEESTERS have not knowledge and the requisite faith, and they would sacrifice, if they be allowed, the welfare of that rising community to a servile imitation of the discredited policy of Europe. Wu shall reserve our remarks on the banking scheme of the American Whigs for a future occasion. There can be no doubt that the present con tention in society arises, like most contentions, from the desire for wealth. In some it takes the shape of a struggle for subsistence, in others, it is only the demand of something more than they have. There is net at present enough to satisfy all; some must go without, some get a great deal less than their share, some have more tha: they know very well what to do with, and discontent and contention pervade the whole. Of course the first object which a wise states man contemplates is to increase the amount of wealth. To interfere with the distribution is to trench on -the right of property, which it is his lbusiness to protect. At the same time expe rience has demonstrated that the statesman cannot add to the amount of wealth in society. He has no means to Operate on the production, but by bounties, or duties, or prohibitions, all of which are, in fact, an interference with the dis tribution of wealth, and infringements on the r i g ht of property. This power, therefore, of putting an end to our contentions, or of lessening them,%,Y adding to the quantity of wealth in extremely limit e d, or rather nil, and we society, must ety, is not look tor redress or assistance from s any ability lie possesses to increase th e stock of enjoyment. It is, howeve r , evident from the fact that all • the physical sources of our wealth are unimpaired, that the evils of our present condition are self imposed. It is only requisite to know the cause to be enabled to cure them. To say nothing now of any particular laws which flow from our opinions, it is sufficient to observe that to our Opinions, our ignorance, or our imperfect know ledge, we must ascribe all the evils which plague us. Being extremely limited in our views, knowing accurately but a very few things, and being confined to a very limited sphere, we, nevertheless, seek to control and regulate all that our• imagination can grasp. Ambition of one kind or another is at the bottom of our dis- I tresses, and seems equally to prompt the de- I rands of the Chartist and the usurpations of the priest. As we cannot expect much help from the lawmaker, it is perhaps worthy of one mo ment's consideration whether we cannot help ourselves. To inculcate kindliness and charity, forbearance and mutual indulgence, is the duty of a large body of men. To enforce tire observ ance of these, and the more rigid duties of jus tice, is the business of another body; and were their example to conform to their precepts, great good would be effected. It is for them to be the models of society. If they wish the bumbler classes not to be extremely anxious for their property, let them not be ava ricious themselves. If the lower classes must be taught not to grasp at political power, which it is said they cannot wield, let the upper classes not monopolise it, proving, by their mode of using it, that the lower classes could not possibly make more unjust legislators. If all are to be taught contentment, let the land owners be content with what justly comes to them, and not exert themselves covertly to get riches at the expense of the humbler classes. The lower classes are starving; let the upper classes forego some of their claims and privileges, and so take some share of the general burdens. The State, says EMERSON, in his " Man the Reformer," must consider the poor man, and all voices must speak for him. Every child that is born must have a chance for bread. Let the melioration in our laws of property proceed from the concession of the rich, not from the grasping of the poor. Let usbeginby habitual imparting. Let us understand that the equitable rule is that no one should take more than his share. That is the sort of wisdom which our ruling classes should now practise. Let them not take more than their share—let them make concessim— and then they will soon have no reason to com plain of the grasping of the poor. If the great and the rich cannot be brought to understand that it is for their advantage to make concession, to follow the equitable rule, the need of such a quiet improvement will beget a fearful change. The speech of the King of HOLLAND on open ing the Chambers, which will be found in another part of The Sun, represents that country in a condition somewhat like our own. The taxes are falling off, and the imposts are to be in creased. The indigent do not diminish, and trade does not flourish. To compensate for the national distress the people are told of happy marriages in the Royal Family, and of the reci procal love between the SOVEREIGN and his sub jects. They cannot live long on that, and the sagacity of the Hollanders, like the sagacity of our own people, must be directed to investigate the cause of their suffering, and the means of remedying it. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOI3F,II 20, 1q42 COURT CIRCULAR. WINDson, WEDNESDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert walked in the morning in the Slopes and in the Home Park, and the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal were taken their usual airings. His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out shoot ing in the vicinity, attended by Sir George Couper, Hon. E. A. Murray, and Captain Francis Seymour. In the afternoon her Majesty and her Illustrious Consort took an airing in a pony phaeton; his. Reiyal Highness driving, followed by another pony phaeton, containing the Countess of Dunmore and the Maids of Honour; and attended on horseback by Col. Ar buthnot, General Sir William Lumley, and Captain Francis Seymour. The sari of Wilton (on his return from Saxciny) arrived to-day la the Castle on a visit to her Majesty. The Earl of Aberdeen took his departure in the forenoon for the metropolis. Lord Charles Wellesley and the Hon. Mrs. Anson will have the honour of joining the Royal Dinner party at the Castle thin evening. Mr. George Edward Anson, we are happy to state, is much better. The Earl of Aberdeen returned to town yesterday morning, from a visit to her Majesty, at Windsor Castle. His Excellency Count de St. Aulaire, the French Ambassador, visited the Noble Earl in the afternoon, at the Foreign-office. Baron de Moncorvo, the Portuguese Minister, M. Tricoupi, the Grecian Minister, and Baron de Nieu mann, transacted business yesterday, at the office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Allitirs. HAYMARKET THEATRE. Let the lovers of fun, whim, and drollery, be glad —let all those who rejoice in a hearty laugh get their risible muscles into working order—Buckstone the quaint— Buckstone the inimitable, has returned from " the States," safe, sound, and a s whim sical as ever, and last night made his rentree at this theatre, in the character of Mr. Henry Dove, in his own laughable comedy of Married Life. His reception was most enthusiastic, cheer followed cheer for several minutes, and when something like silence had been restored, a call for one cheer more was heartily responded to—it was indeed a good one. At the conclusion of the comedy Buckstone was again called for, and the enthusiastic cheeri ng was aga i n re newed. He seemed quite overcome with the hearti ness of his welcome home, and at length advanced to the front of the stage and addressed the audience as follows :—" Ladies and Gentlemen, I beg to retur n you my most heartfelt thanks for th e kind and grati fying manner in which you have received me this evening. It shows that although I have been some time absent, all recollection of me has not quite vanished from your memories. —(Cheers.) In the United States I was every where received most warmly, and invariably treated in the kindest man ner—(Cheers)—and if anything can lessen the regret which we must all of us feel at parting from those who have used us kindly—(Cheers) —it is such a welcome as that with which you have honoured me this evening.—(Applause.) I have heard it said that there are many things which it is worth while to cross the Atlantic to see—l feel that there is one thing which it is worth while to have crossed it to hear, and that is what I have heard this evening—a hearty English laugh.—(Loud applause.) Ladies and Gentlemen, I have again to express my gratitude to you for the kindness with which you have received me, and I hope there are many pleasant evenings in store for us at the little theatre in the Haymarket. At the conclusion odp o mf f euorr h Gsfit i on s address M r . B uc k stone w i thdrcw amidst the :g:m, o rdi c etfd i s f , e ap r tark o no u edgr s recewlhsi Whitehead Nark rdak T nfy h oLl e leaoix comedy lhNsa.eenadr,,st3,aenExdqn was Augi llsaiisdthemldviirr dram ntigel Mater ma concluded the evenings amusement. o EATH OF THE OWNER OF BEES WING, TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN: am sorry to inform you of the death of Mr. Orde, the owner of Beeswing ; he died at Mor peth on Sunday afternoon, at half-past three, being suddenly taken ill on his road home.—ln haste,your's truly. J. W. Sheffield, Tuesday Night. BoY KILLED BY HIS FATHER.—The neighbour hood of Feeney, near Dungyvan, was much alarmed last week by a report that Michael Devine had, by unmerciful treatment, caused the death of his son, a fine boy, about twelve years of age. Shortly after the death of the boy a report reached the County Coroner, D. Bailey, Esq., and James Stevenson, Esq., J. P., Ashpark, who held an inquest on the body. It app; tired that the father of the .de ceased had, for a length of time, been in the habit of beating him and the other members of the family in the most inhuman manner, and that to escape his violence they had frequently to seek refuge in some of the neighbouring houses. He had lately so brutally abused the deceased, that he was forced to go to the house of a man named Mlllheney, where he lingered for a few days, and afterwards died. The Coroner committed the unhappy man (who, it is said, is labouring under insanity) to gaol, to await his trial at the ensuing assizes. —Belfast Whig. The Leipzig Gazette says :—" It has been observed that there were no French officers at Saarbruck and Saartorois when the King of Prussia visited those two cities, but what is more extraordinary, there was not any superior civil officer to compliment the King. The French Government had shown this mark of re spect to the King of Holland, when he was at Lux emburgh. There seems, therefore, to be some founda tion for the report, that Louis Philippe is extremely irritated at the refusal of the King 01 Prussia to pay visit to the Tuilleries." I . NEW MUSIC. THE BANKS OF THE WYE. A Ballad. Novell°, L on d on . This song has a good melody, an d i s wr i tten f or a tenor voice in the key of A flat. The words and music are well adapted to each other, but the song would have been more effective with a more simple accompaniment; we should also have preferred the ca page 3, being accomp a • niedchords instead o f so many d by e notes.en cadence at a one t theor two simplenn i beginning THINK OF THEE NO .MORE ? Novell), London. We were pleased with this song during the first eight bars because the melody is pretty, but the rest is beyond our . comprehen s i on , b e i ng quite diffe rent measure, and without de s i gn . A t t h e commence ment of the third page ther e i s a ram bli ng bit of symphony, which does not return to its tonic until it has been jerked through several extraordinary changes ; this want of keeping spoils what would have been an agreeable song. There are points in these songs which show that Mr. Caunter can do better things. WEIPPERT'S SET OF QUADRILLES. John Weippert, London. Mr. Weippert is a practised hand at quadrille mak ing, and if we consider the collection only as dance tunes, they will answer the purpose extremely well. but are defective as musical compositions. We notice particularly the abrupt modulations in the two last of the Rouen Quadrilles, and th ere i s an om i ss i on o f several accidental sharps and flats. The three first of this set are much better written, and the tunes sprightly. The Royal Scotch Quadrilles being within reach of ordinary players, are likely to enjoy great popu larity. Mr. \Veipperb has also given with these, conic capital spirit-stirring tunes for the dancers of reels and strathspeys, which dances we hear are likely to be come fashionable. The Royal Philippa Waltzes are very pretty, and having a definable melody throughout, they are well adapted for this sort of dance ; they have also the merit of facility, which in these days of Lanner and Strauss is rarely to be met with. The pretty opera of Le Postilion de Longjameau makes very good dance music, and for the romping, rushing., galoppade better could not have been chosen These galoppes we recommend, they are spirited and will give but little trouble to the performer. FRAUDS ON THE REVENUE.—The attention of the public has been recently directed to the discovery of a series of frauds, which, it is alleged, have been com mitted upon the revenue by the aid and connivance f some of the officers of the Customs. An investiga on into the circumstances has been for some time in progress, conducted, we believe, by the landing sur veyors, the senior officers of that department through which the revenue has been defrauded. We have ab stained from any comment upon these proceedings from our inability to get at the truth in any tangible form, and from a conviction that an inquiry before a competent tribunal could alone be satisfactory to the public and the partieS said to be impli cated. The question does not rest solely be— tween the Commissioners and their officers: the commercial wo r ld h as a right t o know th e w h o l e truth, especi a ll y where ru l es a nd regulations that are generally sufficiently obnoxious and troublesome have been found to be inoperative for the collection of the revenue. The evidence on which such charges are to be sustained should b e ta k en b y so me one acqu a i nte d with the rules of ev id ence, an d i n an open Court th e witnesses truth.slibj e It d to an examination cal culated to i s scarcely possible t o imagine that an inqui ry i n t o c harges which derog a t e from the utility of the whole department, and which affect the honour and character of the parties con cerned, could, with any prospect of a satisfactory con clusion, have been delegated by the Commissioners of Customs to the discrimination and judgment of their inferior officers. 'We are, therefore, happy to state that the Lords of the Treasury have taken the inves tigation into their own hands, and we have no doubt that the result will be most beneficial to the public ' service.—Times. LAW APPOINTMENTS.—The Tory lawyers have a story very current amongst them to-day, that Lord Lyndhurst r e ti res , t o b e succee d e d by Sir Ed war d Sugden—that Chief Ju s ti ce P e nnefather is to get the Irish Seals, t o b e succeeded in t h e Queen's Bench by Mr. Blackburne 'and th a t M r . W a rren is to be Mast er of the Rolls. This is the Orange a rrangement. W e should not be s ur p r i se d at anyt hing, however, mon strous, after the appointment of Bishop Stopford.— D: blin Evening Pod, ELECTORAL DISTRICTS, ONE OF THE POINTS OF REFORM SOUGHT FOR. FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) No person who looks at the inequality of the popu lation in cities, boroughs, and counties.in this United Kingdom, that send Members to the House of Com mons, can do otherwise than exclaim, " Such a state of the representation ought not to continue." That Harwich, with less than 200 electors, and the Tower Hamlets, with 16,000 electors, should both send the same number-viz., two, representatives to the House of Commons. The formation of electoral districts, into which the whole kingdom should be divided, with the popula tion in each as nearly alike as the several parishes in cluded will allow, and each district sending one re presentative, is one of the points in the Complete Suffrage Movement, and also in the People's Charter. As we know that many good Reformers, who are willing to agree to the Extension of the Suffrage and the Vote by Ballot, as part of the scheme of reform, yet object to the dividing the kingdom into electoral districts, as a work almost impossible to be done, we annex a copy of the elector a l di s t r i c t s i nto which the State of New York has been distributed in August last. By the constitution of the Federal Government at Washington, each State is to return a number of representatives to the General Congress, according to its population ; and as the population increases at a very different ratio in different States, it is directed that after each census, taken' every ten years, there 'shall be an alteration of the number of representatives, and new electoral districts formed in each, i. e.`a re-distri bution of the districts that are to elect them, accord ing to their population. The Central Government at Washington ordered by Bill that the re-distribution into new districts should be made by each State, ani as the number of repre sen t a ti ves f rom New York State has been reduced to 34 for the General Con gress' the Senate of that St a t e p rocee d e d i mme di ate l y to make the new distribution ; and it will be seen that on the Committee of the Senate, appointed for that purpose, making their Report to the whole Senat-, it was agreed to, and a Bill introduced and passed the Senate without one division-thus making it the law of the State for future elections until a new census shall require a new distribution. We see no reason why a distribution of the population of Great Britain into districts should not in the same manner be as easily made as it was done in New York There is, indeed, a greater differenc e i n the numb e r o f th e po pulationin the districts than we should have expected, the highest population returning one representative being 86,183 for Genesee, Orleans, and Niagara; and only 58,578 for Richmond and Kings-showing a difference of 25,605 souls. But, as no objection was raised in the Senate, there must have been a good and sufficient reason for the same. We annex the Report of the Senate :- NEw YORK LEG ISL AT URE.-On Tuesday the Senate passed a Bill, districting the Senate by single districts unanimously. The following is the apportionment reported by the Senate Committee. The rule adopted by the Committee was to divide no counties but New York :- Dist. Territory. Population 1. Suffolk and Queen's .. 62,793 2. Richmond and Kings 3. Ist, 2d, 3d, 4th, sth, and 6th wards New York 4. 7th, 10th, and 13th wards N. York 70,594 5. 11th, 14th, 15th, and 17th wards, New York 6. Bth, 9th, 16th, and 12th wards, New York 7. Westchester and Rockland 8. Putnam and Dutchess 9. Orange and Sullivan 10. Ulster and Delaware 11. Columbia and Greene 12. Rensselaer 13. Albany 14. Washington and Essex 64,714 15. Schenectady, Saratoga, and Warren 71,342 16. Fulton, Ifamilton, Franklin, and Clinton 17. St. Lawrence and Lewis . 18. Jefferson 19. Oneida 20. Herkimer and Montgomery 73,295 21. Otsego and Schoharie 22. Broome and Chenango . 63,123 23. Madison and Oswego 24. Onondaga 25. Cayuga and Cortland. 26. Tompkins, Tioga and Chemung 27. Seneca and Wayne 28. Monroe 29. Ontario and Livingston .• 77,641 30. Yates and Steuben 31. Allegany and Wyoming 32. Genesee, Orleans and Niagara 86,183 33. Erie 34. Chautanque and Cattaraugus The bill having been read twice, Mr. RUGER moved that the Senate do now go into Committee of the whole on the same.-Carried. The Committee of the whole, Mr. Root in the chair ; then took up the above Bill. The Bill was gone through and agreed to with ut debate, and ordered to a third reading. On motion of Mr. WORKS, the Bill was ordered to be printed. ok-A, zbz kinit rf„ -svesurFibrz4, SUS OFFICE Three o'clock. Important intelligence has just been received I by Government—nam e ly, th a t t h e boy JONES s returned I Infinite is the consternation that this alarming tidings has occasioned in all official quarters; the police authorities at the Garde ner's Lane station-house are at their wits' end; Downing-street " refuseth to be comforted ;" and the Under-Secretary to the Home-office was seen yesterday walking towards Buckingham Palace in an unusually thoughtful and ex cited mood ! In this awful emergency, when Royalty is threatened with another visitati on by the remarkable youth in question, why is not a Cabinet Council sutnnioned, and orders issued to surround Pimlico with a cordon of police; to double the sentinels at Story's -gate; establish a floating battery on that part of the lake nearest the Palace; and take up every youth, " aged eighteen, with ginger whiskers," who may be seen sauntering within a dozen yards of St. James's Park ? Is such a distin guished personage as JONES to return, and no preparations to be made against Ibis advent ? Where is the bead of the Home-office, Sir JAMES GRAHAM ? " What wants he in the North, • When he should serve his Sovereign in the South ?" [he boy JONES is returned; nay, he is actually at this moment in London; and yet the Home Secretary still lingers in the sequestered shades of Netherby Scandalous negligence! But what else was to be expected from a Tory Minister ! We pay these men collectively upwards of thirty thousand pounds per annum; we allow them to sweat sevenpence—the monsters !—out of every ingle pound we possess; and yet when the boy JONES returns (meditating, no doubt, another noctural irruption into the butler's pantry at Buckingham Palace)—these men, whom we pay at such a preposterous rate, take no more notice of the boy, than if he was any other boy, and not the Jo . gEs! Under these circumstances, we feel that the LORD MAYOR is imperatively called upon to make a tender of his'services to Majesty. He can do wonders, if he will but set about it in a right spirit. Let him but beleaguer Pimlico with a battalion of Beef-eaters; station a fat Special at all the approaches to the Palace ; and pop every ginger -whiskered stripling in the Black-hole; and then the Royal Household will be enabled to sleep in peace, even though Minis ters are negligent, and the boy JONES is returned! Should we hear any further particulars respect ing. this most surprising and unexpected return, we shall make a point of communicating them to our readers in a Second Edition. We have time merelpo call attention to the letter of Mr. CHILDS on " Bible Monopoly," which contains some facts of great importance to the religious community. Little credit for sincerity can be given to those: "'Church men who cry out for Church extension, and the diffusion of the truths of the Gospel among the ignorant multitude, while they do all they can ,to make the Bible a sealed book to the poet.. It would even appear :hat the very agents and travellers of the Society tbr the Diffusion of Scriptural Knowledge, de precate all attempts to lessen the prices. This cannot fail to raise strong suspicions as to Lhe motives of those who have the management of its affairs, and requires the serious considera tion of the numerous subscribers. We shall pro !lably return to the subject. Our accounts from Madrid are of the 11th, Every preitaration was maki n g f or th e approach ing session, which will be an interesting one. Frequent meetings of the Council had taken place, and Government was adopting the most active measures to put down the bandi which in fest the provinces of Toledo and Ciudad Real. • Accounts from Algesiras of the sth inst. state that the Commander of an English ship of war, , rho lately captured a Spanish barge, refused to re- j turn it without a positive order from his Admiral. The barge remained moored to the stern of the The Three per Cents. were done at 21-1 at 60 The clerical agitatora in the Church of Scot land, if they are not .Yetnarkable for discretion and sound judgment, - may claim great credit for powers of invention. Even Mr. O'CoxisELL, in his long and varied political career, has not sur passed them in forming ingenious - plans for rousing his countrymen, or keeping up the spirit of excitement so - necessary for the accom plishment of his objects. Having carried eman cipation, he turned his attention to Parliamentary reform, and from that to repeal, shifting, occasionally, the scenes with great dexterity and judgment. The gentlemen of the north have stolen a leaf from his book, and are determined to vie with him in the variety of their schemes fur the abolition of Church pa tronage, and the repeal of the union between Church and State. They began with the Veto Act, and in their attempts to make that the law of the land as well as Of the Church, they com mitted acts of great severity, by deposing and suspending numbers of their disobedient brethren. That system was found very inconvenient, and also very ineffective, for one punishment prepared the way far ten offences more, going on in geometrical progression, and the criminals only became more hardened and stiff-necked. They saw this was a hopeless task, as they could not secure obedience to the law without sweeping from the Church the whole of the obnoxious race, and that was an alternative which they could not muster up courage to adopt. At different times, they have threatened to leave the Church in a body and preach in wooden kirks; at another they .passed a vote of Assembly denouncing patronage, and drew up a petition of rights, which unfortunately drew little attention ; then there was a plan for a roving -Commission in England to enlighten the ignorance of. Wes leyans and Episcopalians, but this proved the most abortive scheme of all, for not one of the missionaries ever passed the border. Driven to their wits' end they have at least hit upon a noble device,and have summoned aGeneralConvocation of the Non-Intrusionist clergy to meet at Edin burgh next month, accompanying the summons witha proclamation that, for one Sabbath at least, all the churches under their authority shall bede serted. So the people are to be deprived of or dinances for a time at the bidding of these men; and for their sins, and the sins of the land, are to be laid under an interdict, as was the custom during the tyrannical and bigotted reign of Popery in the dark ages. The conduct of THOMAS A'BECKETT was nothing to this. That prelate, though as grasping as most of his fraternity, had some cause of complaint against his Sovereign, who took the law into his own hands, and he, therefore, avenged himself by excommunications and interdicts. But what grounds of complaint have these clergymen either against the Crown or the State? and why, in this unseemly contest, are the religious people alone to suffer ? Such conduct is unwarranted either by law or custom, and requires the serious consideration of the Lord Advocate and the Home Secretary. if they neglect their duty for two weeks, they may neglect it for a month; and, while they take care to retain their stipends, their flocks are left without the usual means of reli gious instruction. And for what purpose do they desert their parishes ? To agitate the country, to excite the people against the Govern ment, and to rail against the Courts of Law and against the law A vast number of ignorant people have lately suffered severely for disobe dience to the law; and are well educated men, paid, too, for performing their duty and teaching the people to submit to the powers that are, to be suffered to assemble in conclave, and with impunity make seditious speeches, for which un educated and starving men are punished ? If JAMES GRAHAM follow out his principles, and mete out justice with an even hand, he will watch their proceedings, and make no distinction be twen them and the Chartist leaders. We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday, which contain a variety of articles on the deplo rable state of the wine -trade, the right of search, and the commercial treaties in negotiation or contemplation by France. The writers in these journals seem to have a very strange idea of commercial treaties, and would agree to no con dition which did not give all the advantage to France. If they were left to manage such affairs France would indeed be isolated; but LOUIS PHILIPPE and M. GIJIZOT, and the wine-growers in the south, take a very different view of such questions, and, being practical men, know that it would be madness to expect favours from Bel gium or England, without giving any in return. The Courrier Francais has a long article respecting a report that M. DE ST. AULAIRE had received instructions from his Government to propose a modification of the treaties of 1831 and 1833, respecting the right of search. After at tempting to defend the conduct of France, in re fusing to ratify the last treaty, it adds:— " But it may be objected that the treaties of 1831 and 1833 are a regulation now in full life, and re spected equally by all those who have signed them. What ! the English cruisers are to dispense, with re spect to our trade, with the necessary formalities ; they are to ill-use our seamen, pilfer and illegally se questrate our vessels; the treaties are to serve as a means of enabling them to oppress our shipping in terest, and we are to be expected to maintain them for their benefit alone I Truly, that is rot possible. If the English do not give reparation for their wrongs towards us, we have the right to procure justice for ourselves. There is no other alternative than this-- England must punish all the officers who have at tacked the inviolability of our flag, and indemnify the shipowners who have been injured, or France is bound not to renew the warrants of her cruisers. The war rants not being renewed, the treaties will naturally fall to the ground. It is now for the English to re fleet whether it would not be better for her to modify the conventions." In the same angry spirit the Presse adverts to a commercial treaty with this country, but towards the conclusion becomes a little more placid, on viewing the advantages which the country would derive from a reduction on the postage of letters. " The Post-office arrange-, ment," it states, "can be easily concluded. Everybody will benefit by it—no private or public interest can suffer from its consequences either in England or France. We should, for our Fart, highly approve of the conclusion of such an arrangement." "The Abbe LAIVENNAIS,C' says the Univers, "has just arrived at Brest, with six (lay) brethren of the Christian doctrine, who are to embark in that harbour for the French West India-- islands Two others are shortly to leave for Cayenne. The number of these modest teachers, who are slowly preparing the way for the emancipa tion of the slaves in our colonies, is now about forty." • The Jburnal de Rheims announces that the Champaign wine crop would be this year most abundant, and the produce of the best quality. Several sales had already been made in the dis tricts of Avize and Craniant, at prices varying from 50f. to 80f. per hectolitre, and some even sold for 100 f. and 105 f. The value of the 18,283 hectolitres produced by those two districts is es titnated at nearly 1,000,000 f. The Armoricain states, that there are at pre sent in progress of construction at Brest, by order of the Minister of Marine, immense buildings for a foundry, and for the construction of steam boats. On the north of the town the Minister of War had ordered considerable additions to be made to the fortifications. The Charivari contains the following letter, which that witty journal would lead its readers to believe was written by the notorious DEUTZ, the betrayer of the Duchess of BERRY : Let the Royalists overwhelm me with their con tempt, I have not the strength to complain ; but those who, after having incited my treason, have so well turned it to their profit, ought, in my opinion, to be the last to throw the stone at me. 1 allow that all the world are justified in calling me infamous, and yet there are some whom I regard as more infamous than myself. Yes, Sir, let it be well known that all has not been told on the crime to which I had the mis fortune to lend my name. Simon Deutz was willing to accept all the responsibility of the act for the miserable sum which was paid for it. But a day will perhaps come when the veil which now covers that terrible machination will be torn away, and each one will assume the part which belongs to him in the odious scheme of 1832. In the meantime I can only beg the Orleanist journals to speak of me with a little more moderation. If they calculate better the bearing of their insults, they will doubtless compre hend that Simon Deutz has been, in the hands of cer tain exalted personages, but a vile instrument, and they will judge it proper to keep silence on his ac count. The police, they say, are fatigued with my im portunities. I am really desolate. Have I not had reason in my time to complain of the importunities of the police ? Alas ! was it not their cowardly and perfidious solicitations that robbed me'of my honour, and it can be readily conceived that, however impor tunate I may now be to them, I have not the means of treating them in a similar manner. Strange ! the police now despise me. They appear to blush at my acquaintance; but if I had not been followed by them, with M. Thiers at their head, who will dare to say that I should not now have been an honest man ? Remove M. Thiers and M. de i,Vlontalivet from the history of my life (I will for the moment only name those two), and I should remain what I always wished to be, the loyal arid faithful servant of the august Princess who had ever loaded me with kindness. How can they then escape from the odium that is cast upon me, who, by their infernal seductions, have so cruelly led me on to ruin ? What! shall the assassin, who for a piece of money murders a man at the corner of a street, be reputed infamous, whilst he who placed the poniard in his hand and paid him the price of the murder is allowed to walk with head erect, and quietly reap all the profits of the crime? " As to those honest men who cannot pronounce my name without a shudder, I ask of them neither pardon nor pity ; and, nevertheless, if they would be just, they would look on my part of the infamy as less glaring, and give a part to those who deserve it. This would only be distributive justice. (Signed) " SIMON DEUTZ." BOURSE—PARIS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents. 118 95... 118 95... 118 90... 118 90 Four per Cents. 102 ... 102 .. 102 ... 102 3 per Cents 80 15... 80 15... 80 15... 80 15 Bank of France 3275 ...3275 ...3275 .. 3275 Laffitte Bank I,ooof 1050 ..1050 ...1050 —.1050 5,000 f 5062 50...5065 ...5062 50...6062 50 Belgian Bank Belgian Fives 1840 lO4l ... 104 g ... 104 k ... 104 j S:panish Active ... 22 ... 216 Passive Portuguese Fives 3ll ... 32 ... 311 ... 32 Dutch 2i per Cents s3* ... 63* ... 52* Neapolithn lloman RAILWAY SHARES, Versailles, R. 13 258 75... 258 75... 258 75... 258 75 LB 97 50... 98 75... 97 50... 98 75 Rouen Orleans. • 588 75... 588 75... 587 50... 587 50 LLOYD'S SHIPPING —(THIS DAY.) LONDON, OCT. 20.—Wind this day at noon, fresh breeze from the westward s fine clear weather. DEAL, OCT. 19.—Wind W.N.W., fresh.—Arrd. Dolphin, westward. Sld. Lord Hungerforci, Madras; Orpheus, Ceylon ; Miranda, Antigua ; Middleton, Cape de Verds and Rio; St. James, Kew York, and several others. SCILLY, OCT. 16.—Arrd. Clifton, Fillet', Singa pore ; Gloucester, Beard, ai:d Anne Laing, Hudson, Jamaica. SWANSEA, OCT. 18.—Arrd. Adelaide, Gordon,Val paraiso, in 104 days. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 19.-A rrd. her Majesty's stGatner Phaon, Mediterranean ; her Majesty's steamer Blazer, Mediterranean. OFF THE WIGHT, OCT. 17.—Tartar, Byron, Guaya quil, out 154 days. OFF SALCOMBE, OCT. 14.—Arrd. Catharine, II(1- lier, Surinam. PLYMOUTH, OCT. 19.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrd. her Majesty's ship Thunderer, Malta; Strabane,Caleutta. FALMOUTH, OCT. 18.—Wind W.S.W. to N.E., fresh breeze and squally.—Arrd. Harpy, Moss, Ba hia, sailed Aug. 31; her Majesty's ship Alban, a cruize. Arrd. off, Commodore, More, Jamaica, out 62 days. The Eve, from Rio, which arrived here on the 16th inst. with hatches burst, &c., has been surveyed, and commenced landing her cargo of coffee. LlvEaroor. ' OCT. 19.--:Wind N.N.E., f resh.— Sld. Lima packet, Demerara; Henry Winch, Santa Martha; Cambridge, New York ; Caledonia steamer, Halifax and Boston. Arrd. off, Columbus, New York. SHIELDS, OCT. 18.—Arrd. Lady Jane, from Da v i s ' Straits, with ten fish. The closest approach made in this life to immorta lity is by annuitants. They are certainly the longest lived of the human race, days, and the Five per Cent-. at 26i 27k for cash. and at 23 15-16 27 271 27 271 at 60 days. The debt, bearing no interest, sold fo: 64 at 60. days, with premium. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND atti Itr Optuton. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. On Monday afternoon, the Queen of the Belgians, the Duchess of Nemours, and the PrinceSS Clemen tine, went o u t on h orse b ac k i n the neighbour h oo d of St. Cloud. . . It is stated in a letter from Carlsruhe„ October ISt, published by thelllannheim Gazette, that as none of the, tenders for a l oan t o ena bl e t h e Government o f Baden to execute the projected railroads are acceptable, it intended to apply to Turkey for an advance of funds' M. Lamartine i s t o un d erta k e t h e d i rect i on of trie Paris journal La Patrie on the Ist of N o vember. The consumpti on o f b utc h er ' s meat in Par i s during the month of September last amounted to 5,963 oxe, 2,257 cows, 6,524 calves, and 38,212 sheep. It at ceeded the co nsump ti on o f t h e corresponding Innu'd. of 1841 by 1,151 oxen , 56 6 cows, 656 calves, an • 4,400 she e p. This increas e , it is said, was o ecs : - sioned by th e grea t num b er of strangers who v isited during the month o f S eptem b er, and not to a fa"; the price of ca ttle, w hi c h i s st i ll very high at the markets of Sceaux and Poissy. The commercial treaty between Belgium and.ll°l - had been definitively concluded. It is stated that there is still a probability of the King of Prussia visiting Paris. A Turkish A m b assa d or h as j ust set out for Tom` bisond. lie is the bearer of the ultimatum of the ,u_t toman Porte concerning the difference with the Shah of Persia, and is to proceed to Teheran. The Commerce and the National state that a r a; mour is current of an i n t en d e d modif i cat i on o f the French Ministry, and leave it to be inferred from* previous rumour, that the cause is a misunderstandi n g in the Cabinet on the question of the proposed Cus toms ,• Union with Belgium. • The celebrated collection of pictures of the late 311. 0 / Aguado is, we u n d ers t an d , to b e so l d in the cours e the winter. The St. Peterslurgh Journal'Of the 2d inst. sta tes that a fire took place lately at 'Troisk, by public scho o l, th e pr i son, the Cust om -ho u se, the lit: racks, the brid ge over t h e Ui , and 293 private 110.4' were destroyed. The number o f s t u d ents in the different I.Jnirelte ties of Russi a i n 184 1 was 2,465 : and the num b e r P volumes in th e lib rar i es of .the Universities 282,265. w hich the A party, named L eroux d e Beaulieu, who has Urn three times sentenced to ignominious punishment, w ss arrested on Sund a y l as t b y t h e pol i ce near Parisrt , o be the charge of ha v i ng b ro k en hi s b an. On the road be shot himself w ith a p i sto l . Th i s suicide is sai d to connected with more important facts, which are ne under investigation. PUBLIC 0 1 . INX01V. the The Times thus a d ver t s to a new scheme o f Non-Intrusioni s t s t o keep alive the fl am e of disco a• tent in Scotland, an d afford an opportunity for maki n g attacks on the civil power :—" We have receive d d . copy of a gener a l circular which has just been dressed to all th e m i n i s t ers supposed to a dh ere to a cause of resistance in the northern kingdom, for 1 1 0 purpose of convokin g a genera l meet i ng of t h e .4: Non-Intrusionist clergy at Edinburgh in the cots"' of next month. A note intimates that it is en n ot a dered indispensabl e th at a ll t h e b rethren from absent country should lay th e i r account w i t h being ab.r.eb from their pulpits on S a bb at h , t h e 20th ' —a h i n t ail!: . t may perhaps serve t o convey a di stant sugges tion that these worthies should lay their account with he f j b a t absent frem their pulpits altogether. To suppose e , a mere convention (for the term convocation iS P e , culiarly inappropriate to the proposed assemblage)' irregularly constituted, and summoned from one s only, will have more weight than the real and gene r a l representation of the country, is absurd. The re f c. e , existence of such a body is wholly new and stri te t t e to the Chu rc h o f S cot l an d , to the law, -and °kind Constitution : an d t o su b st i tute a device of this itself $ for the re gu l ar assem b lies of the Church is ia schism. A declaration issuing from such a me e t ing is the decl ara ti on o f a party, and in joining it, ves . the ministers of th e Ki r k would divest therase:. of all the authority th ey owe to the i r Ivsibol]a These consequences are so ob v i ous. t h at we susr..ciet the real object which th e p romoters of t h e pro. op have in view is not so much to produce an etie e ,,: ea , Parliament and on th e p u bli c b y t h e i r remon strant as to stir the enthusiasm which already eV ve r Scotland on the question, and to pledge the ws hieb ing adherents of the party to all the lengths late . their more fanati ca l l ea d ers a l rea d y conteat e , t Their intention is t o strengthen their ascen d das over the followers who have been attracted by revival of the spirit of the Covenant ; und ding from to d t w ii - e e is c •h h t ur o c f ia onumberssol a t n o d. the ri p e r n o c j e ec t t h f e o ir r e e : „to ob tain the personal attendance of the mini i( s il te x g: j at the risk of leaving snore than half the pulpits M Scotland; empty on Sabbath 20th.' If this s cheme is carried ,into execution, and there is very -Fit doubt that the strong feeling of the majority f the Scotch Church will induce numbers to join it, the fiat act in this schism will be consummated ; end the misguided men who may have abandoned their inly a ,, b ; ble pastoral duties to take a more active part in the high controversies of Church discipline and eecles); tical polity, will find themselves embarked in a 0 : 41 . e . though`'" at can only lead to the most disastrous cone. quences to religion, to their country, and to thew selves." The Post observes, in reference to the Pennrr eat age scheme :—" Our readers a re aware that the gr man of the Anti-Corn-l aw L eague , w h o no t 014 C O. centrates within himself th e w i s d om o f a ll the `sev en . 13 wise men of Greec e ,'. b u t a dd s t h ereto t h e e loquel; of Demosthenes in ma ki ng k nown hi s w i s d o m to , _ t o world—they are aw are th a t thi s great man , the aec; columque rerum of the League,' was once upon a _la n 'f ir as wise and as eloquent upon the subject of P,_e n v i s ", hostage as he now is upon the subject of the Corn- 0 . , e, . ' Mr. Richard Cobden was quite as ready to '..Pr n v ' and to prophecy, anything or everything brilliant a t e l s . advantageous, from the penny postage before the __ se periinent was tried, as he . now is to do the very saf or things in respect to-Corn-law repeal. In the y ear 1838, he was quite as confident in the wisdom of Ali_ ed Rowland Hill as he now is in his own wisdomt„ a , bi , probably with just about as much reason. o f consideration, t oge th er w i t h t h e p l a i nt i ve notes some Whig Contemporaries on the subject 01 _•"; st , Rowland Hill's cessation to receive a salary fort e s c r 0 ing her Majesty's Lords of the Treasury, has dto to look into some of that gentleman's promises, a n del compare them with his performances. Our reaiefl, will be so good as to bear in mind that he Wa s bie nitely more plausible than even the most the Corn-law repealers : that his glowinn the prodigious benefits which would flow from o i .o t plan were earnestly adopted by the sage judgme ns ge, Mr. Richard Cobden, and that that eminent poi& but put the projected Post-office revolution esiu upon an equality with the repeal of the Corn- 1 7 00r , the prodigious advantages which would accrue t°' h a s merce from carrying it into effect. The co untr3 t r , o f tried the plan, and even the wonderful inf.:TIT: J a ble the eloquent Mr. Cobden himself will scarcely Paciaclisouintshisrof to po:nt out the prodigious advantages whicu ,oor of merce has reaped since the revol u t ion in fa` aon to cheapness has b een es t a bli s h e d . We cal l a tter -I ' l ' ol o this, because it is f a i r t o j u d ge o f one quackery tried, has' not been tried by another which has been t vro especially when the loudest and most confiden s e a od moters of quackery the first are also the loudest, most most confident promoters of quackery the secon ° _, t iee The Chronicle says :—" At all the Conser' b y $ agricultural meetings the Tories are perplexie e dbe difficulty from which, we trust, they will ere V, : the relieved by Sir Robert Peel. They voted f or tariff, and the arguments by which the tariff is 0•. fended go equally to defend a fixed duty 0 ' 1 11 , 3 01 They say that the population of this island fill 1 801 t , doubled since the first authentic enumeration I , ll .. st ifies and that this enormous increase of population . or t he the substitution of a l ow i mport duty on cattle for prohibition which p rev i ous l y existed. T r ue, ss cattle 7 sirs, but why distinguish between corn and t for The addition to th e popu l at i on is an arganites r od more corn as well a s more ca ttle. In drops system of agriculture, green and white, of ought to bear a due proportion to ea ch the To obtain the means of properly maf,,urfjoilowled, land, so that extension of tillage by a corresponding produce, more cattle in th e may be _ e m usw be fed. To give to foreigners a preferenee e , s , hat supply of cattle rather than corn,_ is concileable with principle, but tends to init? e 4,1 e culture. Sir Robert Peel maintained that th . _g oo d would be benefited by the reduced price ?l e a so me food, in consequence of the tariff, and in app breath that the fanners had nothing to , a_P r t' s at the from importation. Some of the Tory sPea.KL' ons i s tent agricultural dinners follow the same 31 ' 0 ,010° course. They tel the farmers that theY d i s tress; not o r ; a nal sympathise with the manufacturers in their in price,haa n ir a n • and reconcile themselves to a reduction th e y 0 in the same breath they tell them dll er , are 11 . 0 nothing to fear from importation, as 1 ..“ 1 - et• " r i d cattle on the Continent fit for our Ina r ,s ee bo bta-n a e , soon be seen whether cattle can or cannot, o o n from the Continent ; but if they tamed, it must be because the prices are as the Continent as here." cannot L., for EccamszAsTiolts. ocieV The Committee of th e Incorporate S sets b a pe e r , Promoting the Building of Churchesraeuts gen e' resumed resumed their meetings on Monday. were e ca5e54721251. orderedw of which averages 128,244 persons. so j NAVAL EIND ivalaT.art mtoadte;eanntdyp-fiayv-empeenrtisibteos, the pantSairati.oo, Thuesday last at Chatham, on private PA' A genetal Court-martial was held on.,.',. ber t On° till till WE Cr e 17) t oil , Lan, ....0,,4 No, 1 ) Bc t! 1) • tra ter bis; F nr tip 1 4 , ,,, ii 1 ;; - ` Pt, 0~~ 04 4 1 ti ar ;.‘ ' W ttrl, rvai h 'wi th th, t o I , , , ThQ 4tep Thic of ri , s: e,ati