The Sun. — London, England, 1842-07-11 00:00:00

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THIS EVENING, JULY 11. he Performances will commence with the New Drama, called THE LONE HUT.• Principal Characters by Messss. 0. Smith, Diddear, W. H. Bland, and Harley, Miss Murray, Miss Crisp, and Miss Faucit. After which, THE ILLUSTRIOUS STRANGER.—BowbeII, Mr. Harley; Azar, Mr. Bar;:er ; Niza, M• s. Hughes. To be followel by the Farce of A DAY WELL SPENT.—BoIt, Mr. J. Vining; Mizzle, MtEoxberry. To conclude with TEKELL—TekeIi, Mr. J. Vining; Wolf, Mr. Diddear; Isidore, Mr. Oxberry ; Bras de Fer, Mr. Harlay ; ( hiis tine, Miss Crisp. Boxes, 4s. Pit, 2s.— Gallery, Is. Doors open at Half-past Six ; commence at Seven; Half-price, a Quarter before Nine. Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Grogan, at the Private Box-officz r and of Messrs. Andrews, Mitchell, Sams, and Bally, at their Libraries. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING, JULY 11. • Will be acted Auleer's celebrated Q•era of ERA DIAVOLO.— Fra Liavolo; Ur. W. Harrison; Lord Allcash, Mr. J. Webster ; Lorenzo, Mr. Walton; Beppo, Mr. G. Stansbury; Giacomo, Mr. Leffler; Zerlina, Miss IloinCr ; Lady Allcash, Mrs. Serle. After which, THE ARTFUL DUDOE.—Artful Dodge, Mr. G. Wild. To conclu4e with Leman Rede's JACK IN THE WATER. Places and Private Soxes may bet ad of Mr. J. Kerschner, at the Box Office, from Eleven till Four daily. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. The Nobility, Gentry, Subscribers, and the Public, are respectfully informed that ON MONDAYS, TUESDAYS, AND THURSDAYS, GRAND EVENING FETES will be given, in which will be em bodied all those popular Entertainments that have given to this favou rite place of recreation its peculiar celebrity, with additions and in troductions, which render them snore generally attractive. The MENAGERIE has been enriched by many valuable and im portant acquisitions in the classes of both Quadrupeds and Birds. Feeding Time Five o'clock. The Colossal VIEW OF ROME has been repainted, and in some instances remodelled, with a Mechanical Tableau d'action, repre senting the Procession of the Papal Troops, Guards, and Roman Nobles, to the Castle of St. Angelo. Tha BAND includes some of the rn..t eminent - Performer., con_ .*acted by Mt . Ctudftcy, and the Programme of the PROMENADES USICALES selectedf rom the noblest works of the great Masters. The I LLU MINATIONof sT. PETER'S, the CROSS of FIRE, and the ,GIR AN DOLA of ST. ANGELO, with all the gorgeous Spectacles and magnificent introductions that have called forth ac. elammations of delight and admiration on each evening of their ex hibition, terminating with the triumph of pyrotechnic splendour, the CASCADE of BRILLIANT FIRE, SIXTY FEET in height. The •Gardens are oOn Daily from Ten till Dusk. The Evening Fetes, with the Promenades Musicales, Illumination of St. Peter's, Girandoia of St. Angelo, &c., will be given on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. Admission One Shilling. THE ‘VEA THER.-NOON, JULY 9. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer.— 63 I Highest 64 I Lowest 47 Barometer 29.80.—Wind S.W. HIGH W ATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning...—. 51 minutes after 3 i Evening 14 minutes after 4, All Advertisements of a Disgusting Character, or Immoral Tendency, are excluded from the Columns of " The Sun." legislation is their appropriate cure. The law may re medy the evils it causes, but evils not caused 'by enact ments are not always to be put down by them. Our Contemporary was eloquent about the improve ment of the criminal code; but the old system of hanging men fur every kind of offence was the offspring of law, and it was only necessary to abolish the sanguinary de cree to put an end to the infliction of death. So with the slave-trade and slavery ; both existed under the po sitive sanction of the law, and the latter was expressly supported by the power of the State. The planters could not have maintained the slaves in obedience with out the assistance of the fleets and armies of the mother country. While it was, therefore, an imperative duty on the people of England not to countenance those enormities, it also followed, as a matter of course, that when they withdrew their sanction and support, the evils of the slave- trade and of slavery, so far as British subjects are concerned, whatever else might come in their place, would also cease. But evils not caused by the laws may not cease when laws are passed to put an end to them ; and the best meant law may in flict, like the Climbing-boy Act, starvation on those it was meant to serve. Admitting that gross evils are connected with the management of collieries, we cannot believe that the gentlemen who meet at Westminster, the spawn of gross corruption, the representatives of class interests, the advocates of monopoly, the persons who wantonly and wickedly keep bread from the suffering and starving people are ever likely, by any measures, to remedy the evils which the colliers suffer. The condemnation of women to the drudgery of the coal mines, the employment of children at most unsuitable ages, and during a far greater number of hours than children ought to be employed, are only a part and symptom of the general degradation to which the working classes have been doomed by a poli tical system, calculated and intended to keep them in a law and degraded condition. _ _ _ There is — abundant evidence that the colliers do not wish their wives and children to work in the pits. Their poverty, and not their will, consents. They submit, like the feeders on nettles and carrion, to the hard necessity which the law imposes on them. The true way, there fore, to put an end to the system which Lord ASHLEY deplores, is to abolish the laws which diminish the wages of labour, and tend to deprive the labourer of the senti ments of independence and self-respect. Let gentlemen who are, in truth, very ignorant of his thoughts, pursuits, and habits, cease to meddle with him, cease to infringe on his liberty, cease to plunder him by various legislative devices, and he will soon learn to respect himself, and learn, still more than at present, to love and respect his wife and children. Lord ASHLEY'S Bill will only add other links to the thrall's chains, and reduce hun dreds of persons to the sad condition of claiming relief, like the climbing boys. We assert for ourselves as strong a wish to benefit the colliers, whether men, women, or boys, and to benefit the bulk of our toiling fellow .countrymen, as any journal in the emiire, and yet we have opposed and still oppose Lord ASHLEY'S meddling legislation. It is the offspring of spurious humanity, seeking public applause, rather than of an intelligent desire to confer benefit on the people. Let the Legislature first be just, and then humane. The Duke of RICHMOND informed the House of Lords on Friday that a witness called before the Oaths Com mittee had refused to give evidence on oath, and he moved that the witness's reasons for not swearing, and the questions put to him, should be printed. This wit ness was not a member of the Society of Friends, or he would hare had no difficulty in evading the taking of an oath. We gather from this, as well as from numerous difficulties which have lately been thrown in the way of the administration of justice by the dis inclination of witnesses to take oaths, that there is a growing conviction throughout the religious world, that the whole system of book-swearing is exceedingly ini quitous, and directly contrary to the express command of the Founder of our holy religion. We rejoica at this. There is by far too much swearing, and it leads to the impression that a man cannot open his mouth without giving utterance to a lie without a book in his hand. Is any Member of the House of Commons a jot the more loyal for having taken the oath of allegiance at its bar ? Is he one iota the better Protestant for having insulted his Catholic fel low-subjects, by swearing not Only that he believes the Thirity-nine Articles, but that he believes the Mass to be " idolatrous and damnable ?" Let oaths be retained for the especial benefit of such persons as feel that they cannot speak truth without them ; but compel no man to swear who religiously objects to take an oath. As to swearing tide-waiters, guagers, and other revenue officers, it would be quite a farce, but for the awful and daily mass of perjury to which it gives rise. Oaths rarely, if ever, bind the consciences of these men. They are honest in many cases from principle, but we appre hend in most by dread of detection, loss of situation, and certainty of panishment. The vote of the House of Commons upon Mr. WM, LACE'S mction vyill fill the working classes of this coun try with feelings of dismay and despair. That only forty-nine Members of that House should be found to vote for an inquiry into the extent of their sufferings, proves the little sympathy which is felt in that assembly for their overwhelming distresses. The Whig and Tory speakers who voted against the inquiry objected to the way in which the resolutions were drawn up ; but they had not the honesty to propose amending them. Mr. WALLACE, in the most conciliatory spirit, offered to adopt any amendments proposed upon his resolutions, but Ministers preferred getting rid of the subject alto together, by rejecting them in the lump. A cry of hun ger is heard throughout the land—every breeze from the manufacturing districts wafts upon it the wail of famine; and yet the Government will neither pledge itself to relieve it, nor allow corn to be brought in, free of duty, to feed the starving people. What inheritance have the starving millions in such a Government ? Why should they be toiled, and taxed, and coerced, and manacled for its support ? These are questions which the people wi ask themselves, and to which their hearts will give responses but little in accordance with the sentiments of Sir ROBERT PEEL. The Government is treading upon dangerous ground. Millions of our fellow oountrymen approach the House of Commons and the Ministers, in the attitude of suppliants—suppliants for the coarse means of physical existence ; they tell that House and those Ministers, that they are absolutely and literally dying of hunger; they implore relief and permission to exchange their labour for untaxed foreign wheat, and their prayer is rejected ; in an assembly of upwards of six hundred legislators, only forty-nine are fbund to vote for an 'inquiry into the extent of their wretchedness ! Is it to be supposed that this treatment will .not sink deep into their hearts ? They were less than men if it did not. It will engender sad, bitter, and terrible feelings, which they will bequeath as an inheritance to their children. The names of the forty nine Members who voted for Mr. WALLACE'S motion will become household words throughout the land—the list of them will be found in many a cottage when Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Government is forgotten, or remem , bered only for its rejection of the inlayer of millions o : starving Englishmen. Two important notices were given on Friday ; the first by Mr. VILLIERS, to move on Monday next, on t motion for a Committee of Supply, for a repeal of the Corn-laws. That is bold and useful policy. On the 14th July, Lord Howicx is to move for a Com mittee of the whole House, with a view to propose " That it is expedient that wheat imported from foreign countries shall, until the Ist of March, 1843, be admissible for home consumption, on payment of a duty not exceeding fourteen shillings a quarter." These are two excellent notices, the first especially ; and we trust that Mr. VILLIERS will give way to no per suasions, and will as boldly carry his notice into effect as he has honestly given it. We are sorry to see indications on the part of the Whigs of a wish to give a preference to the motion of Lord HOWICK, and throw overboard that of Mr. VILLIERS. We must at once tell them that the country will regard this as a shabby proceeding. The vast distre demands a great and a bold remedy, and the total repeal of the Corn-laws will place our trade on a permanent basis ; while Lord Howicies motion ; were it successful, would continue all the uncertainty which now prevails. The total repealers must earnestly prefer Mr. VILLIER'S mo tion to that of Lord bowies. We beg to call attention to the petition (a copy of which will be found in this day's Sun) presented to the House of Co mmons en b ehalf of the claimants for losses 'sustained through the reprisals made by the Danes for our unjust and unprovoked attack on that State in 1807. Be it understood that the property of which these un offending claimants were despoiled, was not lost in a ease of war, but in retaliation for the Danish ships, and other property, seized from Denmark whilst we were profes sing to be in a state of friendship with that power, and by the sale of which Danish property, upwards of a was paid into th e British treasury. to us to be one of the greatest cases of Now it s terlin g appears arbitrary power which can be exercised by a Minister, to deny redress to these claimants, after the repeated decisions of the House of Commons, and her MAJESTY'S graciqus answer in their favour. This inju s ti ce seems to be increased when we consider the ridiculous distinction which has been made in grant ing compensation to the owners of such a portion of a a ship lying -*% on the wharf at the time of seizure, and refusing it to the owners of the other portion which happened to be on board the ship which was discharging that cargo at the same wharf, the whole of which, landed and unlanded, was taken possession of at the same time. It is one thing, however. to do a pure act of justice to suffering indivi duals without power, and to propose the grossest job where the Minister's influence is concerned. The French Journals contain nothing but else tion news. Among the abKurd rumours set afloat by the Opposition Journal's is one to the effect that British gold is extensively employed in procuring the return of Deputies favourable to M. GuiroT I We have too much to do at home with our gold. There are sinks of corruption enough in England to swallow up all the surplus cash of the Tories. The Madrid and Barcelona Journals come down to the lsi of this month. 'she accounts from the provinces to the north and south of Spain► are favourable ; the greatest tranquillity prevails in those countries. The 7th Regiment of Infantry, which was to come from Aragon, and the provincial battalion of Salamanca, being part of the corps of General Zurbano, were expected from Barcelona. A letter from Amsterdam, of the, 28th of June, says— " Great sensation has been excited on 'Change to-day, by a no tice given by the house of Hope and Co., which announces that the coupon of the American stack, which becomes due on the Ist of July, will not be paid, because the house has re ceived nothing to make the payment. On this point there is not much to soy, because it was foreseen that the funds for the pay ment of this coupon would not arrive. But what is openly blamed, and will probably be the foundation of an action against Hope and Co. is, that their bankers, having been fur nished by the Bank of the United States with a quantity of effects ( Valeurs) as security for the tenders, have thought themselves authorised to part with a portion of those securities in exchange for others. As chance would have it, though the nominal value has remained the same, it turns out that Messrs. Hope and Co. have parted with ate most valuable, in exchange for such as have hardly any value at all. We need not sly that the holders are furious."— Commerce. BOURSE—PARIS, THURSDAY, JULY 7. - - first Highest Lowest last Price Price. Prig , . Prier. French :. per Ccute......« 119 85 ... 120 .., 119 8i ... 119 85 434 per Cents IOS 50 ... 1.8 50 ... 108 50 ... 108 50 4 per Cants. ...... 3 per Cents 79 95 IV 95 ... 79 75 ... 79 75 8 ink of klance . 3286 25 ~729.90 ...5256 25 ...5290 Laffitte Bank I,ooof. Shares 1015 —lOl5 ...1015 ...1015 Belgian 5 per Cents. 1840 104% ... 1(5 ... 104% „. 105 Spanish Active 22 22% .•• 23 ..• 22% ... 23 Pa55ive................. 4 % ... 4 % ••• 4 % ... 4 % Neapolitan l(6 ... 1. 5 ... 103 ... .06 R0man...—......-- ...... .. . lO4 ... 104 ... 104 ... 104 RAILWAY SHARES. st. Germain ......, .......... Versailles, &IT ~, ~,, L.B Rouen Orleans..... .... ~" 562 50 ... 162 50 ... 562 50 ... 562 50 Strasburg to B ile — 2Ol 25 .., 202 50 ... 201 25 ~. 201 25 BELGIAN kUNDS—BetisarLs, JULY 8. Actual Debt, 234 per Cent. Rothschild's Loan 5 per Cent lO2 Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 93 3per Cent. --- 7114 (1E140) l(3 • Loan of City, 1932, 4 per Cent RIX Society of Commerce, 43.iper Cent 8(1 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 76 Thirty.seven. Natioaal Society - Exchange on London (short) —Brussels PaFere, July 8. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, JUNE 28 fiveper Ccats.Metalliques Four percents. len% Three pn Cents. Bank Shares ItIAMBURUH BORSEN HALLE, JULY 5. Bills. Money. 116 Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares 1678 Anglo-Russian Loan 10934 109 Russian 5 Der Cent., Ist series, Certificate 1034 103 Inscription, lit series lO3 Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th Series 96% Ditto in Certificates New 4 per Cent. (18.10) BB 3l 88% Dutch Actual Debt, tt% per Cent Ditto S per Cent. - Polish Bonds — New Tickets l6B Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. 78% . 783 i Spanish, New 5 per Cents. lB EXCHANGES ON LONDOF. HAMBURGH, JULY 5.-13 7 3 i, Two monthsll.3 6. PETERSBURG, JUNE 24.—Three months, 37% pence. STOCKHOLM, JUNE 28.—Seventy-five days, 12 6. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, JULY 2, Bills. Money St. Schuld Sch., 4 per cent. .......... 104% 1041,,, Prussian English Bond,, 1630, 4 per cent. 1(13% 102% Exchange on London Prussian State Gazette, July 3. ABUSES AT THE CUSTOM HOUSE.—In the month of March we stated from authority that regulations had been issued by the Board of Customs for increased facility and despatch in the passing of passengers' lug gage at the London Custom-House ; and that a second landing waiter was to be appointed to assist in the exa mination of the luggage, whose duty was to be confined to the examination of such of the passengers' luggage as did not exceed one packet. Now, this announcement by the Board of Customs was either a direct false hood, or their order has been wantonly and shamefully disobeyed. Yesterday one of the steamers of the Gene ral Steam Navigation Company reached London-bridge wharf from Boulogne at eleven o'clock, with 102 pas sengers, and a vast amount of luggage. A Custom house officer was present to see the passengers leave the vessel, and in several instances he refused to obey the order just referred to. We make the statement from personal experience. A passenger, with only one small packet, containing the necessary arti cles of dress for a few days' stay, exhibited it open for inspection, but though informed that it was the only luggage the passenger had, the Custom-house officer re jectedit, and handed thepacket to one of his colleagues to be placed among the vast heap of luggage. Remon strance was vain—the passenger was obliged to quit the vessel, and, after waiting for more than hour, and finding that he would probablylbe compelled to wait four hours more, he returned on board the vessel, and, at last, suc ceeded in obtaining the small packet. The poor travel lers, to the number of some sixty or seventy, worn out with sea-sickness, and want of sleep, were collected to gether in a waiting-room, several of them only with one packet each, and could neither get their luggage nor the slightest information when they had any chance for it. Indeed no person connected with the Custom house could be seen, except a door-keeper, who referred them to an insolent lad about sixteen years of age, and this functionary seemed to take delight only in displaying his authority. AN the small luggage could have been cleared in twenty minutes, and as it was announced by this juvenile hanger-on at the office that every one must take his turn, whether the packages were small or great, or numerous; some of these unfortunate victims must have been detained at least four hours. Such conduct is a disgrace to the country. Foreigners have heard much of the despatch and skill of the English in almost every department of trade, when they are left to manage their own concerns ; and here they find not only insolence, but the most sluggish and arbitrary system of proceeding, when public officers are paid, whether they work or not. The system of bribery under despotic Governments is infinitely preferable to this: Perhaps one-half of the passengers would willingly have given money to these officers only to induce them to do their duty. In France an officer is specially appointed for the purpose of pass ing small packets, whether there are five or fifty, or whether a passenger has one, two, or three, and every proceeding is conducted with the utmost good order and politeness. It may be proper to add, that the English Custom-house officers, when remonstrated with, behaved with civility, and said they were not to blame, but the system, for there were too few hands. The Board of Cus toms, in fact, should be abolished, for whether it is their fault originally, or the fault of those under them, it is clear that the whole mode of conducting that de partment is radically bad. To crown the scene, passen gers, after being thus tormented for hours, had to pay sixpence for each package, but into whose pocket this money goes we cannot tell. Why not take a bribe at once ? MR. GLADSTONE'S SKILL AT CONVERSION. --The Right .Hon. Vice-President of the Board of Trade is a great master of words. No juggler ever handled his instruments more dexterously. He has been conspicuous both as a religious writer and as a political orator, and dis covered a conscience for the State after he had lost his own. In Parliament we have heard him deal with prin ciples as if they were his own coin, which he ought to put out to the most profitable usance. He has no notion, however, of following them out, except as they serve his purposes, but others profit by his lessons, who think it discreditable to follow his example. There ale thousands who will apply his political principles to,the trade in corn as well as cattle, and insist that if it is good to have the latter cheap, it is still better to have the former both free and cheap. There are hun dreds, too, who will follow out his religious prin ciples, and, us they must rely on au th or i t y an d tra dition, and on'reason—must, above all things, obey the Church, they will, as a natural consequence obey the Church of Rome, in preference to the mongrel Church which has no higher authority than the base passions of Henry the Eighth. We are not surprised, knowing Mr. Gladstone's eloquence, to find some of his first converts in his own family. The Birmingham Advertiser informs US Mit the SISTER TO THE VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE WAS, ON TUESDAY -WEEK, confirmed a member of the CATHOLIC C HURCH , i n t h e chapel of the Nunnery near Birmingha m . Wh en w ill the Right Honourable Gentleman make his o w n p eace with that Church? When he has, like his sister, no purp ose o f worldly ambition to answer, by professing a nominal Protestantism. . THE MARQUIS OF LONDONDERRY.—A new work is about to make its appearance, which will excite no less attention in the political and fashionable, than in the literary circles. It is a narrative of recent travels and voyages through Germany, Austria, on the Danube, into Turkey, Greece, the lonian Islands, Italy, Spain, and Portugal, by the Marquis of Londonderry, G.C.B. The reputation - the Noble Writer enjoys in the different Courts of Europe, as "a distinguished diplomatist and general officer, could not fail to produce for him a very flattering reception wherever he appeared. We have beard that the volumes will contain the substance of va rious conversations the writer held at Vienna with Prince Metternich ; also many curious anecdotes of this and other illustrious characters with whom his Lordship associated. The Emperor of Austria, Prince Esterhazy, and the brilliant circle of the Austrian capital, the young Sultan of Turkey and his principal Ministers, the King of Greece, and the chief officers of his Government, &c. &c. LATHE MACHINERY QlllBBLE. — Compelled reluctantly to admit that the distress under which the country at present labours is almost unexampled, the Tories, who are never at a loss for a sophistry, have discovered that this alarming state of things , has been b roug h t a b out b y machinery. " Machinery,: say they — an d Si r Ro b ert Peel, who is the very genius of equivocation, of course endorses the felkoy— ,6 machinery has done it all I" Are • • ...4 . •,-„;?; . oNV a ?Le.4, • I t -:`, ' ,..,..e ....,4,- 2,,,,,,,r. ~..,....-z,,44,;-.04 --, . -- ,.,, ,, , t 1 1 , 0). • , •,c,.:.,,,,,,,, - 4 ---1- , 40-, , , , ,j:5..' -,,,,:....*,114111 .4ZI, re, •-t- - %.• , --r-, ' -A-, - c-....--i., -', .4.,,A....- , :r,.. : , m . ~- - L•t!I - - - -... , :k..: : ,,- --. 7 ,--•.-% • ' Ult. rut LONDON: MONDAY MORNING, JULY 11, 1842. We rejoice to see the condnct of the Conference. It has resolved to continue its sittings, and it has appealed by circulars, for support, to all the manufacturing towns. It has also requested the ministers of religion to put up their supplications to the ALMIGHTY in behalf of the suffering people. They cannot consecrate the great work they have taken in hand by too much earnestness and solemnity. Let them not conceal its magnitude from themselves. In the teeth of the Parliament, which has passed a law for keeping bread from the people, they have undertaken the great task of procuring the aboli tion of that unhallowed law. In commencing this great undertaking they have piously, humbly, and wisely ap pealed to the ALMIGHTY for assistance and support. The language used, too, is bold and manly, worthy of the men -who have singly resolved not to pay taxes as long as taxes are contaminated by class plunder. " Winged words" have ere now " scattered armies;" and, now that our friends have adopted a bold course, they need not despair of scattering the monopolists- Their language is the true description of vast suffering amongst the people, and has already penetrated to the heart of the Premier. He dare not encounter the awful responsibility of meeting the winter, whether the harvest be good or bad, with such a mass of unrelieved distress and such a mass of persons out of employment. The Conference has acted nobly and admirably in taking on itself the responsibility of remaining assembled under such circumstances, and in speaking to him, to Parlia ment, and to the country in strong and emphatic terms. Now, what does it ask ? The total and immediate re peal of the Corn-law just passed. That is the motion Mr. VILLIERS is to submit to the House of Commons this evening. And what is that motion to do, if carried? We answer, give employment instantly to the majority of the unemployed, and give bread to all. At a meeting of the Conference Mr. IBBOTSON declared that he would employ five hundred men the day after the law was re pealed, and he asserted that, in a short time there would nocbe an unemployed workman in Sheffield. Deputies from Dundee have made a similar statement ; but we did not want their assurances to convince us that such would be the case. We are well convinced that the instant the Corn-law is repealed, speculations for the supply of the foreign market will give employment to the bulk of our manufacturing artizans. Having employment, they would be able to purchase food and clothing, and present distress woul d disappear as if it had been charmed away. And what objection is made to the measure? It is said that it would throw agriculturists out of employ ment, and add to the existing distress. Let us calmly look at the objection. Harvest is approaching, and not a single farmer will fail to gather in his crops, whatever may be the state of the law. At present, therefore, noi, a day's work in agriculture will be diminished • by abolishing the law. Will the farmers plough and sow less for next harvest, or the harvest afterwards? That is the question to be decided. It is abundantly certain that no great quantity of food has been anywhere pre pared to add to our supply this year. We must wait for a twelvemonth before much can be grown for us. In the meantime our people are much -in want. The conse quence, therefore, of employing them would be at once greatly to increase the demand for food. The months are ready, but the food is . not. Undoubtedly, therefore, there would be a greater demand for the first year than could be supplied from all the world, and in that demand would be a complete security That the farmers would not plough and sow less next year. There would be no diminution whatever of agricultural employment. The assertion that agricultural distress would arise from repealing the Corn-law is a mere fancy—a fiction of the brain ; but the distress of the manufacturers is an actual and painful existence. It is clearly caused by the law which impiously shuts out the food they would ho nestly earn and honestly purchase. Supposing it possible or probable that the agriculturists would be injured by the repeal of this law—which we deny—the manufacturers have a right to de mand that misery be not inflicted on them, in order to save others from misery. Admitting, for argument's sake, all that is fancied about land going out of cultiva tion, and farmers going to ruin, they are to be saved from the decay and ruin to which nature, on that sup. position, has doomed them, at the expense of the ma nufaeturers. The latter have a right to demand the in stant repeal of a law which inflicts poverty and misery on them, whatever may be the consequences of that re peal to others ; and they have a right, before GOD and man, to resist a. law which, on mere suppositions and fancies, actually and positively dooms them to starvation and death. In our report of the proceedings at Union-hall or. Saturday, there will be found an appeal to the Court, mad. by three climbing boys, whom the Chimney-sweep Act have put out of e m pl o ym e nt. They have a right to say that the law intending to promote humanity has doomed them to starvation. They had been brought up to the trade ; they cannot find another ; they are no longer allowed to exercise 'it, and they must go to the poor house, starve, or commit crimes. We quote that case as an illustration generally of the effects of legislative hu manity, and o f th e pro b a bl e e ff ect o f L or d A SHLEY ' S Colliery Bill. It prohibits certain persons from getting their living by the labour to which they have been brought up, and it will certainly doom no inconsiderable number of them to destitution and the poor-house. Such a case enables us to asser t th at a M orn i ng Con temporary, distinguished for his zeal in favour of Lord ASHLEY'S Bill, and not sparing in his insinuations and charges against those who d o not support i t, con founds together the evil and the proposed remedy. Making every allowance for the e xaggeration of the Re port of the Colliery Commis sioners, there c an b e no doubt that many evils exist in connexion with the col lieries, but it by no means follows that Lord Amur's iEWS 4.er d!?" =J 4 7 -. ~\ , 111. E. SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, JULY II, 1842. the people eating boiled nettles at Paisley, and disin terred calves at Akington ? It is machinery that has brought them to this pass ! Are they rotting by hundreds off the face of the earth at Stockport, Manchester, Leeds, Burn ley; and other great commercial districts ? It is ma chinery that is to blame for their destitution ! Mr. Cob den triumphantly disposed of this Tory sophism last night in the House of Commons, and showed that in Nottinghamshire, in the Staffordshire Potteries, and in numerous other districts, where not the slightest im provement in machinery had taken place fir the last two centuries, the distress was actually appalling ! It was the same in the mines and eolleries, where machinery was just what it was years and years ago. In Ireland, according to Mr. O'Con nell, the state of things was just as bad ; and yet so far is this country from being overrun with ma chinery, that it has not even the " machinery of taxa tion," greatly to Sir Robert Peel's annoyance, as he him self assured his faithful Commons at the commencement of the session. Deprived of the aid of this sophism, the Tories, we suppose, will next attribute the distress to the visitation of Providence ; and should this ground, too, be cut from under them, they will, doubtless, as a last resource, assign it to tho malignant interposition of the Devil. FOREIGNERS PAYING INCOME-TAX.---Suppose that a foreigner residing abroad has not, on the whole, an in come of 150/. a•year, but what he has is in the English Funds, is he to be exempted from the tax ? and, if so, before what Commissioners must he prove his claim to the exemption ? If he is - not to be exempted, the spirit of the law to leave small incomes untouched will be violated. In truth, to tax foreigners at all, is as gross a breach of faith as any. of the repudiating states of America have been guilty of. It is a repudiation of 21. 18s. 4d. p,r cent. of the debt justly due to the foreigner. Just think, reader, of mighty England forfeiting her character for a few thousand pounds ! Better repudiate the whole. ANTI-CORN-LAW DELEGATES. INTERVIEW WITH SIR R. PEEL. On Saturday a large body of Delegates had an interview with Sir Robert Peel. Ten gentlemen addressed the Premier on the decrease in the trade and commerce of the country —on the extent of idleness and destitution—and on the in crease of crime and disaffection. Their state ments, which were most solemn and important, were listened to for an hour and a half. At the conclusion, Sir Robert Peel said You will not expect from me any communication on the matters you have brought before me—matters Nhich have frequently been under the notice of her Majesty's Government and the House of Commons. What you have communicated shall be taken into consideration. I have nothing further to say — (after a pause)—except that I deeply sym•• pathise in the distresses of the country, and thank you for the testimony you have borne, which I fear is incontestible." IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, July 9. ROYAL ASSENT. _ Their Lordships met this day at twelve o'clock, when the Royal Assent was given, by Commission, to several Bills. The Lords Commissioners were—the Earl of Shaftesbury, the Duke of Buccleuch, and Lord Wharn cliffe. The Usher of the Black Rod having summoned the Commons the Royal Commission was read, and the Royal Assent given to the following Bills : The Customs' Duties Act (the Tariff), Forest of Dean Poor Bill, Deptford Pier Bill, Court House (Cromarty) Bill, Marine Insurance Bill, Manners' Estate Bill, Stafford Grammar School Bill, York Cathedral Bill, and Hawkes' Divorce Bill. Their Lordships then adjourned till Monday al ten o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS, July 9. The House of Commons met this day at twelve o'clock to hear the Royal Assent given by Commission to several Bills, and the Deputy- Usher of the Black Rod appeared at the table to summon the House to the House of Peers for that pnrpose. The SPEAKER, on his return, informed the House that he had heard the Royal Assent given by Commission to several Bills (for which see Lords' Report). CAPTAIN WARNER'S INVENTION. On the motion that the House do now adjourn, Sir F. BURDETT made a short statement relative to Captain Warner's invention, and gave notice that he would move for the appointment of a Committee on Monday. The House then adjourned. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert walked in the gardens of Buckingham Palace on Saturday morning, and the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal were taking an airing in the Royal gardens, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Ly ttelton. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Queen in the forenoon, and remained to lunch with her Majesty and Prince Albert and the Hereditary Prince and Princess of Saxe Cobourg Gotha. At ten minutes past three o'clock on Saturday afternoon the Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by their Serene High nesses the Hereditary Prince and Princess of Saxe Cobourg Gotha, left town in a carriage and four, escorted by a party of Hussars, for Claremont. Her Majesty and Prince Albert were conducted to their carriage by the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, the Earl of Warwick, Lord in Waiting, the Vice Chamberlain, and Sir Robert,Otway, the Groom in Waiting. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyt telton, followed in another Royal carriage. Th e Royal suite occupied two carriages and four ' • in one were the Viscountess Canning, Lady in Waiting, and the Hon. C. A. Murray, Master of the Household, and in the other were Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, Equerry in Waiting on the Queen, and Colonel Bouverie, Equerry in Waiting on Prince Albert. Her Majesty and Prince Albert and the Royal Suite and Household attended Divine service yesterday at Claremont. Archdeacon Wilberforce officiated. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by their Serene Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Meiningen and the Hereditary Prince of Saxe Meiningen, arrived at Marlborough House, attended by the ladies and gentlemen of the suite, at half-past twelve o'clock on Saturday, from her residence, Bushy House, Bushy .Park. Her Majesty and the Duchess of Saxe Meiningen visited their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucester House, and the Princess Sophia at Kensington. In the evening the Queen Dowager, the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Meiningen, and the Hereditary Prince, honoured the Italian Opera with their presence. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson and Sir George Copper, Bart., and the Duchess and the Princess, Augusta of Cambridge, also ho noured the Opera with their presence. The Queen Dowager and the Duchess of Saxe Meiningen attended Divine service yesterday morning in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Sermon was preached by the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Capel, from Romans, chap. 6, verse 23. The Prayers were read by the Vey. Mr. Pack, the Lessons by the Rev. Mr. Povah, and the Communion Service by the Rev. Dr. Sleath, and the Rev. Messrs. Pack and Povah. Mr. Goss presided at the organ during the musical service, and Mr. Cooper, jun., played the anthem, " Blessed be thou" (Kent). The Viscountess Barrington and the Hon. Sophia Wheatley were the Lady and Maid of Honour in waiting on her Majesty, and Mademoiselle de Kaas the Lady in Waiting on the Duchess of Saze Meiningen. The Bishop of Norwich, the Clerk , and the Dean of Here ford, the Deputy-Clerk of the Closet, were in waiting. The The Duchesses of Bedford and Beaufort, the Duke of Beaufort, Marquis of Headfort, Ladies Wilton, J. Eliot, and M. Alford; Lords Wilton, Bandon, Effingham, Harrowby, Bective, Canter bury, Wrottesley, Eliot, Sandon, and Alford, were among the Nobility present. His Serene Highness the Duke of Saxe M e i n i ngen v i s i te d the Duchess of Kent yesterday at her residence, Clarence House, St. James's. The Queen Dowager, accompanied by the Duchess of Saxe Meiniugen, took an airing in a carriage in the afternoon, and visited the Duchess of Cambridge at Cambridge House. The Duchess of Kent attended Divince service yesterday morning in the Chapel in Kensington Palace. Lady Anna Maria Dawson was in waiting on her Royal Highness. The Duchess of Cambridge attended Diiine service yester day morning in Grosvenor Chapel. Lady Augusta Somerset was in waiting on her Royal Highness. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge gave a grand dinner on Saturday, at Cambridge House, to the officers of the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards, of which regiment his Royal Highness is colonel. Twenty-eight of the officers were present._ - The Duchess and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge went to Kew yesterday afternoon. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Duchess of Cambridge on Saturday. • The Duke of Cambridge went to Wormwood Scrubbs on Saturday morning. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign-office. It was attended by Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Wellington, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Wharncliffe, the Duke of Buccleuch, Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Earl of Haddington, Earl of Ripen, Lord Fitzgerald, Sir Henry Har dinge, and Sir Edwird Knatchbull. The Council sat two hours and a half. The Commissioners for the government of Pentonville Prison assembled on Saturday at the Council-office, for the transaction of business. There were present Lord Wharncliffe, Earl of Devon, the Speaker, Sir Benjamin Brodie, Dr. Fer guson, Major Jebb, Mr. Crawford, and the Rev. Whitworth Russell. Mr. A. Taylor and a Deputation of 142 Anti-Corn-law Delegates had an interview with Sir Robert Peel, on Satur day, at his official residence:in Downing-street. Deputies from the Governors of Jamaica, Trinidad, and the Bahamas were received yesterday at the Colonial -office. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat on Saturday. An appeal from the Court of Arches, " Harrison v. Har rison" came on for he ar i ng ; th e Q ueen ' s Ad voca t e an d D r. Harding appearing for the appellants, and Dr. Addams and Mr. Hope fur the respondent. Lord Brougham gave judgment on the part of their Lord ships, affirming the Decree of the Court below. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, with a numerous party and suite, 'visited Mr. Dunn's Chinese Collection on Saturday. THE ECLIPSE OF THE SUN.--Although the weather on Friday morning was not particularly favourable for observ • ing this celestial phenomenon, in consequence of the partial obscurati on o f the sun by light clouds soon after his rising, yet those wh o h ad the courage to rise from their bed were not disappointed of a very beautiful spectacle. The calculation of the time of the commencement of the eclipse was exceedingly accurate. Soon after four o'clock one digit was darkeneoand the obscuration gradually increased, The sun presented a very curious aspect, and assumed an oblong shape at one period. Soon afterwards it appeared like a crescen t, an d at th e p er i o d of greatest obscu rat i on the sun ' s appearance was th at o f t h e moon at about f our days ' old, Indeed, the effect resembled much that of the moon, as at no period were the rays sufficiently intense to prevent i ts b e i ng looked upon w ith ou t i nconven i ence %Th to the eye. Occ as i onally the light float i ng clouds ajtogether prevented the su n f rom being seen, but, upon the ole, the morning was favourable for the observance of the phenomenon, and it was no doubt an object of interest to many. At six o'clock the appearance of the morning resembled the period when the shade's of evening set in. BOULOGNE. (FROM A fORRESPONDENT.) JULY 7.—Though the election of a Member to represent this district takes place on Saturday, the 9th inst., the event seems not to excite the slightest interest. The subject is hardly even alluded to in any coffee-room or public company, and se hat is more, there is no talk about the right of search, or the increased duty on linen- earn ; and if one may judge from the respectable demeanour of the citizens towards the English, a war with England would be regarded as one of the greatest calamities that could befal them. If there is any difference the people, from the highest to the lowest, are more polite and obliging to our countrymen now than they were before Thiers raised the war cry, and the town was thronged with English residents and visitors. U,; less excited by some supposed insult. or some anticipated outrage on their country, the French generally exhibit their natural politeness, and are anxious to return the compliment to strangers who reside amongst tLem. It is highly to their credit, as far as this district is concerned, that notwithstanding the violen c e o f many o f t h e French journals (and they see no other), and the wicked fabrications poured forth day after day, to excite two great nations to tear one another in pieces, they treat all these as they deserve, and are evidently anxious to avoid a catastrophe, which in the end could benefit neither party, but on the eon trary entail sufferings of no ordinary kind, not only on them but the greater portion of the civilised world. As it is, the Boulognese have great reason to regret the events of the last two .years, for though they have not been harassed by actual war they have been subjected to the expense, and have lost beides nearly one• half of their most profitable trade. Many shops that at one time did a great deal of business are now comparatively deserted, some are shut up, and others are con verted to different purposes. In the trade in gloves, Eau de Cologne, boots and shoes, independent of many other articles, in which the French excel, there has been a great falling off. The rent of houses and apartments, of course, has declined in a proportionate degree. Numbers are empty, and those occupied do not bring in by one-third the rent of former years. Apart ments well furnished, and in the best streets, amply sufficient for a family of six or seven persons, and nearly as many dogs if you choose to keep them, can be had at this time, the height of the season, for 120 francs the month, or less than '24s. per week. In the Rue des Vieillards, near the Rue Neuve Chaussee, one of the most convenient situations in the town, a family of my acquaintance has apartments for that sum, con sisting of drawing-room and parlour, four bed-rooms, kitchen, &c., which furnish good accommodation for the family, five in number, two servants, and four incipient French dogs. The history of these dogs is curious, but that may probably furnish subject for another letter. Provisions also are proportionably cheap. Three pounds of excellent bread, nearly four pounds English, are sold at 4d. ; the best butter from 9d. to I Id. the lb., though it is imported from Belgium ; beef, mutton, &c., at about 6d the lb. ; cauliflowers, lid. each, large, and of ex cellent quality ; best cherries, lid. the tb. ; a couple of fowls, 2s. 6d. ; ducks, Is. 6d. each. Coffee is much cheaper and better than in England, and wine is little more than half price. • The charges at hotels are exceedingly moderate, net one half the price charged at Ramsgate or Brighton. Take a second rate hotel, for instance, the Commercial Hotel, kept by Fleury, in Rue Neuve Chaussee, and though second, or say even third rate, every thing is of the best, and the whole expense does not exceed 4s. 4(1. a day. The charges are as follow :—Break fast and bed, 3 francs; dinner, two francs and a half, but only two francs if the party remain for some time. At Ramsgate, at an hotel, with not half the accommodation, the charges are : Bed and breakfast, 4s. 6d. ; dinner, 3s. 6d. ; and one glass of brandy in the evening, if you are not a teetotaller, ls., making in all, exclusive of wine, nine shillings. Better beds, better breakfasts and dinners, and better brandy can be had in the French hotel for six francs at the utmost ; and say a pint of wine at the English hotel, and a bottle of very fair Burgundy in the French, and the charges will stand thus—English 12s. 6d., French 6s. Bd. Boots, shoes, and gloves are equally reasonable, and can be had at one-third less than in England. As a proof of this, the French tradesmen are delighted with the English tariff, and expect no slight increase in business A pair of shoes, for instance, can be had in the one place for 55., whi c h i n th e other would cost Bs. 6d. Is there not enough surplus here, to pay the Is. 2d. duty and the transport, and leave ample profit to the importer? Very few troops are here at present, and indeed they are not wanted, for a more orderly, correct, and honest people could hardly be found in any country. No street rows, little thieving, great regularity, and mutual kindness in all their proceedings ; even the brute creatures participate in the national character. Before the dog-days came on, orders, by telegraph some people think, were transmitted from the capital, to muzzle the whole of the canine species. It is really wonderful and instructive to wit ness the calm composure with which these animals submit to the ordinance. You see a dog sitting at almost every door with a neat muzzle—red, white, black, or green, as snits the fancy of the owner—and he wears it with a s m uc h patience as the soldier carries his knapsack and mu-ket. No attempt is made to pull it off, either by rubbing the head against the ground, or tearing at it with his paws, like the lawless English dog. In fact, he is a perfect pattern for both a good citizen, and a good soldier. Dogs indeed seem to have a great predilec tion for the army, and at every review Or military display great numbers of them are present, and take as much pleasure in the sound of the drum as the soldiers themselves. In re ference to reviews, I may state that the National Guard, to the number of 800, were summoned by beat of drum last Sunday to be reviewed as usual on the first sunday of the month, and a very respectable appearance they made. The meeting of the drummers and a train of 2,000 children going to church, each with his prayer-book, and escorted by a number of priests, formed a singular exhibition, and verified the phrase, arena cedant toger. The robed priests with their pupils readily gave way to the petits tambours, who by the way make a terrible rattling thundering noise in the street, enough to frighten a timid ecclesiastic. All the movements of the Infantry here are regulated by beat of drum. Even when the soldiers, without their arms, go to bathe, the drum leads the way to the beach ; it tells them when to draw up, when to take off the first and last portion of their vestment, and how long to stay in the water. An exhibition of this sort took place this week. A party of soldiers were marched to the sea side one fine morning, and after having gone through the operation of undressing to the last garment, they were all at tention, each man with his hands at the collar of his shirt ; ' when the drum beat, off flew the shirts, and off scampered, on the dry sand, for 200 yards at least, 300 well-made, stout fellows, as naked as Adam before the fall, followed by nume rous dogs and children, all equally delighted with the scene. They remained in the water, amusing themselves, like chil dren, for a quarter of an hour, and were then recalled in a body by the magic instrument. I may, in conclusion, state, that the town is beginning to fill. Steamers arrive from London almost every day in the week, bringing generally from 100 to 130 passengers, and it is hardly necessary to say that the people are very glad to see them. Without the communication with England, Boulogne would indeed be a dull place. EMIGRATION TO THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. (FROIF . I A CORRESPONDENT.) For our personal satisfaction we were requested, some days since, to visit the emigrant ship Guardian, for Algoa, Bay, Cape of Good Irope. It being a private enterprise, and a new line of emigration rendered almost necessary through the disappointment experienced by many persons who unfortunately lately have selected the United States (whence 6,000 have emigrated into Canada), we felt it our duty to inspect the arrangements made for the comforts of the passengers before making any statement. The Guardian is a new vessel of 500 tons, with average heights between the decks, and her accommodations are excellent. Nothing, according to the dietary table, appears to have been denied the passen gers actually necessary for the voyage ; the bread it may be said is good, as it was approved •f even by those who know what ship-bread should be better than ourselves ; and the beds provided were included in the moderate passage-money of 121. The. passengers, 55 in number, seemed to be beyond the usual run of emigrants. all pay ing their passage-money except a few, who availed them selves of Mr. Christopliers' promissory note, which was alluded to in Tile Sun last week. The Guardian has sailed, being only one day later than she was advertised for. We think this a very wholesome kind of emigra tion, being of persons wite money in their pockets, node prived of the freedom of their will, which poverty quickly denies to us ; selecting in this case a colony matured in all its insti!utions, rich in the elements of prosperity, and backward only in Government manage ment. As, however, emigrants are generally persons of spirit, we expect a little infusion of modern political principles will make the Cape colony second to none in prosperity ; education is, perhaps, carried higher there than in other colonies, as it is ; but the stir of life, poli tical life, and of public improvement, has been glim mering in the socket. Emigration will do more for the Cap 2 than the world dreams of ; it is a colony indubi tably of the greatest national importance, affording most of the advantages of other colonies, not so many draw backs, and being, by such good ships as have ben already provided, within ten weeks' sail of England. We would advise all interested, however, to judge for them selves, by inspecting the vessels which may be hereafter selected, and comparing them with emigrant ships in general, as the best test. Fortunately, these are now usually of a better class than they used to be, thanks to the Government agents here and at the ontports, though the cheapness of the rates makes caution still desirable, if not absolutely necessary. SUM ARV OF NEWS AND litibite '4: pinion. " Who runs may read." POR.EIGN. A very large portion of the Paris Journals is filled with art cles on the merits of the dill; rent canoida•es for the national representation. As usual, on such occasions, their merits a e extolled to the skies by one pa, ty and depreciated by toe other. The Opposition candidates are described, by the various organs of what is called the liberal and independ, nt press, as miideis of patriotism and general ;ie. fection, wiii , st the Millisterial Jour nals represent them as the advocates of principles subversive of order and good Government. The Molateur announces, on the authority of a letter from Naples, that Prince de Joinville, together with Admiral Hugon, and the fleet unuer his co,matid, were expected at that city on the 26th ult., where preparations were made for their re ception. i The Moniteur givys the following as the amounts of- the several sums whicn were expended between Isls and the end of 1627, in the construction and aiming the Belgian fortresses : Liege, 2,885,0001 ; Huy, 509,0001 ; Namur, 5,165,8851 ; arrant, 425,0001 ; Marienburg, 265,0001 ; Phihppt vale, 304,0001 ; Bouillon, 50,0001 ; Charleroy, 6, 540,4 , 00f1 ; Moils, 55,423,4271 ; Ath, 5,3 , 8,0001 ; Men in, 3,993,0u0f1. ; Ypres, 3,958,4971 ; Nieupurt, 4,530,00011. ; Os ende, 5,537,0001 ; Antwerp, 3,000,000E1. ; Tournay, 4,089,0001 ; Termonde, 2,969,05'11. ; Audernarde, 3,376,0001 ; Ghent, 3,317,5001 'l he expenses of the artillery stores and armament of these fortresses were 13,500,1001 fotal, 81,239,3661 W e have received the Madrid journals of the 30th ult. Their contents are not important. A Madrid latter informs us that the Cortes will probably close their session about the 15th instant. The Prussian State Gazette of the 2d instant published a long list of decorations granted by the King in the Grand Duchy of Posen. M. de Dunin, the Archbishop of Gneisen, had received the decoration of the Red Eagle. PU 4i.IC OPIATEO.wi. The Post says, in an article on the discussions in Parliament respecting the distress of the country :--'• The Whigs make of the distress a mere party matter. It gives them an oppor tunity of asserting that if their commercial policy, that is, the admission of foreign corn at a low duty, had been acted upon last year, the distress would have disappeared. They can show no more ground for this assertion than if they said that the pulling down of St. Paul's would have removed the distress. But what does that matter to them ? There is an opportunity for making the assertion, and as it may serve the party, it is made. They know that the distress is severe, and that few things can be more wicked than the irritation of people in distress, by causing them to believe that some particular measure which cannot be carried would give them relief. But what does that matter to the Whigs ? It is not the state of the poor, present or future, which concerns them, but the popularity of their own party with the multitude, and that may be promoted by causing the multitude to believe that their policy would have prevented the distress. We cannot but deeply regret that the present leading men in the House of Commons should have so en tangled themselves, by adopting to a certain extent Whig prin ciples, that they cannot answer these impudent and heartless dogmatisers as they ought to be answered. We take the following from the Chronicle :—"Let the Libe ral party depend upon it, that the fabric of Tory misrule is tot tering; that nothing but energy and tact are wanting to level it with the dnst ; that nothing but such violence as compromises the Liberal party in the blunders of a very few of its body can make men of sense rally round a Ministry which, by its dogged maintenance of abuses, is perilling every institution and interest of the country. We have a clear cause before us—a cause in which right is on our side, and success ahead. And Mr. Fielden and his friends ought not to intervene and waste time which is precious, not to our enemy, but to us. The Liberal Members of the House of Commons will not be true to them selves or to the country if th e y a ll ow t h e com i ng month to pass without forcing the distress of the country on the attention of Parliament. And they evidently know their duty, and mean to do it." The Times, in an article on prison discipline, observes We do not for an instant maintain that prisons ought to be made purposely wretched; nor of course do we contend that every possible mean, should not be taken f. if. reclaiming the of fenders, especially the younger ones; hut we do say, that while the first object to be sought is the amelioration of the criminal, the repentance and amendment of the hardened and abandoned sinner, the way to produce this is not by indulgence, but by punishment —not by softness and comfort, out by strict ness and discipline —not by rewarding the 'dry:Eder with promotion in a foreign country, so much as by keeping him in strict seclusion Irons evil example, and the means of gratifying his evil passions, in his own ; and that if these means be used, as we have no doubt they may, within the w alls of a prison much more convi niently arid surely than oft board a convict- ship, this proposed system of emigration will turn out, after ad, to be little more than a bounty to juvenile crime. Let things be really what they pro fess to be—,et them be called by their right names. If these juvenile offenders really deserve punishment, let them be punished and reclaimed, as they can and may well be, either by imprisonment at home, or by. transportation, it they have -de st•rved it, without promotion, abroad; but let it be a pun sh ment, not a promotion. If, on the contrary, transportation is to be made a reward, let meritorious and really deserving per sons have the benefit, and not juvenile offenders.' " The Herald says :—" Mr. Bannerman's motion to give Ministers power, by an Order in Council. to suspend or mo dify the Corn law, during the recess, so as to admit at lower duties than those affirmed by law the foreign grain now tr bond, though kindly meant and expressive of abundant confidence in the Government, was one which Sir Robert Peel could not support, without inflicting a heavy blow on his own law. The present high price of wheat, when taken in connexion with the frightiul distress which prevails in the manufacturing districts, is very deplorable ; but - that . price is no t wholly produced by the small quantity of free wheat in the country ; it is very much the consequence of the combination of corn factors speculating for a rise to such a point as will admit the 1,400,000 quarters of bonded wheat now in store at merely nominal duties. That the bonded wheat, or Coe greater part thereof, will be released' before harvest, without any such extraordinary powers as those proposed by Mr. Bannerman, is exceedingly probable. Its re lease will testify to the improvement achieved in the law regu lating the importation of foreign grain by Sir Robert Peel's Act; for under the operation of the repealed Act, its admis sion would have been scarcely possible. Should, however, circumstances prevent the admission of the foreign wheat now in bond, and the distress of the country be aggravated, we sincerely trust that Government will have the moral courage to issue an Order in Council on the subject during the recess, and apply to Parliament on its re-assembling for an Indem• nity Act." __ MONEY — TRADE—COMMERCE. At a meeting of the subscribers to the Philanthropic Society on Friday, it was stated by the report that during the last year 12 sons of convicts, 21 daughters of convicts, and 33 criminal boys had been received by the Society, and above 140 children are now under its care. The income of the Society for the past year was 5,2254 195., and the funded property was about 17,0001. ECCLESIASTICAL. From the charge of the Bishop of Edinburgh it appears from between November last to the present time, 15,0001., which is more than the one-half of the required amount, has been sub scribed towards the establishment of the Episcopal College in Scotland, NAVAL AND MILITARY. The death of Lieutenant -General the Hon. John Ramsay, which took place at Edinburgh last week, creates a vacancy in the Colonelcy of the 79th Foot. He was brother of the late Earl of Dalhousie, and in his 68th year. The Elbe is now so low, that steamers, ships, and cargoes are aground ; it affords, however, good opportunity to improve the navigation, and the Commissioners or Dresden are to meet to consider the removal of the oLstruction to the navigation of this great German river, which is about 700 miles in length. W 41AID Of 115 persons ►,ow in Hereford gaol, or recently indicted 4 can only read and write well ; 47 can read, and the remain ing 64 are nearly altogether illiterate. At the Gloucester Sessions, only o►.e pris,.ner out of 127 was able to re d and write well. Thomas Waters, a tobacconist, in Fair -street, Horsleydown, was charged at Union Hall, on Friday, with having twenty eight packages of smuggled tobacco on his premises, and fined 121., and costs. Richard Edwards, charged at Merthyr with the wilful murder of his mother, Tamar Edwards, had sentence of death Sassed on him at the Cardiff assizes, en Friday. rzzrz is.e. The Earl of Guildford has just made a present to Eton College, of the bust of his uncle. Lord North; the 1; mister. It is a recently executed copy from the original by Bacon, and is even considered a more splendid piece of art than the original. D I ,ANI Mr. T. Haurnann, the celebrated violinist, had conferred on himthe order of Vasa, and a decotation, by the King of Sweden, at Stockholm, in satisfaction of his perfurmEnces. TIiErITRXCAL. The French theatre closed on Friday, after a most success fill season. Perlet, Plessy, Dejazet, and Bouffio have all con• dined to its display. Boutre withdrew on Friday in his affect ing Pauvre Jacques, and the Gamin de Paris. SPOR.II:Xim G. Game is this season very abundant in Inverness. Deer are especially plentiful in the Duke of Sutherland's extensive fir plantations, and all the districts adjoining. COU,i - AISLE. Lord and Lady Aylmer have arrived at Farrance's Hotel, from Paris. , iR. W.ALLAL E .110". ii TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUY, Ang SI 11,-1 lett the House of Commons at half-Ps' 0 this morning., under the imp res ,i on that the deb ate t he Mr. Wall ace ' s mot i on " for mak i ng Inqu i r y into d, Present Distressed State of the Country," would be 8 journed. I was much surprised to find by this days' Pail do the Hoti,e came to a division, a nd regret that Ivi not present to record my vote in the minority. Faithfully yours, RALPH BEIINAL, J 111 1" Saturday, July 9, 184'). DANISH CLALiii. -----•-- - PE'l I [ION OF CLAIAIAN a etluf fs The humble Petition of the u n d er i gned merc h a nts an . I ,jo claimants for tosses sustained by the seizure of their and goods by the Danes. in 1807, • 0 011 Shevveth, fnat your petitioners represent the ciann e the British Government, for compensation in respect oft° . t as e l of ship. and caigoes seized within the Baltic in reprisal 1, 0 14 ► sane., un the par 1607, and subs( quently condemned attd by the Dai.ish Goveroment, hat, the House of Commons, in :he two successive se' do f 6i° of lts:.ic and 139, adjudged by brae majorities, that this' t he of claimants was equally entitl e d to compensation 0 ; 4 0 0 other two classes, t o w hi c h it h ad b een alrea d y awarded' has since been p<iid. aa tert e n That it was hereupon referred by the Treasury -.- , . 1 005. Commissioners to adjudicate and report upon the .4°D, 0 cases ; and, after a strict investigati o n of docuolosli e other evidence, 1 claims, t o an amount in the se, 225.000/., were, in 1840, reported as established. • 1 00 That no sters having been taken by the late G0V40 0 ,01, towards the payment of the sums thus awarded, it e15,... 1/3 0tb$ on behalf of the claimants, on the 9th of June, 1841,-w b 0" House should r eso l ve i tse lf i nto a Comm i ttee o f the p ip e House, to consider of an a dd ress to h er Majesty," whOla was carried without a division. :1; .04' Toat on the f o ll ow i ng d ay (J une " 10), after a web. -x t upon a division, th e w h o l e d ouse, i n Committee, sigef•enessei address, praying " that her Majesty would be gracimistlil t lt to advance to the claimants the amount as ascertaioet l eh 010 Commissioners to be due, and assuring her , • House would make good th e same. " .0 1 That this address was duly presented, and, on. the June, 1841, her M a j esty was pleased to return -the 'riot° answer :—" It mu s t a t a ll t i mes b e m most earnest; d e b be attend to the wish es o f th e H ouse of Commons; anti! 1 0 th e ready to give effe c t t o th em i n t hi s instance, tebeliCl.! means shall have been provided by Parliament." That, notwithsta n di ng thi s i nt i mat i on of her M a jestyt, o j. sure, nothing has bee n d one , e i t h er b y h er M a j est y al es visers, or by her pres en t Mi n i sters, to g i ve e ff ect to notlll cious intentions of her Majesty, and your petitioners 7 ) , re , wholly without any f ru i ts or b enef i t from the repl ite(4oo. corded resolution s o f your H onoura b le House i n t h ei r 0 0 Your petitioners respectfully submit that, imnsetl i ti the communication o f h er M ajesty ' s pleasure, it Ne . „,,, , ...5.0f $ of the Minist e rs t o h ave asked your Honourable' BOt t fr; o r vote of money to b e app li e d in satisfaction of thesi.n o till rather at once to h ave pa id t h e money b y anticipatiotl,.. itl assurance that your Honourable House would f ojt pledge, and mak e goo d t h e a d vance by an appropr.i4t,°"' petitioners confidently b e li ev i ng t h at not a sing l e be found in which the House of Commons boa - We° effect, by a vote of money, to its own previous resolution.t. tbl Your petitioners f ur th er resp ectfully maintain, t • il e'. th e House of Commons, being the constitutional guarai ee: ' public money, it is not constitutional in the Minister t•:• t bits gard or frustrate a resolution of the House, purportingd portion of the publi c money s h a ll b e app li ca b le and aPPlie toe purpose. ~; That very nume rous cases are to b e found in.t"":0:,110 dresses have bee n ma d e b y t h e H ouse of Commons t 0 for Crown, for grant s o f money , as we ll to individuals kW public purposes, which addresses have been gratiotf sponded to by the Crown, and that in no instance, el . u 1:00F 1 petitioners have been able to find , has the Governmen t' We' to give effect to such addresses and answers, either t bl diate payment, or by calling upon the House to prof • ' requisite me a ns o f p ayment . i• tiow That your petiti oners h ave ma d e repeated app-'4Ol, r 411- her Majesty's G overnment , request i ng them to ta ke,,7o cessary steps for fulfill ing t h e dec l ared w i sh o f you r Is!' kSI able House, assented to and adopted by the Crow's' hitherto wholiy without ffect. el ° That your petitioners having four times made ont to the satisfaction of your Honourable House, and itsde f , d •fel . established their titl e - t o a compensation already withhe'. :sr them for thirty-fi ve y ears , h aving i ncurred great lah°ei expense in the proof of their individual claims before the t . to missiuners, and having ma d e arrangements on t h e f a ith l ; e 10 4 t awards made, and th e declarations anti proceedings ° I 01 0 Honourable Ho use i n th e i r favour, cannot b ut conside refusal, or delay of justice, on the part of the Governose a serious aggravation of the original wrong ; and they• humbly and respectfully pray your Honourable House, That such measures may be taken for giving effe ct ,,. 1 00 , resolutions and add ress o f• your H onoura bl e H ouse , as $."..1 Honourable House, in its wisdom, may seem fit. Aiici your petitioners will ever pray. • OD THOS. WARD, Ch a i rman o f H u ll Clams , ROBERT BRERETON, of Blakeney. JOHN P. KIDSON, on behalf of claiw!aw Sundertasid, Newcastle, and Shields.. &c. &c. &c. . • MONEY MARKET and CAT Y N TIM ES.—The Funds have declined per cent. to 010 with very heavy appearances ; there have been no large oil, of stock, but there is a - continued influx of small parcels , ' 0 4. 0 increases the difficulty of supporting prices. The Par r SI, the dividends has had no eff ect on t h e mar k e t at p re sent 4 01 , there appears for the while to be a demand over and the supply. • The class of the " Da n i s h c l a i mants " w h o c l a im CO p sation fur the loss of ships, &c., seized within the Baltic• again addressed a petiti on t o the House of Commons. tl they in the first place reler to the decision of that. House :r eti Vt sessions of 1838 and 1839, that they are as fully edi compensation as the o th er t wo classes who have already been 9 ; and to the Report o f th e C omm i ss i oners upon i n dividuslo. o according to which claim s t o th e amount o f 225/JOO l 4 ; established in 1840. Th ey t h en proceed to show; tilt o f decision and Report have been of no benefit wha"; t e The late Gov er n ment not h aving taken any 'the towards the payment of the awarded sum, the case 9 f r claimants was agai n b roug h t b e f ore P arliament in June I ts' and the whole House in Committee agreed to an addre°,,ji the Crown, praying "that her M a j es t y wou ld b e graelr - e i pleased to adva nce to th e c l a i mants the amount as as certal t :o by the Commissioners to be due, and assuring her Majesti• of the House would m a k e goo d t h e same. " Her Majesty's anldt to this address wa s It must at all ti mes b e m y most ear l desire to attend to th e w i s h es o f t h e House of Como:10 05 ' e r I shall be ready to gi ve e ff ec t t o t h em i n t hi s instance, n."t,,9 ever the means shall h ave b een prov id ed b y Parlieso:„ ss This answer of course revived the hopes of the clairea o lol they already had the opinion of the House in their fa-roart i o here was every reason t o b e li eve t h at suc h favourable °Piety would be acted upon. Nevertheless, neither the late o °,. r present Administr a ti on h ave ta k en any steps towards the faction of the petitioner s ' c l a i ms , an d t h ey st il l fi n d l op selves in the same s i tuat i on as b efore. Having, thereof, not only a decision of th e H ouse o f C ommons i n their far.... 0 but also a declaration by that House that it would make srole the amoubt of compensati on , th ey now su b m i t t h at at all e s : of the Ministers mi g ht h ave app li e d to the House for a " L ." it money, or even have advanced the money at once , full confidence that th e H ouse wou ld redeem i ts They use the argument that it is not constitutional in a i"" ter to disregard a re so l u ti on o f t h e H ouse appropr i at i n g , t s certain purpose a portion of the public money; and they s o. that they have been unable to find any case where, when t it dresses have beers answered from the Crown, the Govern has failed to give them due effect. On the constitutionalL thus set up this is not th e pl ace to d eci d e, b ut i t i s one 0700 not to be disregarded ; and the position of the petitionerS, t o have made out thei r case f our t i mes to t h e satisfact i on 0' A• House of Commons. a n d now fi n d t h emse l ves w i t h ou t erh pensaiion, is certainly one of the greatest hardship. MORTALITY in the METROPOLI S 0 The following ar?, the results of " A T a bl e o f M o rtality 1 0 the Metropolis, 3'noaing the Number of Deaths from all Ca l s o Registered in the week endin g J u ly 2, 1842" The Tab e issued from the Office of the Iteg6.rar-General:— weeklY • Averig e l 163b-t . „'" l- r ----- Fou f Four I vest , , Springs '490 Epidemic, Fndemie, & Conta g i ous Di seases 110 183 „ i g Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and senses .128 147 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of 2 0 Respiration ':eases of the Hea-t and Blood-vessels Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other 61 Organs of Digestion Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. ailubed, Diseases of the Uterus, &c 5 9 6 Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 12 6 1 Diseases of the Skin, &c 1 1 1 0.1 Diseases of Uncertain S eat llB 99 69 o'.d Age, or Natural Decay 44 63 Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intern- 0 pet ance Causes not specified 2 6 .../ ')eaths from all causes. 753 -- 02 Average Weekly D ea th s B7l 00 Population: Average D es i i i en u. weekly t be merated Deaths vo eiro toil. 183ts-1)-4 -1. West—Kensington, St George f --,-,---0% ( Hanover-square), Westmin- Four 1 Four ster, St. Martin in the Fields, Ye r,..lSprinP St. James North— St. MSt Diary-le-b0ne, 139 Pancras, Islington, Hackney 365,6 6 0 162 156 Central—Saint Giles and Saint George, Strand, Clerkenwell, Holborn, St. Luke, East Lon don, West London, City of London ' 37 3, 8 06 188 179 1 48 East—Shoreditch,Whit ec hap e l, Bethnal Green, St. George 15 3 in the East, Stepney, Poplar 392;496 206 190 South—St Saviour, St.. Olave, St. George( Southwark ), Ber- mond.ey, Newington, Lam beth, Camberw4, Rother -173" hitlae, Greenwich .... ...... -.438,060 221 210 ......,..." r 75? . CAUSES OF DEATH. Total. NAVAL OFFICERS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin, 2 ---Irt the article in your Paper of this evening, headed Mr. Hume and the Flag-officers of the Navy, I observe the writer has fallen into a mistake in deducting eight years for the service of flag-officers as midship men, for, by a reference to the Report on Naval and Military Promotions, from which the extract is taken, it appears that the Commissioners, in page 315, state that a deduction of eight years is to be made from the Return of the service of captains, commanders, and lieutenants, only to ascertain the actual ser vice to their country as commissioned officers. For example, in the class of captains (Return No. 4, p. 316), it is stated that the total service of one captain SUICIDE rttom DISTRESS OF MIND. On Friday (the first on the list), was s i x ty- n i ne years an d upwar d s; ! an i nqu i s i t i on was ta k en b efore Mr. Wakley, M.P , at the and of that period, from thirte e n t o f our t een y ears on ly Middlesex Hospital, on vi ew o f t h e b ody of Mrs. Rebecca. Shaw, of that time had been passed on full pay or afloat; if aged 22, a respectable married female, who committed self eight' destruction by swallowing arsenic. Mary Knox, No. 22, St. Martin's-street, St. Martin's-in-the -Fields, the mother of years for service as midshipman, as stated by the Commission, be deducted from the thirteen or fourteen years of his actual service, the result is, that thero d h ec e e r ased, said that her daughter had been separated that officer served only five or six years in corn- husband, who is a law-stationer, in Fetter-lane, abo m ut a twelvemonth. She frequently expressed her regret mission, and has been fifty-five years on half-pay ; that she no home to go to, and shed tears frequently. and by a reference to page 317, it furt • her appears that Last Tuesday forenoon she went out about ten o'clock, and the said officer had not been employed for fifty-five returned at twelve o'clock, when she sat down to needle-work. years ; consequently, he had . received fifty-five years of Soon after she became very sick, but made no remark that she pension for five years service as an officer. But as the had taken o' Witness thre gave e h k er some brandy, and she lay Commissioners have, in the Return of Flag-officers, down in bed. About a o c o r , in on he s i vi h tness's son h assisting adopted a different course (as per Table No. 6, p. 39')), her out of bed, he observed e and stated in the Return only the time actually passed amining it he saw the words ‘l 'a a p rs e enic Ois o o s n T, w w ritt e e n n o o n n e i x t - . in commission, the time opposite the name of Drum- She was then questioned if she had taken it, when she admitted mond, of nine years, 11 months, one week and two clays, is j that she had swallowed a pennyworth. She was immediately in reality the period he served as a commissioned officer• conveyed in a cab to the Middlesex Heepital, where she died in consequently, he enjoyed the half-pay for twenty-eight about three-quarters of an hour after her admission. Nine months ago she attempted to poison herself, when she was ad years for that short period of servi ce ; and Sir L Certis, mitted into King's College Hospital. Verdict—" Temporary Bart., promoted to be Rear-Admiral on June 28,. 1838, • • " insanity. was made Lieutenant on April 21, 1801, anclhas conse- j THE LATE LORD LEICESTER.—His admonition to quently been forty-one years in pay, o of which seven his eldest son, repeated incessantly, was, that agriculture, years, five months, two weeks, and two days only, have planting, and building, were to be his pursuits. He inculcated been in commission, and thirty-four years on half-pay adherence to public liberty and Whig principles with thesame-The i ic i ; he not having been employed since June 11, 1814. This, fervency. He abhorred racin and abl g ' 11 How TO CURE A LIGHT SOVEREIGN. --- Si, tr . phases, though perhaps amongst the most gm skilful inln playersa their verpool Courier contains the following account of I admit, does not weaken much the statement made by played in that town nn Saturday :—The narratter, who .5 .... you, and although in the whole list of captains, corn- the kingdom. Often and often have we heard his ployed in a foundry in Liverpool where some hundred :r ip , whist in '. precept, " Tom, when you go through Newmarket draw down menders, and lieutenants, the average service is not paid, en Saturday night received his wages. He and his " the blinds—never look at the place. "—Norwich Mercury. annexed to the same Report • it will be found that while and In" - nions adjourned to a neighbouring public-house to chan ge the COMMISSIONERS FOR LEICESTER.—the average period of their being on the list of the navy their sovereigns when several were declared light ! Our For general purpos es ; .,..a o h n s arson, T. W. Daus, John 'acted to deductions varyin from sixpence to a shining • d is thirty years, four years only is the average service Moore, J. S. Hardy, and J. Taylor, Esqrs. To fill up vacan on commission, and the average of service of the admi- ,narratorec,al,e in , g t h h e kii h ig ad te a pay g so heavy a l- tax for . his . c oc h a k n e g t e :d e e lu f. ties :—Dr. Shaw, J. Needham, and H. Payne, Esqr... and piece of sheet lead in his p cie , rals may ye taken at about sixteen ears, and the aye- Messrs. G. Lockwood, B. Con, T. Marston, and W. Hackett. the edee of hi. sovereign upon the lead, of which some ear". to p ut into rage period in the half pay list is tlventy-nine years. The first meeting of the acting Commissioners was held at the , adhering to the naillieg, increased its weight. When P ro w, I remain, your obedient servant, Three Crowns, on Thursday last. Mr. T. Burbidge, the ex- Lokidon, July 9. AN INJURED OFFICER, Town Clerk, is ap po in t ed clerk to them. , down went 4 whop," the balance it ' to use his OYU en i " This will de," said the landlady. The Almack's Ball this week is appointed to take place ce Thursday. On Thursday last Lord and Lady Bridport entertained a large party at the Star and Garter Hotel,Hichmond. The Duke de Stozai arrived at Ithvart's Hovel, on Friday, from Brussels. DISTRICTS. The Duke of Devonshire arrived at Devonshire House, on Friday, from Kemp Town. Viscount and Viscountess Camden arrived in Cavendish. square, on Friday, from Paris. Two of Sir Robert Peel's sons are now staying at Morrison's Hotel, Dublin. MISCELLIINEOTJS. Father Mathew visits Glasgow on the 15th of next August. Total 1,870,727 912 8 71 the ' It is stated that under the term Metropolis are cemprisefuo, 32 districts herein mentioned, which include the City of o f, don with and without the walls, the City and Liberti l es Westminster, the out-parishes within the Bills of MortaitY, and the parishes of St. Marylebone, St. Pancras, Kensitle, Fulham, Hammersmith Chapelry), St. Luke (Chelsea), 7 13 „ dington, St. Mary ( Stoke Newington), St. LeonardO r° l ; ley), St. Mary-le-bow, Camberwell, Greenwich, St. Di e ": and St. Paul (Deptford), and Woolwich. The population, r enumerated in 1831, was 1,594,890, and in June 1 841, n i 1,870,727. The weekly average for 1838, 1839, 1 84 °*; 1841, was obtained by dividing the deaths in the four year' 208, and the deaths in the four winters by 52. TEMPERATURE IN THE WEEKS ENDING June 25, July 2. 84° 84 0 53 62 ... 65 66 ' - ' l v 7, 1842. Highest Lo — west Daily Mean . . General Register Office, July .~ 1 t ; ; f~