The Sun. — London, England, 1842-10-29 00:00:00

ning-jenny were invented. (Great laughter and heers.) • And to prove their prophecies and uphold their theory, they sustain laws which shut us out of thounarkets of the world; and when they -have de prived machinery of fair play, turn round and say - Behold the ruin it has brought !" Over production! Certainly, if we narrow the range of human action by the paltry boundaries of class interests—if an area of A square mile were enclosed by a wall, and you were to abandon it to families, the time would soon ar r7ve when the tailor and shoemaker, anal the- builder and the smith, would all raise the cry of " over pro. daction."—(Henr . , hear.) The wickedness of our monopolists has closed against us the doors of America and a great part of Europe to British skill, and well may the pent-up inhabitants of this island exclaim against over production—though ragged and naked, with unfurnished walls and famished stomachs.— (Applause.) Nothing less than the earth had God given to the children of men—nothing less than free access to all its people and all its productions will meet the exigencies of the case. This is free trade, or equity applied to commerce ; and this simple remedy would terminate the monopolist's watchword, " over production," at once.—(Loud cheers.) . Potenaun COBDEN, Esq., rose at the conclusion of lir. Thompson's powerful address, to move a vote of flaanits to the Hon. Members for Bolton and Bury, I and to Mr. Thompson for their addresses. After alluding to the fact that Mr. Thompson was about to • tiit-this country for a time to sail for British India, jir. Cobden said he had observed in that day's Times a letter signed " One in the Secrets of the League," in which the writer stated that the inten- • tion of. the new League fund was to contest Parliamentary elections. This •writer stated that the greater part of the - money . raised by the ladies' bazaar had been spent in the Stockport election.—(Laughter.) Now, unfortunately for the man in the secrets of the eague, he had made a bad selection of his borough, for,there was hardly a man, woman, or child in Stock port but could have told him that when he was re turned, for that borough it was not Richard Cobden that, carried the. election, it was the decisive fiat of the people against monopoly.—(Cheers.) They were de. terminedto vote for free trade: and not only was the electioucatrie&without the expense of one farthing, but .50,0001., could not have returned a monopolist. —(Cheers.) • He should not have alluded to the foolish . letterreferred to, but there was nothing like nipping the tactics, of the enemy in the bud, for as they could not..prevenbthe League getting the fund, they thought tlaey might be expected to attaibute all sorts of mo tives, which it would be their policy at once to meet by prompt contradiction.—(Cheers.) iaARK PHILIPS, Esq., seconded the resolution, which was carried by acclamation, and the meeting soon after ards separated. EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. A special gvnerat meeting of the Directors and Proprietors of :this Railway - WAS held yesterday at their offices at Shorediteh, for the purpose of receiving ti,: Report of the Engineer of the- Company on the stat,e of the ra;lway. The meeting was extremely ill attended, and at .the Directors' table we noticed T. W. Rathbone, Esq.; David Hodgson, Esq. ; and John Nather, Esq., three of the Directors from I.Tvernool. ieos, , ,No.ur,T, Esq., took the Chair, and stated he felt it incumbent on him to address a few obqr,rvations to them on the circumstances under which they met that day. On the 31st of August they received a Report from the Engineer stating that the line would be ready on the 16th of the following, month. Circumstances, however, occurred, which rendered it necessary that the meeting called for the Mil of September should be adjourned to this day. lia-beg - red to return them, for his own part and his brother Directors, sincere thanks for the confidence reposed in them when they were disappointed in viewing their property, which ran through fertile and populous districts. He was extremely happy in meeting them that day, as it enabled the .n to give the Shareholders the reasons for the delays which had occurred. lie could not help observing, that, in all enterprises like this one, the Shareholders and Directors could only be- moved by one common interest. What could bring so many of his lion. Friends all the way from Liverpool, if they had not the interest of the Company at heart ? Their great stitntilus, of course, was the hope of future remune ration „in. the success of the Company.' It had got abroad that the Directors of Railway Companies pos sessed great patronage;. he could only say, that he never exercised one pennyworth, and he never would.--(CLers.) When the Directors appointed any person to a situation in the Company, the first and,only consideration was qualification. The next cireilistance to which he would allude, was that of thc#,,epcctatians with respect to the line. He held in Ins'iianda statement„ showing the progressive state of 2 1 Seventtion , miles of railway - now • tom pie „,,g4 found that, in the year 1840, dur ing,i,dckeeri. weeks,.. ,the receipts „: were 10,4511. ; in - 41, the .receipts were, during tin?, same period, , 14,090/. Included in . this were- the receipts from the Northern and Eastern Company were not received .durh: the corresponding. pr, irk 1840. In the year 164'2 Ile.n2qeipts from t orthern and Eastern Company were' smaller, as the tolls to them hod been reduced: yet in the.:fifteen weeks of 18'42, the receipts were .17,45.5/. When.l2e considered the places of commimication..between oi e two extremities of the line, Colchester, ChelLiforck f.clii.othn.. places, and the traffic that would take.,. place independent of that between Colchester and .LOndon, he could not but congratulate the Share holders. The first document that would he, read to them would be the Engineer's Report of the 31st of August. The Report, which has already been before the public, was then read, which stated that the line would be cornplf:tod and open for traffic by the Ist of October. The- Engineer's Report was then read, stating that the reason the line had not been completed by this time was owing to the badness of the weather, the went of iron, caused by the strike of all the colliers, slip, and other causes, over which the Engineer had no nattrol. The Report went on to state that large suns-of motley had been expended in work caused by the ;lips - on the - line. The CHAIRMAN said that Mr. Braithwaite, the EnOnr,,was ready to answer any questions any Pro • pelooT wished to put to him. A SuAasnonnEn. wished to know when it was likely the whole line would be opened ? Mr. BitArrni,v_turn said that he was convinced, that if they had anything lik e goo d weat h er, the l i ne woilid be completed in three or four weeks. Mr. DANK'S said, that as the representative of a considerable interest in the. line, he had walk e d over the line between Brenton and olcheste r , in order to judge for himself when it was probable the line would be opened, and he felt convinced that it could not be done in six weeks. He knew that the Engineer had had great difficulties to contend with, over which he halm) possible control. He (Mr. Thinks) would re commend, that for the first three months after the li . neTwas opened, nothing but goods should be conveyed. This would give confidence to the public. Mr. T. W. RATHBONE said the Directors thanked thesHon. Proprietor for his suggestion, which should receive their earnest consideration. ..A..SHAItEHOLDEU said he wanted to put a fe w ques tions to Mr. Braith‘vaite. He had spoken of large outlays of money, but he had said nothing as - to what could be saved by selling what was called the spoiled land. He wished to know if a large saving might not have been made in purchasing the iron for the whole line at once ? The Bristol and Gloucester Railway had saved from five to ten pounds a ton by this course. In the statement of the accounts there appeared for the solicitor's bill, 18,C00/. ; he wished to know in what,wav this had been incurred. Mr- I :_itArruwAtrai said that considerable saving would be made by th e sa l e o f th e s p o il e d land. The iron. could n o t b e there,. ewa_sunot monePuyr ; 1 0 1 a d S e d o it all at the same time as AntmAN said that the large amount of the solicitor's bill had been caused by troublesome parties who were continu a ll y \ preferring complai n ts before the Magistrat es , w hi ch sive.. The Act of pNar'e)l.'e very harassing and expen ponv.s. relating to ti t l e -deeds iitiment provided. that all ex should be paid by the Company. ELnis wished to know - whether there would be m y.m4re money required for the completion of the line.. Mr. BI AITHWAITE said that probably 10,000/. more would be required, or less than that. Air. LEMONS wished to know, what wls th e amount of the surplus property o . f the Company. The CHAIRMAN said it was 80,000 i. A SHAREHOLDER WiS;lOd to kl)01,V if Q enera i ' p as _ ley, the Inspector of Railway: , would require t ‘ : o lines before traffic. Ml'. BRAITHWAITE said tilt: ft probably h would re quire two lines to be complet ed before there was pas seDger traffic, but for goods, he thought hit would only re!uire one. After a short conversation, the Report was put to the, rneeting, and was received .ind adopted. te of thank s was th en passed to the C it n: n 111(1 't Directors, and the meethg . separated. BittirGlUNl'S Lucius.--About a hnndred yardq•beyond the third milet stone., on the road lead ing from Brodick to Lamla: on closely noticing the top of the Ben-noon ridge ()f mountains, contiguous to Goatfell, there is strikingly ob.seivable the form and figure of a man lying On hi 3 back—the head, brow, ..eye-lids, and lashes —nose, - mouth, and chin affording a most accurate lik,2:less. of Lord Breugham. l'hei nose, especially, cannot. be 'better im.. tted by the - most eminent sculptor. Mu t neck, shoulders, b o d jc ., letr,s, and feet are also very distinct, well de fined, and proportioned. O r art of the rock on whien Dtaxibarton Castle is L vields,it i s sa i d, a corriget profits of the Duke of 'Wellington. THE NEW SPORTING WORK. Now ready, in 2 vols., small Svo., NIMROD. ABROAD. By C. J. APPERLEY, Esq. Author of " The Chase; The Turf, and The Road." &e. Heary album, Publisher, 13, Cleat Marlborough-street. THE NEW NOVEL. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. C! 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With Sketches of the Yankees, Quaint Imathanisms, " Down East" Anecdotes, &c., entitled CURRENT " NOTES" OF AME RICA ; or, THE COCKNEY ABROAD. These " Notes" are genuine, and, we " calculate," will circulate everywhere Get " Notes" for Gold !.Weekly Numbers, Twopence ! No. L will appear on Monday. Hextall, Wellington-street North, Strand. EIGHT THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED MONEY DIVIDENDS will be divided in NEXT MONTH, amongst 8,200 SELECTED Bonds of the LOAN negotiated in the year 1820, andGUAIIANTEED by the GO VERNMENT and his Royal Highness the GRAND DUKE of BADEN. I Dividend 50,000 Florins 50,000 Florins 1 do. 25,000 " 1 do. 12,000 " I do. 10,000 " 1 do. 5,000 " do. 1,000 " 8,000 " 10 do. 500 " 5,000 " 10 do. '200 " 2t )0 de. 110 " • ) 2,000 " 200 do. 103 " 467 do. 100 " 7,300 do. 94 " 6,200-Money Dividends, amountin,,o. to 892,900 Florins, or £74,400 Sterling Money. 5,200 SELECTED Bonds, each of which is sure to obtain one of the above Dividends. Largest Dividend ... £4,166 13 4 Smallest Dividend S3 7 Iti 8 12 florins equal to £1 aterling, a trifle more or less, as. per dav's exchange. ALL THE DIVIDENDS PAYABLE WITHOUT ANY DEDUCTION WHATEVER. Dare fur the few Bonds which are still on sale, WITHOUT DELAY, to HEINE BROTHERS at llAllll3tiltaf. !lands are on sale NOW at :El.l. Against the end of this 310ittli the price will Hie toil-1, and the Sale will close in the first dais of Novemb er . • 1 Those rho remit XI 5 BEFORE the 2Sth instant, will re reive An order for .£2 upon our London Bankers, together with `the Bond. To those ordering too late for being attended to, their re mittances will be returned by first post. HEINE BROTHERS. HANIBURGH, October 4, 18-12. THEATRE ROYAL COVENT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING, OCT. 9, Will be repeated the. English Version of Rossini's Grand Opera of SEMIRAMIDE.—The Character of Semiramide by Miss Adelaide Kemble; Arsace, Mrs. Alfred Shaw (from the principal Th ea t res i n It a ly ; A ssur , M r , Gi u bil e i ; Oroe, Mr. Leffler ; Idreno, Mr. Travers; Shade of Ninus, Mr. J. Bland. After which, the New Fares, called COUSIN LAMBKIN. Squire Mulberry, Mr. Bartley; Captain Bantam, Mr. Walter Lacy; Doctor Lionel Lambkin, Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Bantam, Miss Cooper • Rose Maynard, liss Lee • Dainty, Mrs. Hunsby. To conclude with TEDDY THE TILER. Teddy Mul los ney, Mr. G. Hodgson; Flora, Mrs. Humby. Doors open at Half-past Six, and the Performances com mence at Seven.—Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. 3d. ; First and Second Circles as., Second Price 2s. 6d. ; Pit 3s; Second Price 2s. ; Gallery Is. Tickets and 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 Bond-street ; and of Mr. Sams, Pall Mall. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING, OCT. 29, Will be presented THE MISER'S DAUGHTER, which has been fur some time in preparation, and will be pr oduced with N e w S cener y, D resses , an d N ove l Effects, combin ing all the resources of the Theatre. The Piece dramatised from the popular Work of the same name, by Mr. Edward Stirling, by per missior. of the Author, W. Ilarrison Ainsworth, Esq., who, in conjunction with George Cruikshank, E3q., will personally superintend thy, numerous Tableaux, &c., as illustra'ed in '• Ainsw orth's Magazine." After which, THE DAUGHTER OF THE DANUBE. The Imp, Mr. Wieland ; Fleur-des-Champs. Mdme. Proche Ginbilei ; " The F 1 ighttul, Spiteful, Old Bachelor," Mrs. H. P. Grattan. To conclude with NOIIMA. Pollio, Mrs. H. P. Grattan ; No rk rin x a e , s, ll 4 l s r . . Bedford ; l G r al isa leAryd,allgs.,DAr Doors sWopenrighatt. ball-past six, commence at seven o'clock. DA VIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 29, NI ill be acted a New Drama, entitled ESTELLE DUMAS, supported by the entire Company. After which, the Nautical Drama of POOR JACK; or, THE WIFE OF A SAILOR. Poor Jack, Mr. T. P. Cooke, whose performance attracts nightly overflows. Eleanor Mrs. H. Vining. To conclude with Mr. Albert Smith's new Drama, called BLANCHE HERIOT, which has met with most decided mecess. Neville Audely, Mr. H. Hughes ; Hugh .Laneret, r. N. T. Hicks; Herrick Evenden, Mr. J. Webster; Blanche deriot, Mrs. R. Honner. Places and private Boxes to be had of Mr. J. Kerschner, at the Box office, front eleven to four. W ATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. nr ring 24 minutes after 9 I Evening 3minutes after 10. LONDON : SATURDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 29, 1642. There are rumours in the City that the Cha - - cellor of the Exchequer, that wonderful juggler, corttemplai;:s reducing the Three-and-a-Halt' per ConN., and by waving his finance wand striking off 1,00,000/. a year from the public charge. Such skill will make renowned through all ages, and the great natiowl services of the Right Hon. HENRY GOULBURN S7lll be held up to encourage the valuable exertions of public men. Again, he will be able to say, as he said before, pointing to a similar reduction, " 'Twas I that did it; I saved the country a m illi on a year; and while you, Mr. HUME, were peddling about a few pounds, I sustained public credit; I ra i s ed the public funds ; I was enabled to lower the interest of the debt; and I lessened the pub lic charge more at one stro k e than you have lessened it in the twenty-five years that you have been looking after what you could save by depriving poor pensioners of th e i r , p i ttaaice, and stopping the allowance of half-pay nffiers.” Some thing to that effect I as been said before, and will 'be said again. It will be received, we are afraid, as important and cherished truth by a great num ber of persons, who will conclude that Mr. GOUI, BURN has richly earned his own pension. They may probably be disposed to vote him a statue in St. Paul's, by the side of JENNER, as one of the benefacters of the human specks. We do not deny that, if the reduction of the interest of money were the natural consequence of the impossibility of finding employment for capiMl, the reduction of the interest of the debt would be a praiseworthy undertaking; but we must, though the task be invidious, try to strip the Right Hon. Gentleman of the glory he is assuming. How is he able to reduce the debt? By money being plentiful a: i d interest low. Wha t makes money plentiful and interest low? Stag_ nation of trade, the inability to employ capital advantageously in any branch of business. In terest depends on profit, and when profit is low, interest, as the rule, will be low ; when profit is high interest will be high. Thus it is, because profit is low, because trade is stagnant, because men can make little or nothing of their capital by embarking, in agriculture, manufactures, or commerce, that the Chancellor of the Exche quer will be able to sa‘e the public a million . a year, or reduce to that extent the incomes of the persons who now hold the Three-and-a- Half per Cents. But what makes trade stagnant and profit low ? The Tory Corn4aiv, the Tory anti-com . - mercial system, which excludes foreign commo dities, and have invited other - countries to act on similar anti-trade systems. Sir R. PEEL, during the last session, consecrated the enormities of our anti-trade system, which he ought to have swept away, by a freSh Act of the Legislature. his measures have contributed to lower prices, they have stifled enterprise. Mr. GouL nunN, therefore, the smirking Chancellor, is one of those who have caused, by impeding trade, that low interest of money, of which he is, ac cording to report, to take advantage, in , ordei to obtain a glorious name in the history of the country. If the Three per Cents. were down to 65 or 70, because men could make six or seven per cent. on money by lending it t~ persons in business—if profits were 10 or 12 per cent., and if it were im possible for Mr. GOULBURN to execute his pet project of again reducing the interest of the debt, then all the persons engaged in business would be flourishing. They would want labour, the labourers would be highly paid, the peo ple would be again well off, and many mil lions a year, by the increase of people scud of business, would be added to the national resources. if the public charge would remain the same, the ability to bear it would be so wonderfully increased, that the saving to be made' by Mr. GOULBURN might be wholly disregarded. But the great addition to the national resources, by increase of profits and extended commerce, would be made by indi vidual labourers, farmers, merchants, and manu facturers, whose prosperity would reflect no glory on the Chancellor, while the reduction of the debt—though it be, in filet, nothing more than the exaction from the holders of the Three and-a-Halfs of a portion of their present re ceipts, and does not add one farthing to the na tional resources—is the deed exclusively of the great financier himself, and will hand him, covered with laurels, down to posterity. So, fbr the vain glory of the Chancellor of the Ex_ chequer, the real good of the public is to be sacrificed. That .the debt may be reduced, in order to give honour to Mr. GOULBURN, in terest is lowered, profit is lowered, thousands are thrown out, or are kept out, of employment, and the whole community suffers all the evils of a stationary or declining condition. The paragraph which we quoted yesterday froM the Seventh Report of the Inspectors of Pri sons, relative to the great fall in the value of pri soners' labour between 1341 and 1834, deserves more prominency than we then gave it. The statement is that last year the clear earnings of each prisoner, though they were more indus trious than ever, was of the value of only 21., while in 1834, or seven years prior, when trade was good, the value of the - earnings of each pri soner was 8/. In 1838 they were of the value of 61. This case is extremely important, because the priSoners did not work for masters who redoced 'their wages as they extorted more work from them. They performed only .a certain portion of work each day, their over work being entirely voluntary, but because the value of labour fell in the market as trade slackened, and the price of wheat rose, the value of their labour fell too. It fell, it appears, in the enormous proportion of three-fourths, and if the value of free labour fell in an equal proportion, what a prodigious deal of suffering must our patient labouring classes have gone through? Talk of the effect of the restoring the gold standard reducing the value of property 30 per cent., talk of abolishing the Corn-law and lowering the value of land 10 to 20 per cent., or even 50 per cent. ! what is that to the 400 per cent., if we may use the phrase, which the value of labour has been beaten down by restrictive legislation ? Can those who pompouSly and 1 solemnly dilate, day after day, when Parliament is. assembled, about the injustice of lowering . the artificially raised price of corn twenty per cent., or who are almost thrown into convulsions at a proposal to diminish the income of the clergy ever so little, answer to themselves, answer to their own consciences and their.GoD, fur lowering the value of the labourer's produce by the laws from 160 s. to 405.? This case is extremely instructive, because that reduction of value took place in the face of rising prices, and it must therefore be a complete extinguisher for all the flickering Will-u'-wisps about high prices keeping up the value of labour, which our Tories, as they have decomposed into Whigs, have emitted, to the delusion and astonishment of the gaping Tory public. The reduction in value, too, occurred last year before Sir R. PEEL had meddled with the Tariff, and mocked us with a pseudo reform of the Corn law ; and the most inveterate opponent of free trade cannot ascribe it to any relaxation of re strictions. The reduction is recorded of last year, though it is plain that it did not then begin ; it began with the scanty supply of foOd, and the high prices of 1837-3, showing clearly enough that high prices and a -short supply of food reduce the value of the labourer's p n o r o t du h-tee c l oan e i; it dtg e ojueses r n ed ;nooitutt broughtci rsteiu w ts e en statement ee m co forward eev r ni d dt e eo d troicaso t u o pop o uip , by e no public i y ee a Co s3 ;t s t officer, the record of a public institution, arid, like . ITHURIEL'S spear, it dissolves at a touch a vast mountain of anti-free trade falsehoods. ITerrific combat with poachers—five men of a side fighting in the woods of peaceful England by moonlight, armed with bludgeons and guns_ all wounded and bruised more or less, one killed—a verdictof wilful murder returned against five men, and four of them committed to prison to take their trial : such is the heading and out line of a narrative which we insert in another part of The Sun, from the Chester Chronicle. How long are such scenes to disgrace this civi lised and Christian country? How long are midnight combats and murder to he risked, for the amusement of that class who 'will not. allow the people to feed themselves ? How long are preserves of game and a monopoly of food to be placed in the same hands who at once re duce the peorAe to hunger and 'tempt them into 4 )(fences, by offering them an easy means of supplying their wants? Far be it from us to palliate or excuse, in the least possible degree, the atrocious crime which has been committed. W e ,z1.,.?10r bloodshed, and therefore do we vehe mently condelL, q' both the system which leads to it, and the men who ak:'/ruiltY of it. It is cruel, it is very iihjix;:; to reduce the people, on one hand, to a state of secx-starva- don, and, on the other, to nourish and maintain great quantities of wild • animals, by Silting: which the people can sustain life. Preserves an-4 Corn-laws are i ncom patible- If food muse be supplied exclusiv e ly from unr own soil, every V ' It ."` ,--, r. ..., . ; 1 C.:-.,.; . 4 ill • T . - ,; . .. -t.: ; ,,,,,, ~. :7. -C_lmor-n-c0.„,-.„ j am ... '4, • ..,_.~ .1, t , ti ...,,_ -'' ' . ---- ' - ' 5 7 * 7:4 ., °rill > v'O. O t t acre ought to be devoted to growing it. The landed gentlemen cannot, in the nature of th.ng.F, expect to enjoy in peace parks and preserves amidst a population destitute of employment and food. Without extenuating, or excusing the conduct ofpoachers, we must say that we regard it as the consequence of the laws made by the land-owners. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—I - Ter Majesty and her Illus trious Consort have taken walking exercise twice to day, ,in the forenoon ..arid afternoon, on the Castle Terrace and in the Slopes..and the Home Park. • Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal have bean taken airings as usual, accompanied by the I.)owager Lady Lyttelton. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, and the Lady and Gentleman in Waiting on their Royal Highnesses, took their departure this morning, as did the Hereditary- Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz. The Marquis of Exeter and the Earl of Dunmore left the Castle to-day. , - Viscount and Viscountess Jocelyn arrived on a visit to her Majesty yesterday. Lady Caroline Cocks and the Hon. Frances Devereux arrived at the Cast,: to succeed the Hon. Misses Stanley and Hamilton as the Maids. of Honour in Waiting on her Majesty. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Charlotte Dundas, took a drive from Frog more Lodge at eleven o'clock this morning, in a car riage and four. His Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured Mr. Newengham w;th another sitting. The Royal dinner party at th Castle, this evening, will consist of her - Majesty the Queen, is Royal Highness Prince Albert, the C o u n t ess orDunmore, Lady Caroline Cocks, lion. Frances Devereux, Hon. Mrs. Anson, Viscount and Viscountess Jocelyn,• Dowager Lady Lyttelton, Viscount Hawarden, Hon. C. A. Murray, Admiral- Sir Robert Otway, Colonel Arbuthnot, Major-General Sir Edward Bowater, and Dr. Prcetorius. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and the Princesses Augusta and Mary of• Cambridge, accompanied by his Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg Strelitz; took leave of her Majesty yesterday, and left Wind-' sor Castle ; the Duke. proceeding to town, and the Duchess and Princesses of Cambridge, and the Here ditary Grand Duke proceeding toic.ew. Mr. Dean, Chairman of the Customs, had an inter view with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official residence in Downing-street. The Brazilian Minister transacted business yester day at the Foreign-office. The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town yester day for Hyde, Isle of Wight. M. For tique, the Venezuelan Minister, transacted business yesterday at the - Foreign-office. Dr. Phillimore and family have arrived from the Baths of Wiesbaden. THE SCOTTISH REFORMERS OF 1793-4. The contemplated erection of amonumental column to the memory of the Scottish Reformers of 1793-4, Muir, Palmer, Skirving,": Gerald, and Margarot— men who in the advancement of the early reform mea sures, associated their names with those of Fox, Grey, and Mackintosh—is one ..of those measures which markS:well the strong and independent sense of the day. These five strenuous Reformers are well known in the early history of that great Parliamentary mea sure, which has worked out beneficial changes in our Government policy, but which, nevertheless, is still too contracted in its limit's, and two narrowed in its present •aCtion. Bolder advances must still be made . before the full benefit, .or true spirit of its operation, will be thoroughly seen in our Constitution, and we cannot, upon the occasion, now that the question of erecting a monument in an appropriate site is be fore the Marylebone Vestry, do better than adduce that which occurred upon the trial, not of the whole of these Reformers, for that would occupy more space than is at our disposal, but at that of the leader and principal of the noble-minded men in question, who, far from holding the principles of Jacobinism, as by some attributed to them, gloried only in, the ascrip tion of being patriotically engaged for the furtherance of their country's welfare. The trial of Muir alone will serve as a fair sample and picture of the part 3 acted by his four co-associates. The trial of ThOmas Muir, Esq., younger, of Huntershill, before the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh, took plaCe: on the 30th and 31st days of August, 1793, on the c harge of seditious practices. The indictments charged him with making sedi tious speeches at Kirkintilloch and Campsie, vilifying the Constitution and King by his advocacy of reform principles, and inflaming the minds of the people to rebellion. They also charged him with distributing seditious books, and. among them Paine, Volney, the " Paisley Declaration of Rights," and of having read in the Convention the address from the Society of United Irishmen in Dublin. • • The Lord Advocate, in, stating the case after the examination of witnesses, appears to have been par ticularly offensive and unjustified in his remarks. He designated him as "tainted from head to foot, and as unworthy to live under the protection of the law as the meanest felon." Speaking of the shop in which he used to read Paine, it was there," said the agent of the Crown, " in that cathedral of sedition, he sat like a spider, weaving his filthy web to catch the unwary." Ile was " a wretched outcast," " marked with insanity," one " with all the insignia of sedition around him"—." the pest of Scotland. Mr. Muir defended. himself. He addressed the Jury in a solemn and importunate manner on their duties. He reviewed the evidence of the witnesses against him, and pointed out the malignity of various statements, while he boldly confronted others with the truth. The invective of the Lord Advocate he put down in the most strenuous manner, and attacked him also in the following passage, which finely sets forth the principles of which he was the unflinching apostle : " I smile at the charge of sedition. I know for what I am brought to. this bar : it is foil having strenuously and actively engaged in the cause of Parliamentary Reform; for having exerted every effort, by constitutional measures, to procure an equal representation of the people, in the house of the People. Let net the prosecutor skulk in darkness. Let him come manfully forward, and avow the cause which has impelled him to bring me here. I will give you little trouble. I will save you, the Jury, from the wretched mockery of a trial, the sad neces sity of condemning ,a man, when the .cause of his condemnation must he concealed, and cannot be ex plained. Yes, I plead guilty ; I openly, actively, and sincerely embarked in the cause of a Parliamentary Reform, in the vindication and in the restoration of the rights of the people. Nor will I blush to unfold to you my motives : they are supported by their own intrinsic strength, but they are likewise held up by the great and venerable names of the living and the dead. I contended for an equal representation of the people, in what I shall ever call the House of the People, because I considered it as a measure essen tially necessary to the salvation of the State, and to the stability of your boasted Constitution. Wherein, then, consists the excellency of that time-tried fabric, cemented by the blood of your fathers, flowing from the field and from the scaffold? It consists in that due balance of its three impelling powers, King, Lords, and Commons : • if one ••of these powers loses its vigour, if one Of . these powers loses a shadow of what it ought to be, if it becomes merged and -absorbed into any of- the other two, your - Constitution then also. becomes a Flisdow ' and is anni hilated. And do you not know, and.-does all the world not know, that if 'anyWhere the proud struc- • ture of the Constitution has suffered the ravages of time or corruption, it is in its popular branch? Is it not a _ fact indisputable, th a t th e representation of the people is not such as it once was, and is not such as, I trust in God, one . day it shall be? The. man, then, who sound s th e a l ar m, when he discovers the approach of danger, who summons all who may be co ncerned in it s reparat i o n, is surely no enemy to the country, no foe t o th e C ons titution, because he labours in its preservation and protection. " Such were the motives of my conduct. , If I am guilty, I have i n my gu ilt m any associates7—men who now enjoy the repose of eternity, whom your fathers admired while living, and to whom you, their chil dren, have erected Statues. I have no time to run over the ven era bl e cata l ogue , b u t—" Mr. M u i r h ere rec i te d . the n ames of Locke and Blackstone, of the latt er were not w i t h ou t effect, even in those in supp or t o f his principles. The wonis days of political bigotry. " This is the spirit of our Constitution ; not that I assert it is in fact quite so perfect as I have here endeavoured to describe it,. for, if any alteration might be wished or. suggested in the present frame of Parliament, it should be in favour of ••• a more complete repr e sentation of the people. if Blackstone, then," continuedMr.l\ luir, " wished for a more equal representation of the people, if he dared to publish and enforce his wish, and 1 have merely done the same, wh ere i s th e difference of our guilt ?" Mr. Muir adduced stronger instances still. Ile struck at the early politics of Mr. Pitt and of the Duke of Richmond, and .asked it' what was patriotism in them, as Ministers of State, in 1782, ought to be crime and sedition in 1793? The following circumstance we introduce here by way of episode, which, though it formed part of the trial, does not bear on the main features of the case. As un interesting portion, wo.have not omitted it Mr. Muir's own servant, a young woman, had been brought up in evidence against him. as to wards which bad passed in his own private house. Solemnly he cautioned the Court not to allow the dangerous pre cedent of giving credibility to - witnesses of this kind, under accus4tions of this nature. " The crime of sedition," continued he, " can never be committed in a private house. It sup-, - oses the highest publicity, the convocation of many. But if power shall say that words spoken in an unguarded moment within the sacred walls of a family amount to this crime, what will follow ? The meanest of your domestics, who could hardly approach your presence even in their menial duties—who (if the expression may be used) to the members of a family are almost unknown — these, these—the meanest and the lowest—will be brought.torward to swear away your reputation and your life. And such is this witness, who is adduced against me with such parade. 0 ; beware how you sanctify the shameful proceeding. It is not me you wound alone, but you destroy the confidence which subsisted between man and man ; you lead, by your own hands, to the firesides of your children and your dearest relations, the fiends of suspicion and danger ; nni ye for ever put an end to that reciprocity of com nmication which enlivens and endears domestic society." Mr: Muir, to fortify the arguments which he openly avowed as having advanced, recommending the pay ment of Members as in former times—Members of Parliament to have thirty or forty shillings a day for their attendance—to be honest men and to keep the Constltution clear—continued as follows : "Who does not know, that until a very late period indeed, when corruption glided in, and tainted and poisoned the whole, Members of Parliament received their wages from the hands of the people alone ? 01 how I speak it with joy when I view the past; with sorrow, when I contemplate the present: they would have scorned to have received the price of their at tendance from any other hands than the hands of the people. Then the Constitution possessed all its ener gies. Then towered the Constitution in the strength of age,. but also with the bloom of youth. The people delegated none but men whose virtues they knew and none but men who possessed public virtues could be found to undertake the important mission. Look back, I intreat you, to the great and good men whom English history records. Turn your eyes to the Hampdens, to' the Sydneys, to the Marvilles of former times : to those men whom—but I stop: they received their wages directly from the people. I de clare to you—if it be sedition I declare it--that we never can expect a virtuous House of Commons, a Constitutional House of Commons, a House of Com mons, such as it once was, connected w ith no other interest than the interest of the people—until such time as its Members shall receive a compensation for their attendance from the people, and from no other quarter—be entitled to no other reward than the ap probation of their own minds, and the applauses of their fellow-citizens, of whom they will have been:the undaunted, uncorrupted defenders." This splendid defence, however, was unavailing. Judges and Jury were alike afraid of these new doc trines ; a verdict of guilty was returned, and the vic tims were sentenced to transportation. Muir, by some strange incident, escaped the sentence, the vessel in which he was embarked as a convict having been captured by the French, and, after various ad ventures, we believe he spent his last days in,France. Most of the others died in exile, only one surviving the period of banishment, and returning to his native country. Can the Liberal vestry of Marylebone hesitate.in coming to a decisive resolution, which shall do honour to these primitive Reformers, and show theirgratitude for the Constitutional privileges which they now enjoy ? RE-MEASUREMENT OF VESSELS AT MEXICO. The following has been received at Lloyd's : " Office of Committee of Privy " Council for Trade, Whitehall, Oct. 24. " Sir,---I am directed by the 'Lords of the Com mittee of Privy Council for Trade to transmit to you, for the information of the Committee at Lloyd's, the enclosed translation of a Decree lately issued by the Mexican Government, introducing a new method of ascertaining the tonnage of vessels for payment of duty. " I am, Sir, your obedient Servant, (Signed) " J. MACGREGOR. " To Wm. Dobson, Esq., Secretary of Lloyd's." [TRANSLATION.] " His Excellency the Provisional President of the Republic has been•pleased to issue the following de cree : "Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, General of Divi sion, Veremerito de la Patria, and Provisional Presi dent of the Mexican Republic, to all its inhabitants. Know ye, " That having observed the inaccuracy of the me thod established by the circular of the 21st October, 1826, for the admeasurement of merchant vessels, whereby the result of the calculati m of tonnage gave a smaller number of tons than the vessels actually measured, the national exchequer thus failing to re ceive the dues legitimately belonging to it, in conse quence of the excess of the divisor assigned in that circular, in order to remedy this error, and by virtue of the powers granted to me by the seventh article of the basis agreed upon at Tacubaga, and sworn to by the Representatives of the Departments, " I have thought fit to decree as follows : " Art. 1. From the date'of the publication of this , decree the captains of all the ports of the two seas of, the Republic, shall observe the admeasurenu nt of merchant vessels the following rules, having reference to the measures of Burgos .-- " Take half the sum of the length upon .the deck, and the keel, multip ied by three-fourths the beam, and half the floor, multiply this product by - half th?, depth of hold, divide the result by 41,078, and the quotient will give the number of tons on which duty is to be taken, on the hypothesis : that the linear pro portion of the Paris foot to that of Burgos is as seven, to six, and of tl:e English foot ti that of Burgos as 12 to 10.97. " Art. 2. The measurement of the vessels if to be taken from inside to inside of the timbers. " Art. 3. Th.; captains of the ports shall be respon sible for the due execution of this decree. (Signed) " A. LOPEZ DE SANTA ANNA. " JOSE MARIA TORNEL, " Ministro de Guerra y Marina. " Mexico, July 1, 1842." VESSELS SPOKEN WlTH.—Trident, bound to Ha vannah, September 3. lat. 23 N., lon. 64 W. ; Earl Bathurst, Oporto to Hamburgh, Oct. 18, lat. 46, lon. 10, by the Argus, arrived in the Gironde. Actif, Rio to Havre, lat. 30 N., lon. 38 W. ; Ziememo, Batavia to Australia, same time, by the Catharina, arrived at Cowes. Mincarto, Smyrna to Liverpool. 19th inst.; Stanhope, of Jersey, out 24 days, from Liverpo o l, 22d, in the Channel of Malta, bound to the Black Sea, by the Saucy Lass, arrived at Dartmouth. Larch, Li verpool to Bay Chaleur, 29th ult., lat. 47, lon. 42, by the Chieftain, arrived at Milford. England, Quebec, to Liverpool, 6th inst., lat. 51, lon. 17, by the Sir Charles Napier, arrived at Milford. Talbot, Liver pool to New York, Ist inst., lat. 42, lon. 40, by the Brigand, arrived at Liverpool. THE CHARGE OF ARSON AT LIVERPoOL. (From the Liverpool Mercury of yesterday.) The examination of Thomas Henery, the linen draper at Liverpool, charged with setting fire to his house, was concluded before the Magistrates of that town on Wednesday last. After the whole of the evidence had been fully gone into, Mr. RUSHTON said that he had made a series of inquiries as to the amount of property which the prisoner was said to have lost, and the result had convinced him that he had no such property as he had stated. As a case of circumstantial evidence, there were many parts of it indicating the greatest suspicion, and he would not take the responsibility on himself, but would commit the prisoner for irial. The prisoner, when asked if he •had anything to say, replied that he had not at , present.. On the application of the prisoner's solicitor for admission of bail, the Magistrate said he would take the matter into consideration. CATCHnm A. TART AR.—On Saturday evening last, a certain butcher in this town, not better known for the whiteness of his apron and the general goodness of his meat than for the high price which he usually de mands, was standing in his shop; when a' man in a smock-frock accosted him with " Can you cut . me a beef-steak ?" " Yes," replied the man of suet. The man then turned over the various joints, and after ask ing the price of this and that, the butcher felt his dig nity rather insulted by the smock 7 frock gent., and sig nificantly said—" Why don't you buy all in the shop ?" and gave a wink at his boy. " What r says the other. " W hlr," repeated the butcher. " don't you buy all in the shop ? ' " Well," replied tho man, " what de you want for it ?" The butcher said with a sneer, " you shall clear the lot for five pounds !" " Agreed," said the other, and lifting up his smock frock, pro duced a canvass bag from his pocket, counted out five sovereigns, and emptied the shop of all the meat it contained, including two gammons of bacon, and the Contents of the suet drawer, to the amazement of the butcher and the no less satisfaction of the man, who conveyed away upwards of ten pounds worth of meat, which he - afterwards dispos d of at from 2id. to 4d. a pound amongst the " mobility" who wish they may have many more such chances of purchasing good meat at a low price.— Wiltshire Independent. STRANGE ANOMALY.—The Recorder, in his charge to the Grand Jury at Salisbury Sessions on Monday week, stated that, by a charter granted in the year 1612, in the reign of James 1., the Judges of .As:ze had no power to deliver the gaol belonging to the city of New Sarum, for the civic authorities therein mentioned had sole power to try prisoners committed for offences within their jurisdiction, and that the only alteration made by the Municipal Corporation Act was the appointing of a Recorder as sole judge of the session. The Recorder also stated that Mr. Justice Wightman, at the Summer Assizes, which were held at Devizes, had set at liberty one George Holloway, committed for larceny, when by the said charter he ought not to have been liber.l9.d.—Wiltddre Inde pendent ttO sol2ottilaii SUN OFFICE Three o'Clock We have perused, with great satisfaction, a small publication entitled " Remarks on our present Position with Affghanistan and China ;" and as the author, Mr. ROBERT WISE, of Al lonby, a naval officer, who had served for years in the East, is evidently well acquainted with ciis subject, and takes a rational and manly view of our existing relations with these countries, we shall make no apology for quoting free'y frotn the work. The information it conveys is the more valuable, as it is the result of personal .Gb scrvation obtained many years ago. and is ma tured and strengthened by the remarkable, ope rations carried on by the British forces on the west and east ofour Indian possessions. The author in early life served on the coast of. China and India, in his MAJESTY'S Ship Dover, 88 guns, which was lost in a hurricane at. Madras in 1811; he afterwards joined the Java expedition, and was present at the reduction of that island and the rest of Dutch India. In adverting to the character of the Affghans, and the probable cause of our expedition against Caubul, be throws some light on the mysterious policy of Lord AUCKLAND, which has hitherto had such unh)rtunute results. The Affghans he describes as a nation of freebooters and man-stealers, who consider it a merit to conquer and rob every country and every nation which is not Maho medan—to massacre the inhabitants in Cold blood, or forcibly convert them to the Mahomedan religion, and afterwards sell them as slaves. No treaty will be considered binding on their part, unless we retain fortresses and keep troops in the country sufficient to com pel them at all times to fulfil their engage- - ments. "In proof of these assertions," he adds, "I need. only,refbr, in the first place, to the re peated instances of attempts made by the ances tors of SHAH SOOJAH, POST MAHOMED, and the Affg-han tribes; to invade India, within the last century, and the awful devaStation anddesola- Lion which they committed on the peaceable and unoffending Hindoos on the east banks of the Indus, and to a considerable extent in the in terior of Hindustan, Secondly. to the repeated breaches of faith which one head chief of their own tribes committed towards that of another, accompanied with the most savage cruelties. Thirdly, to the perfidious murder of Colonel Burtiss and our Envoy, and the breaches of faith and awful cruelties exercised by the present generation of Affghans on our helpless forces, in their late return from Caubul towards India, under treaty of safe conduct." He attributes their late daring and treacherous conduct to their contempt for the Hiudoos, acquiied in their repeated and successful invasions of India, and adduces this as a reason why Indian born troops do not strike that terror into the Affghans which an army of less than one quarter of the number would do, consisting of strong and hardy British troops. In place, therefore, of keeping up such a large Indian .force, he proposes that troops should be conveyed_direct from England to the mouth of the Indus, and thence, by steam-boats, up that river to Kalabagh, a distance of I,AOO We like the spirit of the following extract, which forms such a contrast to the reported policy of Lord ELLENBOROUGH, and the advice of those timid - Englishmen who,. like cowards, would put with the most atrocious indignities ever in flicted by barbarians, strengthen the hands of our enemies in that qthirter, and 'cause the ut most indignation; not only in the British army, but among the 'vast - - Indian population under British sway. Here is the advice of a true British sailor:— It appears imperative on us to read the Affghans such a lesson as never will be forgotten, and to settle the matter at once and for ever, as regards our power to hold such control over them as Government may deem fit, for the ultimate security of Britain. After completely subduing the different tribes in Afghan istan, if a few of the naturally strong points and -.for tifications-were held by us permanently, and garri soned by European troops (at least in the more ele 'vated part of the country), and these troops were able to'act-at all seasons of the year, it would tend much to the restraint of the Affghan population. The -en terpriseof the,British merchants, under such arrange ment and protection, will pioneer the -way for - the introduction of civil and religious liberty, which at present is making rapid progress in our East India possessions. Nothing Gut our occupying the strong holds—the Gibraltars and-Maltas of Ailkhanistan— and making them equally formidable, will convince' the Affghans that it is utterly out of their yower successfully to. oppose us, even were they assisted by any other Power or Power s whatever. Mr. WISE concludes his remarks on this subject in these Words, in which we fully concur, only re gretting that the C-i•,reat Duke was so unfiiri a nate in his choice of a Governor-General : It is fortunate for this country that the life 'of his Grace, the Duke'of Wellington, has been spared, . till the occasion • has, arisen fur taking decisive steps in these momelitous questions. Or the dispute with China lie takes the satire judicious and practical view ; and, on cou.:,iderizig the question in all its bearings, he anticipate; that the war, if conducted with energy, Ilia ulti mately produce a solid peace, highly beneficial to Great Britain, to British India, and to China itself. As we have frequently contended, one great . ob j 'ect should ever be kept in view in the settlement of our disputes with China, namely,---the opening •of commercial relation s with that country, and thereby affording employ ment to our cotton, woollen, and hardware ma. nufacturers. The trade to China is capable of great extension, and if we can succeed in open ing up a more tree intercourse with the north eastern parts of the empire, the manuflictured woollens and cottons of Yorkshire and Laricashire could be sold there, to pay a fair profit, at a price one-third less than the Chinese can produce such articles. We should thus secure the clothing of many millions of people, give new life to the mercantile navy, and carry on a trade with the vast regions and islands in the East, which would greatly counterbalance the injury done by the six new tariffs. For thispurpose Mr. WISE proposes that a few free depots should be established along the sea coast, on the Ino 7 montories of the mainland,. and more espe cially on the banks of the great artery of China, the river Yangtse Kiang, on the prin ciple adopted at Singapore, which would certainly extend our general trade with China, as the settlement at that place has extended our trade in the Malay Archipelago. We may here remark, that the author ac quits the English of • all blame in the opium . affitir, and believes the 'Tartar rulers had made up their minds to break with us, having chosen the opium question for that purpose. The accounts which.he gives of the vea coast of Man tchoo Tartary, of the Peiho river, of Yangtse Kiang, which traverses the heart of the empire ,or more than two thousand miles, of the country around Pekin, and of almost every gulf; promon ory and island along , the extensive coast, pos sess great interest ; and we, therefore, cordially recommend the little work to the attention of our readers. We have room for only one extract more, but it is re ther an important opt!, as it con. tains a plan for bringing the dispute to a.satistac tory. conclusion. 1 presume (soya Mr. Wise), in conclusion, the Only course left us, as holding out any reasonable hope of obtaining a satisfactory settlement, and a solid an d lasting peace, is to prosecute the war with the most de termined vigour, by sending to China, from England, a naval and military force of healthy, strong, fresh Englishmen, fit and powerful enough to act at all seasons, in any part of China, (the . Indian-b orn forces will • do very well in South Chi na , but north China is too cold for them), to se lect and take possession of such a number of points on the coasts, islands, and rivers of China, as will give us the command of the mouths of all the great rivers of China; of all the islands on the coast ;, of the traffic on the imperial ' canal and Yangtse Ki ang river, and of the principal sea-coast cities; such points being selected as we can securely and permanently hold, mainly by a sea force, against all and any enemy whatever, from any country ;—after which to proceed to Pekin, and tender the Emperor a treaty of peace, by which he is to make reparation for the national insults inflicted upon us at Canton, by ceding to us in perpetuity, such islands, ports, and places, as we may have selected and- captural to gether with territory which shall produce a re venue as we may judge .will support a naval and mi litary force large enough to protect ourselves, and en force the fulfilment of the treaty (for the Chineve will breakit if we leave them the power) ; by conceding to us a residence for a British ambassador at the Court of Pekin (Russi a h as a re pr es entative there) ;-- a treaty of commer ce , defining clearly the 'duties to, be levied in China on i m p or t s an d exports ;—a .disso lution and extinction o f th e Co-bong;--a full °pew' : ing to us of certain points in China (beyond those ceded to us), for the purposes of trade and commerce; by which treaty we are to be indemnified for the ex penses of the war, and the cost of the opium destroyed, in cash down at once. The agitation of the Corn-law question has re" commenced, and we are happy to add, told"' thvourablz; auspices. The first great meeting of: the Anti-Corn-law League, since the close of the session, took place on Thursday last, at Mall' ehester; and it was " one of the largest and most enthusiastic "—says the Report, which will be, found in another part of The Sun—" that " s ''; a3sembled in that town since the renewal of the agitation." Many of the leading men in t he neighbourhood attended ; and among the speak ers were Dr BOWRING, and Messrs. THOMPSON all WALKER, the latter of whom—and he is . a ness whose evidence is unimpeachable -bore the fbllowing direct personal testimony to the pre sent state of the c ommerc i a l di s t r i c ts:-" " 1e , capital of our mer c h an t s an d manu facturers IS daily diminishing, the people are half-a.d n!'d lialfemployed,the poor -rates in our manufactur ing towns have increased three or fbur fold) auf workhouses are crowded with inmates, the say: ings of the frugal and industrious are eitha ttste" to supply the pressing wants of the day- Tie polished furniture of our ar tisa ns i s e xchang ed for food, or distrained fin. rent to their landlords', their decent Sunday clothi ng i s i n the Pa lr°- shops, our shopkeepers behind their counters are, wanting customers—in short; we have DW I) ; destruction of the s oc i a l system. " Here is a pic ture, drawn, not from fancy, but f ro th by some ambitious orator anxious to creat e sensation by means of eloquent and nighEY,4 c c . aggerations, but by a sedate, observant/ e; tic Al-minded man, of long experience,- 01 11 0 , , character, who hazards no assertions buts o 7,. he can support by irrefragable testittiddhie whose sole object in hazaiding them is tit e kt the cause of truth and justice. The sita,M of such a man are entitled to every'atcqgtf an r''d . '' and though the Monopolists may disCrOW: t s ridicule them, they will sink d ee p i n to the be -r ho of all reflecting and unbiassed individual!: will scarcely fail to read in them the 04 . 13 condemnation of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S teMpO rlZli 4 policy. The Right lion. Gentleman 110 11° d been nearly two years in office; he has par' l Y,„'d opposition, and ex e r c i se d an a l mos t tiodisPa'-d sway over the House of Commons ; he h as „ 1 the advantage—no sli g h t one — o f the - 0 4 . : popularity of his predecessors; the 'l tal ie forbearance has b een s h own hi m by the Pe e P who, however solicitous for prompt, decided, real . c . , dial measures, have allowed him abundant time.l e ; conceive, digest, weigh, and mature his sell e t, for the public good ;—and what is the result is Why this, that the commerce of the eott atil , in pretty nearly as rickety a condition as it w a a . ce ! when the Right. Hon. Ba rone t first took ° " l ore We do not mean t o d en y th a t h e has niad egi lt o than one mov e i n th e r i g h t direction---56:r the that he is really d es i rous o f d o i ng his best o " big people; but wh a t we comp l a i n o f is, t il t 4 or. measures have not bee n o f a sufficiently deer far-sighted character. They have unset tled ill- ted interests, but settled n one . Th ey have P rod2 he te embarassment—confusion distrust— aPr e n ity, sion—among large masses of the eol nl9n- r ding" and alarmed the MonopoliSts, without ail ,() ; a d o . due satisfaction to the advocates of . fre e ; o r the Dr. BOWRING bore personal testimony o'- ag r annoyance they have occasioned th e t p a culturists, observing—" T r av e lling in t' aw ie d a of England in which I was born, I 111111 0 ,1 good deal with the rusti c population ; 0 . found, from the first to the last am ong - the" d ,C 1 directe thing but the heaviest vituperatioi they beta was, ' Drat him, against the Preader. The laoge a V• •• Lord J` 111 " ,4 .- he 1,34 Lord JOHN only- touched the corn, but / ord he's worser than touched the bullocks. Re's worser than %.lit JOHN, and . sorry we are that we e ver brOp r. him into power.' " Such, according to 0. , BowaiNG, is the language of the tig 6( ' ore wrists. Is that of the- free traders " fier , favourable to . the Right Hon. Baronet? ' lve taiuly not, but, if' possible, still more hostile*,o f readily admit that the Premier has a `difn t ad game to play, but that is nu reason why lid 5110 0 , piay , it in a feeble, vacillating and content, himself with maidug be st moves, when vigorous whole-move s suit the exigency of the case. Do " he will—halt, hesitate, temporise as o . A ia way—Sir ROBERT PEEL will never r e llot the iiizt confidence of the Monopolists. I t. 0 , his open, they ar e hi s concea led enemies, t o „ man ; be had bett er t h ere f ore set them ildrl ; and bid them do their worst, and devote his fre e divided encrgies to promote the cause of trade. --- aOtll The accounts from Madrid are of ale e i v instant. The Committee appointed to prePa-regt law ott the liberty of the Press had held free 0 , meetings, and was believed to have nearly c ,l ia t 'Acted its task. The REGENT was a nxious l' oe • the 13i11 should be presented to the Cortes at opening of the session. hoa . It was reported that General VAN ,H A LES t ill' li.: General aande tref refused in ef dththe o Catalonia, accept meancc e p tendered his resignation of the post of u a l ) ,, il eat 0 10 sup, • , .• tt b i u nilt t .e t , h i a ,,v t hae t s l is, ie nnl G n4ki o si v tiel e rg rn o ' i r y e:l i; exertions to procure and forward some to the General. OW Two soldiers were s h o t, f o r robbery , ' 1- morning of the 20th. - i ". 001 tbr The Three p e r C en t s . wer e done 0 . ....- per cash, and 21f at sixty days , and the rivedays• Cents. at 261 for cash, and 26 13-16 at Si// t) d r i d net The whole of the transactions on that ti 4 Y exceed 6,296,000 reals. ...........1411.•.! i . a wit h t The Paris papers are c hiefly occuP le at A re' comments on Lord ABERDEEN'S lette r ' in z the plies to a Morning Contemporary ab tll3 ,,ilJO r " French press. " The private organ - it the PALMERSTON," says the Debats, " ma keg beolid ° text of a declamation which exceeds the anaeril. of propriety, of b a d t as te, and of il l Moe the - The French journals, which every day le d by tbe Ministers of allowing themselves to be le' ose. f GO% English Government, who denominate Ai-• - r ock the Minister of the Foreigner, and who re n P it y of prove 4 a to overo , him with humiliating the honour a nd d d ig orot di b F e ra r n n c u e ei b l eafsbtroenistlitieedexiiigeintcivve,seroef Eng litn titer ° that it is, on the contrary, the En isi l l i i n s i l s ' .t v er an o ci t : ment which is led by the French - that. it is Lord ABERDEEN who is the M ul our a crd the Foreigner, and who sacrifices the bon ticies a the interests of his country to the exig e . vg bfek France. This, however, is the proposition 4 r oveia-. , the English joul • I . ist Imaim er d taken top etba t be na we must do him the justice to acknowleng ; ii :t he • ~ w ive= proves it -.% kb the same success with A wine" would render French journals prove the contrary, 101. ` thei n of of setting it. fie. accord if we were inclined to undertake . ig the difficult the task i s yont:, at this side of the Chaanel, the l(lgie the a ss--.- same. In France, M. TRIERS' jOUrna ~e 5 . 5 1011 a CO i . e . that' Lord ABERDEEN'S note conceals . s o. that ought to be mistrusted —it i n o rder " I tac' Ile extends his hand to us, ...e more ifliog sa ri , , of tr easily to upset us, and gives us a B oor; 5 J 0Y tion, in order to induce us to accept 1840: In England Lord PALME _, e to I na the , 11. : 0 1 / 1 i; it is othersprelnu dte pre' • 'tend' ea' abolition 0 1 `" far pare public opinion for the a d e o . o . i t. , T i i t li i s s a c° li i l c o e t ssi°[l balloon,ishiet is !I ~ , he tr ties of 1831 and 1833.' Arrange this 11 l _ fl iste - _ -i v e is, . 0, sou The only explanation you can all coun t° irre gument as you may, and endeavour spirit of party is the same in a • h .I ' o or wi t ot ' that it is copied and repeated It is 13 t Ol e mediable poverty of invention. . „ s ins _ . , 6 affair to defend the French journal! 7; but " asperities of which they are' the objeci' to e.xtrbat 01, *-*. • • P - I • TUE SUN, LONDON, SATURitIAY EVENING, OCTOBER 29, 18421