The Sun. — London, England, 1842-03-28 00:00:00

1. • k. THE OURTH VOLUME OF LIVES 01 1 ,THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND, Containing the QUEENS OF HENRY VIII., By AGNES STRICKLAND. IS NOW READY. '.* Orders received by all booksellers. Henry Colburn, publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NEW PERIODICAL WORK, BY THE AUTHOR OF " STORIES OF WATERLOO." In Monthly Parts (not to exceed Eighteen) Price One Shilling each, with characteristic Engravings, by Dick Kitcat, the First Part to appear with the Magazines at the end of March. THE FORTUNES OF HECTOR O'HALLORAN, By W. H. MAXWELL, Esq. Author of " Stories of Waterloo," " Wild Sports of the West," &c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street ; John CumminK, Ormond-quay, Dublin Bell and Bradfute, hdinburgh ; Grapel,Liverpool. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT -GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, MARCH 28, Will be repeated, in Two Acts, with additions, Milton's Masque of COMUS.—Comus, Mr. W. Harrison ; First Bacchante, Madame Vestris; the Lady, Mrs. Walter Lace; Elder Brother, Mr. J. Vin. ins; Syrens. Madame Vestris and 'Miss Rainforth ; Cupid, Miss Dowton ; Euphrosyne, Madame Vestris; Sabrina, Miss Rainforth. After which Mr. Charles Mathews Farce of THE RI NGDOVES. Bir Harry R ngdove, Mr. F. Matthews; Harry Ringdove, Mr. C. Mathews ; M coney, Mr. Brougham ; Miss Longclackit. Mrs. Orger ; Cecilia, Miss Lee. After which will be roduceda Grand Romantic F a i r y Extrava s W HITE c ense, entitled THE AT--Wunsuponatyme (King of -NeverminditAnamia), Mr. J. Bland; Princes Paragon, Pr. cious and Placid (his three Sons by Madame Vestris, Mi ss M urray and 'Miss L e . ; Jingo, Mr. Harley ; t e White Cat, Miss Marshall. Doors open at half-past ana the Performances begin at Seven . Dress Boxes 7,, Second Price Ss. &i • L First and Second Cir cles 55 ., S e cond Price 2s. ed. ; Pit 35., Second Price 25.. , Gallery Is. Tickets a nd Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan, at the Bex f from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon ap plication. Private Boxes to b e b a d solely of Mr. Andrews, Book IC7, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Real Novelty, and unpreecdented Splendour. THIS EVENING, MARCH 28, Will be performed an entirely New Equestrian Spectacle, entitled THE PEARL OF THE HAREM, HER KOORDISH LOVER, AND HIS WAR STEED, BEDA.—With magnificent Scenery, Costume, and Appointments a Double Company, Equestrian and Dramatic, and the finest Stud of Horses in tha World. Atter which, in a more extensive and splendid Arena than ever berme witnessed. THE SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, introducing Mr. B ATTY'S unrivalled Collection of Animals, consisting of nu. merous and matchless Cream coloured Horses, Andalusian Chargers, Spotted Coursers, Fairy Palfreys, and Pigmy Poneys, and the most talented Vaulters, Riders, Gymnastics, and Contortionists in the kingdom. To conclu le with an entirely New Laughable Farce, called THE FAMILY MAN; OR, HOW MANY MORE WIVES. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON, Great and extraordinary attraction for the Easter Holidays. THIS EVENING, MARCH 28. Will be performed a most interesting New Domostie Drama, in Three Acts, entitled THE LUCKY HORSE SHOE; OR, THE LONE CHAMBER OF THE SILENT HIGHWAY —Characters by Miss Vincent, Miss Coveney, Mesa,. E. F. Saville, Dale, Gard.. per, Seaman, &c. After which, with gorgeous scenery, dresses, kc., ALADDIN ; OR, THE WONDERFUL LAMP—Aladdin, Miss Vincent; the Princess, Mrs. E. F. Saville; Widow Mustapha, Mrs. Griffith•. To conelude with THE RED ROVER —The Red Rover, Mr. Dale; Fid, Mr. E. F. Saville; Hector Homespun, Mr. Gardner; Madame de Lacey, Mrs. Lee. LONDON: MONDAY MORNING. MARCH 28, 1842. When Mr. PITT on Nov. 24th, 1797, proposed his plan for increasing all the assessed taxes, which was the foundation of his scheme for an income tax, he stated " that as the plan was new in the financial operations of this country, it was - not his intention to call for any decision on its merits at the present stage of the business." Ile stated his plan for the consideration of the House, and though the country was then at war, though time was of great importance, though any doubts thrown on his success might have been injurious to the power of the country, he did not ask the House of Commons for an opinion on the subject till after the lapse of ten days. Sir ROBERT PEEL, far from being so mo dest, would have forced the House, if he could, to have come to a decision on his novel income tax in the course of a week. If he did not succeed the fault was not his, but the merit of stopping him belongs to the Opposition. He had no good public reason for hurrying through the resolution. The reputation and power of the country will not suffer from the delay. No allies will be disheartened, no doubtful friends converted into open foes ; and the public inter ests would not have suffered, though a month had been allowed, after promulgating the plan, to obtain for it public favour and support. Sir ROBERT PEEL knew apparently that nei ther his measures nor his motives would bear a public scrutiny ; and knowing that he endeavoured to take the country by surprise and carry his noxious measure before the people were awake to the consequences. With this view he kicked up a great dust about the tariffand about the twelve hundred rates of duties he is to reduce, hoping by the help of that to blind the people, but time having been obtained to clear away the dust, both his tax and his tariff are attacked from all quarters, and even by some of his own followers. If he were in a hurry with his income tax, he was not slower with his tariff. For the comparatively paltry purpose of inquiring into the settlements of Western Africa, and what can be done to re lieve the labour market, by lowering the wages of the negroes of the West Indies, Lord STANLEY obtains a Committee of Inquiry. He and the Ministers will not touch a lock of the negroes wool without the solemn sanction of a Com mittee of the House of Commons, but Sir Ron ERT PEEL takes it on himself, without inquiry, and without consulting the vast interests implicated, to propose measures which will affect all the trades of the country. Scarcely one of the du ties which he is to repeal or alter was imposed without the preliminary sanction of an inquiry, and most of them, at least all the important ones, were imposed in bye-gone times, in consequence of petitions, representations, and claims of the par ties interested. All these, with a sort of Bone partian 'vigour, the Right Hon. Baronet has un dertaken to modify after his own fashion, and to adjust by his own authority the relative claims of all the varied interests of this great empire. Such a proceeding savours of prodigious arro gance, and if, on consideration, all the parts of the scheme were unobjectionable, it ought to be opposed, in order to discourage in him and others ouch inordinate presumption. In the United States, we believe, a Committee has been ap pointed to investigate the whole subject, and le gis'ation will not there take place till the Com ni.ittee hcs reported. If h be said that the Import Duties' Committee inquired and recommended many alterations, we reply, that Sir ROBERT PEEL and his party re pudiated the inquiries of that Committee ; stig matized them as incomplete and one-sided, and -what is more, he has not followed its recommen dations. His plan for altering the timber and coffee duties, as far as we know, is entirely his own. That Committee made no inquiries into the propriety of abolishing the duty on cattle that we recollect : we are sure that they called no graziers and farmers before them, and that part of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S scheme is also his own device, or adopted from some of the subalterns of the Board of Trade. It did not originate with that Committee, though the principle _ of setting trade free, on which it is recommended to ParHa'. znent, was a favourite with most of the Members. Whatever may be the merit of that part of the scheme, except as the Anti-Corn-law League have justly demanded the abolition of taxes on provisions of all kinds, it belongs exclusively to Sir ROBERT PEEL. The principle of setting trade free has been often enough espoused, but the peculiar manner in which Sir ROBERT PEEL sets about giving effect to it is his own. The alterations he pro poses were not before dreamed of; they were un. called for by any class or condition of men, and must be called ?EEO; crotchet. It is a sort of free trade whim which has seized the Right Hon. Baronet. If COBBETT were alive, he would no longer call him PEEL'S Bill Peel, but PEEL'S crotchet Peel. He will be hereafter as much renowned for his Tariff Crotchet as he -has been t ot his Currency Bill. But, though it may be amusement to his capacious mind to sport with the interests of nations, it is no amusement to the public; and it is quite a sufficient reason to op.. pose such a man, that his crotchets are his own, arid not in strict conformity to those alterations which any great body of the people demand. There is not one great interest in the State, nor one leading public opinion, which strictly ac cords with the changes which Sir R. PEEL pro- 1'475 • s o * • , ir , •• 4,7110 ti 'Mt _suit. %A minishin g. According to Sir ROBERT PEEL'S plan they will be taxed on the incomes they have lost. It is our belief that there are in many parts of the kingdom many trades, which, like that of an innkeeper and a coachmaster on the Brighton road, are declining in prosperity ; and to tax all such persons on an average of the in comes they have enjoyed for the last three years will be a cruel injustice. Mr. PITT wanted an income tax for great and rapidly increasing expenditure. Sir R. PxxL levies it to compensate diminished re venue. These circumstances show that the income of individuals is declining, and it esta blishes a difference between the two periods, which will make an income tax now three-fold as mischievous as it was then. Mr. PITT esta blished an income tax to carry on war; Sir Ro- BERT PEEL establishes it to revive trade. What folly. The former was a great man, who had some comprehension of what was adapted to times and circumstances ; the latter is a poor imitator, whose botched crotchet, if he have influence enough with the House of Commons to procure its adoption, will add to the distress and seriously injure the country. We have from the first treated the amended tariff and the income tax as unconnected ques tions : Sir ROBERT PEEL, with Dr. BOWRING and some other Liberals, have treated them as connected and inseparable. On their showing, if the Liberals consent to the income tax, they are certain to have the tariff as their reward and compensation. Is this true? We think the ques tion very important; for though the amended tariff, which we regard as far less beneficial than some of our contemporaries, would not reconcile us to the income tax, if we were certain to obtain it ; yet the possibility of not obtaining it, even though the Liberals assent to an income tax, should make them extremely wary in their pro ceedings. The resolution imposing an income tax is pro posed in a Committee of Ways and Means; the resolutions for altering the tariff cannot be pro posed, we apprehend, in the same Committee. The reduction of the timber and coffee duties cannot form part of the supplies for the year; and the resolutions for altering the tariff must be submitted to the whole House, we believe, in a Committee on the Customs' Acts. It is plain, therefore, that the tariff and the income tax are totally distinct measures ; and there is no reason to conclude, because the Opposition assent to the latter, that the Ministerialists will assent to the former. What are its beneficial parts? The reduction of the duties on potatoes and meat, the aboli tion of the prohibition to import cattle, &c., against which the farmers, and the farmers' friends, are now moving in every part of the kingdom. Supposing, therefore, that Sir R. PEEL is quite sincere in proposing these altera tions—supposing that he means no trick ; that he does not put them forward as mere lures, not meaning to carry them—will he be able to carry them in opposition to his agricultural supporters ? As a Minister he is entirely their creature. The Duke of RICHMOND stated, in the House of Lords, that the landlords had made Sir ROBERT Prime Minister, and they could unmake him. Even admitting Sir ROBERT PEEL'S sincerity and uprightness—qualities for which we are not dis posed to vouch in any politician contending for power, much less in him who has sacrificed the interests of the country for the purpose of getting into office—it is quite possible that he will be un able to carry the alterations in the tariff which he has proposed, after he has succeeded in enac ing an income tax. In resisting the adoption of the leading point s of the tariff we have adverted to, it is nearly certain that the agriculturists of his own side of the House would be supported by a con siderable number of representatives of English agricultural communities, and of Scotch and Irish counties of the other side. Such a union might defeat Sir R. PEEL in the House of Commons, and if he were not defeated there the Lords might throw out the whole measure. We maintain, therefore, that there is no security whatever that he proposed tariff will be acceded to after the ncome tax is passed. Sir ROBERT PEEL'S declaration, that he would resign office, on which some persons may build, to secure the passing of the tariff, if the income tax be acceded to, does not seem to us to war rant such a conclusion. On Wednesday he said, "with regard to the details of the tariff, as I stated before I am perfectly open to conviction, and if I should consider that the arguments should pre ponderate in favour of a modification, I shall have no difficulty whatever in assenting to it." The Right Hon. Baronet is not even pledged, there fore, to carry through his proposed tariff if thA ar- guments of the graziers and others against his propositions should preponderate against his reduction of duty on meat and potatoes. So little pledged in fact is Sir ROBERT to these de. tails, that he has already, if we are rightly in formed, consented to a considerable modification in the wrong direction. The import duty he pro posed on starch was per cwt., which amounts , poses either in the Corn-law or the tariff. They are not free trade, nor are they complete and efficient protection. They are not Conservative holding- fast by things as they are ; neither are they revolutionary, gratifying those who look for (=Teat changes. They are not framed according to the demands of national justice, and cannot be defended on any general principles. They are s imply PEEL'S crotchet, to be passed into laws because he is a necessity for the Tories. A measure which rests on such individual views, which is not in accordance with either general principles or the demands of the people should be scouted as a piece of wanton and officious tyranny—not accepted as useful legislation. Far from settling the conflicting claims of different classes, Sir R. PEEL'S crotchet has made complainants of those who have been unheard of for years, and has provoked more re clamations from different quarters, than were ever provoked by the Whigs in the eleven years of their administration. The income tax, too, is entirely Sir ROBERT PEEL'S crotchet. Nobody asked for it. On the occasion of Mr. BARING proposing the additional per centage to the taxes in 1840, Sir ROBERT PEEL approved of his plan, and spoke against having " recourse to a property tax for so small a sum as 2,500,0001." He was not ex pected, therefore, now to propose such a tax, and it must be considered as a misbegotten child of his present pride. When Mr. PITT proposed such a tax, notwithstanding he could say, that the " voluntary exertions of indi viduals compensated to the public for the meanness which shrunk from equal contribu tion, " yet he had, in spite of the public enthusiasm, to complain of fraud and evasion, and to take strong measures to prevent them. Fraud and evasion will now be ten times as great as they were under the former tax; and Sir 8.. PEEL, by fixing a point at which the evasion is sure to be successful, informs people at once how they may evade the tax. At present, also, great changes are going on in the distribution of wealth and employment in society; and, in general, there is little prosperity, while in many trades there is a decline. When Mr. PITT imposed his income tax—owing to the recent invention and improvements in the steam engine —owing to our monopoly of the commerce of the world, and owing to the depre ciation of the currency then in progress —every man, as Lord ASHBURTON once remarked, then found himself richer when he rose in the morning than when he went to bed the night before. When the people were prosperous, when the bulk of the income of the country was increasing every year, an income tax was com paratively bearable. Now the reverse is the case. Not only is the bulk of the income not increasing, but there are a considerable portion of the people who are losing their incomes. In another part of our paper will be found an account of the stopping of the " Age" Brighton coach, which at once shows that on all the coach roads which come into competition, with any recently opened lines of railways, there are large classes of persons whose incomes are d THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 28, 1842 • on a quarter of wheat, manufactured into starch, only to 7s. 6d., whilst the average duty on the wheat itself; as estimated by Sir ROBERT PEEL, would be about 163. per quarter. On re presentations being made by parties engaged in the trade, that this rate of duty on starch would throw the manufacture of that article into the hands of tbreig,ners, who would supply all our starch, the proposed duty has been admitted to be an oversight; and Mr. GLADSTONE has inti mated the willingness of Government to increase it to 10s. per cwt. which will place the English manufacturer about on a par with the foreigner. If he gave way to the starch-makers, why should he not given way to the equally cogent representa tations of graziers and pig breeders, backed as they will be by powerful men in both Houses of Parliament ? We can see no reason. We are tiure Sir ROBERT PEEL is not pledged to the Jetails of the tariff, though he has accepted Dr. BOWRINQ'S praises, and again, therefore, we as sert, that there is no connexion between the in come tax and the tariff, and no good reason for concluding, because the former be carried, that the latter will be allowed to pass. It may be irksome to our too confiding friends, perpetually to be called on to be watchful and mistrustful, but we must tell them that this uncertainty will require them not to slacken their determined opposition to the income tax. They must not mind being called factious; they must not heed the silly threat to destroy the privi lege by which they are able to defend the people from oppression; they must resist Sir ROBERT PEEL'S plan to the utmost, and by all the Par liamentary means in their power. Let them pay no attention to the assertions of such men as Sir JOHN RAE REID, that the jobbers of the metropolis are in favour of the tax—the public at large will not go with the jobbers; but let them, on the ground that it is quite impossi ble to be sure that the tariff will be carried, though the income tax be assented to, use the privileges of the House to delay and defeat the hungry and plundering faction, which has at pre sent, on false pretences, usurped the Government. It is quite impossible to look around London, or travel through the country, and see the im mense number of comfortable houses which have been erected on every side since 1816, and not be convinced that Sir R. PEEL has very much underrated the produce of his proposed income tax. We stated that as our impression from the first, and the opinion is now very general. Sup pose, then, that Sir R. PEEL should succeed in passing his Bill, and have 1,000,0001. or 1,500,0001. more in the Exchequer than he immediately re quires, what use will he make of it? There is another Sir ROBERT who will answer the ques tion. Does not the land groan for more churches? Are not the people demoralised and corrupted because there is a great dearth of parsons? Sir ROBERT INGLIS will answer yes, and he will put forward the claims of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S dear friends, the clergy, for 1,000,0001., to contribute to the glory of GOD and the extension of the Church. With Sir R. PEEL'S, Lord STANLEY'S, and Sir J. GRAHAM'S avowed opinions, and with the avowed opinions of the bulk of Sir R. PEEL'S supporters, there cannot be a doubt that the first few hundred thousand pounds the Exchequer can spare will be devoted to Church extension. Will the Dissenters submit to an income tax with the certainty before them that its produce will be devoted to stifling dissent, if possible, and ex tending the Church on its defunct body ? It is for them to act —we have done our duty in sug gesting the probable destination of the surplus of the income tax. We regret to learn from a source entitled to confidence, that the King of the FRENCH is la bouring under a disease which, to a man at his age is very alarming. He is said to be affected with dropsy, and, as he is now in his sixty-ninth year, a complaint of this kind may justly excite the most serious apprehensions. His MAJESTY deserves every credit for the skill and ingenuity he has displayed in preserving the general peace of Europe, and, we may say, of the world ; but, we doubt much if any of his subjects (a term which they dislike) will give him the same credit for preserving the Constitution granted the French nation, after the expul- sion of the old BOURBON dynasty. He has swerved from every principle of that Constitu tion, he has shackled the press, loaded the coun try with a vast amount of debt, for purposes at the best doubtful, and has alienated every honest man who helped to raise him to the throne. We are not sufficiently acquainted with the French character to judge of his reasons or motives; but it cannot fail to strike every impartial spec. tator, as a singular circumstance, that the CITI ZEN-KING, who was installed by the heroes of July, and no men ever more justly deserved the title, should now be afraid to meet his people, and be compelled to open his Houses of Parlia ment, guarded and shielded by troops of the line, like the most imperious despot. This cir cumstance is at utter variance with the principles on which he mounted the throne, and whether he or his people are to blame, we must leave the world to judge. Perhaps the adherents of the BOURBONS could decide the question. INCOME TAX, NOW AND FOR MERLY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN SIR,—I . have not seen it stated, in the arguments adduced against the proposed income tax, that when the country was last subjected to that mest grinding and oppressive imposition, for which, in Turkey, the Grand Signor would be deposed, its situation was totally different from its actual condition. We were the sole manufacturers, carriers, and merchants of Eu rope, possessed the undisputed dominion of the ocean, and consequently could and did compel the nations to take our merchandise, and the produce of our colonies, at our own prices. If an income tax of 20 or even 50 per cent. had, at that time, been imposed, we should have inflicted on other countries their due proportion of it in additional high prices, which they must have paid. I need not say that now the case is entirely reversed. The income tax is exclu sively and essentially a war tax.—l am, Sir, mac.AN ANTI-P, —ESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT POPLAR. —On Saturday forenoon a fire broke out on the . premises of Mr. Samuel Everett, a cooper in an extensive way of business, re siding at No. 16, Ferry-road, about a quarter of a mile from the East India Docks. In a short time the whole of the cooperage and the workshops were one body of flame, which speedily communicated to the dwelling house of Mr. Everett in front, and to the house of Mr. Ward, shoemaker, No. 15, end that of Mr. Palatch, greengrocer, &c., No. 17, at the corner of Alfred- street, all of which were in a few minutes in flames from top to bottom, being principally timber-built. The premises of Messrs. Everett, Ward, and Palatch are totally con sumed. Mr. Everett is insure) for stock and buildings in the Phoenix Fire -office ; 3 7 1 r. Ward's house is 111E0 insured in the saint office, but he is uninsured for his stock and furniture ; as is 'also Mr. Palatch, whose house, it is understood, is the property of the venerable member for Middlesex (Mr. G. Byeg). The damage is estimated at nearly 2,000/. BRIGHTON, FRIDAY.--WIGNII2 9 B BANK, KIIKTINO OF CREDlTORS.—Yesterday evening a private meeting of the principal creditors took place at the house of Mr, Dash, Castle-square, Brighton. About sixty persons were present. From the various statements made, ac cording to present appearances the largest dividend that can be expected is sd. in the pound. From inquiries msde by some of the creditors, it was deemed expedient that they should obtain the assistance of one of the the leading Counsel from London, in order that the whole affair may be thoroughly investigated, as slight hopes are entertained of recovering certain property for the benefit of the large body of creditors. DISCORD AMONG THEATRICAL MANAGERS. --The Wizard of the North (Mr. Anderson) and Mr. Ham mond, the late lessee of Drury-lane and the Strand Theatres, who have lately become the managers of the Theatres Royal Liverpool and Manchester, have insti tuted proceedings against Mr. Raymond, the manager of the Liver Theatre, in Liverpool, for having engaged Mdle. Celeste, Mr. Webster (the Haymarket. lessee), and Mr. Strickland, at his theatre. These popular artistes have performed at the Liver during the past week, and on the eve of their appearance a notice was served on3i, orbidding them to act at an unlicensed theatre under a penalty of 50/. for each offence. The performances of each night, however, notwithstanding, took place, and the parties have subsequently been served with notice of trial in the Liverpool court early in M a y. Th e penalties sought to be recovered are 50/. nightly, making in all for six nights' performance, 300/. The propriety of such a mode of proceeding is much questioned in theatrical circles in Liverpool, as Ham mond and Raymond have been for thirteen years joint managers of the Liver Theatre, and only separated on the insolvency of the former at Drury-lane Theatre.— Observer. Sir Wm. Gossett, Sergeant- a t-A rms , h as ap pointed Mr. T a yl or to be deputy- housekeeper to the liluse of Commons, vice Mr. Bellamy. *AMERICAN NEWS. FIVE DAYS LATER FROM THE UNITED STATES. LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY EVENING. By the arrival of the New York packet-ship Patrick Henry, Captain Delano, we are in possession of dates to the 9th from that City. The Patrick Henry has brought nine cabin passengers, and has made the passage in 18 days. The principal news by this arrival consists of another arrest similar to that of M'Leod, arising out of the Caroline affair, and which it was feared would be productive of unpleasant feelings and, perhaps, trouble between the States and this country. Mr. Hogan, the individual arrested, is said to be a native of Ire land ; he openly acknowledges his share in the burn ing of the Caroline, and confidently throws himself on the protection of the British Government. ANOTHER 3PLEOD. On Monday night, Feb. 28th, a young man by the name of Hogan, was arrested about eight miles from Lockport, and brought to that place, charged with being one of the party who attacked the steamer Caroline. The evidence against him is said to be that he disclosed to 1)r. M`lienzie, of Lockport, in 1838, that he was one of the party, and that having occasion to come to Ro chester, he wrote to the Doctor inquiring whether there would be any danger in his doing so, and asking for a brace of pistols. Hogan is a resident of Hamilton, Upper Canada, and had been to Rochester to attend Court. He was lodged in gaol for one night, and the next day taken by writ of Habeas Corpus before Judge Ransom of the Common Pleas Court, upon the plea that there was sufficient evidence to warrant his detention. What the result of the hearing was we shall probably know to-morrow. (From the Rochester Post.) In addition, we have been permitted to peruse a pri vate letter to a Canadian exile in this city, of the same date, from which the following is an extract : " John Sheridan Hogan, one of the Caroline invaders, about whom there can be no mistake, has been arrested, and will doubtless be committed to take his trial for the part he took in the Schlosser murders. I am told he is clerk to the Sheriff of the Gore district, who was Mac- Nab's Lieutenant-colonel, opposite Navy Island, and that he was formerly in M`Nab's law office, and acted as his secretary while at Chippewa, in 1838. He is a good looking, bald, manly little fellow—Tory and game to the back-bone I" This will revive the whole question involved in the ce lebrated M`Leod case. A more important movement has not taken place for some time. Hogan is one who, we are told, freely admits his connexion with the Caroline outrage, and throws himself on the protection of the Bri tish Government. We learn that Mr. Hogan is a native of Ireland—that he was recently in this city, and stopped several days at the National Hotel, where he expressed some fears lest he should be arrested and detained—and that his com panion was Mr. John William Aikman, a son of Michael Aikman, a Tory member of the late U. C. Parliament. The Hon. Henry Clay has resigned his seat in the Senate, and is spoken of by many parties as likely to become a candidate for President of the States. The following is his letter of resignation, which was read in the Kentucky House of Representatives on the 23d. ult. "To the Honourable the General Assembly of Kentucky. " Washington, Senate Chamber, Feb. 16, 1142. " When I last had the honour of an appointment as one of the United States Senators from Kentucky, I in timated, in my letter of acceptance, the probability of my not serving out the whole term of six years. In con sequence of there having been two extra sessions of Congress I have already attended, since that appoint ment as many sessions of Congress as ordinarily happen during a senatorial term, without estimating my services for the presem, session. " I have for several years desired to retire into pri vate life, but have been hitherto prevented from execut ing my wish by considerations of public duty I should have resigned my seat in the Senate, at the commence ment of the present session, but for several reasons, one of which was that the General Assembly did not meet until near a month after Congress, during which time the State would not have been fully represented, or my successor would have had only the uncertain title of an Executive appointment. " The time has now arrived when, I think, that, with out any just reproach, I may quit the public service, and bestow some attention on my private affairs, which have suffered much by the occupation of the largest part of my life in the public councils. If the Roman veteran had title to a discharge after thirty years service, I, who have served a much longer period, may justly claim mine. " I beg leave, therefore, to tender to the General As sembly, and do now hereby tender, my resignation of the office which I hold of Senator, in the Senate of the United States, from the State of Kentucky, to take ef fect on the 31st day of Mitrch, 1842 ; and I request that the General Assembly will appoint my successor to take his seat on that day. I have fixed that day to allow me an opportunity of assisting in the completion of some measures which have been originated by me. " I embrace this occasion to offer to the General As sembly my most profound and grateful acknowledgment for the numerous and distinguished proofs, by which I have been honoured, of its warm attachments and ge nerous confidence during a long series of years.—l have the honour to be, &c., " H. CLAY." MEXICO AND TEXAS. The relations between these countries are still in a very unsettled state. A report by way of New Orleans, states that the Texians had had an engage ment with the Mexican forces in Rio Grande, and had slaughtered or captured about 500 men. But this resting on report only seems questionable. REPORTED SLAUGHTER OR CAPTURE OF 500 MEXl- CANS.—Captains Andrews, of the schooner C.C. Za briskie, from Matamoros, reports thus :—Having cleared and dropped down from the town, was detained, and some Mexican passengers returned to stay at home over night. On coming on board the next day, they reported that official news had been reported that there had been a fight somewhere up the Rio grande between the Texians and Mexicans, in which the latter lost 500 men, except two out of that number, who escaped and brought the news down. There may be something in this, and probably is ; but we had not been previously advised that there was any considerable number of troops, either Texian or Mexican, congregated near the Rio Grande of the plain.—N. C. Bulletin. MOBILE, FEB. 22, 1842.—The Texas Navy which is composed of one ship, two brigs, and a schooner, is commanded by Capt. Brown, who in fact is the owner of the whole, (the Texas Government not having paid for them.) Captain Brown sailed from Galveston about November, under the orders of President Houston, to Sisal ; Commissioners from Yucatan having invited the visit, to concert a project in order to obtain from Mexico the recognition of the independence of both States. On the arrival of Captain Brown at Sisal, he found it necessary to proceed himself to Merida, in the interior, and prudence pcompted him to seize the Alcade of Sisal and four other distinguished persons, and send them on board his ship, as hostages for his personal safe return. He, however, found that lie had been duped, and that his hostages alone secured his personal safety and return to Sisal, where he finally sent on shore the prisoners, and took possession of four Spanish ves sels then in port, with two armed schooners, belonging to Yucatan, and departed. More recently he has, with his squadron, visited Tobasco, where he captured two more schooners, and was finally off Vera Cruz, and had there also taken two schooners, the four latter be longing to the Spaniards. Thus it appears that he is making war on Mexico, with questionable authority, if not on his own hook. COMMERCIAL NEWS. NEW YORK MONEY MARKET. —MARCH 7. The Treasury notes of the Federal Government were protested to-day to a large amount. Several thousand dollars were presented by different holders at the Bank of Commerce and also at the Bank of America, and the fact that no provision had been made to meet them, was the subject of much conversation and excitement. The Treasurer of the United States, Mr. Selden, is reported to be in the city attempting to make a provision against further protests, and to save the credit of the Govern ment, but in this we fear heis rather too late, as the pro test of those notes must lessen the credit of those already coming into market, and raise the rate of discount. Treasury notes already being below par, • Custom House 'ues are paid altogether in such notes, and thus the Go vernment can collect here no means of redeeming them. There is no other remedy for all this, but the raising of a sufficient revenue. There must be higher duties, and these laid on seen, or the Treasury must soon be utterly bankrupt. It is, therefore, hardly worth the while for Members of Congress to be debating about the princi plps of " protection," when the most pressing necessities of the country compel that amount of duties, which is generally adequate protection. " Resumption " does not turn out to be so bad a busi ness for the Banks in Cincinnati as they expected. On the Ist inst. all the Banks there were paying specie. Previous to this they began to check upon New York at a low rate, and on the 26th ult. the rate was 7 for funds taken on deposit by the City Banks, and 5 to 4 for City Bank paper. Later, the City Banks were checking liberally at from 2 to 3 per cent. below their own paper. The resumption law does not oblige the Banks to pay specie on their deposits, and the opinion prevailed that they would continue to do business on Kentucky and Indiana paper. The Banks that agreed at the Convention held at Co lumbus, to resume on the 4th March, were the Com mercial, Franklin, and Lafayette Banks of th a t city— the Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company having never suspended—the Banks of Zenia, Dayton, Clinton Bank of Columbus, Circleville, Commercial Bank of Zanesville, St. Clai rsv ill e, Scioto, Mari e tt a , M us ki ng um, Mount Pleasant, Far me rs' and Mechanics' Steubenville, Columbiana Bank of N. Lisbon, Western Reserve, Geauga, Massillon, Woostar, Norwalk, and Sandusky. The rate of Philadelphia is improving. Sales at only 31 per cent. disc. On Baltimore also the rate is better. RATE OF SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE. 1,000 Dols. Illinois Bonds s 3 181 5,000 Ditto New York Sixes, 1861... 2,000 Ditto Indiana Bonds l9 50 Shares Delaware and Hudson 20 Ditto Auburn and Syracuse R. R. 20 Ditto Mechanics' Bank 20 Ditto Union Bank ..... 25 Ditto Bank of Commerce b7 ds 86fr 15 Ditto Erie Railroad ••• 14 200 Ditto Phenix Bank 20 Ditto State Bank 40 Ditto Farmers' Loan... 2li 5 Ditto Canton ...... ..... 19 50 Ditto Harlem Railroad 4 7 25 Ditto Boston and Providence Railroad ...s 60 82i ' 25 Ditto New Jersey Railroad .s 60 61 125 Ditto Patterson 50 Ditto Mohawk s6o ds 45 50 Ditto Long Island Railroad b ads 531 SALES AT THE SECOND BOARD. 2,0000 Indiana Bondi 10 Shares Moh aw k R a il roa d 47* PHILADELPHIA SALES OF STOCK, MARCII 7. 2,600 Dols. States Fives, 1856 1,200 Ditto States Fives, 1859 4,000 Ditto United States Bank Notes ....—... ...... 43 37 Shares United States Bank 20 Ditto Mechanics' Bank 20 Ditto Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank Rio DD JANEIRO, JAN. 15.—The arrivals here since the Ist are six, with 6,428 barrels Flour, 343 packs do mestics and sundries. The only cargo sale of Flour is 1,350 bbls New Orleans that proved very good at 1411. Baltimore is offered at 1311500. The offers by the large buyers are still 1211 and 1011. An auction sale has been made of 1,250 packs domestics at rather lower prices than in Novemb: r and December—some holders are de manding higher rates. The market is so overstocked with every article of import, that sales are difficult if at ruinous prices. It is also difficult to find store room. Coffee arrives slowly —superiors sell at 311800 a 411100. —Good first dry at 311500 a 311700. Exchange, 29d. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, SUNDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert enjoyed their usual walk in the forenoon yesterday, and the Prince of Wales was taken a carriage airing. Prince Albert afterwards went into the Great Park, attended by Sir Edward Bowater, Major-General Weymss, and Mr. G. E. Anson, to enjoy a run with his beagles. The Duchess of Kent arrived at the Castle, attended by Lady A. M. Dawson. Her Majesty and Prince Albert rode out in a pony phaeton, the Prince driving, attended by Lady C. Cocks, Hon. Mrs. Anson, Viscount Hawarden, and Sir Frederick Stovin, in an open carriage ; and by Colonel Buckley and Sir E. Bowater on horseback. Her Majesty honoured Mr. Partridge with a sitting for her portrait. Major-General Wemyss had the honour of dining with the Royal party last evening. This morning the Queen and Prince Albert, and the Royal suite, attended Divine Service at St. George's Chapel Royal. The Rev. C. W. Knyvett took the first part of the duty; and the Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean, and the Rev. Dr. Keat, officiated at the altar. The sermon was preached by the-latter, from the 29th verse of the 20th c h a pt er o f the Gospel accord ing to St. John—" Jesus saith, Thomas, because thou hast seen, thou has believed; blessed are they who have not seen, and yet have believed." The Te Deum and Jubilate was Dr. Boyce's in A; the Sanctus, Kyrie Elieson, and Creed were Dr. King's in C. The Anthem (a solo) " Holy, holy," was very nicely sung, by Master Foster, followed by the Hallelujah Chorus, Handel. Saturday was the birth-day of his Royal High ness Prince George of Cambridge. The Prince came to town from Kew and paid a visit to her Majesty the Queen Dowager at Marlborough house, and also visited his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex at Kensington Palace, and re turned to Kew in the afternoon. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess ofCambridge had a dinner party in the evening at their resi dence at Kew. His Serene Highness Prince Ed ward of Saxe Weimar and a select party were present. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anne Maria Dawson, left her residence, Clarence House, St. James's, at eleven o'clock on Saturday morning, on a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. The Crown Jewels having been deposited in the New Jewel House in the Tower, are now ex hibited to the public as heretofore. The Lady Mayoress had an audience of her Majesty the Queen Dowager on Saturday at Marlborough House. The Archbishop of Canterbury and Viscount Marsham had interviews with Lord Stanley on Saturday ; at the Colonial-office. A Deputation of Postmasters, consisting of Mr. H. Gray, Earl-street, Blackfriars, Mr. J. K. Higgins, George Hotel, Northampton, Mr. John Chancellor, of Chelsea, Mr. J. Biggs, South-. place, Finsbury; Mr. J. Dixon, Red Lion, Hen ley ; Mr. T. H. Whitmarsh, Green Man, Black heath, and Mr. R. Newman, Regent-street, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Ex chequer on Saturday, at his official residence in Downing -street. Despaches from the Governor of Canada, and also from the Governors of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, were received on Saturday at the Colonial-office. The Earl of Munster and his brother have arrived in town from the Continent, and are staying with the Countess at the Grosvenor Hotel. The funeral of the late Earl is ap pointed to take place to-morrow (Tuesday) at Hampton. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex sent yesterday 'to inquire atter the state of the family. His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge visited Lord Adolphus Fitz-Clarence on Saturday at his residence in St. James's Palace. His Lordship paid a visit yesterday to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester House. Among the Nobility and Gentry who paid visits of condolence yesterday, and on Saturday, were the Dowager Duchess of Richmond, the Marquis of Hertford, Earl of Charleville, Earl of Yar borough, Earl of Malmesbury, Earl of Cardigan, Lord and Lady Worsley, Lord Alfred Paget, Lord Fitzgerald, Lord W. Paulet, Lord Allen, Hon. Sir W. and Lady Lumley, Hon. Captain Macdonald, Sir Henry Wheatley, Sir Andrew Barnard, Sir J. Lyon, Sir Courtney Boyle, Sir Hilgrove Turner, Sir J. Mcßae, Sir W. Lake, General Brown, Colonel Gurwood, Captain Be resford, Mr. Keate, Mr. Salame, Mr. Maxse, and Mr. Wombwell. MONUMENT TO THE LATE HENRY HUNT. The Manchester Guardian of Saturday gives an account of the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of a monument to the memory of the late. Henry Hunt, of R a dic a l celebrity. • The ceremony took place on Friday, in the burial-ground attached to the Rev. James Scholefield's chapel, Every street. The numbers congregated in Every-street and its neighbourhood at this time could not be less than 15,000, probably one-half of whom were Char tists, the remainder being chiefly working men, who were enjoying the holiday, and took no part in the procession. A penny was demanded of each person as the price of admission, but a large number obtained free access by forc ing their way, and by scaling the walls. Seve ral platforms were erected for spectators, for which they were to pay 6d. each, but they were all thinly occupied, except that from which the meeting was addressed. Upwards of 7,000 persons obtained ad mission to witness the ceremony, besides those who occupied the walls of the burying-ground. The out line of the intended monument was sketched on a black board, and exhibited to the assembly. It is to be in the form of an obelisk, and will be thirty feet high. The base is 5 feet 11 inches square, and the plinth on which it rests is ten feet square. There are spacious vaults underneath, intended as the deposi tories of the remains of those who shall distinguish themselves in promoting the principles advocated by the late Henry Hunt. Beneath the foundation stone Mr. O'Connor deposited the memoirs of Henry Hunt, the history of the Peterloo massacre, and his letters from Ilchest er gao l t o the Reformers— also the placard announcing the ceremony, a copper plate likeness of Mr. O'Connor, and a copy of an address, which was subsequently read to the meeting by Mr. Scholefield. The address having referred ito the affray at Peterloo, stated, that, " to perpetuate the memory of Henry Hunt, Esq., and of those who fell in that action, it was resolved to erect a public monu ment, and thus show to future generations how the people of these times estimated sterling worth, and how they appreciate genuine patriotism .' Mr. Mr. Fear gus O'Connor then addressed the assembly at consi derable length, eulogised Henry Hunt, deprecated physical force, and inculcated the observance of peace, law, and order. Mr. Cooper, a Chartist, then mo ve d, " That we, the Chartists of Manchester, Salford, and other vicinities, feel grateful to the Rev. James Schole field for his exertions in procuring the erection of this monument to our departed friend, the late Henry Hunt, Esq., and pledge ourselves to afford that gen tleman all the support in our power, whether pecu• niary or otherwise, until the work be completed.' KENSINGTON POLICE-COURT.—The attendance of the Magistrates at the Kensington Police -court, as well as at the Wandsworth Police -court, have been directed by an Order in Council, inserted in last Tuesday's London Gazette, to be altered on and after March 28th. Since the opening of the above police -courts in Fe bruary, 1841, the business has been transacted at Ken sington in the forenoon and at Wandsworth in the after noon ; but in future the Magistrates will commence at Wandsworth, and sit from ten o'clock until one ; and at Kensington from two o'clock until five. There is no truth in the paragraph which has gone the round of the papers, during the past week, of the intended opening of a police-court at Hammersmith, that portion of the suburbs extending to Kew-bridge being within the dis trict of the Kensington Police-court. THE LEICESTER HUNT.—The annual hunt dinner takes ?lace at Leicester on Tuesday next, at the Three Crowns Hotel, when Mr. E. B. Hartopp will preside. A grand ball and supper are to be given at the Assembly Rooms the same evening, under the stewardship of the Earl of Wilton, Sir Edmund Hartopp, Bart., Mr. B. B. Hartopp, and Mr. Henry Greene. A Yankee captain once sung out in a squall, to a raw hand newly shipped on b oar d hi s cra f t ; 'let go the jib, there! let go that jib I ant a touchin' it I' squall ed out the simple down-easter in return PHRENOLOGICAL SOCIETY In answer to questions from Mr. Churchill, Mr. Noden, and Mr. Ki r b y, w h o had been present at many of the experiments related by Mr. A., confirmed his statement in every particular. Other cases were mentioned, of which the Archbishop of York was a witness ; and two gentlemen related the case of a lady in Devonshire, who, from a fright, had incurred a morbid nervous sensibility, and manifested a power of clairvoyance similar to that of Mr. Atkinson's patients, being able to read without the eyes ! Mr. Bulteel, the son-in-law of Earl Grey, and two arch deacons (whose names escaped the reporter) had witnessed and borne testimony to this lady's extraor dinary faculties. MESMERO-PHRENOLOGY IN MANCHESTER.— The Manchester papers of last week contain reports of public experiments, by M r . B roo k es an d Mr. Nilson, in every respect corresponding with those related by . Mr. Atkinson. But the detail is too long for our in sertion here. The most curious appear in the Man chester Advertiser of Thursday last, 24th inst., in reports of public lectures in that town. I A GOOD WORD AT SUPPOSED PARTING._ Lord Hill is at lengtkibout to retire from the army, and it is but justice to say, that he lays down his authority with the respect and good will of all parties. No man hold ' ing like him a station of great power and patronage for so many years, and independent of all constitutional con trol, could have carried himself with more moderation or less offence.—Dublin Monitor. The other day, as sotne parties were sawing an oak tree into planks, at Willington Wharf, they discovered a knife-blade embedd e d i n th e so lid wood, 9i- inches below the bark. The tree grew on Needwood Forest, and, it is supposed the knife-blade originally belonged to some deer stealers, who had stuck it in the tree and forgotten it.—Derby Reporter. Five or six workmen, after drinking on Sunday at a wine-shop in the Rue de Charonne until they became riotous, called for more liquor in tones which induced a well-conducted journeyman cabinet-maker to make a sign to the master of the house not to give them any. This being perceived by the drinkers, they became enraged,, and raised a quarrel, in which one of them. stabbed the wine-dealer in the shoulder with a knifeeand the others, seizing the journeyman by the arm, twisted it with such force, that the bone was broken in a frightful manner. The guard was sent for, but before it could arrive the workmen all made their escape except one, on whom was found the knife with which the host was wounded. This man was committed to prison, and the journeyman carried to the hospital in a lamentable condition. The wound of the wine-dealer ' is not serious. An attempt tts escape from the prison of Blois was made on the night of the 18th b y five m en , w h ose cells were adjoining. They contrived to get into the corridor by sawing "through the lower part of their doors, and . triecf in the same manner to cut through a thick door at the end of the corridor, but its strength resisted all their efforts. They then heaped together close to it all the combustible matter they could find, such as their wooden shoes, the straw of their beds, and the pieces of the broken doors, and set the heap on fire. The smoke not having sufficient issue soon became intolerable, and they were forced to call for help. When the keepers entered four of the men were senseless, and the other scarcely able to move. Three of them recovered, but the fourth, named Diguet, con demned to hard labour for life at the hulks, was beyond human aid. The loftiest mountain in Van Dieman's Land is Ben Lomond, which is 5,002 feet above the level of the sea. The source of the Nevi is 4,033 feet, the Great Lake is 3,822 feet, above the level. The highest inhabited sta tion is Government Hut, at the Traveller's River, 3,949 feet high ; and the loftiest-seated town is Marlborough, which is elevated 2,838 feet above the level of the sea. At the first meeting of the London Phrenological Society, for the present month, the President, Dr. Elliotson, in the Chair, Mr. Henry, a gentl eman re cently returned from America, presented to the so ciety, on the part of Mr. Drew, a member, two casts of sculls of the flat-headed Indians who inhabit the banks of the Columbia river. The appearance which these specimens presented was most remarkable. The whole of the superior -anterior part of the skull was flattened nearly to the level 'of the eyebrows,- so that it would be supposed that all that part of the brain which phrenologists consider to be the seat of the intellectual faculties was altogether wanting. But it was the opinion of Mr. Henry (in which the meeting generally con curred) that the organs were displaced, or dislocated, and not destroyed by the artificial pressure which produces the deformity. For he had found those In dians as intelligent, or nearly so, as those of neigh bouring tribes, who did not use the same unnatural custom. He said that the sculls were obtained with difficulty and risk ; for the natives have great vene ration for the remains of the dead, which they watch with so much jealousy, that eleven Englishmen have been shot in attempting to obtain possession of speci mens. The thanks of the society were voted with much applause to Mr. Drew, for this valuable contri bution. MESMERO-PHRENOLOGY.-Mr. Atkinson read his promised paper relating to experiments, from which Mesmerism was supposed to establish, not only the truth of the phrenological theory, but the exact and precise correctness of the phrenological allocation and momenclature of the several organs. From the last report which we gave of the proceedings of this Society, it was seen that simultaneously in America and in the South of England, several gentlemen, having na communication with each other, and no knowledge of each other's proceedings, reported dis coveries of very wonderful phenomena in Mesmero phrenology. Mr. Atkinson states that his discoveries were 'accidental, and that he supposed them to be exclusively his, as, at the time the phenomena pre sented themselves to his observation, he knew no thing of the experiments of Dr. Collyer and, the other physicians in America, or of Mr. Gardiner in Hamp shire. After some preliminary observations on the reluctance of most persons to acknowledge new truths, and the claims of Mesmerism to calm and dispassionate examination, he explained the progress of his own mind in relation to this mysterious subject, from incredulity to convinced belief. He had no love . of the marvellous, and what he was going to relate was only what nature had revealed to him in the presence of a number of intelligent per sons, some of whom were at the time opposed both to phrenology and mesmerism. His first case was that of a young lady, 18 years of age, of a sanguine, ner vous temperament, brain well developed—ldeality, Wonder, and Time, very lar ge , th e percept i ve facul ties moderate. After being thrown into the mesmeric sleep, she appeared as if lost in the enjoyment of an exquisite dream. Her countenance assumed an ex pression of intense happiness, and when spoken to, she prayed not to be disturbed, " she was so happy," she. turned her head round, and rubbed the organ of Ideality against the cushion at the back of the chair. After a time she put back her hair from over Ideality, and began passing her fingers back wards and forwards over that organ. Her expression continued a beautiful exhibition of the natural lan guage of ideality. Moving her fingers a little higher, she exclaimed' "Oh ! Grand !" Her sister then played some expressive music ; whereupon she passed her fingers on to the organ of Tune. In reply to a question from Mr. A., she said, " Oh, yes ; I hear the music. It is beautiful. It is part of the picture." On being awakened, she had no recollection of what had passed, more than that she had slept a long time, and had been very happy. The second case was that of a lady subject to fainting fits and hysteria. She was mesmerised in five minutes the first time, and could not be awakened by ordinary, but only by mesmeric means. Th e f o ll ow i ng day she was mesmerised without being conscious that the process was performed on her, the operator being behind her, and, as she supposed, sketching at the window. Her attention was, at the same time, confined to her work, by a lady who sat beside her. Her eyes became perfectly closed, and then a book was held before her, from which she read, though with difficulty and reluctance. But the size of the type seemed to make no difference. The next case was that of a young lady, who read some lines from a book held over her forehead, so that she could not have seen it if her eyes had been open ; but they were in fact perfectly closed, and she had, not power to open them. Mr. A. held the back of his watch (and it was a hunting watch) over the organ of Time, when she told the hour correctly. A great many other experiments were made upon her with the like success. On one occasion she could not read when the book was held to her fore head, and she then said it was on account of the re cent leech-marks that were there. She could be mes merised in spite of strenuous efforts on her part to resist the influence. The hands pressed firmly over the eyes, and pressing down the lids, did not interrupt the vision. By picturing different scenes, effects, and feelings, the mesmeriser excited different organs at pleasure, alternately inducing laughter, tears, joy, and sorrow. He pictured to her the effects of battle, its plea sures and horrors, love, friendship, bright colours, music, &c., and she followed him in the most excited manner, passing her hands from organ to organ, in rapid succession, and -in a manner which would be impossible to the best phrenologist in his working state. She used sometimes one, sometimes both hands, pressing on one or several organs as on the keys 'of a pianoforte. She stretched out her fingers to enter an excited part ; and, if one hand could not reach it, the other went to it, for she seemed to act with one side of the brain only at a time. She pressed the different organs the more firmly, the more they were excited, covering one or several at once, as they were excited singly or in combination. Her age was twenty— frame firm—temparament bilious lymphatic—head Ordinary size —intellect well balanced —perceptive faculties predominant, but not deep. She was subject to hysterical fits, shortness of breath, sleepless nights, fatigue from little exertion, and want of appetite—of all of which she had been relieved by mesmerism ; and Mr. A. affirmed that he had cured others by those simple means. The BUDGET, No. VI. 'This day is published. priv , rr II E B U D F., Containing a EL LETTER to SIR ROBERT On the Distinctive Effects of Taxes upon REAL! PERTY, and of Tax es u pon INDUSTRY. p' 4 I 3 ER of the POLITICAL ECONOMY COP,' 0 Published by Smith, Elder, and Co., Co bi b ; had of all Booksellers and Newsvendtrs. TO CORRESPONDEN T.- • "A Lover of Fair Play" is a very bad iot lO c bl not follow that , because the oppoiittl 11, Robert Peel fo r p os tp on ing his Prescri° P to swallow the noxious potion at THE WEATHER.—Noorf, . 1 ".„ 1 :; ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, A DEL_AI -- ;„e Thermometer... 52 Highest .. ... 52 I Low e ,' t I roin„, Barometer 29.78,—Wind W. — Freezing Freezing D; t o HIGH WATER AT LONDON G g 9 m ina j Morning 49 minutes after 2. Evening .... e ' • - _ h, „,,,..,:, % c.,...,...... , ~4„..........,,,L, ~,,,..,.. „Tt),,,, *tronla VVitto SUN OFFICE, Three it There is a good deal of raiscenaneoug g ed th 0551r 0 New York papers to the Bth inst., receive d ing, by way o f Li verpoo l, b y the Peke, ,' 5 o af Henry. In th e fi rs t place there is a 1 0 ,hic0, IVPLEop affair getti ng u p a t Lockport, j° e bee' tive of the " Em era ld I s l e " i s t o replace ai e p , ' 4 " the " Lando Cakes." The name of.tb i _ . ., e s tt:P; date for the gallows is HOGAN, and it Vi le 1' crossing the fronti er was a me re act t : th oll e ,i No sooner had he a pp eare d a t Lockport pounced upon by th e sympa thi s ers and c° ,i 1 0 9) prison. We s up pose th e f arce o f another ' O O, gone through, and after a deal of ridiccl eu t on the part of the American authorities, jusgotifi how mighty i n d e p en d en t t h ey are , and sv bet „ li they can perform w ithi n th e i r ow n territe''' will be sent about his business. the e/ We trust the ar res t o f HOGAN Wi ll --I.e ro ubl e , of accelerati ng th e fi na l sett l emen t of till s " per Caroline question. DANIEL WE1 351.° ( :, TYLER, and Lo r d A suntn troN, must b e e ho ' ous to deprive a set of unprincipled 1143 , O r turers of a handl e by w hi c h th ey c an at e. "" reil t turb the peaceful relations between tsve h ip tries. It is a di sgrace to t h e s t a tes 0 1 0 1 .0 nineteenth century that a M'Lzom or 1 %b0ie,4 any other pennyl ess , rec kl ess a d ven ture - it in his power at any moment to i n volve illtbel,j two of the mighti es t commerc i a l na tions i tl e co y a ,'l Next in importa nce t o th e seizureNted O, f decision of the S u p reme C ourt o f the u annulling as unconstitutional an Act of ri l os ture of Pennsyl van i a , d ec l ar i ng th a t DV :a 413 V be forcibly ca rr i e d ou t o f t h e S tate a s a 74 without an inqui r y b e f ore a J u r y . Tb e rte ld iv t. concurred in this decision were, Mr. STORY, Mr. Justice - DANIEL, Mr. Ju S ",i p Mr. Justice B ALDWIN , an d Mr. Ale'-ets We quote as exceedingly curious, the P°'", damental constitutional law affirmed by the Judges : st: a i l Ist. That the provision in the Co' e r a ,' United States relative to fugitive slaves ex, ar j r, so far as to authorize the owner or his ag en ; f ta ; Ay/ fugitive in any State of the Union, as prop e'''„ ior no State law is constitutional which interfere" g right. legi6 l l ti° ' 2d. The provision also contemplates Congress, to mak e th e d e li very o f a fug'i ti " e effectual against all St a t e or ot h er i n t e rferenf, 3d. That Congress having lecr b isl4ted, ' is the suprem e l aw o f t h e land, excluding D eb ; r lation upon the same su bj ec t• ' and ?ton by Con gress , no S tate can pass anY la , tO 4 ", e f,l impede, or control the remedy given by the ss IF A I 4th. The power of legislation by Conb — _,,, lo b , ' sive; and no State can pass any law toen t ie l of the constitutional provision in regard to ' ll :die i ll even though Congress had not legislated 41: °,-; sth. That the points thus decided are `.7,01 0 ,ii intended to interf ere w i t h t h e police pow_ .. .er to take up runaw a y s l aves , and guard ag'* or conduct or depred a ti ons . The Legislature of Pennsyl v ania previ. ile ; l ) , question of slavery should b e decided 11 .. The Judges of the Supreme Court say n° e l s y of the Constitutio n f or th e se i zure of s linfte itself—in other words, a slave-owner 11 / 5 1 — • a fugitive as his slave, depose the fact beft' bet trate, and so ca rr y o ff hi s v i ct i m, who 101,0 man or woman The decision of the Jul' t e c ei strous and abominable. The Act of O e L c iej of Pennsylva n i a , th us se t as id e by til e ' ;re 9 ' passed in 1826, for th e express purpose the free men and women of that State carried into Maryland, and other states' s9, derat i+ , l the lying depo s iti ons o f th e agents o f sisiL l - Or t p The Legislat ure o f Fl or id a h ave a41 0 1 346 : 6 0 t i f e resolutions a ga i ns t the payment of the Site Y. , . on the ground th a t th ey were con t ra cted cutive, without the consent of the peopl e " e fl passed an Act, which prohibits all banks,' pay specie f or any o f t h e i r lia bili t i es , n 1. 70, 5 01 :1 , loans, or buying or discounting notes orl/e55, change, declaring such bills and notes object of all this legislation is to establisl 4 ,' t Jl if , a specie currency. The Legislature of l' e lc ' of r have passed an A c t, f or compe lli ng the bang Adj State to resume sp ec i e p ayments on the 1 5 ' t The celebrated K en t uc k y S ena t o r, fil l : retires from public life, and is to be rep hic ,oo) , gress by M r . C RITTENDEN. Of . late ; to o ) CLAY'S popularity has declined in this e lt ° l l oi consequence of the mark e d ma nner in if i mixed himself up with Mr. Wisz and other posing th e no bl e e ff orts o f JON Qn ll4° ,l H . 0 1 for the am e li ora ti on o f s l avery i n the 'Un ite- f t/ •-• • letter, WO 4 'We have inserted one letter, with ex - i another, on the present state of th e :,!fh' f ;/ Scotland, in order that our readers P e l :J otr e ; opinion of the sentiments entertained by iefl ents differing, in every respect, from th °l . s put forth i n Th e S un on this ireP°7l/40 The partie s are strong advocates f or w e tb the people, a n d if wor d s always cotiveY d-e '1 the sentiments of thos e w h o use th em , our 'fr t i i e ents would find us cordially su pporting+he what has been called, at vario us times, ,ct Act," the t, Non-Intrusion principle, . 0 51 4 " Rights of th e Ch r i st i an peop l e, " but be( ' cf, can see no su c h p r i nc i p l e as that th e Y. nto ;e for em b o di e d i n t h e new scheme, we core been opposed to it. Their letters% w e Off have not at all tended to change our opini °ll : te rs the contrary, they confirm it, because the W r t i o roe • evidently no j us t concep ti on o f t h e d a nger . rights which this ecclesiasti ca l s t a tute contelfielpoc they point out any f eas ibl e p l an b y which t h t y fc e eery can, in reality, confer on eongregati' ns fo ali d i fair, and f u ll c h o i ce o f t h e i r pastors . 10 lig io o4 ;y representative con s tit u ti on , e ith er c i v il or re re of I f is clear that ever y thi ng d epen d s on the nat u o titl e ,f franchise and the qualifications which fob . . i joir l at exercise it. These are all distinctly lnole it Pr every consitutional charter, they are minu te A l' s pv in the Reform Act, and so important was 1.- o ,o o° ol the subject considered, that special Col' o ct a l were appointed by Parliament to wet eil , rights of electors, and administer to t' e o f and impartial justice. Has any Inec hineri es4 kinebeen prepared, or even demanded, i br r , into effect the Veto Act ? None whAte,,, ite e' c o right to vot e i s ves t e d i n h ea d s o f families, l l " do cri l t o neon with the Church, but no law is la g "., to t y define the qua lifi ca ti ons w hi c h en title a roan es privilege. These are as various and tri dispositions and caprices of the different in c orj What one man may consider a sin anothe' mell ders not only lawful, but just and go d ' 0 ° li ie from the c lergyma n t o the Presbytery ne o a mockery, when the Presbytery h a Pk o contain a majority of members, eutertsl.B ririp same religious opinions. The atrocious el l : b re' l lately came before the Presbytery of -'ooll#',l is a striking confirmation of the statement , f°l. OP` the complainant had only followed a long a es,000; practice, and buried one of his family on g re he could obtain no relief, and was compelled e ) coo Th expense, to appeal to another tribunal. 0 0. plainant may meet the same fate in the Si n rti l second appeal must then be made to the Gene sembly, at still greater expense ; and consiu e 0 11 . character of the majority in that Church ven t` r 4 there are ten chances to o ne that his °oil would be rejected, and th e un f or tunate f ie ,,01 7 compelled to submit or l eave th e c h u rch of Iv' had long been a sincere and faithful mercil:!°‘ t t a E S, b t , Th,ll Atic A T ,A Th, 3, Ivil,l 1 1. :it' l l 41 1 _ it te r.(,