The Sun. — London, England, 1842-01-25 00:00:00

t, Obe r , oog " •°' ofilti ta ble, 1 1,4 ,iooli ;cler ° MORNING SUN th e tro o th e Ps are to be distributed in detached bodies, and „,mrninunication between them kept up. 14 , 1 4 roads to and from Frogmure and the C.stle-hill, r t.° be kept clear by parties of the Royal Horse Guards. will % troops assembled at Windsor upon this occasion ° dissed of, according to her Majesty's intention, roeruder the Superintendence of General Viscount Comber co le ' (j ail, Gold-Stick in Waiting. r of the Kin' Gentlemen.a arms will be t stationed at the entrance °f' th e eh „, of , Prussia ' s apartments, at the door t h ei Chapter -room at the north and south doors of the , and in the Grand Reception-room. to Yeome n til of the Guard will be stationed at the entrance ou e stone vestibule of the grand entrance in the outer ,lie Wolsey t o t ar throom, in the Waterloo Gallery, at the entrances Hall, and to the chapel. ste'Sirtacatesporters will be stationed at the top of the grand ar h the M 1 s —alnlgn will be placed outside at the entrance to Nsey Hall. • THE KING OF PRUSSIA. apills Maj esty t h e Ki ng o f P russ i a left Windsor a'stle yesterday morning, and came to town by P e cial train on th e G re at Western Railway, frs 14 ° .al Slough. His Majesty proceeded to West ininster Abbey, and spent some time in sYeeti ng that sacred edifice. H i s M a j esty a l so pa a visit t o h er M a j est y th e Queen Dowager A ti l aide, at h er res id ence , M a rlborough House, h is C r e an elegant dejeune was served, of which li Majesty p artoo k. 4 ,,,,2 5 Majesty left the metropolis in the after -8017n) 'and ret urne d b y a spec i a l t r ain to Wind sor to dinner, when a grand banquet was "a in honour of his Majesty. bun- (mom CORRESPONDENT.) n gyesterday morning his Majesty the King O w f o : L rils sia ? attended by his suite, went over the te ;" Of the new H ouses o f P ar li am ent, and af- M war ds visited W es tminster Hal). There was ahe crowd assem bl e d i n P a l ace -yard, and his 04 es tY was lo u dly c h eere d both on leaving and e.entering his carriage. hisllt DUKE OF CLEVELAND. of regret to learn that there is no alleviation d D r o ,Grace's symptoms. Sir H. Halford an hi orri narnbers visited their patient yeste t rd o a n y e o' e l o ,, l ,ng, and remained for some time. A follo a bulletin was exhibited, of which the « w ing is aco :-- it; h !ia Grace the Duke of Cleveland remains 8 same state of danger. J ames's-square, Jan. 24, 1542." COrTi a _ ‘ . \ -.A.T OF COMMON COUNCIL. 4`,„ -- DRESS TO THE KING OF PRUSSIA. y est -ueeti ng of the Court of Common Council was held the t rd aY, at ten o'clockl for the purpose of dis Fussin g. L ow est mode of testifying the respect of the citizens t o e t . o,ca's9ll toward s his Majesty the King of Prussia, on h atte nd l ° 4 °f his visit to this country for the purpose of The the christening of the Prince of Wales. . tor l e 1 4°ItD MAYOR having briefly stated the object I l s `uich the Court had been called, S A, r l KING rose to propose that the Court do invite his be giv a J e es.y the King of Prussia to honour a banquet . to th,i r um the Guildhall for the purpose of testifying thi s r espect to his Majesty on the occasion of his visit to W a h e , °e 'ltr,„Y to attend the christening of the Prince of his i s ' and to show his Majesty the admiration in which ),;aracter is held by the citizens of London. ~WILLIAMS seconded the motion. eff eet TePtlty STEVENS proposed an amendment, to the sea t 'at a Committee, consisting of the Aldermen pre p,,i" and one member from each ward, should be ap xitted to determine the best mode of proceeding. ANDER TON seconded the amendment. short discussion ensued, in which some of the sPetkera deprecated a banquet on the ground of ex tee'"' and recommended that an address merely should voted to his Majesty. This view appeared to receive "Probation of the majority. eet WIRE urged the propriety of the amendment, and themwithdrawal o f th e or i g i na l mo ti on . The Co u rt might decide th e quest i on in pr i vate , w hi c h wou ld give PPearance of unanimity without discussion. s h or t. Itnic withdrew his motion ; and, after another e °ll discussion, the amendment was carried, and the etnalittee was appointed, and retired from the Court. , After about an hour's absence the Committee re `!ilered he Court, and Sir P. LAURIE, the Chairman, e B o ` e e d th t e t fter considerable deliberation, they had appro priate to a r i e es a o o lntion to the effect that the most t proceeding on the occasion of the visit of th course of Prussia to attend the christening of the 'lace of Wales, was that of voting to his Majesty a jttwo imtiaebi 0 1 e a s l y d Address, • ' and Mr. Deputy Stevens, who had so proposed the appointment of the Committee, ° aid now, with the concurrence of the Court, move an kir44dres' according • IIING was ready to concur in the address, but b sh 4 ,, e d that to the address be added an invitation to a P et •—(eries of Oh. oh.) Another short discussion ensued. fact tl f l ' e t ° ll bEtt called the attention of the Court to the theta, ...„%i t fte Report of a Committee was now before Pert, or "'a Proper course was either to adopt that Re- Irr: r w ° , rr eally move an amendment to it. Mr. A`l'LlAms was in favour of the banquet. th e xi ..libEtrrox was as ready as any one to honour lar go " Prussia, but was this a time to expend a sillopl v -ilna of money in a banquet—a sum which would pers ons ',llstenance to thirty or forty thousand poor Th e '—(Hear, and cries of " Order.") an ?!selution o f t h e C omm itt ee was ultimately put A tr 4 ,:r . ied, w i t h few dissentients. t o hi; A A- t 'NG the n move d , t h at i n a dditi on to the address t leet 1 4 a j eat Y, the Ring of Prussia be invited to a ban fusior 1 ,, 6 Guildhall. I LLIAms seconded the motion amid some con tute3' and call e d upon the Town Cl er k to read the mi kit of I the C ourt which recorded t h e i nv i tat i on t o th e The enmark in 1768. 111 tit t ; 41 „ ' T ildes were then read, and it appeared that the 1 44'0 of his Danish Majesty was to dine with the wks er\ - IYor at the Mansion-house, and moreover tha!, it It A mled to his Majesty and the members of his suite. titliAewa-s ultimately proposed that, in order to avoid the for 48aatness of giving a direct negative to the motion slue e ncluet, the Court should proceed to the other bu st ea eo or the day —namely, to the address. This was di„, a greed to. elred. - " u sslell then took place, and an Address was pre -111 r. ' it h " I CrENS produced the Address, which was i read_ t ioti a s ed doors, and unanimously and with acc ama „ 51 ' - 2 t ecl• He took occasion, in his speech, to speak n ''alt e tr eat exertions made by the King of Prussia to . character of his people, and to give them a ,„ tiej ution adapted to a great country, rapidly ad krag m civilization. --(Cheers.) ki ellsl, W 'RE seconded the Address, which was unani- s tp `ell 41 ,', 1 agreed to, and ordered to be ornamentally writ iue of.., e ,mblazoned, and presented to his Majesty the rrussia, b ' t eoo tli ,"' s then or d ere d t h a t th e R e membrancer should, . :r l l4i' s all led by .the Sheriffs, wait upon the King of 414 whomlearn fro him his will and pleasure when e re he w ou ld receive the Address P U NTING APPOINTMENTS. ci a ll eY hunt will meet on Wednesday, Braybrooke sc , n , ,aseby • Saturday, Misterton-10i. )4 ° , -ille uthshi re hounds, Tb., LlandewyCourt-101. F ridaytilssell's hounds, Wednesday, Wilton Gilbert 21 W hitworth Park-11. 45 arta ls ',, 44 ertson's hounds, Wednesday, Ilderton; Friday, \v.°l'; Saturday Cornhill-101. Ilniteeross harriers, Thursday, Terrick-10/. 1-14„50,4 Ro thschild's staghounds, Wed., Wingrave- 1I r i. qs,,y ''lerneSS hounds, Thursday, Barmston Beacon; F Ch 1 , Li ut e rr r i Burton-104. Hildyard's harriers, Wednesday, Kennels; 4 .eklam Blue Bell-101. 4 , Yard hounds, Thursday, Bradbury Bridge-10i. Prid - „''' of llarewod's hounds, Wednesday, Stockield; 4 3 , Thorp Arch-14. ~idata.bitehotrpu h oun ds Wednesday, at Lobster House ; t o Y, at Bishop Wilton Beacon-10 4 . Cob s ale ho unds Wednesday, at Wood End ; Friday, at Burton-10 and Ainsty l° l:ounds, Thursday, at Skelton ; C -4Y, Eivington-10:}. leveland hounds, Thursday, West Coatham. _ yfo7throro hounds,Wednesday, Far Wood ; Friday, ~, 14.,.rushford harriers, Wednesday, Northmoor ; Friday, u sTi r seY 1 - 1 01 . 1 , 14 . . Ridley's hounds, Wednesday,Wagg on and S tur tia ; Friday sixth mile stone, Military-road ; a 37, Throple. I.,,?arubridgeshire hounds, Wednesday, Bleak 'Hall ; Patton 'Wood-104. s at _!t Sussex hounds, Thursday, Plumpton Crossways ; Tic am Dan y-101. '_Kham hounds, Thursday ; Key-street-10i. Union hounds, Saturday, Kennel. t Essex h ounds, ThUrsday, 13raxted Green ; Sat., e s l goe•-10. , s G., e l and Suffolk hounds, Friday, Hin• tlesham Park No rf . lk hound s , Th ursday, M i leham-10 i . "'eY hounds Thursday, Clifton's - Spinney ; bat, M eY--- 11 te linnibledon hounds, W e d nes d a y, B ar n-Gre e n ; F r iday, pp r etes Ca s tl e D own-11. ' Tu dway's hds, Thurs., Keeper's House, Stavordale. lr Cockb urn ' s hounds, Friday, Cotford Bridge. S at „, "V• Carew' s h ounds, Thurs., Woodland's Kennel ; Chudleigh Bridge-11. Friday, Kihnanjack Wood. I.o°Nuay harriers, Fri., Wickaborough Oak, Berry. N,elscombe harriers, Friday, at Morley, 4el_vtWadsworth hounds, Thursday, Red House ; Saturday, orth T oor op— • Giless hounds, Thursday, Highnam-10. o,,4,.erefordshere hounds, Friday, at the Fifth Mile Stone Froome's Hill •Road-10. Ivl lite d Pack, Thursday, Lower Westhope-9. eatland hound s , F r id ay, Shi rlett Monument • ! ,I,l,lLon t gomeryshi re h ounds, Friday, Dolbran-10. ; , T;rbrokeshi re hounds, Thursday, D enan t Mill. 'vyside hounds, Th urs d ay, Eglwysrw Village. ar/titirwumay, orth roftbhounds, h Tu 101.rsday High Worsen Toll-bar ; Cridge— GI;- -avEsEND.--The Secretar y of State has ic()rilniended th e L ord Chancellor to appoint the follow bog gentlemen to be Magistrates for the town ind oll J gh of G ravesen d and 'Milton, vi z ., M r . R. P. C rn d en, ni:rib, Mr. E. Tic suer, and Mr. M. Trouglitou: MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. MoNOXY EVENING. A moderate business was transacti'd to-day in the public securities, Confined however almost entirely to reul transfers, the jobbers and others evincing but little disposition to enter into speculative operations. Prices were maintained both for the Funded and Un funded Debt. Consols for present transfer have been quoted 89/ to 89+, and for the Account 891 to 89i. Exchequer Bills were done at the improved premium of Saturday, viz., 17s. to 19s. ; and East India Bonds reached 13s. premium. New Three-and-a-Balf per Cents. were at 981 to 981; Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents. at 99/ to 991 ; and the Three per Cent. Annuities at 89 to 894.. The only bargain in Bank Stock was at 168. for Account. India Stock was not dealt in. _ It being now clearly ascertained that Senhor Borrajo has the money for the dividends on the Capitalised Stock, some parties anticipate an improvement in the value of the Spanish Bonds. To-day, however, there was not much doing either in them or the other Foreign Stocks. The Active Spanish Bonds closed a shade bet ter for the Acnunt, viz., at 25 to 25*, but for Money were quiet at 25. Portuguese Stock went lower, the decline being from 34 to 33*, and 334 for the New Five per Cents., and from 20* to 20 for the Three per Cents. The news from Lisbon was not looked upon as favoura ble. Colombian Stock was rather lower, viz., 22* to 218. Mexican was not higher than 29i ; and Brazilian receded to 651 and 65. Belgian were firm at 103 ; French Five per Cents. at 117 f.; and Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents. at 511 to 511. Except South Western Shares, the Railways generally were held at a lower value to-day. Great Western were 211 to 22; Birmingham, 79:4 to 80; and South Western, 191 to 20* premium. Brighton ranged from 13* to 13*; Blackwall from 138 to ; and Midland Counties were 20 discount. London .Joint Stock Bank Shares were 21 premium ; and National Provincial Bank of Eng land were at par. _ _ _ (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JAN. 22.—The market continues in a dull inactive state, about 3,000 bales find ing purchasers in the trade. In prices there is no alteration. LIT:ERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JAN. 22.—The quo tations principally on demand at the close of the week: — Eastern Counties, 81 ; Debentures, 101.95. 2d.; Grand Junction, 195 196 ; Half do., 974; London and Birming ham, Half shares, 57i; Manchester and Leeds, quarter shares, a. 18s. 6d. ; Midland Counties, 84 ; North Mid land, New, 36 ; York and North Midland, 92 ; Paris and Rouen, 13. MAN( HE-,TER STOCK • EXCHANGE. JAN. 22.—We have bad very little business doing to-day. Local Bank Shares are more in demand. Midland Counties, 83 to 82 ; Great Western, 88 ; Manchester and Leeds, 72 to 73 ; London and Birmingham, 169 to 1704 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 30 to 32. There are no later arrivals to-day front any quarter. Both the English and Foreign Securities opened at the leaving-off prices of Saturday. Consols for Money 89k 4, and 894 lor the Account; Three per C ents. Re duced, 894 I; Ditto Three-and-a-Half, 994 Exchequer Bills, 17 19 prem. Spanish Active Stock, 24i 25 ; Portuguese Five per Cents. 34i ; ditto Threes, 204 1. There has been - but little business transacted in the Stock Exchange this morning, and the only alteration to notice is in Spanish Active Stock, which has advanced to 25j; Portuguese Five per Cents. are 334, and the Threes 20; Colombian Bonds, 22k. Consols firm at 89* 4 for Money, and 89k for the Account; Exchequer Bills 17 19, premium. Very little doing in Shares; quotations the same as Saturday. To-morrow will be a close holiday at the Stock Ex- change. Consols, Money, 89 t i ; Account, 8914 ; Colombian, 224; Mexican, 29 4; Portuguese, 334 34; Spanish, 251. The action of the banking institutions upon the cur rency of the country is of so much importance as to cause the . periodical returns to be watched with con siderable interest. The statement in the Gazette of last Friday evening, shows a •falling off of nearly one million sterling in the total paper currency of the united kingdom, but which, from the pay ment of the dividends, has not straitened the money market. The Bank of England has a steadily-in creasing amount of the precious metals in its cof ers ; for, while by the November return, it was only 4,218,00001, it is now 5,629,0001., or an increase of 1,411,0001. in three mouths. Such a rapid improvement cannot but be highly satisfactory, and will enable the Directors of the Bank, who have lately reduced their circulation to extend greater facilities to the trading community. Ant wca at- ' f ' ; ,alce iting loor. VVol vn at ) 7 will lie ts ert [0 t ile es 3 by tea to t. thA" C o . of an J 11101' n igh; ; li 0' Zu cot:r thel ko jgh CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. - Bank Stock 167 j India Stock 3 per Cent Red. B9g Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cons B9l Ditto Old Annuities ... 3e per Cent Red 99g iDitte New Annuities... New 3i, per Cent New b per Cent. . Ditto 500/ l9 pm Long Annuities toexpire Ditto Small .....•• 19 pus Jan. 1860 ... l 2 Bank Stock for Acct... Oct 1859......... !India Stock for Acct.... J an . 1860. ........ 'Consols for Open — FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, spi vent.— Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 pet cent lO3l Ditto, New Ditto 34 Brazilian 80nd5.......... 66 Prussian, 5 per cent. ' Buenos Ayres 6 per cox 21 i ßussian, 5 per cent ll6l Chilian, 6 per cent..... 70 i Ditto, Metallic — Colombian, 6 pet cent.. 24 tSpanish, 5 per cent 2si Ditto, 1824.. ....... ..... Ditto, Deferred.... Danish, 3 per cent B2i IFrench, 5 per cent. I. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange Mexican, 5 per cent. ... 294 French, 3 per cent •.•_c Ditto, 6 per cent. 1637 Dutch, 211 per cent. , 51i Peruvian, 1825, hper ct. 16 Ditto, 5 per cent. .. . 101 i SHARES. Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) ... Ditto Debentures ( paid) ...............101 9s 2d Great Western Railway( 65 paid) Ditto New Shares (50 paid) ... 611 Ditto Fifth (4 paid - ) London and Brighton (50 paid) '. 3 7 /1 London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid)... 111 London and Birmingham ( 90 ) . . ... 170 Ditto Quarter Shares (15 paid) 35 London and South Western Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ...... ... Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) Northern and Eastern (40 paid) Paris and Rouen (14 paid) l3i THE FLEET DITCH. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Srn,—ln your paper of the 20th inst., I find the follow ing statement regarding the effluvia arising from the Fleet-ditch :—" The bed of the stream, from the termi nation of this cloaca maxima of the metropolis towards the river was deepened and dowered over at great ex pense, for the escape of the water coming from the fil thiest part of London, and in order to render the neigh bourhood more salubrious. The attempt, however, has completely failed. At low water now the effluvium is ab solutely insufferable, and if something is not done to correct the bad effects caused by the stagnation, the place will be unfit for the habitation of human beings." When I reflect upon the circumstance of the effluvia only, causing a risk to life, what must be the feelings of that person, when he knows that all the filth of that, and a hundred other equally offensive drains, is daily pumped into the cisterns, and the inhabitants (f this great and splendid metropolis compelled to drink it? Surely an alteration should be made to give to the people a better commodity—for we all know we have to pay dearly for it. The water of the Thames is daily becoming worse and worse—in fact, this river is looked upon now, and for some time past, as the great artery for metropolitan filth. In the long list of discoveries with which the public, from time to time, are favoured, I cannot find that any plan has yet been discovered to work a cure for this dreadful evil.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, A WATER-DRINKER. Great George .street, Westminster, Jan. 22, 1842. ELIZA FENNING'S TRIAL.--The first official report of Eliza Fenning's singular trial was printed for the celebrated Wm. Hone, dedicated to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, to the Worshipful the Ald ermen, to the Hon. the Common Council, and the worthy Livery men and Citizens of the City of London, 1815. Original Correlpo:dent. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, FRIDAY, 21st. —A few lots of the remaining small stock have been disposed of at very full prices, averaging 2s. to 3s. above the London market. The trifling quantity in first hands in Bristol will, in all probability prevent any decline here, although the demand is evidently becoming more languid in other ports.—Bristol Mercury. Sauvaitre, the man who made his escape in November, as we mentioned at the time, from some gendarmes in the Palais de Justice, as they were con ducting him back to prison after being condemned to three months' confinement for having belonged to an il legal society, was caught the day before yesterday, and secured. _ _ ~ yv On Saturday last the country in this vicinity (Keswick) was covered with snow to the depth of about half a foot, and the snow was then descending heavily. In Borrowdale and on the Ambleside road the snow has fallen in such quantities that the carriers' carts between Keswick and Kendal have been compelled to stop for the present. The south mail left Keswick on Saturday morning last for Kendal, drawn by six horses.---Carlisle Patriot. A notorious robber, Picard, who has rendered himself well known to the police by his repeated es capes from-prison, and who was temporarily confined at Gisors, having been recaptured after his last outbreak from the hulks, made another attempt to regain his li berty on Sunday night by setting fire to the door of his cell. He had broken up his bedstead, and had lighted the wood by means of the fragment of a razor blade and other materials for striking a light, which he had con cealed about his person. The keepers were alarmed in time to prevent him accomplishing his purpose. MAESTEG....-IR consequence of the extreme slowness of the works at this place, coupled with the very low wages given to the workmen, besides a great many who are without any employment at ail, poverty the most abject, with all its accompanying evils, prevails here to a very great extent ;—men, women, and chil dren, crouching like slaves around their almost extin guished fires. Through the instrumentality of a few ladies (always the first and most effective emissaries of charity), a fund was collected sufficient to supply the poor with soup and potatoes for twelve weeks ; and about 200 tickets are distributed every week.—Cambrian. CHEESE COLOURING.—The plant from which this matter is derived is called Bixa, and Orellana was added to it by Linnaeus, in honour of the name of the traveller who first traversed Amazonia, 1540, where the plant is indigenous. It is, according to Linnaeus, of the I order Monogynia and Polyandria class of plants ; it was introduced into this country as a dye for cheese about 100 years since, aid our.early ancestors therefore knew not the pernicious art of cheese colouring in dairies. '7l THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1842. LITERATURE. EDINBURGH REVIEW, No. CL. Longman, London, 1842. Foremost among the great prose writers of the seventeenth century, stands Thomas Fuller—a man whose works, after having achieved as ex tensive a popularity as was- compatible with the turbulent character of the age in which they were written, have of late years fallen into a state of comparative oblivion. Few now care to read the " Holy War ;" and the few who do, read it, we suspect, rather as a task than as a matter of in clination. The "English Worthies" is scarcely treated with more respect, yet where shall we find a work fuller of fancy, wit, information— though not of a very comprehensive order—or quaint and various imagery ? The truth is, the genius of Fuller is anything but the genius of the present day. It has hardly indeed one point in common with it. It is as far removed as possible from decorous common-place, and taxes thought even in its wildest wit, wherein is often couched the subtlest wisdom. The majority of us now read almost exclusively for amusement; and books to be popular with us, must be devoid of distinctive character, just as men who aspire to be attractive in society, must have nothing marked or out of the way about them, whether as regards manners or modes of expression. Ori ginality has lost its charm in our eyes; else wherefore is it that Mr. Carlyle, one of the most original of modern thinkers, has been struggling upwards of twenty years against unmerited neg lect; and is even now—whatever his admirers may say to the contrary—read and appreciated only by the select Few ? The great drawback to Fuller's popularity in the present day is, we ap prehend, not so much the themes he discusses, as the manner in which he discusses them. We resent his exuberant wit and fancy, as quaintness conceit, impertinence, and what not; though this wit and this fancy formed the delight of our ancestors. And well may such have been the case, for Fuller's vivacity is a fountain that never dries up. Even where, to a superficial reader, it may seem forced and far-fetched, it is as cordial and natural as the man himself. Indeed in all his works, the head takes its cue from the heart —the understanding is delighted to borrow its best hints from the sensibilities. Of few contem- porary writers can this be said, with the excep tion, perhaps, of Sir. Thomas Browne, whose works correctly mirror his shy, dreamy, sensitive, and moody—not to say hypochondriacal—nature. The works of Fuller seem to have been penned under the cheering influence of a sunny southern atmosphere; his thoughts are buoyant, mercu rial, though by no means deficient in strength and robustness; and his animal spirits never de sert him, even in the remotest regions of phan tasm and speculation. In Sir Thomas Browne, on the contrary, we everywhere trace the influ ence of a chilling, northern climate. His ideas struggle through cloud and gloom into imperfect sunshine; he is fond of reminding us or death and the grave; takes prodigious pains to assure us.that life is but a span; and even goes out of his way to find fault with the great mystery of procreation, and to vent such idle sneers, as that woman is but "the rib and crooked piece of man I", We can imagine him writing his curious and erudite "Religio Medici" with a pen dipped in a November fog. In their personal habits not less than in the structure of their minds, a marked difference exists between these two ce lebrated contemporary writers. Browne was a recluse student, of shy and nervous temperament, averse to social intercourse, and living, in a fan tastic world of his own, wholly apart from the bustling, every-day world about'him. The strife of parties, the fierce religious differences which convulsed all England, even the great Civil War itself; made no impression on him. He swore neither by King nor People—;by High-Church man nor Puritan—but pursued the even tenor of his way, unfettered and unbiassed by aught of political prejudice or religious schism. He seems to have regarded life as a sort of dream, from which he should only wake in death. For Fuller this dreamy, secluded mode of existence had no charm. Though he read and wrote much, and thought more, yet he loved the stir and bustle of society. He was of the world, worldly; but his practical shrewdness never blunted his fine sense of humanity. In times of great temp tation to aspiring spirits—and Fuller was by no means without ambition—he preserved his cha racter-unsullied. Too moderate for the Royalists, too little of a fanatic for thp Patriots, he yet con trived to extort the respect of both parties; and the chaplain to the Royal army found, after the King's death, one of his most efficient friends in the'chaplain to the Lord Protector. Like Sir Thomas Browne, whom in this point only he re sembled, he was a firm believer in witchcraft. This, however, is scarcely an impeachment of his sagacity, for witches were the bugbears of his day ; and it falls to the lot of few great men to be, like Milton, wholly beyond.their age. In the Number before us, there is a clever biographical sketch of Fuller, whose sole fault is, that it is too enthusiastic in its panegyric. The author of the " English Worthies" was certainly not a prodigy of wit, as the Reviewer intimates; for quaintness and conceit are not wit, though with many readers they are apt to be mistaken for it. We mean not, however, to deny that Ful- _ ler possessed this quality in a high degree, for his eccentric pages are often lighted up with flashes of the brightest wit; but the grotesque ness of his ideas and the ferility of his imagina tion are still more remarkable. Of all the prose writers of the seventeenth century he is the one who most startles by the unexpectedness of his thoughts, and the language in which he developes them. The perusal of his works acts as a sort of shower-bath on the reader's mind. Though not acquainted with the whole, yet we have read the majority of them with attention, and—with the the solitary exception of Sir Thomas Browne's sublime " Urn-Burial," the fifth chapter of which is the finest piece of prose composition in the lan guage—know no contemporary writings that can be compared to them. We are aware that we may be here reminded of Milton ; but we must plead guilty to the bad taste of never being hav ing been able thoroughly to relish his prose Trea- lises, notwithstanding the spletidid passages in which they abound. To return to our theme. From the Reviewer's biographical sketch, we learn that Thomas Fuller was born in Northamp tonshire in the year 1608. At twelve years of age he was sent to Cambridge, and after taking the usual degrees, was appointed minister of St. Bennet's, where he soon became a popular preacher. In 1631 he was made Prebendary of Salisbury, about which time he perpetrated a volume of small poesy, of which the less said the better. All literary young men write verse; it it is the weakness of their age ; but in none, save the gifted Few—alas, how few 1— does the poeti cal temperament ever rise superior to the force of adverse circumstances. With Fuller it was otherwise; he continued through life a poet, though his ablest works were all written in prose. In 1638 he became a Benedick, but his wife died a year or two after marriage, and then he repaired to London, where he obtained the Lecture ship cxf - the Savoy. In 1640 he pUblished his ce lebrated " Holy War," which immediately pro cured him botn money and fame. In the fol lowing year he preached . in Westminster Abbey, on the anniversary of the King's inauguration; and soon after, refusino• to take an oath to th e Parliament, he repaired to Charleo at Oxford, by whom he was well received. At the siege of Exeter, where he was present, he was of great assistance in stimulating the courage of the loyal citizens. After the death of the King, and the entire overthrow of the Royalists, Fuller ma naged to keep on terms with the dominant party ; and on the Restoration was appointed chaplain extraordinary to Charles the Second. This was his last appointment, for in 1661, just as he had obtained a Mount-Pisgah view of a Bishopric, he died—greatly, no doubt, to his mortification, for never did man enter with keener relish into all the social enjoyments of life. In person Fuller was stout—" inclined to corpulence," as he hiinself has told us. His phy siognomy was exceedingly prepossessing. He bad light, flaxen hair ; bright, blue, laughing eyes; and a frank open expression of counte nance. The Reviewer thus alludes to one of the most prominent features of his intellect : As the temperament of Fuller was most cheerful, and a pledge for the innocence of his wit, so he jested by what may be called a necessity of his nature—on all subjects, at all times, under all circumstances. Wit in one or other of its multitudinous shapes, was sure to be the attire of his thoughts and feelings. With the kindest heart in the world, he could not even recite a cala mitous story without investing iti with a tinge of the lu dicrous. It would seem as if a jest were the • natural expression of all emotion ; and that be is no more to be wondered at for mingling his condolence and his lamen tations with merriment, than are other men for accom panying them with tears and sighs. An epitaph in his hand would have been a sort of epigram not free from grotesque humour ; and his ordinary pulpit dis courses must, we are convinced, have often contained passages which severely tried the gravity of his audience. In confirmation of all we have said, we may remark, that he actually finds it impossible to suppress his viva cious pleasantry even in the most tragical parts of his histories," and tells the most rueful tidings in so droll a manner as sets all gravity at defiance. One or two odd specimens we cannot refrain from laying before the render. He thus recounts a " lamentable accident" which befel a congregation of Catholics at Blackfriars " The sermon began to incline to the middle, the day to the end thereof ; when on the sudden the floor fell down whereon they were assembled. It gave no charitable groan beforehand, but cracked, b ro k e, an d f e ll Many were killed, mo re b ru i se d, all wauariuninAgcostitut. frighted. Sad sight, to behold the flesh and blood of different persons mingled together, and the brains of one on the head of another ! One lacked a- leg ; another an arm •, a third, whole and entire, wanting nothing but breath, stifled zn the ruins." Was ever such a calamity so mirthfully related ? But one of-the most singular instances of the peculiarity in question, is contained in his account of the capture and execution of the principal conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot. " Whewell's Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences" is an able, analytical notice of one of the profoundest scientific works of the day. The Reviewer is often severe on the subject of his criticism, but on the whole he does it justice. He particularly condemns Mr. Whewell's "passion for coining new words," and, alluding to his use of the strange term " Idiopt," slily observes, " it is a term not wanted, and is one which, when submitted to the eye of a compositor, will in fallibly part with one Of its most essential let ters." In " Ruppell's Travels in Abyssinia, " the Reviewer speaks with becoming respect of a very entertaining, not to say instructive, work. We have been diverted by the following anec dote :—" Constancy and fidelity are not to be found among the Abyssians. Ruppell saw at Ategrat a female only seventeen years of age, who had been seven times diVorced, and was on her way to Gondar to be married for the eighth tithe! " What an inordinate appetite for matri mony this young lady must have had ! " Phre nological Ethics" exposes in a right spirit the absurdities of the Phrenologists, one of whom, Mr. Combe, has, it seems, actually adduced a case of a man's self-insufficiency having been sensibly abated by a blow on the organ of self esteem ! That organ having been hnoched in, the fellim, as a matter of course, became gra dually modest! What an invaluable discovery for parents is here ! No need after this of a moral education ! A child, the instant he ex hibits a vicious bump, has only to have that bump flattened by hiS affectionate father with a poker, to be made as virtuous as needs be. We suppose this is the reason why Irishmen are so proverbially bashful. Before their organ of Im pudence can have had time fully to develope itself, it is knocked in by a shillelagh in a faction fight ! The " Pictorial History of England" is a lengthy and elaborate notice of one of Mr. C. Knight's most recent publications. In this notice the Re viewer assures us that ourpeasantry were happy and thriving under the Anglo-Saxon dynasty — an assertion which we must take leave to doubt, for how could they be happy—no matter how rude or ignorant-.who dared not call even their thoughts their own ? We are always sceptical as respects the happiness of uncivilised tribes, especially where-the distinctions of grade are so broadly marked, as was the case in England during the reign of the Saxon Kings. The pea sant was then but a mere serf; and slavery is in compatible with happiness, unless indeed the slave can find music in the clank of his chains. In remarking on " Lord Alvanley's Pamphlet on the State of Ireland," the Reviewer leans with great favour to his Lordship's plan of pay ing the Irish priests, and remarks that the wis dom of such a scheme might be illustrated by the successful result of similar measures in Canada, Belgium, and Prussia. He adds, with reference to Lord De Grey's system of policy, " with higher pretensions of impartiality than ever were •put forward by his predecessors, he has acted more slaviShly than any of his prede cessors ever did, in, the spirit of that exclusive and anti-national party by, whom he is sur rounded. The object of- .the article entitled " Financial Measures cf the Late, and Intentions of the Present, Ministr34 is to show that by the change of Government the country has gained, in the first place, an addition of five millions to the national debt; secondly, the probable impo sition of additional taxes to the amount -of three millions a year; and thirdly, the continuance of monopolies and protections, by which commerce will remain crippled, and manufacturers will be exposed to new obstructions from hostile tariffs." We close our remarks - IV an extract from an' agreeable review of Mr. Catlin's recent work on the North American Indians : On the banks of the Missouri, two hundred miles be low the fort, Mr. Catlin landed among the tribe of the Mandans, with whom - . he. lived some. time ; being by the grace of his mysterious art, in high veneration among them, admitted to all their ceremonies, treated as a brother by the highest medicine men'—in fact taking the degree of Doctor among them, or, in their own phrase, Big double medicine.' These Mandans are, or rather, as we must say were, the most polished and advanced native nation to be found in North America ; they were milder in their manners ; received strangers with less suspicion ; and had always been known as ' the hospitable and polished Mandans.' Mr. Catlin's account of this people is exceedingly picturesque—ex hibiting a mode of life which could by no possibility be come what an European would call civilized—but yet dignified and agreeable ; rich, with all necessary and many luxurious articles of existence ; and. well adapted to call into exigtiene, and rear to perfection, thOse powers of mind and body which their position de manded. Witness their careful system of instruction for their children, who are every morning trained in all the discipline of Indian warfare ; all armed with a small bow and grass arrow, and distributed into two armies, who go through the manoeuvres of a battle. When any one is struck by an arrow he is obliged to fall, and the con queror rushing up snatches . away his' mimic scalp-lock, which he exhibits afterwards in proof of his victory. Witness, too, the appalling ceremonies requisite for the youths who wish to be numbered among the " braves ;" —in which the aspirants, after four days' fasting and watching, are subjected to a c ourse o f v oluntary torture, the half - of which .no European could survive ; but whose extremity only tests the young Mandan's powers of enduring, and assigns the station he is to hold among the warners. Every year this ceremony is performed, at the period when the willow leaf first - buds—for no other record of the seasons is kept than such tokens of nature—and forms part of a grand solemnity, - supposed by Mr. Catlin to,bear some allusion to their traditions of the fall of man and the deluge ; in Which a representa tion of the evil spirit rushes into their village, and after the powerful ro d o f the chief medicine whole exhibitio n b e i ng accom p an ied by dances. is paralysed and t rue r x y apn i e the l eby his powers of destruction CORN-LAWS AND • EMIGRATION. COLONEL TORRENS. We bad prepared, some days ago, a brief and slight n N o o t . i ce IV." inee hlother Torrens' pamphlet, m atter has preventedc called h te n sns "Budget,using, Since then, the ,work has attracted so much attention from our Liberal Contemporaries, who latterly have gone with us for repeal of the Corn-laws—the commendatory twaddle of the Herald had no weight with us—that. we have been induced to reconsider the pamphlet, and must now express our satisfaction that, by the non-pub lication of our brief notice, we are enabled to place a more extended analysis of Colonel Torrens' principles before our readers. Colonel Torrens, it must be remembered, has latterly been a leading Emigration Commissioner, which has probably given a bias to his mind. At any rate, he now prefers schemes of emigration, that are at least profitable to Commissioners, to the simple plan of doing justice to the people, which can be profitable only to the commu nity at large. The presentproduction is "A Letter to the Right lion. Lord Stanley on Colonization, considered as a Means of Removing the Causes of National Dis tress ;"—it controverts some of the doctrines of the Anti-Corn-law party, and has for its declared ob ject to prove that the repeal of the Corn-laws would not remove the national distress, and that " the application of the true principles of coloniza tion affords the appropriate remedy." We should have done our best to refute the assumptions and conclusions of this pamphlet before, had we not considered them— till taught another lesson by the kindred writing of the Chronicle and the Globe—to be so transparently fallacious as to be unworthy of a lengthened notice. The Gallant Colonel begins by bestowing on the advo cates of Corn-law repeal some concessions they do not ask. He concedes that in the present state of foreign agri culture, England could obtain large supplies of foreign corn at lower prices than those at which it can, in ordi- Gwo?trrnm agricultureen tles n o n t o t t o r e b s e t ordi nary years, be produced at home; and that, were Eng land to abolish restrictions on i_m o,vr p ..e o or r ue t r a a t m i b o oa n rl , iis, o eh t te h sd, e ,a r Statesnd thforeignat Anti-Corn-law party and of ioicita t r : n i F e sic o u pp it o u n re en , t e s orn of , systematic parts of the emigration ig t r h a e ti s o e n d o i r rec s t i e m d il b ar r or rather _ cheap in . all agriculturistsdfi ioet food, td d h, , the then ohttheinla would be b a i e f v e, :boot abundant nd e fdoga C rrneo o ti w r g: n world, and more abundant and cheaper in Englandthan it can, in ordinary extended abroad that we years, get a much greater or a much cheaper supply than at present. that whether other States relaxed their They say, too, now is; but they do not say hostile tariffs or not—though as some of them grew from Our Corn-laws, it is likely they would—the abolition of our own restrictions, though the tariffs remain as they now are, would cause a great exportation of manufactures to pay for the food which would be imported. With the cus tomary ostentation of princely p ret ended alms-givers, who prefer generosity to justice, the Gallant Colonekin fact, misrepresents our demands, while he graciously pre tends to concede them, and deliberately withholds, on an . assumption of his own that he knows_ our wan t s b e tt er than ourselves, those rights which we in fact claim, and mean, we can tell Colonel Torrens, to ha ve . • The first of these assumptions is, that in " ordinary years the agriculture of the United Kingdom yields supply of corn all but sufficient for home consumption." • The conclusion from that assumption is, " import a large quantity of foreign corn, and the immediate consequence will be, that a large quantity of British corn must cease to be produced." The assump tion i s false in fact, and if • true in fact, would not warra nt th e Gallant Colonel's conclusion. The importation of wheat alone into this country dur ing the four years endhig with 1840 was 6,326,553 quarters. If we add 2,000,000 quarters for 1841, we shall have 1,665,310 quarters as the average, import for the last five years, or about one-tenth of the whole quantity of wheat consumed. A deficiency of one-tenth the Colonel calls an all but sufficient supply for home consumption." But the public is P—nfully aware that during those five years a great portion of the working clas4o in this country have been very insufficiently fed. The lower classes are still more painfully aware, that during those years they have suffered very great priva tions, as to clothing and fuel, and various enjoyments, in consequence of the dearness and scarcity of food, and that many of their relatives and friends have actually been starved out of existence; yet, for the sake of build ing up an argument in favour, of transporting the peo ple by the action of the Government, and against the repeal of the Corn-laws, the Gallant Colonel assumes that the people had, even without the corn imported, an all but sufficient supply of food, the produce of our own agri culture. The Gallant Colonel, drawing his inference from 1835 and 1836, may say that the last five are not ordinary years; but through the long period of fifty years Eng land has continually imported considerable quantities of food, and the people, particularly in Ireland, have at the same time been under-fed. The very cheap years 1835 and 1836 are extraordinary years, and the last five years, as any person may satisfy him self by casting a glance over the quantity of corn imported every year for the last fifty years, much more deserve the character of ordinary years than the cheap and abundant years, which are very few and far be tween. In fact, in those fifty years there were only three in which wheat was not imported. Moreover, we are justified in taking the latter years, because, since 1835, the population has increased, and the produce, which might have been all but sufficient in 1835, is not all but sufficient in 1841, which is the essential point. The assumption, therefore, that " the agriculture of the United Kingdom yields a supply of corn all but suffi cient for home consumption" is false in fact. If it were true in fact, it would not warrant the Co lonel's assumption that " import a large quantity of fo reign corn, and the immediate consequence would be that large quantity of British corn must cease to be produced : That implies that the demand for corn would remain stationary, and is not susceptible of increase ; for if the demand increase, it may take up all the corn now grown in the empire, and the largest possible quantity that can be imported. The cultivation of corn in England is part of a system of agriculture which extends over a period of four or five years, and it would require at least that time before the most extensive importation could much de crease the quantity grown at home. But we have already seen that the people are under-fed, the certain conse quence, therefore, of abundance and cheapness would be, that more food would be consumed though not a soul was added to the population. At the same time, nothing is more certain than that with abundance and cheapness population increases very fast—so fast, it is said, that no increase of food can keep up with it—consequently a great additional demand for food would arise. The Co lonel's conclusion is not, therefore, just. The supposi tion that a large quantity of British corn must cease to be produced were a large quantity of foreign corn im ported does not represent a probable future hypothetical fact. Colonel Torrens may possibly say something about an efficient demand, meaning that there must be besides _ . _ . stomachs craving for food the means to pay for it. It is, however, certain that foreign corn will not be given to us. None, therefore, will be imported unless it can be paid for. Will there be means to pay for it, and also for that which is grown at home ? Now Col. Torrens tells us, at p. 86, that all commerce is barter, and, of course, the commerce between town and country, as well as the commerce between different political States, is bar ter. The means, therefore, of paying for agricultural produce is the produce of manufactures which is bar tered for it. At this moment the complaint of our ma nufacturers is, that they cannot find a market for their goods. They produce more than they can barter for food. The people at home do not consume their goods, and they cannot export them with a profit. They want to barter their goods for food, and the law will not allow them. In that fact lies the proof, that there will be means to pay for an increased quantity of food as well as stomachs to crave for it. To make up the proof, indeed, Colonel Torrens is an excellent auxiliary. A great part of his pamphlet is taken up in proving that the supply of manufactured goods, and power of supplying them, has increased much faster than the demand, or the supply of agricultural produce; and all the arguments on which he delights to dwell in favour of our unlimited power to manufacture, are all proofs on the principle that all commerce is bar ter, tliat with the increase of craving stomachs, which is certain, there will be an increase of the means of rea sonable and just payment for any quantity of food, how ever great, which can be imported from abroad and grown at home. Is Colonel Torrens, however, so very blind as not to see that both assumption and conclusion involve a petitio principi ? Both are drawn from circumstances which exist under the present Corn-law, and which would not exist were that law abolished. hi , adinary years, that law keeps down the population, by disease and death, to a number somewhat above the number which, the agri cultural produce of the country can sustain. Population is, in fact, annually cut down to the law-limited supply of food, instead of the supply of food being made co extensive with the possible increase of population. Col. Torrens may well, therefore, assume that in ordinary years population will not get much ahead of our own supply. The impious law will not allow it. A modern theory says, be as industrious as men may, let them im prove never so much in skill and ingenuity, let them aug ment their productive power to any conceivable limit, they never can supply food enough for the rapid and ever more rapidly increasing children of men. In spite of this theory an impious law cuts off our supplies of food, annually starves the people down to the short quantity it will allow them to get, and Colonel Torrens is the man to kindly defer to this law and its consequences, and assumes them as the basis of a great system of future policy. He lays it down as a first or natural principle, that our own agriculture yields an all but sufficient supply, and that were a larger supply made accessible to our people they could not consume and pay for it. When men professing to be profound thinkers, and devoting their ripened years to discussion and me ditation, can embrace such a transparent fallacy, we need neither wonder at the " conceit" of Scotch parsons, nor blame the rash Chartists for false assumptions and er roneous conclusions. The object of Colonel Torrens' pamphlet is to reason against the expected advantages . of a free trade in corn, by showing that the power of producing manufactures in England exceeds the demand for them abroad, and con sequently that the repeal of the Corn-laws would not re lieve the distress of the people. To prove this very large and very important proposition, which would show that England was destined to suffer for all time from a plethora of productive power, Colonel Torrens does not go beyond our own country and our own times; and, what is more singular, does not go beyond a period dur ing which the Corn law has been in existence : ."rhe data," he says, "from which I have argued, are furnished unfortunately by the history of the cotton ma nufacture of the country. After the first great improve ments in the cotton trade were effected, a considerable period elapsed before the reduction in the cost of pro ducing goods was followed by a corresponding increase in their supply and diminution in their price." " This prosperous state of trade might have continued to the present day, provided the capital and labourers employed in foreign countries in raising, for the British market, the cotton wool, and the other raw produce, which are at once the equivalent and the component parts of the fi nished goods, had increased in an equal ratio with the increase which took place in the capital and labourers employed in the cotton manufacture. This unfortunately was not the case. There was a rapid increase in the fo reign demand, but there was an increase still more rapid in the supply." This discrepancy between the increased supply in Eng land and the lesser increased demand, is the main pillar of all Colonel Torrens's building. But this dis crepancy took place under the Corn-law and other re strictive laws, which, by prohibiting all the free impor t idea into England of the flour of North America, and the sugar and coffee of South America, prohibited all the commerce which would have taken place by the barter.of those commodities, and lessened, pro Canto, the demands of America. Mr. Cripps justly. said, in his communication to Sir R. Peel—" The United States of America take as large a quantity of our manufactured goods as they can pay for : if we could increase their means of payment, we could safely increase our exports to that country. At present, their shipments of cotton, tobacco, ashes, &c., do not furnish a sufficient supply of bills to meet the payments for our manufactures. The consequence is, that merchants are now remitting from thence in gold." Curl Colonel Torrona, or- any-other persun,' say - that the lessened demand of America, in comparison to our power of production, is not caused by those restrictivelaws , ; and can he say that the demand would not have been fully equal to, and even greater than, the supply had.] the demand not been extinguished by our own laws ? Colonel Torrens's supposition " that the markets of America for English goods should remain stationary," while the supply of them should be increased, is as wild a dream as ever entered the head of a visionary. The Gallant Officer, in fact, tell us, when his object is to prove that emigration will not lessen the resources of England, that the capital which has been trans planted from England to America " occasioned a vastly augmented demand for labour in the mother country." In no country do capital and labour increase so fast as in the United States, and that they have not been directed to raising raw produce for our manufacturers is clearly the consequence of our Corn and other restrictive laws, which have prohibited the sale of their articles in our markets. _ _ The wants of the Americans, constituting a market for our goods, have increased with the rapid multiplication of the people. It would seem, indeed, that the wonder. fully productive power of England, consisting of ma chinery, and the rapid developement of population and capital in the United States, arising from their abun dance of soil and raw materials, were as exactly adapted to each other as the wing of the bird to the air, and the fin of the fish to the sea ; but Corn• laws, and such like enac tments, have marred this beautiful harmony, and turned all nature into discord. The true market of America is the want of her ever-increasing population, to which no bounds can be set. And while their de mands would increase under a free trade, fully equal to our productive power, the employment given to our population would enable them to consume more ; and our productive power, which Col. Torrens, with Mr. Owen's eyes, looks on as excessive, would be doubly taxed, and would rather fail, we believe f than otherwise, to answer the demands, did not new inventiona come to its help. The observed discrepancy...then between our productive power and the demands of foreign countries, which has become manifest under the Corn-laws, is the consequence of those laws, and the elaborate pamphlet of the Gallant Officer rests on a complete petitio principi. It begs the whole question, and assumes the effects of the Corn-laws as the data of its arguments, u if they were natural, necessary, and unavoidable circumstances. To us it ap pears no better than silliness to infer, because the de mand from America bas not kept pace with our power to produce, under the system which has prohibited the growth.of that demand, that the same discrepancy Would exiat with free trade, and that the Goyernment would MORNING SUN then be required to create, by a system of emigration , ex panding fields of employment. We have now pointed out some of the false assump tions and the erroneous data on which Colonel Torrens has built his arguments, which _all fall with the founda tion into the general Limbo of vanity, and are quite un worthy of further notice. It argues little, we think, for the critical acumen of our Liberal Contemporaries, that they have troubled themselves to discuss arguments which have nothing to rest on. Colonel Torrens, in truth, is one of a large class of writers, who reason correctly enough from the premises they assume, but who assume premises which have no foundation in actual existence. Ricardo, Mill; and others, belonged to this school; and all readers, before al lowing themselves to be entrained by their deductions, should subject their principles to a rigid scrutiny. Con cede to Mr. Mill or Mr. Ricardo the accuracy of his defini tions, the propriety of his first principles, and you are puzzled to find a broken link in the long chain fastened on to the worthless bolt. Of all books, perhaps, such long trains of deduction from false assumptions make the most worthless. They are neither warmed by imagina tion, enlivened by fancy, nor made instructive by me mory, and when the worthless bolt is drawn, they fall to pieces a shapeless mass of jumbled ruins. Such writers, however, and their disciples, are as mis chievous as they are erroneous. They all demand, in the spirit of their masters, some positive results, and look at every deduction as incomplete, unless it end in some enactment. Natural laws are for them no laws at all, till they have received the Royal assent. Their craft con sists in their knowledge of the deductions of these teachers from false premises, and their application of them. Hence they invariably require other writers to incorporate every political truth into an Act of Parliament, and they re gard all mere doctrine which does not end in a law as of no value. This is one source of the dislike expressed by some quasi Liberal writers to the conferences of ministers, to such animated orators as Mr.G. Thompson, and to the " thorough paced declamatory" writers and speakers against the Corn-laws. 'When public sentiment is rec tified. and the public mind informed, without any refe rence to some new enactment, their craft is endanfivred, and they become even bitterer enemies of the Liberal cause than the most bigoted Tories. NECESSITY TO REPEAL THE CORN LAWS. TO THE RIGIIT 110 N. LORD JOHN RUSSELL. JANUARY 22, 1842. MY LORD—The opening of the approaching session of Parliament is waited for by the vast population of these realms, with unprecedented, in tense, and fearful anxiety, grieviously tugmented by unnecessary and heartless procrastination, and now wound up to the verge of despair by the sad foreboding that her Majesty's Ministers will refuse to concur in the only measure that can arrest the progress of the wretchedness and destitution which prevail throughout the land. The patient endur ante and Christian fortitude with which the poor of the country have so long borne their se vere privations, must command the admira tion of every good subject, and happily leaves the Government without an objection to put forth, which might in the slightest degree invalidate the claims of justice, or prejudice the sacred cause which the nation has now taken up, in a tone that proclaims the fixedness, the firmness, and the high import of her resolves. Surely our present rulers will not madly imitate the conduct of Pharaoh of old, and harden their hearts against the cry of the poor for bread, until the anger of the Almighty is kindled against them, and they, their adherents and supporters, be swept with the besom of destruc tion, and the innocent plunged with the guilty into all the horrors of civil strife. I shall not adduce quotations from the Inspired Volume to prove that our existing Corn-laws are directly opposed to the laws of God, because I consider that to be a fact placed beyond the reach of controversy, by the conclusive and momentous testimony of the many hundred clergymen assem bled in Manchester, and Edinburgh, and in Wales, of whom several are eminently distinguished for theological learning. In the minds of religious and thinking persons there is now no doubt ; and since the sinfulness of those laws has been so ably, so incontestibly shown, who can hesitate to pre dict the final resulty Public discussion has awakened the consciences of millions of sin cere Christians, who will not violate their duty to God and to their neighbour, and in whose breasts will henceforth reign such a hatred of the accursed bread -tax, that no human power can long maintain it. But we must gird on our armour, and prepare for a bitter struggle. I know our opponents too well— the constitution of their minds, their thoughts, their feelings, their habits, their prejudices, their self-love —to indulge the least hope that any concession of importance to the welfare of the people, in this case, will be made by them. Their very existence, as a party and as a Government, depends upon a close adherence to the vile policy of duties—spe ciously called protecting, but which, in truth, are prohibitory—enriching a few thousands, but im poverishing millions. Those men have neither sufficient patriotism nor moral courage to recede. Their course has been long determined, and no change for the better will be accomplished until the union and resolution of the people become strong enough to extort submission. In combat for sacred rights, for glorious ends, we shall shortly be engaged ; but before the trum pet sounds for the onset, it will be well that the armed host should distinctly knew and acknow ledge their leader. To you, my Lord John Russell, the Anti-Corn law Members in the House of Commons, and that mighty party in the kingdom, look as their cham pion. they have read your reply to the address of the inhabitants of Plymouth, and they there find sentiments which, coupled with your great talents and ability in debate, have decided them to commit the working out of their destinies to your hands. You have thrown down the gauntlet with a spirit worthy of your most renowned ancestors, and you will, I am confident, be found at your post to de fend the opinions you have unreservedly and ho nourably propounded, and will not cease to agitate for the repeal of the Corn-laws until your efforts are crowned with success. You will take your station on a dangerous eminence, and your adversaries will assail you with powerful weapons. The eyes of your countrymen, nay, of the civilized world, will be rivetted upon you ; and while the greatest earthly felicity, that of providing for, and extending the happiness of, your fellow-men, and the personal enjoyment of honours which will be coeval with : time, await you if triumphant,—re member, that any deviation from the principles you have avowed, any compromise of the people's inde feasible rights, will involve you in irretrievable ruin. In contending for the supremacy of the violated laws of heaven over the iniquitous statutes of men, you will be sustained by the truly great, the wise, and the good ; but you must show that you are thoroughly imbued with this lofty principle, by in sisting on its truth, and claiming obedience to it. However much may be pleaded, on moral and poli tical grounds, yet such are only secondary _consi derations in this great question, which must, and will be, decided by the persuasive force of the in junctions of Holy Writ on the haughty mind of man. .---You,-my Lord, are doubtless at liberty to decline the championship in this fierce contention, and leave another to climb the giddy precipice ; but if you do accept the office, you must draw the sword throwing away the scabbard, and manfully fight the battle of the people until you obtain the repeal of all and every kind of duty on the importation of foreign corn. Upon this vital point the country is determined and inexorable, and one modification only can or will be ratified out of doors. The people would still be generous enough to agree to a fixed duty of ss. per quarter, diminishing ls. annually for five years, to give time for landlord and tenant to see how their re spective interests were affected. Be wise, short sighted statesmen, and purblind landowners ; adopt this plan, and restore peace and plenty to your distracted country. And now, my Lord, having viewed you as our General, and considered the jus tice of our cause, let us examine your armour. You are girded with the representation of the ca pital of this mighty empire, buckled on by six thousand fearless men : your rival is elected for a borough, adjoining his family property, by a small constituency, bound to him hand and foot. A two edged sword, the Word of the Lord, is yours : the hapless shaft of oppression is in your adver sary's hand. You command the willing hearts of twenty-four millions of your countrymen : your opponent heads a phalanx of a few thousand des perate men. You are surrounded by those whose allegiance is secured by every motive to truth and faithfulness : the enemy's camp has already many well-known traitors within it. You plead the cause of the widow, the fatherless, and the poor : the Minister advocates the continuance of spolia tion.by the rich and powerful. Finally, you con tend for Liberal opinions and just rights : the Lord of the Treasury fights for place, patronage, and monopoly. . And now for your banner,— " Patrix fidel f s ;" the Baronet may as sume 14 Quid pro quo,' As best descriptive of his. My Lord, there never were such exalted inte rests at stake—so excellent a prize to contend for. Victory is not doubtful. Be not dismayed, there fore, by the issue of a first campaign. Retire within your lines—(remember Torres Vedras) ;--• reassemble your forces ; augment your resources --(supplies will be enthusiastically brought to your assistance) ; and return again and again to the charge ; and you will assuredly obtain a glo rious triumph for your country, and imperishable fame for yourself.—l have the honour to be, my Lord, your Lordship's most obedient humble ser- PHILO-JUSTICIA. vant, FELICITY.—There is no such thing as perpe tual tranquillity of mind, while we live here ; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without de sire, nor without fear, any more than it can be without sense. THE NEW IRON STEAMSHIP. -^The Direc tors of the Great Western Steam:•shp Company last week bestowed the name of the Great Britain on their noble vessel. It is expected she will be floated out of the building yard in the course of April next. The General Steam Navigation Company's vessel the Columbine, W. Norwood, from Rotterdam, arrived off the Custom-house on Sunday with the Dutch mail. A converted Chinese has lately presented to St. George's Church, at Lyons, a picture painted by him self, representing the late massacre of the Christians in China. Loft!) MORPETH FOR D6BLIN.—A numerous and highly influential meeting of the electors was held to-day in the Adelphi Theatre, for the purpose of mak ing arrangements for securing the return of Lord Mor peth. At one o'clock the chair was taken by the Right lion. the Lord Mayor amid loud applause. After several appropriate resolutions had been paged, the meeting separated.—Dublin Evening Post. We hear that Mr. Denison, the Member for West Szrrey, is seriously indisposed at his seat, the Denbies. The Dowager Marchioness Conyngham has been sent for express in consequence. Wisdom cannot be obtained without industry and labour. Can we hope to find gold upon the surface of the earth, w hen we dir; almost to the centre of it to and lead, and tin, and the baser metals ? KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL, PORTUGAL• STREET.—The value of this excellent institution, situated as it is amongst a very densely-populated neighbour hood, is, indeed, deeply felt and appreciated at this in clement season. The number of patients from disease, brought about by privation and aggravated by cold, may be said to be daily increasing ; while the promptitude and kindness with which every applicant is treated does alike honour to the supporters of the charity, and to those who distribute its funds. We are' authorised to announce that circum stances have occurred which Mr. Bassett states oblige him to decline contesting the western division of the county.—Cornwall Gazette. DIABOLICAL OUTRAGE.—Some evil-minded wretch, having gained admission to the flax-spinning mill at Beer's-bridge, placed a bar of iron between the cogs of a wheel attached to an upright shaft, by which, when the mill was set on, a horizontal shaft was smashed, and other parts of the machinery seriously injured.--• Ulster Times. BURTON CONSTABLE.—Sir John and Lady Hanmer, Sir Henry Vavasour, Mr. and Mrs. Bosville, Hon. Mr. Lawlev, and Mr. Broadley, M.P., have arrived on a visit to Air. Clifford and Lady Constable during the meeting of the Yorkshire Amateur Festival. Lord Lilford has been placed in mourning by the death of his Lordship's uncle, the Hon. and Rev. Lyttleton Powys, who died on Thursday last, in his 61st year. The Duke of Northumberland, Earl of Elgin, and Viscount Reedhaven have been elected members of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland. The ball at Wynyard Park, given on Monday last, in honour of the birth-day of the Marchioness of Londonderry, was brilliant in the extreme. All the principal families in the neighbourhood were present. The Noble Marquis and his amiable lady were, we un derstand, unremitting in their attention to their guests, and joy and hilarity prqvailed till a late hour on the fol lowing morning.—Durham Advertiser. Shortly after the commencement of the last war a tax was laid on candles. A Scotch wife in Greenock remarked to the chandler, Paddy Macbeth, that the price was raised, and asked the reason why. " 'Tis a' owins to the war !" said Paddy. " The war !" cried the asto nished matron, " gracious me ! are they going to fight by candle light ?" We understand the Lord Bishop has received an invitation, by command of her Majesty, to be present at the christening of the Prince of Wales and at the Royal dejeuner.—Norwich .Mercury. The English language consists of about 38,000 words, of which about 25,000, or nearly five-eighths, are of Anglo-Saxon origin. Mr. Benry Betty's health, we are happy to state, has lately much improved; he is at resent in the coun try, byl the direction of his medical A ttendant, using strong walking exercise; and when the wO ther opens a little it is intended that he shall visit Paris in: company with the " Young Roscius," his amiable father • after which it is not improbable that the inhabitants of thei..'e tropolis may have a peep at him " before the curtain." FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Friday evening last, a fatal accident occurred at a coal pit, belonging to Mr. Goodwin, at Birchwood. A large piece of bind fell in from the shaft, adout 10 yards from the bottom, and killed one young man, named William Dane, aged 19 years ; and another, William Anthony, about 20, was so seriously injured that he is not expected to recover. — Derbyshire Chronicle. A LONG TALE.—A patty agreed to dine at the Old Hats, on the Uxbridge-road, two of whom pro posed walking, as it was a fine day. Just as they cleared Oxford-street, one began a family tale, which he con tinued to relate until they arrived at Ealing, when the other ventured to say, " You must be thirsty, I should think."—" Not at all," replied the story-teller, and on he went, unceasingly gabbling, without a semiquaver pause, until they arrived at the Old Hats, when the lis tener said to himself, " Thank my stars, there will be an end to this fellow's tale now ; " but he was mistaken, for while they sat at dinner the narrator whispered to his companion, "Let us walk home together, that I may conclude my story." CORN-LAW LECTURE IN LONGTOWN.—" On Thursday last the celebrated Lecturer, Mr .G. Thompson," says the Carisle Journal, " gave a lecture on the Corn laws in Longtown, the preserve of the famous Corn-law renegade. Amongst the persons present, who were as numerous as the chapel would hold, were several of Sir James Graham's tenants, and a very great number of the labourers employed on his estates. In the course of a long and able lecture, Mr. G. Thompson made a large use of Sir James's pamphlet on " Corn and Currency," to demonstrate the injurious ness of the Corn-laws, and was warmly cheered for the happiness of the application. On one occasion, when he described the wages of agricultural labourers at 12s a week, he was corrected by some of the labour ers present calling out " 6s. and Bs. a week." Mr. G. Thompson has added to the many claims he has al ready on the gratitude of the Corn-law Repealers, by thus instructing Sir James Graham's tenantry and la bourers, and procuring from the latter the information concerning their small wages. Numerous inquiries were made at Marlborough house yesterday respecting the health of her Majesty the Queen Dowager, who, we are happy to state, is,quite restored to health. • LORD MELBOURNE.—It is stated in the Court . circles that her Majesty insists upon the vacant Garter: being given to Lord Melbourne. That the Ministers should have the bestowal of every office of trust and power, is obvious ; but Royalty would be a most imbe cile pageant if the personal wishes of the S o yereign not be consulted, at least occasionally, in ccaireyring. a . mere mark of respect like this.--Scotsman. ; „ 1 - va znent are this week visible , but the y are y et ver y faint. TuAbz.—symptoms of • im p rove-, STATE Several buyers from London have been in the market, and have been purchasing to a limited extent, and some also from Manchester. It seems to be a general impres sion that stocks are lighter than they have been for some years past, and holders are getting rather firmer in their demands. Several houses have been taking on a few of their old hest weavers.—Paisley Advertiser. KINROSS—TRADE.--Most, if not all, our ope- • ratives iu the wollen trade, arc working half hours, and as they have hitherto been more highly favoured than in almost every other part of Scotland, they are pa-. tiently looking forward to an improvement in the spring montlis,by which time, in addition to other reliefs, it is to be hoped the Corn - laws will be in a fair wa y for being, for ever, blotted out from the statute-book.—Glasgow (Saturday) Post. WEST CORNWALL ELECTION.—Mr. Basset has refused to be made a tool of by the Cornish Tories. He refuses to oppose Sir Charles Lemon. The Re formers have the field before them, and will return their man without opposition, to represent the western division of Cornwall in Parliament. Thus the phalanx of Tory members, one by one, is being reduced. 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AFFECTING SCENE.—In a former paper we mentioned the deaths, within seven hours of each other,. at the respective ages of twenty and seventeen yeah. of Emma and Sarah Evans, the eldest daugliw ters of John Evans, Esq., furnace manager to Dowlais Iron Company.• They were consign t t h t e o " the house appointed for all living," on Bth instant, amidst the sympathy of and highly respectable assemblage on the mowur. The ex soifdteh agoniseds.d. d a ughters unusual sympathy.' treme affliction of the worthy m< i )th sion. 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