The Sun. — London, England, 1842-09-20 00:00:00

APER STAMPS. extract from a Return (~f th.-3 Number of Newspaper Stamps, at One Penny and On Halfpenny, issued to the several Newspapers in England, Scotland, and Wales, from tin Ist of April to 30th June, 1842, inclusive : /Cumber Amount of of Advertisement Stamps. Duty. 42,000 94 13 0 • • 246,000 .252 13 6 260,000 278.. 3 6 313,000 323 - 3 6 Courier . Globe Standad • • ••• SUN... HAMBURGiii, 12TFIr AUGUST, 1842. IS AIAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of RUSSIA, AND HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF PRUSSIA, Having AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several DIS TRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, by wkich, though they are NO LOTTERIES, LARGE FORTUNES may be obtained. HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, are Selling GENUINE and WARRANTED SELECTED. BONDS for the said DISTRIBUTIONS. Persons desirous to pu►chase may receive. PREVIOUS to giving any order, the PROSPECTUS with full PARTI CULARS, uren addressing, WITHOUT DELAY, a line to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH. AFIGHT THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED MONEY DIVIDENDS will be divided in Novem ber next, amongst 8,200 SELECTED Bonds of the Loan ne gotiated in the year 1820, and GUARANTEED by the GO VERNMENT and his Royal Highness the GRAND DUKE of BADEN. 1 Dividend 50,000 Florins 1 do. 25,000 " 1 do. 12,000 " 1 do. 10,000 " I do. 5,000 " 8 do. 1,000 10 do. 500 10 do. 200 'lOO do. 110 200 do. 105 467 do. 100 7,300 do. 94 50,000 Florins 25,000 " 12,000 ~ 10,000 " 5,000 " '' 8000 " 6 000 " 2,000 " 22,000 " 21,000 " 46,700 " 86,200 " a s in te o r s i t i n n t g in ko to n4 92,9oo Florins, or 8,2 LO Money DiLide4not.l, 8,200 SELECTED Bonds, each of which obtains one of the above Dividends. Largest Dividend £4,166 13 4 Smalest Dividend £ 7 1,6 8 12 florins equal to £1 sterling, a trifle more or less, as per the day's exchange. All the Dividends payable without any deduction whatever. Direct for the few Bonds which are still on sale, WITHOUT DELAY, to HEINE BROTHERS at HAIIBURGH. Bonds are now on sale at £l3. AFTER the 30th INST., IF NOT EARLIER, A HIGHER RATE WILL BE ESTABLISHED, since the stock does not suffice for the orders. Those who remit £l5 before a rise in price will have been established, will receive an order for the surplus of £2, together with a warranted SELECTED Bond. To those whose order reaches ns too late for being attended to, their remittance will be returned by first post. HEINE BROTHERS. Hamburgh. Ist September, 1842. POSTSCRIPT.—HaIves of Bank Notes not considered Payment before the receipt of the corresponding Halves ; but the corresponding Halves can be sent on receipt of the Bonds. 2 Bonds, £26 3 Bonds. £39 4 Bond+, 52 5 Bonds, 65 More than 5 Bonds cannot be disposed of in favour of one purchaser. the stock being , too small for larKer sales. On the other hand, orders for LESS than a whole Bond cannot be at tended to, the GENUINE Baden Bonds being altogether whole Bonds. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING, SEPTEMBER 20, win be performed Bellini's Opera of NORMA.—Pollio, Mr. W. Harrison Oroveso, Mr. Giubilei; Flavius, Mr. Binge; Norma, Miss Adelaide Kemble ; Adalgisa, Miss Rainforth; Clotilda, Miss Lane. After which will be repeated the New Comedy, in Two Aets, writ ten by Douglas .lerrold;Ein., entitled GERTRUDE'S CHERRIES, OR WATERLOO IN I&3s.—Willoughby, Mr. Bartley; Vincent, Mr. W. Lacy ; Guibert, Mr. Diddear; Jack Halcyon, Mr. Har ey ; Crosshone. Mr. Meadows; Angelic a , Miss Cooper; Mrs. Crossbone, Mrs. Huinby ; Gertrude. Mrs. W. Lacy. Doers open at half-past Six, and the Performances begin at Seven. Dress Boxes 75.. Second Price 3s. 6d ; First and Second Circles 55.. Second Price 2s. 6d. • Pi: 35., Second Price 2s. • Gallery Is. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. *hitlow, at the Box °dice, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had. Private Boxes to be had at the Box.Otti .e ; of Mr. Andrews; Itr. New Bond-street; Mr. Mitchell, Old flood street; and of Mr. Sams. Pill Mall. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Combination of talent, Mr. T. P. Cooke, and the finest Company in London. THIS EVENING, SEPTEMBER 20, Will be produced a :4ew Drama entitled THE LOVE PLEDGE; OR. A SISTER'S SACRIFICE.- Characters by Messrs. Hicks, Neville, Smith, Mrs. Vining, &c. After which, with New Scenery. Haines's Nautical Drama, MY POLL AND MY PARTNER JOE. —Harry Haulyard, Mr. T. P. Cooke ; Joe Tiller, Mr. R. Honner ; Waxend, iltr. W. Smith ; Mary Maybud, Mrs. R. Honner ; Abigail, Miss E. Terrey. To be followed by the celebrated esELL MELODISTS. To conclude with, THE MILLER AND HIS MEN.—Grindoff, Mr. H. Hustle, ; Lothair, Mr. N. T. Hicks ; Friberg, Mr. Walton; Claudine, Mrs. H. Hughes. Piaces and Private Boxes may be hal of Mr. J. Kerschner, at the I ox Office, from Eleven till Four daily. THEATRE-ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE. M. Carter, the Lion King, and his wonderful trained animals, every evening. THIS F.VENING, SEPTEMBER 20. M CARTER, the Licn King, will appear in a New interesting Oriental Drama, written expre.sly far him by J. H ines, Esq., called fliE LION KING ; OR, THE BRUTE TAMER OF THE Dr: ERT.—Omer, the Lion Tamer, M Carter. After which will be repeated the popular New Drama, called ED DYSTONE LIGHTFIOUSL.—Davie Grey, Mr. Howard; Ralph, Mr. Oxberry ; Sandy Armstrong. Mr. J, r Haim ; Blacit Bess, Miss Tyrrell ; Fanny, Mi,s L Melville. TO eonclude wi h a Novel Burletta, writ ten by Pime Egan. Esq., full of fun, frolie, and whim, called LIFE IN DUBLIN' Corin thian Tom, Mr. Wm. Howard; Jerry, Mr. J. T. Haines ; J em my Green, Mr. Oxherry ; Log ic, Mr. Holiing,worth ; Mrs. Green, Miss L. Meltill ; Kate Brilliant, Miss rescott vVa, de; Betsey Tasteful Miss IL. Isaacs; Rose Das .111. Miss Beresford. hexes, 4s. pi t, Galery, Is. Doors oven at Half-past Six ; commence at Seven; Half.priee, a Quarter before Nine Private Boxes to be hid of Mr. Grog in, at the Private Box-ottico ' and of :Hess: s. Andrews, Mitche ll, Sams, and Ball y , at their Libraries. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. THE TWO LAST WEEKS OF THE SEASON. GRAND EVENING FETES, on MONDAY', TUESDAYS, and THURSDAYS. with the fo!lowing matchless combination of uniq e attractions : The celebrated MENAGERIE, recently enriched by several Zoo.. logical rarities. Tl.e stupendous TYPOR A MIC MODEL AL-FRESCO of ROME from the left bank of the Tiber. The PROMENADES ,iIIISICALES by the unrivalled Band of Wind Instruments, conducted by Mr. Godfrey including Overture and Ma cite Triomohale—Quadrilles, " Le Voleur," and " Prince of Wales' " Pot Pourr , s " jocko," Fra Diavolo," " Melange de Dames," and "Em Strauss von Handel"—A new selection from the works of Handel—Grand Due " Dove Vai " from " Guillaume Tell" performed by Handley anti Prospere—Glee " Mynheer van DIIIIC4 "...Spanish Dane'—And Grand Papist State March. Alter the Concert the Illumination of St. Peter's, and the Gi ran dola ot Saint Angelo; with Southby's magnificent Pyrotechnic Spec tacles, Aquatic Fireworks on the Lake, and Superb Cascade ot Fire. Admission to the whole of the Entertainments, One Shilling, Open at Ten in the Morning.—Feeding at Ha f.past Four.—Con cert at Half-past Five.—Fireworks at Eight, HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. ve.rning...... 16 minutes after 21 Evening minutes after 2. LONDON : TUESDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 20, 1842. The journals in the manufacturing districts best informed as to our trade, such as the Leeds m ercu ry, describe the new tariff of the United States as, calculated to inflict serious injury on our woollen and cotton manufactures. • The duty on woollens (says that journal) is raised from 29 percent. to 40 per cent., and that on worsted stuffs from 20 per cent. to 30 per cent., with the fur ther addition caused by including the commission in the valuation of goods. We fear the increase of duty Will eventually much diminish our exports of woollen cloths and kerseymeres to • the United States, and it • must act unfavourably on the trade in worsted stuffs; and all other woollen and mixed goods. " . „The cotton trade will, however , be m o re seriously affected than the woollen, though the duty does not appear toi le • 11l ad so hih. Cottons are nominally subject to • valo rem d uty 30 per cent, but there are regulations fixing an arbitrary rbitrary valuation upon many kinds of good s , being any indication prevent the nominal duty from velvets, and ion of the real duty. Prints, mole skins, —moleskins from 100 goods, all pay enormously 100 to 200 per cent. ad valorem. On some prints of the va l ue o f 4 d . a yard, the duty amounts to 9 c ents, or 41d. a of 100 per c en t. yard—making upwards That represents rather the ultimate than the immediate effect, which is somewhat different. For some months (says the Merzry) trade has been paralyzed by the` uncertainty that over both the fiscal system mid the financial stateuonfgAmerica ; and would be felt anything that rentoves that uncertainty received in as a.relief. Many of the accounts re. goodstlo the NI Eng land, therefore, are highly favourable' been trade. Some considerable orders for received, and an agreeable impulse will be fe; l t v : merchants. But, on the other hand, we knowyn7r c hants who have 'received letters by this m a il Ifr'rm , well-informed correspondents in New York, regret.: ting that woollen goods which they had ordered had F one out, and that it is too late to countermand them. I'he abiding effect of the new tariff must be very un favourable to the commerce of this country. We learn from the Liverpool Albion.that the shipping interest at Liverpool is at present in a state of great suffering, and full of complaint. At the same time that journal gives this some what melancholy description of the American trade of Liverpool : The whole quantity of manufactured goods sent from this port to the United States, by all the shipping houses together, in a given period this year, does not equal the quantity se nt by a single first-rate s hi p pipg. house in a similar peit o d, ly, In this state of things , what P. ell • • ut one of pros w a are called tran sientps get no freight, while even the packet-ships sin get little or none. The large and splendid packet ship Roscius, which sailed on Th urs d ay f or N ew froighti. York, had considerably under 103/.. of , . 714, - rlr. , , nr e m • -01 - Ztt THE SLTN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 20, 1842. must, we apprehend, their iuferiority to the rest of their countrymen be referred to a similar origin. The notion of a tenant-at-will is that of a dependant man, half a slave. The bulk of the farmers of England are tenants-at-will and half slaves. From the more ancient times—and the fact seems not now to be altered—to escape from the rountry.and to find a refuge in towns, was to be emancipated froM the thraldom of the land lords. In the towns a man takes - part in electing the Magistrates, or they are appointed by the Cro7in ; in the. country the Magistrates are those very landlords, whose • tenants-at-will the 'farmers are. In Scotland Atte squires or landlords do not administer law as well as let land, andlhe farmer there has,,in the Sheriff or his - Depute, a means of defence against the squire, which every farmer in England wants. Down to a, certain period in our history, and probably in the history of all Europe, the clergy being the direct heirs of the knowledge of anti quity, both instructed and, to some extent, ,de fended the working agriculturist against the squire. They did not need the aid of the law to make good their rights and their claims; they had an inherent power, which they directed against the landlords ; but when the rest of the community came to gather as much knowledge as the clergy, when for the purposes of this lite the vulgar had far surpassed their teachers, and those teachers had to look to the law ex clusively for the defence of their property, the clergy of necessity made common cause with the squire, and both formed a league against the farmer and labourer. In England, owing to the great wealth of the Church, the pastoral office is filled, as the rule, by the children of the gentry; and the clergy have thus strong class, as well as professional, motives for siding with the gentry against the farmers. In Scotland, the ministers are the children of farmers, schoolmasters, and ministers ; and it' they have to look to landlords as patrons, they invariably cherish sympathies with the class from which they spring. - Hence in Scotland the farmers have, in an independent magistracy and in a clergy not allied with the squires, two elements of independence; and so have the townspeople of England, which the farmers of England want. By the union of the powers of the magistracy with the ownership of land, and the league be tween the landlords and the Priests, there is realised in the agricultural districts of England a complete and irresponsible tyranny, which subdues, heart and soul, all who are under it. The independent yeomen of England are, in truth and fact, little better than mental slaves. Hence their inferiority, till they emancipate them selves by a residence in towns. To causes like these do we ascribe that general want of energy , in our farmers, of which the superiority of the Scotch is a sign. Whoever has passed any time in our agri cultural districts must know that between covenants or customs, jealously enforced by th e squire or his steward bet Ween payments of rates and payments of wages—between the meddling control' of the priest and the squire, the farmer is a poor, dependent, worried man, who has no mind or thought for anything, but how to pay his rent, and keep on quiet terms with his masters. No education could, we believe, make them better farmers till they become more independent men. How in dependence is to be conferred on them we will not now inquire; but we are sure that the Corn laws, which always make them promise a larger rent than they can pay, and which place them at the mercy of the landlords, is one of the main causes of their inferiority to the rest of their countrymen. .The clerical bigots of Dublin are making 'a somewhat ludicrous tool of the Protestant Opera tives' Association. That very learned and de liberative body are made to publish an address of several columns to the members of the Uni versity, to guide them MI6 selection of a can didate to represent the " Silent Sister" in Par liament. This, as SAM WELLER would say, is " coming it rayther strong but the Dublin Operatives are not the . boys,,to stick at trifles. Armed with the Homiliei, the Thirty-nine Articles, and headed by the Rev. 'Mr. GREGG, they give the Roman Catholics such a slashing, by way of setting the University an example of the right way to go to work with Popery, as must astonish the oldest heads in Trinity Col loge. Raving drubbed the POPE to their heart's content, and all who do not verily and indeed believe him to he ANTI-CHRIST, they put the following pretty string of pithy queries to the Members of the University : "First—Shall idolatorS continue to desecrate the proceedings of our Legislature—to concentrate the forces of infidelity against the Church of Christ—to raise the loud laugh against every appeal to the Word of God—to render it impossible but that the State should pander to their feoings in every ecclesiastical appoint ment ? _ _ _ " Secondly—Shall the national money be disbursed to maintain an institution which not only inculcates idolatry, but rears up men to be its propagators ? "Thirdly—Shall men be pensioned as Chaplains in the Army and Navy, in the gaols and workhouses, to perform a worship offensive to God Almighty—to destroy the souls which, as a Christian State, we should labour to save ? "Fourthly—Shall the National Board of Educa tion in Ireland--L-shall the Committee of Privy Council of Education in England, say to the teachers of the Youth of the nation, ; Ye shall neither expose nor de nounce idolatry—ye shall suffer it to be inculcated in the minds of those who are deluded by it.' "Fifthly--- - Shall the seat of justice be polluted by men who are itlolators—who hold it as an obligation paramount to every other to further the interests and fulfil the will of their church—and who believe that to do this is righteousness? " Sixthly—Shall zeal for the truth of God continue to be a disparagement in this Christian nation shall the Protestant operative or tradesman who is ' rejected by the population because of his love of truth, and to Britain, the land of truth, and of his desire to raise up his own country to that noble condition which truth alone can confer—shall his principles find no preference in our Protestant State—shall he be left by that State to pine when its honours and its rewards are conferred upon the enemy ?" It is expected, of course, that answers to each and all of these questions will be duly returned, signed by the Provost in the name and on behalf of. the University. The range is somewhat dis cursive, but the V graduates of the hod and the hammer are not remarkable far a strict appli cation of the rules of school logic. One slight difficulty was 'overlooked by the Associated Operatives in preparing these questions, members and that was t o ascerta i n w h e ther the theof than the mselves. Uni versity sele3. couldlti s answer them better rather too much too expect the eradication of the reli gion of seven millions of people from the zeal of the heads of a College and a societ y of operatives, with funds to no more than the modest amount of twenty shillings and ninepence, including fifteen shillings and sixpence magnanimously subscribed by the Protestant Operatives of South wark; but it is-something to make the attempt, something to revile and exasperate them, aufk I make them feel as uncomfortable as possible.Aso As regards the University election, about %vial; the Protestant " boys" of Dublin are so anxious, the Evening Mail says that the result of Mr. HAMILTON'S canvass, assured to him in writing", —presents a most decisive majority of the' whole of the electors. Even the Irish Govern ment, then, is not enough to cope with the bigots of the Dublin University. Mr. HA MILTON is pledged to oppose the Education grant and the grant for Maynooth, and hence hispopu larity in the lrish scat of learning. But it will not do. The neck of the old Tory party is broken, and broken, too, by that darling of the Irish Orangemen, Sir H. PEEL.. MORE BEAUTIES OF THE INCOME-TAX. Tl. e Wills Indeiondent, speaking of Sir Robert Peel's et Income-tax, says :—" On the very first day the retur ns were made in Devizes, the contents of the schedules were, known, and were t he sub j ect of common conversation."--; This is a fine practical comment.on the Premier's decla ration that the Income-tax should be attended with no unpleasant revelations, but that every man's business secrets should be.maintained inviolate ! Here is another instance of the working of this delectable impost :—" An extensive proprietor of cottage tenements," says the Leeds Times, " has at present one hundred and fifty houses, for which he receives no rent whatever, forty-six of them being empty. We believe, that owners of cot tage property generally have incurred heavy losses of the same kind duritg the last six months. It will add to the afflictions of these parties to find that they will actually have to pay an Income-tax on the arrears due to them, and which they may never receive."—To compel a man to pay a tax, nat on that which he has got, but on that which he has not got, and never may get ; in a word, to screw three. palpable, substantial pounds, out of an impalpable, non-existent hundred—this is a stretch of ingenuity every way worthy of a Tory Premier. The .old adage says, '.‘yoa can't take the breeks off a High lander ;" but Sir Robert Peel says you can, and hastens to prove the fact by squeezing an Income-tax out of those whose incomes is a deficit. thorised under the provisions of the said treaty to = make such seizure, and shall be afterwards con demned by any of the Commissioners appointed in virtue of the treaty aforesaid, there wall be paid to the captors the portion to which her Majesty is entitled, such portion to be distributed in the manner herein after directed for the distribution of bounties on slaves taken on board the said vessels. _ And it is further ordered that there shall be paid out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to the commanders, officers, and crews of her Majesty's ships authorised to make seizures under the aforesaid treaty, a bounty of five pounds' of lawful money of Great Britain for every man, woman, and child slave seized and found on board a British or Portuguese ship or vessel taken and delivered over and condemned, in pursuance of the provisions of the said treaty and of this oiler ; such bounty to be issued and paid by order from the Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasur y , and to be distributed to and amongst the captors aforesaid, in such manner and proportions as her Miijesty, her heirs and successors ' shall think fit to order and direct by any Order or Orders in Council, or by any pro clamation or proclamations to be made for that purpose. And it is further ordered, that the said bounty, as also all bounties payable under any of the Acts for the abolition or suppression of the slave trade, shall not hereafter be charged with Treasury fees or Exchequer fees of any description. And it is further ordered that any party or parties claiming any benefit by way of bounty under the pro visions of this order, or of any share of the proceeds of any Portuguese vessel confiscated in pursuance of the provisions of the aforesaid treaty, shall or may resort to the High Court of Admiralty for the purpose of obtaining the judgment of the said. Court in that be half; and that it shall and may be lawful for the . Judge of the said High Court of Admiralty to deter mine thereon ; and also to -hear and determine any question of joint capture which may arise upon any seizure made in pursuance of this order, and enforce any decrees or sentences of the said Vice-Admiralty Courts relating to any such seizure. And it is hereby further ordered, that all the provi sions, rules, regulations, forfeitures, and penalties r now in force, respecting the delivery by prize agents of accounts for examination, and the distribution of prize-money, and the accounting for and paying over the proceeds of prize, and the per centage due thereon to Greenwich Hospital, shall be and are hereby ex tended to all bounties and proceeds to be distributed under the provisions of this Order to the officers and crews of any of her Majesty's ships or vessels of war. And it is hereby further ordered, that when any seizure shall be made, or prosecution instituted as or for the violation of any of the provisions of this Order, and judgment shall be given against the seizor or pro secutor, or such seizure shall be relinquished by him, it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, if to their discretion it shall seem meet, by warrant signed by any three or more of them, to direct payment to be made out of the Con solidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Bri tain and Ireland, of such costs, damages, and ex penses as the said seizor or prosecutor may be liable to pay in respect of such seizure, or any proportionate part thereof ; and also such costs and expenses as the said seizor may have incurred in respect of such seizure. And it is hereby further ordered, that if any of the things specified in the article of the said treaty shall be found on board any vessel which shall be detained and brought before either of the said Mixed Commis sions, neither the master nor the owner, nor any per son whatsoever interested in the equipment or cargo of the vessel, shall recover any compensation or damages for such detention, although the said Mixed Commissions should not pronounce any sentence of condemnation. , And the Right Honourable the Earl of Aberdeen, the Right Honourable Lord Stanley, two of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of her Ma jesty's Treasury, and the Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of Great Britain, are to give the necessary directions herein as to them may respectively appertain. IRELAND. NATIONAL EDUCATION.-THE PRIMATE DUBLIN, SEPT. 18.—Sufficient importance has not been attached to the adhesion of the General Assem bly of the Presbyterian Church of Ireland to the na tional system of education. The last report pre sented to Parliament states that 400 schools connected with the Presbyterian body in Ulster are receiving aid from the Board. The Presbyterians, without trenching on a single principle, have thus been en abled to avail theniselves of the funds voted by the Legislature. This junction of so important and in telligent a body may be regarded as putting an end to all chance of successful opposition to the national system, originally proposed by Lord Stanley, and now adopted by the present Ministry. Under such circumstances the ultras and bigots' in Ireland, whilst crusading against that system, are only exposing themselves to public ridicule. The struggle about to be made for Mr. Hamilton, in the University of Dublin, has for its object resistance to the national system of education, .and the grant to Maynooth. The Primate, Lord John George Beres ford, is the leader of the Hamilton party. His Grace, at the annual visitation of his arch-diocese, held on Thursday in the cathedral of Armagh, re peated, in the presence , of upwards of three hun dred clergymen, his well-known opinions on the subject of education, no doubt with a view of fully impressing them upon his clergy, every one of whom is an elector of the University. Thus we find the Primate in Armagh, working very practically against the Government in Dublin Castle. The great fair of Banagher commenced on Thurs day. Sheep rated at from 4s. to ss. under the prices of last year. The sellers dreaded a greater fall. It is feared Ballinasloe will prove a very bad fair. About five o'clock this morning a fire was disco vered in the extensive china and deli establishment of Mr. Hill, Thomas-street, in this city. The house and property were nearly destroyed before any alarm was given, and the inmates had a very narrow escape —if all of them have escaped. One man, who ap peared at an upper window, within reach of the flames, was fortunately rescued by some people, who bravely ventured upon the roof, and drew him up by ropes. The house and all it contained were consumed ; but, by great exertions, the flames were prevented from extending. BURNING OF A. NATIONAL SCHOOL HOUSE. The Belfast Vindicator contains the following, from which it appears that the denunciations against the National Board have not been wholly unavailing : •" A national school-house was burned in Culaleeky in the course of the last month. The Commissioners consented to continue to the master the salary, pro vided he could procure any house in which the chil— dren might be accommodated. The owner of a house which was promised to the master for this purpose, received a threatening letter, informing him that his tenement would suffer the same fate. The outrage was investigated at the Ballymena Petty Sessions on the 29th and 30th of August, but nothing tangible could be elicited beyond the deposition of a witness, that the threatening -notice was written in the hand, of a certain person. In the course of the examina tion of witnesses; it appeared that in that district a strong party prejudice prevailed against the National Board; as being identified with Popery.' This is passing strange, as the patron of the school is a mi nister of that communion. The Government have offered h reward of 201. for the apprehension of the offenders." COMMENCEMENT DAY.—The American papers re ceived by the Britannia steamer, state that this imposing ceremony at New Brunswick, N.J., took place on the 27th ult. The Mayor and Town Council, together with the heads of Rutger's College, the several classes of students, and the greater portion of the higher and middling classes of inhabitants, amounting to near three thousand, went in the usual procession to the Dutch Reformed Church, when the labours of the .day com menced. After the degrees had been conferred, an oration on the character of WiMerforce, together with the valedictory, was pronounced by James Chipchase (on whom the " first honour' ? was conferred), of Rose Hail, New Jersey, and the exercises closed with the benediet by President Carnahan, of the College of New Jersey. The. New York American observes of the oration It was one of the most tasteful and elegant performances of the kind to which we have ever listened on kindred occasions. Elegantly written, imbued with a sweet and lofty spirit, and chastely delivered, and pro nounced the best speech of the kind ever delivered on that stage.?' TIIF. SKIPPING INTEREST.—We hear loud com plaints of the depression which this interest, in common with the other great interests connected with trade, is now suffering. Freights from foreign ports, besides being scarce, arc lower than they have ever been known before ; while, at home, freights are not only low, but cargoes with . difficulty made up. So scarce, indeed, is employment for shipping, even at rates which will scarcely pay freight and charges; the number of ships laid upin Liverpool alone is beyond all past experience. In most of the' docks there are unemployed vessels and vessels on sale ; but the Brunswick Dock, large as it is, has,.if not .two-thirds, certainly more than half of its spacer occupied by ships of large tonnage with brooms, the sign of being on sale, at their mast-heads. The west side is wholly filled with tiers of vessels on sale, and on the adjoining quay all trafflo has ceased, We have heard it mentioned, that one firm alone has from ten to .twelve thousand tons of shipping thus laid up.—Liverpool Abion. DIMIIPT COLLEGE ELECTION.—The Mail states that the result of Mr. Hamilton's canvass -.assured .to him in writing-,-presents a most decisive malorl:y in his favour. One day's polling, the Mail adds, would plane 11,.. H am ilton in a majority which no Government candidate could approach ; but so richly—in the opinion , ofthe Mail—does Lord Eliot deserve the drubbing he would receive, that the Mail would, almost behold alp withdrawfd of the Qroveruniet4 with ;Wet, ..tet h 3;-, StißiklißY OF NEWS AND Vtibitt Ptltioll. " Who runs may read.' FOREIGN. Sunday's Paris journals publish Lord Ashburton: treaty. Most make the mistake of considering Fag' . land to have ceded every point, right of impressn,r e l ; the expediency of the right of search, I.kc. I" tbs papers persist also in the error of imagining right of search is a great political object wil the British Government. The distorted vision oft of French sees in it, not an act of humanity? effects domination. Their whole arguments betray the eu.„ : , of this distorted, vision. Thus, La France exelaoo iliat "England, feeling herself unable alone to up w i t :the supremacy of the sea," .has consented to sha re with the United States. ' rs l Some of the votes of the French Council -Gene no of Departments are made known. The depar t] pn the borders of Switzerland complain tha t The y iron-foundries have greatly suffered this year. ll attribute this to the introduction of English iron the that to the Rhine, tl a duty having been reduced 0 010 . eastern frontier from. 66f. to 44f. per 1 7° °° , d ess grammes—the treaty with Holland, and the pr°% c li of steam navigation on the river, having als ° ,lthe facilitated the means of transport. The Counci l ° ja y Doulis demand the re-establishment of the, old of 1836 on the frontier of the east. perc h A singular instance of the mode of appeal in v iol criminal trials has just occurred. , Langlois Wa s t I l ii at Mitten for having suborned a person to fir.,,,e e 11 hat father, who was wounded in the shoulder. P, o cl' also attempted to poison his parent. The .i 1 1 : .; 0 witted ,extenuating circumstances, and Lang l° ` s The accordingly condemned to the galleys for life. ce o Procureur-General appealed against the senteneo, too mild, and Langlois was tried again at Fred il, He was here condemned capitally, and exect l ' oi fto Forges on the 14th. Notwithstanding the , h - Of crime of parricide, it does not harmonise w", 0 0 ideas to see a culprit, once spared by a tribmn u e all capital punishment, brought back and c ondete e d, another for the same crrime, and fin a lly exeent e , ~iOl With the Madrid mail of the 11th we have rt', 4 ` ge our usual supply of journals, but th e ir contet 0' wholly devoid of importanc e . The Pad/lino° serts that the object of Senor Olozaga's miss the north is not only to negotiate a treaty °t o dlt merce with Holland, but has also referenc e o tO marriage of Queen Isabella, who, according ' i journal, is, to have a Coburg for husband. a sr The insurrection in Servia has been plann e , carried into execution, it seems, for the rest , s 0' a Prince Milosch. Its leader was one of I ' l o o Ministers. Prince Michael, and the other O w de of the Obrenowitsel faMar have been comple• te ' feated' and driven into exile. Funzac OPINION., 0 41 ' The Morning Post contains the following 0 .ofr —" We cannot avoid once more adverting t° 1 4.1 .111 ' ject noticed by us a few days since--the r6°, in se t tention of the authorities to permit foreign ''''',,,ive,, pork to enter into competition with the 1)1r j o, the United Kingdom, for the supply of Ptics A i ° contract. Such a course we have no hes ita ive c r , again describing as no better than su icidal. : 2 ., ' • t" hardly think that even the fre e -trade lea llin° - c° which the country owes so many misfortunee3, have so blinded the eyes, and p e rverted the r of our Ministers." i ,, ill t • The Chronicle in answer t o s ome reraar%b s er' ( I Spectator of Saturday, has the following " eti resJ tions :—" Looking to the more important fe B oo V/ Tory policy, we cannot get rid of the i i m n p t r h e !e s , s , l o; it is in most respects a poor plagiarism '''' s ii,l o ' which went before it. If the change scale is an improvement, the country is inde be u 11l it to the Whig proposal of a fixed duty. 'lf t d o es P , Government is good, it is so in as far as L."' o ur codo'; undo the work of Lord Normanby. li ° l - 01 „, mercial code has been made ,a shade less ah' ii iic'or;t alteration was compelled by the force of puv l /01 , 4 nion which the Whig budget created. Si r • It till P ; Peel's mission, we are t o ld, i s t o d o . If s°';tl r; be admitted that h e exerc i ses t h e f unc tion As'' l ;l l , l c i t economy ; we should rather have said tha t . 01 1 ' sion was to profes s , for that is a departmen t In t o he shines." , .' a c n e : . olv e fft The following is front the Times :—" 0 Sir Robert Peel thanks for wh a t he has ao re has done—events show that it is so—he- 110 at tet'r o that could be done at the moment. A hold e , n pa, would have effected the disruption of his I.be l et i and that at a moment most critical for the //- 1,61,,4 of the country. But we shall still hope t ° in his debt before we have done with hilll'stoc has never been any one reason given for his. le; ,te where he has done. Figures are not princ`P h , rth we have not yet heard any argument for t t i ,{s l cular figures composing the present excepting that there they were. The scale ( V; Cor-a...1 once ; there is no visible reason NOW it slay solufely collapse. Duties have diminished affr look to see them waste away yet a little I t ler f f WZ ONEY— TRADE —C 0 MIKE 0.40 - 01 At Montrose the staple trade of the r h oil o a ceived of late a considerable impulse; ann' 7 $. 4 agitation in the manufacturing and mining ' • toi would have been more extensive still. g "' ' or°l At _Merthyr trade is now in, regular .., c a tY it is said the discharged Chartists have " IV getting employment. an- e° The strike of the Shields' shipwriets,odoce'v,,!, Sunderland mae b their employers to int r . c itel ee , i fi from , have produced great e,sl dirtied' and apprehensions of a riot. On SaturdaY t l e cte d ' were under arms, and great crowds were c° , LAW AND POLICE. Aa r, r' o te William Dew, the footman to F. Barr en : o oi" of 5, Carlton Villas, Maida-hill, who s ec s afrall tsconded with plate of considerable valne , v ‘ n .- s lae r '', l 6, hended in Bristol, on Friday last, with n i c, °- 0 3 - quantity of the property on his perso:f. .-" . „ 8 . 1 6 off to London in custody yesterday evening`, William Jackson, a pc•arl-worker, was e e ' Y Guildhall yesterday with embezzling ! none." , ',. on account of his empl o y er . H e was rein ''' , 1 to.morrow. b it Catherine Hearne, an Irishwoman, wO c w i , of Union-hall yesterday with se lli ng , 3Piri? ,an ; 0; license, during the hours of Divine servi ce n eic of day. A mitigated p ena lty of' 25/. was ''' 05' fr the prisoner, who, in default of paymen t ' . t mated for three month s t o Ki ngston Gao , ' fiir i,• ll " 0, 1 The presentment mad e by the Grand i' f '" the e s late Ciuninal Court S ess i on , comp l a i n ing ° l ' sv itli to , of Newgate being unn ecessar il y croWdea) of fli victs, caused the remo va l y ester d ay, of lr fic es P i tf who were imprisoned, un d er var i ous sen` e- hel nishmant for terms of 7, 10, and 16 years; , 4 ~ conveyed to the Hulks. . ~ ,„40',, cotrikT—r.asurozrA33 l .s' - A'''l . • - His Serene flighness Prince Esterhaq: 00 sador Extraordinaiy of Austria, leit Pover, day, under a salute from the Castle. ,„) The Marquis of S a li s b ur y, Lord Str iA ' of ',1! 1 Mr. Arbuthnot, h a vb b een amongst the Dal'etv lington's visitors at Walmer Castle, during rt ' week. The • Earl and Countess of Chester6e l " ia to embark for th e N e th ar l an d s a b ou t tie !, .1 October, on a continental tour of four Lord Campbell and family arrived in I -4°- terday, from Antwerp. • Lord and Lady S ea f or d a r r i ve d i n A t '" tl ° • on Friday laSt, from Paris. • Lord and Lady PrudhOe are to pas the ri`r Alnwick Castle. • A to Lord Vaux, of Harrowden, has rettirne" , dington Hall, Oxfordshire, frorn . a t o ur:, 3COI I • • mxscEmkasivEoyss• . M. Anthin.ios, the formor Greek Patriare akif` stantinople, died at Smyrna on the 27th The use of cigars i n Germany has, N"' lll oret l7 two years consid era bl y i nc re ase d : this' ll3 : s l•WiY augmented the demand f o r A mer i c an' Vountry. tirU,„ r‘ The annual production of tobacco in - 'llts l 43 eluding every country which produc e sii" (Austria and 'Turkey excepted), iS c`i-I-1. °, 113,900 hog s head s , o f 1,2001b5. each, a n " ; g etfi of Cuba,. P or t o Rico, and South Americo; 1104e.'". at 14,553 hogsheads, of which 12,000 are e;‘r gfr EX PRESS FROM F'" • l• e PARIS) i po he Y 1 el l , , Letters have arrived from Congo l m ' Y ol iA the 31st of August. Izzet ° Mabonl e v t . ieri Alismissod fr o m th e p os t of Grand. • . th t Rada Pacha appointed in his st - ead• t t. liulil Pacha is 'nominated Pl` e9ide, . ° -q t Superior Council of Jtistiee. 1 1 1 The Hatti Scheriff, dismissing A T z - a t yro; 4 9 cause hiS incapacity to bring to, a g° ° e a tion the i m p ortant negot i at i on s entru 6 ' Tahir, it is thought, will also be The Sultan himself has effected this rial change, proppia mote. • 1 rt i° , " POUNDS SHILLINGS,' AND P ELAGE' 5 to the author of a little book with this "" I t f e . a simple plan for teaching mei , ' itW e rfri c * eel) few concise and simple rui:es the aniountli°o/ ,0 numbers at fraetionol . wlthout :ne aids of pen, ink , a n i P rates can be inanle':vap ° eri.tV 2 tained, Abstrus e calculations' are made in the tentrcithig 00, o ti!'? ' 'arl: ''umber of figUres that are used the 0 In Cr~ of managing pounds, shillings, and P enc . e , i 'desj ii iitill ing-houses, or in any of the variou s e oitl expeditious money calculations are an tit , :t b , ledge of Mr. Martin's system of arrivi!‘filt• e of a given question must be found very " the smallest sum, indeed, with one exception, since the liners were established in the year 1818. Up to this time, the passage-money received from emigrants enabled the ships to pay the expenses of their voyages,• but, the season for emigrating being nearly over, even that source of revenue is fast failing. The uncertainty which has so lOng prevailed on the subject of the tariff may have had the effect of dimi nishing shipments to the United States ; but the re moval of that uncertainty, by the actual passing of a tariff unfavourable to English mEnufaetures as com pared with the last, will not, it is feared, increase ship ments thither: On the contrary, while the increase of the duties on English goods must discourage their export, the necessity of paying the duties in cash on import will, it is believed by the best informed mer chants, deter parties from consigning goods to the American market. Goods will, however, if they are wanted, find their way, directly or indirectly, into the United States. We read also that a great number of emi- I grants from England to the United States have returned to their native country, to swell the amount of those who are seeking here, in vain, for employment. Willing as we are to hope the best, and ready as we have been to speak and think as favourably as possible of Sir R. PEEL'S measures, these facts do not betoken the coming of that prosperity which the nation expected from his wisdom. Let it not for one moment be thought or said that he is not to blame for the American tariff: That measure was passed by the smallest possible majorities; and, without doubt, had our Corn-law been repealed, larger majori ties` would have been on the other side. A free trade in raw produce with England would hav e procured a tariff favourable to us, or it would have split the Union asunder. Had Sir R. PEEL displayed half the sagacity, and demonstrated half the respect for justice and honesty in dealing with our own people that he has displayed in dealing with the Government of the United States, he would have been rewarded by a very different tariff, and by seeing prosperity through out the manufacturing districts, where there is now, nothing but decay and complaint. As for the shipping interest and the merchants of Liverpool, from their support of the Tory inte rest and restrictions on trade, and from their fatal indifference to the struggles of their Man chester brethren to procure the abolition of the Corn-laws, they seem to us to deserve nothing better than distress and decay. The majority of them have contributed to deny freedom of trade to the prayers of their suffering countrymen, and if the calamities which they have contributed to ' bring on others are now reflected on themselves, it will be, a just retribution., Nor can we con clude, when we reflect on the wealth and power of the manufacturing districts, on the small number of the mighty host of merchants and ma. nufacturers interested in trade who were mem bers of the Anti-Corn-law League, and on the feeble support that excellent body received from the leading men of the manufacturing districts—that the manufacturers are them selves blameless far the injury and ruin which threaten them. Had they displayed half the energy in resisting the spoilation of their property, and the property of their indus trious and skilful workmen, by the law-making landlords, which. they have of late displayed, and justly and properly displayed, in defending that property against the spoilation of the Turn outs, they would not have had to deplore a stinted trade and an infuriated populace. We make such remarks much more in sorrow than in anger, much more in a spirit of deep regret than reproach, but we :cannot in justice censure the Minister and spare the people. In this country public opinion is more powerful than statesmen ; and when the public councils are for a long period misdirected on any great question, the electoral body is more to blame than the Ministers. Above all, when honesty and justice are openly trampled under foot by a class legislature, and the public acquiesce in the gross outrage, the public is the party chiefly in fault, and on it will, must, and does fall the suffer ing, the vexation, the decay, and the retribution. Mr. GREG, at the conclusion of his letter on farming in the Lothians, which we noticed yes terday, ascribes the superiority of the Scotch far mers to their superior education. " I am inclined to think," he says, "the superior and more practical education of the Scotch has been at the bottom of the improved state of things. Edu cation has given the knowledge which has enabled them to apply their capital with success, and to ex tract from the landowner the long lease which enables them to invest their capital with safety as well as success." Considering the improvement of agriculture to be of vital importance to the well-being of the community, opinions relative to whatimpedes or promotes its success ought not to be lightly hazarded, and it is only, therefore, after some reflection, that we venture to differ from Mr. GREG. It' education were a source of the supe riority of the Scotch farmers, as the same sort of education is accessible to all classes in Scotland,it should produce as marked a superiority in the other classes as in the farmers ; but though the Scotch make excellent merchants, doctors, manufacturers, &c., &c., they cannot boast of such an undisputed superiority for these classes as for the farmers. Moreover, it should he remembered that the country gentlemen and noblemen of England are farmers, and their education is equal to that of the Scotch. Fur ther, we must remind Mr. GREG that the Scotch have possessed their superior education for two centuries, while their agricultural improvements are of a much more modern date. Down to a comparatively recent period they were behind the English, from whom they borrowed much of the art. Their superiority is of very modern origin indeed. Besides, the art of agriculture can only be effectually learned in the fields, and no scholastic or book education can make men farmers. We dissent, therefore, from Mr. GREG'S opinion, that the superiority of the Scotch farmers is due to their education, and would request him, as it is of importance to the subsistence of the community that no mistake be committed on this point, to re-examine his opinion with some care. Admitting that the education of the Scotch may have some influence, we are inclined to think, that the banking system of Scotland has bad more. Our impression, too, is, that the tenant-at-will system—the immediate offprin ,, in England of feudal servitude —never took such complete hold of Scotland as of England. Pap: ments in kind were continued to a later period in the former th7.tr in the latter country ; and when they were abolished, the advantages of leases being pretty well known to.all parties, they were generally adopted. Add to these circumstances, that till the year 1834, tithes were not commuted in England, and that in the bulk of the parishes, the crops could not lag ,orried till the tithe owner had taken his allatied share ; and it seems to us that more stringent causes for the back ward state of English agriculture will be found in our laws and institutions, than in any defect in the education of the agricultural classes. Remembering the immense advances which England has made in manufacturing skill, the question a much larger than it has been stated ;,y l;ir. G IS R ' The comparison of the back r madness of the i o ns t agriculturelfi ir t ea l l a id r a Ch es hire and the is of on l lY nc a l l s ) f a l particular rs of England should be not know why the farme instance of more general truth. We. require to only behind' their brethren in Scotland, but why they should be so much behind their brethren in the towns of Eng land, that the y can not live, as is said, unless ,they be allowed to tax other p eop l e; an d w hile the manufacturers suc cessfully compete w ith, and even surpass, all the world, English farmers must be protected against the competition of the American backwoods man, destitute of roads, and the Polish serf; almost destitute of tools. Why, of all men in this empire, should the farmers be so deficient in energy, that they' seem not to belong to the same conquering, domineering race, as the rest of the community, and always ready to sink, without the help of an unjust latV, under ,the few diffi culties of their position ? That is the large in quiry which Corn-laws and agriculture in other countries suggest, and which Mr. GREG, who has seen only a small part of it, has not satisfied. As the inferiority -of the English to the Scotch farmers is traced to our laws and institutions, so THE SLAVE TRADE. A second Suppl.ement to the London Gazette of Friday, after adverting to the treaty between England and P ortugal, ratiiee in July last, contains the fol lowing announcement : And whereas it is expedient and necessary that ef fectual provision ihould be made for carrying into execution the provisions of the treaty aforesaid : Nov, therefore, her Majesty, by virtue of the powers vested in her by the Acts above recited, and by and with the advice of her Privy Council, is pleased to order, that the said treaty shall be carried into immediate execution, and that all searches, detentions, seizures, condemnations, and sales of ships or vessels for any violation of the provisions of the said treaty shall be legal ; and it,is hereby further ordered, that it shall and may be lawful for any officer commanding any ship of war of her Majesty, or of the Queen of Portugal, who shall be duly instructed and autho rised according to the several provisions of the said treaty, to visit and search any merchant vessel of either of the said two nations which shall, upon reasonable grounds, be suspected of being engaged in trans porting negroes for the purpose of consigning them to slavery, or of having been fitted out for that pur pose, or of having been so employed during the voyage in which they are met by the said cruisers ; and to detain and send or carry away such vessel, together with the master, officers, crew, passengers, slaves, and cargo, for the purpose of such vessel being brought to trial or adjudication before one of the Mixed Commis sions to be established in virtue of the said treaty, or of the Mixed Commission Court, at present established under the convention between Great Britain and Portugal of July 28, 1817, pursuant to the stipula tions of the above recited treaty, signed at Lisbon on the 3d of July in the present year ; and all such commanders and other officers of her said Majesty's ships are hereby authorised and required, in the exercise of such rights of visiting, searching, detain ing, sending, carrying in, and delivering as aforesaid, to execute, perform, and comply with the said several provisions and instructions of the said treaty as apply thereto respectively. And it is further ordered, that in case of the death, sickness, absence on leave, or any other legal impedi ment of any British Commissioner, established by virtueof the said treaty, the British Arbitrator of such Commission shall fill the office of such Commissioner ad interim, until the office shall be thereafter filled by some person appointed by her Majesty, or until such Commissioner shall resume the duties of his said office ; and that in case of such vacancy of the office of British Arbitrator of the Commission, established by virtue of the said treaty, or in case of the death, sickness, absence on leave, or other impediment, of the said Arbitrator of the said Commission, the office of such Arbitrator shall be filled, ad interim, successively by the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, resident in such possession, by the principal Magistrate in the same, and by the Secretary of the Government, until the said office shall be filled by some person appointed by her Majesty, or until such Arbitrator shall resume the duties of the said office ; and that in case of the death, sickness ' absence on leave, or other legal impe diment of the British Arbitrator in the Commission, established by virtue of the said treaty within the pos sessions of the Crown of Portugal, or of his assuming ad interim the duties of a Commissioner of the said Commission as aforesaid, the office of such British. Arbitrator shall be filled ad interim successively by the British Consul and British Vice-Consul, resident in such possession ; and in case of such vacancy in the offices, both of British Commissioner and British Arbitrator, then that such office of Commissioner shall be filled ad interim by the British Consul, and such office of- British Arbitrator by the British Vice- Consul ; and in case there shall be no British Consul or Vice-Cousul at such place, then it shall be lawful for the Arbitrator on behalf of the Portuguese Go vernment to act in all those cases in which a British Arbitrator, if there were any, would be required to act ; and in case of such vacancy in the offices, both of British Commissioner and British Arbitrator, and there should be neithe r a British Consul nor British Vice-Consul resident at such place, then that it shall and may be lawful for the Commissioner and Arbi trator appointed by the Portuguese Government of such Commission to sit alone in such Commission ; and in all cases brought before them for adjudication, to adjudge the same and pass sentence accordingly, nntil the said offices shall respectively be thereafter filled by some person or persons appointed by her Ma jesty, or until the said British Commissioner and Bri tish Arbitrator shall resume the duties of their said offices respecti vel y . And it is her eb y fur ther ordered , that immediately after sentence of condemn ation upon a vessel charged with being con cerned in illegal slave - trade , shall have been passe d by the Mixed Commissions established under the said treat y , all negroes or others who were on board of such vessel, and who were brought on board for the p ur p ose of being consigned to slavery , shall be delive red over to the Government to whom belongs the cru iser which made the capture ; and that the negroes so liberated and delivered over to !such Government shall be placed under the care and super intendence of a board, consisting of two members or Commissioners, with a power to call in a third mem ber, under the circumstances stated in the said treaty. And it is further ordered, that in those colonies or possessions of her Majesty in which, under the treaty, Mixed Commissions are to sit, the boards of superin tendence of the liberated negroes shall consist of the Governors of the said colonies or possessions, and of the Portuguese Commissioners in the said Mixed Commissions ; and that when the Portuguese Commissioners are absent, then the Portuguese Arbi trators of the said Mixed Commissions shall sit in the place of the Commissioners in the boards of superin tendence of liberated negroes; and that in those colo nies of the Queen of Portugal, in which, under the present treaty, Mixed Commissions are to sit, the boards of superintendance of the liberated negroes shall consist of the Governors of those colonies or possessions, and of the British Commissioners in the said Mixed Commissions ; and when the British Com missioners are absent, then the British Arbitrators of the said Mixed Commission shall sit in the place of the Commissioners in the boards of superintendence of liberated negroes. And it is further ordered, that the several members of the boards of superintendence shall, before enter ing upon their offices, respectively take an oath, in presence of the Principal Magistrate of the place, which oath the said Magistrate is hereby empowered and required to administer, that they will faithfully execute 1 their office without favour or partiality, ac cording to the true intent and meaning of these regulations. And it is hereby further ordered, that a fit and proper person shall be selected and appointed by the board of superintendence; to act under its directions, with the titie of Curator of liberated negroes ; and that each Curator may, under the, sanction of the hoard, employ such persons aS may be .necessary to assist him in the execution of his duties. . . And it is further ordered, that the Curator so ap pointed, shall, previously to his entering on the duties of his office, take before the board of superintendence an oath in the following words.:— "I, A. 8., do solemnly swear, that I will act, to the best of my skill and knowledge, faithfully and impartially in the execution of my office ; and that I will conduct m yself with due respect to the au.. thority of the board of s uperintendence of liberated negroes to which I am attached. " So help me God." And it is hereby ordered, that the Supreme Courts in the places or colonies belonging to her Majesty, in which the said boards of superintendence shall re spority, and jurisdictionectivel reside shall to take co g nizance of all shall have th e re q uisite p ower, au thority, and which,. for the due exe cution of the said re gulations, may at the i nstance o f s uch board, in respect to the be brought in such C ourts res p ectivel y forfeitures, fines, and penalties, and to the moneys g ',payable f or th e ap p r enticeship or hire of liberated . ne , roes by and the tIOIIS, So that the said forfeitures may be. enforced, masters or officers, tinder the said regula suit or 'said money s ma y be levied, and the payment of the said fines and penalties recovered, and the amount thereof may be made to. the person appointed by the said regulations to receive the same. tion thereupon, may be And it is further `ordered, that the pendency of any sioners or arbitrators for the condemnation or restitu proceeding instituted before the said 4;:arnnis tion of any ship or cargo, or slaves taken, seized, or whether brought detained, by virtue of the said treaty, or the final a.l - in bar, or given in judication condemnation, or judgment, or determine good and complete person s , evidence under the general issue, and shall be and be in any Court whatever, to be a dee med and adjudged bar in any action, suit, or proceed ing,of any such ship, vessel, or or instituted by any person or sequence of cargo, or of any damage,' or' for any injury sustained for the recovery 'thereby, or by the persons on board the same, in con matter, or thing done under the authority, or in pur any capture -seizure, or detention, or f ie f suane e of the provisions of the said treaty, anything vessel employed or engaged in illicit traffic in slaves, in any Act or Acts of Parliament, or law or laws, to the contrary notwithstanding. ship or vessel belongin6 'And it is further ordered, that where any ship or to her Maje3t7,- duly au in violation of the said treaty, shall be seized by any i'letotitititttoa SUN OFFICE Three o'Cloch. It may be confidently anticipated, now that the boundary line is settled, and the Canadians have obtained a new Constitution, that this country will be at length relieved of the enor mous expense incurred by keeping up a large' standing army in our North American provinces. The troops of the line in that quarter,, indepen dent of the native militia in pay, probably ex- ceed 15,000 men, being about one-fifth of th'e whole effective force of the country. Taking' the pay of the militia into account, the number of desertions from the regular army, and the large sums of money laid out on public works, it cannot be denied that the mother. , country has a very expensive, as well Ew a troublesome offspring. From keeping up so many troops in Canada, Great Britain has' been forced to increase her army, and has at the same time been materially crippled in her opera tions both in India and China. Could one-half of the Canadian force have been spared two years ago, the contest with the Chinese would have'ex hibited a very different aspect, as in all proba bility we should have dictated terms to the " Bright Eye" in Pekin, an thereby brought this tedious war to a satisfactory termination. These considerations, therefore, give rise to the questions, whether, under all circumstances, the possession of the Canadas is worth the money, and whether, at some not very distant period, it may not be'advisable to leave the people to erect themselves into an independent State. When the North American provinces became sufficiently strong to assert their independence, we tried in vain to coerce them into obedience, lost armies and much treasure in the deadly con test, and were at last compelled to yield. Since that humiliating event, changes have taken place which few anticipated. England increased in power, the United States increased in a tenfold proportion, and the trade and commerce between the countries now exceeds those between any two States in the world. Unfortunately, the bad feeling created by.the war of independence long. existed, and has not died away, notwithstanding the vast commercial intercourse between the two countries. This, therefore, ought to be a lesson for the future rulers of the country, and should induce them, when Canada is sufficiently strong to defend herself; and claims independence, to grant it without a struggle.. ,By so doing, Great Britain would set a noble, example, perhaps the only one yet exhibited in the world, of fostering a colony, protecting it against all enemies during its weakness, and at a fitting season parting with it on terms of friendship and esteem. At present, however, such an event is out of the question, as Canada is quite unable to cope with her powerful neighbour, and we are bound to protect her ; but when the separation does take place, England will have no cause to complain. The new Greek' tariff, of which an outline ap peared some two months ago in The. Sun, isi giving all the- trouble and vexation which we predicted it would, to British merchants trading with that kingdom. Nearly all the Consular authorities have protested against the tariff regu lations as vexatious, absurd, and utterly imprac ticable. Nevertheless the Royal dolt, King OTno, has signified, that having received his sanction, they are unalterable. A Morning Con temporary publishes a letter from Patras, dated the 27th of August, in which we find the follow ing illustration of the working of the new tariff: A British schooner arrived here yesterday, having been loaded at Liverpool with a general cargo for Corfu and this port. At Corfu she landed the portion of her cargo destined for that place,- and came on here with the remainder. The master produced his bills of lading and manifest, from Liverpool, to the Patras Custom-house authorities, but they insisted on having a manifest from Corfu, which, - of course, had not been furnished, nor had the master asked for it, the goods for Patras having bean loaded at Liver pool. Dispatch in the discharge of this vessel was of vital importance, as she was chartered to load a first cargo of currants for England, but the Custom-house officials persisted in refusing to grant the vessel pra ague or any communication until the English house to whom she was consigned consented to give a bond to a very heavy amount to abide the decision of the finance department at Athens. It appears, however, that our Consul here was- so thoroughly impr esse d with the vexatious character and the illegality of these proceedings, as to have energetically and so far ef fectually remonstrated, as to cause the authorities to admit the vessel, and to pause before exacting the required bond. We have repeatedly represented to our Go vernment the absolute necessity of compelling King OTHO to observe the stipulations under which the Great Powers inflicted upon Greece the calamity of such a Sovereign. His adminis tration of the affairs of that country is absolutely intolerable. For a whole year has the British Ambassador at Athens been vainly endeavour ing to obtain redress for the over-exaction of du ties from British merchants. As OTHo's ex penses exceed his income, he has recently taken to banking speculations, in Which he is assisted by M. PISCATORY and a swarm of French fi►►anciers of rather doubtful credit. Prudent liciejl will have as little to do with OTHO'S paper money as possible; but many are compelled to receive it, and the chances arc that the new Bank will form a new element in the mass of miseries that afflict Greece. The new Treaty between Enghind and the United States for the Suppression .of the Slave Trade, is discussed in all the Paris journals of Sunday, with the exception of the Debats—the organ of the Court. They dislike it exceedingly, even while affecting to discover in it a lowering of the pretensions of England. The Presse, the Constitutionnel,- the Cour rier Francais, and the National, suggest a variety of circumstances in' which international exigencies may yet occur, and enter chiegy upon a . consideration of. the peculiar position which France is placed in by the realization of the treaty as at present z.bon , stituted. The journals of Guadaloupe have just brought us the address voted by the Central Council of that island op the 9th of July, in reply to the s?eech on opening the Session. This document states all the sufferings of the colony. The Ville de Marseilles of the line, commanded by cAptain Nonay, cast anchor in the road of Toulon on the 13th, in the evening. This vessel came from the llyeres islands, and is to convey to Rio de Janeiro M. Langodorf, the Minister Plenipotentiary of France. M. Olozaga, has arrived at Paris ; he is going to Belgium and Holland, as WR have stated.. M. Martinez de la Rosa has quitted Bayonne, and is expected at Paris.—Constitutionnel. A Ministerial journal, announcing the arrival of M. Olozaga at Paris, says that the object of his jour ney to Belgium is to negotiate with the Government certain modifications in the tariff. As for Holland, it is known that it was proposed to make an exchange of timber fit for ship-building, to be taken on the coast of Cantabria, for men-of-war. A similar negotiation with Prance was talked of, but nothing more has been said about it. We were not wrong in announcing that the first packet-boat would bring the news of the voting of the new taritf. President Tyler, satisfied with having triumphed, by excluding the appropriation clause, has given his assent to the Bill which contains the clauses so prejudicial to our commerce, which we announced at the time of the adoption of the Bill by the Houses of the Congress. When we receive the w text of the Bill we shall publish it. 'We shall' also have to exa mine how far our Cabinet can remain inactive, con sidering the attitude taken by the. United States, and if there is nothing to be done for the interest of our commerce.—Commerce. 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