The Sun. — London, England, 1833-06-28 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP VIE' PUBLIC jOURNA . , _ . In the Comisous Bernal brought up the report of the *Select Committee on the borough of Hertfoid, We' Understand the report re commends that all the electors under the class of 101. voters. shotild - be disfranchised, and that the right of voting ;for the borough should be extended to•the inhabitants of the-adjacent dis trict, including Ware and- Hoddeson. It is calculated ..that this - . will •disfranchise between 200 and 300 of 'the' old . electors, and enfran chise about 600 new electors. Mr. Finch brought forward the following resolution against political unions That certain voluntary as sociations, denominated political unions, are subversive of the authority of the Crown, are unconstitutional - and_ illegal, and that his Ma jesty's Ministers will be fully justified in enforc ing the law of the land for their suppression ; and that all such political unions, be their de nomination what it may, are in their principles, their designs, and their operations, sub versive -of 'the. authority. of the Crown, unconstitutional, -and . illegal." There was nothing remarkable in the Hon. Member's speech except the new Administration" which he suggested, as a means, we suppose, of propi tiating the s when those formidable personages shall have brought about all the revolutitiiiary hOrriars which - Mr. Finch predicted . as the inevitableconsequence of the continuance .of -ariy, but " Conservative" coali tions of a :political character. By the Hon. Member's ingenious specimen of Conserva tive" cabinet-making, Mr. Attwood (the " Brum magem. Hampden") was to be First Lord of the Treasury.;„Mr..O'Connell.(the restrictions in the Catholic Relief Bill being repealed or declaresi inoperative) was to be Lord High Chancellor ; Mr. Parkes (who will not thank Mr. Finch for putting him in such company), and Mr. Edmonds, of Birmingham, were to be Attorney and Soli citor-General; a Mr. Larkins was to be Secretary for the Tome Department ; and Mr. Thos. Steele (the " F eificator ) Chief Secretary for Ireland. Mr. Finch did not complete the list, and in stopping where he did, we cannot help feeling that he has done very great injustice to two in dividuals at least—himself and Mr. Muntz— that shrewd gentleman who bethought him that the live pose he had purchased and taken home to his wife might possibly have left its giblets behind it, and so went back to the shop to in quire fbr them. Mr. Muntz should have been, made Grand Falconer of England, and in his peculiar qualifications for the discharge of the fUnctions of that office, there would have been some sort of security against any giddy, careless hawk spoiling a day's sport by coming out with out its beak, or its claws, or with only one i g As to Mr. Finch himself, his modesty, of course, restrained him from making his own appoint ment, but we have no doubt that the gratitude of the members of the Cabinet which he has thus partially formed, will lead them to insist upon including among their colleagues in the "Finch Administration" the ingenious inventor and originator of such a Government. Mr. Finch, nevertheless, would willingly have with drawn his resolution last night, but Mr. C. Buller, who seems to have been curious to ascertain how many Members could be found to vote for such a resolution, supported by such a speech, forced a division, when the resolution was rejected by a majority of 70 to 10. If the "Finch Admi nistration" be not more strongly supported in the House of Commons, we are afraid they will hardly last long enough to be more amusing than any other one-act farce.—Times. Extremes meet. Here is a Cornishman in close alliance with a grim-looking Scotchman, attempting to recover the lost battle of his confe derate on behalf of the Sunday Bill. Mr. Peter (query Saint?) follows up Sir Andrew Agnew, and, in truth, outstrips him, in all the worst characteristics of that ill-omened Baronet's inea sure, for making religion ridiculous, and what is of great, though inferior consequence, ren dering the " Lord's Day" odious. Happily, the Scotch pedant failed, and so we hope and trust will the English fanatic. There never was any thing more monstrous than the pretence in both these lampoons on legislation, to call them acts fol. making the Lord's Day a day of rest. Why, it is a gross fraud,—a pious one no doubt, but an enormous fraud. They are Bills of coercion, they are Bills of pains and penalties, more espe cially on the poor, instead of enabling any man to abstain from doing that which he was compelled to do before. Sir A. Agnew and Mr. Petercompel the whole world, high and low, rich and poor, to refrain from doing or enjoying that with re gard to which they all were erst in a state of full free agency. It ought to be recollected that the English Sunday is at present quite suffi ciently marked out. and distinguished frail the rest of the week by a general, we might say universal, abstinence from the exercise of every day callings. The shops are shut, except those for the sale of medicines or necessary refresh ments, and the latter even are not opened during the usual hours of divine service, no carts or waggons parade the streets, no business or bustle of any kind is perceptible, the churches are crowded, the population all appear in their most decent clothing,—if vice cannot, as in fact it cannot, be wholly suppressed or eradicated, it is at least under the necessity of strict concealment. The Sunday, the Lord's Day, is celebrated with honours all its own. It is, in truth, a day of religious exercise, a day of rest, and, in many important respects, of innocent and healthful enjoymert. What would these meddlers more ? They would make that which is falsely called the "Lord's Day" for the Christian Sabbath is one of • human, notdivine institution—a public nuisance, from its multiplicity of restraints anti inflictions they would associate with it every spethesof morose and discontented- - feeling, which must of necessity react upon the gideral rel iginus spirit ofthe country, and give rise to that hateful trrXtUre of malignity and hypocrisy a - large portion of the ao-called Pnritans: of ftilmey periodmade themselves corispicttous ajd society wretched. We do- not complain. that in:the present Bill all trade, and work - s:ppertaining to trade, shall be prohibited: But s whf bring in a Bill for that purpose ? 'Khe thing sS:, already forbidden, yet -1111 cares of emergency, such as a carriage laseak - ing down, a horse throwing a shoe, a chimney taking fire, or the like, is the exercise of the callings necessary to cure Such accidents to be visited with the penalties of this egregious law ? So, if any person shall keep open any shop, during any part of the Lord's Day, he shall be punished to the amount of ,20s. for every hour • beyond the first for which he (Mends. Is, Olen, a chymist or apothecary to be thus visited ; or a pastrycook,intowhose premisespassengers can now step and. snatch, refreshment during a long walk ? No coach or cabriolet can ply in the streets• on the Sabbath under this Bill ! Houses of enter tainment, again, are to be closed against the de mands of hunger for all human beings ishatso ever, without distinction, during the •,,.ulO 24 !lours which constitute the Sabbath! The tra yeller who may happen to sojourn in an hotel or public-house, in town or country, .can get no ! meal during the long day and night I Will this he endured ? Will the authors of such Bills escape the public execration ? Would the Parliament which could pass such a Bill as this be deemed the proper representative of even a fraction of the people of England? ,Why, it is not the innoxious amusements of ;this country that are swept away by it,—the very essentials of life are, in some instances, ;withheld from British subjects. The reasona hle enjoyments of the middle "'classes, and 'the necessary recreations of the' poor, are all invaded. The poor men, old and young , pent lip the - whole six working days of the week in a ,close and unwholesome atmosphere, are not to walk to any distance in the country, because no public-house throughout the country can supply their most necessary wants. Families must re- main in their confined dwellings or lodgings, because in the suburbs of a great town they can find no restin g place. The thing is atrocious : 1 , LA . ° centuries have passed since it would have been tolerated in any civilized region of the earth. On the second reading, which is fixed for this night, it will be of course rejected.— ' Times. An Evangelical and Sabbath Bill Member of the House of Commons, Mr. Finch—one of the itinerant and Quixotic missionaries, who was aide-de. camp to Captain Gordon in a late crusade in Ireland, to bring about a second Pro testant reformation among the Catholics—made a motion last night against Political Unions. The religious nominee of the Marquis of Exeter, Member for the close borough of Stamford, moved a resolution to the following effect :—" That certain voluntary associations, denominated Political Unions, are subversive of the authority of the Crown, unconstitutional and and that his Majesty's Ministers will be fully justified in enforcing the law of the land for their suppression, and for the sup pression of all Political Unions, be their deno mination what they may, of which the nature, principles, designs, and operations are subver sive of the authority of the Crown, unconstitu tional, or illegal." The devil never spread a net wider to catcli a shoal of his Majesty's liege subjects, than the super-religious Mr. Finch has done in the meshes of this notable resolution. With whom was to be intrusted the prerogative of deciding what objects of Political Unions were " subversive of the autho rity of the Crown," the Honourable Member omitted to mention. We presume that he would revive the Court of Star Chamber, for the purpose of exercising its ancient and odious powers inquisition and trial with out jury. We do not doubt that we should have a very quiet country if the resolution had been carried, and provided it had been acted upon—a matter, however, of some little diffi culty. There are various species of Political Unions in Great Britain and Ireland the Anti-slavery societies—the Orange lodges—the Carlton-house club—some of the Bible societies to which Mr. Finch belongs, founded on the express principle of upholding " Church and State"—Conservative and Pitt clubs--and various political associations of different parties, for the purpose of enforcing and stretching the law. The Society of Friends would alone furnish ample occupation for Mr. Finch, if he could have car ried his resolution, as those active and philan thropic members of the community will soon proceed to other political objects when they have settled the Negro Slavery question. The ex tensive range of the motion, and its comprehen sion of the members of the Carlton club, ac ' counts for the thinness of the House of Com mons during the discussion, and the smallness of the minority (of ten) which supported the Honourable Mover. Mr. Finch displayed no ordinary tact and disingenuousness in the course of his discursive speech on Political Associations. His object was to throw dirt on the Govern ment ; and the manly way in which he was met by Lord Althorp deserves particular commenda tion. The Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel were the legitimate parents of Political Unions. There was no society of the nature in Birmingham, till the ministerial opposition to Mr. Tennyson's motion for the transfer of the ' franchise of East Retford to that populous and public-spirited town. All hope of any substantial amendment of the representation vanished, when the Noble Duke, and his pliant Secretary of State for the Home Department, defeated the motion of Lord John Russell, for the moderate proposition of enfranchising a few of the unre presented towns. The Political Unions were the produce of the folly of the Tories. The Duke of Wellington, in his ever-memorable declaration on the meeting of the new Parlia ment in 1830, that the representative system was perfect, issued a proclamation for the for mation of Political Unions throughout the country ; and it is not a little curious, but lite rally true, that they became so far the masters of his Grace that he condescended to correspond with them, and reply officially to their public memorials and communications. If these Poli tical Associations had been really illegal or unconstitutional, it was the duty of the Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, and their Law Officers to suppress them in their birth. They did not do so—a fair presumption of the lega lity of the Political Unions—and it is rather too bad a joke now for the Tories, who thus tolerated them, and who left them as a legacy to:: the Whigs, to turn tail and revile . Lord Grey's Administration for not hav ing attacked theist in their full growth. We never contended that these societies were expe dient in all times, or under every Government ; but we admit that they did much towards fur thering the cause of Parliamentary Reform, and perhaps ultimately insured the triumph of that great question, without bloodshed or devastation of property, The torpor and political indif ference of a large portion of the middle classes— or rather their dependence on a domineering Tory Aristocracy—notoriously excited the mass of the people in this country to make war on the boroughtriongers, The nation took the field against the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel, and outmanoeuvred them. Political Unions were the excrescences of bad government, Peo ple well governed, and enjoying popular repre sentation and institutions suited to their times, never enter into these eztra-constitutional so cieties. We hear of no Political Unions in the North American Federal States. If these associations are let alone, they will soon die a natural death ; if they are prosecuted, and uncoil, stitutionel laws made for their suppression, they will increase in nvinber and power. Mr. Finch took upon himself to be very facetious on Mr. Thomas Attwood, Mr. Parkes, and other pre sent or former members of the Birininghain Union. Mr. Parkes joined the Birmingham Union in May last year, with many thousand new members ; when the puke of Wellington threatened to: supersede the reform administra iion. On the Royal Assent being given to the Reform Bills, our columns will show that Mr. Parkes and many of the new members of all the .Unions seceded from the societies. The Brighton, the Bristol, the Sheffield, the Leeds the Liverpool Unions, and other similar associa tions, have been either dissolved, or by resigna tions have lost many of their official and leading members. Some of these societies are still for midable and numerous, but without good go vernment and non-interference they will gra dually decline, unless the- Duke of Wellington and the Ultra-Tories should return to office, and act on Tory principles, when they will soon revive, and get above the military prowess of his Grace. Happy also was it for the nation, that Political Unions existed in this country after the French Revolution as conductors of the ignited feelings of the people ; and it was a matter of congratulation with all sensible men, that per sons of talent and local influence headed the Reformers during the memorable crisis of the last year. The Tories are as blind to 'causes as to effects ; and nothing short of physical proofs will ever enlighten their opaque understandings. Political Unions which do not correspond or use certain emblems are strictly legal ; and even these restrictions were enacted by Tory laws, !lamed by Pitt and Lord Londonderry, for the protection of the boroughmongers, and which are violations of the great constitutional rights of public meetings and petition. Mr. Cobbett made a happy and ironical comparison between the late Tory administrations and the political unions, highly to the disadvantage of the for mer; and Mr. O'Connell, in an excellent speech, warmly cheered, intimated that the time might yet come when the staff of the existing unions might form necessary recruiting parties to put down the political union of Tory Bishops and Conservative Peers, who are now associat ing at the Carlton Club against the Irish Church Bill. Now the fact is, that the close and cor rupt state of the municipal corporations, and the principle of self election existing in the Courts Leet which generally govern the unincor porated towns, have mainly contributed to extend and perpetuate the unions. The people, having no share or voice in the magis tracy or municipal government of the boroughs and cities, usually view the civil officers of their several communities with suspicion and disgust. The close nature of these municipal bodies ex cludes all the most respectable inhabitants from municipal power and honour. The natural con sequence is, that the bulk of the population form independent associations, hostile to the corporations and other self-elected municipal officers. It is well known throughout the coun try towns, that innumerable evils 'proceed from these causes. indeed we have lately stated our confident opinion that a real and well-considered system of municipal reform will produce the most valuable consequences to the nation. The Bristol Political Union contributed more to sup press the disgraceful riots in that city, than its decayed and powerless Corporation ; and Mr. Thomas Attwood truly alluded to his own laud able conservation of the public peace in October, 1831, and May twelvemonth ! When the peo ple elect their own municipal magistracy, and when the ancient and constitutional police of the country is revived, life and property will be ten fold more secure—we shall hear little of Political Unions, and still less of such insignificant and mock legislators as Mr. Finch. This little gen tleman may represent the close Corporation of Stamford, but he will never be returned to any Parliament by an elective Corporation or its in dependent burgesses.— Morning Chronicle. If the people had such honest and zealous representatives in the House of Commons, as they naturally expected from the working of the Reform Bill, we should have felt surprised at the oppressive, unprecedented, and, we must add, in many instances, illegal conduct of per sons acting under the real or pretended authority of the Post-office department, not having been brought under the notice of Parliament in a way calculated to stop those proceedings in breaking open parcels, &c., which have, for some time past, become the subject of just and general complaint. When grievances press, the people must not wait until their representa tives, sleeping at the feet of the Ministers of the Crown, and dreaming of places and pensions, awaken to a sense of their duty. They must shout in their ears—they must call upon them, by public meetings and petitions. They must meet the un-English system of espionage which is now encouraged by such a peaceable, but deter mined, expression of public opinion as cannot be mistaken, or all confidence will be broken down. The common transactions of business, more espe cially that of solicitors and their clients between the metropolis and the country, will be ruinously im peded—and the Post-office itself be regarded as a nuisance, instead of being looked upon in the character, which it heretofore maintained, ofa great and valuable source of public accommodation. Great is the disgust and indignation of the public at the practices sanctioned by a Whig Ministry to wind up the screw of taxation to a torture pitch, which it never reached before. This was the case in regard to the Assessed Taxes, which the mercenary minions of the present Government rendered more vexatious and un equal than ever by 'heir rapacious and indefati gable ingenuity in making surcharges. These are taxes, too, which the public had every rea son to believe, from the assurances given by the emissarie.i of the present Government at the ge neral election, and from the Members of the Cabinet having voted for their repeal when out of office, it would have been one of the first acts of a Whig Administration, supported by a Re formed Parliament, to abolish. Sadly have the " pensive public" been deceived. The " candid" Lord Althorp was the first to draw the nice but not very intelligible distinction between voting for the repeal of a tax and advocating such repeal. If his Lordship would only vote against the Assessed Taxes now as he did be fore, we would dispense with his advocacy, esti mating, as we do, his vote on the side of the peo ple as of far greater value than his eloquence. The Noble Lord, in endeavouring to reconcile gross inconsistencies of conduct, is obliged to talk egregious nonsense. He has attained, how ever, to one part of the craft and mystery of a financier, which is best explained by the words quocumvue mode rem, which being " done into English ' by the Treasury translator, means, "fleece the people by surcharges." We have heard of instances of surveyors of taxes being promoted, as a reward to themselves and an encouragement to others, for that sort of inge nuity which males the Government odious to the people. Have our Whig rulers found this sort of policy so beneficial to their interests that it is thought the Post-office department cannot do better than imitate the example of the Ex chequer ? Will the increase of the revenue derived from violating the public contidenee reposed in the establishment compensate foohe 'loss of character which the Government must thereby sustain ? " Any loss," said the Duke of Wellington, in his memorable correspondence with the late Mr. Huskisson, " is better than the loss of character, which is the foundation of public confidence." Even supposing the Post office to have in strictness of law (which we deny) a right to do all that they have done, in the way of breaking open parcels and letters, &c., there could be no two opinions among rational men as to the impolicy of acting upon it. It would, in deed, be one of thi cases to which may truly be applied the maxim surrimum jus est summa injuria. It is an injury inflicted on the interests of society which we never heard of the Tories having had recourse to as a means of screwing up the revenue. Better would it have been to have kept in the Exchequer the gold Which Ministers, in fraudem patrics, have paid to Russia, to enable her to extinguish liberty in Poland, and break down our commercial interests in the East. Better would it have been that the money squan dered on a nonsensical naval expedition to the coast of Holland in the season of fogs and storms—better would it have been that the twenty millions sterling voted, or to be voted, to the West India planters, had remained in the Exchequer to answer the demands of the State, than that such paltry, vexatious, and truly un constitutional modes of augmenting a failing revenue should be resorted to, as now excite a just sense of indignation throughout the country. —Morning Herald. • In the House of Commons yesterday Mr. Cobbett presented a petition complaining that a constable of the metropolitan police had been employed to ingratiate himself into the confi dence of a Political Union for the purpose of acting as a spy upon its conduct, and that, in the pursuit of this occupation, the individual in question had laboured strenuously to urge the members of the Union to violations of the law. The Hon. Member corroborated the allegations of the petition, or at least attempted to do so, by the statement that he had himself examined the witnesses, who were ready to come forward and give testimony to its truth, and that their evidence had convinced him. This is a charge which demands further investigation, although we cannot refrain from the repetition of the opi nion we expressed some weeks ago on transcrib ing the same accusation from the columns of a contemporary journal. We could not then, nor do we now, believe even of the present Mini sters (for it would manifestly be idle to suppose that the officers of the police would adopt the course imputed to them without instructions from the Home office) a baseness so unparal leled and atrocious as that of going about to ensnare the members of political unions, while they were leaning upon the support of those bodies, and affording them publicly in return their countenance and patronage. But the charge is confidently made, and it must be con clusively refuted. There have been occasions in which the Government was bound in duty to the public to resort to the employment of spies, in order to discover and defeat the projects of disloyal subjects and wicked men. Such an apology would, however, be inadmissible and inapplicable in the present case. The Ministry, so long as the political unions were with them, treated them as meritorious institutions ; and, even now that the unions are no longer Minis terial, and have, therefore, ceased, in Ministerial estimation, to be positively meritorious, they are not treated as confederacies from which any considerable danger is to be apprehended. To employ spies to watch and circumvent them would be, therefore, on the part of Ministers, perfectly gratuitous, and indicative of a natural propensity to indirect and covert proceedings. But it is obvious also, even if there were dan ger, and the kind and degree of danger which would justify the employment of spies in order the more effectually to guard against it, that neither the present nor any other Admi nistration would be justified in employ- Mg the members of the metropolitan police in this degrading and ignominious duty. The metropolitan police is an excellent and most useful establishment ; but it cannot long remain so if it is to be demoralized by the example of spies selected from its ranks, and confided in, caressed, and promoted in consequence of their aptitude for this hateful description of service, or if the public are to be taught to regard it with the feelings of aversion and contempt which the whole corps, if prostituted to a use so base, could not fail to excite. The subsequent pro ceedings of the House, which consisted of an attempt made by Mr. Finch to obtain a vote condemnatory of Political Unions, and of the combined and successful resistance of Ministers and Unionists to this attempt, will, of course, convince all the world that Ministers can never have taken secret means to obtain evidence against institutions which in public they wil I not venture so much as to reprove.—Morn. Post. It is understood that the Government plan for the renewal of the Bank Charter will be debated this evening in the House of Commons. The meetings of the Country Bankers in opposition to Lord Althorp's arrangement with the Bank of England have excited a considerable degree of public attention, and it cannot be denied that they deserve all the attention they have excited, whether we consider the respectability and ge neral intelligence of the parties composing them, the large stake they have in the question at issue, the community of interest which may be pre sumed to subsist between them and the great body of the community, or the accurate practical knowledge which, from their position, they must have obtained of the subject to which their at tention has been directed. The country bankers have assembled with the feelings of ill-treated men—of men wounded and irritated by accu mulated proofs that faith has not been kept with them—of men conscious that they deserve as much as any class of their fellow-subjects the protection of the Government, and convinced at the same time that they are left to their own efforts to protect themselves from injury. It was unquestionably the duty of the Govern ment to consult this useful, respectable, and intelligent class of the community before it en tered into any bargain with the Bank of Eng land by which their interests and that of their connections could be affected, even if the Go vernment had not promised to do so. But to make a clandestine bargain after having given a pledge to do nothing without previous communi cation with the. country bankers, whose interests must be deeply affected by any arrangement with the Bank of England, was precisely such a trick as none but a Whig Ministry could have thought of, and such as no class of Englishmen will re gard with any other feelings than those of in dignation and contempt. The organs of the Ministry pretend that the country bankers have nothing to complain of, since the right of issu ing their own notes is preserved to them, while they are henceforth to be liable to pay thOse notes, not in the current coin of the realm ex , elusively, as heretofore, but in the current cop .of the realm or Bank of England notes at their. own option. And, if this were all, there un questionably would be nothing of which they could fairly complain. But those who limit their view of the subject to this, which is one of its smallest parts, evidently intend only to mislead and delude the public. The arrangement with the Bank of Eng land comprehends a series of measures, of which the intention and the tendency is acknow ledged to be—of which the final effect evidently must be—to overthrow the whole existing system of country banking ; and in becoming a party to such an arrangement, without communication with the country bankers, Lord Althorp, it can not be denied, committed one of the grossest breaches of faith that ever disgraced a Minister of England. 'We do not say that it will be pro ductive of evil to the country to encourage the establishment of joint-stock banks, or to give them advantages both in respect to the proportion of their capital required to be actually paid up, and to the extent of liability with which their part ners or shareholders shall be individually charged, or to make these advantages dependent upon the condition that the joint-stock banks shall employ Bank of England notes as the medium of their dealings with the public; but we do say that it is sheer effrontery on the part of the apologists of Lord Althorp either to pretend that the system of which these several regulations are the component parts can ever be esta• blished in this country without detriment to the business of the existing banks—without extinguishing their business indeed so far as it depends upon the circulation of their own notes, or to deny that this is the ultimate purpose of the whole project. It would be astonishing, if from such a quarter any thing could astonish, that the apologists of Lord Althorp should ven ture to allege that the arrangement with the Bank of England is not injurious to the coun try bankers in the face of his Lordship's com munication claiming from the Directors of the Bank of England the surrender of a large pro portion of their present emoluments, expressly upon the ground that his proposed plan will at once occasio❑ a great and profitable increase of the issues of that establishment, and lead to the eventual extinction of every other description of paper currency. We are not of opinion that the subsisting arrangement between the Govern ment and the Bank (of which, by the bye, much abler men than Lord Althorp are the real au thors) would prove injurious to the community, provided the country bankers generally would lend their willing aid to carry it into effect, which we believe they might easily have been induced to do by a few very reasonable modifications and concessions. They would probably, for example, not have been generally averse to the substitution of the Bank of Eng land paper for their own, as the instrument of accommodation to their connections, and the medium of traffic in their several neighbour hoods, could this change be freed from the ob jection that it leaves them too much at the mercy of the Bank with respect to their supplies of currency from that establishment, and, by necessary consequence, too much exposed to the dangers of an excessive and unfair deduc tion from their present profit, or to the dan ger, in other words, of being compelled to pay to the Bank too high a price for the use of its paper. Some definite arrangement as to these important points seems indeed indispen sable, if it be not intended to lay the whole body of country bankers, the joint-stock banks included, prostrate at the feet of the gigantic establishment of Threadneedle -street, and to deprive the nation of the immense advantages flowing from that relief and assistance which the country bankers afford in innumerable instances, and which, being wholly depen dent upon personal knowledge and per sonal confidence, could not be submitted to the officers and servants of any banking corpo ration cr joint-stock company, or, if submitted, would have no intelligible claim to their atten tion. In the concoction of the Ministerial plan (as in every thing else that the present Ministers undertake) there has, however, been such a degree of mingled blundering and bad faith as bids fair to impede if not to prevent its success. The country bankers, with whose co-operation it would probably be a beneficial measure, and without whose co-operation it must be a mis chievous one, have been goaded into hostility, by a neglect as insulting as it is irrational,: by a deception which is at once odious and ridiculous. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has pro ceeded upon this subject as if he thought that all his difficulties were at an end if he could but contrive to steal a march upon the country bankers, and complete his bargain with the Bank of England without the knowledge of those to whom he had promised to communicate all his proceedings. The Noble Lord will reap, we have no doubt, the proper harvest of his folly anti duplicity.—Morning Post. COLONIZATION IN AFRICA. A preliminary Meeting of the Friends of Colonisation was held yesterday morning at the Thatched House, the Right Hon. Lord BEXLEY in the Chair. The object of the Meeting was to enable the friends of African Colonization to take measures to prepare for a General Meeting, to be held in the Hanover-square Rooms, on Wednesday, July 3, when his Royal Highness the Duke of SCSSEX has kindly promised to take the Chair. The CHAIRMAN, after expressing his concurrence in the measure, as being calculated to confer inestimable benefits upon Africa by the introduction of civilization, and par ticularly as a means of extending the blessings of Chris tianity, and, after having attributed the limited success of the attempts which have hitherto been made to the em ployment of the whites, who had fallen a sacrifice to the climate, and dwelt upon the importance of the experiment made in Liberia by the substitution of educated blacks, called upon Mr. Elliott Cresson, a member of the Society of Friends, and representative of the American Coloniza tion Society, to lay before the Meeting some details of the proceedings of that Society, and of the settlement in Liberia. Mr. CRESSON then gives a statement, of which the fol lowing is an abstract.:_ " Prior to the year 1822 several minor and ineffectual, attempts were made to establish Colonies on the west coast of Africa, on the principle of raising the character of the blacks. In that year a settlement was effected at Cape Mesurado, which is situated lat. 6. 21 deg. not th long. 11 deg. west. A small tract of country was pur chased from the natives, and the possession ratified by a treaty. " The first settlers consisted of thirty-five men and boys, under the management of a white agent. " The safety of this little Colony was endangered al most at its birth by an act of humanity in an endeavour to prevent the seizure of an English vessel with thirty captured slaves which bad been stranded. A serious con test ensued, but happily was brought to a successful ter mination by the arrival of an English ship of war. From this period, with one slight exception, pacific relations have be,n preserved with the surrounding native tribes, by an undeviating course of justice and benevolence. " Successive additions have been made to the colonists from different parts of the United States, and have con sisted of free negroes and slaves gratuitously manumitted for the purpose, so that the small number of 35 persons in 1822 was increased to nearly 3,000 in January, 1833 The colonists new occupy portions of a territory which extends about a hundred and fifty miles along the coast, from the River St. Paul to the southward, and have friendly relations with many of the native tribes, both coastwise and the interior. The number of natives at present in amity with them is about 25,000 ; they freely I 1_ Ili ll ell' E . ] for 'PIT" tien7ugar 1 !wing their produce to the mattt, in exeltave factured goods, an.! m ;he frequent appliea ions that eSk silents may be established among them. A eonsider o . commerce has thus been established at Monrovia, th e 0 I. ports from which, in 1832, amount'.d to 12 0 1 0 ',.. 4. Prope dollars ; the produce in hand was estimated at e'f. t ir White dollars ; the imports were 80,000 dollars, The if : t ia Y Myth ports consisted of cam-wood, ivory, palq, oily iii lih e tpe--9 - toiseshell, and gold. During the ye:..r fifty" 4 1 vessels had touched there, of which thirty-tw , , seem , ' . e te tee--1: ricans, twenty-five English, and two French. The p l it itor—..l 'al, Monrovia, contains about 2,500 inhabitante,tA .4 . Nat han good warehouses and dwellines. There are six days"" 0 established, and several Sunday schools. Three ch Ja i - L e L . Cc have been added during the year. Thy art. are s 7; k news room, a library, and printing press. A r ews =per is r_ ~ 4 " c...., z 1 2 .... lislied monthly by a negro editor and printer,—[Scf r i these papers were produced by Mr. Cresson, and we°, to B considerable interest a s ev id ence o f t h e state of t h e ... f , nists ; that for November last contains extracts I _ l ,l/ 1 lb e exe Se l a s s : ' Lander's Travels,' from ' Lyell's Geology,' and ' 0 1 : 11 1 Qa t p ~ (wen i works, as well as a proclamation by the agent forage 4 1.._ ' 1 11 in the fast on the Ist of December.] ' o i .patent I " The superintendence is in the hands of a single ir d % terr ., nial agent appointed by the Society, who, with a W a y ; ltitl i i a th -3 man (a Dane), forms the only permaaent N.,. ite poP °t he tion. The general management of public afftirs, the : 1 0 I st e l,. sd ,, al blishment of schools and churches, and all comnie ; Xs C al. ' a transactions, are left wholly to the negro colonists. jf L irlio ll i c ' Ah 1 44 The plan adopted with emigrants has teen to 1 *: ' Mar o„,,,,, ,_ 1 none but volunteers, and, where practicable,to e lleet per', tile— '''' fed lan of good character. 0010 Moetun'tv " The expenses of the colony from the cow, men ~ kg, n , 1 • have not exceeded 40,0001. 1 1 4 4 n an] "An emigrant can be found a passage, peovieln i ti t . " of I 09 . ey a n ce a shelter, and rations for six months after his arrival , 7. Cerra, of receive a grant of thirty acres of land, for Si. # - surg e N h " The climate, although almost certain death o _4 clise r of l , l whites, is not so to the blacks, who, after a sessow7 11414 ' , 5„,.......t2:12! which rarely proves fatal, find it very genial. " The advantages which were pointed out by S. t_ VA Cresson as likely to be derived from the extension of ! i :`Prising system were to check, and u l t i mate l y to d estroy the ola ' acres of trade ;to diminish th e expense t h us i ncurred with I 0 Wight. object by th e B r i t i s h G overnment; to civilize Airiest, to f t h _TO BE excluding from her coas t s those who h ithe h er lana, ll ," 71 order o blood, and annually carry o ff many . hnumands of her e " dren into hopeless bondage; the extension of minor RE and the introduction of British manufactures; the cut' off the supply of slaves to those countries which', USE A . 0 : : continue to carry en that nefarious traffic; the cressr n or 11 -, c; of an asylum for British slaves from such islands tos di r it e: Foafrna overpeopled and exhausted ;• the moral effect which fyi be produced by elevating the character of the negro, Africa itself ; and above all, the almost indefinite 07 Llie Isle sion of the blessings of Christianity." 0 0 rtes of rid In the course of a discussion which took place, lt Mao art) stated that some objections had been made by the advoro of immediate eistabcipatioo, but it w.• considered by .. 4; 74 1 . 8. C. I l e fvell, Nec present that the advantages far outweighed the objett u 'its The Gra that the benefits to Africa were undoubted ; and that . tt i e n at a vz extension of civilization and of Christianity would ball ot M .enaoran effectually promoted by the extension of the system. , : tit eney may .1 . 1/ P or forth following resolutions were then passed :- 111oved by B. Hawes, Esq., M.P., and seconde" t illale (if b v Captain M.Cortocriaz, R.N., , kali e l ' - ~; tore, 1 1. Resolved, That while the efforts made by the fillb - t a. Government for the extirpation of the slave trade oil ,0, will' a , n c m coast of Africa deserve the thanks of the civilized vito Ilk l iki an ' si - i n yet the great extent to which that nefarious traffic le. A '!nte r , a „ 1 ., carried on calls for more efficient measures than any bit. ' - 'l-J---r- - ROOT adopted. _ 1 1 Moved by R. Porrzn, Esq., M.P., and seconded . 1 Captain CHAPMAN, R.A., • • ce°d 2. That a well.digested scheme of co!onizing the je of Africa with civilized negroes promises to effect tb/e sirable purpose ; that it is calculated to elevate the alai character, and, by the establishment of commercial : f Christian intercourse, to dry up the sources of the lIP trade. Moved by the Rev. Dr. KENNY, Rector of St. Olsell'' and seconded by Dr. BOOTT, „ite 3. That Colonies formed upon such principles apPerjo afford the most favourable prospect of introducing, t ili t y the guidance and protection of Divine Providencetos blessings of Christianity and civilization among the 10 0 tribes of Africa, and are eminently calculated to c o-oPS, with, and give effect to, the efforts of the several Sp sionary Societies of Great Britain, by affording the l'S t i once of pious and well-educated instructors of the Ov t o African race, and of bodily constitutions adapted 19 climate. tO' Moved by Mr. CRAWFORD, and seconded by ph LISTER, Esq., i 4. That a Committee be formed for the purP o o taking the subject under consideration , and to mike °, rangements for a Meeting, to be held at the fle, ll l Rooms, on Wednesday, the 3d of July, at twelve toc precisely, when his Royal Highness the Duke 01S r has kindly promised to preside. !:.1):ialg I ~ . ottages V estaient I fl 'in-Law (tt irrawa 44Uasnaii Late the Pi Aa Vu 1 tax 1 Vtab lee, Gal CO UN FRY CO: Per Quarter. Blandford . Brigg Chard Huntingdon-. Long 5utt0n..........,.. Louth Lynn-- Newark Nottingham Peterborough Plymouth Pontefract Sleafortt — Uppingham Wisbech s. to s. 54 40 58 53 46 54 58 63 56 64 50 55 50 60 42 61 40 61 43 60 50 64 65 70 48 57 48 62 S. S. 36 40 24 28 20 24 27 32 22 25 22 29 25 29 23 28 30 34 36 38 24 35 20 33 LEEDS CORN I Wheat, Norfolk and Suffblk, - York. and Lincoln. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk ~ - Yorkshire and Uncoil - Grinding MARKET. 601 b. 60W. Ish ire lb. Beans _ Oats, Potatoe -Mealing, For. 12d. to 13d Shelling Rapeseed, English, 236 to 245. Foreii S. to S. 20 15 22 17 20 12 16 17 22 19 20 16 20 14 21 19 21 13 21 20 23 22 28 16 24 14 22 i .--June 25. ~,, 4 41s. to v'' f i ••••• 36s. to 61J. 1 28s. to 5 . .. 275. to 5 , 225. to `1.'",,, ‘ ) 4l. to 5 , 18s. to l ei! !Irv. 9d to 10%4. " I , 21s. to 245. peclo; Pi, —l. to —l. THE MARKET ,N MARK W heat. ors DUR Barley. NG THE WO (mats. LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.—June 25 WHEAT, English, White, per 701 b. R ori • Q 9 I n_eu ----. Scotch, Welch, and Manx - Irish, White 7 6 -- Red 7 3 - Foreign H 6 Ovrs, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b t: 8 - Irish - Foreign 2 3 9 0 BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 26 0 , 90 0 ' Scotch and Irish, per 601bs. --- Feeding 9• (1 BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter 36 0 9g 045. - Irish, &c. - Foreign 34 0 1.. PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter 4 0 40 0 A, ~ --- Foreign FLOUR, English, per 2801 b. 44 0 't `° 6 - Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401bs 2O 0 "" v INDIAN CORN, per 4401 b. 96 0 Ibis, per Imperial quarter HALT, per Imperi a l quar t er IMPORT OF GRAIN for the Week ending June 24 T t or Wheat.' Oats. I Barley Flour. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. 'Foreign, Brls. I rish, &c. Schs.l__ :...k o9 7,492 7,966 211 -- I 8,541 HAILSHAM MARKET.—June 26. . A # l 3s. 2d. to 4s. 2d. 4s. 0.1;.- 4 Mutton 4 0 410 I Pork 3 0 Lamb ss. Od. to 6s Od. Supply of Beasts and Calves limited, of Sheep and La ° } lerably good ; trade dull thrmghout. ARUNDEL MA IIKET --June ti). - Beef 3s. fkl. to 4s. Cd. as. 241, to Mutton 3 8 4 3 I Pork 3 8 Lamb ss. 4d. to 6s. 4d. Supply of Beasts but moderate, of small stock good; dull throughout. CHICHESTER M ARK ET.—June 26. 4.* 3s. Cld. to 3s. Did. 3s. Od. " 4 Mutton 3 6 4 6 I Pork 3 8 Lamb 4s. 6d. to ss, 6d. • G O! Store Sheep and Beasts, as well as Couples, were in . 11 : demand, at somewhat improved prices. Supply of la j limited, but otherwise tolerably good; trade dull. RUMFORD M A ItKET.—June 26 . o 4 , s. d. to s. d. 8" 6 4 Beef 3 0 3 8 Veal S 6 is Mutton 3 6 4 6 Pork I Lamb ss. Od. to 6s. Od. 0 Suckling Calves, 14s. to 325.; Quarter old Store Pigs, Igy Supply moderately good, and trade dull through ° „ "/ . -- .. Ai l Asi BIRTHS. r. On the2sth inst., at Springfield, Charlton Kings, .- i Brigadier-General Leighton, C. 8., of a daughter. o fte At Binstead parsonage, Isle of Wight, the lady of d Hewitt, of a son. ~„tO 4 On the 19th inst., at Baden Baden, Mrs. T. J. ..,- daughter. .4 MARRIED. " liV e s On the 26th inst , at St. Ann's, Limehouse, J. , Esq., of Ratcliffe cross, to Lavinia, only daughter Q 1 Esq., of York-terrace, Commercial-road. 01 * On the 25th inst., at St. John's, Hackney, mr• • A i e r t. Dalston, to Elizabeth, youngest daughter of the Day, of Dalston. DIED. „ fl On the 23d irist., Mrs. Maria Josephine Noortal_._'" f Mr. Christopher Meyer, Longport-terrace, goutlo"" mouth. 'lo' On the 18th inst., at Acton, near P onte f ra ct, ag e a pe el ; Edmund Mark Winn, Bart, a truly worthy country roe with all the politeness of th e anc i ent sc h oo l, ani> derateness of the kind la n dl ord. A l PRINTED AND PUBL ISHED Bs MU RDO YoUN''' Scar Onus )112,811167% /4t1"16 Particula , 4 til of Jur 1, 44 e• R. B Nee:rs. Ter 44 d at Gan S' BAL Variety of qto the Stol 4 eornmend. A PRE Thi;(efe gettith to tl 1 4 rna and r °tat Medici Sink "ktion s wld k t'd the Del 111 lions Nei , m ates , the th e chill, w , That hit 14 given an 41 Gile a d I -41,', Advice S. Sc Di.. yo h u GonerJ Man Bc ninocins, 11 " .1 Y adapt Sold by „,,'" , gent -stn , yan ebange ; 4 11e r WI Fore p 1 q ) ury ; 4° Psgat 'jest, P ai 44 '1 all Ale t)4 ' famil y /\; ith earl he Govrz a al onlon, I pa 19 Unit quul cuunl