The Sun. — London, England, 1839-03-29 00:00:00

EVE - N..\; a . ) iIT lON G DANIEL'S 7--1 0LITICAL DEATH BED. " O l d .13.1 - 1 . CV COn:101 is >n liis political death-bed !" Vide Times of Yesterday. Daniel O'Qtritnell, old and grey, On Iris D o Vt,ical death-bed lay ; His:cho'..ics were sunk, an d wan i n h ue, An I.,is pulse was down to twenty-two; the foot of his bed stood Melbourne sighing, In a.chair beside him sate Russell crying ; . While poor Spring Rice with a phiz all gloom, Kept noiselessly creeping about the room, His innocent nose in anguish blowing, As he murmured forth, " 0 Lord, he's going And we shall never more, ready and gay, S..zek Treasury b!ur.t on quarter-day !" While thus the mourners looked all aghast, Fearing each ;our would be Daniel's last, A posse of Tories came in by stealth, Just to learn (they said) th e state o f hi s h ea l th ; But when they beheld his pallid faco, Each scamp indulged in a fiend's grimace; Shaw grinned, like some dlndy fildle-scrapar, While grave Sir Bob cut a frisky caper, And Goulburn shouted " his may is o'er, For lia's ,oing , to that mysterious shore, IVhere all such fellows have gone before; So, here's success to our proudest wishes, And hip ! Hurrah ! for the loaves and Liles 1" • These clamorous shouts of exultation Roused Dan's extremcst intUgnation, So up he jumped in his shirt from bad, With a worsted night-cap on Lis head, _ And grasping his cudgel, tough and thick, (P at'i never aisy without a stick, Wherewith some friend or foe to lick) And roaring the while in rapturous strain, - This skri nama - r me will make e quite young again,* Com menced a salubrious fighting-bout— Put all the Tories to the rout, Cudgelled them well, and then kicked them out MORAL. There's nought like a skrimmage, deny it liho can, To cure an invalid Irishman ! * „ ttlurrah for this conflict 1 It makes me quite young Letter' t o Tto in th!s conflict I"—Vide O'C onne li' s l ate t..ay, Esq. COURT CIRCULAR. Her • p majesty heki a Court yesterday at Buckingham al aee. Th e p , , xtr Earl of Clarendon, G. C. 8., her Majesty's Envoy lz aerdinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Queen Catholic Of Spain, actin.- in the name and on behalf of her s eated Al ajesty ' t ‘ he Queen Isabella the Second, was p 1. .- mer, - oo his return from his mission, by Viscount Pa Pal- Stat e G. C.B , her Majesty's Principal Secretary of , I T 3 for oreigri . Affairs. Waiv e rl:° urt was attended by Lord Gardner, Lord in th e / 1 11 g, Sir Frederick Stovin, Groom in Waiting, and i 4 r.v.."1,°,11.• Colonel Cavendish (Clerk Marshal), Equerry H er . A • I N' 'riding Al' took equestrian exercise yesterday in the Q Z,,g school, near Buckingham Palace. eistei.ount Melbourne had an audience yesterday of the Th T 1 -41 e11) - 0 "uYal dinne r party in the evening included Viscount Ily e : ll rue, Lard Lilford, the Right Hon. George Stevens R e, and Mr. George Edward Anson. at \‘‘ll.l.l4ajesty's Royal Maundy was distributed yesterday Ina e „ 14'411 Chapel, with the customary formalities, to as la Sear s Pour, aged, and infirm men and women as the Queen at the old. At three o'clock a procession was formed Reiree Almonr Office, in Scotland-yard, consisting of the .Dean,4 of the Guard (one of whom bore on . lais head a 4'er. containing the alms to be distributed), the 8 2 , of Carlisle, the Sub-Almoner, Joseph Hanby, Esq. th e l t arY and Yeoman ' of the Almonry, four children from th e scronal School, Westminster, and two children d from seket:Pla er St. George, Hanover-square, who had been es si e4 Jci en P.ccount of their good conduct. Theproc_r -B!eatt: eutn•ing the chapel was joined by the Rev. D . • eh epei ,8 -1413-Dean and the gentlemen and boys of the th .- -- p, 4 Dean, As ' soon as the several officers had taken fir: l f r t , i se ,at`4 ) the usual aft:rnoon 'service proceeded to the SuLi t 'uni, " Hide not thou thy face," (Farrant), when the 11. 1 . -tuioner and Officers distributed to each woman eo n p.? turd to each man shoes end stockings. At the ai d ' li s'en of the second anthem, " Blessed is he that con ,oz..t,hthe poor and needy" (Nares), the roeu received a ethe l eu and linen cloth. At the conclusion of the third 'b oth ni, " 0 Lord, grant the Queen a long life (Child), :Par s - vae n and women received purses of money, each white . !4(1 t= =containedc twenty pennies (in the varieties of 4d„ 3d., ei' ) bJing the age off the Sovereignea s h It. purse contained 2/. 103. of which the sum of I!. 10 ~ :4s4s 4 cortmliitition in lieu of Provisions, which were formerly ~ , ,n ed to them. snth em, „ who is 1 T . he service 11 0 1,1 - continue E d d till the fourth his that comnth from om" (Dr. Ar -1,147..): sung by Messrs. Wvlde, Horncastle, and_ Brad s 7 Iyhen two prayers especially composed for this ea:linty were read. _ 4 At ti, lv --e "nelusionof Divine service the National Anthem T he peformed. Mr. J. B. Sale presided at the organ. t, -Jor l e a Yeoman of the Guard were under the command o Tit'll4u Ellerthorp, Esq. Clerk of the Cheque. 'est rel:°l(let woman, present was aged 81 years, and the old- Ili r , —4 1 8 4 11 Years. The oldest person in the receipt of the Yttr Q s r "`' u ndY, and the Royal Gate Alms, is aged 97 Ceicaatuely Thomas Aria, who was formerly Governor of , r ia r . a til• fields prison. tee n e "2 1 t1 Salver ' which contained the-Royal Alma has ati used upon the occasion of the distribution of the Royal : 1 "Y, ever since the reign of William and Ma a r , f . t i i the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yes b terd t a b y e , Y n . umber Bishop of Condo juvenile Nobility were confirmed by The musical uN.vi.r. The choir was_ fol! ire 4ri g Was Arnold's in C, , and attended. Sanctus and Corn- T. B. Sale presided at the iir gar : 4 . e ats, Davy's. Mr. 1e Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at tbo4s'wne House. It was attended by Viscount Mel .Lorarle,,, Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscount Duncannon,. N :rob" ) , 'John Russell, Viscount Palmerston, Marquis of or -4...`,17, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Earl of Minto, '"(Thu ouse and Lord Holland. des.he Council , sat two hours. °rd Nugent had an interview with Viscount Melbourne erday, in Downing -street. Mons. Bedard had an interview with the Marquis of orrnanby yesterday, at the Colonial -office. . 1. , A deputati on of the Hull Dock Company b a d an inter •voivning-street. avv with the Ch ancellor of the Exchequ e r, y es t er d a y, i n ho d George Grey, and the Right Hon. H. Labouchere l i t tl an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday, at the - "t k e - office. t,... 4 5 r? John *Neill, her Majesty's Minister to Persia, 4,l7acted business 3 esterday, at the Foreign-office. espatches from Sir John Harvey, Governor of New eol,l.siek, from Sir Colin Campbell, Governor of Nova h ee '' l4 , and also from the Governor of British Guiana, were lted. yesterday at the Colonial-office. ''‘' SIIIOINABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. t,i4eetteral Sir John and Lady Sinclair, in Gloucester ta Port v,,; Iri an -Square ; the Chancellor of the Exchequer, 4 ,,nd Li"ng-street from Hastings; Colonel Sir Archibald q 4; Nlaclean, in Gloucester-place, from Leamington str e , t the Hon. Hugh Duncan, in Seymour-place, Curzon ,ace , Ir °ra Bath ; - Mr. Edward Romilly, at his new resi ihr Str atton -street • the Dowager Countess of hr)ee,„lltrY, Montartue-square • Mr. and Mrs. Col in t ee, in Hill -street, for the season'; Lord 0. Fitzclarence, GiirdileArabassad or ' s Courti from Melton Mowbray; Lord ~r ' from dit to • they Earl of Oxford, n Hanover- Mr. ) ;.or the season from Brampt on -p ar k, Herefordshire; tar„,,e - Haliuvoir, in Grosvenor-square, from his scat, h The T \ ° Ple ,; 11 . "',"e of Devonshire arrived at Constanti -ti e p tne 7th, and her Majesty the Queen Dowager the as also the Duke of Buccicucrb. te e the e °ld ers given to the Sentinels ° with respeet L.laal Guards passing through the Tuileries or 4 ttiet,',,,re with their arms have lately become excessively p ra ha•r oc i 4,l!'!e Sentinels stop ' them passing, and put the re v , .1)11 every musket to ascertain if is loaded.— a Per• Ort. t i-thE.-- -Yesterday morning a man named jotti'at„-',eoachnlan to Mrs Bevan, 18, Devonshire-place, Zi a bviimiti:7olraee, committed s ' uicide b cutting,th is throat. He some time in bad health and very low-srited. ;leyerai`).\‘'ho threw herself on the bed for rest (being up r c , Ild'glits) awoke and found something wet, and turn 'bite 4 1 , 4 4 7,a11e found her husband weltering in his blood, r ltE meet i : A TRE ROYAL, LYCEUM.—This establish ' eala, 4tillouneed to open under the management of Mr. n3 ,2 111 1 - "kt" c lati efficient company. Mrs. Stirling, after ten . `qatn,, - absence from the stage, is amongst his engage ,/I,°Ntis°3,l‘.l44oll,TEAl EXAMINATION' . OF THE othe r ‘JII Wednesday there was an examination of the 1 '44 it e ' B°ls bY, at King's College, by Professor Todd, the e 8 fou n d t h at he also died from natural causes. teethe of the afternoon the remaining portion of the Ntibwei„ w as remov e d i n vans f rom the theatre to Mr. 8 colle ct i on i n the Commercial-road. I : V° LENCE.—The M ag i s t ra t e s o f Lambetsh ,4tion°-me ha ve within the last ten days, received two (10- t 4 5 01,5!' each for the poor box. The letter containing has the initials C. H. 1° visi t e l r , is a rumour that Lord Brougham is about l 40 t htt "IS estate in the south of France, and therefore . wi tle r ,,, n d in his place in Parliament for some time, if at utii,“C the remainder of the Session. Lords Melbourne, tP he.., 4111 7 ,,' and Normanhy consider the news too good to be 11 7 er ld. , t Na rn t " - - A most destructive fire broke out yes wn i °t ning at eight o'c'ock on the extensive !cotton i`os'avr.Ttrweeatr,eharo,udses Of Mr. • Black:nore, in Seething-lane, hot i n , i is 'll'eperYdextk., nsi , v v:: not extinguished till near eleven ; the and unfortunately Mr. Blackmore is A N J„,, 4.4P5T11. All elderly man, named John 'etti " 11 ' , Was cs• nmitted to the House of Cur_ Ott o°4 a riion ' t e 'h by e t ° l:e Magistrates of Union Hall trZ e n ) tor be ' n,,r , in the . ctreets. The prisoner is the tirt-irzbiil'itee'•ll!aol,l sometim e,l a represented himself as being . a ergy;;lan g i o Lmed'l - Corman, and who by his -presentzticms excited much sympathy. _ 1-1,„.e valuable place of Master of St. Katharine 's With ire ^nsi^n attached to it in the Ret ,4;;;':`'rk, nu,: n ; - .e;n r.l t cf lletbcct i;c 13 . 1 . 11 . tl.l cisrsonal gift of her Majesty, unconnected s4„_ imins • DEBATES ON THE CORN-LAWS Before we examine the - arguments of the gentle. men who took part in the debates on the Corn laws, it seems necessary to bring some general principles under notice. The problem, be it re membered, is not whether the law will hereafter be, but whether hitherto it has been, beneficial. Now, to solve that problem, we must have some term, of comparison. Since the law was paSsed the popu lation of the country has increased very consider ably—its wealth has augmented—its exports have become greater—its trade has increased—its agri culture has undoubtedly been extended—and the advocate of the law may, and do, assert—for there is nothing they will not assert which serves their purposes—that this increase of population, wealth, power, and production, has been caused by the co existing law. Again, since the Corn-law was passed, there have been acknowledgedly great fluc tuations in the prices of corn, which are asserted by the Earl of Ripon and his. friends to be natural, and not more than is warranted by variations in the seasons. And we want to ascertain whether these assertions be correct or not. Before we can do that we must form some idea of what are the na tural fluctuations the price of corn is liable to. Thus to test the Corn-law, we must first of all ascertain the general principles which regulate, for example, the progress of population and the prices of com modities. NECESSARY PROGRESS OF POPULATION.-- Now one of the leading principles established by modern science is the existence of a natural and almost irrepressible tendency in population to in crease. Nothing can ever prevent the increase but an absolute impossibility to augment the supply of food ; and sometimes individuals put up with a smaller share in order to supply a great number with food. It is clear that the Corn-law had nothing whatever to do in creating this irrepressible ten- dency, and that it can have had no part in con- tributing to the increasg of the people since 1815 or 1828, except as it has augmented the whole supply of food. In truth, according to our phi losophy, the whole gist of the question lies in that one fact. So much do all the social phenomena depend on the . increase, decrease, or stationary condition of the number of the people, and so ex clusively is that regulated by the quantity of food produced or obtained, that the utility of the Corn law may be decided by the single circumstance of its augmenting or limiting the supply of food at the command of our people. What are its effects in this point of view, will be afterwards investi- gated ; for many of the arguments of the Corn-law advocates went to prove that the law encouraged agriculture—that it gave a bounty on production, and so increased the average or constant supply of food ; but we must at once observe that the law immediately and directly cut short the supply. It prohibited our people, unless under very peculiar circumstances, from receiving food from abroad ; and in order to vindicate the law, it ought to be proved that its after-consequences more than com pensated for its immediate cutting off a supply of food. We shall look closely at this point when we come to analyse the assertions of the advocates of the law at present ; we wish to establish, to the satisfaction of our readers, the natural law which regulates the progress of population, and to point out the natural rule it obeys in the present condition of society, independent of the Corn-laws. Under the most favourable circumstances, as those of the United States, whose modern skill operates in an unoccupied country, it has been proved that population exclusive of all helps from emigration, doubles itself in twenty-seven or twenty-five years. The example cf such a rapid progress is found only in modern times, and there is no proof, whatever may be boasted—there is indeed, much reason to doubt—whether any so ciety in the ancient world, for then wars were more frequent, and the arts of nourishing men less known than at present—ever increased so fast as that of the United States. Looking at that as entirely the result of increased knowledge—for the soil could have been used by Indians if they had possessed European arts—we_are inclined at once to suppose that the ratio of increase in any population should be accelerated as knowledge increases, or as the world grows older. Startling as such an assertion may appear to those who have not investigated the law, it is nevertheless countenanced by many circumstances. England has now been historically and consecutively known for upwards of 2,000 years. What the exact amount of population was when Julius Caesar invaded it is not accurately known, but the mode of life of the people satisfies us that they could not have been much more numerous in proportion to the extent of surface than the Indians of North America when that continent was first discovered. From that time to the Conquest it is supposed that the population did :tie more than double itself ; or it took a thousand years to accomplish that by our ancestors, in a com paratively unoccupied country, which their descend ants in the United States have done in the fourth part of a century, or the fortieth part of a thousand years. The proofs are mote distinct and certain that subsequent to the Conquest it required, not a thousand, but five hundred years for the population to double itself. In latter times however, we find it doubling itself in less than a century. In the middle of last century, it doubled itself in about 80 years, and during the first thirty years of this century, the ratio of increase was about 60 years. The town population, however, has nearly doubled itself in thirty years. "It will be seen," says Mr. Porter, in his Progress of the Nation, " how slowly, when compared to later periods, the population increased during the last century." . But it increased more rapidly in the last century than in the preceding centuries. Now, this accelerating ratio of increase in England, combined with the un exampled increase in the United States, owing to the people having modern knowledge, is an ample proof of the law, that population has a tendency to increase in an accelerating ratio, as society grows older. To apply this rule to our own country and our own times, we must remember that we possess a most astonishing mechanical power at our com mand. The population of our towns which has doubled in thirty years, has been enabled to procure food by their possession of this extraor dinary power. By its means they have amply paid the agriculturists for their increased supplies of food. It is at the same time unlimited, and could as well be employed to purchase food from producers of it in every part of the world as from our own farmers. The mechanical power is unlimited ; its produce will buy food, and consequently there is no other natural limit to the command it may give our people over the food of other countries, but the disinclination of foreign cultivators to buy the produce of our machinery. There is, how ever, abundant evidence that they were and are anxious to buy this produce, th e y are willing to create food to give in exchange for it, and our most extraordinary mechanical power gives us in fact a means of purchasing food from the whole world. The actual ratio of increase in modern times in our population is not a correct index to what it might become ; and there does not appear any good reason why, with such an extraordinary mechanical power at our command, we should not be able to purchase such a supply of food as to enable cur population to inerease as fast as the population of the United States. That would, perhaps, " convert the nation into one great work shop, and render it," said Sir James Graham, "unfit to live in ;" so he and the rest of his ambiCous or mad tribe of desperate charlatans, pass a corn-law ti stop the progress of societv. 1:111 actuallyPto d i e n p o r ' i ' v w e te th t e he peo v p i'l l f e ar o e f o f f ooT al:ladtiostnOptitii7e such a way as had been the case on the recent occa sion. When Lord John Russell brought forward the Reform Bill it was stated that the object of the Bill was to amend the state of the representation, hut he Must state that a reformed House of Com mons should have rejected the motion for inquiring into the Corn-laws, had excited the digust of the people at large. For his own part he could not expect justice from the present House of Commons. Hc concluded by moving : " That this meeting has learnt, without surprise, after the previous unjust refusal to hear evidence at the bar of Parliament, of the late decision of the House of Commons upon Mr. Villiers motion to go int.) Committee to considcr the Corn-laws ; convinced that they must rely for justice solely upon the patriotism and intelligence of their fellow countrymen, this Meeting cordially approves and adopts the pl•in recommeuded by the London Dele gates of uniting all the towns and districts of the empire in one great Anti-Corn-law League for the purpose of employing competent lecturers and sup porting a stamped circular, procuring the aid of the public press, and adopting every legitimate and constitutional mode of appealing to the good sense and co-operation of the people : believing that the great struggle for freedom of industry against the misgovernment of a rich and powerful aristocracy has now commenced this Meeting, whilst they do not disguise the formidable obstacles to be over come, would remind their countrymen that, upon the result of the contest, it depends whether Britain shall continue to march onward with other nations in the path of greatness, and afford to a naturally increasing population, augmenting means of sub sistence, wealth, or happiness, or'whether, like too many other empires of ancient and modern times, our country shall be sacrificed to the selfish and ruinous policy of a privileged portion of the coun try. To doubt tire issue of such a question would he to question the spirit and intelligence of the British people. This Meeting, therefore, relies with confidence upon the co operation of every class and calling of their fellow-countrymen to aid them in their endeavours to abolish the most sordid and destructive monopoly ever inflicted upon a civilized country." Mr. T. H. WILLIAMS had great pleasure in se conding the motion, and expressed his dacided con currence in the resolution, as it was quite clear that the people had been sacrificed to serve the inte rests of a class, and marked by the scorn and expressed contempt of the lauded aristocracy for time manufacturing districts of the country. He progress of population, in order to prevent England becoming unfit to be inhabited by gentlemen. Their arguments, two thousand years ago, would have applied to agriculture itself, when it first made the country uninhabitable by the hunting tribes who were previously- its only tenants. The conviction that the progress of population here might be as rapid as the United States, or much more rapid' than at present, is of almost im measurable ►mportance in, this great con troversy. The human frame has a great power to adapt itself to circumstances. The poor inmates of a nunnery, enjoy comparative comfort, and they would never know, however much they may pine and fret, what they might becomc,were it not that some human beings live in freedom. So, as the nuns adopt themselves to the rules of their miserable - cloister, individuals and society at large adapt themselves to the rules of the lawgiver, who incloses them within the walls of a great restrictive system, and limits their supply of food. The num- Ira of the people is limited by the law. We may infer from the progress of another nation, that we might command a better fate, but without that term of comparison, the Corn-law - s", regulating the supply of food, would regulate the number of the people, and we should never be able to form an idea of the immense expansive power and immense increase of wealth they extinguish. The principle we have laid down will enable our readers to judge of their effects ; and nothing but them, and the system of which they are a part, has prevented our population, with the most extraordinary mechanical power at their command that the world ever saw, from increasing since the peace as rapidly as the population of the United States. NATURAL LAW OF FLUCTUATIONS IN PRICE.—We come now teethe natural law of fluc tuations in price. Savages very often die of hunger, and they frequently have one whole day's gluttonous feasting and a week's fasting. As the arts become known men get comfortably fed, and in our society our supplies come to us as regularly as the hours. Now this change is typical of the whole history of the progress of price. In the early age it alternated between the smallest possible coin and famine. In the' middle ages multitudes very often died of sheer starvation, and the prices of corn in those time underwent fluctuations of which we have not example in modern times. The rule, therefore, is that fluctuations of prices become less and less in the progress of society. They are also less in propor tion as one country communicates with another. For example, the Duke of Wellington and Sir James Graham, in the progress of the debate, re ferred to the fluctuation of the prices of corn at New York, but it is clear that the high price of 1837 would have been much higher, and the fluctuations, on the whole, greater, could the United States not have imported corn from Europe. It is equally clear that it would have paid the merchants of New York sooner to import wheat, had there not been a duty of about 6s. per quarter on it, and but for the duty the price would not have risen so high, and the fluctuation would have been less. Now Great Britain having communications with all the world, and able to purchase with the pro ductions of her extraordinary mechanical skill food from all nations, should be the least liable to fluctu ations in price of any nation in the world. Thus in our country, just in proportion as time advances, and as we extend our trade, fluctuation in prices ought to diminish, and we shall test the arguments of the speakers by this rule. Here, again, how ever, we find that the Corn-law, by its immense power, as long as we submit to it, of moulding society to its own propor tions, prevents the beneficial rule from coming fully into existence, and were it not for other countries, and some events in past times, we should have no means of knowing that prices were subject to any such rule. The theory, however, is con firmed by experience, and prices have fluctuated less and less as society has advanced, and as trade has been extended and free. Having established these principles as our guides, we shall examine by their light the rhodomontade which it pleased our Par liamentary speakers to call reason and sense, and to suppose the people were fools enough to be gulled by. MANCHESTER ANTI-CORN-LAW ASSOCIATION. MANCHESTER, THURSDAY MORNING. Last night a general meeting of the members of the Manchester Anti-Corn-law Association was held at the York Hotel, King-street, for the pur pose of receiving the report of the Manchester De legates respecting their proceedings during their second visit to the Metropolis. Amongst the Manchester Delegates who were present we noticed Aldermad Cobden, Mr. Rawson, &c. Mr. RAWSON was called to the Chair, and hav ing opened the business by reading the circular con vening the meeting, after which, in accordance with the wish of some o the members, the report of De legates prior to their separation in London(w nich ap peared in . our account .of . the meeting held at Brown's Hotel), was read by Mr. Ballantyne, the Secretary._ _ _ _ Mr. Alderman COBDEN, in rising to address the meeting, said that he conceived the Delegates had gained a great moral triumph, although they had been defeated by what he would call physical force, for any person who had read the discussion in the House of Commons,would see there was nothing like an argument raised on the part of the majority. Mr. Villiers' speech was one of unequalled excellence. He took up the question on the broad ground of justice to the whole country, and its was not even touched upon by those parties who pretended to answer it. Even Sir Robert Peel himself studiously avoided grappling with the prin ciples which Mr. Villiers laid down, but contented himself with taking up some statements, or rather mis-statements which had been published by parties who were identified with his own side of the question. He took these statements into his considera tion, and then built an argument which he demo lished, after which he claimed a victory over his opponents. Nothing could be more unfair than this result, and to show it had proved unsatisfactory to their opponents, he would read some extracts from a friend in Parliament which he had just received : " The landed people are not satisfied with the last debate, and the Tories have had strong remon strances from some of their own people at its being made a party question. Their papers, if you ob serve, have not claimed any triumph, and many of the party say that they have lost an opportunity that they will not regain of what they call settling the question (which generally means substituting something so like what they remove that it is diffi cult to distinguish them). Let the season only be bad again next year, and our labours will tell. The Delegates are of course much abused, but the com plaints only come from men who are writhing under the service which they feel they have rendered to the cause. You may be sure that the course hitherto pursued with respect to the House has been a judi cious one. In no other way could we have put the House so thoroughly in the wrong, and I hope in this agitation, a reform in the repre sentation will not be forgotten." The De legates in Lancashire had avoided party poli tics, but there was a great many of them, in deed the majority representing those intelligent con stituencies, who were convinced that from the pre sent constitution of the House of Commons there was no chance of their case meeting with a fair hearing there. They were very anxious that we should convert our Corn-law Association into an association of a political character. He believed that the majority of the Delegates were of that opinion ; but he (Mr. Cobden) hoped th, meeting , would agree with him that they should avoid adopt ing such a character, and he also hoped that they would agree that a system of agitation on the Corn question should be adopted throughout the country. Whatever individuals might do as individuals, still as Delegates, and as a Corn-law Association, they had nothing to do with party politics. He anticipated, as a result from their labours, that they would receive great assistance from the agricul turists themselves. He believed that the labourers were becomit , interested in the question, and he had been told by a great political economist that they feared more from home competition than foreign competition. With respect to the conduct of the House of Lords (he was in the House when Lord Melbourne spoke), the speech which struck him most was that of Lord Melbourne, and he was most surprised when he heard his Lordship say that this agitation oriainated in a scheme on the part of the manufacturers to take advantage of the present high price of corn. ROP,:ftT ncticiLsoN, in rising to propose the first resolution, said he could nut have expceLed that the House of Commons could have acted in TH.l4:,' SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 15:,9. The meeting then separated. WEBB seconded the motion, and called the atten tion of the meeting to the servile condition of the farmers in the agricultural districts ; it was of importance that pamphlets should be circulated amongst them by the Association. He thought there ought to be soma communication ma d e to Si r Thomas Lethbridge, who, although he did not go for a total repeal at present, would, he had no doubt, render great service to the cause of the. As sociation. He regretted to see the names of many .Members of Liberal politics in the list of votes in the majority. Mr. PRENTICE read a letter from Hereford, re commending the distribution of pamphlets amongst the agricultural classes. The CHAIRMAN put the motion, which passed. The Chairman having left the chair, Mr. Alderman Kershaw was called thereto, and on the motion of Mr. Alderman COBDEN the thanks of the meeting were given to Mr. Rawson for his conduct, not only in the chair, hut on the Delegation where he had a strong brief in hand—namitly, the case of the stocking manufacturers, which was the strongest point in the case.—(Cheers.) Mr. ItAwscax, in returning thanks, called on the meeting to show Lord Melbourne that nothing short of the total repeal of the Corn-laws would be of any benefit. If, as Mr. Sturge had said, they stuck to their principles they would be right, if they abandoned it their cause would be lost. WAR WITH AMERICA. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. S:r,—Having read in your Paper the remarks on the Boundary question, I very much regretted the tone of the remarks. There is an evident leaning t o th a t f a ll a cy, which has, as Bentham has so satis factorily shown, been the cause of such im mense in . ;ury ; namely, the upholding the dignity of the country. You remark—" The British Ministry will be pre pared to make every reasonable concession, short of a direct compromise of our national dignity, for the maintenance of our friendly relations with a Government," &c. This, with tile remarks made in your Paper this day, evidently leads to the conclusion, that to pre serve this disputed territory, we are, to preserve our dignity, to go to war with America. Well, suppose we do go to war, what do we get? Several millions of debt. We lose se veral thousand lives ; and if we do not suffer defeat, we shall be glad to get freed from the burdens of war by giving up the territory in dispute, and most likely a great deal more. But suppose we gain the victory, and retain pos session of the disputed territory, what then do we ffain ? Nothing. What are the Colonies, the American Colonies, to England ? What but an immense burden, and a fattening place for the sons of the aristocracy ? What did we gain by the previous American war ? The privilege, after we were beaten, of trading with free America, and of gaining more out of her, when free, than ever was gained when she was a colony. Put forth, Sir, your powerful voice in favour of giving up to America this dis puted territory ; condemn the " game of Kings and of aristocrats," war—show the utter futility of war in realising the objects for which it is carried on— and thus confer a service on society, and obtain the approbation and the support of the sons of peace, and oblige one of the oldest supporters of The Sun. London, March 27, 1839. J. E. had in consequence returned from London more dissatisfied than ever with the state of the repre sentation. He believed that the conduct of Parlia ment had excited a strong feeling in the country. Mr. A. PRENTICE called upon the meeting not to be discouraged ity their recent defeat. For his own part he would not be discouraged by thirty del feats. He recollected that Lord John Russell had discontinued his annual motion for Parliamentary Reform, and he dropped his motion ; but in less than a year afterwards the Houses of Par liament were stormed and the Reform Bill passed. He expressed his conviction that the proccediegs of the Houses of Parlia ment would be to increase the number of reformers. Referring to the proposal to publish a circular, he congratulated the country on the determination, and said that if the House of Commons obstructed the demand for justice, the question would arise how the people should reform both the Houses. The resolution was then passed. Alderman KERSHAW moved that the thanks of this meeting be given to those members of both Houses who had supported the resolutions of Lord Fitawilliam and Mr. Villiers., In doin g this —mos— 'Arr. BANGS in the Chair. he said that he had been struck most forcibly The Rev. Dr. WADE said, that seeing there was whilst looking to the debates that manyan unpre abroad a feeling that it would be necessary to re judiced mind must have been convinced, that the sort to physical force, he as a Clergyman, and a argument was in favour of the repeal of the Corn person belonging to the middle classes, could not law. But it was evident from the di sor d er l y con - form an opinion in favour of this conduct. Per duct of the Members of the Tory side of the haps if he were one of the labouring classes he House of Com mons th a t th e y were on l y anxious would feel that there could be no doubt of the ne to protect thei r own p oc k e t s as a c l ass . With respect respect to th e H ouse o f L or d s , if t h e Pre- cessity of resorting to physical force, in consequence ' mier of England had shown so much ienorance of the great privation which the labouring popula . with respect to the question, what wonder was tion have to undergo : but he must, with all due it that other Lords had v o t e d in a s i m il ar res p ect for those whom he represented, and with way?—(Hear.) He had n o hop e o f a better whom he had had hitherto no difference, beg leave state of things with respect tb this que s ti on i n the to give them an opportunity of filling his place at the Board of the Cpnvention. He would, he House of Lords : he had no hope of amelioration, thought, as a middle man, be of more use to the except from a reform of that House. When he Charter by not being a member of the Convention. reflected that the object of the League was to send He therefore tendered his resionation. lecturers round the country, and that the school- te THE BIRMINGHAM UNION. master. was abroad, their condition was not despond- The report of the A.itatine , Committee stated ing, and he hoped that they would not be discou- that they considered eat Messrs: Salt, Hadley,, raged, but' that they would buckle_ On' theit-,wriuout, - Pierce ' and - Collins sbpuld be- allowed further title' , and show the majority of the House of"COMMons to com p lete their mission. • - that they were not the triflers they were taken to Upon this being moved and seconded, Dr. be, but that year after year if necessary they would r TAYLOR read a letter from Mr. Donaldson, of fight this battle. The cause was that o f t rut h, Blmingham, stating that there was on Thursday and must prevail, and would ultimately tend t o th e promotion of the best interests of the country. last a private and a public meeting of the Council. Mr. EDWARD HALL, in seconding the motion, At the private meeting Mr. Salt stated he would resign his seat in the Convention, and that the said that he was not discouraged Cy the recent defeat, for he found that one-third more persons Convention was not worthy of the c o n fid ence o f voted for the motion than he expected. Some per- the people. Dr. TAYLOR said that now having read the sons thought that if the price of corn were letters he felt that lie was for their consideration, to fall the agitation would cease, but lie whether they should not send to Birmingham a was quite sure that this would not be the case, Delegate to he present at the great meeting which and he also thought that if the price of corn was to be held there on Monday next, at which the were to fall to one-half its present price, the Convention was to be put in competition with Mr. agricultural population would join in the attempt to Silt and the Birmingham Council. He was glad obtain a repeal of the Corn-laws. that those Birmingham operatives had denounced The resalution then passed. the Convention, as it was confirmatory of the opinion Mr. NODAL said that the Delegates were de which he held of them for a long time.—(Hear.) serving of the thanks of the meeting for their excr- He knew the doing of these people in Glasgow Lions, and the time they h a d s p ent i n th e serv i ce o f when they went there to rouse the people for Uni their country. He proposed a vote of thanks to versal Suffrage, and he was glad that there w as then them. present the Delegate from that place,who could bear Mr. THOMAS OGDEN seconded the motion. him out in what he said. They got a person to Mr. JAMES CHAPMAN congratulated the meet fill the chair there who has even known to be a ing on the resolutions of the Delegates. In one of the circles (Casli s le), th e y h a d got a large number Whir, and who made it a condition of his doing 0 of signatures to th e p e titi on , an d t h ey were anxious so that neither he, (Dr. Taylor) nor Mr. Feargus O'Connor should be allowed to speak. that some lecturer should be sent into that quarter, Mr. LOVETT rose to order. He agreed with the motion. Dr, TAYLOR was not out of order, he only spoke The resolution then passed. of the acts of those persons, not of their characters Mr. Alderman COBDEN, in the absence of Mr. —(Hear and cheers) —and it was only his wish to Smith, the President of the League, returned p re serve that unanimity which Mr. Lovett so much thanks. He had n o d ou b t b ut t h at t h e re- desired that prevented him bringin g their conduct futation given by th e D e l eg ates t to th e ' is " before this under the consideration of the Conven statements that had been made in the tion.—(Hear and cheers.) He (Dr. T ay l or ) in the House of Comm ons —h e th oug ht that the would not wish to have unanimity with persons fact of so many Delegates meeting together from the gat best, were but good WI ' ligs.—(Hear and distant parts of the country, was a new era in cheers.) He, therefore, moved that d eputation a history of the country. If something was not done of three should be sent down to the 13 . ' ition =lngham to relieve us from our present stationary cond meeting to be held - on Mo n d ay next at Holloway we must date from this time the decline of com- Head.—( Greet cheering.) coerce in this country. He adverted t o the state The CHAIRMAN said he had had placed in of commerce on the Continent, where they were his hands a resolution that Messrs. Taylor, free from aristocratic and feudal trammels, and he Moir, Fletcher, Sankey, Carpenter, Dr. Taylor, called upon the young men of this country to bestir and Fear g us O'Connor should proceed forthwith themselves.. The world was willing to pour their to Birmin g ham to confer with th e l ea di ng men of stores into the lap of Britain, and it required no- b ri that place on the present state of the Council, and thing but the violence and bitterness that had been to know if the people of that great town agree with shown on the part of the monopolists to prevent the private denunciations of Messrs. Salt and others this country prospering. He would not let this to subscri be question drop; and was willing e 1001. ' against the National Convention, and to adopt a-year until the object they all had in view waspreventing disunion among every means of . the And he was sure there were thou- members of the Convention at this very important accomplished, an sands in the country who would contribute similar crisis. Dr. M'DOWALL would second the resolution of amounts. Mr. Alderman K Ensinw acknowled ged the Dr. Taylor. He thou g ht th a t it wou ld b e th e resolution on behalf the Delegates, and said that greatest this means to promote . disunion if they allowed they went calmly . but firmly to work, like matter to pass unnoticed. the justice of their Mr. PITKEITHLEY and Mr. SKEVINGTON de men convinced of claims, fended the conduct of the Birmingham Delegates. and like men who w ere not to be put down of the House of Mr. CLEAVE also recommended the utmost con by the recent vote Corn sideration to be given to the charges brought against Com mons. There was, it was true, grief and disc the face of the P" their Birmingham friends. It was unwise to de pointment written o n Delegates, 0 He was sure they wou ld convince th eir consti- nounce persons on mere suspicion, especially as tuents of the unfruitfulnes s of the Refor m Bill with those persons had given proof of their sinc er ity i n measures. If the respect to great public landed welfare of the • removed by the mere assertion of this Mr. Donald aristocracy would risk the commercial interest and their ow n interest, he thought it mustson, whom he never heard of before.—(Hear, hear.) He regretted that those gentlemen had be attended with evil consequences. If they consi which must . result from absented themselves from the Board, and it was not dered the consequences a total cessation of employment in this district we might wonderful that the unrepresented should view their 't that regard with great suspicion ;indeed, conduct i i tremble for time consequences, of having our trade he had intended to notice this conduct before, but taken out of our hands by foreign competitor s for the sake of putting money n pockets of the i the for the press of business which had taken place • m the Convention. He concluded by recom- aristocracy, which would, in a short spa ce of time ' a Committee to inquire into the conduct find its way out.—(Cheers.) mending of those gen tlemen. Mr. E V A NS s aid that the conduct of the D e l e - Mr. RICHARDSON thought there was a wide gation was exceedingly interesting, and must have difference between the resolution of Dr. Taylor a powerful effect on the country. And the eff orts and the amendment of Mr. Lovett. The resolu of Mr. Cobden were extremely valuable.—(re eaueere.) tion only purported to send down three perso ns t o He mov e d th a t th e Committee of the Anti -C orn - receive the opinion of the people of Birmingham law Association be empowered to draw up rules -- on the conduct of their representatives , and to for th e A nt i-C orn -l a w League. report to the Convention --: what that opinion was.— Mr. Alderman COBDEN suggested an alteration (Hear, hear.) They would not require to have in the resolution, to the effect that the rules be closet meetings to deliberate and confer on take drawn n : ) and reported to this Assocation and the conduct of the accused persons. The duty of their other Associations. deputation would be to attend at a public meeting , The alt era ti on h av ing been made, Mr. Ric riA R D to hear all parties, and by what would be then deter- NATIONAL CON VENTION. (YESTERDAY.) mined was the deputation to be guided.—(Hear, hear.) He (Mr. H.) as representing the great community of Manchester, would support Dr. Taylor's resolution, because he knew that his con . tuents had always a suspicion of the faith of many of the Birmingham Council.—(Hear, and cheers.) Mr. SANKEY said that the conduct of Dr. Taylor in bringing forward this question was very praiseworthy. He might if he chose act on the letters he had received individually, and go down to Birmingham without acquainting the Convention of his intention.—(Hear. hear.) But as a member of that body he did well in bringing under their notice conduct which at best was very suspicions.—( Hear, hear.) What was the conduct of the Birmingham Journal with regard to this Convention ? Why it had lately omitted to give any report crf their proceedings, and termed the great meeting at the Crown and Anchor, a sectional meeting. Was not this saving to the authorities that .they are willing to disconnect themselves from any consequences that may ensue to the Members of the Convention.—(Hear, hear.) He would move the previous question, in order that no interference should be taken in the matter, the discussion of which would serve the purpose, as wril as sending a deputation.—(Hear.) Mr. DEEGAN seconded the motion of Mr. Sankey, from motives of wishing to constieute to the unanimity of the Convention. Mr. Mont would support the resolution for the sending a deputation. It would settle the question at once, whether these members were or were not honest ; a question which had given rise to many whisperings here and elsewhere. Mr. SKEVINGTON supported the previous ques tion. Dr. TAYLOR, in reply, said that he never could find these gentlemen to charge them face to face. When he did find any of them there, he never flinched from denouncing them, as witness his taking Mr. Douglas to task on a former occasion. —(Hear, hear.) The old proverb of " Save me from my friends, and I will protect myself from my enemies," was fully exemplified on this occasion. He did not say half so much against those persons as their great friends Messrs. Carpenter and Cleave.—(Hear, hear.) All he said against them was that they were Whigs, and this he would say still.—(Hear, and cheers.) He was glad to say that he felt proud if even the previous question was carried, fur then he would go down on his own responsibility, and charge them before their own constituents.—(Hear, hear.) This he thought was preferable to the appointment of an Inquisi torial Committee, a mode of acting which he thought would be very reprehensible.—(Hear, and cheers.) He would agree with Mr. Lovett that no person who was prejudiced should be sent down ; but he thought the bringing forward the question as he did would not subject him to the charge of being prejudiced, for if he had not done so on the eve of an adjournment, he might be charged with cushion ing a question on which so much depended. He did not blame Mr. Douglas for changing his opi nions with the change of property in the Birmin , ham Journal. Whv should he ? But he thought it was no ground for defending that gentleman, by stating that this was the reason why he had become a Whig. He would not detain them longer, but would merely beg to withdraw his motion, and then he would support Mr. Harney's motion, which went to appoint six Delegates in place of three. The previous question was carried, Upon which Dr. TAYLOR said that he would proceed to Birmingham on his own responsibility. Upon the foregoing decision having been come to, Mr. CLEAVE begged to move the Report of the Agitation Committee, before referred to, be adopted. Mr. RALLY seconded its adoption. Mr. RICHARDSON moved that it should stand over, which was carried. THE MISSION. Mr. MOIR, who had progressed through De vonshire, said that in that great county, they, the Missionaries, had the„Emost extensive success. A great many of the middle classes came over to them and signed the petition, and all were en thusiastic in their support of the Convention. The visit to that county would be attended with the most signal effects. But with regard to Dor , setshire, the ignorance of the people was so great that they did not know what politics were, and those who did thought they were not at liberty to mention anything about them. Their want of knowledge in anything concerning their own rights was little less than the natives of Kamschatka. There was scarcely a hope for them unless there were per sons sent them, to commence at the beginning of in struction.—(Hear, hear.) In all that he had seen in "this county be must - say that the Quakers . were the greatest foes of liberty he met' with. They were unmitigated in their hostility to freedom, and he (,Illr Moir) would state his determination to omit no opportunity of holding up those hypocrites to public scorn.—(Hear, and cheers.) A vote of thanks was passed to Mr. Moir for his excellent conduct during the Mission. Upon disposing of some financial business, the thanks of the meeting were given to the Chairman, upon which the assembly broke up at five o'clock. The Convention does not meet again until Wed nesday, the 3d of April. NEW POST-OFFICE REGULATION.—The fol lowing notice has been issued by the Post-office Au thorities :—" General Post-office, March, 1839. The postage on letters to awl from North America, conveyed by her Majesty's packets, having been reduced to the uniform rate of one shilling single, an d t wo s hilli ngs double, and so on in proportion, you will in future charge that rate upon such letters without adding any charge for inlar,d postage. Letters for Neva Scotia, New Brunswick, and the Canadas, may be forwarded as here tofore, with the previous payment of the postage.—By command, W. L. Maberly, Secretory." THE CITY STATUE OF WELLINGTON.- The final arrangements for this Statue—which promises to be honourable to the metropolis, the country, and the age—have been made with Sir Francis Chantry. Gown , - ment has presented to the Commtttee gun metal, fruits of his Grace's victories, to the value of 1,520/; this, added to the sum already subscribed, makes 10,5201. On signing the agreement, the sculptor is to receive 3,000/. ; 2,000/. with the metal when the small model is completed ; and 4,0001. when the work is finished—which is to be on the 18th of June, 1643. The remainder of the sum . will be expended in providing a site, and erect in g a pedestal of granite, three months before the statue is ready. It is to be an equestrian statue in bronze; not less than ten feet high from the top of the pedestal on which the horse stands, to the top of the head of the rider. The site is not decided upon; but it will be in the vicinity of the the Bank. —Art Union. The Lord Lieutenant is expected to embark at Liverpool on Tuesday evening, the 2d of April, and, if the passage be rood, will be in Dublin early in the fore noon of Wednesday, the 3d. —Dublin Post. TRADE IN SCOTLAND.—Cotton trade ex ceedingly dull ; much more so than was anticipated ; raw material high, and twist so low in price as not to remunerate. Flax trade dull. The woollen manufacture everywhere in Scotland prosperous, and very considerable demands from America, especially in the South of Scotland, at Hawiek, &c. A WOODEN COUNTRY.—Wood (ill America) is not only used with prodigality for all purposes to which it is necessarily applied, but is substituted, in numberless instances, for substances which, under other circumstances, would have been more suitable. Not to speak of wooden houses, bridges, and roads—of wood for fuel and fencing —we find it adopted in the rest for purposes more anoma. lous, where wooden pins are substituted for nails, and wells are curbed with hollow logs, where the cabin door, swing ing on wooden hinges, is fastened with a wooden latch, and the smoke escapes through a wooden chimney. En gineers have proposed to substitute woodwork for masonry in the construction of railways and canal locks; and it is said that an eminent lawyer in Missouri had a very conve nient office, made of a single section sawed from a hollow sycamore. Well may ours be called a wooden country.— Hall's Notes. CONSTANTINOPLE, MARCH 3.—The prepa rations of the Porte for war are still carried on. The troops which were in barracks at Rummi Chiftek have been sent to the forts of the Dardanelles, and these posts have been confided to the Turkish militia. Reinforcements of artil lery have been sent from Topkane to the Dardanelles, and, in short, the same measures are taken as if war was on the point of breaking out. In spite of all these precautions, however, war may not break out. Russia, however, secretly excites both parties to hostilities, in the conviction that both of them will lose, and that she alone will gain by them. Persons who are well-informed respecting the affairs of Turkey believe that the Power which first commences the attack by marching upon the territory of the other will ha the conqueror, because it will have the the support of the inhabitants. Thus, if the Turks advance into Syria, all the inhabitants will range themselves on their side, just as if Ibrahim Pasha were to penetrate into Asia Minor all the inhabitants of Anatolia would be ready to fight for hint. Captain Walker and the other English Marine officers have ar rived, and they will soon be employed in the fleet, in spite of the protests of M. de lioutenieff. Russia de sires war between Egypt and Turkey, because she hopes the Grand S'gnior will be beaten and require her inter vention. INGENIOUS FRAUD.--TW O men were yesterday remanded from the Mansion-house on a charge of defraud ing some warehousemen by selling for silk, on bobbins, a quantity of cotton, merely covered over with silk. Every bobbin should have contained an ounce of silk, but con tained only a drachm. EVENING EDITION BATII-WEDNESDAY. This morning a fire broke out at the residence of Charles Wilkins, Esq., Tiverton, near Bath, whieli raged with such fury, that in a short time the whole of the elegant, newly-erected mansion was destroyed—Air. Wilkins' former mansion haying been taken dawn in consequence of the Great Western Railway passing through it. The edifice now destroyed had only just become the residence of its highly respected owner. Tee fire was first discovered about three o'clock this morning, by a workman belonging to the Great Wes tern Railway, who with some difficulty succeeded in alarming the family, and making them sensible of their danger. A few minutes later, and the slumbering in mates must have fallen a prey to the devouring element. Mr. Wilkins fortunately succeeded in saving sonic valuable papers. The furniture, wearing apparel, and other valuable effects, were totally destroyed. Tile property was insured in the Sun Fire Office, to the amount of between 4,000/. and 5,0001.; but the loss greatly beyond that. . . It is not yet known how the fi-e originated ; but it is highly creditable to the very densely-populated vici nity, that though Mr. Wilkins is the proprietor of a most extensive factory—and this the third fire that has occurred on his premises in a short period —yet ri,,t tlor slightest suspicion has been breathed of its b•.inT likdy to ba the work of an incendiary ; on the contrary, M... Wilkins is regarded by his numerous dependents mote n the light of a benefactor than a master. RAI WAYS IN IRELAND. The following resolution has been adopted by the Grand Jury of the north riding of Tipperary, now as sembled in Nenagh : " Resolved, That in our opinion the construction of i general system of railroads in the south of Ireland, as proposed by the Railway Commissioners, and on terra.; recommended to Parliament by Lord Murpeth, would be most de&rable : we are satisfied that much greater advantages would be derived from the coarpletinn of such a general system than from the construction (If such lines as would be likely to be undertaken by pri vate speculation. _ " For self and fellow-jurors, " F. A. PRITTIE, Foreman." MONEY MARKET and CITY NE WS. TlMES.—There has been a general feeling of un easiness to-day in the City, and the money-market has discovered more weakness than for a long time past. The Bank Directors held an unusually long sitting this morning, and the prevailing belief is, though nothing definite has transpired, that they have some measures under discussion whirl. may affect the eireulstien. That the demand upon them for gold is very great is perfectly certain, and this alone tends to make money scarce, by calling in a corresponding amount of pai;es, which may be either re-issued or not, as the judgment of the Board may dictate. They are supposed to ex ercise at all events the most scrupulous care as to the character of securities upon t%hich. they now make advances. They have disposed, it is said, of their stock of bar gold, and the exporters of bullion, therefore, can only obtain it in the shape of sovereigns or silver. Endeavours have been used to favour the exportation o f silver in preference, with the view of thereby stopping the employment of geld for foreign remittances, but it does not appear to have been successful to any extent. Some large sales of Consols were made in the course of the day, and the Exchequer Bill market wa; pressed as much as it would bear, but the parties in the latter operation were compelled to desist, as no more would be taken without submitting to a serious depression, a circumstance not uncommon, by the way, with this security, the business in which is con fined to a few hands. One construction put upon these sales was, that the Government were seeking to dispose of Exchequer Bills, but this is very impro bable, unless in connection with the loans for pubic works, which are only issued in small amounts, not likely to influence the market, for there could b 2 e greater error on the part of the Treasury than to make any experiments of the kind so soon after a reduction of the rate of interest, for, even as it is, Mr. Spring Rice may find it difficult enough to maintain the new ground he has occupied. A great many rumours were current in the cours e of the morning, but with very slender claims generally to any attention. Among them was one that a propo sition-is to ha brought forward to put a large numuer of additional frigates in commission, arid that Ls i contracts for arms are to be entered nto. 13nt character of the American news seems to baste the chief subject of disquiet, and it has been r.‘t»arked on a comparison of letters from the United S by the merchants, that they all take a warlike - tots,. The position they assume may be very briefly de scribed, and it amounts to this—" that they will into the boundary question with a predetermination nat to yield one inch of the disputed territcry, and are ro.Cy to go to war, and suffer the destruction uf the rinse on the seaboard in support of that position." To add t the strength of the war party in America, there is a ' union with them, as it appears, even of the banks anti . paper-money men, who would not be sorry, as some. of the letters plainly intimate, to have so good an excuse a war for resorting to another suspension of specie pay - - men's. With all this gloomy feeling, the fall in Consols had not been of any great moment ; after fluctuating between 92i to buyers, they left off at the close or business at 92k to for Money and the Account. HERALD.—Money continues not only in demand here for commercial purposes at even a rather higlicr rate of interest, but on the English Market of the Steel,. Exchange it commands full 4 to 5 per cent., and on the Foreign Market a rate in proportion. There have been two causes assigned this d a y f or the further decline in the British Funds ; the one ari,- ing out of the uncertainty that the disput e respectin,-, the boundary question between this country and the United States would be amicably settled, and the other from the circumstance tiara fhrther sales have been made in Exchequer Bills, which indi cates, in confirmation of our previous remarks, that money is becoming dearer on the English as well as the Continental markets. In truth, it would not be acting impartially to disguise the fact that scricus apprehensions are daily augmenting respecting the true state of the Money Market, which is confirmed by the uneasiness and anxiety that pervade all the leading mo netary and commercial interests ; indeed, when we look at affairs either at home or abroad, we cannot but con fess that we find much, and, indeed, too much room for gloomy apprehensions. Consols have declined to 9i sellers far Money, and buyers for Tune. Toe Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Reduced Annuities arc 101 - a :01 4 1 for the opening, and the New Theee-ande a-Half per Cents. 1005 a 100 for Money. Further sales of Exchequer Bills have caused th:rn to recede to 43 prQm., which is the last quotation. There has been rather more doing in the Penin sular Bands to-day, but the market has not improved. Portuguese New Five per Cents are 34 al, and the Three per Cents to 21*a Spanish Bonds are al, Passive are 4, 2 0 and Deferred 9. Brazil= Bends are 79, and Colombian 79. Danish Bonds are 75 11 ; Belgian, 1021 ; Russian are 11 Fg- money ; Dutch Two and -Half per Cents. are 55e,i- a i; and the Old Eve per Cents. 103. In some of the Railway Shares there has been a 'very heavy fall to-day ; Great Western have receded to 4u. 5 prem. ; Blackwall to 3 a 3 dis. ; Bright, n to 8f dis count ; Birmingham to 62 a 64 prem. ; Southampton average to 1/. 7s. 3d. prem. ; and the Croydon Nevi Scrip at 11 prem. ; Prolincial Bank of Ireland New Shares are 61- prem. This being the immediate advent of Good Friday, the necessary transactions in the continental exchange have been effected, but they have been rather limized, whilst the quotations have barely deviated front those of Tuesday last ; on Amsterdam they are 12 2 a 1 1; on Rotterdam 12 21 a ;on Ilumburg 13 91 a 1 Paris - )3f. 47e. a 30e. ; and on Frankfort 156 a Mr. Francis Wright, who for nearly forty years filled the situation of one of the principal messengers of tho House of Commons, died recently at his residence in 13 -au mont• street, Marylebone, at the advanced age of 75. We understand that Mr. Wright, who was always remarkable for his penurious and saving habits, and close attentiod to business, has left behind him 75,0001. in the fends, beside; considerable freehold and leasehold property in housi:s and lands (it is supposed) to about 100,000/. Mr. W4ht has been three times married, but had no children by either union. The whole of his accumulations, with the excep tion of legacies of 100/. each to two of the officers of the Commons, and an annuity of 40/. per annum to an old fe male servant, he has bequeathed to the relatives of his last wife, who died a few months since. The family of the Rev, • Mr. Ward, who married a ncice of the late Mrs. \Vright, come into possession of 55,000/. BAPTIZING IN TIIE SEA.—WO were wit nesses, on Wednesday last, to a rather unusual occurrence. Two bathing machines were standing in the water, at Bootle Bay, close to the landmarks. A minister of sorn, ; sect of Baptiste, bare-headed , and wea rin g a w hite sur plice, stood up to his middle in the s ea. Th e machines c ontained females to the number, we believe , cf eight, some of whom were young and some old, who succes:,i‘ely undtr went the ceremony of baptism, by being immersed ever head in the tide. The day was ext:'emely cold. The ce remony was performed too far from the busy haunts of men to attract many spectators : a few were, however, attracted by its singularity, while many of the inhabitants of Bootle watched its progress through telescopes. Albion. TIIE THAMES TuNsEr.L.—There is not any truth in the statement which has been published, that tl Tunnel is again filled with water. Tit.wordare still 10 course of active operation. og of hi m E XTR AORDINARY PIKE. - -011 SaturdaSaturdayr l;iLe : of unusual dimens ions was ca p tured nea r Ashley i n that part of the river Trent which belongs Ghadwicke, Esq., of Itidvrare, and which is t rented by Mr. John Wood, of Rugeley. T house Ackland ~ of Beacon Il h o e a n us s e p , Lime, NVoud engaged for a very considerable tim e i n r h Etl a ‘ nclin h g fi t e hi l i d s ' h " ug a :! tenant of the stream upon th e et 3;b., and its lengths was four feet and " fish weighed prime 2ondition.—Statfordsli i re Gazette. a half, and in 70 0 I 00a, , ,ilO 9 , ~.