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,A liiVENtyr, TO THE WORKING-MEN OF 1 fiE COUNTIES OF GLAMORGAN, MONMOUTH, AND BRECON. London, Sept. 12, 1839. with by you wlth a commission of an important nature, I have executed the trust to the best of my ability, and I now lay the result before you. I - have published the correspondence between the Secretaries of State and myself. You will see that the Marquis of Nor- Manby refused to apply to her Majesty to discharge Messrs.. Vincent, Edwards, Dickenson, and Towns end from gaol. You will see that no attention has been paid to the applications to soften the merciless regu lations by which your friends are • so cruelly. treated. These men are now suffering on your account ; their object was to improve your condition, to pre serve for your own use the fruits of your labour. For this —for telling the truth—they are ".fed with the e bread of affliction." It will be for you to con sider what other means you will take, either to ob !am their discharge, or to get some alteration made in these inhuman regulations. Faithfully your obedient servant, JOHN FROST. 10, Northumberland Court, Strand, August 26, 1839. MY LORD,—On the 12th of August, and at (me of the largest meetings ever held in Wales, a resoluti on was passe d respect i ng M essrs . Vincent, Dickinson, Edwards, and Townsend, now prisoners Monmouth Jail, for attending an illegal meeting. I Was directed by the meeting to request an inter view with your Lordship, for the purpose of laying the same before the Secretary of State. Will your Lordship be pleased to inform me whether I shall be seen on this business ; if, so your Lordship will be good enough to name time and place. I remain, Your Lordship's obedient Servant, JOHN FROST. To Lord J.hn Russell. Whitehall, Aug. 28, 1839. am directed by Lord John Russell to a cknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 26th instant, and to inform vou that his Lordship is not able to fix any time for seeing you ; but if you will forward the petition to Lord John Russell, and it is properly worded, his Lordship will present it to her Majesty. I am, Sir, Your obedient Servant, S. ti. PHILLIPPS. Mr. John Frost, 10, Northumberland-court, Strand. 10, Northumberlabd.court, Strand, Sept. 2, 1839. MY I.OllD,—At one of the largest meetings ever Assembled in Wales, held on the 12th of August, a , r escilution was entered into respecting M essrs. Vincent, Dickinson, Edwards, and Townsend, now confined in Monmouth Jail for attending an illegal meeting. I was directed by the meeting to lay the resolution before Lord John Russell, the Home Secretary. I applied to his Lordship, and I was directed to transmit the resolution or address to the Home-office, and, if properly worded, it should be presented to her Majesty. As your Lordship now fills the office of Secretary of State for the Home Department, permit me to lay the resolution before your Lordship, and to make a few observations in Support of it. Punishment, my Lord, never did, never will produce any good effect' on the community unless the members of it are convinced that a wrong has been done, that an injury has been sustained. What was the offence for which these prisoners are now suffering punishment so severe ?—attending what a highly prejudiced jury was pleased to con siier an illegal meeting. That meeting was peace able, orderly ; the language, though warm, was mo derate. My Lord, can it be an offence for English men to assemble together to complain of injuries, anti to point out a peaceable, a constitutional remedy ? The speakers witness, in their different localities, poverty in every possible shape and de gree ; they trace this evil to a cause, they point out a remedy. Let me respectfully ask your Lordship, should they be:punished for this ? Never were men placed before a jury influenced by stronger feelings against the accused party. Per- Mit me lay before your Lordship the deposition of one witness as to this fact. I could furnish your Lordship with many such. t , I, A. 8., reside at I know C. D . I saw him in the latter e nd of July. He spoke to me about the Chartists. lie said, What will you now do about Vincent ; We have him safe enough, and we vvi:l keep him. I would give ninepence to buy a halter to hang him ; I would hang him without Judge or Jury.' This deponent saith, I was at Monmouth Assizes. On the 2d of Angust I saw C. D. sitting in the jury -box, impannelled, and sworn to try the said -Henry Vincent ; I was in Court when the Jury broueht in a verdict of guilty.'" I could furnish Your Lordship with some curious facts as to other matters connected with these trims. We took to Monmouth six married women as witnesses in favour of the prisoners ; the Counsel t hought it prudent to call no witnesses. Had they been called they would have proved the good effect produced on their husbands by the addresses of a i lr- Vincent. I will lay before your Lordship the evidence of one of them. " .My husband, P. Q., is a tradesman of Newport ; I have a very large f tnlily.. My husband attended the meetings at which Mr. Vincent spoke ; previously he was much a ddicted to drinking, he is now a sober man. I attribute the change to the speeches of Mr. Vin cent. I now receive the whole of what my hus band gets, which enables me to supply my chil dren with the comforts of life in a much greater degree than formerly t. I could, my Lord, get scores, if not hundreds of married women in our Populous di str i cts to bear testimony of a similar kind, that i n consequence of the addresses of Mr. Vincent their husbands are better men—better faLhev. Per mit me respectfully to ask your Lordship, should a man who has produced effects of this description be treated as a felon ? Should he, my Lord. be thus twre,ated in a Ch r i st i an coun t r y—i ll a country in ich Christianity is part and parcel of the law of the l an d ? Should a man for acts of this descrip ti.on be fed on bread and potatoes ? I trust that Your Lordship will accede to the request of the working men of the Welch hills ; that your Lord ship will be pleased to apply to her Majesty to dis charge M essrs . Vincent, Dickenson, Edwar d s, an d Townsend, from Monmertth Jail. I remain your Lordship's obedient servant, JOHN FROST. Resolution entered into at the meeting at Duke's That Town, 12th of August, 1839 : That it is the opinion of this meeting that when ' 0 Ppression exists—that when one class of society 38 unjustly treated by another, it is the duty of every honest member of the community to endea vour to remove the evils, and, if possible, by peace aLble m eans. This meeting is of the opinion that b urdened worki ng c l asses are un j ust l y treate d by b e i ng 7.)urtiened by t axes , i mpose d b y t h ose not e l ec t e d by the great bulk of the working men, and Over Whom they have no control. This meeting is of the opinion that Messrs. Vincent, Edward, , , Dick enson, and Townsend, in exposin g at public meet ings the abuses of the present system, did no more thvin their duty to their industrious countrymen. It hag beard with great indignation that for this per forn,ance of their duty they were prosecuted by the .Ministry, and the expense or the prosecution paid sout of the taxes. It has heard with astonishment the conviction and the sentence, and the cruel 'treatment to which these patriots are subjected. Resolved—That Mr. John Frost b e d irected to Wait o n Lord John Russell, and to express to. him the opinion of the working men of the Bills on this "natter, and to request that his Lordship w ilt i in _. tlediat e ly apply to her Majesty to disch arge kTessrs. Vincent, Edwards, Dickinson, and Town estml, from Monmouth Jail. Resolved—That Mr. Frost be directed to in form ,the different Associations of Glamorganshire, I\lo nrricuthshire, and Breconshire the result of this upplicatit.'n• Whitehall, Sept., 3, 1839. 811 t,--1 am ilireeted by the 'Marquis of Nor- f 40k1 instant, fa the to acknowledge the receipt of your letter o • , ne 0,1 • Agreed to at a meeiin ` 7 at Duke's Town, Brecon e, Yweding a cop of a resolution meetlng e, on the 12th ult.; and I am to inform you, L., .resolution of a mt'eting that a ) ',ft: before the Queen. And I f .an add address 1 fon cannot. ,stothe Queen adopting the language of the resolution, had transmitted for presentati:tpt 6'1.1 before t r ___l!!_ . anby must have declined layi,:'s il or majesty. I Fros t , , I am, Sir, your obedient servant. S. M. PHILLIPPS. Asq.,lo, Northumberland.court, Strand. 10, Northumberland C'mrt, Strand, September 2d 1839, MY LORD,—The treatment experienced in the different jails, by persons confined for political offences, is such, that they will not be able to survive the term of their imprisonment. In 1823 I was confined in the House of Correction at Cold Bath Fields for a libel, and then I saw the effects of scanty diet; the allowance was bread and gruel. The deaths .were so numerous that the Magistrates were obliged to add soup and meat to the allowance. The far greater part, if not the whole, of the pri soners are allowed gruel, bread, and potatoes, and in some instances no potatoes. This my Lord, is slow starvation. Surely, my Lord, the offence of attendin,?, public meetings is not of so heinous a nature, that death should follow, and that of the most horrid kind. Will your Lordship be good enough to see a deputation from the country on the subject of the treatment of the prisoners in dif ferent Jails for political offences. I remain, Your Lordship's obedient servant, JOHN FROST. To the Marquis of Normanby. Whitehall, Srpt. 3, 1839. - • - am directed by the Marquis of Nor manby to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 2d instant, and to request that the statement or information, which a Deputation is desirous of communicating, as to the treatment of prisoners confined in gaols for political offences, may be in writing, and transmitted to the Marquis of Nor manby, by whom it will be carefully considered. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, S M. PHILLIPPS. J, Frost, Esq., 10, Norlhumhprland csurt, Strand. 10, Northumberland-court, Strai.d, S , .pt. 5 1839. MY LORD,-The prisoners od in jails for political offences are, in general, prevented from seeing their relations and friends. In some cases, when this permission is granted, yet it is under such restrictions that they amount nearly to a pro hibition. They are prohibited the free use of pen, ink, paper, books, and newspapers. Tile food al lowed is scarcely sufficient to sustain life, lrei►:g about a pound and a half of bread daily, gruel, and, in some prisons, potatoes. I respectfully, in be half of these prisoners solicit, that your Lordship will permit them to see their relatives and friends at all seasonable hours ; that they shall not be shut up in their cells until nine in the winter and ten in the summer months ; that they have fire and can dies in the evenings ; that they have the unre stricted use of pen, ink, paper, books, and news papers ; that they be permitted to receive, or pur chase, whatever articles of food they may think proper. This is absolutely necessary, unless it be the intention to deprive them of life ; for should they be kept on the prison allowance, some of them will not survive the term of their imprison ment. I respectfully submit to your Lordship that the law requires no more than the safe custody of their persons, and this was distinctly stated at Mon mouth by Baron Alderson. It is cruel, my Lord, in the extreme, to subject these prisoners to priva tions which will either deprive them of existence or destroy their constitutions. I remain, your Lordship's obedient servant, JOHN FROST. To the Marquis of Normanby. Whitehall, 6th Sept., 1839. am directed by the Marquis of Nor tnanhy to inform you, in reply to your letter of yes terday's date, that several communications have passed through this department in reference to the prisoners alluded to in your application; and that they have been allowed such indulgences as are consistent with the ends of justice, and the regulations of the prisons in which they are confined. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, F. MAtJLE. Mr. John Frost, 10, Northumberland-court. 10, Nerthumbcriand-court, Sept. 10, 1839. MY LORD-. 4 have much reason to complain of the treatment which I have received at the hands of your Lordship. At a public meeting held in l3reconshire, on the 12ih of August, a re solution was passed ; that resolution was trans mitted to your Lordship for presentation to the Queen. Your Lordship says, " That it is not usual to lay a resolution of a meeting before the Queen, and if an address, adopting the language of the resolution, had been transmitted for presentation, your Lordship would have declined laying it before her Majesty." Why, my Lord ? Is there any thing disrespectful or indecorous in the language of the resolution ? It begins by laying down a principle, " that when oppression exists it is the duty of every honest man to endeavour to re move the evils, and,if possible, by peaceable means?" Is this, my Lord, erroneous ? The resolution says, the working classes are unjustly treated." Is not this true, my Lord ? It says that the prisoners in Monmouth Jail did no more than their duty, in ex posing, to their industrious countrymen, the abuses of the present system. Under the influence of this belief, the Secretary of State is requested to apply to her Majesty to discharge the prisoners. Just, my Lord, as is this request, and moderate as the language is in which it is conveyed, yet your Lordship declared " that had the form been correct it should not have been laid be fore her Majesty." Is this a legitimate exercise of authority ? Shall no petition, or address, from the people to the Queen be laid before her Ma jesty, if the language be displeasing to the Secre tary of State ? Your Lordship is requested to see a deputation, desirous of laying before the Secretary of State an account of the treatment experienced by the pri soners in different jails. What is your Lordship's answer ? " That the communication must be in writing, and that your Lordship will carefully con sider it. A statement of the grievances is sent to your Lordship, and your Lordship is solicited to remove the sufferings so cruelly inflicted on the prisoners. Your answer, my Lord, is unworthy of communications have passed through this depar ment in reference to the prisoners, and that they have been allowed such indulgences as are consist ent with the ends of justice and the regulations of the prisons ?" What does your Lordship mean by the ends of justice ? Does your Lordship say that these pri soners deserve punishment ? What is the offence ? Addressing public meetings ; pointing out to their oppressed and impoverished countrymen the cause of the evils under which they suffer. Showing them that in this country men become pos sessed of legislative power by bribery, perjury, drunkenness !!" Is this true, my Lord ? Does this system, " the envy and admiration of the world," admit 'nen to acquire authority by such means? If this is true, should those who describe be punished, while those who practice be held in honour? I know, my Lord, that some of these things are true. I was Mayor of Newport, Mon mouthshire, during the last election, and I have reason to believe that ten thousand pounds were spent in bribery at that election. The actors wire above disguise ; no shuffling —even the Wigs, fot once, acted openly. What's 'our price ? What will you give ? These were the questions, and the answers were flay, eighty. a hundred, a hundred and fifty pounds. These were the piices fur votes, an d the Whigs got the election because they bribed the highest. The plisoaers confined in Monmouth Jail pointed out to the industrious classes the certain effect to the community from practices of this description, and for this, my Lord, they are now punished—yes, my Lord, and punished, too, through the medium of some who were the principal actors in the Newport election. Yet your Lordship says that such punishment is consistent with the ends of justice. It is not or i ous to the whole country that the Jury wh o tr i e d t h e the deposition of one witness as to the against the Chartists. I laid before your Lordship prisoners were highly prejudiced Lordship's notions of justice to keep who have been found guilty your made by one of the Jur Is it consistent with declaration ,, To make me b men better members of society ; to re claim the drunkard • io bring by a M inistry, offences, and where formerly it was ' sums of the public m oney for unknown,y ,sureligiousac comfort r i inn :t ee ) o o na w i t l e i l s i l d i a t tit : e ll e r a t I j o tp s i di e l ; too, wh o VOte large John Russell should be church es. s and for building Curious that Lord ucatio p n u , n w is ne iw4 h c e reixspinegndgselnaergraetion sums, a r r a e i l s i e g d i religious an xious ed to give the p of tax es , soi t e o t who have made bad members dshi y good men I What does your Lot m ea n by " indul gences comistent with ,the re g ul at ions of the poi . . ibi -is ?" The regulations of th e prisons ate -- " 'That t;?e prisoners shall be depr.„-,tl orb non , 1 paper s books, newspapers ; that they shall not see TVI 141 SUN, LONDON. FWIDAV. SEM - M - 13PR 13. 1539. their relations vnd fr,ends ; th,y silaii ut up in their cells at eight in the suonner and four in the winter ; that their food shall be bread, skilly, and potatoes." Your Lordship is asked to remove these regulations, and to substitute better. Pro hably your Lordship or Mr. Fox Maule will be gOod enough to explain what indulgence can be allowed consistently with the observance of these regulations ? I was directed by one of the largest meetings ever held in Wales, to lay before the Secretary of State the resolution passed at that meeting, and I ,as directed to transmit the answer to the different associations in the counties of Glamorgan, Mon mouth, and Brecon. Will your Lordship he pleased to give me an explicit answer whether your Lordship will solicit her Majesty to discharge Messrs. Vincent, &c., fro:n Monmouth -Jail, or, in the event of their tieing retained in prison, whether they are to kept on jail alloowance. I remain, Sir, your Lordship's obedient servant, JOHN FROST. To the Marquis of Nortbanby. THE FAMIN LAWS. (From theShetfidd Iris.) Our working classes have now learned, by dear °ought experience, the imposition practised on them by the landlords, in tnaking them bdieve that wages de pend upon tha price of grain. The delusion has been expoed, and its originators have in vain puzzled their ingenuity to discovers substitute or succt ssor to it. The statistical list of the ratio between the remunera- ion of the labunrcrand the fluctuating price of grain to which we have referred petty fully in formk.r num bers, aud the copious extracti vie gave last week from Sphon's Arts and Artiz,u,s at Home and Abroad,' are the bust proofs vibieh can be offered thit the rate of w6gos must tly.nd upon the demand for labour, and that the pi ice of corn does not regulate it in the smallest degree. pre,ent the piice of corn is high, while the wages of the great miss of our manuketuringpopnlatioil are ve 'y low—la sonic distics the nods betas only ern ployed three days out of sox, and in other-, although they are working full time, the proceeds of their 1 to , d tys is scarcely t•qoal to what they ree,ived a fee years ago for three. in Sh-ffield this depression has no been telt to such an extent as in some districts in Lancashire ; but the evil dAy crawls on apace, and our workmen are oblied to submit to a gradual reduc tion of wages. The manufacturers' list of prices for their goods remains nearly the same as it was ti n years ago, and the competition takes place among them in the per tentage allowed to the purchasers. While the conlinal pace has remained nearly steady, this de duction front their profits has gone on increasing. In some trades it has progressed from 15 to 25, and even as high as 75 per cent. Of course this has not come wholly off the profits of the manufacturer. Either the profits of the trade must have been enormous when the deduction was 15 per cent., or the manufacturer must be making a dead sacrifice now when it is 75 per cent. Such a state of things could not cohtinue I ng. No man would persevere in risking his capital. unless he was either obtaining or had a certain prospect of reap tog some return kr its employment. The difference and the loss, then, may be partly experienced by the manufacturer, but the workmen are the greatest suf ferers. Their wages have been gradually reduced, while the deduction for per tentage has increased, and many of our most ingenious mechanics are now only getting Is. Bd. for the same article they could formerly dispose of for 3s. 6d. while their time, at this reduced rate, is not nearly fully employed, and the price of corn arid all other provisions continues as high as during the time of good wages, and the amount and pressure of their taxation ha , gone on increasing. This steady di minution of the rate of wages proves that bad trade has not been the result of a mere casual circumstance, such as the failure of the cotton crop in America, or the un fixed state of Our monetary affairs, but that it has had its origin in some deeper-seated and more widely-extend ing cause. It is not SO mueh bad trade as a falling off of trade that ought to alarm us. New markets are con stantly opening up in every quarter of the globe, our old customers have not received a repletion of our manufae tureso et we do not find the demand for our goods in crease. Our workmen are as badly off as they can be, in the midst of three fresh currents into which they have been taught to believe that their ingenuity would be turned, and the prospects continue as dark and lowering as ever. All the sophistry of the landlords and their hireling press cannot get rid of these melancholy facts, and no one who examines the subject for himself can long be in doubt as to their cause. They are all traceable in a direct, unswerving line to the influence of the Corn laws, and the only remedy for them is to be found in their speedy and total repeal. Were it not that we were well aware that prejudice, w here interest is con cerned, so hoodwinks its victims, we might well wonder that all nian who has the prosperity and success of his country at heart should fOr a sco t ch: moment stand in waj or a repeal of the Carn-lovs, seeing that they only sli 4 htly benefit one small class, while they are the cause of the utmost niis,Ty and destitution to all others ; that under their influence our trade and commerce arc fulhug off in every quarter of the globe ; that to eigncrs are solo to purchase our raw mat,rial, manufacture it, compete with and undersell us, in every market ; and that the real source of England's wealth, her manufac turers and artisans, are in a state of gradual and steady decay. We are glad to see that the efforts of the abolitionists still continue undiminished, and that success attends them in their holy work. The Anti-Corn-taw CbTztlar increases in interest and circulation, and advocates its cause with much earnestness and talent. The following extract, although it does not follow in the satne field as the preceding remarks, is corroborative of our views, and is an evidence of t h e wide extent of evil the Corn law produces : " See that beautiful young Duchess, so encompassed with the odour of refined aris.ocracy, that as she passes us like the flitting of a cloud, the very sense aches at her ; she seems to disdain the very ground she walks upon, and, like the sensitive plant, to shudder ant con tract into herself at the very contiguity of the poor; al though, may hap, she has sometimes heard, in her crimson velvet pew, that eighteen hundred years ago some one de clared them to be her brethren and sisters. She will fly the very sight of these horrid wretches, and swear a pretty oath by yea and nay,' because her coachman did not drive the other way, that her eyes might not be of fended by the very look of these terrible creatures. A word ill your ear, Madam ; aye, in your ivory-turned car, where hang those diamond drops. Why, those sparkling pendants were bought with money robbed from those very same beggais. That glittering neck lace, which Jews might kiss and infidels adore,' believe or not, is wrung from the hard hands of starving peasants, and every ring on those taper fingers has famished a family of your felloee -creatures. Woman! bright and beautiful, and gentle! in alt whose steps is gra^e, and in every gesture dignity and love! Woman ! pure as beautiful ; kind as dignified ; virtuous and n,ble, with fair religion' emparadised in form of that sweet flesh ;' is it possible you do not know, and yet we arc sure you do Lot, that every birth-day dress has driven a sister to the streets, and that there is not a ball at Almack's which is given at a less cost than the famishing wretchedness which alone fills the bro thel List, ye landsmen all to me.' There are three halt-naked urchins thrust out of their mother's house to steal for bread ; that is your doing. There are ten thousand patients in the metropolis perishing of typhus actually more fatal than the plague ; every hos pital is full, and private houses are turned into fever wards to meet the exigencies of the case. •The fever is the fruit of famine, and that famine is your doing. There i 4 an infant in a sweet sleep, lying in a basket at the workhouse door ; the night is cold, and it bath sucked at its kind mother's breast until the want of food for two days bath brought her milk to its last thin drop. Merciful God ! that hash taught us to ad dress thee as our kind pat-kilt, and is it indeed possible that the y• atnints of a mother's heart can be stifled, and that she could no longer Know what 'us to love the babe that miles her?' Yet them is 4o other way, for bread is high, anti wages thereby small, rend a fairly of dear little ones that should he a blessiog, if ever a blessing Were, is a curse, for they months, and the mouths are only flied with sad cries, because they cannot be filled with food. Will the iatici,owriers not` mark, learn, and inwardly digest A SsA M TEA.--In December, 1834, botanists were scio final Calcutta to examine Assam, where natural plantations of the tea tree were discoverrd at various points ou the low grounds which skirt the Bramaooutra, from longitude 94 dig. to 96 deg. a space of 100 miles, and there can be no doubt that it may be. cultivated here arti ficially to any extent. The district, which is about 500 miles noith-east of Calcutta, will have an easy communi cation with tne sea by the Bramapootra, and to add to its physical rind economical cdvantages, it contains coal in situations where it can be easily worked. Upper Ass,m i s not subject to the Company, but it is under their influence ; and it apppears that the occupation or cession of the tea districts may be obtained without difficulty. Five native Chinamen were brought from Canton in 1837, and sent to Sudea, in Assam, where two tea nurseries have been established. The tea sent to England is of their m anufacture. The tea plants in Assam, accord ing to Mr. 'Bruce's report, generally grow and thrive best near small rivers and pools of water ; and in a place w here, after heavy falls of rain , large quantities of water a It'isa plateau of level laud, i n t ersec t e d by water surface of the plateau i s covere d w ith 4t e l r m s. The tgl) trees, among which the tea tree struggles for ex have never met," he says, istence. " with the tea p l an t growing in the sup, but invariably under shade, in whatever, It trees, that it bcoomes tall thick woods , or what we call tree ju n g le, and only there, a It Atrvgles for ex tit and tde4"ler7jth mootmootpf its branches high U. Th e l argest tree I have 13?e0 INP Pucubitsbigh t 9 . n d 4 spans roun d ; very fe , .v attain that OM 4e mentions that: Le had d e r e a t 1:t i;op other ast so jungle many taken a number of specimens from tin , q?ade in the'Vvends, a planted t h e m near his house in the aim, bat they ge nera lly died. The establishment is yet in its infaiibf.— „56::,,nan. E Al4-eIIAY. THE REV. E. S. THLILLOW, TIIE GREAT PLURAL IST RECTOR OE HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING, HI PARISHIONERS. Oh ! for a fifty Parson power To ehaunt thy praise, Hypocrisy ! This very hard-worked and laborious dignitary o the Church—if we niay jedge him according to the number of benefices imposed upon him—generally contrives to spend a few of the summer months at the richly-endowed Rectory of Houghton, discharging the spiritual duties of the Cure in the manner that well paid Rectors generally do—namely, by Deputy, through the medium of ill-paid Curates —receiving from tithes, glebe lands, &c., 2,5531.. and paying his four clerical journeyme n 4001. out of it. The balance —being what is termed in mercantile language the profit - of the transaction—though a large one, is perhaps not more than adequate to cover the great risk taken upon himself by relieving his Subs from all hazard of committin g that unapostolic sin the amassing of wealth, and fearlessly and most disin terestedly exposing himself instead to the awful de nueci.ition contained in the Holy Scriptures—" that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of Heaven." His Reverence has always been a strenu ous advocate for levying large sunis upon his flock in the shape of Church -rates—from which glebes and tithes are exempt—and violently opposed to rates being imposed upon his " tenths" for the support of ;he poor, &e., as the proceedings at the Petty Sessions and tne annals of the parish will testify. Ostensibly to support and adorn the holy fabric at Houghton, for some years about 6001. per annum was collected ; not aansianning Dissenting Chapels were springing up on all sides of the ancient Rectory, which seemed Ike " a dying scorpion girt by fire." Such swinging .evies created much discontent throughout the parish, ind a searching reckoning into the expenditure was demanded. The accounts produced showed a most profuse expenditure and gross jobbing. There was one item of 400/. applied to the building of a bridge! which was a great hobby of the Rector's—from its .tbjoining his glebe we suppose. This na turals.' ex •ited great dissatisfaction amongst the rate-payers .who en the next occasion limited the rate to about 501. ; and at Easter last—when the Rector is always absent of eourse—they toted a sum of 1001 (a part of the former ate not having been collected) for the repairs of the Church during the present year. His Reverence being .about to tak his annual flight to the south for the ensuing winter and spring (in which he regularly follows rile swallows), and as he could not afford to give his flock the benefit of his personal services, in administer ing the consolations of religion during the wiriter, he opined that the next best favour he could confer upon them was to saddle them with large Church•rate previous to his departure. The notion conceived, he promptly caused a Vestry-meeting to be summoned, which took place . on Thursday se'nnight, when he proposed that another rate for 240/. should be le vied, professedly for the repairs of the roof of the Church. This was strongly opposed, on the ground that no part of the rate made at Easter had been collected, while a part of the former one was still in arrear ; and that until both of these should be received, and en estimate made of the repairs alleged to be requi site, it was inexpedient to make another rate. A motion for an adjournment until these objects were effected was made ; but though the Reverend Chairman was repeat edly urged to put it to the meeting he doggedly reftised. After a lengthened sitting of three hours' duration, however, he put his own proposition for levying a rate of upwards of 2001, This was negatived by a majority of two to one, nearly three hundred people being pre sent. A poll was thereupon demanded by the mince- rity, which his Reverence appointed to be taken on Monday last., at nine o'clock its the morning. During the interval reports had been industriousle circu lated by certain emissaries of the Churchseate clique, that there would not be a poll. The majority, how ever, were determined out to be taken by surprise, especially as a gentleman in Newbottle had been canvassed on Sunday evening, at the request of the Rector's Tithe-proctor, to support the rate. Ac cordingly they mustered in great force on Monday morning ; and alter waiting a considerable time be yond the hour fixed by the Rector for the po 1, a com munication was sent to Urn for the purpose of inquiring when it was to commence. He replied that it was the business of the Churchwardens to fix the time of poling and not his ! An application was immediately made to the Churchwardens, who had called the meeting, and who are resident in Houghton ; but they had disap peared, and were returned non est inventus. The number of Rate-payers assembled was about three hundred, who gave vent to strong feelings of indigna tion at being exposed to so much unnecessary trouble by their Pastor,, who, having fixed the time for the commencement of the poll at the meeting, ought, iu common decency, to say nothing of courtesy, to have given public notice that it. would not take place, when he discovered that he could not screw his coursge up to the pitcb to venture on such a proceeding ; for we can not allow ourselves to suppose what has been publicly alleged—namely that .he wa lying in wait to carry the rate by a ruse, had not his opponents appeared, by whipping in his little clique to the poll. It was unani mously resolved by the assemblage to permit no more bridges to be built out of the Church-rates, either to promote the private convenience, or to gratify the pride of any parish despot ; after which they separeted, giving three hearty cheers for their successful resistatice to toe gross attempt at oppression, the circumstances and miscarriage of which we h a t e described. We perceive by the report of the Csminssioners for inquiring into tke Ecclesiastical .tt , venues of England and Miles that the Rev. Gentleman is most abundantiy provided for ; .having possessed the fat Rectory of Houghton-le-Spring exactly fifty years, with a saris ty of other Rectories, Vicarages, and Prebendal Stalls, for nearly the same period as stated below : cil 0. • C 1) y., •-• tr? 2 ) ; 0 ?LACES. W -4 4 >i c. 4 4:, Houghton-le-Spring, a - •-k - 717 — 27 — Z. -- Rectory .. Easton, alias Queen-1 hope, a sinecure RecH tory in Wales Llandrillo, a sinecure' Rectory in Wales 1789 215 18 Nil. 197 Stamfordham, Vicarage in Northumberland ' 1792 626 52 100 474 A Prebendal Stall at Noi per annum of Clear Net Profit, after transaction I 4,555 •wich, supposed dedticti' ing Ex. 1 497 to be u] roses, ui 500 ,wards, on the CHURCH-RATES IN SUSSEX. 3,549 The Church party have experienced another most signal defeat on the subject of Church-rates, in the populous parish of Linfield, in Sussex. At a vestry held during the course of last week it was intend d by the Churchwarden, Mr. Baber, to have a shilling rate imposed on the parish, if possible, but the friends of the voluntary principle having mustered in considerable numbers, it was deemed more advisable to reduce the amount. The vestry-room being found inadequate'to the accomodation of all those who attended, the meet .- - in adjourned to the Tiger Inn, where 'Mr. WILLIAMS proposed that a fourpenny rate should be granted, which motion was seconded by Mr. Compton. W. ALLEN, Esq., proposed an amendment to the motion. In taking such a course he was actuated only by the most conscientious feelings. Religion was a matter between man and his Maker alone, and therefore 113 State could, and no State ought, to take cognizance of such a matte...—(`3heers.) As compulsion to sup port a Church by a Church-we was a violation of the rights of conscience, he should move as an amendment, " That the further consideration of the question be adjourned to this day twelvemonths." The Rev. J. CARTER, minister of an Independent congregation, seconded the aineudinele. He said his friend, Mr. Allen, had told them that he ohjvcted to the Church-rate upon principle, and he could, there• fore, say that, between that geltlemAn and himself there existed the most perfect cominuinty of sentiment. As a Prote,tant Dis,enter, he would not be compelled to support a system which was unscriptural, an d w hi c h some of the clergymen who ministered to the alter of the English Church had said " destroyed more souls than it saved." He thought it a manifest injustice that he should be plundered of his goods for the professed pur pose of carrying on the w or,bip of God. Would God accept robbery as a burnt o ffering?—(Cries of" Order,'! and great clamour a mongst the Church p arty. ) He was perfectly in order, and he would not be deterred from stating h is ob j ections to the un just impost in the most f orcible and indignant man ner. Could they wonder at the existence and incr ease of infidelity, when it was a known fact that dis senters from the Church were despoiled of thei r pro perty to wash the clergy ma n's surplice, and t o supp l y wine for the sacraments , which were to comm emorate the love of him who said, Whatsoever y e wou ld that others should do unto yo u, do ye also unto them." meeting,ee t hat h w e h a te would ver might be theH e result wuld of f or h a tg night'sienotice not p a y a single farthing of Church-rate. They might seize his goods or himself, but of his money they should have none. The CHAIRMAN at first refused to put the amend ment, but was at length persuaded to do so, when it was carried by a large majority. A poll being demanded, it lasted for two days. There was a majority of fourteen votes against the rate. isheaboCorn o -law ; and monopolists i f t o h o the w m e iddle classes and 'rolltee rest battle of t l h n e t between t as, since the subject was last agitated in Parliament, the oe for the abolition of the corn working people have had, to their wotul cost, m a a p y r e ac , : p i e refutation of the doctrine of the landowners, that they de rive aotn p h o eg benefit ma f , r oa o rk m te t oc a obme low o common causericc o with e mottopuly,./Wornng Paper• 1-2:II,IANCIPATION, ':l' STATE OF THE BR ";'i3?; WEST INDIES. PHILADELPHIA, AUG. 20, 1839.—The misreprt sentatious of party have so thoroughly confused the lod gmen t of individual s , b ot h i n Great 13 , itain and the Uoitrd States, as to the tune state of the British West Indies at the present time, that any man who professes to give a lair and impartial account of the existing condition of society in the islands, and w►ho proves that account by statistics, references, and reasonings of the most unexceptionable character, c , onfers a benefit on his fellow men, promotes the cause of truth, and en courages the just progress of freedom and civilisation. Such a man as I have described is Mr. John Scobell, an English gentleman of respectability, well known to many citizens of Philadelphia, and who has just ar rived in this city from the West. Indies, the chief islands and colonies of which he has visited and exa :ruined for the avowed purpose of ascertaining the work ings of negro emancipation. He gave a lecture on the subject a few evenings since, and, as I understand, his statements are corro borated by, several persons who have lately been in the islands, I make no apology for sending you a condensed report of his highly interesting address. The room in which it was delivered was thronged with merchants, clergymen, editors, and particularly by members of the Society of Friends, to one of whom, Mr. Daniel J. Miller, I am indebted for most of the following notes He says • that in the last year—the year of crisis— the quantity of sugar exported from all the colonies to Great Britain fell short only 220,000 cwts. of the quantity raised the preceding 'ear, which, when com pared with the amount usually exported (about 4,000.000 cwts.), is of trifling importance. Ti:is favourable re suit has astonished the home Goverment, and greatly exceeded the most sanguine expectations of the friends of emancipation as well as the plan ters, who predicted the entire failure of the crops, and the ruin of the colonies ;—while in the aggregate the quantity of sugar exports has been decreased, Jamaica exported from the sugar crop of 1838 150,000 cwts. more than the preceding year !! B irbadoes exported in 1838 6,043 hhds. more than in 1833, the last year of actual slaver, and nearly 10,000 hhds. more than the average production of the seven years of slavery from 1827 to 1833 inclusive, while on the other hand British Guiana has exported 6,121 11116. less, and Trinidad 2,040 Mids. less. One of the causes which have led to this diminution in the export of sugar, every friend of humar ity must rejoice in, and it is to be regretted that it has not been more general, even at the expense of a considerable quantity of sugar : it is the partial withdrawal of women from the h, , avier duties of fi Id labour, such as the cutting and carrying of the cane. Every man who knows anything of the cultivation of sugar must admit that it is labour unfit for any woman to perform. Another cause, perhaps equally gratifying to the friends of man is, the withdrawal of a large num ber of children between the ages of five or six and ten or twelve from the boiling-house, where they were formerly employed in preparing and carrying the surplus parts of the cane used for fuel. What is most pleasing is the fact that they have not been introduced to idleness, but to schools, which have been ext ensively established, and are constantly increas ing since emancipation. _ _ In Trinidad, a number of gangs who bad been sent. to sugar cultivation have returned to the coffee planta tions, from which they were originally taken ; and in this, as well as the other islands, the improvements in houses, and the building of a large number of cottages for the labourers, have created a demand for mechanics. Those - acquainted with trades have been induced to work at them in preference to sugar cultivation : a con siderable number of young men, between the ages of 16 ield 18, have become apprentices for a limited period to learn trades, particularly that of a carpenter, which is greatly in demand. In reference to the moral condition of the labourers, a few facts will be sufficient. When I visited the islands, in 1836, there were confined in Bridgetown Gaol, Barbadoes, 242 prisoners ; in 1839, 93 ditto, being 149 lees. In British Guiana, Georgetown Gaol, in 1836, 126 prisoners ; in 1839, 61 ditto, being 65 less. In Trinidad, Port of Spain Gaol, in 1836, 71 prisoners ; in 1839, 53 ditto, being 18 less. The capital felonies were chiefly committed by whites ; for instance murder. In Barbadoes there were indicted for that crime four persons ; two of them were managers who had shot negroes on their estates, one a soldier who had shot the sergeant-at-arms of his company, and the other an unfortunate woman who had killed her twin children. British Guiana two, and Trinidad two, indicted for murder. These were all whites. The misdemeanours of the blacks were petty thefts, &c. It is a remarkable fact that the judicial records do not present a single instance of an emancipated black having been bound over for an assault on a white man from the Ist of August (the day of emancipation) up to the period of my departure last month." As a proof of the confidence which the home Go vernment feels in the quiet of her colonies, nearly one halt of tile troops have been recalled and sent to the other stations. This has be, n done from all the is lauds—Jamaica, about which so much has been said, not excepted. In Barbadoes, with a population of 12,000 whites and 88,000 blacks, a police of 7.5 all told,' is sufficient to maintain the peace of the colony. British Guiana, population, whites, 2,500, blacks, 98,000, has a police of only 125 ! Trinidad, popula tion, 1,200 whites, 180,000 blacks, police 120. " What have been the difficulties respecting wages?" A law, called the Compulsory Emancipation Act, allowed the apprentices to purchase the residue of their time, if they chose, at a fair valuation. This was ascertained by two appraisers—one appointed by the Justice of the district for the slave, and the other by the planter ; the Ju.•tice holding the power of a final decision in case of their disagreement. These valuations were sworn to by the planters, and for first class hands were about 3s. 6d. per diem ; second-class ')s. 6d. per diem. On the event of emancipation, the blacks, with no little common sense, demanded 3s, 6d. and 2s. 6u. for their labour. The planters found that they had made a mistake—had placed too high a valua tion on their labours—they suddenly discovered that the value of a (Ws labour was only about Is. 21-d. first-class, and 10d. second-class. The Negro proved himself a logician in his laconic argument :—" Massa, when me 'prentice labour, you swear me wort 3s. 6d.— dat all me ax you now. Me no see why we be wort less now we free—we work so hard as den." Through the interposition and advice of their friends, principally Missionaries, they have been induced to labour at Is. Bd. per day, which is the present standard of wages. The abolition of slavery has produced a great effect upon the value of property. In Barbadoes, estates have enhanced in value from thirty to 50 per cent. It appears to me that land is now held at an unnaturally high priee in this island. I have known no sales made at less than 60/. per acre, and they have been made at upwards of 1001. The general opinion, however, ap pears to be, that present prices will be maintained. In the other islands property has raised in value, on an average, from 10 to 15 per cent., while in no single one of them has it deteriorated. Plantations will now generally sell -for considerably more than they would during slavery, with the slaves attached. A gentleman possessed of a fine estate feared the effects of emancipaton—partly, perhaps, on account of the restlessness of his own labourers—he was induced to dispose of his plantation, which sold for 27,0001, considerably more than it was valued at, in cluding labourers, during slavery. Having learned that the cause of dissatisfaction among the blacks was the conduct of his manager, who was a tyrant, and had not forgotten his old tricks, he resolved to displace him, and, if possible, repurchase the estate ; he accordingly of fered a bonus of 1,0001. to regain it, which was promptly refused ; he finally succeeded in obtaining it for 30,0001,, he agreeing to pay all the expenses of the double transfer, The increased demand for the free Idhour produce of the West Indiei over that which existed for slave-grown produce, has had the effect to raise the price of sugar about 2.5 per cent. They now can dispense with a great deal of the ex pense of slavery attendant upon the employment of attorney , , mit - lagers, and overseers, as well as the re covery of fugitives. Besides this, the labourer, no more driven to his reluctant toil by the sting of the lash, but stimulate d by wages, performs his task with increased zeal and industry. In no instance, where a iiber :1 policy has been pursued by the planters, and lair wages offered, have the blacks refused to work. In tao or three instances, on account of the obstinacy of the planters, the labourers deserted them and removed to other plantations, where they found immediate em ployment. It is from these estates the reports respect ing the ruin of the colonies doubtless arise, and instead of properly being ascribed to the conduct of the planters, are charged against the labourers. No revolt, or even an approach to it, has taken place in either colony. On the other hand, the most perfect tranquillity reigns, and the whites feel perfect security. Some littie difficulty was created by the attempt in Jamaica to force the labourers to submission to unjust terms, by the passing of a law by the Legislature of Jamaica, declaring a three days' residence in the huts on a plantation the ground of a con tract for a year's labour ; there being no place for them to remove to on account of the gene ral combination of planters, many of them were obliged to stay. A law was also passed, declaring any negro found " wandering about" a vagabond, and im posing, for the first offence, one month's imprisonment; for the second, three months ; and for the third, six six months. The temporary difficulty occasioned by these unjust laws was happily averted by the prompt interference of the British Government. — The principal difficulty and disturbance has been created by the refusal, on the part of the Legislature of Jamaica, to accept a law passed by Great Britain, entitled the " West India Prison Act," for the better regulation of prisons, which have been represented as i n a shameful condition, and under a cruel discipline• The unfavourable reports which have reached this country as well as Great Britain have probably mi., ginated among attorneys, overseers, and mana gers, who are some of them endeavOuring to create dissatisfaction and panic, in order that the owners of estates residing on the Continent may become alarmed—throw estates into the market, and thus afford them an opportunity of gratifying their sel fishness by enablii , g them to purchase the estates them selves. Mr. Sco.-ell sa - ,s that he did not find a single planter (and his intercourse was general) who would re turn to the old system. The islands have been visited by droughts and exces sive rains, which may affect the crops this year. Should this be the case it cannot fairly he attributed to eman-. cipation. An immense advantage has been already reaped by the merchants and manufacturers in the greatly increased consumption of the blacks of many of the conveniences and common luxuries of civilized life, as well as an im proved style of clothing. The awful mortality which has prevailed in all the islands (with one exception) is almost incredible ; in eleven years, the actual decrease of the population, over and above the births, was more than 52,000, in a population of about SOO,OOO. This mortality, occa sioned by over working, was not less during the appren ticeship, for the planters, knowing that the existence of slavery was limited, were induced to extort as much labour from the slaves as possible, while they had the power. So that many,of them, by overworking, were, to use a familiar expression, almost " used up ;" they therefore entered the state of freedom nearly exhausted, which may have been one cause in connection with the astonishing mortality and the withdrawal of women, children, and mechanics, already alluded to in the former notice, as producing a diminution in the sugar crop ; these causes will continue to exist, and . m affect the sugar crop in future years.—Alio n. Cha:. ADDRESS OF THE COMIVIITTEE OF THE PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION ON THE RECENT POPISH APPOINTMENTS IN THE STATE. The Committee of the Protestant Association, deeply concerned at the recent appointment of three members of the Church of Rome to high and important offices in the State, have felt it to be their duty to their Queen, their country, and their God, to present to her Majesty, as temporal head of the Church, the subjoined Address ; and they would further entreat their Protestant fellow-subjects to testify, in like manner, their sense or the injury which such appoint ments are calculated to inflict upon the best interests of the community. The rapid progress %aid] Popery has of late years made in the land, and the untiring efforts by which she is now, both openly and covertly, assailing the privileges and blessings which this nation has long been permitted by a gracious Providence to enjoy, cannot be regarded without serious alarm by all who are anxious to maintain those civil and religious liberties to which the unchanged and unchangeable doc trines of Popery are diamytrically opposed. Regarding', therefore, these recent appointments as another success- tul step in the efforts of the Papacy to establish herself supreme in the land, the Committee of the Protestant Associ it ion would urge upon their Protestant fellow countrymen the important duty of humbly addressing their beloved Sovereign, praying that she will. be pleated to cancel these appointments—fully sentible as they are that if the design, of the Church of Rime ba petmitted to be fulfilled, this once Prote.tant nation can only look for judgment and fiery indignation as a just retribution for the surrender of those privil,ges with which God has so abundantly blessed us. ADDRESS TO THE QUEEN. To the Queen's Most Ex , teil.nt Alajesty. The humble petition of the undersigned humbly showeth,—That your petitioni-rs beg leave humbly to approach your Majesty, with the utfeigned assurances of our loyalty and attachment to your Majesty's person and Government. We earnestly desire and pray for the security of your Majesty's Throne, the prosperity of your reign, and the maintenance of that pure and re formed religion which is committed to your Majesty's care as temporal head of the Cnurch ; and therefore cannot but view with alarm and apprehension, the dan gers to which these great national blessings are exposed, from the pernicious counsels of those who are at present honoured with your Majesty's confidence in the admi nistration of public affairs. We have observed with deep concern that your Ma jesty has been advised so far to depart from those Pro estant principles, which the law of England has made he condition of the succession to the Throne, as to con- fer on Members of the Church of Rome high and in fluential situations in several of the public departments of the State ; for example, in the Admiralty, the Trea sury, and the Board of Trade. And this concern is fur ther increased by the fact that ore of these individuals has been admitted to the rank and privileges of your Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council ; the first instance, we believe, on record of such a departure from the principles of our Constitution since the deli verance of this country front Papal tyranny in IGSS. It is, moreover, to be deplored that this preferment should he conferred on men who are subjects of the See of It Imo, at a time when that apostate Giturel has openly threatened the xtinetion of the established re ligion in this country, and is now seeking, by means of deep-laid conspiracies and secret intrigues, again to bring the people of these islands in subjugation to the Roman Pontiff. In conclu ion we would humbly remind your Ma je,ty that the throne to which your Majesty has suc ceeded, and the form of government under which we are privileged to lice, are based on Christian principles, that this nation has once been delivered by a signal interposition of Divine Providence from Popish tyranny and arbitrary power, and that if we are so forgetful of former mercies as to surrender any p irticipation in the government of the State to the partizans of an idola trous and anti-Christian Church, there remains nothing but a 'fearful looking for of Divine judgments : we may expect to be delivered into the hands of those who hate us ; and your Majesty's reign, instead of being happy and prosperous, may be made a period of trouble and calamity too painful for the mind of any loyal subject. to contemplate. Wherefore your petitioners humbly pray that your Majesty will be graciously pleased to cancel these ap pointments, fraught, as we believe them to be, in their ultimate results, with such imminent danger to the Church, the Country, and the Throne. And yaur petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray, &c. PRICE OF SUGAR, EFFECT OF MONOPOLY. Table showing the ex-duty price of West India Sugar, in Mincing-lane, and comparing the same against that of foreign sugars:_ London, September 13, 1839. The Gazette of this night will quote the ave. Per Cwt. rage price of British Plantation Muscovado Sugar, exclusive of duty, at The actual quantity sold in the week ending the 10th instant, on account of the importers, accord. ing to the returns made by the West India sugar brokers, in conformity with the Act of Parliament, consisted of 1,109 bhds. 1M trcs. and 63 barrels, estimated to contain 15,352 cwt., upon which weight the above price is computed. _ _ _ Foreign Sugars raised by free labour have been sold this week at from 18s. 6d. to 235. per cwt., being quality For quality about 17s. 61 per cwt. cheaper than West India Sugar. The arrivals from the West Indies have during the past week been numerous. On the 11th September, 1838, the average price of Sugar was 28s. 104 d. per cwt., 12s. per cwt. less than at tne present moment, although stocks of all descriptions of sugar admissible to home use exceed in the agregate those on hand this time last year by several thousand tons. The market is extremely flat. From inquiries made at a late hour last evening, we regret to learn that that exce;lent and aged Reformer, Mr. Henry Gunning, is still labouring under severe indis. position, in coi.sequenee of the ferocious and cowardly at tack made on him last Thursday, by the ruffians in the pay of the Tory party. The following is the account of the atrJcious attbck on Mr. Gunning, given by himself to the editor of the Cambridge Adverliscr o: Wednesday :—" About eleven o ' c l oc k yester d ay morn ire;;, as I was walking on the pavement of Cnrist's College, I saw Mr. Sutton's band and flags com ing down St. Andrew's street, towards me; the band was uot playing, but accompanied by a great number of persons who were very noisy. As I had refrained from addressing the electors from the hustings, and had not at sny time, either by myself or family, exhibited any co lours or b,dge of party whatsoever, nor did I think it necessary to turn back in order to avoid them I was salu ted by hootinga and groaning s, of which, as no personal violence was offered rue, I took no notice. When I had got about half way through the crowd, sonic person came from behind and struck toe a blow under the ear with his fist. I instantly turned round aul saw the man who struck me running away into the ro id towards the flagmen : I fol. lowed and struck him on the head with my stick. Imme• diately a great number of men set upon me, and some persons behind me endeavoured to take away my stick. d To avoid b e in g s urroun d e d, I went up Field's-court , an d whilst engaged by two three men, some one from or thrown street threw a stone which struck me under the eye, and at the same instant, a quantity of fresh mo u rt a ar m ‘va e s yes, and in my face, which completely closed o u ne_ ea t ve my eyes, in total so far injured the other as for a time I t and was taken into an darkness. They then ran off, adjoining house, whence, after home (accompanied by a stranger)m axious to prevent an bathing my eyes, I went daughter's ears. She exaggerated account reaching t o ) a surgeon, thinking she should were, however , e insisted on accompanying should be some protection to me. abu lours and at tilt end of Market street, th e as sailed by the most violent _ ‘ se from persons wearing Mr. Sutton's co , fly attempte , us, to effect d to drive aoltinst driver of a Tory which he actually dr ove a considerable wa y over C.e curb stone. After hav in g the mortar extrac ted , and the woun d dressed by Mr. Sudbury, we returned home. On passing up St. A n drew's -street, the marks of blood on the ban dage were greeted by shouts of laughter from well, dressed of from th e o pp osite windows...... , ;p c ian from those y of Mr. Law and Mr, Willi am Nev by, accompanied by loud expressions ! satisfaction at what had happened to r v ly daughter, who has always studiously kept aloof from party politics, expressed her astonishment that persons in a respectable station of life could have conducted them selves in the manner already described. " H. G." EVENING EDITION. THE ZURICH INSURRECTION. W e extract the following from the new Zurich Gazette of the Gth " The report being spread in the back parts of the canton that troops of foreign countries were marching into Zurich, great excitemett arose in the towns if some e Pfaffiken, Hi nwee l , Il lnau, Rupiken, Sze. Crowds o f peasants s-as at o came into t t s o b t o q e : er n ns , tm a H r e n n : tr e z d o. chiefly with sticks, lout m I;t r i . oerf t e l df3 le fAa p lffi e ek c s . s p ern l s e their e head. wh Heget schweiler and S u l zer to en 'i ghte as to hours mistake. o t urs B brought no or u e t it was return nor t t r o a o n q late. uin A i t v . Council f u t n w ti o i was summoned in the Town-house, and the troops took arms in the Arsenal. At nine o'clock the peasants marched under Priest Hirzel and Dr. Rahn Eseber, in order singing psalms,over the lower bridges by the Storch engape to the Munsterhof, or Cathedral Court. There was stationed a detachment of dragoons, under AI.-jor Nebel, who prevented the people from proceeding to the Zenghaus. A combat ensued, the result of which was that the people were obliged to return by the Munster-bridge and court. The cavalry and infantry behind them fired. Blood flowed, and the tccsin sounded. Some of the members of G o _ vernment were -in the new Post-office, and they sent orders to stop the strife. But there were already eight dead and sixteen wounded. Amongst the latter was M. Hegetschweiler, a man revered by all parties, who, while making known the news of the dissolution of the. Government, received a ball in the head. Meantime , the peasants, recovering from their pnic, and receiving succours from Kusnacht, Ncumunster. and Erlibach, at tackcd the barracks which the cadets had left. The Government gave up the arsenal to the National Guard, and all was gaiet by twelve o'clock. 'f he irritation was greatest against the commander of the troop2,and against those who from the corner houses of the Z ng Strasse fired on the people ; but the shedding of more blood was prevented. " Two proclamations of the Government nppeared, the first denying th,rt troops had been called from foreign cantons: ; the second published on the failure of the first, declaring the dissolution of the Government. " On the other hand, the central committee of the insurgents announced their victory in another proclarna tion, which declares that their cause was that of Jesus and of the ho!y religion against the infidels and the un righteous. It owns that the insurrection was planned in Ptaffiken. It is signed by the President Hurlitnan- Landis, and the Vice-President Rahn Esther." PROCLAMATION Ok' ESPARTERO. CAPTAIN-GENERAL DON BALDOMERO ESPARTERO TO THE BASQUES AND NAVARRESE. " Six years of a war, which never ought to have been lighted up in these beautiful and flourishin g pro vinces, have reduced them to the lamentable condition in which they are now seen. The flower of their youth have fallen victims in battle. Commerce has under gone bankruptcy and ruin. The owners of landed pro perty and the labourers have been reduced to misery by the constant invasions of that. landed property. The arts and trades base participated in this paralisation, e filch has caused the ruin of an infinity of families. In short, all have experienced affliction and bitterness ; and ex'stence itself has been cruel and precerUus. Contemplate, Basques and Navarrese, your pre sent situation ! Compare it e ith the hapneness you enjoyed in other times ; and you cannot fe;;I to confess that the scourge of so sanguinary a struggle has turned good into evil ; substituted grievous restlessness for tranquillity ; in place of the paciSe customs of your ancestors, a desire for externeinae;on was produced ; and instead of prosperity you were visited by every species of misfortune. And against whom, and in whose fa vour, has the war been carried on ? Against Spaniards by Spaniards, against brothers by brothers ! " You were taken by surprise. You were made i n believe at the beginning that the defenders of Isabel, IL were conspiring against the religion of our forefeethers ; and the Ministe rs o f t h e M ost Hi gh, whose ( 1 . - uty it was to fulfil the Evangelical law, and whose rels , ion was to proclaim peace, and carefully attend to spiritual duties alone, were the first who laboured to light up this in testine war, which has demoralised those populations where virtue had formerly been enthroned. " You were then deceived by an ambitious Prince, who pretends to usurp the Crown of Spain from the successor of Fernando the Seventh—from his legiti tate daughter the innocent Isabel. And what are his rights ? Where is the just motive for having arrre-ed yourselves in favour of D on Carlos ? What pr e .;- i t i ye advantages could his im ag i ne d tr i ump h have ce-oduced for you ? Be assured, N avarrese and Bas'ques, of the error, of the injustice of the cause you helve been in duced to defend, and that you would nev er have reaped any other return for your services them the COMSUMIII4- tion of your ruin. " I well know that the people are undeceived ; that they feel these truths in their hearts ; and that they love and desire peace beyond everything. Peace has been proclaimed by me in Alava, Biscay, and Guipuscoa ; and this sweet and enchanting word hes been received with enthusiasm, and has been ardently cele bract'. G.heral Don Rafael Maroto, and the Biscayaa, Guipuscoan, and Castilian divisions, who had re ceived nothing but insults and afflicting undecepel ons from the pretended King, have already hearkened to the voice of peace, anti have joined the ermy under my command, in order to terminate the war. Th e fields of Bergara have just been the theatre of eels fra. ternal union. There the reconciliation of Spaniards has taken place ; a mutual concession of differences has there been made ; sacrificing those differences for the general good of our unfortunate country. There the embrace of peace, and the incorporation of the for merly opposite forces, forming but one mass and but one sentiment, have been the commencement which is destined to secure for ever the union of all Spa niards under the banner of Isabel IL, of e' ae Constitution of the Monarchy, and of the Regency of the mother of the people, the immortal, Chris tina. There a Convention has been ratified, for which purpose I was sufficiently authoeized— a Con vention which embraces the interests bf 'ill, and which repels rancour, animosity, and the - vertigo of vengeance for former deviations. By this Conventi on oblivion of the past is established; all, according to its tenor, are bound generously to make concessions before the altar of their country. And if the Alavese and Navarrese forces, who perhaps, from not having received intelligence of this Convention, have riot yet hastened to avail them e Ives of its advantages, should wish to obtain them, I i em disposed to admit them, and to employ all any efforts with the Government of her Mejesty the Queen, in order that it may demonstrate its gratitud e to wards all. " Basques and Navarrese !—Let me not find myself in the hard and grievous necessity to move hostilely the numerous, gallant (ague rrido), and well-discipliner), army which you have seen. Let the song of peace resound in whatever direction I may go. Let that union which is the object of my cordial and sincere prayers be consolidated for ever, and all of you shall find a father and a protector in "THE DUKE DE LA VICTORIA. " Head-quart. rs, Bergara, Sept. 1, 1839." FATAL ACCIDENT BY MACHINERY.—A R in quest was held at the Infirmary on Thursday, on the body of Alexander Tate, a lad of sixteen, son of Alexander Tate, hatter, Denton, who lost his life under circumstances stated in the following evidence .—Thomas Reynoldson stated that the deceased was a fellow carder with him in the factory of Mr. John Sidebottom, of Hyde; and, on the preceding Friday morning, deceased and witness were ordered to grind some flats on a machine. Deceased Went up to the machinery ; and, as he was placing a strap upon a dram, in order to set the grinding machine in moron, the strap caught him by the apron, ar.d he was thereby drawn upon some shafting attached to the machinery, which was revolving t: the rate of seventy times* minute. Witness immediately ran to stop the engine, which was done in about a minute ; and whtzn he got back, he found that the deceased had dropped from the shafting upon which he had been turned round, and that he had lost his left arm, which caused him to drop. Mr. Smith, the house-surgeon at the Infirmary, stated that the deceased was admit'ed there on Friday morning, his left arm was torn off below the elbow, and he had a compound fractur e ce the right ancle joint, and his other foot was crus.hed. These injures ware the cause of his death, which took place on Tuesday afternoon. , The Jury r eturned a ver. diet " Accidental Death.'—illanc h ester Guardian. HORRIFICALLY HORRIBLII.----MOlldaTsra most a dormitory the Hertford Times) , a whole crowd of peopl e were col ected la a ho in use dica in tin t Fron h t-street, bel ow M arket, their g and window,intense r m d a s ll th b e spout, creeping out, in or d er to catch a little pet bird, We looked up, a n d on the roof of the house bici l e d a j s anxiety. n t ( l o a 'j t v re tt le w a a sed from its f etters, had taken refuge in that ap, coun tenances e from l) ai nf ul Heu andavdagncoetdabaoultitthlaelfm-woatz: parentis t a i r n a overcame rcsl hle s h p i o m t We held our breath, and closed our teeth with excessive sympathy. Another step, and a convulsive shudder ran through the crowd. The bird moved a little further. The boy made one unsuccessful grasp—the crowd shrieked with a pprehension—and the boy, horrible th relate t fed.— into the hands of his father, who pulled him in the window by the breeches, and severely whipped him for his trAtterity. A girl down East said she did.n't like to swing in the garden, " because the caters had eyes." ANOTHER DREADT;ITI, RAILWAY ACCT. DF.NT. —An inquest wag, held by Mr. W. Carter, the Coroner for the Easiern Division of Surrey, at the Old George, Croydon, on Wednesday evening, on the body 01 a young girl named Sarah Goddard, who was killed upon he Brighton Railway. It appeared from the evide nce that the deceas e d, wi t h h er f at h er , was r idi ng on on e of passed over he? assistance could be rendered the waggon On b ar the waggons upon the line, when she fell, and before any and in so doing was thrown off the , , f ;eke • and her cheat was aho dread turned on to the right cheek, surgeon resid''ng at Croy d up it was found that her left jaw was sorwen an fully crushed. Mr. Culhane, a , assistance he r and succee , L e d could to the poor suffere , in setting the "*ed for two days after the dreadful w. Notwithstanding the . injuries she had re. don, was sent for, sad be rendered all th e jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death ‘ " seisedja accident ' tb etipuororrecdr.eatuTrhe Y