The Sun. — London, England, 1839-11-07 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION. ..........--. that many more are lying in the fields, or carried over the hills by their comrades. It appears that a deserter from the 29th Regiment, now stationed at Newport, had drilled and organised the rioters ; though, judging from the mode of their con ducting the attack against the Westgate Hotel, neither he, nor any of the other rioters, can be said to have possessed any military tkill. Frost and Waiters are committed to Monmouth goal for sedition and treason. Many papers were found at Frost's house, and other papers were found in the house of Partridge, a printer, where he was arrested. Our correspondent I says that evidence of an extensive and formidable orga -Inization has been obtained. Formidable it could not well be, from the utter absence of talent indicated by the whole proceedings. However, the plans of the par ties will soon be known, when we have no doubt it will be seen that the whole has been as much characterized by stupidity as by wickedness. Calamitous as the result has been, it will not be without its advantage in the les son it will furnish to the working classes. In no part of the country could an organization be formed, with so little interruption, as in a district where the lower orders speak almost universally a language unknown to the educated crasses. In no part of the country is there such facility for obtaining arms as in a dis trict of iron-works. The population are numerous, too, and naturally brave to temerity. Yet we have seen with how much facility a multitude of many thou sands, tolerably armed, have been discomfited by a mere handful of soldiers. The working classes will see from this, that, in trusting to numbers without 'unitary skill, they merely involve themselves and families in ruin. There never was in the history of the world a successful insurrection of mere working men. There is no part of the country in which there is so great a demand for labour, and in which wages are so high, as in the mining districts of South Wales. A common labourer receives twenty-two shillings and upwards a- week. Necessity, therefore, cannot be said to be the cause of the disturbances. From the advantages possessed by South Wales, in the command of iron and coal, a large population has grown up as it were by enchantment. Our Contem porary (the Courier) s peaks of the population of Mer thyr Tydvil as being 30,000. We are assured by per sons, intimately a cquainted with that place, that the in habitants within the parliamentary borough amount now to between 60,000 and 70,000 ; but the parliamentary borough cannot be said to comprise the whole town. In fact, the growth of Merthyr Tydvil is more rapid than that of any town in the United States. In con versing lately with a great proprietor of iron works, he described the workmen as particularly active and natu rally clever, but IT the most part unacquainted with Leglish. They were, however, exceedingly anxious to I obtain knowledge ; and such as knew English were vain i of the acquisition. All were desirous that their children should be taught English. Advantage ought to have been taken of this thirst for knowledge ; and it reflects no great credit on the successive governments of this country, that a large population should have been suf fered to accum_,ate in this mining district with no pro fvision for dispelling their ignorance. (FlO3l TIE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.) (From the Globe.) The inhabitants of Canterbury have hastened to vindicate themselves from the bare possibility of being deemed sharers in, or approvers of, the sentiments and language in which Mr. Bradshaw, one of the Representatives of that city, indulged at a recent meeting of the Canterbury Conservative Associa tion. The disloyalty and violence which pervaded the speech of the " Protestant Member," for Canter bury, responded to, as they were, by his clerical and lay supporters, have called forth a spontaneous burst of indignation from John-o'Gront's to the Land's End ; and Canterbury, where the vile outrage was perpetrated, has been with propriety the first to address the Queen ott the subject, an example which will be promptly followed by many other parts of the empire where the like provocation may be hazarded. The ultra- Tories nursed the Chartist infant into strength. They furnished the incendiary orators with matter for the speeches with which they first inflamed the passions of the ignorant and suffering masses of the population, and thus prepared them for the promptings to violence which they afterwards employed. The columns of the Tory Press were the sources whence Oastler and Stephens derived their alleged facts and their destructive doctrines. The " dagger and the torch" were recommended to the masses by these demagogues as the most direct remedies for the evils they were taught to believe were inflicted on them by the unequal distribution of property. (From the Courier.) The Chartist movement in South Wales has com menced with a fury which seems to have taken the Go vernment by surprise, and yet exhibits a degree of long pre vious preparation and organization which will leave their ignorance, if ignorant they were, without excuse. From the accounts in another part of our paper it will be seen that this insurrection, for it cannot be softened down =to a mere riot, has been marshalled upon a most formidable footing, that an almost entire population has been embarked in it, a population proverbially excite able, and easily rendered, by wrongs real or imaginary, as hot as their own furnaces. In estimating the ex. tent of the actual danger to be yet apprehended, for we.are far from thinking this first explosion of Newport to be the end as well as the beginning, and in estimating also the consequences which may require measures of foresight and prevention, we must not omit to take into account the peculiar character and habits of the people at large, in conjunction with the special features of the locality. The town of Newport itself is a rising sea port, at the foot of that range of mountains forming the great mineral basins of Monmouth and Glamorgan, and from its harbour, conjointly with Cardiff, are shipped the immense mass of iron and coal produced by the mines, and worked up in the ironworks with which those two counties are so numerously studded. Large working populations are congregated about the respective seats of these different collieries, but more especially the ironworks, established on a scale so vast, and involving individual properties of amounts so 1 / 2 enormous, as to be without parallel in the mining in ; dustry of the whole world. The town of Merthyr alone, about 30 miles from Newport,' comprehending Dow lais, with which it is incorporated, as Westminster with London, contains a population of about 30,000, almost all employed in the mines and ironworks, and a more ignorant, desperate, and, we might almost add, a more disaffected population cannot be found in the empire. Amidst materials so combustible, Chartism could not fail to find the widest range of fuel. (From the Standard.) We have coll ec t e d e l sew h ere a ll th e d e t a il s o f theinsurrection in South Wales that have as yet reached town. The later accounts represent the movement as even more ser i ous an d ex t ens iv e than it appeared to be in the first accounts. It seems to be certain th a t th e num b er arra y e d against the law exceeded ten or fifteen thousand, and that though many had been sacrificed, the insurrection was far from being suppressed. On Tuesday morning several towns besides Newport were at that time threatened by armed bodies, in great forces chiefly consisting of miners and persons engaged in the ex tensive iron-works of the surrounding neighbour hood. The present leader in this local rebellion is Frost, one of Lord John Russell's Municipal Magis trates for Newport, a proof of the Noble Lord's judg ment in selecting guardians for the public peace, and of the wisdom of that municipal system which pre sented such a person to the notice of the Executive. Let this be remembered, when the Irish Municipal Bill shall next engage the attention of Parliament and of the public. As to any danger to the stability of our in stitutions, or to the general peace of the country, from this insane and wicked outbreak, we dismiss all appre hension. Her Majesty's gallant and faithful troops, aided by the loyalty of the higher and middle classes, and of the agricultural population, are quite strong enough to restore the ascendancy of law and order in a few days. Even in the most disturbed districts, the lesson, too,'may lead to a more permanent tranquillity. and to repentance on the part of those who have vio 7 lated the peace of the country. SWIMMING EXTRAORDINARY.—There is now to be seen at Stourton Lodge, near Leeds, a chicken which has abandoned the habits of its kind, and formed such a strong attachment to a brood of ducklings, as even to accompany them into the pond, and swim about as if Perfectly aquatic.—Leeds Intelligences. CRIME IN DUBLIN.—The present Commis sion is the first, during a period of thirty-seven years , which has terminated without a single sentence of transportation havin g been pronounced. So much for the state of crime in the city and county of Dublin.— Dublin Evening Post. Twelve tin packets of preserved French beans, 3n a wooden 'box, have been brought up from the Royal George, stamped " Conserve Articbens de Catruul 11111 . 3e i lles. Neither vinegar nor pickle had been used ; they had been boiled an d placed in air-tight vessels, and were as fresh and fit for use as when first eneloseo. They have been 57 years under water.— entish Observer. THE EXILED BOURBONS.—The following to is the melancholy pict ure of the p lace of ret reat allotted the unfortunate descendants of a long line o f glt is drawn by their pio us worshipper Rochefou cau s lCl, .n his " Pilgrimage to Garit z :"—A small to wn of about 10,000 souls, surrounded by barren hills, and looki ng ,, if were at the extreme corner of the earth—a population for the most part ugly and dirty—frightful-lookin g houses, and streets ill paved, and winding like so many serpents —no communicating roads, difficult approaches, and no resources of any kind—in a word, an ant-hill among the mountains—such is Goritz In vain, as you approach, do you cast your eyes about in search of a chateau, or even a convenient dwelling :—a small house, seated desolately on a hill, and looking at most like the lode of some citizen's family,—such is the habitation weich holds the Dynasty of the Bourbons ! Lord Crofton is reported a candidate for the re• presentative peerage, vacant by the death of the Earl of the Earl of Kingstown, Lord Lucan is another can didate.—Limerick Chronicle. LONDON: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1839. i\iPORTANT NEWS FROM AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE LIVERPOOL. By the arrival at Liverpool yesterday of the above named splendid steam-ship, in seventeen days from New York, whence she sailed on the evening of the 19th ult., we have received highly important intelligence from the United States, the details of which will be found below. We are grieved to have to announce a series of almost unexampled calamities which have recently befallen the people of the United States, and which still threaten them with dange rous consequences. On the 9th ult. the United States Bank of Pennsylvania suspended cash pay ments, and its example was instantly followed by all the banks of Philadelphia, and the whole of the banks south of that city to New Orleans. Im mense masses of property were destroyed by conflagrations in Philadelphia and Mobile while in the South the inhabitants were daily fall ing victims to the pestilence of yellow fever. Th stoppages of the Southern and Western banks excited great alarm among the mercantile classes; but the banks of New York and Boston continued firm, the Directors having resolved to discharge their liabilities in specie so long as a dollar re mained in their vaults. On the part of the banks which have suspended payments, the Philadelphia Gazette—the organ of the monied interest of that city—states that the suspension " was not a mea sure of quick and desperate immaturity, but of cool reflection, of well weighed facts, and of well descried results, which can scarcely fail of affording relief where before there were perplexities, distresses, and struggling confi dence." Strangely enough this Journal adds, that while the affair of suspension was a mea sure of necessity not of choice, the necessity did not arise from want of abundance of specie, but from a conviction that it would be " drained out of the country." But as the article from the Gazette will be found among our extracts from the American Papers, we shall leave to those chiefly interested in this question the task of commenting upon it, con tent here with directing to it the attention of such of our readers as make the science of political economy a part of their study. Canada papers to the I6th ult. have been received by the Liverpool, but they add nothing to our pre vious stock of news from that part of the world. Tranquillity prevailed on the frontier. Mr . POULETT THONISON was daily expected, but w e have reason to infer from the tone of the journals before us that his reception will not be over enthu siastic. NEW ROMANCE BY THE AUTHOR OF " THE • PILOT." Just ready, in 3 vols. post Svo., THE PATH FINDER; oft, THE INLAND SEA. By J. FENIMORE COOPER, Esq. Author of " The Pioneers." " The Last of the Mohicans," " The Prairie," &c. ----" Here the heart May give a useful lessen to the head, And Learning wiser grow without his books." COW PER.. Richard Bentley, New Burlington - street. MAJESTY the EMPEROR of Alt_ AUSTRIA having AUTHORISED and GUA RANTEED several DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY PREMIUMS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) offer many possibilities of obtaining LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at lIA3IBURGH, are NOW SELLING SHARES for the said DISTRIBU TIONS. Persons desirous to purchase may receive, PRE VIOUS to giving any order, the PROSPECTUS and PAR TICULARS, upon addressing, WITHOUT DELAY, a line to HEINE, BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH. P. S.—THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains Portions of TWELVE THOUSAND, SIX THOUSAND, THREE THOUSAND, ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED, ONE THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED, TWO HUN DRED AND FIFTY, TWO HUNDRED, ONE HUN DRED AND FIFTY, and ONE HUNDRED POUNDS. THE DISTRIBUTING DAY BEING NEAR, and Shares clearing off most rapidly, A RISE IN PRICE will soon occur. THEATRE ROYAL COVENT GARDEN. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MADAME VEST RIS. THIS EVENING, THURSDAY, Nov. 7, 1839, Will be performed Sheridan's Comedy of THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Sir Peter Teazle, Mr. W. Farren ; S.r Oliver Surface, Mr. Bartley ; Sir Benjamin Backbite, Mr. Harley ; Joseph Sur face, Mr. Cooper; Charles Surface, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Crabtree, Mr. Meadows ; Moses, Mr. Keeley ; Lady Teazle, Madame Vestris ; Mrs. Candour, Mrs. Order; Maria, Miss Lee. To conclude with, ASK NO QUESTIONS. Theodore,Mr. J. Vining; Matthias, Mr. W. Farren ; Gim blet, Mr. Meadows ; The Baroness de Serigny, Mrs. Orger ; Celine, Miss Lee; Madame Gimblet, Miss A. Taylor. To-morrow, Love, with He Would be an Actor. Dress Boxes, 7s; Second Price, 3s. 6d. ; First and Second Circles, cis. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, is. ; Gallery, Is. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven o'Clock. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Netter, at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. The production of Ainsworth's " Jack Sheppard," has attracted complete overflows, and been pronounced to be the greatest 'achievement ever yet attempted, it will consequently be acted every Evening. THIS EVENING, Nov. 7, Will be acted, Ainsworth's celebrated Drama of JACK SHEPPARD. Illustrating all Cruikshanks' inimitable Tableaux Vivant. Characters by Messrs. Saville, Dale, Heslop, Laws, Smith, Ross, Neville ; Mrs. Vining, Mrs. Daly, Miss Martin, Miss Grant Mts. Laws, &c. To conclude with an Extraordinary Drama, in Two Acts, entitled THE DEVIL'S DAUGHTERS ; OR, HELL'S BELLES. Astaroth, Mr. Neville ; Cerberus, Mr. Cullen ; Diavoline, Miss Martin! Robert, Mrs. H. Vining; Polycarpe, Mr. W. Smith; Tambour, Mr. Ross. HMI/ WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO.DORROW. Morning 7 minutes after 3. 1 Evening ... 23 minutes after 3. , •-• 4. .er • -,... Z - bt ---tra. STOPPAGE OF TILE UNITED STATES' BAYS, The United States' Bank in New York received a note, in few words, from the United States' Bank of Pennsylvania, yesterday morning, directing it to pay no farther liabilities of the United States' Bank, as it was inconvenient to make the payments in New York. In consequence of this, the Bank put up the follow• in; notice : " Bank of the United States, New York, Wednesday, Oct. 9, Ten A M. " Notice is hereby given that the notes of the United States Bank of Pennsylvania will no longer be received at the Bank of the United States in New York." Post-notes to the amount of 40,000 or 50,00 dollars, and, perhaps, a much larger sum, payable in New York, were due yesterday, and protested. On the presentation of a 10,000 dollar post-note at the opening of the Bank, the holder was put eff for an answer till twelve o'clock, and was then answered in the negative. A few shares of the United States' Bank were sold after the suspension was known at 95, and some sight drafts on Philadelphia at 2- 1 , a 3 dis. A good many letters were received yesterday morn ing by our merchants and brokers from Philadelphia, intimating that a suspension there was likely to take place yesterday. Our postscript by the mail will of course tell about that. The United States Bank here received no further advises yesterday from the mother Bank, after the letter alluded to above. When called on by the notaries at threewantoonefilao, the answer first given was, We have closd our . , account with the United States That was afterwards Bank of Pennsylva with drawn, and funds" substituted ; but, finally, a simple refusal to p a y as substituted f or a ll o th er an swers. It is t o be remembered that th e no t es pro tested were made payable in York, a n d th a t th e Bank has issued postnotes pa , arl e here up to two or three days ago—probably not aware of th e " inconve nience" which was so soon to occur. The Bank has THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, WOVEMBER 7, 1839. always required individuals whose notes were discounted for post-notes, to make those individual notes payable here. The refusal of the Bank of the United States of this city of the notes of the Philadelphia Bank, is consi dered as the forerunner to a suspension in that city. If this should happen, the natural and necessary effect will be that of relief to all other places, and especially to New York, from whence Philadelphia has taken large sums for export and otherwise by the sale of post-notes, which must now cease. STOCKS THIS DAY, OCT. 19, 12 O'CLOCK. United States Bank North American Trust Company 49-1 Harlem Railroad Stonington Railroad l9 Vietonburg Bank American Exchange Bank Utica Railroad Del. and Hudson (From the New York Sunday Morning News, 0ct.6.) EXTENSIVE FIRE AND LOSS OF LIFE, IN PHILADELPHIA. The rumour spread by the passengers from Philadel phia yesterday proves to be mournfully true. We con dense the following account from the papers of that city, omitting the details respecting the houses only in jured, which are numerous. More than forty have been totally consumed. The loss is estimated by different papers at from 400,000 to 600,000 dollars. .Several individuals were undoubtedly killed by various mis chances, and several wounded. The Gazette says— About eleven o'clock last night, a fire was discovered in W. J. Stroup's provision store, No. 14, South Wharfs, between Chesnut and Market-streets. In a The effect has been to compel the banks of New York to contract their engagements, and place them selves in a position of positive safety ; and their depo sits, and circulation are so reduced, that with about four million dollars in specie they are beyond the reach of any contingency. The export demand for specie has been more for the wants of the Bank than for the regular trade, and as our crops are near at hand, and the amount due abroad small, we look for a gradual amelioration in the money market, and a feeling of increased t confidence and security. (From the Commercial Advertiser.) The Bank of the United States in this city has this day refused to redeem the notes of the Bank of the United States of Pennsylvania, even in cases in which they were by their tenor made payable here. This has occasioned no small excitement. In this state of things it is satisfactory to be able to say, on good authority, that the Banks of this city, which have been for a long time strengthening themselves, are in a position to main tain specie payments under any circumstances. The drain of money by the negociation of the post notes of the Bank of the United States will now cease, and the money market, we may safely conclude, will, in a fcws days, be more easy than it has been for months past. In the meantime it seems to us worse than useless to run upon the banks for specie, or do anything that can impede their efforts to sustain themselves. The effect can only be hurtful to the oommunity, as well as give the banks unnecessary trouble, and excite alarm for which there is no adequate cause. few minutes the flames reached the adjoining provision store. In the same range the store of George Merrill took fire immediately afterwards. The grocery stores of C. Cheosborough and of George A. Wood, South Wharfs, the oil store of Newlin and Allibone. the com mission store of J. Emlen, the iron warehouse of An drew M. Jones and Brothers, the office of the Mer- chants' Transportation Line, and the general commis sion warehouse of C. King and Co., were successively enveloped in the flames. The tavern kept by George Nealls was next attacked, and thence the fire communicated to the large oil ware houses of Shober, Bunting and Co. The ship chandlery of A. H. Hinkle, South Wharfs, and the commission warehouses of Newbold and Haverstick, and of Smith and Johnson, were consumed. Here the fire reached the corner of Chesnut-street. Returning to Water-street, adjacent to Mr. Prescott's store, the fire is traced to J. Harding, jun.'s, extensive grocery establishment, thence to the grocery of White, Stevens, and Co., and storehouse of same firm, thence to H. Sloan's warehouse, thence to the large storehouse occupied by W. R. Thompson and Co. Next the Fulton House, with all the houses above-mentioned, were utterly destroyed. The buildings on the opposite or west side of the street then took fire. In this range were William R. Thompson and Co.'s storehouse, the (From the Journal of Commerce, Oct. 12.) The Commercial and Pennsylvania Banks of Phila delphia have suspended. So there are now no specie paying banks in Philadelphia. BANKS IN BALTIMORE.—The Baltimore Patriot of Thursday morning, second edition. says, " In conse quence of the intelligence received last night from Phi delphia, the Boards of Directors of all the Baltimore banks assembled this morning at eight o'clock, and it is presumed they will come to a resolution to suspend spe cie payments on the opening of their doors this morn ing at nine o'clock." The following circular has been received by our banks. It was issued, as the date shows, before the suspension in Philadelphia : (Circular.) " Extract from the minutes of the proceedings of the incorporated banks of the city of Baltimore. " At a meeting of the banks of the city of Baltimore, held this day, each bank being represented, the follow ing resolutions were adopted : Hibernian Tavern, and between the latter and Chesnut street three houses occupied as taverns end clothing stores. At the north-west corner of Water and Ches nut-streets, the clothing store of Gaskill and Barnes was next consumed. From the rear of the latter row of buildings the fire communicated with those facing on the east side of Front-street. There William Steel's starch factory was partially injured ; Davis's suspender manufactory, and S. and E. Davidson's sacking bottom factory were also injured ; James L. Mifflin's and George Hall's commis sion houses, totally burnt ; Francis G. Smith's commis sion store for the sale of Dupont's gunpowder ; John Mee, spice-factor's store ; William R. Thompson's large warehouse and counting-house ; Patrick Donnelly's tavern ; Dennis Lahey's tavern ; John Lloyd's tobac conist's store ; and John Longhead's cooper's shop, were entirely destroyed. The house at the north-east corner of Front and Chestnut streets, occupied by Thomas Diehl, S. C. Bunting, Thomas M. Clark, and Pa)nter and Slack, commission merchants, was much damaged. Meanwhile the flames had extended to the steam-boat hotel, on the south side of Chestnut-street. Next door, a cooper's shop, was destroyed, and the office and baggage depot of the Camden and Amboy line. At the south-west corner of Water and Chestnut-streets, the fire reached the clothing store of Enoch Allen, next the barber's shop of William Gorgas, next to Martin's tavern, in Front-street. These houses were wholly consumed. The Philadelphia Gazelle mentions that the fire, which had seemed to be quelled at 12 M., had again broken out, but expressed the conviction that it would soon be quelled ; 250,000 dollars of the loss is covered by insurance in Philadelphia and elsewhere. (From the same, Oct. 6.) FIRE IN NEW YORK. Resolved—That inasmuch as the collections made by the banks of this city, are received to a great ex tent in bank notes not immediately convertible into coin, it is expedient that the following rules and regula tions be adopted by them in relation to such collections. " No eastern or northern bank shall be permitted to check on any collection for it, under the space of 30 days from the date when payment shall have been made ; and all checks shall be drawn at one day's sight, without grace. " Resolved—That the time after which the foregoing provisions shall apply, shall be as follows : To Philadelphia and New York from and after the 14th inst. "To Boston and Providence, from and after the 6th inst. " All other banks, from and after the 20th inst. " NICHOLAS PRICE, Chairman, SAMUEL JONES, Jun., Sec. " Baltimore, Oct. 8, 1839." (From the Boston Daily Advertiser.) The New York papers announce with confidence that the banks of that city will not follow this example— , that they are amply prepared to resist it, and that, in fact, they will be relieved rather than burdened by the failure of the Philadelphia banks, and particularly by that of the Bank of the United States, which, by means of her post-notes, has been drawing from their resources. We trust that such will be the resolution of the banks, not only of New York, but of this city, and of all New England, and that it will be manfully adhered to. Sound policy, justice, and duty to the public demand such a course. It is to be hoped that the ruinous expedient of a suspension of specie payments will not again be tried. It cannot in fact be tried but by the general consent of the public, and the public, there is reason to believe, will not again tolerate it. All that is ne cessary to remove the apprehension of such a calamity is, that a due confidence should be placed in the dis cretion, firmness, and sense of duty of those to whom the administration of our banks is entrusted. At half-past twelve this morning a fire broke out [ntheearpenter's shop of Sutton and Carpenter, 23 Eldridge-street, between Delaney and Rivington, which consumed two houses on either side, with a great num ber of small tenements in the rear, principally occu pied by Negroes. A man was carried out, supposed to be mortally injured. It is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary, as there had been no fire in the workshop of Messrs. Sutton and Carpenter for two days previous. The exertions of the firemen were un paralleled. TERRIBLE CONFLAGRATION! ANOTHER!—WhiIe the above fire was in proo.ress, the bells and illumination announced a second in Water street, between Fulton-street and Burling-slip. It caught in 189, a five story brick store, occupied by S. A. Halsey, as a fur and skin store. At two o'cloCk, this present writing, it is spreadinc , with great rapidity. All the engines are at the other fire, and we fear an ex tensive conflagration. The adjoining stores, on either side, occupied severally by Gilbert and Jesup as a point store, and A. H. Center and Son, seem to be fully in flames. The dome of the United States Hotel (late Holt's) is on fire, but it will probably be extinguished. Ten minutes after Two.—The adjoining buildings mentioned are a heap of ruins. The fire has crossed the street, and has consumed the upper story of the store occupied by Stephen King and James A. Kisarn as a tin-shop. It must go to Burling-slip. The hotel is more seriously threatened than ever. Terrible ! Three. a.m.—Almost the whole square, between Fulton, Water, and Pearl-streets,:anclißurling slip is in flames !—ln addition to the stores already given, on Water-street, S. Dunn and Co.. A. H. Levy, Dewey and Leverett, and a hat and cap store; on Burl ing slip, every store of the square, viz. :—John Hunt and Co., No. 19, Hick Tibout, William Callender, David Keys and Co. ; on Front-street, Michell and Co., 170, R. M. Demile, P. C. Allen, Charles C. Fow ler; Jewett, Son, and Co., Hicks and Co., W. E. and J. F. Crafis, are wholly consumed. Across Water-street, S. Pearce, James A. Kisam, Storms, large navigation store, and one or two others, are also totally consumed. The whole vicinity is threatened ; the cinders fall in thick showers—the firemen: are; but as a drop in the bucket, notwith standing their tremendous efforts. The sight is awfully (From the Albany Evening Journal.) The New York banks have justified our confidence in them. They stand up firmly, unaffected by the crash of the Philadelphia United States Bank. We have seen letters from some of the most intelligent bankers and merchants, who are strong and confident in the assurance that all will go well with the banks of our metropolis. At a meeting of the officers of the city banks, on Wednesday evening, it was ascertained that they have 4,000,000 dollars of specie, in addition to the 500,000 dollars held by the New York United States Bank. The New York institutions owe nothing to foreign banks. Their deposits and circulations are re duced to a minimum. Exchange on Philadelphia has fallen to seven per cent. discount. The post-notes of the United States Bank are offered at three per cent, a month discount. All this is turning the tables in favour of New York. Our great commercial metropolis will now become also the great money mart. New York will now be the financial, as she has long been the corn. mercial, centre of the Union. (Journal of Commerce, Oct. 14.) The banks in Delaware and the district of Columbia, except the Patriotic Bank at Washington, have followed the shameful example of the banks in Philadelphia and Baltimore. Harrisburgh, Oct. 10, 1839 , The Banks have suspended to-day, but it does not go down well ; it don't suit at this time. The attorney general has to-day issued a circular to his deputies, in structing them to commence suits in all cases where individuals or corporations issue notes or checks of less denomination than 3 dollars, It will at once bring our banks to the mark. There can be no evasion—nothing but the specie will answer. The auditor-general has made a requisition upon the United States Bank for a return of its condition up to the first discount day in October. The return will probably be received in a week or two. Our legislature will have a majority of at least one, probably two V.B. in the senate, and 68 to 32 in the House of Representatives. The following notice has been issued from the Ameri can Exchange Bank : grand. - Ten minutes after Three.—lt has crossed Front street towards the water. Four stores are rapidly con suming on that block. The hotel is protected by wet blankets. The shipping are hauling out. We must reluctantly go to press ; what the full result may be, we shudder to conjecture ! AWFUL CONFLAGRATION AT MOBILE. Letters of the Bth instant from Mobile, received yesterday, bring intelligence of a most destructive fire which occurred in that city on the night previous. The number of buildings burned is estimated to be between five and six hundred, comprising from a quarter to a third of the city. Most of them, we understand, were of wood, and unoccupied at the time, the inhabitants being out out of town in consequence of the sickness. We have seen no estimate of the amount of property destroyed. It must be very large, though, perhaps, not so great as might be inferred from thg number of buildings burned. The business part of the city es caped unharmed. But little insurance had been effected in this city. Only three deaths by yellow fever ' in the last two days. - - • •• - - - New York, Oct. 120839 " Payment of notes and acceptances, lodged for col lection in this Bank, payable out of this city, will be re quired in specie, unless the depositors shall elect to re ceive payment in notes current where said paper is payable ; and in case of payment, this Bank will give to the said depositor, if required, a check for the same, payable at the place of collection, in notes there current, or in specie as the same may have been paid. " Notice is also given to those who have had paper discounted payable out of the city, that payment of the same will be de►nanded in speck, unless the discounter select to have the same received in notes current where the same is payable, and allow to this institution the difference of exchange. " JOHN J. FISK, Cashier." " Mobile, Oct.B, 1839. " Last night, about eight o'clock, the alarm of fire was sounded. It took on the S.E. corner of Concep tion 'nd Dauphin-streets. The wind blowing strong from the S.E., it crossed the street, and continued up as far as Franklin, and was stopped by blowing up Duke Goodman's house. Twelve blocks were burnt. All the houses on the north side of Conti-street, from Conception-street, including the Catholic church, and all on the south side of St. Francis, up to and including J. S. Gleadon's old shop, and then over to St. Michael and down to Jackson-street. There was but one house saved on St. Francis-street, south-side, which was Grant and Collins's. It is impossible for me to give you any estimate of the loss. Had it not been for the wind subsiding, the fire must have extended to Mam Char ley's. Our city has the a ppearance of an old building, as nothing is standing but chimneys." Another account states that the Episcopal Church, as well as the Catholic, was burnt. The fire is said to have been the work of incendiaries. A gentleman well acquainted with Mobile,has furnished us with a diagram of the burnt district, extending from Conception -street on the east, to Franklin on the west, and from Conti on the south, to St. Michael on the north, and comprising from ten to twelve whole squares in the heart of the city. " Luckily for the insurance offices," he remarks, " it was in a quarter of the city where little or no insurance was effected, the buildings being chiefly of wood." About 1,000 families, it is esti mated, have been deprived of their homes by this calamity. SUSPENSION OF THE WASHINGTON AND GEORGETOWN BANKS. (From the Washington Globe.) At a meeting of Delegates from the Banks in Wash ington and Georgetown, October, 11, 1839, the follow ing resolution was adopted, viz. Whereas information is received that the Banks in Baltimore and Philadelphia have suspended specie payments for the present, and it being the opinion of the Delegates of the several Banks in the City of Wash ington and Georgetown here represented that the safety of the Banks and the interest of the community will not be promoted by an attempt to sustain specie pay ments while a supension of the Northern Banks shall continue ; and whereas, although the Banks here re presented have abundant means to meet all their liabi lities, yet as a considerable part of their means have become unavailable for the present as specie funds, by the suspension of the banks in Philadelphia and Balti more, be it therefore resolved, that it be, and is herby recommended to the several Banks here represented to suspend specie payments for the present, with a pledge on the part of the said Bank to resume such payments as soon as the Banks in Philadelphia and Baltimore shall do so."—New York Paper. THE QUIETUS.—The banks have several of them an nounced their readiness to draw bills on England at sixty days, at 9 : 1- prem., to any extent which may be required. They have most of them open credits always at their disposal, with various London bankers, and the agent of the Borings is ready to enlarge the credits on them to an extent much beyond what can possibly be necessary. It has been known for some days that this course would be adopted if thought expedient, and we should think its announcement must put a quietus to all expectation or apprehension in any mind that the " New York banks would break." NE BANE st O a F te V tZt the Exchange OCT. , regrets been Exchan ge B a nk of this place has compelled to suspen d spec i e pay ments.--Beacon. , Tile Portsmouth branch o f the Bank of Virgin i a sus- , G ee to pended yesterday.—lb. 600 houses in Mobile, on the night of the 7th instant. They are mostly small, and the damage is estimated, in the Mobile Papers, at 120,000 dollars. In prosperous times, we are told, the destruction of these houses would hardly have been deemed a calamity to the city ; but at present the case is otherwise. Letters of the 9th inst. announce the occurrence of yet another fire in that unfortunate city. which, al though it destroyed comparatively few buildings, caused a much greater loss of property than the other, the buildings burnt being among the best in the city. A gentleman well acquainted in Mobile, estimates the loss by this fire at 750,000 dollars. The Bank building alone cost about 200,000 dollars. The two hotels were also expensive and valuable buildings. (Correspondent of the Journal of Commerce.) MOBILE, OCT. 9.—We have had another fire. The Mansion House, a large unfinished hotel south of it, and the Planter's and Merchants' Bank are burnt, be sides a number of valuable houses, the two former, and several houses on the north side of Government-street, and a portion of the Market. No doubt the work of incendiaries. _ _ _ The Planters and Merchants' Bank would have been saved but for the cupola, &c. The books and bills re ceivable, and, I believe. all the valuables of the bank, are saved. I was nearly four hours in the bank assist- in g in endeavours to save it. There have been in this country, since the beginning of this month, no leis than 24 fires that we have ac counts of, and the following is a list of them : FIRES IN THE UNITED STATES SINCE Ist. INSTANT. Fires. Buildgs. destroyed. Loss. Dollars. 50 1,200,000 450 1,600,000 53 1,000,000 12 20,000 9 25,000 6 20,000 2 10,000 10 100,000 5 5,000 1 10,000 2 50,000 n New York 7 Mobile Philadelphia 2 Alton 111. Newark, N. J 2 New Orleans 1 Norfolk 1 Aiken, S. C 1 York, Pa.... Louisville, Ky 1 West Boylston Aggregates... 24 600 4,040,000 (From the Nets York Times, Oct. 19.) SICKNESS AT THE SOUTH.-Our latest date from New Orleans is of the 9th inst. The deaths by yellow fever on the preceding day, in the Charity Hospital, were four out of seven admitted. A letter from Natchez, dated Oct. 4, states that the fever had been very severe since the 14th of September. The number of deaths during the first three days of the present month was 11, out of a population of 1,200. Among the victims we observe the names of Nathan A. Green, of the house of Dahlgreen and Co., and Captain C. S. Curtis, of the house of Curtis and Holmes, owners of the Natchez and Boston line of packets. Natchez was almost deserted ; out of 58 stores on Maine-street but five were open. The physicians en deavoured first to salivate the patients ; when this was effected not one out of fifty died. LATEST NEWS BY THE MAILS. FIRE IN NEW ORLEANS.—On the Gth inst. a fire broke out in a block of buildings on the corner of Commerce and St. Peter-streets, which burned it down. The houses numbered were six. Loss estimated to be 20,000 dollars. F. Perrett, V. David, Mr. Barry, and Ann Cammell were the sufferers. _ ANOTHER LARGE FIRE IN NEWARK, N. J.—Six buildings were destroyed in Newark on Thursday morning last. It commenced in the store of Messrs. Halsey and Tuckey, leather dealers, on Market-street, and burnt them out. It then extended to the buildings occupied by Charles T. Shipman, Jacobus at Utter, Pierson and Berry, and Mr. Hollingsworth, leather dealers, and Mr. Manahan, tobacconist. Loss 200,000 dollars. Fully insured. _ _ YV FIRE IN NORFOLK, VA.—Two brick warehouses on Campbell's wharf, occupied by Messrs. Anderson and Goodrich, were destroyed by fire on the morning of the 16th inst. Loss 12,000 dollars. ANOTHER FIRE.—The mills of the West Boylston Manufacturing Company, in West Boylston, Mass., were destroyed by fire on the 15th inst. Loss 50,000 dollars. BRITISH NOBILITY.—Lord Charles Wellesley, son of the Duke of Wellington ; Lieutenant-Colonel White, Lieutenant-Colonel Greenwood, Captain Fox, Lieutenant Grosset, and Lieutenant James Colborne, son of the ex-Governor of Canada, all attached to the British army in the Canadas, arc now in Baltimore, on a tour through the country. HIGHLY IMPORTANT FROM PHILADELPHIA. (From the Philadelphia Gazette.) IMPORTANT MOVEMENT.—We learn that a confe rence of delegates of the different banks and of the Board of Trade of this city was held last evening, at Which it was determined, as a matter vitally concerning the safety and prosperity of the community, forthwith to suspend specie payments. This resolution, with one or two exceptions, of which we hear rumours not fully authentie,was carried into unanimous execution to-day. It is unnecessary, as it is impracticable, to go sud denly into an ample elucidation of this great measure. It is sufficient to know that it is not one of quick and desperate immaturity ; it is one of cool reflection, of well-weighed facts, and well-descried results, which, in any event, can scarcely fail of affording relief where before there were perplexities, distress, and struggling confidence. Of the main momentum to this point, ope rative in both hemispheres, we propose to speak briefly. The affair is not one of choice by the banks, but of necessity—a necessity not arising out of a lack of power to continue specie payments, but of self-preservation, under the form of keeping the specie from being drained out of the country. This necessity has its chief cause in the revulsion of the opium trade with the Chinese—a trade of, say 50,000,000 ! The instrument of this trade is known to be opium. The drug can no longer be employed as an article of exchange with that people. Specie, there fore, must take the place of it. The Bank of England fairly reeled under these tidings from China, and was forced to make a loan of the Bank of France, and into the issue of two-pound notes. The balance of trade being against us, demands came over here for specie ; and every packet ship went out carrying away from 500,000 to 1,000,000 dollars. This was the great cause of the late stricture in our banks' discounts—the banks could not discount paper, because their issues came back upon them directly for specie. The merchants were bleeding at every pore. Trade and commerce were literally stopped. To aid as far as possible, the banks (or some of them)gave their credit to the merchants under the form of post-notes, payable four or six, or eight months a-head, hoping by the time they arrived at maturity that the pressure m i g h t become relaxed. But this did not afford the relief. The merchants, manufacturers, and mechanics were yet suffering. This suffering was not confined to the city. New York felt it under all its forms of severity, as in deed did all our cities, and the whole of the country. What, under such circumstances, was to be done ? The banks are just as good, and better, and more solid, under a season of suspension, than under its opposite, the ts hoe us suspend secure puei country, nt obligation drtyh,e iru t v oa longeru pay lts o ,discounting aebnxeut and existing, tgi hu specie, t the cause removed, taobu veseierd o i t :bats ayh bo bp that errte relief aids lfel iaedrxr e fsciencemt agdh naor through them mwi remaining ordersbe extended fur cur t t o ail a s, a s s u suffering people, b ysu discounts. But, besides the foreign demands for specie, the re cent fires in New York and in this city have made a call for the relief of the sufferers, under all their forms, for at least 1,500,000 dollars. This is an addition to the previous pressure. The calamity required to be met—but the banks could not meet this additional de mand, except at the loss of just that much of specie to this country. There is great relief at the bottom of this suspension. Let the people regard it in its true light, and it will be everywhere applauded. The means required for rebuilding our burnt dis sricts, both here and in New York, can now be had , and all this will be to set thousands of mechanics and working men to work, who must otherwise have re mained idle. It seems that the suspension of specie payments in this state, as far as it has moved, commenced in the in rior. We learn from good authority that the Farmer's Bank of Reading yesterday refused payment of its notes in specie. As for Philadelphia, to pursue this course was her only available measure of salvation. To postpone it would have been to drain her of her silver in a few months fordicluoo, withinoeni vio t tai h io benefit uobaueol ynmotdooendbr haveti of ill edfih vppeag,aiNw rs ogds atu e .nuifndre Ostmi York fsilver. eoccrnoh.:ebua change osrgrenlehlOstyi under s ,0 0f 0 o f November,specie a s s t neiodsffer fractional our eo fairly tniuen dollar,a presuma ble, institutionspartsw of there being no notes under the first denomination allowed by statute. SOUTH AMERICA. Mobile is truly an afflicted city :—first, commercial (New York Weekly Morning Herald, Oct. 19.) disaster, then pestilence, and before either is fully past, Faust MONTE VIDEO.—The Extio arrived yesterday a terrible fire ! We trust the public sympathy will h e from Monte Video, whence she sailed on the 19th of awakened in her behalf, and that subscriptions will be August. An American ship had been seized by the made in behalf of the sufferers. French, for an alleged violation of the blockade. The It is worthy of remark that the great fire in Phila.- 'country continued in a feverish state, and Don Fruc delphia which destroyed property to the amount of tuoso Rivera, standing on his head and feet alternately. 400,000 dollars, that in this oity which destroyed pro- Oribe may get back the reins of power and may not— perty to the amount of 1,000,000 dollars, and that in it was uncertain. Mobile which destroyed 500 or 600 hous es , as stated FROM MEXICO,—We have received a little interest. above, all occurred within. the space of three days. That ing intelligence from Vera Cruz to the 4th ult.—not in Philadelphia commenced about 11 o'clock in the Iso late as has been received. On the 22d August, the evening of the 4th inst., and burned till day - light on the Minister of War and Marine issued a proclamation , sth ; that in New York commenced about half-past one stating that the severest penalties would be inflicted o'clock in the morning of the 6th, and hurned till sun- on every commandant of a port found exacting of ves rise ; that in Mobile commenced early in the evening sels more than legal dues. A French gentleman, by of the 7th, and burned for several hours. Probably the name of John, Gomez, while on his way to Nautta, the loss of property by these three fires is at least whither he was travelling on business, was waylaid by 000,000 dollars. pair of assassins, and most cruelly murdered by a YET ANOTHER DESTRUCTIVE FIRE fit,stroke of a hatchet on th e h e ad, MOBILE. LATEST FROM CENTRAL AMERICA.—b 7 the lc- We recorded yesterday the destruction of 500 or ' torie, Capt. May, we have received a Belize (Honduras) paper of the 7th ult., containing advice from Central I America to the 24th of August. The confederacy is essentially dissolved. Most of the States claim to be independent of each other, in the highest sense of the word. They make treaties with each other as with foreign powers. A treaty of peace and perpetual friendship was concluded between " the Sovereign States of Salvador and Guatemala" on the 4th of July. A treaty has also been concluded between the States of Salvador and Los Altos. It contains, among o..,bers, the following articles, which will not be very palatable to Great Britain. They were oc casioned by the claim set up by the latter to the island of Ruatan ; in accordance with which claim, a British naval force lately took possession of the said island. It is situated on the Atlantic coast, not very far from Belize : " ART. B.—The representatives in the convention of both contracting States shall be sufficiently authorised to treat on the most favourable measures, conducive to the recovery of the island of Ruatan. " ART. 9.—The two contracting parties also agree -Ist, that no production of the agricultural industry or manufacture of an English possession sh,ll be admitted in this country, although it may come under the flag of any other nation whatsoever ; 2dly, that no goons from any nation, although it may be a friendly one, shall be admitted in our territory, if they come in an English vet sel ; and idly, these prohibitions shall continue so long li as England refuses to put Central America again in possession of the island of Ruatan. The 10th article adds—the former article (Bth) shall not be obligatory, or be carried into effect, until it be agreed on and ac cepted by the other States of the Union." It appears that the department of San Miguel, and other villages of San Salvador, had risen, and troops from the State of Honduras covered the country as far as the river Lempa. Carrera has issued a proclamation to all the military of Guametala, directing them to prepare to repel the attacks of President Morava' against Honduras and Nicaragua, for which purpose it was said that the latter had been collecting troops. CANADA. The following is a copy of the address to Sir John Colborne, which is now in the course of being signed ' by the Loyalists of this city. It presents a strange contrast to the " Gosford manifestations :" TO HIS EXCELLENCY SIB. JOHN COLBORNE, &C. &C. May it please your Excellency, We, her Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, inhabitants of the city of Montreal, beg leave to ap proach your Excellency with sentiments of the highest respect, and to assure you of our unfeigned regret at your approaching retirement from the government of this colony. We should be wanting in justice and gratitude to your Excellency were we to forbear to acknowledge that if we have escaped the calamities that in the late times of trouble and commotion have afflicted the families of many of our less-favoured fellow-subjects, we owe it chiefly, under Divine Providence, to your mili tary skill and energy, to your promptitude in discon certing the machinations of the disaffected, and to your unceasing vigilance and anxious solicitude for the pro tection of our persons and property. It has fallen to the lot of your Excellency to preside over this province at a period of unparalleled difficulty, when industry anti enterprise languished, and our consti tutional rights were suspended ; yet with the limited means placed at your disposal you have given an im pulse to agriculture and commerce—you have caused many useful and salutary laws to be enacted—and en couraged and sanctioned the establishment and support of several humane and benevolent institutions. Though the intimate connection that has long sub sisted between your Excellency and the provinces of Upper and Lower Canada is about to be severed, yet we feel satisfied that your anxiety for their welfare will remain undiminished. We, therefore, cherish the hope that when her Ma jesty's Government shall submit to tha Imperial Parliament the important measures which they have determined on, of the union of the two pros inces, your Excellency will contribute your valuable advice and recommendation to carry it into effect, and that you will aid in maturing and per fecting such other measures for their future good go vernment as may seem to you best calculated to ensure their permanent tranquillity, and make them a valuable appendage of the British empire. On taking leave of your Excellency we beg to be per mitted to offer our sincere wishes that yourself, Lady Colborne, and your family, may have a propitious voy age to England ; that you may there receive the honours and reward due to your long and faithful services to your Sovereign and country, and that you may for many years be blessed with uninterrupted health and happiness. —Montreal Herald, October 11. Major Hail, who is on the staff of the new Governor- General, came passenger in the Liverpool steamer. He arrived in Montreal on Saturday, and left last night for Quebec, there to await the arrival of the Pique.— Montreal Gazette, October 15. We , should,. have supposed, a priori, that the whole community would have been deeply afflicted at hearing of the mad outbreak in Wales. The evidence it affords of deep dissatisfaction existing in large masses of the community, easily excited into acts of violence, which, though once and again put clown, may be expected once and again to recur, is more calculated to till every reflecting man with alarm and dread than with satisfaction. Neverthe less, there runs through the columns of vitupera tion of the Ministers, which the Standard and the Herald have poured forth on this occasion an over flowing spirit of satisfaction more akin to savage exultation than sorrow and alarm at such a state of the country. It is scarcely our business to de fend the Ministers on this score ; for of all the London Press we alone ventured to object to the prosecutions of the Chartists—we alone pleaded for the misguided men--we alone supplicated for mercy to those whom we knew to be hoest and upright, but politically ver y wrong, a nd we alone believe we of all the London P ress will now, , venture to hint, that had LOVETT and COLLINS been pardoned, and had V INCEN T and PO WELL S and their fellows in Wales, been treated with more of the generous spirit of Whig forbearance than of the brutal iron heel of Tory coercion, the pre sent outbreak would never have occurred. The blessed influence of mercy and kindness over the human heart has never yet been fathomed ; they have been too seldom tried ; but we have a thorough conviction from some knowledge of the class of men who are now, as it were, in arms against the Govern ment that had the mercy and kindness we advocated been exhibited to men whose chief crime is an enthusi astic attachment to liberty, the wish of Mr. FROST to excite an insurrection would have been nipped in the bud. What the Chartists now say—what doubt Mr. FROST and his friends thought, after seeing Messrs. LOVETT, and COLLINS, and VIN CENT, consigned to gaol for offences which they regarded as virtues, is that "it is better for us to die at once, on the bayonets of the soldiers, than be exposed, for speak ing our minds and claiming our rights, to drag out our existence in Warwick gaol." So that the punishment against which we pleaded may be said to be the parent of the present outrages. On account, therefore, of our differing in opinion from the Ministers on this point, we may not be called on to undertake their defence, but we cannot see them abused by the Tories for not being Tory enough, when it is plain that their Toryism is partly the cause of the evil, without saying what we know to be true in their behalf. The Standard and the Herald would make it out that the present insurrection is caused by the example set by the Whigs in carrying the Reform Bill by an appeal to the masses. According to them the reverence for law was so intense in the hearts of the people before 1830, when the Whigs came into office, that riots were unknown. If they do not mean this, all their tirades are sheer nonsense. The fact, however, is, that the authority of the law was as little or less respected be fore 1830 than since, and was in many cases only obeyed, and political order— which, in our apprehension, is different from social order—was only preserved, by keeping down the people by force . To say nothing of Ireland, which till 1830 was a scene of perpetual insurrection and perpetual massacre, to vindicate the authority of the l aw , the Whigs found the people in the southern counties in a state of almost general insurrection. Parties consisting of several hundreds were tramp ing through Kent, Sussex, and Hampshire, setting all law and all authority at defiance, while barns and homesteads were blazing all around. That scene continued for weeks and months ; it was not suppressed, like the riot at Newport, on the first ap pearri.-c, cc th:o tear - years ouiy prior to that we had the bloody massacre of Peterloo, which is distinguished, let us EVILNING that Armed tell the Herald, from the present outrage, being n %,anton attack of the authorities on un, and peaceable men, while this is a totall y unj, 'ls fiable attack by the people on the Magistrates a 11 ' a the authorities. At the same time the gatherint of the people at Peterloo, and their atzsembling a 4 Bonniemuir, with an avowed intention to improve or overturn the law, fully proves the Sun d a hen of that reverence for the law wh ich the rd a nd Herald affirm to be the offspring of the rule of the Whigs. Before the affair at Peterloo, the Lud dites distracted the country, setting all Jaw at defi ance, inflicting much injury on property, a nd re quiring the terrror both of th e soldier y and the gallows to subdue them. Coming to the metropolis we h ad before- 183° the Spa-fields riot, the breaking open gun-sm iths ' shops, the THISTLEWOOD conspiracy, and sun arY disgraceful outrages, which we defy the Tories t. 4 match since 1830. The Standard, indeed, speak .5 of Pall-mall having been for a whole day occupied by ten thousand Radicals, who set an example of decorum, let us add, that might shame many of the idle loungers whose exclusive privileg e the Stand ard appears to regard it, to occupy the streets of the metropolis. Before the THIST LEWOO D con spiracy we had the DESPARD rebellion, se' that insurrections of one kind or another, begin in defiance of the law, were certain l y as come "11 and as deplorable before 1830 as Ae have been since. If the Whigs are to be blame , L because the Welsh are discontented, and essay tle mend their condition by a foolish appeal to arms:• then must the Tories be deserving of all reprobation, because the Luddites broke machinery, and be cause the peasantry of the south of England corn mitted outrages in 1830. It is not enough, however, to defend the Whigs : we say that the Tories are the authors of these outrages. Their whole system is one of op pression, of outrage, and insult to the people, brutalizing them by constrained ignorance and barbarous, sanguinary punishments. They set the example of attaining their ends by violence, and the Chartists, as we have' continually said, do but act on Tory principles, and follow tie Tory lead' We have, however, a heavier charge still to make against the Tories. They began the fatal schem e of governing in spite of the popular will, and coo' ceding to an apprehension of a popular outbreak, as in 1828, 1829, and 1832, that which theyhe resolutely denied to justice. What have the y e since ? Unable then to resist, they have never theless continually thwarted all attempts t o do tice to the people, and are the real cause s of that wide-spread discontent, of which the ou tra g e at Newport is an alarming sign. They have both re' fused and opposed those further organic improve ments, which would have kept alive hope in the bosom of the people, and they have refused those economic improvements, which would at least have filled their bellies, and given them th e c ontentment of animal enjoyment. They have both acknowledged the people's power, and have. continually insulted, oppressed, and goaded them into outrage. As long as they maintain the scoun drel Corn-laws, setting an example of most flagi tious robbery, and most villanously starving the people—(we must be permitted to speak plainly when the dearest interests of humanity and the sacred cau se of truth are at stake) —so long shall we cha r g e them with being the arise from the discontent of the and outrages which <wk. -molar r --L Nobody who sees how the Horse Guards are managed can be surprised at the conduct of Cal. THOMAS. A Tory General is kept in the eon mend of the army, and all the persons who stir" round him, and possess the whole patroilage of the army, are Tories. To profess Toryils°4 therefore, is a passport to favour. It ItnaY be ithought even to recommend those who (p ro ' fess it to the Ministers themselves, for theY do honour to Toryism in the Commander-it y; Chief and in Lord FITZROY SOMERSET. ..16s long as Ministers encourage and honour it a t the Horse Guards, they may expect that i t will be rampant in the army." For the exhibition of Col. THOMAS, therefore, and his like, the ters have themselves to blame ; and till they root out Toryism from the Horse Guards they may pect to see it pervade the army. Col. THOMAS, we admit, went far beyond the ordinary run of the s oldiers. e appeared at hit. a m eeting of operatives, who received each man dinner for attending, in order to countenance ant attack on the Ministers, though he commands the.: forces in the ne ighbourhood. A most intemperate , attack was made on the QUEEN, and Colonel THOMAS expressed satisfaction. The neighbour hood abounds with Chartists, and in the midst of them Colonel THOMAS applauded an attack on her MAJESTY and her Ministers. He wished, probably, to show how easily they could be insulted and how weak they are to inflict vengeance. He set an example to others who will be severely punished at the instigation of Tory scribes under a Tory law, if they should be as abusive of the Court as Mr.RoBY• • Some of the Tory Journals complain that soldiers = are not now allowed, without incurring the censure. of the Whig Press, to take part in political meet'. ings. We hope never to see the day when soldiers shall be denied the privileges of citizens. We do nt thel ce nsure them for being politicians but for being ha politicians. By avowing principles of desp otism bring the army into disgrace. They hold it up to the nation as the instrument of tyranP:(' and make it deservedly hated. The Tories sl contending for intolerance, for the slavery tho masses, for the supremacy of the idle fell' for the maintenance of the power of priesteraft; the, they arc a miserable faction arrayed against best interests of ti nation and of mankin d, and lie blame Col. THOMAS his like for sacr ificing his . country to the interest of this miserable faction. ri• At the same time, if officers and soldiers were 11 ° found fault with for being politician;'; strictly according to Tory principles. During t hel iL reign, for an officer to attend a Radical meLtting I t e r that would ber a sure method to get dismissed from the service' o f be debarred from promotion. Then the Tori es slid' that the soldiers had nothing to do w ith-. 0 .1 laws but enforce them—nothing to do with th e j G ov ernment but receive its pay and 01 1 j e l its orders. Now, when an officer sits an d a pp lia °f an a n insult to the QUEEN, they , heartily appro ve soldiers being politicians, and condemn the Whil Journals, which, not denying to them the ri g ht e nt even the duty to 'form political opinio ns, fern that the opinions of Colonel 'fHomAs shou ld ` ba see it inimical to the public happiness. He supPe consistent with his duty to be the partisan of defeated though struggling faction , and in that c.a acity to p MAJESTY, whose ser vant P he ermit her t t P is, to be insulted in his presence. The Army is I f e yet the Army of the nation , i t is nominellY , QUEEN'S Army, and by th at, the Tory principle, we shall bold the officers to their duty. We will not dwell on t he subject, b ec ause w e place. believe that an official investigation will take We shall only say , th at till the Whigs place som.e decided friend of their own at the Horse Guards, SO RONALD FERGUSON for example, they will deserve to When find a Colonel TH OMAS in every regiment. Sir RonERT PEEL grasped at the Government ia May, he would not retain it, because he had not, by being allowed to dismiss her MAJESTY'S House,- hold, the appearance of enjoying her MAJESTY 3 full confidence. Lord MELBOURNE has her M AJ ESTY'S full confidence but, so far as oreh Aral is concern ed, he appears not to have it, not to dare to ire it. He is nr,t the maste, of the T I Army, but exercises her MAJESTY'S power o t _ that, under t he direction, and for behoof of h Il k ------ Now ready, in 2 vols. Bvo., with Portraits, ILIFEMOIRS OF HIS WN TIME ; Including The ANCIEN REGIME, The REVOL PIRE, and the RESTORATIO N. By LIEUT.-GENERAL COUNT MATTHIEU DUMAS. " Two generations are included in these Memoirs : and events almost unexampled in the history of mankind, from the earliest records to his own times. Much he witnessed, much he experienced, and much he has preserved for our informa tion and edification." —Literary Gazette. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty.