The Sun. — London, England, 1844-05-30 00:00:00

~~ ~-r'" ~ : WS. DELpgY9+ 4 eC l4°.- I Cap es to )stop on pings a beal Ltend oar ving br nli g he n earner• rs je place in phi andi f. 4( the ."'", nine differencv I are rep orted . two Ca theho d nearly:d T h e pon' to hav e e bee n ie • )e wei (3. - 0 { [ll the furl pr oceed' theY 1 to the 10 • Yanke es r foun d the! ) : in a l' l9loc l ic the C litb° o - 0 ellings i ) ig n ioo at Da l " bcg 'when (real. ,1 crY °CI , I i P sIA 'and bi °° d- our .?r s taine d . 11e1 ill a . i..F -r. gen et and was carried away in a cab. It was with extreme Fein weulty that he secu re d a safe retreat. , " ° cLocK.----The female seminary at the corner of •t~f ruins, C iij and Phoenix -streets has been fired, and remains a heap shout, th e burning of the church the mob continued to tiveetir4tz three. cheers, and a d rum an d f i f e a n d when the cross at the peak of the roof fell, they played the Boyne Nothing now remains of the bea u tiful gothic struc i, t but its blackened wall s . steo\ ' e'E o cLock.—Th e sem i nary has b een comp l ete l y de d. The temperance grocery store of Mr. Joseph Corr, en nr of Phoenix and Second -streets, opposite the seminary, areal.roill which it was said the volley was fired on Monday 4 , 1 1 111 g, which killed Mr. Wright, was completely riddled, The the house destroyed. cad e first brigade, under the immediate command of Gen. Sla s erly al 4t r i , o h ia a e s i rived upon the ground, accompanied by AldooLocK _The rioters have proceeded to the house of str--e r 2nail Hugh Clark, at the corner of Fourth and Master ilts, and have entirely gutted it out. Vra, vd e 4 2 i litary arrived upon the ground after all the mischief s ev ° , l, and were there when we left. tip e i C kLOCK.—By thi s ti me th e di s t r i c t was compara wratt quiet, the mob ha v i ng apparen tl y expen d e d a ll their Ij A i t it , n d the milit ary was poste d i n var i ous sect i ons. carrect—r•AsT EIGHT O'CLOCK.—Another outbreak has oc low G • The house of Matthew Quin, in Master-street, be erniantown-road, has been battered with stones. It L_s itnte nanted. Th e mo b f or b ore to set fire to the building ii r v ola_ , ants in the it would involve a:large number of Americans and 14 Protestants destruction. oe •"wen eight an d n i ne o ' clock, Harmony-court, consisting A13.,1 4 or ei ght houses, situated near Cadwallader-street, k-. Ab o setr oyed by fi re. 41 ; out hul f - past six o'clock information was received by Ad oeott that an attack was contemplated upon the St. 6.ustine Church, in Fourth-street, below Vine, and that a Q t :, c rowd had already gathered in its vicinity. He imrae the Y repaired, upon horseback to the spot, with a . body of Post e s: Y ,,_P c lice, and addressed the crowd. The police were ftrat •is the chapel. The mass still increased. The t heor t cltY tin t d r e in P a w sh er e e rt i t m im m e e . diately ordered out, and were upon folle ' w e i egi sequence of the state of things, the Mayor issued the iti illYQPl.°Clanlatioll th7r is reason to believe that the spirit of disorder raging leek v L it In e oupty is about to extend itself into the city, and to All „ the destruction of property and attack upon life. tilt:tern-citizens, desirous to preserve the public peace, are to r es l s , required t o prepare themselves to patro l t h e streets, Pea " all invasions of p ro p er ty, an d to preserve the public i4ekat resistance to every attempt to disturb it. of usual Ward is requested to meet immediately at the place ward elections. T• he c . " JOHN M. SCOTT, Mayor." tee e ctowd still co n ti nue d to i ncrease a t t h e c h urc h, an d a t testaZ i ttes befo re ten o ' clock, f i re was commun i cate d to t h e At twte of the ch urc h , it i s sa i d, b y a b oy a b out 14 years o ld . kottat e ntY Minute ten o'clock the cross wh i ch sur hed ed the steeple, s and which remained unhurt, fell with a Utor k ellisb, amid the ' plaudits of a large portion of the spec ial en .0 141 - Minutes afterward the steeple, which stood till burnt akoere skeleton, fell, throwing up a mass of cinder? : o,sthat 3p to to ' OO de l l OF Loss AND DISTRESS.—The St. Michael's_rnm 0,5,00 0 and seminary in Kensington cost for building f no t ed 40 ,000 dolls., and St. Augustine s d t less litr tcsaeetdolls. The mount of property thus faresamroiyliese b t uo less than 150,000 dolls. No than 200 f I lAri. en "Mpelled to remove from their homes. seseloPaST ELEVEN O'CLOCK.— The City Councils are now A• b o o, to t a k e measures to su b due the r i oters. s _ u rotiAr , fourtee n or fifteen years of age, has just . been the city police-office, who was arrested in at 'et to set fire to a vacant building in Kensington,. near ,TllZet-house. The fire was extinguished by the military. i l l 'id e ed -. ; ° b has in a great measure left Kensington, and is "Ithe r ,l ll Squads at various points in the city, and the P ee i 3 . Pert of the country. oth er „.., are entertained that attempts will be made to fire NsteaZilolic churches, and the military have been strongly Th e 'Le:the vicinity of them. et.ert▪ At er to l lagration at St. Augustine's has nearly subsided ; use in the immediate neighbourhood were injured. ` l 'sra, Olace several of the police-officers were knocked T ittt and the Mayor was struck in the breast with a stone n . d a i .4 ` l. : E °'CLocic..—All avenues leading to Marv . a h 7 e , s , , 6-7's churches, in Forty, near Prune, and in AVillings -Ler th;' e been guarded by troops, who suffer no person to h h.. 4 11 I, B Paee, unless they- live in the square. e l'ftig o e f 4 ,°, l l' raging at St. A . ugustine's is occasioned by the T re magnificent library of books_ attached to the ueY are piled up in front of the house, and made F ite °4 P li n , t h,_e United States Gazette of Thursday morning,) eviatP t h e night hostile demonstrations were made against th e lciurch of St. John and St. Mary's Church. /4 ,rtiell'ortrier General Cadwallader informed them that - Tefe e • cs a lt had been proclaimed, and allowing the crowd five t, • t i,"" leave the ground, the mob dispersed. - sreeo , .. ‘ `'e latter the United States marines enfiladed the per 'were brought to a charge. The mob dispersed. -- ` 4o aq - b . ra 'aos were killed yesterday, and but one (James - - "ounded, and lie not dangerously. From the North American.) `‘'Veh• ~'I 34 T ( - O'CLOCK, About t ee (e el _ 0 HALF-PAST aAm ii_ u cK the I . st division were withdrawn from Kensing eiktein be Ist brigade marched to St. John's church. ° , 4 l,Ft w gl " , in the . meantime, was left under the protection t e i' si tl t ia n t r i: t _companies from Germantown. The citizens of absence were in great alarm, owing to theof the 1 .24 . h tf. ORDER RESTORED. qotea :I s t accounts (Friday) state that order is at length I b :'el. l Philadelphia, and law has the ascendancy. arter arrived on Thursday afternoon and promptly I t "' th e proclamation for the suppression of the disturbances &title w arr est of th e rioters. Th pp e citizens of the several Thiee e :re also promptly organised for the preservation of kr t he tE aa,retio• ° cers commanding detachments were authorised !.l'alu k .. -i red to repel force with force, and the Generals com plat,' :were authorised and required to enrol, arm, and or "kvoui-ficilr the preservation of the peace, any number of j a ,t Might be required. f t Tilf 4 1 1 `ue day, a proclamation was issued, signed by the t o % iil; 4 4. Mayor, enjoining all good citizens te abstain gay „,,ig in crowds to aid in preserving the peace, and aotj" *tome as much as was practicable. e,lorer Proclamation was also issued, signed by the era".bl ,Sherifi; announc i ng th a t c iti z ens were forbid from th.g, ituia in such streets as were in the possession of the 'vritite- Mi litary authorities, and authorising the said au - P,2ke ht tb break u p any such assemblage by force. _ . or_ otr et p orders to the military were . issued by _Maj _ a tterson, giving the directions for the defence of siN tir e4 l l e tcL t t 4 Al td States Gazette of yesterday (Friday) morning 1 4 - . °4 41• -t uough it was evident that much excitement ▪ s im , l Kensington yesterday, yet no outbreak occurred. 1 0 - .7 , yr tr - e •ma!rs of men were gathered about the streets, but "• v thPrincipally strangers, drawn thither by curiosity, destruction made by the bands of lawless rioters. hes e n eighbourhood of St. Augustine's church large alty ~,,t'ere gathered, and a c r owd was also gathered in the t he church of St. Philip Neri, in Queen-street, 4.„ k ath r o ,v biali greatly increased towards nightfall. All a th ahe churches were however guarded. k;• at ti t ?' .councils met last evening, and placed 20,000 p m , disposal of the committee of police, for the pur ,,ecting the property of the community and ensur- Cieettf f,;‘' c Peace. The Mayor and Sheriff were actively Iti t CaUad e - "ug the day and night. Generals Patterson, 4thtit i j and Hubbell, with their aids, were also con , tu P t ioYed in busy and judicious movements.. o th oy tw erstand the Governor was accompanied to the a t con ) ° companies of troops from Dauphin, and three the IherePanies are on their way. ,0 t ll4 , been but little disposition manifested to break -14;`ut ''ay, though there is evidently a bad feeling flit I S, h n g r euPs of men and boys of the lower classes. bei‘ry o "wever, a unan i mous d e t erm i na ti on am ong the itud"' t e bear any more insults from this class of per byueforficrest breach of the is peace will be put down now absolutely neces- Zared t , h e several posts w nl i e tri u n r t e heir jurisdiction have been tc u b ,a, under martial law ; we believe they will act 11C'4k B'C8 'C E, MIDNIGHT, THURSDAY.—We learn that 44 16 4 oth er 7 ' quiet, both in northern and eastern, as well as tok. t eat di sections of the city and county. . Not the Itaratt2Pasition is evinced in any quarter, to disturb the Let t rep e tr anqty of the city. h ahle tn u rted list of dead and wounded, as far as we have 'Ns - 1 4 1W. le ar ll , embraces 14 killed, and 39 wounded. t ab 'fle et ;ngnt, however, that many ersons have suffered 4 1 4:48t . ' c ,e'?es of violence, who are not included in the *lu n • !ea N., h e amount of property destroyed is probably triol,L,474_„teihihttuiendr.ed and two hundred thousand dollars, br fue tir me county will undoubtedly be compelled to pay." ' 3o lsed °ce edings in Congress since the last accounts 16. 4 Ta • interest. In the Senate, the long -4,t1 Tariff Bill had been defeated, and silenced et ca r th e session. 07` t unis Le 1; 4 Whatever is said on the Oregon question, ilvexation of Texas affair. I , 88 ,1 14 "se of R epresen t a ti ves , by a vo t e o f 114 ex hare 'lll O - greed to close their session on the 17th of "h• Th e Senate will probably concur. mo t e ta „,, r HAYTI. 1, 41 , Ce h , 9vratTllnONV OF THE BrULATTO GOVERNMENT. Hoyt, of the brig Republic, who left Port smb": .. til es ti . ult., ' and arrived at New York, we learn eadee.ith ,j e 'lave been entirely successful in their engag.e -i ai th e 40vernment troops. Herard's forces had 41 .4 ' hot' n°llll , and he took refuge in Port Republican, y l ed h Pursued by a superior numerical force, and it ha ve co uld not hold out many days. The Revo bort ttitaiehestablished an independent Government in 15, With three of the i s l an d . Th e F renc h Ad m i ra l l ay off Atet2aia .4 three frigates, waiting the issue of events. to erki faii are y take possession of the island, and the ex- Th - iee ?: the Government to pay the indemnity due o e ek fes . e t a t bl e u . sed as a pretext for . that purpose. zisi t s ji-0, 0 ,,, lunation have been fighting for a Republican ` 4l ia laie i se tn ent, instead of a military despotism, and we pe cuu 4 : aion of the island will cost France much more 'arY advantage she can ever expect from it. ST,D ex 'N ie • (Pro ut th AND MONEY MARKET. 4 n teru e i t a Neu, York American, May 15.) t 4 t Pon, f rade of the country is active and vigorous. `at b;:a ke att ZM abroad also continue large—and withal resai ta. Mess and soundness of business that promise are • Mon._ Sou,,y market is free alike from agitation and pres i!lt - a l)e Ys i t o lat iOn ti b i e v i- id ! n a d, Paying stocks maintain a steady valu e f or . 1 4 ' 8 , of "25 certain confined to what . are rubi tn '0 value, and therefore just the o rat highg wa gers. 1 -7e re4t ttuuauee :potation of Consols, together with the a l. l l . ti f ew th oet : ti ur m lat..:.°ney in London, and the low rate of Si d eu r% dates from there, render it matter of sur- I ,Niu x t per tend should be forthcoming for our United. y attel 0111,,,r0 seta ' the steps taken bY PennaYt" P of , her credit may induce a more favourable et. Faeri ean 1 14v e Y Vedk since the passage of the tax law, ‘e 36' cott o ncirc Per cent 5 (leer %eidteieels ined lr°'l3°°*it ort `h" ) .„_,bales l ess * appears that, with something th ah le about received this year than the last, there bales more now than then. lu t ,,Jne Eur ere, as the necessary consequence of 41. 8 e stuff. :Pe lnaat* • - were is also a tendency to decline, and PRICEare corning forward through the canal. OF COTTON. ....... ............................................................ May 15,1844. ler - per . New Orleans and Mobile. 6 :O t o, 1 1 11 iJ ...... • '"' si to 6 ..... ................... 51 to 6 FAi~ld.... ........................ 61 to 63 lin Z A ' u fa inl is g ..... 637 t o o 774 ........................ 7 7i t t o o 7 7 ! ▪ ............................. .. 77 8 1 t t t o: 87.!, .................................................. 8 78 to t° 8 7 1 o, l lx • ................... 8 4 _, ..... • . ............ 83 to 83 .......... two ........................ 9 to 9} .................. to 11 Estimated sales of yesterday l,OOO bale Ditto previously this week 2,500 Ditto total since the Ist inst. Ditto receipts since the Ist inst 16,229 Exchange on London is rather dull to-day, at 9 premium; on Paris, bills may be quoted at sf. 27c. The alarming occurrences in Pennsylvania have naturally created • serious apprehensions among the holders of their State's securities. The utter inefficiency of the city autho rities of Philadelphia—the insecurity of life and property there—the fact that on the °cession of the Harrisburgh riots some time since, the State authorities refused to recompense the army that quelled the disturbance—all tend to rouse the most serious apprehensions tiff the honour and integrity of the - people of Pennsylvania. Much of the State tax, which is soon to be levied, was expected from Philadelphia, but it is evident that the occurrences of this week will tend to the withdrawal of capital from that city, and greatly embarrass the citizens, who risk their lives and property by remaining in it. PHILADELPHIA DlVlDENDS.—Commercial Bank of Penn sylvania, Three per Cent. Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank, ; Western Bank of Philadelphia, 4; Mechanics' Bank, 3-1; Southwark Bank, 5; Philadelphia Bank, 3; Kensingion Bank, 3 ; Northern Liberty Bank, 3 ; Bank of Penn Town ship, 3. SALES AT THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE MAY 15. 30,000 United States 6's, 1853 6,000 Ohio 6's 1860 8,000 Kentucky 6's ••• 0000000 • ••• lO3l 4,000 Illinois special b3 46 1,000 Pennsylvania s's 1,000 Tennessee 6'5..... ' 1024 3,100 City s's, 1870 . ...... 994 40 shs. Merchants' Bank 14 do. Bank of America 10 do. Delamere and Hudson 75 do. Merchants' Exchange Bank ...... . 50 do. New York Insurance Company • 100 do. North American Trust ... l3} 100 do. Mohawk .. 764 20 do. Erie Railroad ...... 14 100 do. Syria and Utica 20 do. Aub. and Roch. lo7i 100 do. Rea'g Railroad 5 do. Ston'ton 521 150 do. Nor. - and \Vor. 115 do. New Jersey Railroad .. 9B 150 do. Lon g Island PUBLIC STOCK EXCHANGE, MAT 15. 2,000 Ohio 6's, 1860 . . 4,000 Illinois 6's, 1870 44 25 shs. Canton Company 59 100 do. Long Island Railroad b3O 83 100 do. Vicks. 25 do. Morris Canal 50 do. Far. Trust. 25 do. Stonington 75 do. Nor. and Wor. FURTHER EXTRACTS FROM THE AMERICAN PAPERS. RESULTS OF THE RIOTS. After a fierce contest it is customary to view the field of battle, and after a great and disastrous riot the peo ple are left to deplore the consequences by reflecting how much misery might have been avoided by a little discretion and a little firmness. But it has always hap pened that sad consequences have resulted from trifling errors. The " good people" of Philadelphia having recovered from their alarm, now venture out to see the extent of the mischief that has resulted from the late riots. The immediate and deplorable consequences of this outbreak are, the unhappy condition of the bereaved families of the mur dered, and the sufferings of the wanderers in the country, afraid to return to the city—without means to advance—hungry—destitute, without shelter, sleeping on the bare earth, and without clothing. One Irish wo man gave birth to a child in the woods ! We are glad to learn that relief parties have gone out in search of them. Children wandering in search of parents, wives in search of husbands, old and infirm in search of shel • ter, are parts only of existing misery. The ruined dis trict presents a most deplorable scene from the half burnt and blackened houses yet standing. Strips of the American flag are displayed in supplication for protec tion or truce. The amount of damage is exceedingly heavy. Mrs. Brady had a house riddled and furni ture destroyed. Alderman Clark's house and furni ture damaged to the amount of 1,000 dolls. He has lost papers and books valued at 2,000 or 3,000 dolls. Grocery store of Patrick Murray, and the destruction of property estimated at 4,000 dolls. John Laverty's house and furniture destroyed, valued at 2,000 dolls., all he had in the world. Bernard Sheny lost one frame and three brick houses valued at 3,000 dolls. ; he saved one bed only. Patrick M'Kee and Owen M'Cullough in house and furniture 1,000 dolls. Thomas Shenden in house and furniture 2.500 dolls. Six three-story buildings on Washington-street all destroyed with their furni ture, supposed to be worth 15,000 dolls. Pat rick Magee, who owned a house destroyed valued at 1,500 dolls., was sick in bed, and was rescued from the flames with great difficulty. Harmony court seven frame houses, all destroyed with their con tents, loss 300 dolls. Hibernia Hose Company, loss 1,000 dolls ; and the market destroyed was valued at 5,000 dolls. The two frame houses, corner of Master and Cadwallader-streets, belonged to John Carroll, and also two other frames adjoining; loss 1,500 dolls. The tenants lost all they had, say about 250 dolls. In one of these houses, 700 dolls. in silver, and but little of it having been recovered, may be added to the other loss. The loss in the burn ing of the Catholic Church of St. Michael, the parsonage house and furniture and ornaments, and the Sisters of Charity's seminary, is estimated at not less than 75,000 dolls. Of the five frame buildings on the right of the church, which were consumed, a three and two-story frame belonged to Benjamin Hut chinson, Esq., who estimates his loss at 2,500 dolls., and the other two belonged to Mr. Francis M'Creedy, and were valued at 1,800 dolls. The loss to Mr. Joseph Corr, whose house at the corner of Phoenix and Second streets, opposite the seminary, was sacked, is about 1,500 doll;. The loss to Mr. M'Aleer, whose two large bricks, at the corner of Second and Master-streets, were burned, is about 3,000 dolls. The tenant of one of them, name Rice, lost about 600 dolls. A frame house at the back of this, owned by John Daley, which was burned, was valued at about 400 dolls. In esti mating this destruction of property, we have not taken into account a vast amount of material in the houses occupied by workmen, nor of houses, the very sites of which have been obliterated, and we feel warranted in believing that the destruction of property amounts to much over what we have estimated. in addition to this we have to add the loss at St. Augustine's, and we find that damage has been done to the county of Phila delphia in a sum rising a quarter of a million of dollars, and this, besides the loss of life, and the deep moral stain which has been inflicted upon the community.—New York Sun. SLAVE STEALING.—THE CASE 07, BROWN.—A letter is published from Judge O'Neal, of Columbia, S. C., relative to the case of John L. Brown, lately sentenced to death by Judge O'Neal, for stealing a female slave. The case attracted attention in England, and our readers are aware that Lord Brougham spoke of it in the House of Lords. Brown has been pardoned by the Governor of South Carolina. A contemporary remarks:—" It is particularly amusing to hear Lord Brougham denounce the law under which Brown was convicted, as being not only inhuman, but anything but English law, when it so happens that this identical law was passed in 1754, by a Government acting under the authority of and in part appointed by the British Crown. It is, indeed, actually English law, adopted, as most of our laws are, en masse, by the newly organised Republican Government, after our revolution. Like slavery itself, this law was one of the legacies left us by our very wise and humane fore fathers."—New Yorh Sun. MExlco.—The next news from Mexico is looked for with much interest. We received very important ru mours and instructions through the medium of the Go vernment express, which arrived a few days since at Washington, and from which we are led to believe that a new crisis in the internal affairs of Mexico, in con nexion with Santa Anna's continuance in power, is ap proaching rapidly. It seems that the French fleet was expected at Vera Cruz then, for the purpose of enforc ing the settlement of some preliminaries in relation to the treatment of French subjects in that country, and also with regard to the payment of some indemnity. On the other hand, it has been reported that the internal affairs of the country are much deranged— that a formidable party against Santa Anna was in process of organisation—and that everything betokened the approach of another revolution. It is certain however, that no arrangement has taken place between Mexico and Texas, and the probability is that in the present state of things our Government, who have al ready sent agents there in relation to the new annexa tion treaty, will endeavour to make the best of the matter and make as good a bargain for annexation as possible. Such being the position of things in Mexico and Texas, it is probable that the annexation treaty will not be taken up in the Senate until at least some further ac counts are received from Mexico. But what the final disposition of it may be, it is utterly impossible to fore tell. Such confusion reigns at Washington—there is such a complete demoralisation of the democratic party such a feud between Mr. Van Buren and Mr. Calhoun that nothing can be _predicated distinctly of the action of the Senate in regard to this matter. GREAT GUNS.—ANOTHER FOR THE PRINCETON.— The late disaster on board the Princeton has not de stroyed Captain Stockton's confidence in the advantages likely to result from the use of large guns. The greater caution will be observed hereafter in their construction. The Philadelphia Ledger says that Colonel Bird, of Trenton, New Jersey, has constructed a mode of making large wrought iron guns, which has received the appro bation of Captain Stockton, and a gun of the size of the " Peacemaker" is to be immediately constructed at the iron works of Messrs. Bird and Weld. A number of wrought iron staves, four or six inches thick, of the required length of the Fun, will be placed in the form of a cylinder. Wrought iron hoops the whole length of these staves, and lying close together, will be welded upon them. Another row of hoops, of larger dimensions, will be welded upon the former, and additional rows will be put on and welded to those previously on, until the desired thickness shall be obtained. The rim of the hoops will be about six inches wide, and they will be so laid that the middle of the rims in one row of hoops will cover the joints between those of the next smaller. The sides of the hoops will be carefully turned smooth before they are laid on. The rims of the hoops will be thicker at the ends than in the middle, so that when, after being put on in a heated state, the hoops cool and contract, they will bind those under them, not only upon the staves, but to each other, and thus present a resistance in both directions to the explosive force of the powder. The proposed advantage of this mode of construction is that the weld ing- of small pieces of iron, such as one row of hoops upon the surface of the others, can be done perfectly ; while it is scarcely possible to weld large masses per fectly, or without destroying the strength of the iron.— New York Sun. _ .„. TROUBLE AT NAuvoo.—The St. Louis Republican contains the details of a row at Nauvoo, growing out of an attempt ofAt. Smith, as Mayor, to arrest several of fenders. One of them threatened and attempted to shoot the Prophet, denounced him as an impostor, and charged him with having committed murders on the island. There is said to be a good deal of enmity against Joe Smith in his community. TREASURE.—SeveraI hundred dollars in gold were found accidentally under a heap of coal ashes in the Reading, Penn. gaol yard, supposedlto have been secreted by some convict executed for murder.—New York Sun. THEATRICAL.—Macready is playing to crowded but not fashionable houses at the Park. His tour South and West has been more profitabli than in the North and East. He goes to England at the close of his present engagement. QUEER ENOUGH.—Among the records of the good old town of Ipswich, Mass., we find the following under date of 1681 :—" Single persons who are under no go vernment, are ordered to put themselves under the care of some head of a family. Daniel Waldrom is required to return to his wife according to law." MORE CRIME.—A gang of rogues entered the new and elegant store of Mr. Regally, 4, School-street, Bos ton, on Monday evening, and believing that all the valuables were locked in the safe, they filled the lock with gunpowder, to which they attached a slow-match, but, from the over-charge, the explosion was loud and sweeping, carrying before it valuable clocks, pedestals, and various counter articles, and finally smashing the plate-glass window, which cost 240 dolls. The loss is estimated at 1,000 dolls. The explosion alarmed the thieves, and they male their escape, leaving everything in confusion, and without carrying off a single article. — New York Paper. THE WHEAT CROP OF THE UNITED STATES.—The Prairie Farmer, published at Chicago, 111., says :—" If there be not a larger wheat crop in the United States this year, or in th West at any rate, than ever before, we shall be disappointed. In our rambles through Illi nois, Wisconsin, and Indiana, we have seen and been informed that more wheat was sown last fall than usual; that almost without exception, so far as we have been able to learn, it has been uninjured by the water. The early opening of spring will hasten its growth, so that there will be little danger from rust, and this being the chief cause of fear for wheat in this region, we think the prospect is good for a large crop.. Several of our cor respondents, writing from Wisconsin, and southern and central Illinois, coincide with these views. From inquiry we do not think there was quite as much sown in central and southern Illinois as last year ; but probably more than any previous year when the crop has not been cut off. The season has been so favourable that an unusual amount of spring wheat has been got in." THE CROPS IN WESTERN NEW YORK.-The Rochester Daily Advertiser, of Saturday, says—" The crops in Genesee County have never appeared so fine at this time of the year as they do at present. In some of the northern towns farmers have been compelled to reap off the top of the wheat, for fear of its growing too rapidly. In Elba and Byron they have already begun to plant corn." THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 30, 1844, LITERATURE. THE NEW CURRENCY BILL. A Letter to the Premier, in reply to his Speech on the Bank Charter Act (May 7, 1844). By "An Enquirer after Truth," London: Clarke, Pull-mall East, 1844. —(Second Notice.) We renew our extracts from this opportune and very sensible pamphlet. In the following passage we have the statement of the fluctuations " in the proportion of gold and silver in our successive coinages from 1601 to 1717, namely, in the year 1601 it was 1 to 10 56-59ths ; in 1604, it was 1 to 12-17ths; in 1610 it was 1 to 13 1-sth; in 1663 it was 1 to 141; and in 1717 it was 1 to 15 2-15ths. This is the remarkable illustration of Sir Robert's intrepid assertion that the 'pound sterling' of our monetary system, means a certain, determinate quantity of the precious metals." The Enquirer sums up this recapitulation with these words : " Thus, I am afraid, Sir, I must again say that your statement of the case is not in strict accordance with the facts." This language may be thought somewhat " Tartarly "to a Prime Minister; but our author is not sparing of these epigrammatic interlocutories, in conducting his judicial investigation of the Premier's proposals. Thus :—" When the pilot to whom the vessel is entrusted is found to be so widely out of his reckoning, and breakers are ahead, it is our duty to pipe all hands, take in the sails, cast anchor, and en deavour to ascertain where we are, before we commit ourselves again to his guidance."—(P. 14.) " Unfortunately, Sir, for your consistency, our pound sterling underwent four alterations after that." " Of these changes you appear to have been uninformed."—(P. 13.) " At all events, men of ordinary understandings will draw a conclusion against you, when you say that this standard—this measure of value—which they object to, as being obsolete and unfit for the altered circumstances of the country, has been adhered to ever since e while the truth is that it has been four times altered since. They will perceive that you are mistaken in your FACTS; while the others can only be mistaken in their opinions."—(P. 20.) " You have evidently misunderstood the question at issue, as well as misapprehended the facts of the case."--(P. 23.) The pamphleteer points out Sir Robert's confusion of terms in speaking of the " standard of value," in this forcible manner : " I would merely observe, that the indiscriminate use of the words standard and measure' is embarrassing. By the standard of silver we should conceive the purity of the metal was the thing meant; by the standard of value we might imagine you intended to express the same thing as the measure of value. Harris makes use of a convenient term which might be advantageously in troduced into these discussions. He speaks not only of the measure of value, but of the standard measure of value, when he wants to point out that metal as the mea sure of value to which the other is subordinate ; thus he would say our present standard measure of value is gold. You, Sir, may mean that the standard purity of the silver coin was fixed in 1566 or 1567, but I cannot understand the drift of the passage, either in this sense, or in that of a measure of value, or of a standard mea sure. There may be a mistake in the dates, and what is placed in 1567 ma y b e intended for 1557; this would throw a little light on the subject, for then it might be conceived that you allude to the restoration of the purity of our silver coin which took place about 1557. " But can an interruption for fourteen years, or I might with more exactness say of eight years, in the preservation of the standard purity of our silver coin, from the Anglo-Saxon times to the present, when fol lowed by its restoration, be called a fixing of the stan dard ? You may perhaps think so; and if this is your meaning, I am happy to acknowledge that during this period, in such degree as our silver coin was concerned, you have some foundation for your remark. But the truth obliges me to add that during the same period our gold pound, the sovereign, was unimpaired in weight and purity, if tried by the gold pound of 1601." On the principle assumed by the Premier, the ex ception of eight years, is to ride over the practice of some eight hundred—an anomaly in the doctrine of " exceptions to the general rules,' , that cannot be al lowed either in currency or grammar. It may be recollected, that on the 7th, Sir Robert, forgetful of the vice of interminable speeches, was so ill advised as to speak very discourteously of interminable pamphlets." His very tone and manner betrayed the anger of a man who has got more to answer than he can manage. He certainly did not calculate the penalty of insulting the busy, but irritable, inmates of the hive which he bad the temerity to attack. In 1829-30, Mr. Tennyson d'Eyncourt provided, in the unanswerable and righteous case he made out for the title of the same Birmingham to the elective fran chise, for the " out-door relief" of Sir Robert and his colleagues in Government, by compelling their re signation of office. Two or three times successively was the Administration to which Sir Robert belonged compelled to go through the same annoying process, on account of the still impracticable Birmingham. Sir Robert's attack on " Gemini," in particular, and the Boeotian stolidity of " the town of Birmingham" in general, on the 7th instant, cannot be forgotten by the reader. Nor is it by the " Enquirer after Truth,' who says : "As if you owed the town and its writers an old grudge, you select a volume on the currency, recently written by two gentlemen of Birmingham, and lash the place, and the authors of this work, with as much sar castic severity as could be thrown into a speech. I have not the honour to know either of the writers personally —one, I have been told, is the editor, and the other the printer and publisher, of a very ably conducted and well supported newspaper, in which the letters of Gemini first appeared. I had read in that paper many of those letters, and I must say that I differ from you in opinion as to their merits. They are written, as I conceive, with good, taste, in correct language, with courtesy and gentlemanly feeling ; they are well-reasoned composi tions, full of sound sense, honestly directed to the eluci dation of that great subject on which you are preparing to legislate ; the writers appear to be actuated with the best intentions of serving —perhaps of saving—the coun try. Can these letters raise such resentment in you ? Your colleague, the Home Secretary, might perhaps be angry with their authors, because they have quoted so freely from his writings in support of their opinions ; but I cannot understand your cause of complaint. First,' you say, they laugh at the notion of using as a standard now that which was used 300 years ago. They say that the property of this country has increased — that the mercantile transactions of this country have in creased—and to have that as a standard now which was used in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, although it has been adhered to ever since, shows a want of knowledge and illumination that is almost culpable.' Really, Sir, to complain of sentiments such as these, is more worthy of one of whom we have heard too much lately, than of the leader of the House of Commons, the most accom plished scholar of the age. The Clerk of Chatham : he can read and write and cast accompt. 0 monstrous I—We took him setting of boys' copies. Here's a villain I—He has a book in his pocket with red letters in it. Nay, then he is a con juror.—He can make oblifr 6 ations, and write court-hand. Away with him, I say : hang him, with his pen and ink horn about his neck."' This last illusion to the " Jack Cade Legislation, dis cussed by a Conservative Member at the beginning of the present session, is ve r y h app y. But who c ou ld have anticipatedin 1819, this near approximation, in 1844, of the alarming " equ it a bl e a dj us tme n t" doc trine of Mr. Cobbett t o th e h ypo th e ti ca l r esu lt s w hi c h are especially connected with the leading propositions of Sir It. Peel ? This affirmation is thus made out— " Now. Sir, with respect to your recommendation that they, who think that they are injured by the altered value of money since the 'ounce of gold was re duced from 51. in paper money to 31. 17s. 101 d. should endeavour to obtain redress by means of a separate en actment,—making that difference a discount from the debt—let me, in the first place, say, that though I have no doubt this is your meaning, your language bears a different construction. I take for granted, however, that you mean the reverse of what your words, as they are reported, imply ; and that 3/. 17s. 100., being, in the papment of a debt, equivalent to what' 5L used to be, all those who have contracted debts or engagements shall be allowed to pay their debts in that way.' This meaning is borne out by another passage, as follows Observe, Ido not deny that that may produce matter for consideration. All contracts, during the incontro vertibility of paper, having been made through a differ ent medium of exchange, when you restore that conver tibility, that subject may demand. consideration. But I only want to convince you what is now the measure of value.' These, Sir, are indeed important words: they compel us to believe that you are not unfriendly to the principles of an EQUITABLE ADJUSTMENT. SO zealously advocated by the late Mr. Cobbett. What boundless triumph would have been his, had he lived to see this day ! " The view which is here opened out is too vast in ex tent, too mighty in its consequences, to be even touched upon at the close of this long letter. It has, moreover, so influential a bearing on your new monetary measures, that before I proceed to notice them, I should wish to know what prospect there is of the expectation being re alised which is thus held out. I hope some member of the House, who is sensible of the value of y ou r answer (whether yes or no) to the right appreciation of the propositions which you have laid before the House and the country, will put such questions to you on the sub ject of this equitable adjustment, as will give you an op portunity of setting at rest the hopes of some, the fears of others, and the anxieties of all." INDIAN MAILS.—ALTERATIONS IN THEIR DEPAR TURE.--Instead of the mails being dispatched on the last day of the month, the mails to India, China, &c., are to be made up and dispatched from London, via Southampton, on the morning of the 3d of every month, and rid Marseilles, on the evening of the 7th, except those days fall on Sundays, when the mails are dispatched on Saturday evening. ROYAL MARRIAGES.—TWO .Royal marriages are spoken of in the highest quarters, which are not devoid of meaning and importance. It is confidently asserted that two Neapolitan Princesses are the promesse spore of the Duke d'Aumale and the Prince de Montpensier. One of the betrothed is the daughter of the late King of Naples, by his second wife, and a sister of the Duchess de Berry. The other Princess is the daughter of the Prince of Salerno, and was lately refused to the Duke de Bordeaux. By these mar riages the royal statesman of France will set at rest the sus picions entertained of his intentions upon the throne of Spain, and place it beyond he power of his restless subjects to com plain of his not adopting a policy which would involre. his Government in difficulties and his kingdom in a Peninsular war.—Times. COURT CIRCULAR. A grand dinner was given yesterday evening at Buck ingham Palace to her Majesty the Queen Dowager and he Noble Directors of the Concert of Ancient Music. The company consisted of her Majesty the Queen Dowager, their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, the Duchess of Buccleuch ; the Lady in Waiting on the Queen Dowager, the Countess of Shef field; the Lady in Waiting on the Duchess of Cambridge, Baroness Ahlefeldt; the Duke of Well'ngton, the Earl of Liverpool, the Earl of Jersey, the Earl of Cawdor, the Earl Howe, Lord George Lennox, Hon. William Ashley, Baron Knesebeck, and Captain Francis Seymour. At a quarter-past eight o'clock his Royal Highness Prince Albert (the Director for the evening, in the absence of the Earl of Westmorland) left Buckingham Palace, accompanied by the Noble Directors for the Hanover-square Rooms. The Royal party left in three carriages ; the first conveying Baron Knesebeck ; the Groom in Waiting to Prince Albert., Captain Francis Seymour ; and the Equerry to his Royal Highness, Col. Wylde ; the third carriage conveying Earl Howe, the Earl of Cawdor, and Lord George Lennox ; the third carriage conveying his Royal Highness Prince Albert, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, and the Duke of Wellington. The Queen, accompanied by the Queen Dowager, the Duchess of Cambridge, and the remainder of the Royal party, left the Palace soon afterwards, for the Hanover square Rooms, to honour the performance of the concert with her presence. The august party occupied five of the Royal carriages, the first conveying the Hon. William Ashley, the Groom in Waiting, Colonel Berkeley Drummond, and the Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay ; the second conveying the Lord in Waiting, Lord Byron ; the Equerry in Waiting, Colonel Arbuthnot ; and the Hon. Charles A. Murray. The third, conveying the Lord Steward, the Maids of Honour, Lady Caroline Cocks, and the Hon. Miss Frances Devereux ; and the Lady in Waiting on the Duchess of Cambridge, Baroness Ahlefeldt. The fourth, conveying the Duchess of Buceleuch ; the Lady in Waiting, the Viscountess Canning ; the Lady in Waiting to the Queen Dowager, the Countess of Shef field ; and the Master of the Horse. The fifth, convey ing her Majesty the Queen, her Majesty the Queen Dowager, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, and his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar. His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horse back yesterday, attended by Colonel Wylde, Equerry in The Royal Family were taken airings yesterday, in the Royal Gardens of Buckingham Palace. His Royal highness Prince Albert, honoured Mr. Sheriff Moon with an interview, yesterday. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, vi sited her Maje.- ty the Queen Dowager, yesterday, at Marlborough House. The Bishop of Newfoundland had an interview with Lord Stanley yesterday, at the Colonial-office. Mr. Freshfield had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. Dispatches from Sir Charles Metcalfe, Governor of Canada, and the Governors of the other North American provinces, were received yesterday, at ,the Colonial office. Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-office, for the Governor of Gibraltar. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. MANCHESTER RACES. —TUESDAY. The Wilton Stakes of 10 sous. each, h ft, with 20 added ; three yrs old, Est 41b ; four yrs, Bst 41b ; five yrs, Bst 121 b ; six yrs and aged 9st 21b. blares, &c., allowed 31b. Mile and a quarter. (3 Subs.) Mr. Dawson's Lord Saltoun, 3 yrs (Riley) 1 Mr. Price's Missy, 8 yrs R • Mr. M. Jones's British Tar, 3 yrs The Manchester Cup of 150 sovs, added to a Handicap of 20 sovs each, 10 ft, and 5 only if declared. The second to receive 30 sovs. Twice round and a distance. Mr. Meiklam's Trueboy, 4 yrs (Templeman) 1 Mr. Bell's Thirsk, 6 vrs . 2 Mr. Worthington's iTooton, 4 yrs ......... 3 Plate of 50/. ; for three yrs olds , "st ; four yrs, B st 41b ; five yrs, Bst 91b ; six yrs and aged, Bst 121 b. Mares, &c., al lowed 31b. The second to receiTe 101. Heats, Two miles and a distance. Mr. Sutcliffe's Alice, 3 yrs •.. 1 Mr. Robert's Miserare, 5 yrs . Mr. M. Jones Phoenix, 3 yrs Mr. Bowes's Saddle-bow, 3 yrs ... 0 Mr. Dawson's Attorney-General, 4 yrs Only one heat was run in time for post. THE KING OP SAXONT.—Preparations have been made at the Brighton Pavilion, by uncovering the furniture, &c., for the visit of his Majesty the King of Saxony to Brighton, for the purpose of inspecting the Pavilion. . DEATH OF THE EARL OF ATFILONE.—We have to record the demise of the Earl of Athlone, the intelligence of whose death was received by the Hon. Captain Frederick and Lady Elizabeth Villiers ' on Saturday last. The Noble Earl died on Tuesday, the 21st inst., at the Hague, where his Lordship and family had for a long period resided. The de ceased William Guatauf Frederick de Reedo de Ginkle, who was youngest son of the sixth Earl, was born 14th August, 1776, and married 7th of September, 1814, Wendela Eleanor, eldest daughter of 11. Burcel, by whom, we believe, the Earl has several children. The late Earl succeeded to the family title on the death of his nephew, 2d March, 1843. SIR C. METCALFE.—Letters from Canada state that Sir C. Metcalfe has been operated upon for cancer in the face, and the opinion of the operator, Mr. Pollock, was, that the disease was entirely eradicated. His Excel lency was doing well. He bore the operation itself, and the subsequent cauterization, with the greatest fortitude. HOLIDAY EXCURSION.—The General Steam Navi gation Company's steam-ship Monarch, Capt. J. W. Morris, arrived in the River yesterday afternoon with a large party of ladies and gentlemen from Hamburgh, Magdeburg, Berlin, St. Petersburgh, Copenhagen, &c., who have come over to this country for a visit until the 6th of June, when they will return in the same ship to Hamburgh. The Monarch being a large skip of 1,000 tons, presented a very gay appearance as she came up the River, having the flags of all nations hoisted. The passage was performed in 44 hours. BERLIN.—At the Royal Deaf and Dumb Institu tion (83, Linien-strasse) the instruction of idiots by intel lectual means has succeeded. The problem, theoreti cally and practically, has been solved by the director, M. Saegert, in conjunction with M. Lachs, first teacher of the establishment ; and this solution has been scientifi cally proved and acknowledged by our eminent physi cians, Dr. Barey and Dr. Joseph Muller. The affair is now, as one perceives, officially investigated by the pro per authorities, in order to form a section with the Deaf and Dumb Institution for idiots, and thus to further prosecute the discovery in the interest of science and humanity. The active participation and furtherance in such endeavours on the part of the Committee of In struction permit us to anticipate the most favourable re sults.— German paper. EXTRAORDINARY EXPEDITION.—The Iron Duke steamer, belonging to the City of Dublin Steam Packet Com pany, left Kingstown-harbour, under the able command of Captain Christie, at half-past 7 o'clock on Friday evening, bearing an express containing the judgment of the Court of Queen's Bench, delivered at a late hour that' evening, which (forwarded by a special train from Liverpool) reached the Times office at half-past 12 o'clock the next day—the dis tance having been traversed in the amazingly short period of 17 hours. The Times of Saturday, just received, contains an ample report of the proceedings. This dispatch is worthy of the character and energy of the • leading journal of Europe. All the parties concerned in the rapid conveyance of this im portant intelligence are entitled to the highest credit ; and it is with pleasure we are enabled to add that every facility for the speedy transfer of the express to the Iron Duke was cheerfully afforded by the Dublin and Kingstown Railway Company. —Dublin Evening Mail. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MAY 27.—Not SO many buyers attended to-day as usual, and the county election almost put a stop to business. Considering the bustle necessarily occasioned by such an event, there has been a good demand for goods at former prices.— Manchester Guardian. STATE DE TRADE.-At Manchester, owing to the county election, and the holidays; there was little busi ness done yesterday, and there was no change in prices. --Manchester Guardian. GRAND WEEKLY ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE MEETING AT COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. The usual weekly Metropolitan meeting of the members of the Anti-Corn-law League took place yesterday evening, in Covent-garden Theatre. The doors were opened at seven o'clock, and within a very short period afterwards the theatre was crowded in every part. The interior of the theatre presented a verygay and lively appearance; the boxes were adorned with banners, and the back of the canopy over the stage was decorated with trophies composed of armour tastefully arranged, while banners were sus- , pended in double rows from the proscenium. These decorations had been used in fitting up the theatre for the Bal Masque on Monday evening, and had been suffered to remain. At half-past seven o'clock, Earl Ducie entered the theatre, accompanied by R. Cob- , den, Esq., M.P., T. Milner Gibson, Esq., M.P., and various other active members of the League, who were loudly cheered as they passed across the stage to their places. Among those present we noticed :—Somers Har ford, Esq., Major-General Briggs, Sir William Baynes, Bart., Col. T. P. Thompson, Capt. Duberley, Dr. Cooke Taylor, Colonel Tucker, Messrs. W. A. Wilkinson, J. Spowars, Isaac Hadwen, Henry White, William Fuller, G. Hyde, D. Dewar, H. Wedgewood, T. Jobson, Charles Mackay, Andrew Doyle, G. J. Dixon, J. Faulkner, J. S. Ashton, W. Elliott, T. Oxford, S. King, Lattimore (Wheathampstead), W. M'Mullen, Professor 0. Byrne, J. E. P. Dean (United States), J. Thomson, W. Falconer, W. Thornborrow, John Leach (Watford, Herts.), Wm. Snelling, Thomas Dean, 11. Crooks, P. Fairbairn (Leeds), T. IL Potter, J. T. Daun (Nuffield), Jo seph Glassyer (Brighton), Wm. Brady (Dewsbury), H. Crosfield (Liverpool), Jos. Bennett (Hitchin, Herts), James Clarke, Thomas Bull, W. Robertson, Edward Holland (Dumbleton, Worcestershire), T. Schunck (Manchester), John V. Lyons (Cork), A. Fellot Osler (Birmingham), Thomas Ruston, C. S. Crowley, J. Angus, Henry Cove, P. A. Taylor, .J. De Silva, R. W. Cole, W. Egan, W. J. Johnson, James Clarke, James Hotham (Leeds), Joseph Har ris, J. W. Fletcher, Jonathan Harris, Joseph Cran stone (Hemel Hempstead), Joseph Bennett, Ma r ti n RobinQon (Horley, Surrey), John Jackson (Halifax), John Harris. The Chair was taken by the Right Honourable Earl Ducie. The SECRETARY then read the minutes of the last meeting, which were confirmed on the motion of Sir W. Baynes, seconded by G. S. Crowley, Esq. The CHAIRMAN then came forward, and was re ceived with loud cheering, which having subsided, the Noble Lord addressed the meeting as follows—La dies and Gentlemen—ln rising to open the business of this evening, I must honestly confess that I do not do so without experiencing some embarrassment at the novel situation in which I find myself placed.—(Hear, hear.) I assure you it is a very different thing to look at the stage from the boxes, and to look at the boxes, filled as they now are, from the stage—(Cheers.) I am also the more surprised at finding myself here ; although I fully admit that "all the world's a stage ;" yet so indifferent an actor have I been upon upon the great stage of the world, that I hardly thought it pos sible that I should have been called upon to appear upon this occasion. Having been called upon however, I felt it incumbent upon me to appear here, from this consideration—l consider it to be the im perative duty, not only of myself, but of all those who hold that the corn-laws are absurd in principle and abominable in practice—l consider it the duty of all such, however feeble may be their talents or their means, to throw themselves into the scale, in order to do the utmost in their power to weigh down that powerful opposition which we have met with, which we do meet with, and which we shall meet with, before we attain our object.—(Loud cheers.) There is another consideration, also, which makes sue the less unwilling to appear upon this stage. That con sideration is, that never has there been performed on the boards of this theatre a tragedy of so deep a dye. (Here there was some confusion created by persons attempting to force their way into the theatre, which was crammed to excess. In the midst of the con fusion created by this circumstance, some one called out, " Do you think, because we were beat in South Lancashire, we have lost our cause?" This sally was received with cheers and laughter, and contributed to restore good humour. The confusion having sub sided, the Noble Chairman proceeded :—) I was re marking, that never had tragedy of so deep a dye been represented on the boards of this theatre— never had it entered the thought of the poet to invent, or by fiction to add to, the facts of history, horrors so appalling or misery so devastating as that which has been worked by the influence of that accursed corn-law which we are met to repeal.—(Loud cheers.) Al though this law is painful to contemplate, when we consider the effects which it produces, yet you will t p h e e r r m e i i t s m m e u n c o h w a t b o follow up the t outitwhichis richly ri litri c e h a lyr c i a d l simile, iculous There is much of genteel comedy in the manner in which Sir Robert Peel manages his supporters by playing on their hopes and fears in respect of this corn-law—(Cheers and laughter)—or rather I should say there is a good deal of low comedy in the way in which the Right Hon. Baronet coquettes with his two mistresses—his vague love—free trade in the ab stract—(Cheers)—and his more meretricious mistress —monopoly.—(Cheers and laughter.) Any one who, thirty years hence, shall look back upon the course of corn-law legislation, will see as much broad farce in relation to it as has ever produced shouts of laughter in this house. But you may_ say you talk of looking back thirty years hence. You, therefore, believe that the corn-laws will be repealed before thirty years are over. Undoubtedly I do.—(Cheers.) No man in this theatre can entertain a doubt on the subject. Not only those who contend that the corn-laws are evil, and ought, therefore, to be repealed, but those who support the corn laws admit that they must go.—(Loud cheers.) You may ask me how they must go—why they must go—and by whom they must be repealed ? I cannot tell you that. I will not tell you when they will be repealed, how they will be repealed, or by whom they will be repealed. Are they to be re pealed by those who are in favour of a fixed duty ? I think not. Will Sir Robert Peel and his sup porters—those who are opposed to a fixed duty, but who support a sliding,scale—will they repeal them ? Hardly. Then I know not where we are to go, unless, as a forlorn hope, we turn to Young England. —(lronical cheers and laughter.) I have not any great hopes of them.—(A laugh.) I know not if any of you have read a poem which has recently been produced by a brother of that fraternity. It is enti tled "England's Trust," and the poet thus speaks of England : " Yes, I could bear to see her crowded towns Sink into hamlets and unpeopled downs." No doubt, he was a very courageous gentleman who said this; he could bear to see many things which others might shudder to contemplate. But the poet went on— " Wealth, commerce, law, and learning, all may die ; But give us"— What ? It must be something very valuable indeed, one would imagine, that the Noble Lord who wrote these lines proposed to be given in exchange for wealth, commerce, law, and learning ; but no such thing— " But give us still our old nobility." —(Loud cheers, and roars of laughter.) Certainly it must be a great satisfaction to any country to be ruled over by people who could tell who were their grandfathers—(A laugh)—but it was certainly pay ing too dear for such a gratification to sacrifice com merce, wealth, law, and learning.—(Cheers.) I will tell you how the corn-law must be repealed. It must be repealed by yourselves.—(Loud cheers.) Never be put down by defeat.—(Cheers.) Continue, in sea son and out of season, in pressing your doctrines upon the people, and in teaching the people the interest which they have in this .question. See that the great masses in the towns are alive to the doctrines of free trade. See that at the next election they return free-trade Members to Parliament.—(Cheers.) See more especially that London does its duty.—(Loud cheers.) In that way the corn-laws will be repealed. —(Loud cheers.) And remember this, that there is no man, however humble his station, however mo derate his abilities, who may not by his own indi vidual exertions, and by his energetic support of our proceedings, to a certain extent, accelerate the time of the repeal of the corn-laws.—(Loud cheers.) I have this feeling strongly upon me, and that is the only ground upon which I have presumed to appear before such an assembly as this. I feel that it is the duty of every man to do what little he can to en lighten his neighbour upon any subject with which he may be conversant. It is that alone which has induced me to offer you a few observations.—(Cheers.) Undoubtedly in great towns, and more especially in this great metropolis, there must be a vast mass of people who are unacquainted with agricultural sub jects, and it is not at all unnatural that those persons should feel alarmed' when it is continually and re peatedly being dinned into our ears, by our opponents, that a repeal of the corn-laws, must ruin the agri cultural interests, and must throw a vast tract of land out of cultivation. It is extremely natural for those *ho are not perfectly acquainted with agricultural matters to be alarmed at that, for there must be Many in this great town who have a litti• !snd, or who have connexions who are dependent upon land, and no doubt they will hesitate and doubt, and say if we are injured in our own property, if our connexions are to be ruined, and the interests of the agricultural labourer to be set aside and passed over, we don't think that a repeal of the corn-laws would be so great a boon as we have supposed. Now it is in the hope of dispelling such doubts, and inducing you all to use every exertion to obtain a repeal of the corn-laws, that I now take the liberty of address ing a few words to you.-(Cheers.) Now were I to go into the whole subject of agriculture, I fear it would take up a great deal more of your time than I have any right to expect from you; and therefore I will only go into a very limited portion of the subject. I will endeavour to show you what is the expense of growing a bushel of wheat; and I will from that prove Co you that it is impossible that any land can be thrown out of cultivation. I have been for the last eighteen years actively employed in agriculture in the county of Gloucester, and I have held six different farms within that period, in three different localities of the county ; and the instances which I intend to adduce will be from that county. Now I will remind you that this county contains large tracts of land of allight:character, which our prophetic opponents say will be thrown out of cultivation if the corn-laws are repealed. I recollect, in one of the debates upon the proposition for a fixed duty on corn, brought forward by Lord Melbourne's Government, Lord Winchilsea saying, " if this proposition be passed, and a fixed duty on corn established, all the Lincoln Heath will be;thrown out of cultivation." Now it is not necessary for me to tell you that the Lincoln Heath and the Cotswold Hills are almost identical in their nature, and are of the same geographical formation. The Lincoln Heath, however, is rather better cultivated than the Cotswold Hills in Gloucestershire. Now, I propose to read to you a few statements which I have received from different farmers-most of them eminent farmers-in that county. I asked them to send me these statements of the growth of wheat, but I did not tell them for what purpose I wanted them ; and, therefore, I do not think that I am at liberty to men tion their names without writing to them on the subject.-(Hear, hear.) But I wished to have my statements above suspicion, and I did not, therefore, tell these farmers why I wanted them to furnish me with them. I propose, first, to read to you the ex penses of growing a bushel of wheat on my own farm-for this reason-that I am not afraid of having my own books looked into in order that the cost of every thing may be seen, and because I can undertake to prove that everything therein is per fectly correct.-(Cheers.) Having shown you this, you will be then able to judge how far the statements of the farmers tally with mine. If there should be no very great discrepancy, I think we may assume that there will be no very great error in my state men t s . But it might perhaps be objected to these statements that I ought to have taken the whole of " the rota tion" into calculation, and have charged a share of the " ameliorating" crops to the wheat crop. I have not done so, because if I had done so I should have had to have altered the statements which were sent to me, and I was very anxious that they should not be touched with the slightest stroke of the pen, but that they should all appear before you as they came from the farmers, fresh and unadulterated. -(Loud Cheers.) In considering the question I think we may fairly assume that the other crops, such as barley and oats, can be grown at a profit with out wheat. If they cannot, then it proves that our system of agriculture is extremely faulty, and that the arrangements between landlord and tenant cannot be quite as they ought to be. It is perfectly absurd to suppose that the profit of the wheat cr o p oug ht t o go to make up the lop in the other crops in rotation. That would, if possible, render the existing corn-laws more absurd than they are at present.-(Cheers.) But I will take an authority, not a had one, on this subject-a man, whom our opponents must a ll ow to be a very shrewd judge of tnis question. I mean my friend, Mr. Gisborne.-(Cheers.) I think you had the pleasure of hearing him the other night.- (Cheers.) There are few clearer-headed men in Eng land than he is.-(Cheers.) I remember hearing him some years ago make a speech in Manchester against the corn-laws, and amongst other reasons which he adduced to prove that these laws are an in fliction on the country, he said it was very hard upon him, for he had cultivated a quantity of hill-side in Derbyshire, but he could not grow wheat upon it, and he said " what a horrible shame it is that my food should be taxed to benefit those who grow on their land what I cannot grow on mine." I conclude, therefore, that Mr. Gisborne could grow oats and barley at a profit. lam afraid that I shall have to read a few figures to you, but I will give only the re sults, and hand the calculations to my friends of the League to be properly printed. You have only to show impatience and I will stop.-(Cheers and laughter.) I propose then, to read first, the cost of growing 120 acres of wheat. The calculations are reduced into bushels. I obtained these returns in February last, never thinking of turning them to the use lam now turning them to, how the expense of cultivating, harvesting, and working 120 acres of wheat on the Whitfield example farm-we had the impudence to call it the example farm on account of the system we employed upon it-the expenses of cul tivating these 120 acres were as follow :-186+ days of a man and two horses working with " a cultivator," threshing, and winnowing comes to 931. 2s. Gd. The amount for ploughing and preparing the ground for the seed and sowing is 15s. 6d. an acre; so that 1731- bushels would be 61. 14s. Gd. Hoeing, 2s. Gd. an acre ; cutting, stacking, &c., the 120 acres, which was all done by task work, was Bs. an acre, being altogether 481. Horse and cart to bring home the produce, 4s. Gd. per day ; all this would be 14s. 10d. an acre. That is for the simple cultivation. In these calculations we have put down 33 bushels as the pro duce of an acre, but the usual produce is 40 bushels. We thought, however, that we would put it so low, supposing that bad harvests might come. This sum, then, amounts to 545. Gd. an acre, or Is. 71d. a bushel. Half the manure of last year's crops will be 50s. an acre, or ls. Gd. per bushel. The land, in cluding tithes and other taxes, 50s. an acre, or Is. Gd. per bushel, being a total of 4s. 71d. per bushel. But the wheat crop having bought its manure, has a right also to sell its straw, and we have given some credit for that.-(Hear, hear.) We have calculated that we should grow a ton and a half of straw, which would sell at 30s. a ton ; in fact I have just valued to an incoming tenant the straw at 30s. a ton. :But, however, we have put the ton and a half of straw down at 355., and that will reduce the amount, in the thirty-three bushels to 3s. Gd. The capital invested in the farm is 15/. an acre, and therefore you will see that if the price of a bushel of wheat should exceed by one shilling the sum of 3s. Gd., it will give 10 1-7ths per cent. on the capital invested.-(Cheers.) But if the price be ss. Gd. per bushel, or 445. per quarter, which is 3s. less than in the Channel Islands, that would give 20 2-7ths per cent. on the capital invested. Not a bad profit, that.-(Cheers.) But now let us go on a little further, and see what the per tentage is at the present price of corn, and we will suppose the price of corn to be 563. the quarter-the last corn I sold was 595.-but suppose it to be 565. a quarter, that gives a return of 35 per cent. on the capital in vested.-(Cheers.) This farm gives a return of 17; per cent. on the capital expended on the whole farm for wheat crops. I will now take the expense of an acre of wheat on a farm on the Cotswold Hills, on two-years old seeds :- Two years' rent at 255. per acre Rates for two years 2 15 9 Ploughing, harrowing, and drilling 1 0 0 Seed, two and a half bushels at 7s. 6d lB 9 Bird keeping and hoeing 5 0 Reaping and harvesting Threshing, winnowing, staking out at Sd. per bushel, allowing thirty bushels per acre on the average Wear and tear 6 17 6 Deduct value of straw at 30s. per acre, the value to consume on the premises ............ 1 10 0 .£5 7 6 _ Which amounts to 3s. Gd., per bushel. The capital invested in such land is about 101. per acre. Every sixpence in price per bushel above the sum of 3s. Gd. is 7i per ce nt. u p on the capital of 10/. in vested. Suppose the price of wheat to be ss. 6d. per bushel (note, that is 3s. per quarter less than the price in the Channel Islands on the average of the last seven years), or 445. per quarter ; that am oun t s to 30s. per cent. on the invested capital, or take the prese nt price of wheat at 7s. p ' r bushel, or 56 s per quar t e r, thereis a return of 52i per cwt. Suppose this land to be cultivated - up m th e five course system, it gives 10 } per cent. on the ... whole capital e mployed on the whole farm. I will now take the return of another person, which gives the outlay on an acre of wheat, on two year old seeds ; rent of land in the neighbourhood of Stow and Northleach, from 15s. t o 20s. per acre ; average 17s. 6d.:— Two years' rent £l 15 0 Two years poor, church, and road rates . 6 0 2 1 0 Ploughing, harrowing, and drilling 1 0 0 2i bushels of seed wheat, at 7s 0 :7 6 Bird-keeping and hoeing 0 5 0 Reaping and harvesting, including carting, stacking, thatching, &c. Threshing, winnowing, fetching into barn, and delivering, at Bd. per bushel, •10 bushels per acre on average Wear and tear 0 15 0 0 13 4 0 3 0 5 14 10 Deduct value of straw, at 255., or 4s. 6d per bushel 44 9 10 I will now give the returns on another farm, on th e Cotswold Hills, on the two years old : Two years' rent at 17s. per acre ; two years' rates —poor, church, and road, at 3s. per acre Ploughing, harrowing, and drilling Seed, 2i bushels, at 7s. Gd. Bird-keeping and hoeing 0 5 0 Reaping and harvesting Threshing, trimming, an d ta ki ng out, at 8d per busel, 20 bushels on the average Wear and tear 5 13 I Deduct straw, at value to consume at home ... 1 5 0 £4 8 1 Say 41. 10s., or per bushel 4s. 6d. The capital in vested in the land of this quality does not exceed, if it comes up to 81. per acre. Every .sd. in price of excess over the sum of 4s. 6d. is a fraction above 5 per cent. on the capital invested, say 5 per cent. Suppose the price of wheat to be ss. 6d. per bushel, or 445. per quarter (which is 3s. per quarter under the average price in the Channel Islands for the last seven years), it gives 11 per cent. on the invested capital. Take the present price of wheat at is. per bushel, or 565. per quarter, it gives a return of 271 per cent. on the capital of 81. in vested. Or supposing that this farm is cul tivated on the five course system, this gives 5i per cent. on the whole capital on the whole farm. I was anxious to endeavour to show that in that low quality of land which it was said would be thrown out of cultivation if the corn-laws were repealed, there was a return of 27i per cent. even when the price of corn was only 445. a quarter, which was the lowest price at which it was ever calculated it could be sold in this country.—(Cheers.) I hope and trust that this will set the mind of every man at rest on the point, who has ever believed that a free trade in corn would throw land out of cultivation, and that he will believe with me that nothing can ever cause any land to be thrown out of cultivation in England so long as the manufacturers are able to undersell the manufac turers of the Continent in the world's markets.—(The Noble Lord sat down amidst loud cheers.) Colonel P. Timairsoat then came forward to ad dress the meeting, and was received amidst loud cheers. He said he was sent to address them at a moment when he had not to speak to them on a sub , ject of success, but came under the shadow of some ' thing like temporary misfortune.—(A laugh.) Did either they or he come there under the notion that misfortune would fly over their heads harmless ? Need he, seeing how necessary it was in a case like theirs, that all temporary evils should be turned to that use for which they were intended—to sharpen their minds to be the instruments of greater good?— (Cheers.) A post, they were told, had been driven in in South Lancashire. 'Well that was not every where nor every thing.—(Cheers.) He would beg of them to wait till it had been driven back again.— (Cheers.) Why, if evils like that were to settle the dispute, the trade of war would be no where. Why, if they were to give over at the first symptom of for tune failing them, fortune would be only a long mis fortune for the best.—(Cheers.) They knew when they came there they were to witness many such turns of fortune before they left to their children the fair enjoyment of that inheritance which they would and should leave them.—(Cheers.) Was there any fear that a country, whose metropolis could pour forth its thousands, week after week, in support of the po pular cause, could ever fail. Now, if there was any one there of the adverse party, he would warn him not to talk too loudly on the subject.—(Laughter.) They might just as well think of driving back the Anti-Slavery Society, and putting an end to the great work of philanthropy they had achieved, as that they and their cause should quail before such enemies as they had.— (Cheers.) They knew their enemies, and their strength also. They could calculate and estimate the value of those who were for the country, and those who were a ga i ns t it. G o t o th e P r i nce de Joinville, and tell him that England needed not his puny inter ference.--(Loud cheers.) They had a domestic enemy, an inbred foe, who could do his work much bet ter. They had those among them, who had unhappily the power to tell them that British commerce, which might have raised them almost above all fear of human ills, which might have waved their flag, not in sangui nary triumph, but in peaceful rivalry all over the world, with scarcely a competitor, should be ' crippled and limited to what the interests of their side-pockets dictated.—(Laughter and cheers.) Men in office—men decked with power—had plainly told them, and would ' doubtless tell them again, that it was to make their daughters' portions that they robbed them.—(Hear, hear.) Did Englishmen want telling that more than once ? Was not one such statement sufficient to rouse the heart of every father there into fierce oppo sition'to this horrible injustice ?—(Hear, hear.) Why these men would live on anything. There was no garbage which they would not make their profit of.— (Laugher.) There was no trade so low, no calling so base, that these men would not stand by with their toll-dish to take the proceeds.—(Cheers.) Yet they looked down upon humble citizens ; commercial men and tradesmen, in their estimation, were hardly worth a thought. Ile thought that meeting knew that an honest conscience was far more valuable than any rank which the world could give.—(Cheers.) The certainty that such a cause as theirs had always prospered and always would prosper would be their sheet-anchor, and they would hang on by it till the day of success should arrive. —(Cheers.) England, great and glorious England, as she might have been, and as, in some ages of her history, she had been, would not see herself trammelled and confined to suit the interests of these bad men.—(Cheers.) It was well, perhaps, he did not use a harsher epithet. But he would not truckle to them. They should hear from him no compliments upon their hospitality.—(Laughter.) " Light come, light go," was a proverb which they had heard of before that evening. They knew of men who were as much given to hospitality, when it suited their purpose, as any other class in the country. Thieves were hospi table—(Laughter)—they took all they could, and they gave freely to their comrades—(Laughter.) The members of the Anti-Corn-law League were not to he deluded, by such pretexts, into allowing the pros pects of their children and their families to be scat tered to the winds, because, from every shilling of which they were mulcted, sixpence might, perhaps, be returned in hospitality.—(Cheers.) There was the "rub: They could not stop the man who simply picked their pockets of a shilling and spent it at the wrong shop.—(Laughter.) If they could prove of him that he took the shilling, leaving only sixponce for themselves, there would be some chance. That chance was now before them, and when that was settled, they would see the end. Now he (Colonel Thompson) had been put forward with a stipulation, which was not, in general, needful with him, that he should not detain them long.—(Cheers.) One word more, however, he wished to say—(Cheers) — and it was a word which was prompted by the place in which they were assembled. He had heard that a well-known favourite of theirs (Miss P. Horton), whose name should be received with all the respect due to an individual so eminent in her profession, was singing the " Song of a Shirt."—(Laughter.) Now could not all those who wore shirts, and he was sure there were none there without that garment—could not all those who went to increase her benefit, instead of encoring the lady, which might be troublesome to her after the exertions of so long a ditty, give some thing like three cheers for the Anti-Corn-law League ?—(Laughter). 'Would not that be a fair use to make of the theatre, which in their partially free country had been (and he trusted always would be) under the direction of persons who made it the means of promoting national freedom and morality, and not of injuring and depressing society at large ? If they admitted that his allusion to this subject had been warranted by the occasion, let them bear it in mind. Mr. E. HOLLAND, of Dumbleton, Worcestershire, said that was the first time, since the commencement of the meetings of the Anti-Corn-law League in that theatre, that he had had the pleasure of taking part in its proceedings. But having read the proceedings in the reports, he had constantly remarked that those _ speakers who did not come forward most frequently, were continually in the habit of commencing their speeches by stating that they had been called upon unexpectedly.—(Hear, hear.) He could assure them that he was in that position. Five minutes before ho entered that theatre he was not aware that he should be a stage horse. llowever, any man who had his heart and soul in a cause like that—a cause which he believed to be highly beneficial, nay, essential to their very existence as a nation, would be constantly ready to express his feelings in relation to it when.. ever he might see his fellow-countrymen assembled. —(Cheers) They would not, on that occasion, ex pect anything from him in the shape of argument. Arguments and facts coming from anyspeaker ak e r in the position which he then occupied, s hould be spoken with much care and much thought. I t was essential that they should be carefully considered pre viously to their being b roug ht before the public. Their opponents were ready to catch at the least over searching of the manner. ' sight ; all figures were scrutinised by them ; all matterslle would,of detail therefore,siftedin y t the indulgence most meet ing, simply state to them on that occasion, as an eye. witness fresh from the country, and one who, as re garded one portion of it at least, was well acquainted with the working of the cause, that as far as his own part of the country was concerned, the cause of free advancing.—(Ch eers .) A t fi rst, country r.), N y v was rapidly n, who espoused the cause of the League, were met by the greatest difficulties.— (Hear, hear.) Sour faces, eyes askant, the loss of friends, distance of manner, and many of those un pleasant forms of demeanour, were the result of the course which they purs ue d. It should be recollected that those who lived in the country were obliged to take their neighbours as their companions. They had