The Sun. — London, England, 1839-06-03 00:00:00

~..........._____':-TirENING EDITION. THE SUN LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 3, 1839 5 • . ..........................- ~,,- _____ ________................•••••••••••••••• EV PNING EDITION . 1 :AL:England' Queen TORY DISLOYALTY. k i et ' - I •• -.British :Aim-tn.:l" Yet in that country there died of in virtue of the right of conquest." I must venture to give hope of redress to an oppre sse d na ti ve i n th e Govern. ders, by your long sustained and no bl e t es ti mon i e s part of the Systetti cif education. The youths were cause of education, had secured the affections of his ' THE QUEEN. i' . b Peaceable-leYal-and would have another authority on the subject, as it is one of chief im- ment courts. But when th e G overnmen t it se lf is vir- by the labours you have performed, an d by th e su c- wholly living under the roofs of the U r iiversities, they fellow-men, not only in London , but in almost A - een attachtel subjects-during last ear no fewer than portance in this discussion. Mr Shore says at e 'erJ 'half tie naion l 182,v01. i• tuallY the defendant, an appeal t o it s justice is a cesses you have achieved, to become th e p a t rons a nd were not taught according to the do mes tic plan preVas every province in the Empire. He (Lord Brou'e_ , li vo a r tn2 TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN, ) 4 , mind of the I "me new to sp y eall ' of the state of It appears to me that whatev * er may be the P c . ase de jure, mockery. And thus arise s a - M ora l aggrav - a tion of the helpers of this holy cause-so shall y ou a ll ev i a t e the lent in Scotland, and which had lately been introduced entreated him to proceed in his greA SIR,-Ever since the late political crisis and tine People. No people might be more easily Government is virtually the proprietor of all the land in evil. •• • To sum up the curse consequent on this miseries of India. arrest the mar c h o f de so l a tion in into London by the University College i n G o wer-street, undaunted by any eevilings that t m ha ig t h t t h b e e m m o a m de en a t gt r t , " g is ° , ve tnid than the Hindai6„ The fact of our now that part of the countryt o w hi c h th e p ermanen t se ttlement right of search, which s p r i ngs f rom th e G ov ernment Africa, proclaim with an irresistible v o i c e the freedom and more lately in the King's Col!e . g, Strand. The him, for he might be assured disappointment of the most sanguine expectations 0 f and firmness of character, it has been the anxious ' L ' e c i n Te g the masters of IndiMlSite of the machinations does not extend. It pos sesses , no t by an y r i g ht or justice, trade in opium, I ma y say th ey are as f o llow :- of the slave in America, purify and enr i c h th emar k e ts of students there could go home and join in the family began to revile him he was doing good% Tile Noble o l nuesie and our own misgevernment, is proof to de- but by the assumption of mi g ht, th e p ower to assess the the exactions and corr u pti ons ; th e gr i evous d e lay ; th e Europe, and cause the four quarte rs o f th e g l o b e to re- worship under the domestic roof-in the Universities and Learned Lord concluded by presentio . g the Pie" the hungry Tories, by her gracious Majesty's decisimi endeavour of the Tory Journals to misrepresent the m°nstration that had we:been ordinarily kind, the people revenue at pleasure, to d eman d w h a t it pleases from insolent exercise of l ow , ill_p a id au th or ity ; the inter- joice in the triumph of your well.di rec t e d mora l e ffort. the matter was different ; but that did not apply to the of plate to Mr. Simpson amid great cheer a m . g,- re,s the Queen's reception in public by her devoted subjects. I would not only have obeyed us, but they would have the owners, farmers, cultiv a t ors , or whatever they may ruption of commu n i ca ti on , by s h u tti ng u p f er ries, roads, F. Beown, Esq. (late of Tellich err y, I n di a ) s tated, case of day-schools, or the Universities in London, Mr. Steteson then came forward to aa . 'l,. ef was one of the numerous assemblage at Ascot telt . done more ; they would have done s that without which be denominated (often em pl o yi ng f o r this duty very and routes ; the di s t ress an d ru i n resu lti ng f ro m f a lse sei. in reference to the famine which had rage d i n A g ra in where the children or youths went to learn writing or meeting, and was most enthusiastically reeelv ... e , o A., Thursday, and I can conscientiously say that there li. ts ' cibediefice is worthless-they would'have loved us. But inexperienced agents), an d i n default of payment it eures,(got upby th e C us t om -h ouse p eo pl e t o bli n dth e Go. 1838, when 500,000 human bein gs p er i s hed, that this arithmetic, or any of the branches of the sciences- he was so vain as to consider the present glll:vaisulul not been an instance within my memory, certainly n. it I can show that somethine more tliiiii apathy exists-I offers the land at public au c tion, to realize the sum vernment; the diversionoft r adeint oc h anne l s l ess impeded ; terrible loss of life occurred not from th e scarc ity of food, they went home in the evening, and could join in the manifestation of approval only to himself a! an lndl la ' of late years, when I have witnessed such enthusiastic will not say treason, but fwill say discontent and dis- awarded, at the same time fixi n g the assessment on the the advanceme n t o f th e p r i ce o f all goo d s , by reason of but from the impossibility, throu g h p over ty, of pule. family prayers. Both plans were right. It was right and not to the advocacy of a great principle, he shfu h ld e gust. I have a number of authorities here, but I shall new occupier at its own valuation, and treating him in these checks a n d anno y ances ; an d, wors t o f a ll, the de- chasing it ; for during that year th ere we re exported that religion should be taught in the Universities, be unworthy to stand in the d T istinguishe_d presence , .fi_ trouble You withSverY few. I have a work before me, the same manner if he fails to pay it : and as the &lima moralization of th e h a bit s o f a ll p ar ti es connec t e d with, from Calcutta to Great liritain, th e M a u r itius, Bombay, where the young men were separated from their parents did, and to receive from the Noble .v. l: . o . r l d .i t e he .l unc e l en which was published in Calcutta, and laid before the ratio, when the estate has, from such a mode of treat- or exposed to, th e i n fl uence of th ese o pp ress iv e and un- and other parts of the world, no le ss than 926,364 bags and friends ; but it was also right that it should be left cent symbol of approbation • th *1 1 . 1 . 1 ' et ID Government of Bengal, by William Adam, Esq., a ment, become so deteriorated that neither farmer nor just measure s ." N ow w ith regar d t o th e t ra d e i n opiu m , of rice, weighing 168' lbs. each.-( H ear , hear.) The to the parents and scholars, in day-schools and pre s ented. He looked upon this splen L did gift as i, th in e most cautious writer and acute observer ; and he, speak- purchaser can be found, the collector is authorised t o in the fir s t pl ace , it i s a mono p o ly, an d w h o do es not quantity exported only to the Mauriti us (230,370 bags), Universities or Colleges where the students went assurance of the zeal of those WHO gave i• d. ing of the lower proviuces of Bengal, says-" The keep it in his own hands, and make the best he can of it, b y set his face a ga i ns t it as a mono p o ly e-( H ea r, h ea r.) would have supported 578,520 p erso ns. - (Hear.) home. In the case of day-schools, why should the great cause of which he was the humble a utmost that can be said of native society in general, renting it in detail to the different subordinate culti va t ors , Then, again, th ere i s th e mis a ppli ca ti on o f th e s oil,- Cotton and sugar were the princip a l pr o ductions of India, religion be taught with everything else ? What had vocate.-(Loud cheers.) To have his name con even in its most favourable aspect, is, that there or ryots. It is difficult to imagine stronger p roo f s o f that which is m o st ad a pt e d f or oth e r use f u l ar ti c l es b e in g and encouragement for the cultivati on of these articles religion to do with writing and arithmetic-(Cheers.) fleeted with such a cause was the greatest honour is no hostility, but in place of it a cold, dead, apa- ownership than the power to rack-rent an est a t e i n thi s devoted to the purpose o f cu lti va ti ng thi s p o i son . Then had been held out by the late Gover n or, Sir R. Grant, Music, for instance, ,he thought was a pleasing and a he could desire, but when his humble cz t' s r thetie indifference, which would lead the people to way." I had intended to citeother illustration s ,b u t wan t o e compul s ory labour is empl o y e d. N e xt we fi n d th e pre- to the natives of the Bombay Presidency-through let- harmless amusement-it was an aerceable amusement, were revvarped by such flatte. ~ . sing marks he felt that he change masters to-merrow without a struggle, and time forbids me. I cannot, however, f or b ear b r i ng i n e venti o n of the growth o f nu t r iti ve e ra i n , an d a p o i son is ting out the waste lands to them f or the production of and had lad to sober ends, and h b ad much humanized was unworthy of them. He came to the metropolis in b , u , rs . ts of loyalty as here evinced by the public con tinually during her Majesty's presence I am q uive sure that, however the Tories may try to prejudice the public mind by misrepresenting facts, that her majesty has greatly added to her former popularity Ivy the firmness with which she has resisted the aAtempt of an unconstitutional encroachment upon the prerogatiiie of the Sovereign. Anxious that the gross falsehood in souse of the fory Papers may not pass uncontradicted, I venture to trouble you ‘ilt r l a i v t e h t e h a e bn without a sigh." Is that a desirable state of things-is to your notice a striking illustration o f th e sys t em e c 'e brought in its place. Th en we find' a s y s t em o f o ppre s - sugar and the finer species of cotton, t a x free for five the mind in various countries ; but could any one bad odour with a great number of his opponents, and it a necessary state of things ? I answer no. What taxation given by a member of the Madras Government sion and slavery introduced to secure it s growth. Then years, and only half tax the next fiv e . But the Court rational being say that music must not be taught with- with a large portion of the community, but the pledge e i;our A to i b ,o e, Y S A ir, l3 1 rano. --•- - ' • ' said Sir Charles Metcalfe, the acting Governor of India? a few years ago, and quoted by Henry St. Georee Tucker, CRIMINAL TABLES. again,we find it coupled with brib e ry,andspreading demo of Directors had ordered this measure t o be rescinded out religion ?-(Cheers.) It was the s ame thing-if it that had been presented to him that day was far more 1' Such is the state Gf things, that I should not be sur- Esq., one of the East India Directors, in his work on - 0 -_____ ralization over a great portion of the Chinese e mpire. We -which was accordinglY done ; though the effect of the was wrong to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic than sufficient to assure him that that bad odour had prised if I got up sonic morning and found the whole Finance, cited by Mr. Rickards, already named, who find it introduced there by the infraction of the law of na- measure would have been most beneficial, in stimulat- without religion, so also must it be to tea c h music p ass ed away.-(Cheers.) He had been told that The Criminal Tables for the year 1838, in each thing blown up"-a rude and soldier-like expression, but aiade the India question his peculiar study. Now, what tions, and the parties frequently fighting their way up the ing native industry. WRING said he felt great pleasure in P without it. Then again dancing-he knew that many many were against him, and that among that number division of the kingdom, have recently been deli: , rered to awfully significant. I will now giva v ou an au th or ity i s th e s y s t e m which prevails out of the permanentl set- river to land their chests ; and finally we have it produe- Dr. Bo t o accused of all kinds of offences resent-a large class, the Friends, objected to dune- were sonie of the fair sex.-(Hear, hear.) He had Parliament, fro . m which it appears that thei re were Coat you will all respect-it is that of the Hon. John tied districts ?-" Imagine the whole landed interyest- ing guilt and death.-(H ear , h ear .) I have here a living his humble support to the benevolent object jog-he did not-there they eiffered. He knew no h ear d that an excellent lady had refused to come In England Frederick Shore, brother of the present Lord Teien- that is, all the landlords of Great Britain, and even the very affecting document. I fi n d th e E m p er or of China of this societY• The African and the Indian questions harm from it, but lie knew much benefit h ear him, because she said that Mr. Simpson was a bad Scotland 3,418 do. mouth, who now lies in his grave, but who, while . he capital farmers, at once swept away from off the face of has again interdicted the t ra d e i n o pi um , and in the e'er° closely connected together ; for after all that had from it -it had the effect of harmonizing man . This was a little startling to him ; 'but when Ireland . . lived, lived and wrote for India. Speaking of the the earth ; imagine a rent fixed on every field in the Canton Regist e r of th e leth D ecem b er there is an ac- been done in favour of Africa, it must be admitted that the character of a people-he had seen it very s h e w a s asked why sh e had said so, she stated that she state of the peopls, in the second volume of his kingdom, seldom under, generally ' above its means of count o f a man, f oun d gu ilty o f k ee ping an opium the slave trade was not abonshed-that the miseries beneficial in Italy and France, and though in cou ld not tell, but th a t s h e knew he was a bad man. 42,235 work, page 136, he says, " Notwithstanding the elo- payment ;' imagine the land so rented, lotted out to smoking s h o p, b e i ng tt b roug ht t o th e quarter of Canton of slavery still distressed and destroyed that un- those days there was little hope of humanizine the Pe- F or his own part he could only say that he should have T co h n e tr o ib a u p t i e ta d i o so f m t e h th is in ----- quent declamation so often pronounced in favour the villagers, according to the number of their cattle separated for the use of the B r iti s h and other foreigners, happy land. - CI - lean) Every individual in this ninsula, in former times it had proved most ' beneficial cons idered himself a bad man if he had judged a fel- Of these there were charged with :-- superior favour, but are regarded by them with the collected or remitted at their discretion, accordin tc: c h n e n ar n . t ) ry of the British India Government, and against the and ploughs, to the extent of fort or fift acres each, • Tyrannical Barbarians' whom we have supplanted, Imagine the revenue rated as abo y ve, levi y able throueh the truth is forced on us, that we have not gained any the agency of one hundred thousand revenue office e i; strongbst feeling of aversions and that they would hail their idea of the occupant's means of pa • h g h ying, w et er with joy the first opportunity of emancipating them- from the produce of his land or his separate property • t t o h e b i r e i d s e t a r a i o i g f l e : h i e n e t h o n e d s u ct e u t a r o e f i o n o f r r o n G t o o v f e t v h o e m f e a e c t t o a r a i d e s 0 . " f th w e as sh f a e p r e eih o ly f h th a e v r e e. fir :V t el o h od h e e rg tl o w o u e gh an t it ex u , s 1 e m f u i o l , on in e h lo a e d ec h re e a e t o ure oon as gra tl t i o a l t at l e a d dy h h y ad o j f u r d ie g n e d d h o i l in e , o a t n h d er up u o a n y ln order that th e y m i g ht ex hibi t i n t h„ trong „ t man . taxat i on , t ow ards keeping up slavery, and the work say that no child must be taught to dance without no better grounds. But " these things passed by him, n er th e e bh orrence i n w hi c h th e y h e ld the trade, and of abolition Yet remained to be completed.-(Hear, having an ins tructor, who, before he could teach, must as th e idle wind that he regarded not:"-(Cheers,) He g cou i n n try a ; tio b n ut in vin t u h l e d ol a o n g y y our coun t r y men , th e y b r o ug ht the culprit into the transferred. to America to support slavery ; when it order to see if he was qualified for the office.-(Laugh- u p on th e p rogress h e was making in the great l ei square in front o f th e f ac t or i es esta bli s h e d b y t h e E ng li s h wou ld i n I n di a , among free labourers, become more pro- ter.) It was ridiculous, but it was not him that made cause he had undertaken to advocate, and upon ..______-_ -- Offences against the person...... 1,859 787 4, 32 ' 5 viole e n s ce g 13 11) ' Y 1 1,538 1 577 ffences against property without' ' , Offenc a ainst ro ert with violence England. Scotland. Ireland. 1 18,278 ! 1,585 7, 436 that he might be strangled th ere . Thi s , b y grea t exer ti on ( i ne ti ve .-( H e ar, hear, hear.) Happily, throughout the it se• The ridicule was the fault o f th ose wh o held his inquiring why he did so, he stated that he was con- Malicious Offences against pro-1 . 122 - selves from our yoke, so bitterly do they feel our op- and, in order to encourage every man to act as a spy' ' 89 , 57 was prevented and the man put t o d ea th e l sew h ere , Thi s wor ld, i n t eres t was associated with duty ; and our coin- %hese Preposterous and ridiculou s , th a t was laughable, vinced he was doing good because he had been attacked F perty pression and injustice." Mr. Shore, p. 146, vol., i., on his neighbour, and report his means of paying, that asks, " Why should the natives of India be grateful? he may eventually save himself from extra demand, circumstance clearly shows th e strong feeling of the mercial prosperity was insepar a bly and deeply involved ooetrines. In the same way it was necessary that the by the Tinies.-(Ch eers .) H e f e lt co n vin ce d that his o t r e e er & n . a e n ne , _ Why attached? What have they to be grateful for ? imagine all the cultivators of a villa..e liable at all times Chinese, that though their ignorant countryman was in the improvement of India.-(Hear, hear.) men in the Army and Navy should have their profes- endeavours had been greatly overrated.-(Cries of 3,036 v d Offences against i 503 i no .. 194 Other Offences y not included above' 897 297 , Placed by the chances of war, or negociations ha which to a separate demand, in order to nub up for the failure the victim, the disgrace and infamy properly attached Mr. CRAWFURD (late Governor of Sincapore, and sional education ; but who ever thought of examining the e No.") Accident h a d b roug ht him int o his present , they had-no share, under our authority, they have been of one or more individuals of the parish. Ima ine to the British.--(Hear, hear.) I will now draw your the Minister who negociated the treaty with the Bir- corporal or the drill-sergeant to know whether was a position. Thre e years a go h e would not have believed I 23,094 3,418 1 5 ,723 .---- •• rulid by a s t ys em whose primary principle was self- collectors to every county acting under the order g s of attention to another fact which I need not illustrate. man Empire) next addressed the meeting. He said member of the Established Church of England and Ire- th a t he should have sto o d before such an assembl • interest and exaltation. They have witnessed, year a board, on the avowed principle of destro ing all --Y , The ages of persons accused were .--........ There is slavery in the East Indies. We have strug- that he had acquired considerable experience in the land ?-(Laughter.) Would any one, however, say that and for such a purpose-(Cheers)-but he found 1 England. 1 Scotland. I Ireland,... .by 3 ear, the gradual decay of their power, their dignity, competition for labour, by a general equalization of as- gled twenty years for the abolition of West Indian state of India, and he could bear testimony to the soldiers and sailors should not be taught religion-far w hen he was doing good that he bed a stimulus to go 1 I i and their wealth ; the ruin of their princes and go- sessment ; seizing and sending back runaways to each HNlales. , Females. ..,11 . ales. Females. enale' -•- ; - . - T - ecinalee• slavery, but there are double or treble that number in genet al accuracy of Mr. Thompson's eloquent state- from it ;he would have them relieious and pious men- on, an d he felt p r o u d of the result of his exertions ;he 172% 1 31/ 49 58 16 103! 20 . vernors, and the daily increasing poverty of the whole other-and lastly, imagine the collector, the sole ma- British India. In the official evidence I find it stated meats. He could not, however, agree with Mr. God forbid they should not, for triey stood much in need h a d d o ne some thi ng f or the working classes, and though 12 to 16' 1,933' 3581 368 66 69 16 3 prple, caused by the rapacity and mismanagement of gistrate, or justice of the peace of the county, throueh that slaves are plentiful in many of the districts, and Thompion as to the excellence of the Indian insti- of it ; hut let them be taught by their own pastors, and no t so m a a n ifi cen t as the one he had been presented with 16 to 21 , 5,562 1,1651 700 199 2,409. 95 85 9 . t elu e d ir d governors. They have suffered by being ex- the medium and instrumentality of whom alone any that a slave 15 years old is sold for 15 rupees, those 20 tutions• On the contrary, he knew that the not bY the corporal and the drill-sergeant, who could t h a t d ay ,h' e h a d some va l ua bl e t o k ens f rom them expressive 21 to 301 5,935, 1,280 ! 738 268 4, 9 2 9 1 7 1 1 ' 5 2 62 75 8 4 3 0 0 to 5 40. 2 1 0 73 .) 3 6731 4 1 0 44 7 1 6 40 !, 00 1 e from every office which it was possible to bestow criminal complaint of personal grievance suffered by the years of age for 20 rupees. Let us not state Indians considered our own to be superior. The real teach them their Professional duties whether he were a o f th e i r gra tit u d e f or w h a t he had done.-(Cheers.) upon an Englishman ; they have seen the abolition of subject can reach the superior courts. Imagine „. , - • that which is not the truth -that slavery is cause of the bad condition of India-of the poverty Churchman or no. Then it was said they under- H e l oo k e d u p on th e ed uca tion of the working classes 50 t t o o 0 g „ 5 .... 1z. 6 ) 396 j . 7 .I C 1461 69 29 '3lo' 11 5 almost every hereditary institution by which the affairs at the same time every subordinate officer, ern: aeousned throughout the British dominions- of the People-was the badness of the Government. valued religion if it were not taught at every time-they as th e e d uca ti on o f th e p e ople ;he had always met Above 60 289 7ii 18 8 1011 40 of tho country were formerly administered ; and have ployed in the collection of the land revenue, to be let us not state this while there are 2,000,000 The Produce of the land might be taken, to any extent, undervalued itwhen theY said, "Go you Dissenters, and the m i n th e s pi r it o f g ood f e llowship and equality, and t ' 365 45' 117 16 9351 174 been mocked by a harassing and vexatious system of a police officer, vested with the power to fine cnn- of slaves i n India, men, women, and chil- by the tax-gatherers-for new assessments were con- send your children to us for instruction ; what matters h e h a d f oun d men a mon g them with feelings of the I ____-....-._.....- miscalled justice, infinitely more expensive, and less fine, put in the stocks, and flirg any inhabita - nt the differences of our creed." A conscientious Dis- highest order.-(Cheers). He considered his meetings 1 •11 - 64' 3 6 59 18,905 4,189 2,609 809 i ,i , dren, who are bought and sold like cattle. By ever , stantly made-so that capital could never accu * And'under efficient than their own, under which oppression and within his range, on an char e without oath of the principle on which we maintained our conflict in day 3 s mulate. The misfortune of India was, that the senter cannot do that ;he could not have his child with the workine classes of the country the greatest era e Age not aseertained, injustice have pervaded the land. This is, in a few accuser, or sworn reclrded g e;idence . in the case." gone by-by ever y petition stored in Palace-y ar d -by people of this country took no interest about it- taught hy their Priest- Suppose the Dissenter were to i n hi s lif e , f or h e 'l a d always found th em p a y the greatest -.......-- words, a summary of their obligations to the British What think you of the land-tax of India ? Need you every pledge we have given not to lay down the wea- exercised no surveillance over its Government. India say that he valued religion very much, and be insisted attention to vrhat he stated and to profit more by it The degree of instruction when committod :-_____ i____ _______--• Government. Nor have they fared much better in the now wonder that there is poverty-that there is discon- pons of our warfare untilth s monster is slain-by every was governed by two secret conclaves, bandying respon- upon the Churchman's child being:taught by his pastor, t h an th ose o f a higher deeree. He had always told England. Scetlar2hl e „.. treatment they have received from the English as in- tent and incipient rebellion? Need ou wonder th t regard for consistency-4 call upon you to gird up sibility backwards and forwards between them.-(Loud as the differences between them were so trifling, accord- them to be up and doing-(Crieers)-to gird themselves Males. Females. Males. Female' dividuals." I must pass rapidly on to notice another there is hun r 4 tFt? L t y ing to the churchman's own stating ?-(Laughter.) That 6,342 1,601 353 19 s ge an. mor ai y . eme mention anoa- your loins for the great te d glorious work of breaking cries of " Hear, hear.") The local Government of India like men-(Cheers.)-and to let no man he contented Neither read nor write striking feature in the present state of India, namely, its ther evil-the mode of surveying the land previous to the fetters of the slavesi n India. Let it not be said was disposed to be liberal, acting in consonance with the was the same thing as was now insisted upon-the diffe• with a lot that he could better b d • (C 1 eel declining state, and I care not how you test it-the fixing the amount of the tax. Mr. Shore sa sit is the that you have lighted up the West with the mild general feeling of the European residents. There was the rence between the Church and Dissent, must be the Re f a ec d t a i nd write imper ',.)9 1 2 0, 0 00 5 8 1 2, 2 3 04 26 1,5 56 - 9 . 61 r He had told them too, to clai Y m e =el - Teti:2M ) Read Lid write well 2 fiffections of the people are on the decline, the revenue general practice for the cultivator to bribe the stir- radiance of freedom, and left reeions of oppression in greatest cordiality between the European residents and the same as between Dissent and the Church-(Cheers their country as a right, because he looked upon Superior instruction is on the decline, and the sceptre of dominion is totter- veyor, that he may make the assessment easy ; lus 5. The Churchman said, God forbid. It ends in and laughter)-the one was 6 minus 1, the other was 1 and the East unexplored, and their helpless inhabitants un- natives ; and he (Mr. Crawfurd) was the agent for it as one-(Cheers)-for they paid towards Instruction not ascer -7 ii!g in the hand that might have been rendered in- Gen. Briggs, (page 493) says " The season of harvest 430 51 67 emancipated.-(Cheers.) It is true that in 1833 a both, to superintend the presentation of petitions P the support of the Government not only to protect tained _____l.--............ vincible by 1 00,000,000 of human beines. Captain having arrived, the cultivators ' are not allowed to cut mitigatory clause was introduced into the Act for re- and memorials to Government and to Parliament, this, that he was insincere ; it was a pretext, a cover Westmac t • them from foreign aggression and internal broils, but to 809 M.., i n page 47, has thus summeSup the state their crops till the latter have undergone a third inspec- newing the charter, but down to this time nothing against the exactions of the East India Company, and for persecution.-(Cheers.) It was nothing more than protect them in the blessings of light and virtue. 18,905 4,189 2,.6!9____ . _._.-- s of affairs in India in this aspect :-" The waste lands be- tion by the collector and his cutcherry ; and if the dis- a mask and cloak for their intolerance-either on the h . as been done to abolish slavery in the East In- their resumption of the tax for lands. He had longing to v• dies. The question which I now bring before you been asked wheth er he apprehended any danger one hand they did not care a straw about the matt er , insttructed beyond reading and writing w.ere-___ : _- ____..---- h T a n d e r o a n l w y a a s m n o ar f a e l a r a a f o d r a t a h l e i g q h u t e i Il e t e d of pa t p h a e l c a o c u e. n - try cc i h f a t e h ra e . e ) - The Offences charged illages, and reserVed by the inhabitants to trict is extensive • , or the collector dilatory, many crops timid . meet the wants of their increasing populations, and to are destroyed before the permission is ranted. All this is really and truly an anti-slavery question, not merely from such a society as this ; he believed that or, and there was no third course, the one sect shall teach, and have their children taught, at the expense of And if, for doing these things, he was to be subjected Engla n d. .t50 ... ... i ... support schools, charities, and caravanseries, have been process is deemed requisite to preven g t the necessity of as it bears on the natives of India, but of America and there would be no danger whatever-that on the others, whose children shall be excluded.-(Cheers.) eeme .____( to persecution, he would say that persecution was wel- - - ld w gd n a s v s aa ei y u dt ee s sr e om l c e ma s om s noe t eey o h w f f w u ehr m i et sha c e trc a heh n se d p ape n f ea r tr o il t t ni o h ai qm a t uh b e i or o ti et u Cu t ash i f t o , pvt euh f h o ri _s r , ;ppropriated by our Government. The rich manu- superintending the actual cutting, thrashing, and 'nee- Africa. I had intended to draw your attention to a the contrary, there would be great advantage - both Cheers.) It had been said, that he was de- in England and Scotland a g t ainst 1). ersion ~; - a r 9 actures of India have dwindled from their prosperity. suring of the grain ef each field or village." Another most important branch of the question-namely, the to India and the Indian Government, for the more nounced because he separated religion from education ; is ! a -4 w . , , . , . .. ~ 2 . P. . • beautiful muslin. of Dacca, the brocades of Be- evil, too, is the system of inland sea-duties. This is great facility with which all that we obtained from that was known in this country about India, the better pe t I i h oo e us o en w d . t a e r y: H e w r w :o vo i u t i un l he denied that he had done any such thing. He was - ........-- pares, .and the shawls and jewelry of Delhi, are no dwelt on in a work before me ably and convincingly, slave countries might be obtaieed in India. The people it would be.-( Hear, hear.) He had never known 1 the friend to the combination ef religion with secular Mu de l‘mger in demand. Agra, Kalpy, Dacca, and other but as the time wanes fast, I can only give the are waiting to send you abundant supplies, and when any discontent created among tbe natives by the con emh n e ue s m e t - u s bi t ile a d fga d i cv t t e, h n a i, f t h h a e e p w l f au u fse l t d r a sa g e ! y v e e tw n h a o a st o t t ho h e e r bwe s e o c ug t l i di , a , e n p r, r a e t a f t :nerd; education, but all that he desired was that they should Sta r bbin r at Stabbing and Wounding 2 great commercial and manufacturing towns of the em- result of the Government inquiry into this part the incubus of an intolerable system of taxation duct of private individuals of the European residents. . . 4 pire,situ . ated on the principal rivers,have shrunk within of the subject undertaken in 1834 by Charles Tre- not be so blended as to injure each other.-(Cheers.) Manslau g ghte'r 5 shall be removed, the land will be cultivated, and both But he had known many insurrections created by the Culpable Homicide He wished to see real reli ious education, and he was half their former limits. Religious endowments have velyan, Esq., and whose able report has been printed at convinced that that was o g nly to be . accomplished by 1 countries enricbed. Remember that the mariner who oppressive exactions of the Government officers. Attempts to procure Miscarriage hcea sequestrated ; and the reservoirs and aqueducts Calcutta, and from a copy of which I read as follows : with the Dissenters of all denominations, he was ver ploughs the waves, the merchant who owns the vessel, 'l'. FRANLAND, Esq., remarked, that he had often it were given to the Church. In his communication calling upon the clergy of all persuasions to take the • t h i . i ountry are gone to decay. The -He designates the system "as utterly barbarous hat fertil sed the c Y education of the youth of their different denomina- 1 ;,, the manufacturer who spins the raw material, the man heard it said, naturally enough-" Oh, India is so far off get all their own way, to get the upper hand of each A A s s ns s a a a tu i u r i l l t t a , wl w i At i hi t h i i nd A et em t n t e et m atno p o t cr s t a o r n c a o I m l y m A i t b u U s n e n . n . a . - . 31 c . ar table institutions ; the asylums for the poor, the and says, "if it were desired to depress the productive who sells the manufactured article, and he who con- -there are objects at home." He did not wish any of sorry to say that he had found them quite as anxious to 2 sick, and the maimed ; splendid and useful public works, powers of Indian industry could any scheme be devised lions into their own hands. - (Cheers.) He Bigamy thou lit if the question of the educatiop of th peo- 1 3 5 sumes it, that all these and many more are interested the home objects to be neglected ; but let it be recol- Assaults, Common. are crumbling to dust ; and the wells and resting- for the purpose more effeCtual than this ? Although we le Ls sufficiently pushed, and the Legislature e ac • ted in the cultivation of cotton in the East Indies. Why, lected that England, as a commercial nation, was the other, as ever the Church was to get the upper hand of Breaking into Shops, B‘c places in the desert, built and endowed by princes and have seen ocular demonstration of its existence yet rioldly, the great end they had in yew would be ac- House Stealing then, keep six hundred thousand fellow-beings in neighbour to all the ends of the earth, so that no part of the them all.-(Cheers.) Ife there must be exclusion, he the wealthy and benevolent as a refuge for the tra- when it has been once abolished, the world will find it was the Established Church and was not naturally would be for Church exclusion over that of the sects ; Larceny in Dwelling-houses 1 bondage on the soil of America ?-(Loud cheers.) world was beyond our reach, or too :distant for our complished.-(Cheers.) But if manliness and deter- - from the Person. yeller under an eastern sun, are neglected and fallen it difficult to believe that such a system could have Why let the Republican despot, with the Bible in one benevolence. The objects of the Society w ere, to mination were not persevered in on the art of the -- by Servants. . 1 to ruin." I would draw your attention to another fee- been tolerated by us for the letter part of a century. 11 1 14 e hand and a scourge in the other, put his iron heel on bring together and to analyse correct facts, and of a persecutine spirit ; its natural state was rather Government, they would never succeed.- P (Cheers.) ture in India, the existence all over the country of Another evil in India and a serious one, is the man- 1 the neck of his brother ? Why let the air be rent with to procure the best information respecting India- one of quiet indifference ; she was a good, well dis- Fixtures, &c. waste lands un ' They had truth on their side accompanied by real ge- 5 ' - • - Embezzlement. lO , cultivated lands, where the tiger, the ner of treatin h ,• the sighl and groans of the millions who are now in to publish or reprint the best works upon the Posed neighbour, if she were let alone ; but he hyena, the ' cle 1 gt e natives-the mode adopted by Eu- nuine • • • religion, and with such companions, by per- Stealing Letters .. 1 ja a , the. vulture, the boa-constrictor ropean functionaries in thei • • • captivity, when the rice of Carolina, and the cotton of subject-to procure and disseminate, by means was sorry to say that she had some bad friends 1 3 dwell : there man • r communications with the severance they must triumph.-(Loud cheers.) Receiving Stolen Goods - Stealin - g might dwell, and around him might inhabitants of their districts. I had selected • Georgia, and the sugar of Cuba, and the coffee of of a periodical, the latest intelligence about India, and in her own bosom, who had stirred her up, Simple 4 2 4 He would say to the peo lc of this countr u on this Fraud a variety g m r . ow . . and_ . th_ri . ve a . plen . tiful harvest : his granary of extracts tending to show that the want of con& 2 Porto Rico, . might be . . grown .in superabundance to support an efficient system of agency, to establih so that she had departed . from that course, question, Agitate-(Chels)-that was a Y te P rm far Arson 'gm be full, his family might be fed. I will give a few dence, and the discontent apparent in oar Indian o- on the plains of British India.-(Loud cheers.) auxiliaries in the country, (for these ends pecuniary aid and . had become more meddling and much more more respectable in these latter days than formerly. Sending Letters Threatening to Burn 1 1 authorities. Colonel Munro has declared that in the pulation is to be attributed to the absence of cPon- There is, however, a great work to be done before was earnestly desired). anxious to push herself into a preponderance and mas- (Cheers.) The whole system of nature was a itation.- ip i : ou Z s al'ei u Off nces 2 ceded districts, with which he was particularly ac- ciliatory manners on the part of the Compan 's ser- cultivation can be extended in India, arid to that work Major-General BRIGGS, (the author of an ex- tery over the other sects. As an illustration, he might (Cheers.) The breeze that a itated the forL ensured FO' ; r ry, and 9 U:tering Forged Instruments 6 9 , quairited, there were 3,000,000 acres of cultivable land vants. I shall give you but one specimen y of the I would invite every friend of commerce and manufac- cellent work upon the Land-Tax in India) made mention that when he had his Schools Bill in contem- 7 4 unappropriated. Colonel Sykes, in his evidence before behaviour of the British towards the natives which tures, as well as every philanthrophriat. The Chamber some statements, from which it appeared that the plation, he received from forty to fifty deputies from all a healthy vegetation. (Cheer g s ) The storm that agi- Dr r ea:h of the Peace tated the deep blue sea rendered it a blessing instead of Keern g Disorderly House. c _ It . a curse-(Cheers.) The hurricane that raged in the desert ano r s not otherwise des ribed n h a , n ~ e . . ..e. Committee of the House of Commons, stated that in I find in the Asiatic Jour 1: " I th , M of Commerce of Manchester had recently turned th e i r municipal institutions of 'lndia were in many respects I , !•rts of - the country-Mayors of towns, and all classess. the district •of Kandeish there were 844 per cent. of fussil, no one dares g t °- attention to the subject. The question was naturally very superior to ours ;in proof of this he read some very Ihe result of all their deliberations was that every pa- dispelled its pestilential exhalations-(Cheers) -and . ____ ---- ___ .......... o o t e nouse or a judge rish or half parish should be allowed as many schools I waste lands which were cultinable ; and in Dharwar !lector ith if 11 asked, where was the neeessity for a servile dependence interesting extracts from the supplement to his own who could douht th t even the dreadful tornado had Total 74 51 91 2 or co vi . is s oes on, nor can he address u 83/. The Marquis Cornwallis once said, in a dis h A ' ? Could not cotton be d kd. ' ' f h f h 11 .. hh. d pon merica procure wor , escriptive ot e economy o te vi a o es e a as were wanted, provided there was an agreement be- ' • tween them and the Central Board. It was agreed a • f l d • ' - some blessed end in the councils o a benevo ent an PMriissoenamßreeaking The Relative Proportions of accused persons with reterenve patc those gentlemen without folded hands." And then the to the Court of Directors--" I may safely assert that writer goes on to give a number of Indian words, which elsewhere-in Egypt ?-in the East Indies ? They inspected. one-third of the Company's territory in Hindostan is I sh a il not attempt to pronounce, eviaining the teems that there must first be this common agreement, be- omnipotent God.--(Great cheering. He had no only to to their intellectual condition, were,- sent a deputation to the metropolis to inspect the At the conclusion of his speech the business was de- return his best thanks for the inestimable gift that had England. Scotland. now a jungle, inhabited only by wild beast " d s. An . of respect and homage they are constrained to employ records of the East India House ? The De- dared at an end, and the meeting separated. cause, if there were not, snpposine there were in the lo- 34.40 16.12 ' been bestowed upon him, which, long after he was for- Unable to read and write the people are famishing. I ask, why not cultivate t y h e e t 60,56 presence of these high personages. He then says • imitation diligently and ably performed their _. • _ . .. . cality 200 Dissenters and 201 Churchmen, the Dissenter Able to read and write imperfectly ... 53.4 . 1 land ? That question shall be answered presently. I I .! ") gotten, would proclaim to his children that their father 18.4 3 k b :one must cough, although he has a cold ; his pre- work, and the conclusion to which they arrived PRESENTATION OF A PIECE OF would be at the mercy of the Churchmen without any had some little share in • • th • fd f d ' raising, e spring- i e o e u come now to s Instruction superior to reading and peak of one of the most strange features I was that there was no natural impediment to the growth 1-but b the revious a reement this was ob- PLATE TO MR. SIMPSON, THE EMINENT aPPea Y . 1) g , 0.34 2.72- 1 can draw your attention to. One of the first sy t ldb ' cl• tl •hd All d sumption wou e 'came la e y pun's e . , great an cation, of which they were then reaping the benefit. • t • , wr: in b 2.17 - of cotton in India. The cotton seed was ready, the LECTURER UPON E DUCATION. %gated by the superintendence of the General Board. kble to read and write well ~. ...... ... 9.7 e of civilization has been said to b h lelimP °me small, stand with their hands together."-(Laughter.) Mr. Simpson concluded amid much cheering. Instruction not ascertained .... ..... ... 208 e S t e gi et.-(A people were willing, but that the Government system of Ann lt was agreed that no article, or subscription of an- _____ -_---.... : laugh.) The next is a good road. Mr. Shore states facts in great numbers of the same On the motion of Dr. Comm.() a vote of thanks 100.00 100.0 0 . ut you shall hear taxation deprived the cultivator of nine bags out of A numerous and highly respectable meeting was held article should be necessary, but it was agreed th a t th' e was carried to the Noble and Learned Chairman for his • the state of thin •Id• • ls . • gs in niain t is part l I e a * icu ar. am per- h racter Another rievaac ih r is s eed g ewh c equ re P y every twelve, thus rendering his labour profitless. Not, on Saturday inWillis's Rooms, for the purpose of present- 'Bible in all schools should be a reading book. That k • • mitted to use t d i correction, is the salt monopoly.-(Hear.) I ha n- indness in presiding, and the meeting separated. different in Ireland. The result was as follows :- . he valuable MS. recentl d • therefore until this system was altered would cotton be ing Mr. Simpson with a very handsome silver salver, was not agreed to till after much discussion, but it I. Males. Fema le he deliberati y rawn up to aid tended to enter largely into this subject, bu l t cannot. 71 t . ons of the Committee by Major-General extensively grown and imported into this country, value 200 guineas, which had been subscribed for by was found neces •ary to yield, that the Scriptures 4.537 2 . 2 In India the cultivation, as it is called, and sa eof salt NELSON MONUMENT. Neither read nor write . , Briggs ; and upon the subject of roads this all t tl to supersede the produce of slaves in America. those who have benefitted by his lectures upon the sub- ought to form part and parcel of the education in The Classification with reference to intellectual C o nslition l° :82 6 g . an gen e -..*. Read only .567 is a monopoly in the hands of the Company. The T all schools. He urged that there were Jews who A • f - man, who has himself sore! f 1 • ye t the inconvenience, says, • • he same was true of sugar, of rice, and of coffee- ject of education. meeting o the Committee respecting the Nelson Read and write .2 95 " The total absence of high roads, by which the traffic of native is not allowed to use this necessary of life, even 1.120 with all other articles now obtained from slave countries. Lord BROUGHAM took the chair at 12 o'clock. They objected to the New Testament, and there were the Monument took place on Saturday, at the Thatched h a en ha a v g a reed his tha a t h , ild pro t v a id a e g t an al ) , r ommt ee Instruction not ascertained __..-- the country might be conducted, is found to be f when produced by the action of the sun upon the sea- -(Hear, hear ) These facts would, he had no doubt, had met on an occasion which he was quite sure every Catholics vrho objected to one versio n o f th e House Tavern, the Marquis of Angelsea in the chair. 11 764 3. 959 i the heaviest evils with which our Easter d . °Re ? water at his own door. Nay more, he is compelled to • n ominions is afflicted. One large navigable river passes through a destroy it, and to buy and use that only which is offered have their due:weight in a meeting composed of indivi- one would feel to be one of great interest and import_ B a i r b e l n e. t a l hi t Sir G. COCKBURN said the Sub-C •tt had but h i, roporti °ll " The Tables are not framed so as to s ew t ese p gw lc ance, no on y ecently procured a room adapted for holding the models. with respect to convictions. .tract of one thousand miles of country in Up Id" by the Company, and upon which they h their own duals-rational, as well as humane-a meetin h . h t Iso far as their feelings were concerned in P would not forget the great importance of those moral respect of gratitude and interest in the lecturer, but of e c w t e a d s t t any of those books it should not be done. It was d.. per n la, • . . Thirteen artists, alleging that the h d y a not had su cient fn • The Number executed was, in all 1838:- Irelen price. Remember, among a rice-fed population, like then said, suppose a great majority of the children were England. Scotland. 3 into which other streams, navieahle for several months instrumentalities employed by this vast empire.- great importance and interestine on account of its influ- notice desired that though ti h i t nt i thei ley ae no se n . r in the year, fall in its course , ' end Ine thi that of India, salt is indispensable. The native will semi- (Hear, hear.) He put it to them, whether it was ence upon the great cause or education, and the pro- anxious to read the Scriptures, and be taught in the models ' 'or to the ' la ` .st Saturday in May (the period Murder 5 1 - e u t i n o !, s great out- fice anything for this seasoning. The iniquities of this not th •d t f h kifhh 1 d th 't s steadily makine If th y would permit him Principles of the Established Church would that he oh- d b P h i.' Attempt to Murder ... 1 ••• ....- let a considerable traffic, in ;erg wieldy and unsafe eir uy to per orm tat wor wic eia us gross iwa e . e . 9 ' fixe yt e Committee), they might be allowed now to e boats, is conducted up the river, ' at the avera e rate of monopoly shall hereafter be fully exposed. Let me say a feebly set before them.-( Hear, hear.) " You can put before going into the immediate business of the day, he Jected to. The Dissenters immediately said," We shall send them in -. _ 3 few words about opium. The trade in this article la also • Total 6 1 about ten miles a day. From the PresidenciL of Ma- dovvn slavery," continued Mr. Thompson, " I say it un- would, at no great length, allude to one or two of the be subscribing our money for teaching. that which we Al • the Polig i ' tti". drag and Bombay, a single road has, in each case, been a monopoly in the hands o! the Hon. C . ompapy. I"!e- hesitatingly. England has the power in her ewn hands most important topics connected with the lectures which cannot approve of." He answered then that they must This was aereed to unani ousl , n the understandin that no alteration had tak m I - Y. ° th d 1 g together ten persons, or one in 2,648,600 of ...,,........... WO viouS to the year 1796, opium was admitted into Cnina lately constructed, to the distance of about one hundred to crush Slavery all over Christendom. She can bless had been the means of creating that intercourse which take the teaching of the Scriptures out of the plan ali e n p l a e ce in e z e__!. f r MEETING IN FAVOUR OF - It was th on the paymeat of a duty . when a fey , / hundred chests en agre ff e a d rd tl a i t :1 Jornin . itt h adjourn o miles, along which, within the last six or eight years India-she can proclaim emancipation in America. At had given rise to the meeting•-(Cheers.) H e b e li eve d together, because of the Jews and the Catholics. POLES. annually were i . mported Since that time the trade has a fortni ht vewing te . , models • the post is conveyed by horses, and carts travel at the ' present she upholds the abominations of Sl a v er y, an d th a t all were agreed upon the prime necessity of " Oh," said they, " that is a very different case, that the g ' t ' es a • t m _...._ been openly interdicted, and yet clandestine! intro- üblic be admitted from Monday (this day) to UN. same rate as the traffic goes up the stream of the Y t h e Slave trade. Her money bribes the planter and education-all parties in politics-all se c t s i n r e _ for Christianity is part and parcel of the law of TO THE EDITOR OF THE S e or t of Saturday p the 15th of J n •b ders f b ll duced at the rate of 20,000 chests annua y, which cost u e, y or rOill mem ers Ganges. The exertion of some local officers, too, have the manstealer ; her looms weave ; her sons an d li g i o n, and if there were any who belonged to the land. They were ng lawyers who said that, for it is Sir,-In your paper of' this evening, I read a r P .. it of the CO • • mmittee, to view the models • that the Co - the Chinese four millions of pounds sterling. . . . , , 4 , rn the meeting held last evening, at Theobald's-roa d ..„ o . ~ oaugn‘ers consume the produce. of the slave, but no sect, they also agreed in that one neces- not so-the argument cut against themselves, for the • led to the construction of tolerable roads fo f r a ew mittee meet on the 19th of June (Wednesday) for the The followin,, sta e tement exhibits the consumption of whenever our nation turns its attention, and en t er - s ity. The only question was in what manner it sh Ch • • • f 1 E bl . Id Ch hf E 1 d a li ristianity ot ie sta is le urc o ng an and contains inaccuracies prejudicial to my character. "ee miles around the principal towns, constructed w• ithout purpose of taking a decision on the model to be selected ; R t 0" - opium during the last twenty years. prise, and capital to India, and t o th e h un d re d b es t b e f urn i s hed with the greatest comfort to those Ireland is the law of the land. They reflected upon the - eporter first states that the confusion was so grea e , expense to the State, by the employment of prisoners aboi" Chests. Value. and that the selection be mode in the following man- continual, that he could millions who will work there a t Id, or 2d. per d ay, w h o are t o g ive it, the greatest benefit to those who matter, and saw all its difficulties not understand anything l in irons ; and the extension of this benefit has -they saw they were n that 1816 3,210 3,657,000 er-each member to write on a piece of paper the h s, foreign nations will no loneer be able to say, that we are to receive it, and the greatest safety to the grand about to give one rule to themselves, and anothee to their wat was going on ;he however, afterwards saY 0 . .ately been undertaken along some principal lines bean' 1820 4,770 8,400,800 names of three models, and the number which had Tr • uphold slavery on the oaier side of the atlantic.- principle of civil and religious liberty.-(Cheers.) Few feilow-subjects the Jews. He had always found-and he h • • 1 ajor Beniowski could not obtain the chair, e , in the . Bengal Presidency, on the same limited and 1 hoP comical • • 1825 9,621 7,608,205 t e majority was to be selected ; the election to cons- the Poles thozwht generall li (Cheers.) To effect this change in public sentiment had suffered more anxiety of mind than he had done for was sorry and ashamed to be obliged to acknowledge „ y e was a spy. s t see . principle. Such a system for tlie internal 12 900,031 know eemmu i r 1830 18,760 mence at one and close at four. and action we must enlight en th e co u n t r y. We the improvement of mankind•-(Cheers)-in intelii- it-that every one sect was equally intole ran t as th e , Sir, you will find it astonishing how he could _ a a meat on o. a territory as extensive E 15,338,160 as urope, 1832 23,670 Thanks ha • - . • • ving been voted to the Noble Mar i excluding Russia, is wors . must hold public meetings, an d s ti r u p th e merca ntile gence, in virtue, in Piety as well as in moral virtue, yet C . hursh e eyer was. Persons who thought thems e l ves e , 41 ,„ _ Let _ 41 ,_ ,-,_____:„_ ..., e _____ e qu s any, and particularly at such a meeting, who wn no ; believed_ tae, .r,....L_,,• e than mockery. Will it be 1836 27,111 17,904,248 „England's Queen,” Yet in that country there died of British s ubjects - -peaceable—loyal—and would have been attached subjects—during last year, no fewer than `hay a" naion ! I come new to speak of the state of mind of the people. No people might be more easily governed than the Hint The The fact of our now . being th e masters o f India, Rite of the machinations of Russia and our own misgovernment, is proof to de monstration that had we;been ordinarily kind, the people would not only have obeyed us, but they would have done more ; they would have done that without which Obedience is worthless—they wouldhave loved us. But I Can show that something more tlitiii apathy exists—l will not say treason, but I say discontent and dis gust. I have a number of authorities here, but I shall trouble you withSvery few. I have a work before me, which was published in Calcutta, and laid before the Government of Bengal, by William Adam, Esq., a most cautious writer and acute observer ; and he, speak ing of the lower proviuces of Bengal, says—" The utmost that can be said of native society in general, even in its most favourable aspect, is, that there is no hostility, but in place of it a cold, dead, apa thetic indifference, which would lead the people to change masters to-morrow without a struggle, and without a sigh." Is that a desirable state of things—is it a necessary state of things ? I answer no. What said Sir Charles Metcalfe, the acting Governor of India? " Such is the state of thing , , that I should not be sur prised if I got up sonic morning and found the whole thing blown up" —a rude and soldier-like expression, but awfully significant. I will now give you an authority teat you will all respect —i t i s that of the Hon. John Frederick Shore, brother of the present Lord Tein ' m mouth, who now li es i n hi s grave, b ut who, while he lived, lived and wrote for India. Speaking of the state of the people, in the second volume of his work, page 136, ho says, " Notwithstanding the elo quent declamation so often pronounced in favour of the British India Government, and against the • Tyrannical Barbarians' whom we have supplanted, the truth is forced on us, that we have not gained any superior favour, but are regarded by them with the strongbst feeling of aversions and that they would hail with joy the first opportunity of emancipating them selves from our yoke, so bitterly do they feel our op pression and injustice." Mr. Shore, p. 146, vol., i., asks, " Why should the natives of India be grateful? Why attached? What have they to be grateful for ? Placed by the chances of war, or negociations in which they had no share, under our authority, they have been ruled by a system whose primary principle was self interest and exaltation. They have witnessed, year by year, the gradutal decay of their power, their dignity, and their wealth ; the ruin of their princes and go vernors, and the daily increasing poverty of the whole people, caused by the rapacity and mismanagement of their governors. They have suffered by being ex cluded from every office which it was possible to bestow upon an Englishman ; they have seen the abolition of almost every hereditary institution by which the affairs of the country were formerly administered ; and have been mocked by a harassing and vexatious system of miscalled justice, infinitely more expensive, and less efficient than their own, under which oppression and injustice have pervaded the land. This is, in a few words, a summary of their obligations to the British Government. Nor have they fared much better in the treatment they have received from the English as in dividuals." I must pass rapidly on to notice another striking feature in the present state of India, namely, its declining state, and I care not how you test it—the affections of the people are on the decline, the revenue is on the decline, and the sceptre of dominion is totter-' ing in the hand that might have been rendered in vincible by 100,000,000 of human beings. Captain Westmacott, in page 47, has thus summed up the state of affairs in India in this aspect :—" The waste lands be longing to villages, and reserved by the inhabitants to meet the wants of their increasing populations, and to support schools, charities, and caravanseries, have been appropriated by our Government. The rich manta factures of India have dwindled from their prosperity. The beautiful muslins of Dacca, the brocades of Be flares, and the shawls and jewelry of Delhi, are no linger in demand. Agra, Kalpy, Dacca, and other great commercial and manufacturing towns of the em pire, situated on the principal rivers,have shrunk within half their former limits. Religious endowments have been sequestrated ; and the reservoirs and aqueducts that fertilised the country are gone to decay. The charitable institutions ; the asylums for the poor, the sick, and the maimed ; splendid and useful public works, are crumbling to dust ; and the wells and resting- I places in the desert, built and endowed by princes and the wealthy and benevolent as a refuge for the tra veller under an eastern sun, are neglected and fallen to ruin." I would draw your attention to another fea ture in India, the existence all over the country of waste lands, uncultivated lands, where the tiger, the hyena, the jackal, the vulture, the boa-constrictor dwell : there man might dwell, and around him might grow and thrive a plentiful harvest : his granary might be full, his family might be fed. I will give a few authorities. Colonel Munro has declared that in the ceded districts, with which he was particularly ac quainted, there were 3,000,000 acres of cultivable land unappropriated. Colonel Sykes, in his evidence before a Committee of the House of Commons, stated that in the district , ef Kandeish there were 84i per cent, of waste lands which were cultivable ; and in Dharwar 831. The Marquis Cornwallis once said, in a dispatch to the Court of Directors--" I may safely assert that one-third of the Company's territory in Hindostan is now a jungle, inhabited only by wild beasts." And yet the people are famishing. I ask, why not cultivate the land ? That question shall be answered presently. I come now to speak of one of the most strange features I can draw your attention to. One of the first symptoms of civilization has been said to be the gibbet.—(A laugh.) The next is a good road. But you shall hear the state of things in India in this particular. I am per mitted to use the valuable MS. recently drawn up to aid the deliberations of the Committee by Major-General Briggs ; and upon the subject of roads this gallant gentle man, who has himself sorely felt the inconvenience, says, " The total absence of high roads, by which the traffic of the country might be conducted, is found to be one of the heaviest evils with which our Eastern dominions is afflicted. One large navigable river passes through a tract of one thousand miles of country in Upper India, into which other streams, navigable for several months in the year, fall in its course ; and along this great out let a considerable traffic, in large, unwieldy and unsafe boats, is conducted up the river, at the average rate of about ten miles a day. From the Presidencies of Ma dras and Bombay, a single road has, in each case, been lately constructed, to the distance of about one hundred miles, along which, within the last six or eight years, the post is conveyed by horses, and carts travel at the same rate as the traffic goes up the stream of the Ganges. The exertion of some local officers, too, have led to the construction of tolerable roads for a few miles around the principal towns, constructed without expense to the State, by the employment of prisoners in irons ; and the extension of this benefit has lately been undertaken along some principal lines in the Bengal Presidency, on the same limited and eccomical principle. Such a system for the internal cemmuuicatinn of a territory as extensive as Europe, excluding Russia, is worse than mockery. Will it be believed, that after holding posiession of such a country for nearly a century, that the Government post is for the most part conveyed by footmen, at the rate of about al miles per hour —that travellers cannot proceed but on horseback, at a rate not exceeding 12 or 14 miles a day; and that if an officer of Government is required to travel at the utmost possible speed, he is conveyed singly, in a palankeen, on mess' shoulders, at a speed not exceeding three miles an hour, and that he must give notice a week before, to enable the public autho rities to provide bearers, at the rate of a shilling or eighteen pence a mile, and that as many men as the traveller has to travel miles, have to be put in requi•ii tion for this purpose, so that in order to go from Cal cutta to Delhi, at the utmost possible speed, the traveller is conveyed on mens' shoulders in the absence of a road, and more than a thousand men are employed to carry him ! The greater portion of the internal traffic of the country is conveyed on the hacks of oxen, carrying one and a half hundred weight, at an average rate of about six or eight miles daily, over level countries, abounding with the finest mate i-til for road-making, but which the poverty of the in habitants, and the indifference and neglect of the State, suffer to continue as mere bridle tracks. In this state of things, we cannot wonder at the obstacles which exist to the conveyance of the natural products of the country to the coast for foreign markets, nor at the want of information of our own merchants residing at the sea-ports, of the resources of the interior. These are strange facts to be narrated, but they explain what would otherwise be a mystery—how it is that, when a local province is visited by a season of drought, and all around revels in plenty, food cannot be got to feed the famishing people.—(Hear, hear.) I will draw your attention to one or two other facts. I have said that the people are poor, discontented, famishing ; and you as • k why is all this ? I answer, first, there has been exhibited, on the part of rulers, legislators, and adminis trators connected with India, great ignorance of the wants and institutions and resources of the people of the country. There has been legislation upon false principles—there has been an administration of affairs .by no means calculated to correct the errors of legisla• tion. One of the radical evils of India is the .assump tion, on the part of the State, of a proprietary right in every part of the soil—the annihilation of the right of the tenant, who came to his estate through twenty Feuerations—a n d tire erection, upon the destruction of his propriet a ry r i g h t , o f a propr i etary r i g h t assume d b y the Government. Mr. ;Rickards has observed— , 7 When the British power supplanted that of the Ma homedans in Bengal, we did not, it is true, adopt the sanguinary -- part of the creed • but from the impure systemfountai n o f their financial did we, to our shame, claim the th e inheritance o'ta right to seize upon half the gross produc e of the land as a tax ; and wherever o ur arms have since triumphed, we hsve invariable proclaimed the savage right . .". . ,:,,..01,., ; Coupling it at the same time svita the s d wrin,, of the proprietary right to 1 , .::( , I , inds being kiLo %esteci ....: the sovereign . , By the last account it was 34,000 chests. And what does this opium do when it gets into the Celestial Empire ? This quantity, at 20 grains per day for each individual, would be sufficient to demoralize more than dire,: millions of persons. When the habit is once formed, it grows till it becomes inveterate ; discontinuance is more and more difficult, until at length, the sudden de privation of the accustomed indulgence produces certain death. Every opium-cater may calculate upon shorten ing his life ten years from the time when he commences the practice. The importation of opium was,l have said, interdicted in 1796. Smokers of it were pilloried and bambooed, and the venders were liable to banishment and death. The amended law of 1833 condemned buyers and smokers to 100 blows, and to wear di? wooden collar for two months ; mandarins to be punished oue degree more severely. Opium shops are as plentiful in some towns in China as ginshops in England. There is a depot at Lintin, at the entrance of the Canton river. The greatest part of it is grown within the ter ritory, and transported through the dominions of the Esst India Company. • • - • • In addition to the foregoing testimony, furnished by Mr. Medhurst, I may refer to the valuable work of the Rev. Algernon Sydney Thelwall, on " The Iniquities of the Opium Trade with China." "According to a late writer," says Mr. Thelwall, "the growing of opium is compulsory on the part of the ryot. . . Vast tracts of land, formerly occupied with other articles, are now covered with poppies, which require a superior soil to produce opium in perfection. Hence its cultivation has not extended over waste and barren lands, but into those districts and villages best fitted for agricultural purposes, where other plants, grown from time im memorial, have been driven out before it. . . Taking into account the whole of Turkey, China, and India, it will be seen that many thousands of acres, with millions of the inhabitants, are employed in the cultivation of poppies." In the 34th page he gives an account of the importation of opium into the country, which I have already stated, and says " all the opium which is now, and has been for the last forty three years, introduced into China by us, has been smuggled into the country in defiance of the laws and regulations of the Chinese Government." I might multiply these passages, but at the end of the book there is a valuable communication from the East Indies, which has furnished Mr. Thelwall one of the most striking proofs of the share which the Government has in the traffic. Amongst other things he states that owing to the vexatious system pursued by the Custom house and revenue officers, " the privacy of their miserable abodes is intruded upon by these harpies of Go vernment, and no redress can be given by the Government unless they abolish the production of this accursed drug. Were the cultivation of it transferred to private indi viduals, the evil of it would (as far as the cultivation is ctincerned) be greatly mitigated, inasmuch as the servants of private individu a l s wou ld not h ave t h e p-wer to opp: - . -s n:& , ,es to th, ext. nt t,ossess, d by those of thk! Government, acid there would be a distant the manstealer ; her looms weave ; her sons and daughters consume the produce, of the slave, but whenever our nation turns its attention, and enter prise, and capital to India, and ,to the hundred millions who will work there at Id. or 2d. per day, foreign nations will no longer be able to say, that we uphold slavery on the other side of the atlantic.— (Cheers) To effect this change in public sentiment and action we must enlighten the country. We must hold public meetings, and stir up the mercantile and manufacturing interests ; we must memorialize the Government ; we must petition the Parliament ; we must open the eyes of the abolitionist to this economical mode of effecting the object he seeks. I say to those whom I address, and to all to whom these words may by any means come, at your peril neglect or despise the means I now point out. I show you a safe, a peaceful, a profitable, a certain method of abolishing slavery. More hopeful than undertaking to convert the Brazilian or the Texian less bloody and expensive than the preventive service along the shores of Africa, and more direct than the influence and success of treaties with insincere nations or remon strances with the enlightened but proud and sensitive Americans. You need not wait till America is consis tent—till Portugal is honest—you have only to wait till you yourselves are sensible of your power and responsibility. Then will you do justice to the natives and the soil of India, and by the infallible operation of a liberal and honourable system, snap the fetter of the slave in the West, and starve the miscreant prowler from the shores of Africa. —(Loud cheers.) I look then, with hope and confi dence to the Abolitionists of Great Britain. I make my appeal to their principles and their recorded pledges, and I call upon them, one and all—upon every man, woman, and child in their ranks, to aid us in our lawful, patriotic, and merciful plans. Since we commenced, a few months ago, we have found powerful supporters at home and abroad. So cieties have been formed and affiliated. The saga cious men of Lancashire are coming forward—the mer chants of Glasgow are with us—the landholders of Ben gal are aiding us—the Press is espousing our cause— distinguished men from India are joining us daily. and our prospects are hourly brightening.—(Cheers.) If, as without the shadow of a misgiving, I anticipate the wonder-working energy and unfaltering resolution of the abolition host shall be enlisted on our side, the victory will soon be won, and by that victory millions upon millions in both hemispheres will be blest.—(Cheers.) Behold, my friends, the tremendous power which God has placed in our hands I Feel you not the heavy responsi bility which rests upon you ? Will you not appreciate and embrace the privileges to which you are invited ? But I need say no more. I remember where I stand, and feel that I have - already, perhaps, said too much. But you will forgive me. I am most deeply impressed with the importance, the solemnity of the subject. I have for eight years devoted myself to the cause of freedom and humanity. Years ago I was permitted to form, in this country, societies for the universal abolition of slavery. On both sides of the Atlantic, through evil and through good report, in gloom and in sunshine, I have laboured in the cause of the oppressed ; and when I see, as I now see, the means of accomplishing, by a safe,and simple means, the great object, I cannot but earnestly desire that all, but specially those here before me, were in their views and feelings almost and altnge:her such as I am. Suffer me, then, once more to invoke you, by the memory of your venerable foun- Lord BROUGHAM took the chair at 12 o'clock. They had met on an occasion which he was quite sure every one would feel to be one of great interest and import ance, not only so far as their feelings were concerned in respect of gratitude and interest in the lecturer, but of great importance and interesting on account of its influ ence upon the great cause of education, and the pro gress it was steadily making. If they would permit him before going into the immediate business of the day, he would, at no great length, allude to one or two of the h e wr prime s.o) belonged necessity H e believed t o of that g most important topics connected with th e l ec t ures w hi c h had been the means of creating that i n t ercourse w hi c h l had ii o nall givenrise and w er if tfo agreed tthheemre e e twinegr.e a n y —(C h upon the e education—all parties in politi cs — a ll sects i n re no sect, they also agreed in that one neces sity. The only question wa s i n w h at manner i t shall best be furnished it, the the greatest comfort to those who ere to g i ve the greatest benefit to those who are to receive it, and the greatest safety to th e gran d principle of civil and religious liberty.—(Ch eers .) F ew had suffered more anxiety of mind than he had done for the improvement i of mankind.—(Ch eers )—i n intelli gence, in virtue, n piety as well as in moral virtue, yet he was not disposed to deny that even the immense boon—the immense benefit of education might be bought at too high a price ; for it might be given in such a manner as, while it pretended to commu n i ca t e informa tion, while it purported to raise men in the scale of being, to benefit society by means of raising man, of which society was composed, at th e same time lowers him in that scale by enslaving his conscience to others—(Loud cheers) —by taking from him the power of forming his own opinions. It was a moot point with many, whether it would not be better to be without it than receive it on such terms ; but in his mind there was no doubt all ; it was like the game of see-saw— they would raise the man with one hand and put him down with the other.—(Cheers and l aug ht er .) Th ere were various ways in which education might be con veyed in a manner to interfere with the great principles of civil and religious liberty ; for instance, if the State were to take the management of public instru c ti o4 and to inculcate o ne se t o f opinions which it held and deemed its interest to propagate, and took care to in culcate—that would be a very great evil. Ano ther branch of the community might be sup posed to exi s t — any grea t cor porate body or great public body, as they had at the East-end, or any great . political b o dy at t h at en d o f the town, and either of them were t o h ave t h e w h o l e e ducation of the com munity intrusted to their hands, and were to convert it to their o wn purposes, b y teac hi ng o nly their own opinions, he should hold that it would be very unjust and very inexpedient.--(Cheers.) It raised a doubt in his mi n d—i t was st i ll a moo t case w ith him whether it wou ld not b e b etter to b e w ithout it than to receive it on such terms.—(Cheers.) If it were to he said that no education was ever to be conferred upon any class of the community, except by some one parti cular body ; if they were not to be educated, except by or u ni t a i it Unitarians, Anabaptists, the Established Church for instance, or by . any particu lar(C heers Presbyterians,Whether happy to say sect in religion, he would object to it as well.— .) that he had good and valuable friends amongst them all, still he would most decidedly object to any one sect having_ any influence over the education of youth, and using it for the purpose of propagating its own opinions and giving the youth no opportunity of getting any a M nd eth h o e d w is a ts; other. He should hold it to be a very in expedient, . unfair, and a very pernicious mode of instructing youth. —(Cheers.) It might then be asked, would he ex clude religion from should no more think of excluding religion from education than he would exclude man from bread and drink, and all other things n ecessary to liv e . He would give ch i ldren t h e mean s of enabling them to judge for themselves—he would give them education, and then give them that which was the great principl e I of Protestantism, the right of private judgment._.- (Consider a bl e cheering.) The motion of some was that religion was to be wholly e xcluded—that mistake arose from the manner in which young men were taught at our Universiti s ; their religion necessarily formed , was sorry to say that she had some bad friends in her own bosom, who had stirred her up, so that she had departed from that course, and had become more meddling and much more anxious to push herself into a preponderance and mas tery over the other sects. As an illustration, he might mention that when he bad his Schools Bill in contem plation, he received from forty to fifty deputies from all parts of - the country—Mayors of towns, and all classess. The result of all their deliberations was that every pa rish or half parish should be allowed as many schools as were wanted, provided there was an agreement be tween them and the Central Board. It was agreed that there must first be this common agreement, be cause, if there were not, snpposing there were in the lo cality 200 Dissenters and 201 Churchmen, the Dissenter would be at the mercy of the Churchmen without any appeal—but by the previous agreement, this was ob viated by the superintendance of the General Board. It was agreed that no article, or subscription of any article should be necessary, but it was agreed that the 'Bible in all schools should be a reading book. That was not agreed to till after much discussion, but it was found neces •ary to yield, that the Scriptures ought to form part and parcel of the education in all schools. He urged that there were Jews who objected to the New Testament, and there were the Catholics who objected to one version of the Bible. It was then agreed that, provided any parent objected to have his child taught in any of those books it should not be done. It was then said, suppose a great majority o f th e c hild ren were anxious to read the Scriptures, and be taught in the principles of the Established Church, would that he ob jected to. The Dissenters immediately said," We shall be subscribing our money for teaching that which we cannot approve of." He answered then that they must take the teaching of the Scriptures out of the plan al together, because of the Jews and the Catholics. " Oh," said they, " that is a very different case, for Christianity is part and parcel of the law of the land. They were ng lawyers who said that, for it is not so—the argument cut against themselves, for the Christianity of the Established Church of England and Ireland is the law of the land. They reflected upon the matter, and saw all its difficulties—they saw they were about to give one rule to themselves, and another to their teilow-subjects the Jews. He had always found—and he was sorry and ashamed to be obliged to acknowledge it—that every one sect was equally intolerant as the Church ever was. Persons who thought themselves the friends of education, who said they were very fond of education, still preferred spiritual dominion— they preferred education to everything but a triumph over a rival sect.—(Cheers.) When it came to their own case there was no one sect but was as intolerant and anxious for spiritual power—for a triumph over a rival sect, as ever the Church was. He spoke it with great pain, but it was the truth, and like a bitter medicine it was wholesome.—(Laughter.) It only re mained for him to add, that they were now on the eve of having something done for the progress of edu cation in this country. Normal schools were to be es tablished—that formed part of his plan, and he would be truly rejoiced if that part of it were carried into effect alone, for he was quite convinced they would have the hest possible effect. They were going on very well, their prospects were brightening ; and, unless they were interfered with by an insincere demand from the Church to have the whole education of the country in its own hands—(Cheers)—to which they had not the slightest right by law—he had stated that opinio❑ in his place in Parliament, and he had been at once confirmed by Lord Abinger, who was not probably very friendly to the cause they had at heart—if they were not met by that cry, they had a prospect of great brightness before them.—(Cheers.) On the other hand, he hoped that equally senseless jealousy between the various sects of Dissenters would spring up to mar the harmony of the great trial.—(Loud cheers.) He begged pardon for having detained them with his thrice told tale. He had told the same story these last thirty years, and if he lived he would have to tell it for thirty years more, as the old senseless cry was never suffered to sleep. The great principle of civil and religious liberty had all along been the principle of his life, and it would conti nue to be the rule of his public conduct.--(Cheers.) Having called upon Mr. Simpson, that gen. tleman stood forward, and the Noble Lord said he felt great satisfaction in being authorized by that respectable assembly, which was composed of those who had been the hearers of those lectures by which all had been benefited, to present to him that handsome present, the result of their united subscrip tions. He had long had the honour of the acquair.tance of Mr. Simpson, ever since the time they studied at the same University, along with many who were now no more, and some who were still alive, and ornaments to society. Among the latter he had great pleasure in naming Lord Lansdowne, who was. at the head of the Board for carrying out the Government plan of educa tion, a Nobleman Of whom he could not say more than that he was the warmest friend of civil and religious liberty, an inheritance he had obtained from his father, the late Lord Shelborne, far more preciousthan titles or estates. He (Lord Brougham) had stepped aside to pay this tri bute to his excellent friend, and it now only remained for him to state the great satisfaction he felt in pre senting this piece of plate to Mr. Simpson, which was the result of a subscription among those friends who had been delighted with hearing his lectures ! Mr Simpson by those lectures, and his exertions in the 'Thanks having been voted to the Noble Marquis Ln the chair the Committee adjourned. PRICE OF SUGAR. EFFECT OF MONOPOLY. Table showing the ex•duty price of West India Sugar ; in Mincing-lane, and comparing the same against that of Foreign Sugars. LONDON, JUNE 1. The Gazette of last night quotes the average price o British Plantation Muscovado Sugar, exclusive of duty, at 425. 9d. per cwt. The actual sales on account of the Importers in the week ending the 27th May, on which the above price is computed, consisted of 1,147 hhds., 119 trs., and 88 barrels. Since the reduction in the amount of bunty in October last, no sales of refined Sugar made from West India, have been effected_ The enormously high prices paid for Sugar by all British consumers, connot therefore now be attributed to bounty. Nevertheless, there still remains a clear bounty of 10s. Bd. per cwt., which will come into active operation in the fall of the year, provided the Bounty Act should be renewed in July, and will always maintain the average price of West India Muscovades at 10s. per cwt, above the price of free-labour Sugar from other quarters. We trust, however, as the Board of Trade is now aware of the pernicious working of the bounty system, that the Pre sident of it will oppose this renewal, and will allow West Indian Sugar to find its level with the prices of other su gars, by insisting that the former shall be manufactured under lock with the latter when intended to be exported. The produce of the refineries,• working foreign sugar under lock, have been sold as follows, deducting shipping charges : Refined, equal in quality to double refined, at 345. per cwt. Bastard Sugar .. Treacle The ages of persons accused were— lEngland. Scotland. I IrelaruL„ yrs. IMales. Females. I.Males. Females. ...,lale` r---- ;.7 — ales. 12* 1 3171 491 58 16 103! 20 12 to 161 1,9331 358! 368 66 69 163 16 to 211 5,562 . 1,1651 700 199 2,409' 9 59 21 to 301 5,935. 1,2801 738 268 4,217, 1, 585 30 to 40; 2.733' 673' 407 140 1,9911 628 40 to 50 1,226 396 1 144 67 , 1,0001 275 50 to 60 545 146' 59 .29 310 115 - 40 Above 60 289 7 71 lB 8 1011 t 1 365 45; 117 16 9351 174 —..........-----' ' • ... . .118,905, 4,1891 2,609 809 111,7641 3,659 TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. f Sir,—ln your paper o f thi s even i ng , I read a report o f the meeting held last evening, at Theobald's-roa d. , contains inaccuracies p re j u di c i a l t o m y c haracter. 1 °l o l a Reporter first states that theconfusion was so great ° to continual, that h e c ou ld no t un d ers t an d anything' that what was goi ng on ; he , that Major Benio ws ki could however, afterwards say s, n° not obtain the chair, beta the Poles thought generally he was a spy- I b°Pe ; Sir, you will find it astonishing how he could know any, and particularly a t suc h a mee ti ng , who w ag a ; Pole, an Englishm an , a R uss i an , or o f any o ther na ti° and also how he could, during the meeting, become 8 5 quainted with th e th oug ht s omy fellow-countrywi,e°, No Pole has sp o k en th ere —th e s i mp l e f ac t is this. .1" meeting was called by pl a c a rds, s igned by Muse Ken Secretary to the L on d on P recursors , w ho propd a% insisted upon Dr. W a d e t a ki n g th e c h a ir, in opPe sit a , i° to whom another p ar t o f the meetin g particularly c 7 15 posed, I am satit,fied, of working men, p r oposed , ir, equally strongly in s isted, upon my taking the c ht% t . Mr. Kean very regularly put it to the appeased w e d ing ; the majority wa s doubtf u l, a nd each party ela gn b t the victory. Myself, however, and Dr. Wade, th ° " r e it more patriotic to leave the chair to some on e Thee neutral than we could possibly be supposed to be. number of real Poles present was not above 70, lcue, the meeting n um b ere d a t l eas t 800 individua ls ; °tee know one another well—and I suppose you will B g r es s with me that at a meeting convened for the elP r n d was more than one secret E purpose of condemning the Russian Hereditary Grand Duke, there anxious to create disturbance, and particularly to cry , down the man who was idle first to make an aP r e tZ l e warning the public against the infarnour intrigues ° Russian Court now going on in London. This, my publishbut appeal, you, Sir, have had the kindness to agents areon five days ago (May 27), Secret Russian Reporters o always the most busy round the ears of Re such emergencies. Do not, Sir, aggravate the but too great sufferings of a martyr of Russian machiavelismt, by refusing to give publicity to these my humble, b ut strictly true remarks.—Yours, respectfully, 13. BENIONVSK" 3, Broad-court, Long Acre, ussiati agent June 1, 1839 The produce of the refineries working West Indian Sugar and Molasses for home consumption have been sold as follows, ex duty : Refined, equal in quality to double refined, at 60i. per cwt. Bastard Sugar Treacle 32s. Yielding the West Indian as the fruits of the monopoly in sugar alone, a sum of 4,500,0001. per annum. 1 'S NEW COLBURN_'...-------r--""--- MONTHLY MAGAzira Fort JUNE is embellished with two charmingly executed i.llus7 trations, by R. W. Buss, of Mrs. Trollope's " Married," in which the artist evinces a genius in this d e his art which unquestionably places him in,, th ,,,. partment of foremost rank of the delineators of humour, In the 1 0 - t , Wido t o . chapters of the story itself, Mrs. Trollope displays all b e e r usual felicity ; the Widow and her husband and daugl.,“- are brought from Van Diemen's Land to England. " r i Hook, in his " Stir in the Household," luxuriates in th a a , peculiar tact of domestic minutiae, which throws the ch sr l a of reality over all his productions of this nature. hi , Westminster of Old" we h ave some pleasant topg! a P On e cal and historical reminiscences. " Boar Hunting" ' s ,: 'n of the old Fore s t R anger ' s vivid descr i pt i ons o f SP° 1. 1";" the East. " The Life and Times Peter of Prigga" c o l. besides a pr oem i a l and peroratory logornachy of the .: 00 lege Sc out and Bed-maker" gives an amusing illustrs" ,i of habit ua l mendacity, entitled "A Day with Sir T ho rhis in whi c h a pseud-huno, at college is made to P e tying life on horseback. "A' Domestic Scene" is a totletebes incident i n t h e lif e o f C anova , to ld by Napoleon. " S k o K. of Illyria, Italy, and the Tyrol" are by the Rey. be Gleig. " Private Theatricals" is a pleasant rise, progress, decline, and fall of that pastime. L ' - ',. 'n o n- Marryatt continues his " Phantom Ship," and tnuaetrP, Mrs. Norton, Captain Spencer, &c., contribute the p . , tie, paperrioanntst in There are also " The Great Dooings cf Dr. I- )0 °" " The Literature of the Month," &c. &c. _....a50 THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS.—The beau- t L i f a u n l g u little a g e w o o f !. k F t l h o a w t e h r s a , s ,, r i e s c e a nt p l y r a a ct p i p c e a a l r g e u d i , d e e n t t o i tl t e h d e , k"The now ledge of floral emblems, and will be found most useful to those who are desirous .of adopting the beautiful eastern ater any leflgth of custom of corresponding by means of flowers. Lady Wortley Montagu, in her charming letters, alludes to this practice, when she speaks of comw m h u ic n i i i ca w t a in s g vva th rm ou , g a h n t d s oand flower opinions, bei n being withouti tlmu si t .mi t e sm v r sre r irigison inkingyour ti:ilni. fingers, no fruit BODY FOUND IN THE RIVER• -- Thursday morning, about half-past four o'clock, the body of J o h n White, a Chelsea waterman, was seen floating in the river off Cheyne.walk. The deceased's hat was found in some e of Y a ork c s , h )r i o re ne G es rey in p qu bli c , hozie had dd evidently i s d h e o n r t t l y gat distancebee l o t uest. I t i ; supposed the deceased, who is an elderly man, must , wheretime, witaaswcaoiatvse3t,hede result have met his death by accidentally falling :nto tile river, eosutlht ,~;,. I Sev IQ Sa) no; kr ha