The Sun. — London, England, 1839-03-13 00:00:00

NEW YORK, FEZ. 90._We gave yesterday the account of the arrest of Mr. M'lntyre, and other Americans, who 'iad endeavoured to put a stod to the trespassers from the Britl:h side of the disputed territory. The Governor of :vlaine has sent to the Governor of New Brunswick, to kqow if he authorises the arroet. In the mean time great lireparations are making in Maine, to resent the outrage. It seems that about one o'clock on Tuesday night the souse where M'lntyre slept was surrounded by about 40 ' l °, ll arnu. M'lntyre and others were called up, and or:.ertd to b e realy to march to Fredericton. M'lntyre _ Itrnandtd by what authority they arrested him. " This o. 0. 00.ur authority," sa id t h e comman d er, present i ng t h e p o int Gar bayonet ! took them to Woodstock, had them up before a vuso. magistrate,u:ho issued a warrant against M'lntyre, Gusta- C MIMI, and Thomas Bartlett, and marched them tortnwitta to Fredericton. Colon-1 Webster came to Houlton last night, and in' r 'rated Mr. Pael:Ard that a body of 175 volunteers, under rr,n, had proceeded up the liver to capture or disperse the " The Governor of Maine is said to have sent a messen ger to the Governor of Massachusetts, with despatches, the latter state also claiming jurisdiction in the disputed terri tory. The messenger arrived at Boston on Tuesday. " Mr. M'Laughlin, the Warden of the public lands of New Brunswick, and Captain Tibbets, •of the Tobique settlement, had been arrested by Captain Rines of the Maine expedition, and taken to Bangor. " Mr. M`Laughlin was going up the Aroostook to hold a talk with Mr. M•lntire, when be fell in with the party of Captain Rines, who thought best to make him prisoner. He stated that all the force on the Aroostook was about thirty trespassers, and that the authorities or people of the Tobique settlement had nothing to do with the capture of the land-agent. " A messenger passed through Boston yesterday, with despatches for Washington. He reported that the Legis lature of Maine had appropriated 800,000 dollars to carry out this business. " An Extra from the office of the Boston Atlas, states that despatches had been received by Governor Fairfield from Sir John Harvey, claiming exclusive jurisdiction in the disputed territory, and declaring his intention to enforce it. Also that 8,000 troops have been ordered oat by the Government of Maine." THE NORTH EASTERN FRONTIER. —There is no further intelligence from the seat of w ar . W e h ave on ly to repeat our hope that Maine will not place her se lf more i n the wrong i than she is at present. It s very certain that the General Government will compel her if necessary, to respect the temporary arrangement made with Great Britai n i n re l a ti on to tk quiet jurisdiction which each party has heretofore exercised over the territory in dispute. EVENING EDITION. LITE .AND R 0 THE UNITED STATES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. BRISTOL, MARCH 12. have the pleasure to communicate to you that t:ie Gc<at Western left New York on the 25th ult., at ,! balf-past two p.m., and arrived here this day at two P. M . The following are some particulars of the voyage : Monday, Feb. 25. 2 30 P.M. left the wharf; 4 30 pilot left off the Hook. 26. Wind variable, easterly ; lat. 40.24. long. 70.15. ; distance 170. Remarks :—Moderate breezes and hazy, ...,utterly swell. 27. Easterly, S. W. ; 40.39. 66.25. ; 175. Fresh breeze -, , creased to a sale, with much sea; fresh breezes, .4ggy, and heavy swell. 28. Variable, easterly and westerly ; 40.55. 62.37. ; 202. Light breezes and foggy ; moderate, and cloudy. March 1. Variable, ea , ,terly and south-westerly ; 41.40 i 57.49. ; 208. Variable and hazy ; strong gales and squally, sea rising fast. 2. W. S. W. to W.N. W. ; 42.22. 62.52; 230. Hard gales and very heavy squalls, high breaking sea ; strong gales and squally ; rain at times. 3. W. N.W. to W. S. \V. ; 43.16. 47.60. ; 232. Wind decreasing, and less sea; fresh breezes and cloudy, high ) swell; passed several icebergs, largest about 80 feet ( high and a quarter of a mile long. 4. S. W. to \N. S. W. ; 44.47. 42.30. ; 250. Strong breezes an 1 hazy, increased to hard gales and heavy squalls, with showers and heavy rain. 5. S. W. to N.W. ; 46.20. 37.50. ; 217. Hard gales and heavy squalls, fresh gales and squally, sleet at r ti.nes ; cross sea. 6. Variable, easterly ; 47.10. 33.19 ; 204. Wind gra• dually decreasing, fresh breezes and cloudy ; cross sea. 7. S. E. variable, S. Westerly ; 48.38. 29.38. ; 160. In -1 ere lied to heavy gales and tremendous squalls ; rain and hail; high dangerous breaking sea. The liquid in Sympsometer acquired a perfectly muddy appearance, nod, with the Barometer, undulated full a quarter of an inch for six or eight hours. Fresh gales and squally ; less sea, but still high and cross. I S. S. Westerly ; 49.46. 24.33. ; 223. Strong breezes and squally ; ra:n and hail at times ; long westerly s cll. I in fo, 9. Southerly S. Easterly ; 50.38. 18.17. ; 247. Strong breez,s and squally ; rain and hail ; unequal sea, and high swell. 10. Variable, southerly ; 50.55. 13.7. ; 198. Squally, unsettled, westerly ; rain at times ; short easterly sea. 1 - 11. variable, S. Easterly; 51.16. 7.44. ; 204. Squally, 1 unsettled, westerly; rain at times; short chopping sea. 12.3 ♦.at. saw Lundy Island bearing S. by W. Two I r. at. arrived in King Road. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, JAMES 110 SK EN, R.N., Captain. SHIPS SPOKEN WITH. Ltncxx 5, NooN.—Exchanged colours with an American supposed a packet, running to the eastward, with ited ports, and maintop-gallant mast on end, lat. 46 icno,. 37 50. MAacn 8, 7 P. 51. —Spoke a ship standing to westward, b! could not distinguish her name, supposed to be a South Ara , rican ship, lat. 50, long. 26. ".11.tacn 9, 4 P. M.—Spoke an American ship, Nicholas Biddle, from London, bound to New York, lat. 50 40, lone. 17. _ _ MARcii 10, 4 r. Al. —Exo,hariged numbers with the Bri ish brig, Thomas Washington, running to eastward, lat. 31, long. 12. List of Passengers, per Great Western, from New York Bristol, sailed 25th February, 1839 :—Mr. C. C. Mac .ish, Rev. Thomas Applegate, Lady of ditto ; Messrs. to Goclet, J. C. Mayor, William Alhusen, Paul Arid, W. S. Martin, M. H. Perley, Oliver Parker, J. Bessell, James Lockwood, James Hosford, Lovel Fol t, P. Townsend, junior, G. Leacock, Thomas G. Good J. Mason, Servant to ditto, Mr. A. Smith, Hon. nrY Forrester, Grenadier Guards, Messrs. A. Buller, FeatberstOnhaugh, Alonzo Draper, Henry Lebor, i;giaro Whiley, Edwark Gaskill, James B. Reid, J. ad, W. A. Treedennick, G. H. Sontag, A. Wappous, 'a. C. A. Brixen and child, Mr. Stevenson, and Mrs. ;:venson (no connection).—Total 36. TO CAPTAIN JAMES HOSKEN, R.N. Commander Steam Ship Great Western. Dear Sir—The undersigned, Committee of passengers the steam ship Great Western, on her recent jo.:.e from Bristol to this port, desire your acceptance of .c,:ornpanying plate, as a token of their personal „:e. ;a ::nti regard, and of the high estimation in which e 3 hold your talents as a seaman and Commander. 'll,ey would also take this opportunity to express the atiL'ation afforded them, in witnessing the triumph of .am navigation, as evidenced in the successful termina m of our present voyage, which has been made during most inclement season of the year. With best wishes for your health and happiness, We are dear Sir, Your obedient Servants, B. F. BABCOCK, WM. CHAUNCEY, EDWARD HARDY, i W. F. PATTISOM, JAMES LEE, WM. SHAW, C. HA RVIER, I J. J. Cuaaza. New York, 21st Feb. 1839. ) the Committee of Passengers onboard the Great Wes tern, on her recent voyage from Bristol to New York : Gentlemen-1 tender you my best thanks for the grati leg testimonial of esteem and regard you have this day -escnted me, which I consider, under the circumstances, le most complimentary mark of distinction that could be Ter, d, and as such I shall ever esteem it. Your expressed gratification '° in witnessing the triumph ,f steam navigation," I receive as a compliment to the noble which I have the honour and good fortune to corn -land, and to her enterprising owners, and I am sure it will e a proud day for them, when they are made acquainted ith the estimation in which she is held by you. With repeated thanks for your consideration, and best Mrs for your health and happiness, I remain, Gentlemen, very faithfully yours. JAMES HOSKEN. G:eat Western" Steam-ship, New York, Feb► 21, 1839. BORDER TROUBLES. NEW BRUNSWICK AND MAINE. (From the Courier and Inquirer of Feb. 25.) , From the North Eastern Boundary we have nothing icr, as the mail has not yet arrived. Our private letters frow Washington say that great excitement exists there, at the prospect of a war. On the receipt of the special message, by the President, from the Governor of Maine, celative to the arrest of the land agent, &c., a Cabinet Council was called, which continued in deliberation for many hours. Mr. Van Buren distinguished himself by his coolness and cunning on the occasion. He will be for nr against a war, according as it may favour his chance of ru-election to the Presidency. For our part we feel cer tain there will be no war. g• FROM THE FRONTIER. 1 " Excitement at Bangor—Arrival of the Provincial Land i Agent there as prisoner—his account of the trespassers , _—Letter from Sir John Harvey to Governor Fairfield, ' clAiming exclusive jurisdiction over the disputed terri tory, &c. " We have a letter from Bangor this morning, dated Sunday evening, which says— ' " • Our city has been full of excitement all day. This forenoon Major-General Isaac Hudgsou received an order from Governor Fairfield to dispatch 1,000 men from the 1 31divisi on un d er hi s comma nd,.by draught or otherwise, to rLndezv otts at Bangor, and proceed at the earliest possible moment to the place where is stationed the force under the 1 emu:nand of the land agent, to aid him in carrying into 1 effect the resolve of January the 24th, in regard to the 1 trespassers on the public lands. General Hodgson issued 1 iris orders with groa t p rom pt ness , an d th e troops arc or tiered to be at Ban g or in readiness to march on Wednes day mornin g at eight o'clock. By law twenty-four hours arc allowed each man after notice of his being draughted, to obey the summons or furnish a substitute. There is &Date Leling with the Artillery Company in regard to the l course Strickland pursued with their pieces. He has ,ipoleg;zed and ordered the guns back, so that it is all well co: tiO except some 50 dollars' expense, and that is Ltitily worth naming in comparison with the hundreds spent by Strickland every hour. " ' About five o'clock this evening, Mr. M'Laughlin, 1.-4 e Warden of the disputed territory, was brought into the city a prisoner, and is now at the Bangor House. I 1 «avc conversed freely with him. He says he had been up 1 io tie neighbourhood of Madawaska, about Fish River, stepping trespassers ; that he came down to the mouth of tlie Tubique—there learned for the first time that a dis lurbance had taken place. He there met an order from Sir John Harvey to inquire into the matter. He found i that Nl•lntire had been carried off, and that about fifteen or ty,enty trespassers were concerned in it, who bad arms, and this was all the force that had been engaged in it. As l‘lclntire had been carried away, he followed up the Aroos took about eighty miles, till he came to the force then stationed at No. 10. Captain Rines informed him—after consulting his comrades — that be must consider himse'f a prisoner, as an off-set for the detention of Mclntire; and I,e thereupon started for Bangor, under a small command. McLaughlin thinks no difficulty will grow out of it—that Sir John Harvey will fully concur with us in all measures 0 stop trespassing. He says there has been more than en or twenty men with arms engaged. As soon as in .ltion arrived that the arsenal had been broken open d the arms stolen, the most effectual measures were forma adcpted to stop it. " M'Laughlin is commander of the military force in that region. He thinks Strickland has been too much ex citco, and that the amount of trespassing is much less than has been represented by our accounts. M‘Langhlin says that he had no idea of finding our people assuming a belligerent attitude, and came into our camp without sus .ectieg that any hostile designs existed. He looked upon the seizure of NPlntire as an unwarrantable act of the tres passees, which would not for a moment be countenanced by the Government. He thinks if the object of the expe dition is understood, as intended for the protection of the tmitc,ry against tre - -passers, that Sir John Harvey will unite fuOy in the undertaking. di H. force on the Aroostook, and that they had employed 25 Indians, who joined them on their march. The force which Sheriff Strickland had under his com mand had fallen back upon No. 10, where they are secure against any encroachments, their position rendering it im possible to dislodge them without a strong force. They have a brass field piece under their control, in addition to small arms. It is said that Captain Rines has been chosen to the command. On the 15th inst., immediately after the arrival of the express at Augusta, with intelligence of the capture of the land agent by the trespassers, Governor Fairfield sent the following message to the Legislature, announcing the fact; and stating that he had advised the sending of a reinforce ment of 300 men. Also that he had dispatched a special messenger to the Lieut.-Governor of New Brunswick : " To the House of Representatives, " In compliance with the request of the House of Re presentatives, I hereby communicate such information as I have in relation to the reported abduction of the land agent. " Under the resolve of the 24th of January last, entitled ' Resolve relating to trespasses upon the public lands,' the land agent repaired with about 200 chosen men to the scene of operations on the Aroostock river. Prier to his reaching there, it is understood that the trespassers, amounting to about 300 in number, all well-armed, had combined, and were determined to resist every effort that should be made to break them up. Finding, however, that the land agent had prepared himself with a six pounder, they chose to retire from the ground, passing down the river. " The land agent with his company also passed down the Aroostook to near its mouth, finding the several places of operation abandoned by the trespassers. Oil Monday last, they captured a gang of about 26, who bad been operating fur ther up the river, and sent several wbo were considered the ringleaders to Bangor, where it is supposed they are now in gaol. On Monday the land agent sent a letter to Mr. M'Laughlin, the land agent,for the province of New Bruns wick, inviting a meeting with him at the house of a Mr. Fitz Herbert, about four miles from where the company were then stationed ; and on the same evening, with four others, Mr. M'lntyre repaired to the house of Mr. Fitz Herbert, intending to pass the night there. The tres passers, however, became possessed of the facts, and de tached a company of about 50, who seized the agent, and those accompanying him, and transported them, it is be lieved, beyond the bounds of the State. " One company is now at No. 10, on the Aroostook, fortified, and anticipating an attack, in case any attempt should be made on our part to execute the resolve' of the 24th of January, by destroying the timber which has already been cut. " I have advised the sending of a reinforcement of 300 men, as it is probable the number of trespassers will be constantly augmented ; and if a resolve to that effect be passed, shall appoint an agent to supply temporarily the place of Mr. M'lnt3 re, and lead on the expedition. " I have also despatched a special messenger to Sir J. Harvey, Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick, for the purpose, among other things, of ascertaining whether these high-handed proceedings of the trespassers are au thorised, or in any way countenanced by the Provincial Government, and to procure the release of the agent and those taken with him. The messenger was also charged with other matters pertaining to this most extraordinary and outrageous proceeding. " The facts above stated, except in relation to my own doings, have been communicated to me personally by the Sheriff of Penobscot, who formed one of the company of the land agent. " This is the only communication from the land agent or his company, which I have verbally or otherwise, that could be relied upon. " JOHN FAIRFIELD. " Council Chamber, Feb. 15, 1839." After the reading of this message, the Legislature passed a resolution authorising the appointment of a temporary land agent. Charles Jarvis, Esq., was thereupon ap pointed, who is said to be a man of judgment and expe rience. The proceedings of Mr. M'lntyre and Sheriff Strickland are severally commented on by the Maine papers. The following is the communication from Sir John Har vey to Governor Fairfield:— " Government-house, Frederickton, New Brunswick, Feb. 13. " Sir—l have just heard with the utmost surprise and regret, that without the courtesy of any previous intima tion whatever to this Government, an armed force from the State of Maine has entered the territory, the claim to which is in dispute betwixt Great Britain and the United States, and which it has been agreed betwixt the two Governments shall remain in the exclusive possession and jurisdiction of England until that claim be determined. " It has been my duty on more than one occasion to apprize the Executive Government of Maine that my in structions do not permit me to suffer any interference with that possession and jurisdiction until the question of right shall have been finally decided in discussion betwixt the two Governments. " With the knowledge of those instructions, thus expli citly made known, I:cannot but repeat the expression of the deep regret which I feel, that instead of seeking their recall or modification through the Presidential Govern ment, the %tate of Maine should thus have forced upon a subordinate officer the alternative of either failing in his duty, by abstaining from the fulfilment of the commands of his Sovereign, or, by acting up to them, placing the two countries in a state of border collision, if not the two na tions in immediate and active hostility. Such, nevertheless, is the position in which I find myself placed by this overt act on the part of the State of Maine, one from which I do not hesitate in entreating your Excellery to relieve me, by ordering the imme diate of a force whose presence within the precincts of the territory as claimed by England, it is contrary to my instructions to permit ; and it is proper that I should acquaint your Excellency, that I have directed a strong force of her Majesty's troops to be in readiness to sup port her Majesty's authority, and to protect her Majesty's subjects, in the disputed territory, in the event of this request not being immediately complied with. With regard to any other plea for these proceedings on the part of the State of Maine, connected with timber spoliation& in that terri tory, I have to inform your Excellency that I have given directions for a boom to be placed across the mouth of the Aroostook, where the seizing officer, protected by a suffi cient guard, will be able to prevent the passage of any timber into the St. John's in the spring, or to seize it and expose it to public sale, for the benefit of the 4 Disputed Territory Fund.' " Similar precautions will be adopted in regard to any timber cut upon the Upper St. John's, or the tributary streams falling into it. " Awaiting anxiously your Excellency's reply to this communication, " I have the honour to be your Excellency's most obedient humbe servant, " J. HARVEY." The following proclamation on this subject has been issued by Sir John Harvey, and perhaps gives the best in sight we could have into the views of the colonial autho rities on this troublesome question : " A PROCLAMATION. " Whereas I have received information that a party of armed persons, to the number of 200 or more, have invaded a portion of this province under the jurisdiction of her Ma jesty's Government, from the neighbouring state of Maine, for the professed object of exercising authority, and driv ing off persons stated to be cutting timber thereon; and that divers other persons have, without any legal authority, taken up arms with the intention of resisting such inva sion and outrage, and have broken open certain stores in Woodstock, in which arms and ammunition belonging to her Majesty, were deposited, and have taken the same away for that purpose—l do hereby charge and command all per sons concerned in such illegal acts forthwith to return the arms and ammunition so illegally taker, to their place of deposit, as the Government of the Province will take care to adopt all necessary measures for resisting any hostile in vasion or outrage that may be attempted upon any part of her Majesty's territories or subjects. " And I do hereby charge and command all magistrates, sheriffs, and other officers, to be vigilant, aiding and assist ing in the apprehension of all persons so offending, and to bring them to justice. And in order to aid and assist the civil power in that respect, if necessary, I have ordered a sufficient military force to proceed forthwith to the place where these outrages are represented to have been committed, as well to repel foreign invasion, as to pre vent the illegal assumption of arms by her Majesty's sub jects in this province. " And further, in order to be prepared, if necessary, to call in the aid of the constitutional militia force of the country, I do hereby charge and command the officers commanding the first and second battalions of the militia of the county of Carleton, forthwith to proceed as the law directs to the drafting of a body of men, to consist of one fourth of the strength of each of these battalions, to be in readiness for actual service, should occasion require. .. By his Excellency's command, " WILLIAM F. ODELL. " God save the Queen." On this affair we copy the following particulars from the New York paper of the 25th ult.:— " The Governor of Maine has ordered 1,000 of the Penobscot militia to march with all speed to the scene of the troubles, in aid of the force under command of the new land agent. These troops were to march on Wednesday morning from Bangor. " On the other hand, Sir John Harvey is said also to have ordered out a thousand of his militia, with directions to march at once into the disputed territory. Also it is said that regular troops have been ordered from Frederic ton, St. John, and Halifax ; that a boom is to be placed at the mouth of the Aroostook, to catch the timber as it comes down, with a sufficient force to protect it. . _ THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1839. LATEST NEWS FROM TEXAS. Affairs in the Republic are represented to be in a quiet and prosperous condition. General Rusk had returned to Clarksville from his expedition to the frontier in pursuit of the Indians and Mexicans, who fled and retreated beyond his reach. The depredations of the savages had ceased, and fur the present no apprehension was felt from danger in that quarter. The Houston Intelligencer and Galveston Gardea of the Bth inst. contain no news, except the particulars of a tremendous gale from the North-East, accompanied by hail and snow. Congress having adjourned, the town of Houston was very dull. To this, the resolution of Congress to select another seat of Government, no doubt contributed. It was supposed that the capital would be located somewhere on the banks of the Colorado. As the borders of the Texas will expand westward, perhaps it would be well to choose a location in that region. A ssul. titude of travellers were at Houston, awaiting an opportu nity to return to the United States. General Rusk, it was thought, would accept the office of Chief Justice of the Republic. CorTori.—Very large sales have recently been made at New Orleans—one of b,OOO bales at 15 cents. ♦RRIVAL OF THE STEAM-SHIT LIVERPOOL-..-NINE DATE LATER. That splendid steam-ship the Liverpool arrived off the Hook yesterday evening, in exactly 13 days from Liver pool, after an extraordinarily severe and tempestuous pas sage. She reached the dock at six o'clock this morning. She bas thus proved herself the best sea boat and swiftest steamer out of this port. Her news is of much interest. The Royal William arrived out in 17 days. The packet ship Monti cal arrived out in 23 days. The news from Persia is very warlike. Cotton was in fair demand on the 4th of February at full prices. The money-market on the 4th of February was light ; money on that day, when a large amount of bills generally fall due, was found to be, unusually heavy, so much so that many of the bankers were detained beyond the usual hour in making up their accounts; nevertheless we have heard of no cases of default worth mentioning, the payments being met promptly by the acceptors of the bills. Money continues in very good demand in the discount market without any alteration in the rate of interest; but at the Stuck Exchange it was difficult to obtain more than 2} per cent. for loans on English securities, and 3 to 3} per cent, on the best description of foreign stocks. Now ready, THE THIRD EDITION OF ItICHELIEU A FLAY. By Sir LYTTON BULWER, Bart. Saunders and Otley, Conduit-street. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. TOMORROW EVENING, ]MARCH 14, Will be performed the New Play, in Five Acts, called RICHELIEU, OR THE CONSPIRACY, Written by Sir E. Lytton Bulwer, Bart. The Characters by Mr. Elton, Mr. Diddear, Mr. Macready, Mr. Warde, Mr. An derson, Mr. Vining. Mr. Roberts, Mr. Phelps, Mr. G. Ben nett, Mr. Howe, Miss E. Phillips, Mr. Tilbury, Mr. Yar nold, Mr. W. Is. Payne, Mr. C. J. Smith, Mr. Bender, Mr. Paulo, Mr. Gough, Mr. Thorne, Mr. Brady, Mr. Bur det, Mr. Smith, Mr. Kirke, Mr. Hollingsworth, M r . Wal dron, Mr. Ayliffe, Mr. Andrews, Mr. I'. Matthews, Miss Helen Faucit, Miss Charles, Mesdames Reed, Corder, Lee, Valanduke, Mathews, Mew, and Morgan. After which, FRA DIAVOLO. Marquis San Carlos, Mr. Frazer ' • Lorenzo, Mr. Burnett ; Zerlina, Miss Rainforth. On Friday there will be no performance. On Saturday, Richelieu, with The Agreeable Surprise. On Monday, Richelieu, with The Portrait of Cervantes, and Chaos is Come Again. On Tuesday, King Lear, with Rob Roy. •&`-' The Ecclesiastical Duties Bill is, if possible, to be forwarded before, the Irish Railway Resolutions - are not to be reported till after, Easter. The former will strengthen and consolidate the Church—it will be sup ported by the Tories ; the latter will only tend to im prove the nation—it will be opposed by the Tories and Radicals ; therefore the former is to to be hastened on, and the latter postponed. These, however, are only some of the usual devotions in the Temple of Faction, as the House of Commons is now properly named. Sir ROBERT INGLIS put to the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER similar questions to those addressed by the Bishop of LONDON to Lord MELBOURNE in the House of Lords the night before, touching the Post-office, and the CHANCELLOR answered there was no intention whatever of sending out letters on the Sunday, but that letters might be delivered to those who applied for them was a subject which could be en tertained without infringing on the Sabbath, certainly not more than by Sir R. INGLIS'S servants cooking his dinner, and by the Bishop of LONDON'S coachman and groom harnessing his horses and driving him to Church. Mr. VILLIERS then brought forward his motion for the House to resolve itself into a Committee on the Corn-laws. The Hon. Member began by declaring that he meant not to deserve the reproach made on a former occasion of discussing this question on narrow grounds. He rejoiced that his opponents were so eager for the contest as to have given notice of an amendment, accompanied by arguments, in favour of the law. But though the question was to be discussed on broad grounds, it was itself a simple question, resembling the right to personal liberty or to freedom of opinion. He entered into the facts of the case by, bserving that he and Mr. CAYLEY, who was to move the amendment, were directly at issue as to the effects of the Corn-laws on the productive classes. Assuming the labourer to be the most numerous of the productive classes, and adroitly referring to the cry set up by the landlords that this was a labourer's question, Mr. VIL LIERS proceeded to prove, by the report of the Poor law Commissioners, by an elaborate series of tables, showing the rate of wages, price of provisions, and what wages would purchase at different periods, that the high price of corn was very injurious to the labourer ; that he got proportionately less to eat as it rose in price ; and that his condition had been deteriorated by the high prices of corn as kept up by the Corn-laws. He proved that more work for less money was always extorted from the labourer, during high prices, than when prices were low. He proved, too, that the Corn laws did not provide employment for the agricultural population, 7,000 of whom had been removed into the towns since the new Poor-law Act was passed. He demonstrated that the farmers had been in a continual state of distress, and their labourers more discontented, since the Corn-laws were passed than ever before. He showed that the same ground on which the landlords claimed protection from foreign c ompetition—the cheap ness of foreign production, operated in prescribing pro tection to the manufacturers ; but they demanded it only by having the Corn-laws repealed. He adverted to the law which kept the profit of capitalisi:s equal, and showed that the Corn-law, by enhancing the out goings of the farmer for rates, taxes, subsist ence, seed-corn, and wages, increased the burdens, and he explained that not only was there great distress amongst the farmers in conjunction with the Corn-laws, but the Corn-laws, by raising the price, in creasing their out-goings, and diminishing profits, were the catilstress. Even the report of the first Agricultural Committee traced the distress to the Corn-laws. Entering into detail, Mr. VILLIERS pointed out the manner in which farmers had been de luded by the assurance of the law, that wheat should sell at one time at 80s., and another at 643., into pro mising a corresponding rent for the Lind, and then, being unable to obtain such a price, becoming beggared, and dependent on their landlords. He traced in a clear and succinct manner the effect of the laws, in shut ting us out of foreign markets, and letting in foreign crops when our crops wara short, so as always to prevent the farmer from reaping the advantage he expected. Mr. VILLIERS examined at some length the pretext set up be the landowner to defend their injustice, including the effects of various taxes, and concluded a long, able, and unimpassioned speech—full of facts and just reasoning-- by moving for a Committee of the whole House. Sir GEORGE STRICKLAND seconded the motion, and entered more than Mr. VILLIERS into the effects of the Corn-laws on the manufacturers, and on the prices of corn ; and was growled at and hooted by the squires at the close of his speech, when he referred to the proud aristocracy of England, looking back at some day with shame that they had ever filled their coffers with money by raising the price of every morsel of bread that was eaten by the humblest and most wretched of their fel low-creatures. 'Thereupon the humane and unshamed squires groaned loudly at the Hon. Baronet. Mr. CAYLEY stepped forward as the advocate of those rich men to fill whose purses the bread of the widow and the orphan, the sorry crust of the labourer, and the scanty allowance of the poor factory children arc all taxed, but was not long on his legs before he announced his intention, because he had been pressed on both sides of the House, to give up his amendment, that the Corn-laws had been a blessing to the land, and to content himself with moving a direct negative on the motion. With the letter of 1835 recalled to public notice, even Mr. CAYLEY has not brass enough to persist in his resolutions. Nothing, it has been asserted, can be said new on the Corn-laws. Mr. CAYLEY gave a complete contradiction to the saying, and found out something completely new. He said, in substance, that as long as the manufacturer dealt with the English farmer for his corn there- was an identity of interest between them, but that as soon as he dealt with the foreign farmer, then that identity of interest ceased. As soon as he bought a quarter of wheat in Prussia, he employed Prussian labour and disemployed English labour, he employed Prussian capital and disemployed English capital, he employed Prussian land and disem ployed English land. The obvious conclusion from which sagacious statement is, that the English manu facturer has no right to employ the Prussian, and the disemployed landowner insists on taxing the slave ma nufacturer for his presumption; Mr. CAYLEY_,. we will suppose, prefers ST ULTZ to NUGEE, or HAW to some other fashionable shoemaker. He gives his custom to STULTZ or Hoav, and, therefore, Mr. CAYLEY disemploys NUGEE, and HOBY'S rivals, and they have clearly as good a right of action against him for damages as the landlords have a right to tax the people's bread, to punish them for wishing to employ the Prussians. In Mr. CAY LEY'S argument there is genius. It is true the manufacturer still buys some beef and mutton of the farmer, still cards and weaves his wool, and gives him a long price for it, spends his income on wine, brandy, and tea, and contributes to *pay the taxes of the State, which he could not do—he would have nothing to do it with—unless he could sell his own woollens or cottons for Prussian corn ; and though he bear a fair share of the national burdens, and in that proportion lightens the burdens of Mr. CAYLEY—pays the expenses of war—helps to de fend the country—goes with Mr. CAY LEY up to the Throne with a Loyal address when times are pros perous, or joins with him in a remonstrance when times are bad,—nevertheless, the Englishman who buys Prussian corn, disemploys Mr. CAYLEY, and they have no longer any community of interest. This argument, duly extended, leads to some extraordinary conclusions. England is the land of beer and gin, as well as of wheat, and beer and gin are made from oats, wheat, or barley, malts, hops, &c. Whoever consumes coffee or tea in preference to beer and gin, or Bourdeaux and Cogniac, in preference to the same beverages, disemploys not only the agriculturists, labourers, tenants, and landlords, but also disemploys the brewers and the distillers, and thus not only tea drinkers but claret drinkers and coffee drinkers have no community of interest with the farmers, and must be considered as their enemies, while a tee totaller, who employs only the pump, is the enemy of the whole race of producers, and ought, if the manufac turer be taxed, for their presumption to be skinned alive. Mr. CAYLEY is a great statistician, but he knows not the value of the facts he quotes. He stated for example, as a reason why the English landowners should have protection, that our agriculturists are the most skil ful in the world, and our land yields eight bushels where the, land of Prussia only yields four. He enumerated a multitude of taxes fall ing on all classes of the people as a reason why the landlords should add to the calamities of taxa tion ; and while these taxes exist, under pretence of counterbalancing their pressure, he takes an additional ten millions sterling from the whole and puts it into the pockets exclusively of the landlords. So by way of encouraging the people to submit to the Corn-laws, he assured them that they might get plenty from Odessa at the price of 335. per quarter, on which showing the landlords make the people at least pay on the average 20s, more per quarter than is ne cessary, and thus they actually tax every loaf, at the rate of nearly sixty per cent on its value ; or they more than double the irksome toils of all the over worked labourers in the country ; and then have the im pudence to call themselves the labourer's friend. He talked of capital having been invested in the land under the faith of an Act of Parliament, but those who thus invest the capital and those who make the laws being the same persons, if the plea that they have done something on the promise made by themselves that something else should be always done, namely, the bread of the people should be always taxed, we see no means by which the people can ever hope to escape from their tyranny. Under that aspect the faith of Parliament means the promises the landowners make themselves, which, looking at their character, is not very well calculated to raise the " faith of Parliament," in public estimation. Mr. CAYLEY is a cunning Yorkshireman, and would evidently make a great figure in the world if other men were not Yorkshire too. We admired especially his conclusion, in which he expressed a hope that the. House would never place the prosperity of the country on such a treacherous basis as foreign trade—.." the golden girdle of the globe"—a part of creation as certain as the seasons and different climates from which it necessarily grows ; and he hoped the people would remain contented under the fostering influence of the landed interest, which he had just described as doubling all their toils, and who are to dispense peace and goodwill by continuing to plunder their neighbours. At hearing this the House did not laugh, neither did it groan, as at Sir G. STRICKLAND—it cheered Mr. CAYLEY as if he bad stated an undoubted and most affectionate truth. Mr. POULETT Trio3tsoWiiupp;;;lthe — inotion for going into Committee, as th e on l y means by which alteration could be made in th e l aws , an d took what he any called this practical view of the question : If he was asked whether it would not be beneficial for the inte rests of the country that there should be a free trade in corn, he answered at once that it would be so.—(Hear.) But he knew well there were considerations—he knew well there were interests —he knew well that these interests could not be either lightly dealt with, or, whatever change was proposed, they should be fairly considered. He, therefore, taking the more prac tical view of the subject, would say at once that he did not go into Committee with that view, but to ascertain in what manner they would be enabled to introduce such a practical change in the system of Corn-laws as would be beneficial to all parties, and not injurious to any ex- isting interests. He (Mr. POULETT TnomsoN) was prepared to submit a plan himself, and there let it be dealt with. The Right Hon. Gentleman subsequently described at considerable length the effects of the Corn-laws, and though he goes not the whole way with us, ho made an effective speech to prove that the Corn laws have not answered the ends for which they were passed, and had been very injurious to the country. He quoted no less than five instances since 1828, of the distress of the agriculturists having received prominent notice in speeches from the Throne, and so pressing was it in 1830 that it was not enough to have it mentioned in the Royal speech—an amendment made it more im pressive. The Right Honourable Gentleman pro fessed a desire to consider fairly the burdens under which the agriculturists labour, but did not think them quite so grievous as they are represented The Hon. Gentleman, whose arguments seem to have been so effective that the gentlemen tried to drown them by noise, concluded by imploring the House not heed lessly or thoughtlessly to reject a m otion on which de pended the welfare of the industrious classes. Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL defended the bumpkin plunder scheme with all his accustomed eloquence. Theengaged , g a se d ed v e o advocate little ed, o f the Cathedral Clergy d comment aelnied Canterbury, i n nhis t the owners of the Ville of Dunkir k, in which there was no school nor any teacher , was a pp ro p riatel y novel oca or tingt s h t e rik c i a ng uset:f the land-own er . speech ; the great point and merit of w hich was tha t he quotedtwelve e te, electors o'clock L :colr o o r s d e ko. JOHN Mr. R n t u i n s g s d e o L n r., sh 2 s r o e f , t en quoted lett e r t o e House of Commons to cleave to the Noble Lord's juve nile errors. The debate wpaasss,adtjooburrinnegditaftorhwaalfr-dpaosnt whclhr.lHrisahnnveali.l,waayftserarea to o rief conversation,,which withdrew s his moti on re l at i ve to t h e p r oprietors of land through some fut ure d ay , modified so as to meet the a pp r obation of the H ouse . Mr. H ARLAND b roug ht in a Bill to improve the practice a n d procee di ngs in the Court of Pleas of the County P a l at i ne o f D ur ham and Sadberge, read a first time, and the House adjourned. - _ By the arrival yesterday of the Great Western steam-ship, Lieutenant JAMES HOSKEN, R.N., Commander at Bristol, in fifteen days from New York, we have received United States Journals of the 25th ult. inclusive, from which highly im portant extracts will be found in another part of The Sun. The Great Western was advertised to sail for England on the 23d, and her being detained two days longer, accounts for her non-arrival here at the time appointed. She made the outward paisage in nineteen days, having had, for a great part of the voyage, adverse winds and a strong cur rent to contend against. The disputes which have arisen between the Governors of New Brunswick and the State of Maine, on the North-eastern Boundary question, exclusively occupy the attention of the New York Papers. They are becoming very serious ; and without the observance of a degree of forbearance on bo!h sides, difficult to expect from men whose passions are in a high state of fermentation, threaten eventually to involve England and the United States in all the calamities of actual war. It will be seen, by referring to the extracts from the American Papers, that a collision has actually taken place between the people of Maine and New Brunswick, of a nature to call for the interference of Congress ; but as the details of the question are not familiar to English readers generally, we shall en deavour to give an outline of them in a few sen tences. By mutual agreement a considerable part of the territory in dispute between England and the United States, has been allowed to remain under the exclusive jurisdiction of England, till the final settlement of the boundary line. Upon this terri tory a party of British lutnberers were engaged for several months, in the course of last year, felling timber. This being communicated to the Governor of Maine, his Excellency addressed a secret message to the Legislature of that State on the 23d of Ja nuary last, recommending the passing of a Resolu tion empowering the Land-agent of Maine to pro ceed to the Aroostook river at the head of a suffi cient force to disperse the British " trespassers ex tensively engaged in devastating and plundering lands belonging to the State of Maine." This message proving extremely acceptable to some war like spirits in the Legislature, a resolution was passed the following day authorising the land-agent at the head of a military force, to " arrest and imprison" all trespassers ;to seize and dispose of their teams, lumber, and hewn timber, and voting ten thousand dollars to defray the expense of the expedition. Armed with this authority, and ac companied by a party to the number of about two hundred volunteers, with a six-pounder, the land-agent proceeded to the Aroostook river to drive off the British. At first they attempted to resist, but being unarmed, they were compelled to make the best of their way to Woodstock. The Ameri cans made prisoners of twenty, and lodged them in the nearest prison. In the meantime, the Bri tish lumberers finding no chance of immediate re dress from their own Government, broke open the arsenal at Woodstock, and arming themselves with 120 stand of rifles, 40 carbines, four kegs of powder, and 2,000 rounds of bail cartridges, sallied forth in their turn to recover their property, and expel the in vaders of the British soil. The Land-agent of the State of Maine finding the business more serious than he had expected, proposed an interview with the Land-agent of New Brunswick, for the effecting of a compromise. This was agreed to, but on his way to the place of meeting he fell into the hands of a party of lumberers, who made him a prisoner. A similar fate befel the Brunswick Land-agent, who was captured by the volunteers of the State of Maine. These details being borne in mind, the official documents of the Governors of Maine and New Brunswick will be easily under stood. It is manifest, from this simple view of the question, that the Governor of Maine is the ag gressor, and that he can have no other object than to provoke a war between two countries whose mutual interest it is to maintain with each other the most friendly relations. By obtaining for his own rash design the consent of the Legislature of one of the States of the Union, he has contrived to change a local into a national broil, and so far seriously compromised the neutrality of Congress. We have no news of much interest from the Canadas. No further outrages had been com mitted, but an impression prevailed that the rebels were at the bottom of the aggressions undertaken by the State of Maine. The latest intelligence from Mexico, and the state of the New York Money market, up to the sailing of the Great Western for Bristol, will he found among our extracts from the American Papers. Whenever there is anything coercive or villain ous to be done, then our rulers assign the great dignity of Government, the necessity of upholding its power, and the propriety of keeping it sacred, far above the sphere of ordinary human beings. Then they only think of the people as an untutored mob, unworthy of being listened to. They ask no advice of public opinion when they propose to take the revenues of Canada into their own hands, or to pass a coercive law- for Ireland. But wlrnever there is a question of something gracious, some thing lion:ist, something approximating to justice, things alien to the nature of Governments, then our rulers cannot budge a step except as theii con stituents drive them. They fall back on the peo ple. They appeal to public opinion ; and, as most agreeable to their nature, they appeal to the most ignorant part of the public, and fall back on the least enlightened portion of the people. Ex tremes, it is said, meet, and so the head turns back and asks advice of the tail. Hence, on the ques tion of the Corn-laws the .Ministers, instead of taking the lead and marking out the policy . of the empire by the most enlightened wisdom they can attain or command, take the law from the serfs and dolts who till the land, and the selfish, ignorant, booby squires. The policy of this great manufac turing and commercial community on the vital arti cle of its food, is, in fact, at this moment deter mined, not by the Government—not by the wis dom of the Legislature—but by its selfishness and the selfishness of the agricultural constituency ; one of the least enlightened portions of the community in all that regards national policy. That such a falling back on the squires and farmers by the Go vernment is intended to bring all policy into con tempt we will not assert ; but to enable us thus to trace the Corn-laws home to the resolves of the agricultural constituency, while they are condemned by the very Statesmen who carry into effect the will of the boors, is well calculated to bring all policy and all legislation into contempt. Such is undoubtedly the fact ; and it will assuredly not make the Corn-laws an object of national veneration to learn that, though condemned by all Statesmen, they are fastened on the public by the squires and their armed yeomanry. We will not scrutinize too closely the motives Mr. O'CONNELL might have had for appearing at the meeting of the Corn-law Delegates yesterday, and speaking in favour of the abolition of the Corn laws ; but weighing heavily, as Ireland now does, in the scale against free trade in grain, we are glad to see him throw his weight into the opposite scale. His exertions are to be followed up, spee dily we hope, by lecturers being sent into Ireland, as well as into the agricultural parts of England, to enlighten the people on the Corn-laws. It is not, however, the bulk of the Irish who require much information, for they might soon be convinced of the impolicy of a law which raises against them the rent of land, and cuts short the supply of food. The persons who most re quire instruction are the Irish landlords—the receiv ers of rent, and their selfishness is, we are afraid, invincible. The Irish landlords, immersed in plea ' sure and sloth, with neither courage to look difficul ties in the face nor industry to surmount them, regarding the labourers with an eye of disdain and contempt, as wretches not near so valuable as cattle —for their claim to some common rights and a com mon humanity make them insufferably disagreeable —the Irish landlords are the persons who most require, and who promise the least to imbibe, instruc tion. They have so long revelled in outrages that the indulgence has become natural, and to prevent them from committing wron g is, in their eyes, to deprive them of their natural right. Nevertheless, these men must be taught, by whatever means, before the English will be able to eat free and untaxed bread, for they have much power in the Legislature, no less than thirty-eight of them having voted against Mr. VILLIERS'S !notion. England, the once proud and once free England, is now degraded and dishonoured—enslaved, by a few English, and, what is worse, a few Irish aristocrats. Her own slaves ha e become her masters. The Paris Journals of Monday have all been re ceived. The Debals has the following official para- 'graph, which establishes beyon, the coalition : a doubt tne triumpti of The Duke de Broglie was sent for on Saturday by the King. In his interview with his Majesty the Duke ex pressed his deep regret at not being able at present to enter into any Ministerial combination. The motives of this refusal are entirely personal. We have been assured th,t the Duke de Broglie intends leaving in a few days, with his children, for Italy. " On Sunday at noon Marshal Soult waited on the King. He left the Tuileries at one o'clock, and proceeded to the house of M. niers. At half-past three M. Thiers also repaired to the Tuileries, and had a conversation with the King, which lasted until six o'clock. Marshal Soult has accepted the task of constructing a Cabinet. At half past eight in the afternoon, M. Guizot went to the Palace, and remained with the King until ten o'clock. Marshal Soult is again to wait on his Majesty this day (Monday), at noon." It was well known in the political circles on Monday that the KING had consented to place M. THIERS at the head of the Foreign Department. In a day or two we expect the appointment of a really Liberal Cabinet. The peaceable and constitutional manner in which the Coalition have so signally defeated the King of the FRENCH, affords matter of rejoicing to every friend of liberty and every friend of peace throughout Europe. Though accomplished without the violence or excited passions which characterised the revolution of July, it can be regarded only as a consequence of that great event, and more formidable, too, to the friends of des potism, because it affords them no grounds of complaint against the people. There has ben no violence, no bloodshed, no insurrection against lawful authority ; and though the electors, and the lower classes also, know well on whom the blame rested, they have re frained in almost every instance, from anything like in sult or even disrespect to the Crown. The cry at the elections was, " Down with corruption," or " Down with the Prefect," or " Down with MON TALIVET," but no allusion to despots or tyrants, or even kings. Never did a people contending for a great principle, carry on the war in a manner so prac tically conformable to their demands. The prime object of the Coalition was to make the Cabinet, and not the Sovereign, responsible for the acts of the Government ; and in order to convince M. DE I'tIONTALIVET, the Royal Comptroller-General of the election, of his error, and make him " read his sin in his punishment," they directed, as one man, all their efforts against him and his candi dates. His uncle, his brother-in•law, and some four or five intimate friends, were put forward by this Minister, yet, with all the influence of the Crown, and all the means of corruption, and all the threats that prefects and priests could employ, not one of them was re turned. Under an old representative Government, like that of England, this unity and firmness of purpose might possibly have been expected ; but in France it was not anticipated, even by the most sanguine expec tations. We rejoice at the result, not only because it is good for France, but because it defeats the purposes of the Northern Powers, who were laying every snare for LOUIS PHILIPPE ; and because it forms the best secu rity for the mutual amity of two countries, which, when united, can control the destinies of Europe. The alie nation which exists between the two Courts is attri buted, on both sides of the water, to the French Go vernment—to the Court, and not to the nation. The men who are now certain to come into office—those who represent the feelings of the great body of the people—had no hesitation in admitting the fact during the late debates ; and even the Radical Press reiterate these sentiments, and pay a tribute to the good faith and good feeling of the English people. We quote with pleasure the following judicious re marks on this subject, taken from the great organ of the French Radicals the National :—" The lamentable, vacillating politics of the Government, the bad faith and faults of our diplomacy, and the insufferable blun ders(etourderies) of our beardless Admirals, have created a coldness between the Cabinet of the Tuileries and that of St. James's ; but the mass of the English population have still confidence in the destiny and good faith of the people who effected the revolution of July. It is not Governments that effectually contribute to the mainte nance of peace among the great European nations—it is the community of principles, affections, and interests, which, in spite of the diversities of situation, climate, and language, tend every day to unite more closely the champions of the people's cause." We have received the following letter : " TOULON, MARCH 7.—Great exertions are making in the naval arsenal ; all the workmen that can be spared are put on board the ships which are under repair or arming." BOURSE.—PARIS, MONDAY, MARCSI 11. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French 5 per Cents lOB 50 ... 105 65 ... 105 40 ... 104 60 4% per Cents lO4 50 ... 104 50 ... 114 50 ... 101 50 4 per Cents lOO 50 ... 100 50 ... 100 50 ... 100 50 3 per Cents 79 25 . 79 50 ... 79 25 ... 79 50 Bank of erance Latfitte Bank I,ooof. Sh 1045 ...1045 ...I0 5 ...1045 5,000 f. Sh 5200 ...5210 —.5200 —5210 Belgian 5 per Cents 10134 ... 101% ... 101% ... 10134 Bank 570 ... 575 ... 570 ... 575 Spanish Ac ive 2 A ... 20% ... 20% ... 201 i Passive 5 ... 5 ... 5 ... 5 New Ode red Neapolitan Roman ... C3ll ... 63) WILSON, MAYOR. ACOMMON COUNCIL, holden in the Chamber of the Guildhall of the City of London, on TUESDAY, the 12th day of March, 1839, Resolved, unanimously—That an humble Address and Pe tition be presented to her Majesty . the Queen, upon the Bill now pending in Parliament for improving the Police in and near the Metropolis. WOODTHORPE. AN Old-established COMMERCIAL BUSI NESS in the CITY, as a Wholesale Spice, Dry Salters, and General Dealers, and now in full trade, to be DISPOSED OF, in consequence of the sudden decease of one of the principals. An opportunity is presented to any one desirous of succeeding to a wel-known firm of long standing, and would suit any party either to continue the concern as at present, or uniting it to the Grocery or Tea trades, or any other established business to which a country connexion is attached, or where the addition would be desirable. Principals may apply personally to Mr. Allen Davis, Chat ham-place, Black friars-bridge. . LONDON : WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1639. In the House of Lords last night Viscount MEL BOURNE, in answer to a question put by the Earl of GALLOWAY, stated that it was not the intention of Government to propose a grant of money to provide additional Church accommodation in Scotland, at which the Noble Earl expressed his great sorrow. Lord BROUGHAM made a short oration in praise of MEHEMET ALI, whom he even held up as an example to us. He stated that the SULTAN was making exten sive warlike preparations to attack MEFEMET ALI, and he inquired what course Government intended to take to preserve peace. Viscount MELBOURNE said it was their desire to preserve peace, and he believed the pre parations reported of the SULTAN to be much exag gerated. Lord BROUGHAM thought the answer satis factory, and again eulogized MEHEMET ALL The Earl of RIPON, in moving for the correspondence between the Colonial Office in 1832, when it was under the Noble Earl and Mr. MACKENZIE, took the opportunity of defending himself from some severe strictures made by Sir F. HEAD on the encouragement given by the Earl of RIPON to Mr. MACKENZIE, who subsequently turned out to be a traitor. The Noble Earl represented Mr. MACKENZIE as a very shallow person, which was hardly judi cious, as he completely overreached the Noble Earl. To be sure Mr. MACKENZIE might be very superior to a Nobleman to whom the epithet of " Goosey" was ge nerally applied, and yet be a very shallow fellow ; but the Earl of RIPON should not have called public atten tion to the superiority. No person will dream of accusing the Noble Earl of having encouraged Mr. MACKENZIE in his rebellion ; he did not even see Mr. MACKENZIE'S drift. The papers were ordered, after an emphatic pro- 1 test by the Marquis of NORMANDY against the publica tion of official documents belonging to his department, and then the House adjourned till Thursday. In the Commons a great number of petitions were presented for and against the Corn-laws. Mr. HUME is positively on Monday to bring forward his motion for abolishing the Lord Liautenantcy of Ire land. RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain ... 63 Versailles, 14.8 585 ... 585 ... 582 50 ... 585 L. 8.185 ... 195 ... 185 ... 195 Rouen 940 ... 915 ... 940 ... 945 Orleans . 4.3.5 ... 435 .. 435 ...435 Strasburg to Bale 325 ...:3_'s 32i ... 321 Galvanized Iron POLITICAL METROPOLITAN SUMMARY. The IVlorning Herald of this day observes, in reply to Mr. Villiers' argument last night in the Commons, respect ing the wages of labour—" if there were no Corn-laws, wages, when measured in wheat, would still be liable to fluctuations of the most startling kind. What is true in re ference to wages, is true, let it be noted, in reference to rents, and profits, and taxes, and money itself. All these are in a state of perpetual fluctuation as to value, when viewed in reference to the quantities of wheat into which at different times, they are convertible. But when Mr. Villiers proceeds to maintain that wages do not rise as the price of food rises, he must be reminded that if his position in this respect be true, then his charge against the Corn laws that they raise English wages above tne Continental level of wages, at least as much as English wheat is higher than Continental wheat—that charge, we say, must be rejected as false." The Times, speaking of last night's Debate in the House of Commons, says, " The interest which ought naturally to have attached to the discussion of so important a subject as the Corn-laws, was wholly destroyed by the pusillanimous part which the shabby Government have taken in the matter. Mr. Villiers' opening, for a Com mittee of the whole House to consider the present laws, was heard with calmness, but nilde little impression. Sir G. Strickland succeeded in delivering himself, uninter rupted, to empty benches. Mr. Cayley, who led the van of the opposite force, began with a like advantage of si lence. There was not, in truth, much of novelty or inte rest in the argument on either side 1" In allusion to the Corn-law debate last night, the Morn ing Chronicle forcibly remarks as fob ows :—" To vote the continuance of the Curn-laws is to vote the commencement of a wide spread and enduring agitation, which must even tually be irresistible. All that has yet passed is only as the overture of the drama. The manufacturing capitalist will be worse goaded than he has yet been, by the in creasing difficulties of his position. The agricultural labourer is beginning to open his eyes ; and the half penny-an-hour Irishman is not inaccessible to the representation of his simplest rights and interests. The lecturer is abroad, and his circuit is beyond that of the schoolmaster. Even the least instructed can com prehend their right to exchange what their labour produces for the largest supply of food that it will obtain. The question is not one of complicated policy, but of obvious justice. Such questions are fearful ground for an aristo cracy to take, on which to do battle with a people." The Morning Advertiser says of Mr. Villiers' speech— " If a single web of sophistry, however flimsy, or a single particle of falsehood, however gross, remained to encumber the question of the Corn- laws, it must have been utterly frittered and swept away by the searching, statesmanlike, and conclusive speech of Mr. Villiers, on introducing his motion last night in the House of Commons." NORTH DEVON ELECTION. (PROM A CORRESFONDENT. SOUTHMOLTON, MARCH 12.—The nomination for North Devon takes place to day ; and having arrived at the scene of action, I hasten to give you a few words on the coming struggle. Mr. Buller, the Liberal candidate, has been long in the field. He was called out by a requisition from the Liberal party, on the retirement of the Hon. Newton Fellowes, who kept the party in suspense up to the last moment at the former election, before declaring his inten tion to retire ; so that the Reformers, relying upon him, and having no time to organize, were constrained to let in a Tory. 'They immediately sought about for a successor to the Hon. Gentleman in the event of a vacancy, and pitched on Mr. Buller, who was honoured by a most flat tering requisition, having it signed by more than one-half of the registered electors. The Tories having obtained a seat for Sir Thomas Acland, had effected a most perfect system of organization in order to keep it; but they had no second candidate to put up, in the event of a contest. The recent appointment of Lord Ebrington to the Viceroyalty of Ireland took them wholly by surprise; and although they were without a man, yet their organization was suffi• ciently perfect to enable them to hold the field, and stating Mr. Buck's name on spec., they immediately disputed the ground with the Reformers. Mr. Buck somewhat tardily assented ; an address was put forth, and both parties went at it in earnest. The canvas has been severe beyond all precedent. Mr. Buller has had the whole machinery of the Tories exerted against him ; and some slight division (occasioned by Sir W. Molesworth's letter) among the Reformers also to contend against. Mr. Buller is not yet a Ballot man. This contest, I hope, will teach him that he ought to be. If intimidation and coercion could have done it, Devonshire has, in the contest fatal to Lord John Russell, Mr. Bulteel, and the present, as far as it is gone, given ample evidence. But though Mr. Buller is not yet a Ballot man—and I use the word " yet" emphatically, for I think he is rapidly on the road to that consummation de voutly to be wished—he is not, as Sir W. Molesvvorth assumes, a FIN ALITY MAN." His standard, I should say, is full moderate for the Reformers; but it is because he has proved himself a PROGRESSIVE man that the Tories hate him, and oppose him with greater virulence than they would a more thorough-paced Reformer. This prospect, I am glad to say, looks well, and I know that there is much despondence in the Tory camp. Still ',either party can feel certain, and I am satisfied that the returns on each side present a sufficient list of " doubtful " electors, from whom no reply can be got to turn the election. EVENING EDITION. Aly chief reliance is up,:n the se; es possessed by RetOrfa re in the north of Devon. Among the landholders of th e county it is rather singular that we have nearly all the c hief Whigs residing in the north of Devon. The parsons an d the Tory squires are a great force, but hardly equal to the others, and this fact it is that constitutes the chief doubt. as to the result. Mr. Buller will be proposed by the Hon. N. Fellowes, and seconded by John Sillifant, jun., Esq., of Combe., The Tory candidate will be proposed by Mr. F ursdoe, am told. It is now nine, A.M. The business will core' mence at ten ; but as the mail leaves soon after that hour, I cannot forward you any particulars by it. The morning is exceedingly fine, and the town is all alive. The ree.ie rity of the houses are decorated with laurels, &c., and the Reformers have decidedly the best of the show in the town, EXECUTION.-(THIS DAY•) The last sentence of the law was this morning carriea into effect upon Thomas Taylor, who was convict ed at the late Assizes at Hertford of the murder of William Bennett, an old pensioner, residing at Tewen, in this county. prisoner absconded immediately after the commission o the offence, and enlisted in the 15th regiment ; and be, would probably have escaped detection but for th e fact 01, his having written a letter to his mother in an assumee, name, and the circumstance coming to the knowledge of the police at Hertford, an inquiry was instituted , and this led to his detection. Taylor's mother came to see him on Monday, but the hiterview was described as not being by any means of g painful character. She asked him whether he wanted any of his clothes washed, and he replied that the clothes. be f had been tried in would do very well for him. Neither 0, them appeared at all concerned, when the moment a rrived for their reparation. The convict's father, an aged marl , went to him on Tuesday; and, after some little converse' tion,t he father told the convict—" To die like a man, a pd go to the gallows with the same firmness he had borne hi s trial and sentence." The unhappy young man replied" " I will, father ;" and so they separated. Taylor walked up the scaffold without any assistanc e. The bolt was then drawn ; and, after struggling for about three minutes, he ceased to exist. The unfortunate COo' vict was only twenty-two years old. MONEY a d COMMERCIAL NEWS' CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MARCH 12.—We be % had a fair demand for Cotton to-day. The sales 11: been 4,000 bags, 1,200 on speculation, with a firm !Wak e (From the American Papers of February 23•) The recent animation in the Stock Market which to place, may in a great measure be ascribed to the influence which the confidence of cotton dealers in the future r, had upon the market ; the tables seem now compl ete turned in the Money Market, and the magnitude and 1 ° 1 : portance of the cotton trade causes it to exert the sam e fluence in money affairs now, by which it was itself 1 w . 1; merly governed. The connection of the Banks i t , cotton operations during the past year, have immedia te l proved the result. Should the advices by the Liverp ec ' t inform us of an advance in the great staple which will n le i d, the views of the shippers, a large amount of money vo l ! by its agency, be thrown into circulation, giving an i n rn o j pulse to business in every direction : should the LiverP" - bring accounts of a decline, or a heaviness in the mar ket, the bulk of the holders in the Southern States would be obliged to realize even at Ta decline, unless the pa ° should alter their present course ; on this point, therefor?, in a great measure rests the character of the spring bu st : ness. Exchange from England 8 1 t o 9 per cen t '' United States Bank 1181. We have an important arrival this morning from t b a United States, brought by the Great Western steame r fifteen days' passage, which entirely r e l a tes to t h e e Boundary line of the Maine, which at present appearsttowe of a warlike nature ; but an American p a per, which have before us, of the 25th ult., says " The reader 1 7, perceive what turn the Boundary ground has taken. has been apprehended, the danger of actual collision 61 arms has become imminent, unless prevented by the tinl e .4 interference of the National Government ; the Par ti ; on the spot are apparently ready to rush its immediate conflict ; but there is no neceegYa for such a result if the N a ti ona l G ove rnment 40 their duty, which we trust they will, and take imme"l, o measures to, restore quiet. We are surprised at t", sf omission of Governor Fairfield to inform th e Executiv e the United States of so important a crisis of affairs, r e. quiring his immediate interference." This event has caused great sensation in the City, an various opinions prevail on the subject ; but the well wi formed: are of opinion that the Boundary affair will r ag lead to hostilities between England and Am e rica. "- had but little effect at New York on the American funds' There is no news of importance, either from Canada or Mexico. Halifax Papers have been received to the 19th Februe l l; "The harbour has continued frozen'over all the week; mangy teams and thousands of foot passengers have crosser! °. l id , in safety, but the ice has been so much thawed by the ,„ ness of the last two or three days, that w e ar e hourly et, its breaking up." i ll From the frontiers of Spain it is stated that the SO° e Government has sent, in great haste, an est a fette to Gen e , ral Espartero, to consult on the measu res w hi c h have b e , taken by the Ministers for a general amnesty, in ce n ' -' quence of the affair at Estella. TRE FUNDS. Consols, which closed yesterday at 9381 for thefbe e' count, opened this morning at 938, by which it 1n",,,,f perceived that the news from the Maine has had but ci;, little effect on the British funds. M oney, 928 93 ; aol chequer Bills, 65 67 ; I n di a B on d s, 63 65 ; B a ng India Stock, shut. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active has rather proved, owing to M. Thiers having been called to t bs King's presence, by which it is exp ec t e d t h at h e w ould io one of the new Ministers with Marshal Soult. Spool Active may be quoted at 20.1 if ; Portuguese 341 1: 1 24 ; per Cents 214 1; Be!gia n, 1011 102 ; B raz ili an 79 0,., Colombian, 291 I ; Me x i can, 231 2 4 1 ; Dutch-Two-an.. u Half per Cents., 55/ 4- ; Five per Cents., 1038 . PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE 0'CL0C.%,.., Bank Steck lndia Stock 5 _ ea f' 3 per Cent. Red . ......... ... - 3 per Cent. Cons. 9.://. 3 South Sea Stook ......... . ..... „....• 3 -,.• per Cent — ; Old Annuities .................. ....o. Ditto Red. — ' New Ditto ". Ncw 316 per Cent IOON% n, ! 3 per Cent. Annuities, 175 1 6.6 pOl New 5 per Cent. - I E xc h . Bi lls, £l,OOO ... -- 6, pa Bank Long Annuities toexpire I Ditto 500 ... -- 0 1 . Jan. 5, 1560 .......... ....... —,, Ditto Small 95 65 to Oct. 10, 1659 — ! Ditto Commercial -- "000' . , J.zia. 5, PV , W. 13-16 ; Ditto Advertised Jan. 5, IMO — Bank Stock for Account ... .... April 5, ISM — i India Stock for Account ... 04 , Jon. 4. 1570. — ! Consols for Account...... .. c s. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CO ~ Austrian Bonds Peruvian Bonds ............... ./ Belgian Bonds Ditto Account e i Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account Chilian Bonds D tto Account ~,, , Colombian Bonds — Ditto Account ........ .. ..... . '.., Ditto Account —t Ditto Metallic ............... ~/ Columbian Bonds, 1524 29k, is ; Spanish Bonds - ..............•, •! Ditto Account Danish Bonds Ditto Account — Ditt o Account. 20 ,„ 1 ..- 4 Greek Bonds French, 5 per cent .........t .. .4, Ditto Bonds, 1.925 —.— 4 per cent ...... --,. -Al Ditto Account Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent — ---- Exchange ....... ',.104 Ditto Account — D u t c h, 2t per cent ..-..' 3 '02 Ditto Account ............ ..ow Ditto, 6 per Cent t Ditto Account Neapolitan Ditto Acc0unt........ ....•• PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOC;1010. Paid, For .74 Brighton Railway London and BlatAwall Railway 51 London and Birmingham Railway Comp a ny 9O O I N ;;Ditto 1,,i Shares - 5 314 11:1011 and Greenwich railway Company 2O 42/4 London and Southampton Railway Company 381 . 1 7s. 9d . London and Croydon Railway Company l6/. 6g. Ditto New Scrip N - ho- -, ,d El -- - - ' 4 .4 orthorn ant ,:astern Railway Company South Eastern and Dover Railway Company 9 National Provincial Bank of England 35 Assam Company Australian Company Mexican and South American COURSE OF EXCH , k mitt:Rhin C.F. 12 3 . itto, at sight Rott.rtiam a U l2 31 Antwerp... HAniburg. . ...... .....M.B l3 10% Altona Paris, 3 days' sight 25 :XI Ditt0..............3 Ms 25 60 .... 591 25 65 liourtioaux Frankfort on Maine, Ex. M. 151 ( .'ttersbutgh, ruble... 3 Us ION Berlin 27 ki 6 NGE YESTERDAY. 4 , tiibraicar ............................ 50 Leghorn .................. .. g 0 Genoa SI Milan ........... .............. Venice ............................... 10 Naples ........ .................. Paler:no per olt. 5 1 Lisbon ................... ....... : . ViennA effective f1...2 M. 10 Orcrio .................. " ........... 0 Rio Janeiro ••••. gl Bahia A.. - Buenos Ayres .."-.' 46 New York, 21 days' si 6 h C •": 00 4 , Philadelpiiia Trie.te ditto lO 5 Madrid kr.,x Cadiz 37 tidboa ... ..... • •• _OO Barc:clona Srfille 364 - ....... PRICE . OF BUL',ION. V: 0 Portugal Gold, '.,c,in,....t: 3 . ( 8 ) 0 Foreign Gold i n bars... o 0 New Doubl , - New Doll Ats Silver i , , i 3, 0 5 AUSTRIAN i-UNDS.—ViUNN ja A r : *** live per Cents. Metalliques ...... ..... ........ t 077 Foxr per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Shares " 4 " 141 9 ...-411gerneineZeitung. March 7. the . The Jamaica Papcfr of the 2 HALF-PAST 0 Ist January, received ; I ' o o North and South American Coffee-house, being the o '4 to in town, conveys unfavourable intelligence, in respe'.. the working of the Ne groes , an d gett i ng i n o f the creed bot Up to the present hour the American news bas b„ B 4 9 3 little effect on the B r iti s h F un d s. C onso l s are v'TY Money ; Account 93 to with very little doing• ioi d; chequer Bills, 63 65 ; I n di a B on d s, 64 65, not hi n g Bank and India Stock, shut. W is h In the Foreign Ma r k e t no thi ng d o i ng except in P4ti; Active, which continu e s fi rm at 21. P ortugues e. 3 10 .'i s tio Three per Cents., 212 ; Colombian, 292 1; 13 i e 1012 ; Dutch Two-and- a -H a lf per Cents., 557; per Cents., 103 i -a. The Dutch mail has not yet arrived. MARKETS-(THIS - DAYO an d of CORN EXCHANGE. The ar t iv a l s o f E ng li s h C orn small, of Barley ge°4:i ls• to A Foreign Wh ea t cons id era bl e. English Wheat decline eifeetel 2s. per qua r t er ; f or F ore i gn Wheat no sales cou ld be Goo! at last day's rates. Barley very dull, at former terrns.,. for parcels of O a t s rather dearer, other qualities unva rie° Flour scarcely any sale. ARRIVALS yieur,:oo Wheat. Barley. Oats- i e.OO " English Ir.sli sro ......."' roreisti NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. heali; Supplies of all kinds of utcher's Meat god, but trade I bet prices as last quoted. Poultry and Game o i n large suPP /' 2t higher hg , the dem an d d u ll ; pr i ces unaltered. CITY FISH MARKET. . sk , Cod' Prices we re hi g h er, an d th e d eman d no t quite so b ri Wg'! 2s. s 6 e lQs. Lobsters, 'and i 2 s i Is. atcoh 55. ; ~ 8° 2d. each. 3 7 ; . ac t k e ar i !, (-119 : . ' l l ;i t g: 5., d a . n o (i Is. each ; Whiti n g, 3d. to 6d. each: Haddock, TALLOW MARKET. There is but little doing. and P.Y. C. is quoted at 50s. r - R OO KS V. MURPH—Y.-In place of Air. v sa p phy's, the rooks have almanac lore of their /11 ow. oo 00 strange as it may appear, are uniformly up and 61)% the first Sunday of March. —D umfrie; Courier. _~~--