The Sun. — London, England, 1839-04-11 00:00:00

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LATEST tiEWs FROM AMERICA. y the _ have roe eivcd N ew York Papers to the 15th ult., b pack et ship Westchester, Cap!ain Ferris, which -ached packet yesterday. A r erY mee4;erate amount of busitrss in exchane hsd been transact e d for the packet. It was confined to g a few sales on Lorii.on at 9 to 9i ' \l °neY, it !is stated, conti per cent, p rem . were nued very scarce, and the banks b, di f:coutithig very sparingly. Two or three rn:n:,r an4 ing Corr .panies, in different parts - of the country, had IngPendqd Priyments. The unsettled state of atf.irs oo the eastern front ier had seriously affected the New Yurk Stock and Share !Markets. Previous to the sailing of the picket S had ra lli ed slightly. The shares of the Lri:ited the States Ilan'k bad been as low as 114, but were quoted, on 1 . Tli,gtlls. F ROM THE NORTH-EAST. We l e FROM from the co rrespon d ence of the Bangor IVh i g, , that t" 0 ecncipani es had been despatched from Mutton, , under the cu PY the oinnmand of Captains Maxfield and Fish, to ec 'position about twenty-five miles frOm that place, and erect v,oine temporary defence to p ro t ec t the troops in 1 1 1 - I ' l.6 ' l 'M through a provincials ich is within ixty rods of the . in e °f 1 783. The p are in considerable force in at iretnediate vicinity. Four companies have been tiered to march to the Aroostook, and the remainder were to folksy, in a few days. j o lt is stated that despatches have been sent by Sir omutritand th -4 COibOrne, placing five regiments of the line at e ( Eposal of Sir John Harvey, with instructions to e th ° their services whenever they should be !atiogut necessary. .. Notwithstanding the represen na of the Blue Noses," says the Whig, ~ the feet i s i i ti At Sir John Harvey is making y e and energetic preparations for a contest with Maine. He • te determined to take military possession of a part of Dun territory. He will, unless we move at once in the !light direction, command the St. John." The Biitish forces are concentrating at Madawaska, and the Americans at the Aroostook, both on the disputed territory, but both w ithin th legitimate •- • ' • Go e inns Itettoa of their respective Yernments. .. . 1 .-3:x companies left Bangor on the 7th for Moulton. At `ue same date the troops of Augusta amounted to 1,000, and additions were hourly arriving. c&lsir• Senator Williams a dd resse d a sma ll num b er of the en s of Portl an d on the Bth instant, at the District h urt. room. In reply to the question whether the special l!onMtnist e . r would be appointed immediately, end what iie:.c et country he would probably be taken from, M. Ns 11 -I.l.anls 1.1.anIs observed that no appointment would be made until time was allowed for Our present doings to re ac h F.tigland, rastd i nte l l i gence received from our Minister already there ; e fit_e , t whe n the appoi n t ment was made some one out pf, w' England would probably be selected as the Minister. ---Cour• • lc) Gni Inquirer. tttl ie s FROM THE FRONTIER . n i, cr t h.e We have no furth er i nte l l i gence of interest from the r.asteit,,,n,,afrontier. W e extract the follow i ng from .e e2d i nst. or ( New Brunswick) Courier of Saturday, .-- cre i r : : e a r Nuilao,jasty's ship Crocodile, ved this morning feo:n Halifax, havin on heard six offi- Captain Steuart, ar " The troop:er b i ro of the 69th Regiment, under the corn_ roand of Major Brooks. She sailed on Sunday. avrsetrederstand they will proceed to Fredericton as soon necessary conveyance can be procured. , 69th, " The trans ore Eliza, with another detachment of the sad front Halifax on Monday last. The Numa, irom B ile do uaes, with the remainder of ti-e regiment, was s poken near Halifax on Saturday, and may also be daily expected here. the d ra f ts made form the regiment of city militia, re- ceived Or reare for dut ders thi s morning to ppy, and are to , go into barr acks immedi ate l y. t ` In the ceiv Provinci a l L eg i slature a message had been re ed from the Governor, stating that circumstances had rendered necessary the calling out, for actual service, of a anaadportion of the militia, and that he had ordered drafts to be eof 850 men, to be h e ld i n readiness as emergencies alight require. Of these about 500 men were actually er abOditel, for whose pay and subsistence immediate provi sion was 'requisite, until arrangements can be made by her Majeate's Government. " We understand that on the day following the House responded to Isis Excellency's message, by placing at his disposal the sum of 10,0001. This, with the sum of 1.0001., liberally voted by the Corporation of St. John, shows that our authorities are disposed to provide at once, on the present unexpected emergency, for the person s Whose duty to t h eir Sovereign and thei r country requires their services. " The sum of 5001: has also, we learn, been arorid by the L eg i s l ature for the equipment of a corps of Light Dragoons." The following extra from the office of the Plattsburg Whig throws some light on the rumour which was current here on Monday, that Plattsburg had been taken by a body of Indiats. The fort alluded to was built during the last W ar, and was fennel afterwards to have been located aviatlin the British territory, when it was abandoned, and lience . gone to ruin in a great measure. The fort is ,orsenmonly known by the appropriate designation of Fort 'Blunder. Pieresnuire, NEW Yorte,. MARCH s.—By a letter re ceived in town last evening, and also from a citizen direct from the east side of the lake, we learn that the British authorities in Canada have taken formal possesaion of the strip of land in dispute on this frontier, including the site of the old fort at Rousc'e Point, by erecting a flag and sta tioning armed patroles within the jurisdiction of this State, as heretofore acknowledged, and what is still worse, have embodied 400 Indians on thit line. (Correspondence of the Hertfird Courant.) Springfield, M arc h 9, 1839. l Sy Springfield, OP W ere —Twenty-four brass field-pieces are leaving here to. day, for Maine. Twelve of the, number itntZ, yesterday f rom the arsenal at Warervleit, New A and the remainder are from the factory of N. P. e . e a and Co., a ll b right and nice. They are well 0-4"nte the d on carriages, and are in c ha rge o f Li eut . T a l cott , Ordnance department. Letters from (By the Eastern Mail.) ~, m hate Bangor c eiv'ed to the 9th inst. te that by an ex. l ' l.Q aa just arrived from Houlton, information had been re that t Governor Harvey was t4e Possession of Mars-kill, and had sent forward men to making preparations to .e d u ct t a ° ..L 4 t ‘ a () road . to that . place. Eight companies had been proposed fr_ril',tl n•this service, two of which bad already 'reached '1 Fredericton. It is further stated that the 11 rot: h e t t is to be made on territory that is indisputably rout Ow e. Verb a l advices of a contradictory tenour are 'atprobablbY tha passengers fr om th e E ast . I t i s altogetherr je t the report is true to its full extent. Si an Harvey will be likely to govern himself by a more discreet regard to the agreement of Mr. Fox and Mr. For- The than Governer Fairfield seems disposed to exhibit. Conintercial Ali vertiser of yeeterday evening ac ;l_,c.clnare,irseesetie:!::gtehosertliiheerepeei receipt, b special messenger from Fre. - -oy i al Garet a t p e extra, published at that 6 tb inst•, containin g a report of some interest from Mr. iiPLaughli.n, tie Warden, dated February 27, im mediately after his release and return from Maine. The rort commences with an explicit denial that the trespassers have in any w been ged or counte baneed by t h e British Government or encoura the provincial autho rities, and then sets torth-: , leas" That since 18 29 the Warden has been employed in p r eventing depred a ti ons , w h e th er b y B r i t i s h or A mericans. That as the ra-st effectual means of prevention he has ev erY year seized all the timber which could be ascertained, , °I. y"ea suspected, to h ave come f rcm t h e di sputed terri tory and either condemni ng i t or l evy i ng heavy prohibitory es, the proceeds of which have paid over to the Re ceiver General, on special deposit, to be hereafter paid over to the Government in whose favour the final adjust ?neat of the dispute shall be made. " That for the better prevention of depredations, in July, 1837, a proclamatio n was issued by Sir John Harvey, for bidding all persons to cut timb er on the disputed territory, which WAS extensively circulated ; and more effectual measures were sanctioned by the L ieutenant -Governor for seizing and condemning such timber as should come down, eith er to Fredericton or St. John, which was done. ~ Th a t notwithstanding these measures, great numbers of trespassers, both American and British, have entered of them actually having, autho aPen the territory during the present year, the former pre tending to have, and many h • use t tts e , m b , y which many British h under the idea that t itY from Maine and Massac su bjects were induced to th e lumber would be for the unusual number )'remits so granted, which accounts . protected from confiscation under the the present winter. to of tr espassers upon the territory during I'hat during the last fall the all timber coming from t disputed n t w o a r S r i t directed n the Bt. Jehn, to which endarran t g h e e m l'iaeing a boom at the mouth of A en r t o s os w to e u r k e , t n o 'ad se e cu fo re r ail timber that might come down in the spring of 1139; Ned, fieally, mak e a • I h the territory during the present " That the Warden was directed by Sir John Harvey to wi journey through discovering the resorts of tr.'s , " t er, fur the purpose of , break up their operations; ra,aers, and devising means to orea up was made prisoner 111 the fulfilment of which duty he a n " , "ken to Bangor, where he was ws " 4 nis parole of honour." detained until released 18 37 a report accompanied by I I The re is ~.,, , forbidding trespasses, and threatening depredators with the severeat measures of punishment. imore truth than "is en rent in the City that there -5 tir Was At fir , I , s _ st suppreed, in the rumour . England. It is said til".r.`"otteent to the special mission in d artment, and tha t Chambrelene will succeed him in the department, of 11Ir. yr oodhary:s ogee M oore 13 to receive aberth at Pali `" eat ashington. Th e f (From th e Journal of Commeree._ch leases no doubt a oll evr i ng w letter is fr o m a source which i ei ~ f th e accuracy of its statements. Whether Mi. ane in • is correct is another question : " A letter Hamlin, fo raieri _ er has been received here from aid to General " BoxToN, MARCII 12.. Il e d„ s. ,Y_ la nd agent of Maine, but now a ' A nropcsal i s ~,? "o, dated 'at the scat of war, which says, ~. Icieut t° be made to the State of Maine by Sir John gi v rv e ta, which is this—that the British Government will (4 E I alaine the:right of navigating the river St. John and Jo," eeeivelenta, for the land which lies north of the St. t h e • l 7,to the high lands,' which you know is according to N i . 4 ' l '7. t r i er Holland's line, Intelligent gentlemen here think Marn e will accept this proposal at once, should it be made. 7e_trsaelitisetts and Maine have both been engaged for many Bt, i s oilit endeavouri ng to secure the right of navigalti . mg the tie, tact. It is al oe stated in the letter, that Sir John told Lombard, of Bangor, that he had been too hasty in :013,proclamation end uied language which was too strong, , e „"_,tbat he felt sorry for it, and would es soon as possib!e te uu a Committee cf the Assembly to make the abeve.rne Ll:enes! proposals to Maine. The letter from Hamlin bar: .eit,a n eoranmeicated, as I understand, to Governor Eve , Nii t n t , is our painful duty to announce the death of the Hon. 1 . 1,., 1 1, 4 1 el O'S.ulliran, Chief Juatiee of the Court of Queen's t y est ' i i'' r this district, which lamentable event took . enlace t ~,,,, e 'caY mernine et half-past 11 o'clocto. Mr. 0 Slt 1. 1 n,,":'.14 aepointed by Lord Durham to the office et Chief r ...Lic e , „, the: retirement of Chief Justice Reid, in No- vomber,3lB3B, and had presided in the Court but one tt:rm —that of February last. —Alo:dreal Courier. (From the Quebec Gazette of the 4th inst.) Two companies of the llib It-gimont arrived in town from Sorel, about 1 o'clock, under command of Co!onel Goldie. One company, with their officers, crossed over this aft' rnoon on their way to New Brunswick, on a forced ma:ch of 18 Icagues per day. MONEY MARKET, &c., MARCH 13. But little change is perceptible in the Stock Market, althougli sales to-day were in some instances at a small im provement in prices. The market must be cei,sidered in a very excited and unsettled state, and is influenced by the slightest intelligence bearing on the state of matters at the East; it is to be trustz,d, however, that the present state of uncertainty ts to the result of the excitement exist. ing on the frontier may be of short duration, as otherwise its t Infects on various commerm.l interests must be disas trous. The closing quotation for United Sates Bank to day was 1141 ; Dry Dock Bank, 93 ; Delaware and Hud son, 77 ; Vicksburgh 691; Haarlem Railroad, 471; and Stonington Railroad, 31. MICHIGAN BANKS. —Tho Michigan State Bank (the failure of which we have before noticed) was the grand depository of the funds of the State. The President of the Instltuticn states that the amount of the balance due to the State by the Bank is 602,009 dollars, of which 30,093 were a special deposit of worthless wild cat money, and payable only in funds of the like character. A Committee of three was appointed by the Legislature on the 27th ult. to examine the affairs of the batik. They reported that the bank was an unsafe depository, and re. commended that the State funds be withdrawn from it as soon as practicable, and further, that the bank be required to place to the credit of the State the amount pretended to be held on special deposit; in good and available funds, and that upon refusal so to de, that en action be commenced against it for fraud and embezzlement. We also learn that the Michigan Bank Commissioners recommend a repeal of the charter of the Oakland Conoty Bank on account of the bad management of the institution. Advices from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, uadcr date cf March 1, state, " that the private banks at Wetunipka and Selma had suspended specie payment. " A statement of the conditien of the Wetumpka Trad ing Company sets down its liabilities at 69,009 dols., assets 259,000 dols., making a difference cf four to one in favour of the institution. The cash on hand was 10,000 .dols., real estate mortgaged 100,000 dols." We yesterday noticed the suspension of specie payments for a period of 60 days by the City Bank of Detroit. By the mail of to-day we learn that a similar course has been pursued by the Michigan Stare Bank, such a proceeding being authorised by their charter, without pain of forfeiture. Neither of these institutions had ever • attained Much standing or confidence in this city, and the discount of their notes in circulation is quite limited. The Directors of the State Bank have published an official intimation of the suspensian, - from which we extract the following :—" The cashier of the bank, now in New York, we arc informed, his made such negotiations with the funds in his hands, arre.unting to 250,000 dollars, as will enable the bank to take up all its drafts drawn on New York or Albany, due and coming due, and leave a surplus fund, that may be drawn for to meet its bills now in circulation. The public are cau tioned against making any sacrifice open the bills of the bank, as within the period cf sixty days it will be ab!e to resume the payment of its bills, either in corn or eastern funds," The old..stablished banks at Detroit—viz. the bank of Michigan and the Farmers' and Mechanics' B.nk, never stood higher in public confidence, or were in batter condi tion than at present. The State Bank, we should add, was the sole depository of the State fowls. ANOTHER SUSPENSION.—WC are informed by the last Western Georgian, of Rome, Georgia, that the Wester n Bank of Rome again suspeneed specie payments on Friday, the 15th ult. The Georgian appears to think that its bills will ultimately be redeemed, and advises holders still to " bold on," rather than to submit to a sacrifice to get them off. COURT CIRCULAR, The Queen held a Court and Privy Council yesterday afternoon at Buckingham Palace. The Council was attendcd by the Lord President, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Home and Colonial Departments, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the President of the India Board, the Secretary at War, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, the Lord Steward, the Lori Chamberlain, and the Master of the Horse. At the Council a Committee for Education was appointed. The Hon. William Bathurst was the Cierk of the Coun cil in waiting. At the Court M. Moreno, the Minister from Buenos Ayres, had the honour to present his new credentials to her Majesty at an audience. His Excellency was intro duced to the Queen by Viscount Palmerston, G. C. 8., her Majesty's Principal Sectetary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Sir Robert Chester, Master of the Ceremonies. Her ANt , sty gave au di ences to the Marquis of Lans downe, Marquis o f Conyngham, Earl of Minto, Viscount Melbourn e , Vi scount Palmerston, and Lord Hill. The Ccurt was attended by Viscount Torrington, Lord in Waiting, Lord Hill, Gold Stick in Weiting, the Trca surer of the Household, the Comptroller of the Household, Hon. Major Koppel, Groom in Waiting, and Col. Buck ley, Equerry in Waiting. The Queen rode yesterday in the riding-school near Buckinghsm Palace. The Royal dinner party at the Palace, last evening, in. chided the Marquis of Cenyngliam, Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Falkland, Mr. F. Baring, and Mr. George E. Anson. The Princess Sophia Matilda visited-the Duchess of Kent yesterday at Buckingham POace. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge honoured Sir Robert and Lady Peel with their company at dinner, yesterday, at their residence in Whitehall Gardens. The company to meet their Royal Highnesses, consisted of the Russian Ambassador, the Netherlands Minister, the Duke of Wellington, Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury, Viscount and Viscountess Beresford, Lord and Lady Ash ley, Lord Ossulston, Lord Alford, Lord Cantelupe, Count Charles and Countess Puzzo di Borgo, Count and Countess Woronzow, Count Thun, Mr. and Lady Harriet Baring. Their Royal Highnesses were attended by .Baroness Ahlefeldt and Baron Knesebeck. In the evening there was an assembly, which was very numert..usly attended. The Duke of Sussex visited the Princess Augusta, yesterday, at Clarence House. A Deputation from the Committee of the General Assembly, consisting of the Rev. Dr. Welsh, the Rev. James Macfarlane, and Mr. Dunlop, had an interview with the Marquis of Normandy, yesterday, at the Colonial Office. The Bishop of London, it is said, has been ap plied to to revise the whole of the Psalmody used through out his diocese, with the view of establishing one uniform system, and of getting rid of many objectionable hymns which have found their way into some Episcopal chapels. We paid a visit last week to the Egyptian Hall, where a series.of M , .?roing Concerts has lately commenced. We were agreeably entertained, having hearl some pleas ing melodies extremely well sung by Miss Galbreath and Miss Elizabeth Geary. The latter, who possesses a very sweet mezzo soprano voice, is a young lady of great pro. mlse. We also heard a very masterly performance on the pianoforte by Miss Geary, which the audience seemed much disposed to encore, and which we would willingly have listened to a second time. The company was very select, but we regret to say limited in number. Married on Tuesday at St. George's, Hanover square, Captain Alfred Hill, nephew and Aide-de-camp of the General Commanding-in-Chie, to Miss Howard, daughter of the Earl of Kilmorey. After the ceremony the party adjourned to Thomas's tlotel, where they partook of a dejrune a la fourchette, shortly after which the bride and bridegroom left town for Buckinghamshire. r Queen's 'lte Counsel, &c., Chancellor will receive the Judges, on Monday the first day of Easter Term, at his Lordship's residence in Bruton-street. • A report is current in the Brussels circles of ton, that the Queen, who has never visited the Cuntinent, will pay a visit to her august relatives, the King and Queen of the Belgians, in the course of the summer. The Austrian Princes, Ferdinand Truttsmanns dore and Lichtenstein, arrived at the Clarendon MAO, on Monday, from Melton Mowbray. The Princes attended the Duchess of Gloucester's evening party, in Park-lane, on Tuesday. The Marchioness of Ely will give her second ball and supper at the mansion of the Noble Marquis; in Great Cumberland-place, on Monday, thQ 22d inst., but his Lordship will previously give a series of two or three grand dinners. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—On the 10th instant, at All Church, Langharn-place, by his uncle, the Rev. John Sanciford, of WinkfiAd Park, Charles Alexander Lushington, Esq., to Sarah, relict of the late William Canine, Esq., of Mansfield -street, and Hastings, Sussex. After partaking of an elegant dejeune with a select circle of friends, the happy pair left town for Brighton. An elegant new travelling chariot is building for, 1 the Marquis of Douro and his noble bride elect. They a m a e 18 r i n inSeptember Germany. . last. 3 intend 2 ; LatodypEaslsizatibleetshumwThe Marquis is The Dowager Lady Wiaram ii git:es this day a sumptuous ddeuner at Walthamstow t marriage of the Rev. Charles Long,nephewuuse, Essex, on the of Lauderdale, Lord Farnborough, and to the Earl the late March ioness of Tweeddale, to Anna Maria, Sir Robert \Vigram, Bert , formerly kou eni rtst daughter eerftrN'-'mfc'rd' of a nd allied to the noble families of Wellesley and Ely. The Earl of Roden and Lord Canterbury y are e xpected at the Clarendon Hotel to-morrow, from Paris, "to attend their Par liamentar y duties in the House of Lords on the re -assembling of that House after the holidays. Lord Asithurnham s family have been placed in mourning by the premature demise of Lady Katherine Beauclerk, his Lordship's sister, the lady of H. W. Beau clerk, Esq. Mr. Frank Sheridan, brother to the Hon. Mrs. Norton, and to Lady St. Maur, has been appointed Clerk of the Council and Secretary of the Court of Exchequer, in the island of Barhadoes. The office is one of the nu merous colonial appointments in the patronage of the Mar. quis of Normanby, to whom Mr. Sl,e,idan was private secretary during his viceroyalty in Ireland. COLDBATH-FIELDS PRlSON.—Yesterday se veral men commenced laying the foundation (parallel to the prison walls in Colebath-square, facing the prison gates) preparatory' to the erection of an iron fence and gate .r through . which the vans will in future cater. Great i .convemence was alas; tt , cy !,.r, t ., 1 2, nr;,, s experienced by the police w hen the eciiectio ' n ~ , i. nners rt the.prill , . in ~,,,sequence of _ persons, the friends of the prisoners, who were desirou s of speaking to them. Trll4: SUN, LONDON. THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1839. BRUSSELS, AND DUTCH PAPERS. BRUSSELS, Arm 9. —lt is said that M. Nothomb, while he is at London, is at the same time to attend to the signature of the treaty with the powers represented in the Conference and Holland, and to negociAte a convention relative to the post offices ; the basis of which were agreed upon some time ago, and which it was announced was to be carried into effect as soon as the iron railroad to Ostend should be opened. It was proposed that there should be a daily mail between Dover and Ostend. The transit of letters from Germany and Holland gave rise to £0:110 diffi culties, which it is s&d are on the point of being removed. —Journal du Commerce d'AntYrs, April 10. BRUSSELS, APRIL 7.—M. Nothomb, Minister of Public Works, set out this marnir,g for London, with the instruc tions to terminate the final arrangements relative to the the treaty of peace.—fourrier Beige. The price of corn having risen last week in the market of Brussels has caused an advance in the price of bread. BRUSSELS, APRIL B,—The Moniteur Beige quotes from the Independent its article on the mission of Mr. Northomb to London. It is reported that either M. Liedts or M. Lebeau is to be Minister of Justice, M. ROgicr of Public Works, M. Nizi thorn! of Foreign AffAirs. A letter from Vienna, of 28th March says, " It it re ported that the Belgian Government has just contracted .1 new loan, with the following banking-houses at Vienna : Itothsehilzl, Sina, Arnstein, Eskelles, and Gerjinniticr. The particulars of this transaction are net yet known. BRUSSELS, APRIL 9. —M. Strcus, Comproller General of the iroi, railroad, is gone to London, with M. Nothomh, to study in England everything relative to the conveyance of coeds. The Liege Journals have brought intelligence of a dreadful accident that has occurred in the coal mine of florloz, at Tillears, belonging to M. Braconnier. We shall Lot receive the details till tomorrow. The Journals say that the .number of lives lost is not ascertained. Se veral dead bodies have been extracted. One Lurnal says the:t the explosion of fire damp took place when above 80 men were at work. The number of passengers on the iron railroad, and the sums recuived in February and March wire— Passengers. Receipts. FAruary, 7 .11,:rch, ['Acts's, Aram B.—We henr that the marriage of his Royal Highness the Prince of OraUge, is to be celebrated at Stutgatd, in the course of next June. It is said that his Majesty has been pleased to appoint to the post of Vice- Governor of the Coast of Guinea, over the territory of Hanita and its dependencies, M. A. Van der Eb, resident on the coset. 111aesTatcur, APRIL 6.—The Officers of the Garrison have had to-day the honour bf paving their rcsreets to their Commander-in-Chief, Licut-General Baron Van der Ca pellen. They remembered with much feeling, their late brave commander, General Debbits, who during nearly nine critical years displayed, as governor of this unfortunate fortress, all the qualities that characterise a true soldier, whose sole object is the defence ef - his king and country. They, however, feel that they have reason to congratulate themselves under their loss by the choice which his Majesty has made of the excellent B;ronVande-Capellen to be their new Commander-in-Chief, to whom they promise all fidelity and affection, and will fulfil the expectations which he ex pressed in the following words— " Gentlemen, lam highly honoured by the task which his Majesty the King has been pleased to assign to me, to succeed the late excellent Gen. Debbits in the command of this fortress ;this task would be very difficult to me did I not rely on the co-operation, gentlemen, of all of you. I trust and hope, that in case of need, every one will do his utmost to defend the land of his forefathers—l depend on your friendship as you may at all times depend on mine." The liandlesblad has a letter from Brussels of the Bth of April, which says that it is affirmed that Belgium is to be shortly obliged to raze its fortresses—that this affair is kept secret for fear of the effect it may produce on the neutral party. ' DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, APRIL 9. Money. Bills. ActiiAl Debt, 234 per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. Atom t Syndic, 43, per cent 941 91% Ditto, ditto, 334 per cent. 7:4N, 78% Commercial Company, 4 , 4 per cent ns% 179% Ditto (1832 and 1E03) 5 per cent. — Ditto 1837, 5 per cent. Loan 1:.';37, 5 rer cent. Exchange on London, One month ll 9734 • • Two months BELGIAN k UNDS—.BatIesELS, APRIL 9. Actual Debt, 234 per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. • 1 0 Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 3 per Cent. ..... ... 70 14 Loan of City, 183 0 , 4 per Cent 95 Society of Commerce, 4 !,', per Cent. 122 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 6434 . National Society . NV —Brussels Papers, April 0. • PARISH OF ST. PANCRAS-NEW POLICE BILL. Yesterday a meeting of the rate-payers and inhabitants of the parish of St. Pancras was held at the Vestry-rooms, Gordon-street, Gordon-square, for the purpose of taking into consideration the Bills now before Parliament, for the (so called) Improvement of the Police, end adopting a peti tion to Parliament to stop the further progress of those Bills. At one o'clock Mr. Churchwarden CHALK was called to the Chair. He said that the Vestry had considered it their duty to call them together for the purpose of laying before them two Bills introduced by Government into Parliament, for the further improvement of the new police. By the provision of one of those Bills the last vestige of the people's rights in the election of Magistrates,"would be totally destroyed, and .337 the other which authorised the extension of the system, ten miles around the metropolis, the last link in the plan of centralization would he perfected.—(l4cer ) Ile would not enter into the details of those measures upoil that oc casion ; but he could assure the meeting from chat he had read of them that more infamous measures had never been Attempted to be introduced even in the most rampant days of Toryism.—(Cheers.) Mr. Ives, proposed a resolution to the eff:ct that the meeting, considering trial by Jury the basis of the liberties of Englishmen, viewed with abhorrence every attempt to encroach upon its principles and practice.—(Cheers.). . . Mr. flonseroon seconded the resolution; which was then put and carried unanimously. Major REVELL, in rising to propose the next resolution said, that if such encroachments on the liberties of the people as were contained in the Bills about to be passed into a law, were disregarded by the community, they might soon expect to be visited by still more serious inroads. The resolution which he had the honour to propose, was to the effect, that considering as the meeting did, the Magistracy according to their Saxon institutions, should ba elected by the people and for the people, they were determined to resist the wishes of any Government to centralize in the hands of a few paid agents the power hitherto entrusted to a responsible Magistrate. One of the great ob jections to the Bill was, that it deprived the City of London of the ancient privileges which they had enjoyed for many hundred years, and handed them over to the mercy of a set of spies and informers.--(Hear.) , This was a very decided objection to the Bill, and made them look with suspicion upon the party from whom such a mea sure emanated.—( Hear.) But it was not the Whigs alone that they were to blame for this measure, for at the, very time that Sir Robert Peel was disclaiming against its pro visions at a dinner in the City, he was a member of the Committee that was appointed to carry it into c Mr. CHARNOCK, in seconding the resolution, said that the motion of his respected friend was mainly directed to that part of the obnoxious Bill which affected the City of London. He could not d;sguise from the meeting the utter disgust and contempt he entertained for the promo ters of that measure, on reading the monstrous provisions of the Bill which they had introduced. • He was asto nished that such a measure could possibly Lave emanated from a set a men entertaining the political sentiments which her Majesty's present Ministers professed. It might be said that the people of St. Pancras had nothing to do with the City of London but he would say that they had everythi ng to do with it. It was part and parcel of themselves. It had struggled in the same cause—advocated the same prin ciples; and riow, when its liberties were assailed, should they not defend it as they would themselves.—(Loud cheers ) Their interests were bound up together, as the bundle of sticks ; and it was the duty of the borough of Marylebone to co-operate in resisting this bold and tyran nical invasion of their rights —not by violence or outrage, but by a steady, calm, and dispassionate exposition of their rougs.—( Cheers. ) The resolution was then put and carried. Mr. Wool) then proposed a resolution to the following effect :—That the fleeting considered the attack made upon the City of London, and other places contained in the Po lice Bill, recently introduced by Mr. Fox Maule, to be unconstitutional in the extreme ; and, therefore, most hear tily concurred with the citizens of London in their deter mined resistance to it. Mr. DOUGLAS seconded the resolution, which was car riedursanimously, Mr. StmrsoN aloved the adoption of a petition founded on the resolutions, and that Sir B. Hall, But., be re quested to present it to the House of Commies, and Lord Stanhope to the Lords. A person named `Vann, after denouncing the policy of introducing the measure under the consideration of the • meeting, which he did in no very measured terms, propoied the follotsing amendment, as an addition to the petition : " That the attack now being made on the liberty of the subject, fully proves the necessity of every man being re presented, and therefore Universal Suffrage can alone pre vent further injury by exclusive legislation." This amendment was accorded by Mr. YOUNG. Mr. VIGORs, M.P., would wish to say a few words in reference to some expressions which had been used by the gentleman who had proposed the amendment. He hid asserted that the police measure which had been intro duced by a member of the Government, was to be car ried through the instrumentality of the base Irish Mem hers of the House of Commons. Now, he (Mr. Vigors) was a Member of that House, and he would frankly avow that he, in his place in Parliament, would give every opposition in his power to the 13 i 11 .—(11ear, hear.) He was aware, and he wished it to be. known, that the greater portion of the Irish Members were opposed to the Bill, as they were to every act of injustice and op pression which had and might be introduced into the House of Commons. He was an advocate for Universal Suffrage —an Extension of the Suffrage to the utmost possible limits. —( Hear, hear.) The Hon. Member concluded by hoping that the petition would be unanimously adopted ; but he svculd not give any opposition to the amendment which had been proposed. A person named ALDIS, a working man, said that ' O'Connell, although he bad risen to eminence on the shoulders of the working classes, was the bitterest and most determined enemy they had.—(Cheers, and " No.") A great deal of clamour and confusion ensued, after which the Chairman put the question and amendment, when the latter was carried by a very large majority. It was then resolved, " That the Petition to the Com mons should be entrusted for presentation to Sir Benjamin flail, and that to the Lords, to Lord Stanhope." I Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the meet- I • qrpzratcd. Tre p..tition recjred a large number of a;gnatures during the day. 1 LITERATURE. FOREIGN QUARTERLY REVIEW. No. XL V. Black, L , ndon, 1839. Following in the wake of " Blackwood," the " Foreign Quarterly R ev i ew ," in the course of an article entitled " German Literature and Composi tion," takes the opportunity of laving the lash on old Goethe, with all the skill and energy of the ex pertest drummer. After speaking of the " dull, unsympathizing obscenities that disgrace some of his works," and hi s " utter i na bili ty , incapacity, to comprehend one singl e trait of delicacy, decency, and morality that is obvious to every eye but his own," the Reviewer goes on to speak of his ac knowledged master-piece, " Faustus." " In what," he asks, " does the marvel of this consist ? In what is Goethe's claim borne out to the title of the German Shakspeare ? We utterly deny the epi thet's correctness in the usual sense, unless the true German is to be understood as a modification. Shakspeare ruled the heart, and swayed the sym pathies of mankind. His thoughts lay open the intellec'ual world of man ; his aspirations ennoble the rnind. The most that Goethe does is to surprise ; where he talks of feeling, it is to drone or to sneer; his powers are fantastical, his imagination half cold. The scenes of nature, actual or im'ag,inative, the pulse of the heart, the yearnings of emotion, all are merely elaborately b eaut if u l ; all are perverted from sim plicity to artificial life." This criticism is much too severe ; for no one can deny that " Faustus" contains passages of exquisite natural sensibility— such, for instance, as the Easter-eve reflections of its hero, and the portraiture of the tenderness and struggles of poor Margaret ; and also displays not fantastical powers," but those of a high and rare order of imegination,as in the memorable witch scene on the Brocken mountain, which Shelley has go spiritedly translated. Of Goethe's " Obscenities" we cannot undertake to speak, as we have hut a limited acquaintance with his writings ; still we cannot help fancying that the Reviewer is here " moral overmuch," for surely that-author could not have been so remarkably gross: and disgusting in his writings, who was on terms of intimate acquaintance with most of thea/eriseat and worthiest spirits of Europe ; who was the idol of his country men and countrywomen ; and the chosen friend and correspondent of Scott, as exemplary a man in all the relations of private life as ever existed, and who would not consevently have been over-solicitous for the friendship of a mere pander to vice and sen suality ! The article entitled " Russian Actual Policy" is very elaborate, and enters with singular minuteness into all the details of the present system of Russian policy. The Reviewer draws the cha racter of Nicholas with skill, but, on the whole, in too flattering a spirit ; for who, with any justice, can talk of the " amenity and kindness" of a Prince, who has treated Poland with the barbarous brutality that the Russian Emperor has displayed towards her? The best thing C can say of Nicholas—bearing in mind Mr. Bremner s account of him in his re cently published volumes of travels—is, that he is a sort of dandy Napoleon, who evinces all the 'en thusiasm in his reviews and mimic fights, that the French hero evinced in actual warfare. Alluding to the Russian Navy, the Reviewer justly says " We have no fear of invasions, even though within the last twelve months a Russian agent has taken plans of the various English harbours, and in especial of the soundings, &c., at the entrance of the Thames. If meant for actual hostilitied'at any time, the attempt would be ridiculous, and our large steam force secures us against surprise, abroad as well as at home, since our vessels could be towed to form a junction much faster than any regular fleet could sail against them. The Russian ships, too, are built of bad timber, and make much bilge-water ; the crews are brave, but not active ; and if toler ably efficient at the gun, yet very indifferent at boarding." In the " Progress of Chemistry," a curious and entertaining account is given of many of the recent discoveries in this important science. We are glad to see that in this article, justice is done to the memory of the unfortunate chemist La voisier, who, it may be remembered, was one of ' the last and most illustrious victims of the French Revolution, and perished in the height of the Reign of Terror, just a few months previous to the fall of Robespierre. " English Usurpation of Oudc" denounces the conduct of the English Go vernment towards this territory. It is penned in a spirited, energetic style. "On the Law of Storms" is a review of Colonel Reid's work on this subject, and concludes with some remarks on the " scan dalous conduct of the wreckers" on our own shores. The remaining articles are of the average order in point of excellence. The Earl and Countess of Mansfield and the Ladies Murray are eipetted at Langham.place, on Satur day next, from Caen Wood, Hampstead, for the season. A marriage is on the iapiebetWeen"Lad t . Emily, Murray, - y o ungest daughter of the Noble Earl . atria 'Captai n S ec rnour, of the Scots Fusilier Guards, Groom o f the Robes to her Majesty. The ceremony i. expected to take place in town at the close of the present month. ROYAL ACADEMY OF MITSIC.—The pupils had a private Concert at the lestitutionouTuesday morning. The mortal remains of the late gallant Lieutenant- 3 General Sir Herbert Taylor, G. C. 13., after being em balmed at Rome, will, we hear, be conveyed to England • for interment in the Hospital of St. Katharine's, in tl.e Regent's Park. Sir Herbert was attended in his last mo ments by liis intimate and personal friend, the Rev. John Ryle Wood, chaplain to her Majesty the Queen Dowager, ; who proceeded from Malta to Rome to visit the gallant General On learning his dangerous illness. Madlle. Fanny Eisler is suffering from a violent sprain of the ankle, which will prevent her from appearing as soon as was expected, at her M:ije.cty's Theatre, in the new ballet now performing at the Academie Royale, called La Gypsey. The Zoological collection of the Garden of Plants in Paris, has just been enriched by the present of an immense tortoise from a gentleman at Havre. It is a native of the island of Ascension, and weighs 5001 be. It is five feet in length, and three and a half broad. It ar rived at the gardens on Friday evening, and on the follows ing day laid four eggs. Government have it in contemplation to reduce the number of cavalry regiments in the'south-west district, from two to one corps, fixing head quarters at Cork, and detaching to Cahir and Limerick stations. A strong ob jection, however, is made to the policy of this arrangement. —Limerick Chronicle. THE GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY.—The line of this splendid railway form a very conspicuous figure as it enters the metropolis, in its course through the pa rishes of Bethnal green and Spitalfields to Shoreditch. For about a mile and a half a passage is being made through this populous district, in effecting ;which many old and crazy hou.es arc being pulled down. In a few weeks an en trance will be made to the intended terminus at Shoreditch. THE NEWCASTLE MURDER. —The fund sub scribed fur the maintenance of the children of Millie, the Rank, assistant clerk in the Ne wcastle Savings' amounts to 1 000/ , of which su m the bank has contributed 60/., being , one . year's s alary of the murdered man. 'DIE PRIVILEGES OF THE CITIZEN S OF Loxr,ox. The Police Commiitee of the Corporation of London recommenced their sittings at the Excheq uer Coffee House, Palace Yard, on Monday. The assurances of aid against the New Metropolitan Police Bill are daily increasing, and the general expectation is that the Bill will he immediately withdrawn. Already have several Mem bers of the Government expressed their regret that it was introduced. Letters from Windsor, Weymouth, Maid stone, and many other places, enclosing copies of resolu tions in favour of the preservation privileges of the city of London, have been received. The Countess of Lincoln was safely d e li vered of a daughter on Sunday evening, at the new residence of the Noble Earl in Park-lane. Her Ladyship and infant are going on well. The Duchess of Hamilton, who had been sojourning at the Hyde Park Hotel, to be near the Coun tess at the period of her ace. on, Portman M ourh.ement an- square. _removed,are yesterday, to the Noble Duke's mans i on, Baron cyersdorff, late Russian Ambassador at the Court of Stutgardt, has been appointed Russian Am bassador at Berlin. His Exc ellenc y is to be succeeded by Baron Brownow , one of the attaches of the F • orei - gn-office, at St. Petersburg. LIGIIT may not generally be ch. known that by 6 and 7 Will. IV., 3 7, bakers can sell bread only by we ight. They are compelled, un d er a pe nalty of Si. not only to have . correct weight s and scales in their shops, but also in their carts where bre a d i 3 carr i ed cut, and to weigh when required, every loaf previous to its being purehnied. Th i s i s now the only protection the p u bli c , h ave against thei r being cheated, and they are therefore recommended to see that each loaf is cf the full weight before it is purchased. At a vestry meeting held last Thursday, at Croy - don, a resolution was u nanimously agreed to, requesting the Town Commission ers to o pp ose, b y all the legal means iu their power, the Police Bill before Parliament, and to use their endeavours to prevent its proposed introduction into that district. T AXATIO N IN NEW SOUTH \V A LES AND THE CAPE or GOOD Hors. _The populaeion of New South Wales is about 77,000. The population of the Cape is about 156,000. In New South Wales th e ' revenue ex ceeds 380,000/. ; the revenue of the Cape is about 167,000/. In New South Wales the taxes amoun t to about 5/. a h ea d . At the Cape they scarcely exceed 1/. a head. Great Britain spends annually on the defence of the colony against external enemies a sum much larger, we believe about twice as large, as the whole of our revenue. And the people of Great Britain spend annually en chapels and schools for the colonial poor, thrice as much as the Colonial Govern ment sets apart for the church and school establish ments for the whole colony 1 Is this the conduct of a " stepmother 1 Commercial Advertiser. MEETING OF POSTMASTE.RS, RAIL. ROADS. Yesterday afternoon a meeting of the Pcstrn astet..s was held at the Freemason's Tavern, to considi propriety of petitioning Parliament for a repeal of the Po:t Horse Duties.—Mr. Gray in the Chair. The CHAIRMAN sail the meeting had. been eon :reflect in consequence of the present state of the _Posting trade which was almost ruined by the mode of travelli tag i n this country baring undergone the great ch, inge it hart done within the last few years. He allud ed to the number of rail-roads and steam boats tha tha d reeeetir been established, and which had almost suspended thy old mode of travelling ; the one (rail_, otvis) we s taxed but slightly„ and the other (steam b eats) ne t at all, and yet the Post-horse D,ty still continued. While such:a state of things .'txisto the Postmasters bad no chance of successful c omp e tit:on with such formidable rivals; and it was their •dr Lty therefore, to unite in their endeavours to obtain a to tal repeal, net only of the post-horse duties, but of : .the duty on carriages let to hire.—(Hear.) They w ere a large and respectable body of men, who had a great stake in the country, and were engaged in a trade that was highly us4ul to the community. The prop); imors of Railroads were mare speculators,. who had, in order to enrich themselves, introduced into the country A new description of travelling, to the verygreat detriment, _lf rr total ruin of the Postmasters. When Mr. Gillot; bro og at forward his motion in the House of Commons for mr - re duction of two-thirds of the post-horse &dim, and.. -the levying a tax upon railroads and steam-boate r :the Chancellor of the Exchequer admitted the prine4 le Mr. Gillon wished to establish,eand promised to legl s late upon the subject in the • course of the presba rt Session ; but nothing had as yet been done, and in tl re present posture oftheir affairs every day was an objet z to them. After some further observations, he rea a a report of the Deputation recently appointed, and Itha result of their interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. CeAnKr., of Windsor, said no time was to be' low:, for the trade was on the verge of ruin. Roads that we re once the pride of England, and hostelries such as c ou ld not be found anywhere on the Continent, were, fro m the love of change that novr existed, about to be sane Pt away. They did not complain, however, so much of a new mode of travelling being introduced ng of :the gross injustice of taxing the old mule heavily veh ile the new was left altogether untaxed. - Mr. DIXON, of Henley-upon-Thames, said that the Chancellor of the Exchequer having admitted the :eios ewe of their claim for a' repeal eof _ the liost-' fccorse dutie., he trusted that a material alteration, if trot a total repeal of the post-horse duties and th e duties on carriages travelling for hire, would immediatel y take place. Several other gentlemen afterwards address(' el the meeting, when petitions to both Houses of Parlia ment, prtOng for a total and immediate repeal kof the above duties, were then agreed to and flume?, Judy signed. Tii*nks were then voted to the Ciiairman, who b acknowledged the compliment, after which ti:e ate sting adjourned. HUGH SHERIFF OF YORKSHERE TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.. Slll,—Several unjustifiable attacks having ar ptlired in the rerk Chronicle, respecting the High Sh eriff, sent the following letter to its Dlter, who not only refused to insert it in his Parr, but (with his us al un fairness), commented on its contents. Under th ese cir cumstances, I trust you will publish it in THE Sim, and Sir, your obedient servant, • . R. HENRY ANDERSON. Petcrgate, April 4, 1839. TO THE EDITOR OF THE YORK CHROISICLE. Stn,—lt is no matter of surprise to me, who Iknow the motives by which you and your employers are actuated, in attacking all who differ with you in politics or religion, to find you guilty of the - nicest unleiushing falsehoods respecting the Catholic High-Shea-if! of the county. To those who have the honour of person ally knoWing the Sheriff, a contradiction is unnect!ssary ; but to those who do' not know him, to those mor : espe cially who .are blind enough to look for truth in the darksome bigotry of the York Chronicle, a stater aent of facts may he desirable ; not that I expect any• state ment will induce you to give up practice as a hired ca lumniator, or that it will dispel the cloud. which ilarkene the vision of any one of yonr readers, in matters reli gious or political—but simply as a sacrifice due to - truth from detected falsehood. The laws of this country have so far put an end to civil disability on account (lir reli gious belief, as to admit a Catholic to the office of High Sheriff. Charles Tempest, Esq., is the third Cao.holic who has held that office in Yorkshire, since the passing of the Emancipation Bid. I recollect that previous to. Emancipation, 1829, some patrons of the Chronicle thought, that. if emancipated, the Catholics would. soots run away with York Minster ! A Catholic Sheriff was '. appointed in 1830, and your friends were'still rneraler i rifled. " The nation was becoming Catholiee and -Pro f testantism about to be extinguished!",. • In 183 J, another Catholic Sheriff was named, and nothing appears to have ' then saved the Church, except the fact, that the 'Ca tholic Sheriff appointed a Pectestant . ChaOtain.• At length .eaur.4..t,be poneontous..yont wido, Aindwivvith ! it, on the very Ides .of, „Al Ary4 t,r4 9, 4145 1, fiffr" 1 , 01 ,1 41 9WP I the appointment .of a Catholic chaplain 1. :Thrs ap pointment is, evidentlY in . rinur opinion, the immediate forerunner of the destruction of tale - Establishment .aend as it is often said that. men etuder the influence of great fear, lose the powers of sight and reason, so you, hawing the fear of the speedy annihilation' Of Protestantism im pressed strongly upon your mind, seem to have given credence to all the extravagant • fancies which affect dreaming witnesses. .Thus, for example, the Sheriff's chaplain, in a plain black cassock and gown, in your excited imagination, has been converted into " a Popish • el:l:dein, attired and robed in full fig for the celebration of high mass." Then you have insinuated that the chepe lain attended the breakfast at the Mansion-horse, with out an invitation. It is true you have not repeated in the Gazette this part of your false story, and. it is said that even the Lord Mayor himself, (though a Tory), requested you would not repeat it. But why have you not begged pardon of the public, whose mind you have been attempting to abase? Is it honest or reputable knowingly to assert falsehood? 0e is it a part of your Protestantism to refuse to retract that which you have asserted untruly, respecting a Catholic ? If it be, I am not, surprised that you should entertain fears for the stability of your religion ! But you wish to persuade your readers that the Sheriff attended the Catholic Chapel in York with all " the usual insignia of his office." New the fact is, that the insignia of his office are his sword and his wand. It is is even question able whether the wand is not his only insigne of office, the sword being a necessary part of ancient full dress. Now in order to avoid the possibility of giving offence, either to ' law or his fellow men, the Sheriff resigned both his swords and his wand at the door of the chapel. So much for all your quibbling as to to the Sheriff having acted contrary to the Emancipation Act. Then as to " the • habit of his order," which you say the chaplain worn upon the occasion ; be it known to you that the habit he wore was not the habit of any order, but simply the cassock and gown, which every clergyman (Catholic as well as Protestant) le entitled to wear. It is true there are some truing differences in the modes of making these habiliments—differences' so minute, however, as to es cape the observation of a cursory observer. For ex ample, the cassock of the Protestant clergyman is tied in front, whilst that of the Catholic is buttoned ! And yet you style the Catholic, " An individual dressed up in a style which neither of them (the Judges) had in all probability ever seen before." The Judges themselves have given you a good moral lesson, and they are men (I use your own words) skilled "in the form and pressure of the time.' Yee, they knew that it was their duty, as honest men, to endea vour to put an end to religious animosity and civil dis tinctions on account of differences in matters of faith. They knew that they had no right (as you assume to have) to state dogmatically that the Catholic Church is an apostate church." They were too well informed of the real state of the establishment to join with you in stigmatising the Catholic clergy, as " represent a ti ves o f a ' corrupt c h urch. .No ! They are - educated and honest men, and, therefore, did not hesitate to request the Catholic chaplain to say grace before them. In short, if it be really your wish to see Catholics and Protestants on such bad terms with each other, that neither of them shall allow the other to say grace in his presence, you must have been going back in the race of toleration during the past ten years ; whilst the great body of man kind have been making rapid advances towards that happy state of things, when persecution shall utterly cease, and each be left to pursue the dictates of his con science, and to practise the duties of Christianity with out annoyance from the intolerant or the wicked. We shall very shortly, I trust, he spaced the pain of hearing Editors of Newspapers call their Catholic ancestors ido laters, or stigmatize virtue as if it were vice. I fear I have trespassed too long on your patience as well as on your type. An anecdote, and I have . done. I have heard that a certain personage remarked to Baron Alderson, during the late Assizes, that she considered the blowing of the trumpets (when the Sheriff was on his way from the Minster to the Catholic Church) would be of serious consequence, and decidedly inju rious t o - Protestantism.. " Lord, ma'am (exclaimed the witty Baron) don't he alarmed ; I assure you it is all in the natural order of things, there never was a Tem pest • without a blast! " The pun was nearly fatal in its effects upon the lady's risible faculties, and it is said she declares she never will again " make much ad.) about . nothing." I am, Sir, your obedient servant, R. HENRY ANDERSON. , . County Clerk of Yorkshi re . f i . York, 26th March, 1839. ERRATUM IN YESTERDAYS SUN.-411 a letter signed S. A. W., I:nc 44, for " naval construc tion," read " novel construction. THE APPROACHING CRISIS _.....,...____ TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE SUN. ' Sra,—App rov i ng and admiring, as I often do, the liberal and impartial tone cf politics you adopt, allow me, in furtherance of such a purpose, to make a few iobservations on the approaching crisis, which must ne cessarily arise from the fate of Lord John Russell's mo tion in the House of Commons on the ITAI instant. The issue of that motion will decide whether the people of this empire are to-bow at, the flat of a factious oligar chy, or to sustain those principles of gradual and ra tional reform, which can alone impart vigor and stabi lity to our institutions. Under ordinary circumstances, or in times of less portentous aspect, a change of Minis ters might be regarded as a common-place ' occurrence, leading to no important results—such as the casual vicissitudes of sunshine or rainy weatlier ;--but now questions of the highest importance are involved—ques tions which affect not only the well-being of the peopl e of thi s emp i re, b ut the general rights of humanity and the principles of universal justice, and must lead either to wholesome and salutary repose, or to storms, pesti lence, and death. Let ns only remember the career of the Tories, now assuming the name of Conservatives, when- in power. Did they not treble the debt of the nation, and thereby mortgage the labour and industry of its inhabitants for an indefinite period to come ? Did they not squander millions upon millions to rahe up Napoleon, and as many more to put him down ? Did they not resort to Coercion and Gagging Acts to stifle public opinion ? Did they not wage a war, at home and abroad, against every measure bearing the slightest reference to the pro motion of popular rights, or the progress of advitocing political intelligence. And was not, in fact, their whole course of policy one universal system of profligacy and corruption, promoting the interest of the few at the ex pease of the many, and conveying such abandoned poll- tical immorality into all orders and classes of the coin- 1 munitv, that we are not recovered from the taint, even 1 at this moment. Are these the men and measures which the represen tatives of the steady and acute people of England will sanction, by a vote that may lea(l,.even remotely, to power of such a ravening crew ? Will they pronounce that the coarse of rational Reform shall be stopped, and that the Empire shall again be made the victim of a faction, who make salf•interest the motive and rule of their policy P_ _ In answer to such interrogatories, let us only refer to the question which is to be decided by the House of Commons on the 15th inst., and it amounts to this-- Whether Ireland is again to be given:up to the domi nation of an Orange faction, or whether the arections of the people of that country are to be identified with the weal and woe of England ? Can any rational or patriotic mind have any doubt as to its decision on these altcrnatiVes? With the Canadas presenting more than a doubtful allegiance, with war in the East Indies, and with the couching and hostile attitude of every despot in Europe,are we rudely,and rashly, and, I w;11 say,dishonest ly and unjustly, to fling away the atochment of the Irish people, and to erect again the misgovernment of centu ries over them, in order to gratify the malignity or im becility of a majority of the House of Lords, whose in capacity to estimate the true interest of the people of England, as on the Corn question, is as apparent as - what they have manifested with respect to Ireland. " Uni formly," said Junius, nearly three quarters of a century since, " has Ireland been plundered and oppressed ;" and in addition to all this, would the Conservatives, so called, now wish to infuse the bitterness of religious animosity. But I cannot yet bring myself to believo that the people of England, or their representatives in the House of Commons, will countenance any measure which is likely to have such a tendency. They will not retrograde in the march of Reform, much less will they revive an exploded policy, founded on exclusion and injustice, conveying bitterness, division, and weakness, by making the smaller section of the people of Ireland tyrants, gaolers, and guards upon the rest, and exposing the empire, in the event of war, to a separation, from the first rude shock which may assail it. If the Tories have discovered any new mode of policy on which to found the stability and security of the empire, than that of the affections and attachment of its varied po pulation, why, let them proclaim it. Let Sir Robert Peel for once be candid—fling away his tortuous can ning—and directly declaim, at which he is so great an adept,—" Yes, our object is to disregard the scants and wishes of the great mass of the population in Ireland, and to foster the galling prejudices and perverse hostility of a faction in that country, whose loyalty is only t o b e measured by their power to injure the rest of their countrymen, and by exclusively surrendering up to them, as in all preceding tittles, every situation of profit and influence." Such language 'would be honest and manly ; but would the course recommended be wise, or j ust, or loyal ? Would our young and truly gracious Queen be satisfied with the allegiance of a section of her people in Ireland, when she has a right to claim from her Minister the adopEon of those measures which are alone. calculated to win the affections of the whole ? No, her benignant Majesty will not bestow her con fidence on any class of Statesmen who I rely on their tenure for office by alienating the feelings of so great a portion of her subj ec t s ; and she will not fail to call to her remembrance those days of her uncle and grand :father, when the same party whieh possessed power so long, sowed the seeds of our prese n t di s t ract i ons, b y their Inveterate ' hostility to timely Deform, and presented for her sovereig nty on ascending th e Th rone , an over burdened and overtaxed people. She will eschew such councillors, and all those disposed to intercept the rays of mercy, benignity, and justice, issuing from the Throne. The true Statesman, her benevolent Ma jesty will consider, ought to be enabled to distinguish between the growl of the over-fed parson, and the cry of wretchedness and despair. The preSent circumstances of the British Empire exhibit a 'curious anomaly, not often to be found in the history. Of nations. We find, on ,the one hand, the Government and the people anxious :o promote those gradual and salutary reforms, so essential to its security and stability ; and we discover on the other hand a factious oligarchy impeding and thwarting those ame liorations. Certainly, a few solitary instances are to be discerned, where exclusive and privileged bodies ob struct the progress of improvement, and set up their will io apposition to the wishes and feelings of the ma-. 1 jority—such, for example ,as the Pretorian Guards at Rome under the Emperors, and the Janissaries at Constantinople. But in the one case it wes attended by their own downfal, together with that of the Empire, and in the other, reform, as it advanced, swept the op posing body into extinction. Whether the Janissaries of our House of Lords are prepared for this alternative, is a question for their consideration. Ttscy affect to be mighty pious, yet they act the unchristian part of deny ing the people cheap bread. They prc tend to consider the people of Ireland unfit, to he entrusted with the ma nagement of their own municipal concerns ; yet they violently oppose one of the best measures for qualifying theta for that duty, and for healing their distractions and divisions. They consider they arc upholding the Church, when they are only supporting its abuses ; and 1 they place it in the lamentable position of being a bar to the education of the rising generation. The supreme law, in their estimation, is no longar salus populi, but amoi• /mew, . i c e In this course, indeed, the baser part of their feudal origin is adopted. We cannot now dis cover any of that high chivalrous spirit which at onetime prompted their presumed ancestors to succour the dis tressed and oppressed ; but we observe a ravening thirst for power and pelf, regardless of the means so the object be accomplished. Let them no longer emblazon their shields or boast of heraldic honours, for their most appropriate supporters would now be the deceived and suffering agriculturist and the famishing artizan. PUBLIUS. At the Dover Sessions on Friday, John Ed ward Lane, a boy aged 13, pleaded Guilty of stealing at St. James's, Dover, four quartern l oaves o f b rea d, t h e property of George Thomas Croft ; and in consideration of his being a confirmed thief, he was sentenced to seven years transportation to a penal colony, set apart for juvenile offenders. IMPORTANT CHEMICAL DISCOVERY.—One of the most valuable improvements in modern times has lately bee'n achieved'in the manufacture of soda from com mon salt, by the' use of carbonate of ammonia instead of the pestiferous method hitherto employed in the production of that alkali. The inhabitants residing in the vicinity of the soda manufactories at Birmingham, Liverpool, New castle, &c., owe the inventors of this valuable improvement a heavy debt of gratitude, as by this discovery they have put an end to the dreadf u l nuisance which the public have l i so long endured. The necessity of decomposing the chlo ride of sodium by sulphur no longer exists, the newly-dis covered process being perfectly free from all noxious va pour. Another important advantage is also secured, namely, that the improved method can, with little addi tional outlay, be adapted to the manufactories at present in operation, and the workmen who have hitherto been fre quently thrown out of employment, and subject to the loss of their wages, in consequence of the numerous indictments that have been laid against their masters for nuisances, will no longer be subjected to this evil. This process, when submitted to an eminent chemical lawyer for his opinion, uas pronounced by him to be one of the most brilliant and ingenious discoveries in modern chemistry. RAILWAY TRAVELLING.—The Cockneys will be happy to hear that in the ensuing summer season they will, on many of the lines of railroad, derive great ac commodation in consequence of the facilities which will be afforded them in making long journeys in a considerable short space of time. Already the lovers of a trip to Hampton Court have teen informed that largo vehicles for the conveyance of parties, of from *4 to 40 persons eoch, by which they will be taken by the Southampton Railway, from and to town, for the trifling expense of 40s each carriage. It is said that other Companies intend to adopt the same speculati on . ExPEDITioN.----T. and W. Marsden's fly boat, Captain John Ashton, soled from Hull on Monday morning, April Ist, at seven o'clock, and arrived at Hud dersfield on Tuesday morning, April 2d, at nine o'clock, performing the passage in 26 hours, with a cargo cf foreign wool. She was tugged up to Goole by a powerful steam tug, the Amason, engaged by the proprietors of the fly boats to ply between Goole and Hull purposely to give dispatch to their own boats.—Hull Observer. ii.WENING EDITION MANCHESTER and MR.7.3IINGTTAM EXTENSION RAILWAY. 1 ~........._ On Tuesday last a numerous and highly influent' al meeting of the Bankers, Merchants, Traders, and oth rr inhabitants of Manchester, convened in compliance wi Ft r a requisition presented to the Boroughrcevu at. til 1 Constables, was held at the Town Hall of that Boron;;; a, I for the purpose of taking into consideration the beL at mode of giving effect to certain resolutions passed at .R/ general meeting of the inhabitants, held on the 26t1.1 I of April last, pledging the town of Manchester to give its support to an Act to authorise the construction of the Manchester and Birmingham Extension Railway. The requisition bore nearly 400 signatures, represent ing nearly every firm of wealth and respectability in i Manchester. At half-past ten o'clock, TnomAs EVANS, Esq. the Boroughreeve, was called to the ,elii.ir, and after reading the reenitition by which the meeting had been convened, said, alt.hou 3 - it i fully aware of tile great importance to the town of t Manchester of the question to be brought before them, I he was not so conversant with its actajls as other gentlem,Yn who were present, and therefore he should call upon some other gentleman connected with the Extern:Ann Line to explain the subject to the meeting. EDWARD TOOTAL, Esq., one of the 'Directors of the Manchester and BirminghLin Ext , ensin Company, in responding to the call of the Chairman, lugged to submit to the meeting some circumstances connected with that undertaking. PerhapS, he observed, the strongest proofs which he could urge of the advauLgcs, which it held out, would be by referring to the saving of distance: of the line, and the facilities of communi-, cation which it opened to the various towns upon its route. He would, in the first place, allude to the London and Birniingham Railway. By the turnpike road the distance between these places was 110 mites ; by the railway 112 4 1 ; by a direct line it was 98A therefore the circuit taken by the railway w - as mile* over a direct line. Now, the turnpike road Crow Manchester to London was 186 miles, the distance by railway 179 miles, and by a bird's fTght the distance was 163 miles, being an increase on the direct line of 16 miles. Now, of these 16 miles only 3,1 miles were lost by the deviations of the Manchester and BirrniaJmun and Extension Itn.ilway,whereas 131 miles were lost by t i;e present routa to London. Thus, while they gave every town lying between Stone and Rugby the benefit of railway communication, they lost only the compara tively small distance of 21 miles. He would also show, in reference to the Grand Junction Company, that the distance between Liverpool and Birmingham by railway was 973- miles, and by bird's night only 77 miles, being alass of 20k miles, in addition to - 13 i miles lest in going from Dirrnineitm to Londum, In proof or the judiciousress of the route which had beef; selected for the Extension Line, be might refer to the 11,opot made by Mr. Telford in 1826, to the Postrwser- Genord, that gentleman having been requested to survey and lay out the shortest and best main route ta Liverpool, and the one he selected, commencing at Rugby, was by Nuneaton, Atherstone, Tamwertb, Lichfield, and ugely, every town, and almost elery yard of land adopted by the present Company.• By the existing, line of railway, as he had shown, the distaece between Manchester and London was 209 miles, while, by a bird's fl:ght, it was 163 miles, thus compelling them to ake a round of 46 miles in every journey they made o. London ; should they however, succeed in obtaining c Extension Line, this distance would be reduced to 18 In the distance he had given, he had said ac ing in respect of gradients ; although this was de bateable matter, he had no hesitation in stating, that a distance equal to 15 miles, at least, would be saved, in addition to what he had stated by the superior gra dient of the Extension Line as . far as Rugby. Mr. 'Foetal here referred to the circumstances under which the meeting in April last had been called to gether, and stated that if the measure bad nut obtained the cordial concurrence of their fellow townsmen on that occasion, the Directors would never have made apidiea tion to Parliament to carry out the undertaLing before them ; and he now called upon the present assembly to give effect to the resolution which they then came to. He should have been glad, if time permitted, to give a sketch of the nature of the opposition which they had to encounter, but he would content himself by noticing one or two of the allegations which had. been brought against them by their opponents. Mr.Teotal here re- miles. Crred to the case of the Stafford Charities, in which the, Company were called upon to prove the right of owner ship of certain property at present before the House of Lords on appeal. He next referred to the case or the parish clerk of Stafford, already published, and adverted to she means used by one it.flucntial landowner on the line, who had instructed his tenantry to throw every impediment in their power to prevent correct plans-and sections, and books of reference being made in respect of their lands., in compliance with the requirements of the Standing Orders of the House of Commons—and would is be credited that this very gentleman hes called upon the House to visit upon this Company the consequences of errors which he took every possible means to cause them to fall into, and actually, in person, attended the Committee on Petitions for nearly twenty dayS; A considerable portion of the land had, hoacvcr, been arranged for with the proprietors on the line, sub ject to the passing of the Act, in many instances on very fasourable terms, and he did not hesitate to say that, if necessary, in the course of one week the land for the whole of the line could be contract° I for e the exception of perhaps some six or even miles. Mr. Toots? next alluded to the disgraceful attempt which wds being made by their opponents while their B;11 was , between .twneommittees, to weaken their Parliamentary influence by which gett they betting up t a li.ccuoufrainia,evrbyb' net Valley , kne i v id and concluded by observin g that he for one would uever cease to endevvour to obtain for his adopted town a . g o o d, di rec t, an d i n d ependent line of railway, stult as he conceived the importance a n d vast manuf a cturing inte rests of Manchester were fully entitled to. SAMUEL FLETCHER, Esq., of Manchester, i n rnevin-r the first resolution (for which we reLr to anoti, e r column), said he felt it to be unnecessary to occupy their time in dwelling on the great importan ce of se curing to Manchester, and the adjoining d:strict, a t and independent line of railway communication to Cie metropolis. The . magi itud e o f their manufectu r : ree operations, the capital invested therein, and the v ast amount of their plapnlatien, all powerfully pleaded every facility should be afforded for bringing Man che;:er within as short a distance as possible of London. The Nianches• er and Birmingham Eetension Railway proposed to effect this important object by a line to free •from natural difficulties, and so little interfering with existing railway interests, that at the public meet ing held here twelve months ego, it wls confidently an ticipated that, the consent of the landowners being tabled, no just or reasonable opposition could be made to this Bill. The Grand Junction Company had 9er- tainly affsrdcd them a communication, which though circuitous, yet, as compared with the ancient turnpike, was desirable, and as a better communication than the one they had hitherto enjoyed, they were willing to avail themselves of it. But they felt at that time, and still more at the present moment, that the wealth and com mercial importance of this district required that they should have an independent Bill. It would have been well, perhaps, if they had come to this conclusion earlier. Their wealthy and speculative brethren in Liverpool sew the importance of such a communication, and they were now reaping their advantages. He for one did not envy them their legitimate gains ; but he contended that in doing what they were now endeavouring to ac complish, they were only exercising a perfect and indis potable right, and neglecting which they would be ne glecting their own interests, the interests of the great community in which they lived, and of the generations which were to follow them. They contended, then, that there existed a necessity for the Exten , ion Line, which no attempt that had hitherto been made disproved ; and that by this line they gained important advantages in distance, in time, and in speed. They had been told by Mr. Tootal that the decrease in the distance be tween Manchester and London would be upwards of thirty miles. It was also known that the delay at Bir mingham was upwards of an hour, and the obviation of this difficulty wculd be real gain ; in addition to this the gradients were so favourable, that they mightbcaltchus late on a considerable increase of speed, and ett y_ y o i f means also they should gain. Now, independently tl necessity these advantages, he contended the i r . e t : . r. secure a more for another competing line,' in order merchandise. As lis, as a transit for passengers complete and perfect communicaatniodn with the metropo lis, and scltish to suffer all the inconvenience o b respected the conveyance of p r ods, they already be‘gan a, n g alreadv made upon monopoly. An exposure had weight there. Under doubt it would have its proper _ a l to this subject before the House of Commons, and no advert to the op these circumstances, it was paint . .. to the character of progress—it was painful to alluae position making to this line even i ra the first stage of its this opposition, and the quarter fr om whence it pro frivolous and vexa ceeded. To say that .. In its extent it was un precedented by any opposition tious would be saying liitttle,wasf r it had assumed a novel and an odious character. own in the entia s o f Parliamentary warfare. They , en tne. did not right oe en to .they had perverted the cuss the merits of the line, or Manchester to obtain it ; but Standingo rdcrs of the House of Commons . to uses both arbitrary and oppressive. Their aimseas, I>y obj ec t ions of mere form, and by an enormous cost of ti me an d -*on. Thi s essimoney to prevent the progres s of the Bill throu g h th e House, at least for the present S opposi tion did not spring, from the land owners along th e h e, but from a combination of Railway and CanalCompa n i ss , and or from one Railway C ompany, who, havinmgfa especiallyailedtosecure a monopoly of this very line for themselves, were now moving heaven and earth to ob struct its progress. But injustice always defeated it self, and he did feel confident that the House of Ccm mons would vindicate its character for discernment and rectitude, and by the justice of its deeis:on would at once and for ever put down this attempt at railway ma. nopoly. • RICHARD MALEY, Esq., in seconding the resolution, said that he perfectly concurred in all that bad fallen from Mr. Fletcher in moving its adoption. There WS 4' , VS