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The f infantry , I line, con.' reserve to troops ca n c inarche ,. 5 de Peel, ny militarY to cover Belgians. ions of in dlicient ar nt Of eon' at Hoog centre 0 The ad battalions, the Bever' at Tongre , ral DaiNe , it the mast ) infantrir thin fort) , s, but ar c ession. Irnenee ( ' and has has bee° ednesdaY o o'clock iurricaoc icy sue ( ern were arly part mercury freezing low took cry, that lackwall, re corn . ay after' ce on the ins, also Regent's men be. greatest VilHams , ahead' . dange" , f frozen the lee+ speed ety, witg , ußrii 4P COMMON COUN CIL. kYesterday a Con rt was held for the despatch of business of th e ordinary ind; but a r e p ort which was brought up by Mr. R. L. Jones, without form of a noti o e; i n consequence of the importance and urgency of the e ase, excited a , great deal of interest. Alderman VENk: ILES presided as locum tenens for the Lc.rd Mayor; Who, we are sorry ti say, was prevented from taking the chair by illness. Deputy FINNIC p resented a petition from the ownerrof ext ensive pre niises in Lower TI names -street, against the project of extunding the 131ackwall Railway as far as London-street, Fenchurch-str cet. The Petition was ordered to lie on the table. THE LORDS 01r THE TREASURY AND THE COILPOIt A TION OF LONDON. lir. R. L. Jones said that it was with great regret he rose to present treport to the Cour t upon the subject of the re-building of the Royal E xchange, It nigh tbe objected that there was no notice on the paper I . e sPecting the questi s, but he trusted that the importance of it would ? e • considered an ado pate excuse for moving that the standing order as to the necessity of obi ne tying the form should be dispensed with. It The Court th en un , inimously agreed that the report shoteld'be read. Was as foll ows : " To the Right Hone urable the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and. Commons of the City ot London, in Common Council assembled. ss We, whose names are hereunto subscribed, of your Committee in iellation to the Royal I lxchange and Gresham Trusts, to wlaom on the 14 day of January in *tent, it was referred to take such steps as we deem o ld s. , e . ti er the Corporation, 'and such other Counsel as we should deem ad- Ten ch for irnandamu's Co enforce the execution of the Act of F arlia j"nt f or i mproving the site Oahe Royal Exchange and tile avenues ad :,lTna thereto, and Use r advised, smniediately to malse suet, application Proceed therein might be necessary. do certify that we b , t 'ed a copy of the foreg eis oing resolution of this Honqprable Court to bardsls,,?a to the Loral:I Cskinnissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, "n wing letter from the'Remembrancens " Guildhall, Jan. IS, 1E339. Co Sir —I am dir ec t e d' 'by th e R oya l E xc h ange C omm i ttee o f t h e I ? r P e cnation of London to' transmit to you, foe the information of the issioners of ' Y es e : t i he r Majesty's Treasirrenclosed Copy of a niunanimously a; treed to at a Court of Common Council held a te n rsnde,..,ile Committee deeply regret that any circumstances should have it necessary for the Court of Common Council 'to have come tos"isch a resolution, and tines , trust that elseir Lordships will be pleased sidgalrY t heir approbation of the plan of Vie site of the Royal Exchange leg the it nliresements in the neighbou xhood, which will render any o res , o"tscitssion of the powers of their , Lordships and the rights cif the „ "aai Trustees unnecessary. I -are the honour to be, Sir, your: most cbcdient servant, " EI)WARD TYRREL L, •• 1 1 ;1 T. Baring,E ' sq. " `City Remembrancer.' ree ett e then directed a case to be s iibmitted to Mr. Recorder, Sir W . . irS et s' 111- . Cinnraon Sergeant, am I Mr. It. V. Richards, to advise ei ss ,‘" er, tinder the provisions of an before-mentioned Act ot Parlia- S ee o ' f . t he Lords of the Treasury we , e entitled to require the Corpor.a heed, L °ndon to submit for their I ,o r d s hi ps ' approva l th e p l an of toe ue th e , ts 4. i ntended to be erected for the new Royal Exchange s or who. p ats . Lordships powers were . not limited to the approval of the ase In a 'd estimates for the enlarge B e n t an d i mprovemen t o f t h e s i te, es ke , a tioa spacious and conveuiet it streets around or adjoining the deci de and Whether their Lordships . could be required by mandamus to ha e b ° Pen the plans and estimates 'tor the site and approaches which Ces s Z, e° Submitted to their Lea slstips, upon which queries all the , agreed to the following op it lioll bfw er ',: r e are of opinion the Lois Is of tine freasury are pot entitled, tone s *" terms of the Act of Parr ,ament, to require the Corporation of ins f ;: n to submit for their approv al the plan of the intended new build ' ; Th r th e Royal Exchange. Tt rely Lordships' functions are limited to st s a rs t( ival of th• plan for the . enlargement and improvement of the ests ," o s a r the streets. round o r adjoining.the same, and also of the C a 'N l of the premises to be pt archased. hi sel W e are further of opinion their Lordships may be required by Neerto them to decide upon pi; in and estimates which have been sub_ at but we do not r ecommend any application to the Court iel47 -4 t, as the Lords of th e'Ereasury will no-doubt satisfy them- It s a : ° f, the extent of the powi srs vested in them by the Act, and, if v ont ,: right in our oPinion on *that point, it is not likely that they will to require from , the tit y the plan of the new building. " ' e-HA. RLES E. LAW, Recorder. " W. NV. FOLLETT. -- " ' JOHN MIREHOUSE, Common-Sergeant. " ROBT,IIT VAUGHAN , RICHARDS. i t 19, 11339.' aid ive ha t on the 21st of Jamul' y your Committee caused a copy the c oti, ,,`,!P i nion to be t ransm itt t sd to the Lords of the , Treasury, ac loit,4:' d by a letter from the Itemembraiiccr, a coily of which is sub- . " Remembraucer's Office, Guildhall, Jan. 2], 1839. ta tarpe rat . ,, am directed by the Royal Exchange Committee of the Comm of London to state t o yo u , f o t th e i n f o rmation of the Lords re4,41,?5,9ners of her M a j es ty's" T re e sur y, th a t s ince the copy of the }ilia" of the Court of Common Council Of the 17111 inst. was trans the st i , to their Lordships, the Con imittee directed the first Report of 113,,, a ' ce t Committee of the I-louse of Commons on Metropolitan . Im : lloy a q''tg, the Act of Parlisini, nt ' For improving the site of the th ere , , I change in the city of London, and the avenues adjoining and i h °4 , 4, 41 the whole of the co :respondence between their Lordships ,- ohnnittee to be laid bef ,re counsel, who all agreed in the opi -4,',;,a,c°11 of which is enclosed for the information of their Lordships. Connidttee feeling the i greatest anxiety that no further delay h,,," take place in proceeding v nth this important public improvement, i'.o directed. me most respectt .'ully to request that, in the event of the , aw officers of the Crown g ing in opinion with the counsel for the f . ' „ (4P° ration of London, their ' 'Lordships will be pleased to signify their — Neat to the plan submitted 1 br their approval. "4 I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servant, ".' E. TYRRELL, City Rcinembraucer. " P. T. Bating, Est."" That on the 28th of Jan: hary the rtemembraTicer 'received the fut.. °Wi ng Communication from the Treasury : " Treasury.ch.ambers, Jan. 28, 1839. Sir—l am commandeer by the Lords Commissioners of her Majes- It's Tri asury to acknowledge the receipt of your letters dated respec. 1 tit i .l y rte 13th and 21st stant, the forme r enclosing a copy of a resolu. I lie" passed at the Cort. of Common Cceincil on the 17th instant, and the ;;ittcr transmitting' a copy of the opi /lion of Counsel upon the ques tion sobrnitted to them, as to the title '..f this Board to require the Cor. Porta ion of London to 'submit for the',' Lordships' approval the plan of t he building intended to be erected nor the new Royal Exchange, and I ' T o to state to you, fOr the informa'tion of the Royal Exchange Commit. "e of the Corporation of London, the view which their Lordships have ta k , eo of this subject. Whilst it is unquestionably open to the Royal Exchange Committee such steps as they may t hink fit on the subject of the plans and wi t h brought tinder the consideration of my Lords, it no l ess res t s m en' Ilcard to determine, subject. to their responsibility to Parlia eloq,,hOw their own functions are to be- performed, and how the Lei;,,i a 4a liosed upon them. by the . House of Commons a nd th e Cor n , no lur e are best to be, fulfilled. Upon the resolution of the L, Council, and th - e legal opinion inclosed in your said letters, ' d s forbear from ma Xing any comment beyond the statement Lordships do not; consider these documents to be authorities t'sc release them front their public duty, or which free them from Ilo t ,:,, ce r .t s itY of confermir :g strictly to the wishes and intentions of the Parti n °L,Coromons. My Lords do not feel themselves justified in de the 3 still now the resolutiot I already communicated to you, and to which the adhere. l 'he Bill for re-building the Royal Exchange was introduced on ko4', uth°r ilY of a report; of a Select Committee of the House of Corn. st an d: an d received th e S up p o rt of the Government upon their under istt t that the plans - and estimates of the whole work should be tinesub :,te approval and sanction of the Board of Treasury, the execu o, works being confided to Cie City Authorities, litios It was upon this principle that the Bill was supported in both .r out e s of Parliament, and that the consent and support of the Govern havt, i ! la s given. My Lords were not are that any objection could Ip a , ttn "een felt to this course till several m wa onths had elapsed after the ti oo ,-.! of the Bill , nor had they prev i ous l y rece i ve d any communica not illntl at ever on the subje c t. For tills delay, consequently, they were bee n any degree responsible, and whatever inconvenience has i 8 Produced therehy, either to individuals or to the public, to :'°t attributable ' to their Lordships. When called upon cot iit ln ti !!ion the plans and estimates, my Lords felt that they trti zt „,, u , c adequately discharge the functions with which they were in- Iti th ;'' . °Y the Legislature, or fulfil the expectations of the Committee, th e „,"`t more information than was laid before them. Adopting, for li rgit ' e ite of argument, the sv.pposition that the approval of my Lords is than Par b Y the words of the Act of Parliament to the ground plan and ch e ,,.mehes, and t 0 he estimates of the land and premises to be put. n o , ne " , ti Must be obvious that no satisfactory opinion could be pro trieh,i,sed ill respect to the :site and approaches-without knowing the di th,rei'onB and 'height of the new building proposed to be erected, and do no t 1-e, even before this hypothesis, which is one in which my Lords (leci d e . "cur, the plans of the building are essential to enable them to e to re s p ect to the approaches. of the a PPears to their Lordships that it is an entire misapprehension Prod f ''ets of the east', to suppose that because it is intended that the er ce of the coal duty - is to be appli•ed to the site only, the building to w ie e d e . red from other funds, that tterefore no public control can be re .. , ;.,° respect to the latter par'. of the work. atter he Committee, the lireJse of Commons, and the Government, a tax ouch consideration, v.•e*.e induced, though reluctantly, to continue cow,.article of the fir.st necessity to the extent of 150,000/. The 414,111eration which woule. justify the continuation of this burden, pay l'Ach:t only by the clas sea more particularly interested in the Royal to, dint'lr.o, but by all the inhabitants in the more extended mettopoli 6, ell ! let, was that a great improvement in the heart of the City should ee ted ; that Coll renient streets and approaches should be opened, • a• l building shout d be erected adequate to the purposes of trade and • ° f the presf.ait times. It appears to my Lords that the security r aj , e Part of th , , public for the fulfilment of these objects was contem v, by the C ommittee and by Parliament to be the approval and sane :24'4 the Roard of Treasury of all the plans and estimates. Responsible sl s d ' a l'Yl4n.e -ts are" 18 Parliament, their sanction seems to have been con. bre - ,, r „ c . 4 the best security these works should be well carried on, and d e ,„:".,ht to a satisfactory termination. Without some controul of this c ription, the public would have no assurance but that a prefe -1! nee tnight have been' given to plans inadequate in themselves, or for In which a discretionary rower Is vetted in their Lordships, as trustees t o or w t a i r le ti r b . lie . , they deen l i it to' be their duty to act in perfect good faith • Parliament, and as the real question appeared to turn upon the i ntentions of Parliament and of the Select Commitee ill respect to the Ste, •thous assigned to the Treasury, my Lords have only to express their leterraination to submit the whole of the papers to the House of Cont.. Along, and to abide by the decision which may then be pronounced. "' They have felt this course to be that which was respectful and de ,,"..r°",- They felt also that Parliament which had provided the funds, ;Ithout which the rebuilding of the Royal Exchange could not havebeen a e t t i , silictcl ilY Undertaken, had a just right to decide upon the conditions, I ' Li Tieet to which the work was to proceed. The Royal Exchange Corn bLttee,have, however, declined this mode of proceeding, rather than ;''" the opinion of the House of Commons. My Lords cannot thatl this course is very well calculated to prevent further having rni ' a desire that their duties and those of the Royal Exchange Corn. ' te e and Gresham trusts should have been performed in friendly co. oPeration. '"rheir Lordships see the strongest reasons to justify the course ut'eb they have them se l v es adopted; and, in order to bring the case Uk - ; er the early con s id era tion of Parliament, they have direc ted that , i t , ° ''' es of all the p apers an d m i n utes relating to the question be forthwith ' f l ' ar ed to be laid b e f ore th e House of Commons at the commenc ement e 211 , . „ arit, e enAting Session of Parliament. I am, Sir, your obedient see. " F. BARING.' co;;T se r hat on the 29th of January, a general con ference was held ith to , who, after full consideration of all the circumstances, agr w eed the following opinion :- 1 3 too late in the Term to get the opinion of the Court of Queen's ett on the legal construction of the Act of Parliament ; and, under ' the circumstances, we should think it more advisable not to take any l 's 4 proceeding; against the Lords of the Tt easury until next Term. • " CHARLES E. LAW, Recorder. " W. W. FOLLETT. " J. MIREHOUSE, Common Sergeant. " ROBERT VAUGHAN RICHARDS. 'b ` -29 th January, 1839.' That upon considering the communication from the Treasury of „_° '2B th instant, it appears to your Committee that their Lordships do "'t Consider themselves at all bound by the legal construction of the Act f P arhament, but intend to rely Open an opinion of the House of -01 tittions upon 4 breach on the part of the, Corporation of London of a s.upposed understanding that the plans and estimates for the building of the new Royal Exchange should be subj•:et to the approval of the Lords of the Treasury, but which understr A nding your Committee most confidently state never existed, nor do the proceedings in Parliament justify any such construction, and wl - zich was never heard of until an opinion of the Chancellor of the Exrdhequer upon the points was com municated to your Committee in October last, and had such opinion ever been raised or hinted at in Parliament it would never have been assented to either by the Gresham trustees or the Cor poration of London; but your Como:Mice cannot imagine that Parliament could be. induced so far to interfere:: with the rights of trust property as to compel the trustees of the Gresham estates to rebuild the Royal Eichange out of their trust finds according to such plans and estimates only as might be approved by the Lords of the Treasury, the Trustees of the Gresham estates having pledged themselves to expend a sum of 160,000/. in the erection of a building suitable in all respects to the wants of the mercantile inte rests avid the improved state of the city of London ; notwithstanding the very large debt due from the trust funds both to the Mercers' Company and the Corporation of London; and as a decision upon an application for a mandamus could not, in the opinion of the Counsel, be obtained in the present Term, we have deemed it expedient, in conformity with such opinion of Counsel, to defer making an application to the Court of Queen's Bench until next Terra, all which we submit to the judgment of this Honourable Court, this 30th day of Jan. 1839. " R. OBBARD. " J. LAINSON sc W. CROWCHER.` "T. CORNET. " W. STEVENS. " H. J. ELMES. "W. RICHARDSON. "E. HICKSON. "J. DRINKALD. ".T. MITCHELL " R. TAYLOR. "J. EVANS. "E. EYTON. "J. PARKER." "R. L. JONES. The Clerk of the Court was, while reading the letter of Mr. Baring, explanatory of the view the Lords of the Treasury took of the question, frequently interrupted by laughter. Mr. R. L. JONES, in a long and forcible speech, moved that the re port should be printed, and sent to every member of the Court. The motion having been seconded by Mr. OBBARD, a discussion, in which Mr. Lawrence, Mr• R. Taylor, Mr. Baylis, Mr. Dix, and Mr. Hoole took part, ensued, and Mr. Jones's motion was unanimously agreed to. Mr. ASRUSST rose to submit a proposition, his reason for moving which was, that the loiter of the Lords of the Treasury gave anything but a fair statement .of the whole case.—(Cheers.) He then , moved " That the Remerobrancer do, under the guidance of the Committee, at:siver the lettet of the Lords of the Treasury of the 28th instant, in such manner as that the cprrespondenes may state tile case of each party as shown by themselves; that the Committee do take such steps as they may think mo'.: tifectual for informing the mer chants of London of the calls% bf the delay in re-erecting the Royal Exchange." The: motion was unanimously agreed to. —Adjourned. G-REAT ANTI-CORN - LAW MEETING AT STOCKPORT. (From the Itisrth Cheshire Reformer.) Stockport has at length spoken out in right good earnest on the all_ engrossing topic of the Corn-laws. A number of the spirited inhabi tants of the borough, constrained by the facts which hare recently been dragged before the public by the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, ori ginated a requisition to Ralph Pendlcbury, Esq., the Mayor, requesting his Worship to convene a meeting of the inhabitants cf the borough, for the purpose of taking their opinion as to the propriety of petitioning Parliament to repeal the obnoxious Corn-laws. On Thursday the meeting took place. The Court-house was speedily filled by a dense crowd. We were exceedingly gratified to see so many working 'men present. At twelve the Mayor took the Chair. Upon the bench we observed Henry Marsland, Esq., M.P., Apelles Howard, Esq.. P. E. Marsland, Esq., John Slack, Esq., Alderman Charles Baker, A'dcrman Boothroyd, Mr. Henry Coppock, Town-clerk, Messrs. Charles Carr; Alfred Orrell, Charles Hudson, Samuel Shawcross, William Nel. strop, Labrey Hodgson, Daniel Oldham, Edward Hollins, H Sefton, &c. The CfIAIRMAN, in opening the business of the meeting, said that they had been called together in consequence of a requisition which had been l:resented to him, signed by about four hundred respectable individuals, and be had felt it his duty to cal; the meeting. Having read the terms of the requisition, his Worship continued—They had been called to gether free the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety . of pe tition:mg Parliament to remove the Obnoxious Corn-laws, and for the Pr.rpose of drawing up the petition which was to be the petition of the town. It was intended that the Corporation should have a petition of its own to be sealed with the Common Seal of the Corporation. This meeting, it was to be remembered, was not a political meeting—(Hear)— the object of the parties assembled being to have a big loaf instead of a little one.—(Cheers.) He recommended that the petitions of the people should be sent up in such numbers that the Members of the House of Ctimnsons and Lords would have to scramble over them in or der to get to their seats. The Chairman then adverted to the present practice of foreigners to purchase warps in this country and then sending them abroad, there to he minufoctured into goods of various kinds. He also alluded to the article of ,t`;pincpea" which were sent abroad in hundreds and thousands quite ready for the shuttle of the weaver. As a proof of the quick method of transit far goods adopted by foreigners, his Woiship mentioned an instance of a foreigner purchasing some warps and sending them abroad, and in 94 days afterwards he received a corn rnonication in 'Manchester stating that tile material had been worked up and' he goods disposed of. This'was all'eWing to the Cotn.laws, and if these laws were not done away ss - iththey would have calicoes printed nc in Germany and sent to Mahes - icr. Hence it was necessary that they should all put their shoulderi ttit do their best to remove these laws. Mr. Neerrams rose to move the first resolution. This country is a great manufacturing country, end in my opinion is destined to be the great depot of the manufactured goads for all the nations of the world. As a proof of the injury that the Corn-laws were inflicting upon the country, Mr. Nelstrop here adverted to the fact that they broke the great link of social compact between nations, viz., the interchange of surplus commodities with each ether, and he asked otiether the commerce of the country ought to be sacrificed for the sake of a few aristocratic landlords.—(Cheers.) During the years from 1632 to 1836, we had ex, ceedingly fine summers, and as a matter of course exceedingly good harvests—good produce—and in consequence of this we were able to supply our own people sufficiently with food at a very cheap rate—in deed during that time we had the most abundant harvests ever wit.. tiez:sed, but,however, it was pretty clearly ascertained, long before the last harvest, that corn was very scarce in England, and this too in the face of the very good harvests, and absolute scarcity was apparent; and had it not been for the liberation of a million and a half of quarters of fo. reign grain, which had been in bond, what sort of a predicament should we have been in ? Mr. Nelstrop concluded by moving the resolution. P. E. MARSLAND, Esq., seconded the resolution. Mr. JAMES _MITCHELL, an operative, said he should wish to have it shown to the people the impossibility of having the Corn-laws re pealed with the present constitution of the Houses of Commons and Lords. It appeared to him that with the present constitution of the Houses of Lords and Commons it was impossible to obtain the repeal of the Corn.laws, especially when he found that four.filths of the number of those Houses consisted principally of landowners. He was not quite so much surprised at the attempt to repeal the Corn-lows, as he was surprised at the manner in which the affair had been gone about. It had been said that the people—the working classes, had been ignorant of their. rights. He dared say there were some gentle. men on that bench who knew well the transactions of Petcrloo. He dared say that when the 150,000 people met at Peterloo, the gentlemen pre. sent knew that they met for the purpose of repealing the Corn.law, and it might be that there were some gentlemen in that room who had had a hand in sabreing and murdering the people at Peterloo, and for what? Why for the object for which the higher classes were now coming out. It was not iu his (Mr. Mitchell's) opinion so much the repeal of the Corn. laws, for which the higher and middle classes were coming forward. They knew years since, that the trade and commerce were fast leaving the country. It was not until the working classes had got into the discussion of their five principles of Radical Reform that the higher classes " came out," and endeavoured to create a split amongst the working classes with respect to the principles they were then going for. Some of the gentlemen who had spoken declared the Corn-laws to be an evil. He (Mr. M.) declared the Corn_ laws to he an evil—that they were unjust laws—and that those who made them ought to suffer by them or live in a workhouse.— (Loud cheers.) But the other night he-heard Mr. Paulton lecturing on that' subject, and if he we-e not mistaken, that gentleman said that the Gorn-laws were made at the point of the sword and bayonet; and soldiers surrounded the House of Commons. The Members of the House of Commons allowed this law to be made at the point of the sword and bayonet, and the same individuals or their rela tives havenow possession of the reins of Government. They were a majority of the House of Commons. The landowners received an enor. mous sum every year ; and what would the Repeal of the Corn.laws do for them ? Why a man who received one hnndred thousand pounds per annum from land would be seduced to the extent of about one-half his income, and it was right that he should be reduced. So long as four_ fifths of the Members of the House of Commons were landowners, there was no possibility of obtaining the Repeal. I will not move an amend ment, because I am favourable to the Repeal, but I believe thet, with the present House of Commons and the present Suffrage, it is impossi ble to get the Corn-laws repealed. Mr. SerroN denied that the present agitation of the Corn-law ques tion had been got up for the purpose of creating a split amongst the Radicals. Mr. HAM ER denied that the meeting at Peterloo was a meeting for the purpose of petitioning for a repeal of the Corn-laws. It was for Universal Suffrage, Annual Parliaments, and Vote by Ballot, as would I a well remembered by those who saw the Peterloo flag at Kcrsal.mdor. There was a sort of men who wished to create a difference between the middle and working classes; but they were not the real friends of the working classes. He advised them if they could get an inch of liberty to take it and stick to it. They could go to Parliament with Universal Suftlage, and he (Mr. Hamer) would join them in their petition; but at the same time he said, " Let us have cheap bread."—(Cheers.) Mr. LEAH, Secretary to the Working Men's Association, came for.: ward, and said, I do not believe that there is a 'man here of the Radical Association, who is against the repeal of the Corn-laws; but when we have done our duty to these men—when we have put them into the Ccuncil—and put them in opposition to the Tory party, and they .told us when we put them in that they would do us all the good they pos sibly could, and now when we go to them they treat us with contempt. Give the people the Suffrage, and• then they would represent the mercial interest. He would more as an amendment, that in addition to petitioning for the repeal of the Corn laws, they should petition for the repeal of any other law that was injuring the working classes, including in it a resolution for the Extension of the Suffrage to the utmost extent. Mr. HUDSON submitted that the amendment did not apply to the re s ilution before the meeting, but more properly applied to a succeeding resolution. Mr. Geoutez WOOD supported the resolution. He observed that many persons, urged on by their extreme distress, were anxious for the repeal of the Corn-laws, whilst many others were indifferent on the sieject. He alluded more particularly to that large influential body, the Chartists. He hoped he would not be misunderstood. He main. ta!ued that every man of sane mind, and untainted with crime, had an unquestionable right to a voice in making the laws by which he was governed ; but when he saw large bodies of Englishmen, in public meeting assembled, declare their resolution not to interfere with the repeal o f the Corn•laws, he could not help expressing his regret. Al. lowing to the Chartists every possible success in getting the Charter, it would take a considerable length of time to remove the Corn laws ; and this would be a source of misery to millions. It had been said that there was a great improbability of getting the repeal of the Corn-laws from the present Parliament, but he contended that there was quite as great a chance of getting that as there was of getting the Reform Bill from the boroughmongering Parliament. There appeared to be a determination, on the part of the Chartists, to throw every obstable In the way of this question.—(Cries of " No.") They had said it was a middle class ques tion ; and the fact was, that by their conduct they shewed themselves to be greater supporters of the Corn-laws than the other class. Other peo. pie said it was a Government question. If the Government set aboet it in right good earnest, ti:e law would be removed, and it would be a set off for all the sins they had ever committed.—(Loud cheers.) On the Continent they were able to purchase the necessaries of life 40 per cent. lower than in England, and this was all owing to the circumstance, that the people of England had been taxed by a parcel of rapacious vampires. How could the British manufacturer stand against such fearful odds.. He considered a tax on the blessings of life to be an insult upon the pro v.dence of God.—(Cheers.) The resolution was passed unanimously, and Mr. hem's amendment was withdrawn. Mr. Cum moved the second resolution. You all who are acquainted, he said, among other thing s, with the manuf a cture of t his town, know w fo h rl t abu a o pi r ece of or gßid., and the price paid in wages from t he raw cotton to the y arn, fur the said w atweesnt in y i s o c a r k c i n n ginches, this cloth from the yarn will b e I s. 72 reed printer is. Th e pr i ce pa i d yarn of which this piece of cloth may have been made, will be about and using the self.acting mule and throstle, not more than 7d. ; and thus we are losing the Is. Sid. to this country, and goon shit lost. the aid. also. This is not the case with the cotton trade alone, but it is the case with all other trades where a great portion of labour is required to he expended on the article of manufacture, because the labourer o! the Continent Can get the same sized loaf for about lid. which our la bourer has to pay Is. for ; and all done by this Corn-law monopoly. I mentioned that they wanted capital; and what are these laws doing ? sending abroad our capitalists, and our best mechanics, because they can employ their capital and talents to more advantage the:o than they can in their native country, and thus putting a weapon in the foreigner's hands to the ruin of this country. Mr. HALL seconded the motion, Mr. H. Corrocx, Town-clerk, came forward to propose the next re solution. He said that when he entered that room, he certainly did not expect that coy question, upon which the middle classes could join heart and soul with the labouring classes in obtaining their rights—he did no , expect that any party would have tried to prevent that unanimity, with out which it would be impossible for them to obtain that which they deemed to be a blessing, and without which mercantile trade and com. coerce would be entirely ruined. If the working man wished to get he rights, how was he to go about it ? Was it by disunion that he woul.l obtain them ? Was it by sowing the seeds of disunion atnongst men banded together in one business, upon which all were rgreed ? If the working classes joined with him in the attempt to gain their views with respect to the question of the Corn-laws, and did not succeed in con vincing the Legislature, then, if the united exertions of the middle and operative classes did not suffice for the attainment of their object, then he would say that there was a necessity for n change in the Constitution of England. But let them join, and, as an united people, firmly de mand from the Legislature the repeal of. the Corn.laws; and, if, with the present Constitution of the country, they could. not acquire that which they believed to be their dearest right, then there would be a necessity for a change. • Mr. HAMER seconded the resolution,' which was carried unanimously. Mr. SEFTON rose with very great pleasure' to move the fourth resolu lution, and he would particularly Impress upon them the serious evils Which would bb inflicted upon them by the imposition of what the landed interest would call the moderate duties. Supposingefor instance, that 10s. per quarter was imposed upon all corn iropottedinto this coun try, the consequence would be that the whole fifteranillion quarters of corn grown in this country would be raisedea the same' standard. So that if two million quarters were imported, one million pounds only would go into the Exchequer, but the burden, upon the country would be twenty-five millions! But that was not all, for as corn, wis only two fifths of the whole landed product of the , eountty, and as the farmers would always grow . what - paid the -best,: whatever tended to raise the price of one kind of produce, would also:raise the value of every other, therefore the tax upon the•country would be - 62;500,000/. if 10s. duty were imposed. As a proof of what the landlords thought was fond enough for the people, ho could tell them all what the butter annually made in this country was valued at. It was 6,000,0001. Now, it we estimated it at Is. per lb. upon an average, it would show the quantity to be 12,000,000 lbs., which would be for • a population of 5,000,000 families, of five persons each, about half a-pound per week for each family, or one ounce' and a half for each individual Was this what ought to satisfy the people ? Every family ought to con sume 21bs. per week, which would require a supply of ten million pounds per week, five hundred million pounds per annum, and this would, at ls. per pound, be worth twenty-five millions sterling, which showed that in the article of butter alone, ese ought to import to the value of nearly twenty millions sterling annually; and if the people must have what they could consume of animal food, cheese, bread, &c., we should im port annually to the value of 50,000,0001.: which would employ three thousand ships of five hundred tons each, and above fifty thousand seamen I And as foreigners would not give us s uch commodities, that amount worth of cutlery, - pottery, silk, cotton, and woollen goods must be manufactured in this country to be given in exchange for them. Thus would employment be given to the people by which they would be enabled to pay for such additional comforts.--(Cheers.) He would next advert to the state of things in this town. The consump tion of flour in Stockport was 1,500 loads per week, besides what was used in manufactures, and this was above U. per load dearer than it was two years ago. The consumption of potatoes was from 12 to 1,500 loads per week, which now cost ss. per load more than at the former period, SD that for those two necessarict of life about 2.500 per week was paid by the people of Stockport, over and above what teas paid two years ago 1 He could assure them, that. for those two articles alone, one hundred and thirty thousand pounds would be paid by Ike people of Stockport from the last to the next harvest, over and above what they paid in the same space of tithe two years ago. We were not likely to hear complaints amongst every class of t rarlesmen when the above sum, which ought to be spent with the draper,• the furniture dealer, the pub lican, and other retail dealers, was thus taken out of the town in one year ? Thus were the profits of tradesmen and the comforts of the poor at once sacrificed.— (Cheers.) He would next allude to the arguments of those who contended that if we were undersold by foreign manufac turers, we could not compete with them, except, by reducing wages. He would, however, endeavour to prove how we could do so. — (Hear.) In the first p'ace, a manufactory working up ten tons of cotton weekly, into cloth, consumed about 12 loads of flour weekly in paste for dressing; and this quantity Cost about 15/. per week more than it did two years ago; and probably 21!. moreethan it would do were there no Corn-laws. The rep-al of these laws wotild,- therefore, re lieve such a concern from a tax of one thousand pounds per annum. But to conclude who were the landed Aristocracy ? They were the descendants of a set of needy , aduenturers, who came here with William the Conqueror, whO drove the rightful owners from their estates, and parcelled out these estates amongst themselves, and divided the people amongst them, alSo, like So many cattle, and who then built castles to keep the people - in subjection, and so they have kept us ever since. How long would tiventyLfiVe millions of people bow their necks to the iron yoke of these Norman invader's (Loud cheering.) Our Aristocracy reminded him of the saying of Glenalvon in the play of Douglas :—" My name is Gienalvone I'm born to com mand ten thousand slaves like thee." Yes; the Aristocracy had al ways acted thus ; they had made us slaves, and told us it was our charter. He hoped, however, from the extensive movement and combinedefforts now making, that the Corn-laws would be repealed, and if they should be, we should hence commence and continue a career of prosperity and happiness, sues as no other nation ever before enjoyed in either ancient or modern times.—Loud cheerine.) Mr. Sefton concluded by moving the fourth resolution, which, with the remaining resolutions, having been carried, the Mayor left the Chair, which was taken by H. Mars. land, Esq., M.P. 'Mr. Oledield moved a vote 01 thanks to the Mayor for his impartial and excellent conduct in the Chair. It was stated that the Deputation had agreed to go to London at their own expense. MANCHESTER -FRIDAY. (FROM OUR OWN 011iR.C!.‘PONDENT.) MELANCHOLY DEATH. On Sunday morning last a lamentable case of death took place, at. tended by some extraordinary circumstances. Mr. Win. Snell, of this town,late of the firm of Snell, lichens, and Snell, London and Man. cheater carriers, has for some 'months past been labonring under serious illness, occasioned, as is supposed, from his having taken cold by inha.: biting a new built house, and which happened not to be sufficiently dry. For many weeks he has been evidently growing worse and worse, till he was attacked by delirium tremens. Immediately on these symptoms appearing, it was deemed essential to have the family sur geon immediately within call, and who, at the time of his death, was in the house. Early on the above day the paroxysm was at its height, when Mr. Snell jumped out of bed, laid prostrate both Mrs. Snell and the surgeon, ran down stairs, and actually vaulted through the kitchen window, breaking the frame as though it had been match_ wood. He then sped his way across the Highroad, darted across two fields into a garden, where his night-dress got entangled among some gooseberry trees. This trifling matter enabled two men who happened to be passing his house at the moment of Mr. Snell's leaving it, and who fortunately followed him, to come up with and seize him ; 'imme diately on which he expired, TEE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1839. GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY. On Wednesday last, at one o'clock, a meeting of the proprietors of the Grand Junction Railway was hell at the Cotton Sales-room, Exchange. buihlings, John Moss, Esq., Chairman of the Board of Directors, in the Chair. From the Report of the half-year, which was read by Mr. CIIORLEY, the Secretary, it appeared that the total receipts for coaching. arc., were 161,410/. Os. 3d., an increase of 44,6691. 16s. Bd. over the year of 1837, and a great inc ease over that of 1838. This, added to the, receipts in other departments, gave a total of 178,0391. 9s, 10d. A por tion of the increase in passengers was attributed to. the opening of the London and Birmingham Railway, and this was likely to, go on in an increasing ratio. There had also been a gradual increase in the merchandise department, which was likewise expected to be progressive: Many additional engines had been provided, and in this department much improvement had been effected. Complaints had been made, Of delays, and the Directors had done all in their power to insure' iegularity. It was explained in the report, that numerous delays had resulted from having to wait for other tiains. From this species of delay ne'rlescription of travelling could be exempt, where there was' a necessity of Waitiiiifor arrivals frora other quarters. The report mentioned instance, of tfie - of this descrip tion that were most frequent. Sever,l advrait,geous arrar;gyments were mentioned WhiCh had been made since the last meeting, amongst others, that of providing that travellers should obtain refreshments, had given great sati s f ac ti on. Ti f e complaints that ha d b een ma d e respect i ng the charge on parcels were alluded to. The chrirge for conveiing par_ cels not exceeding ltilbs. weight, along the whole line, was only Is. 6d., with smaller and very .moderate charges for shorter intermediate di, tances. The Directors were anxious to be apprised of any neglect or deviation from their rules in this or any other respect. The expenses had averaged 33 per cent., which included those for the re. pairs as well as all other charges: The Proprietors, it was hoped, would be satisfied, net only with the increase of income, but with the dividend of 61. per share, which Was to be declared. The charge for the mainte. nance of the way was, for the six months ending Dec. 31, 1838, 14,5701. The:Directors had, however, contracted with a gentleman every way competent, to do it yearly at a considerable saving. The re port announeed the abandonment of the project for carrying a line over the Fiddler's F erry, and set forth that they had determined,.as a sub. stitute, to carry a line f rom I -fi fyton to Warr i ngton, v hi c h wou ld be al most equally. advantageous, and considerably less in cost. They, there tore, requested from the Proprietors the necessary powers to enable them to apply to Parliament. The CHAIRMAN. after eongratulatiug the shareholders on the fa. vourable Report, said he was proud to inform them that the test possi ble feeling existed betAveen them and those who directed the other lines. They had the lowest charges, and travelled farther than any Railway in . the kingdom, and hoped they would continue to be what they were— the best, cheapest, and fastest road in the kingdom.—(Cheers.) Mr. H. EARLE had heard the very handsome manner in which the Chairman had alluded to the proceedings at the Board, and he begged to confirm what he had said respecting the unanimity which existed amongst the Directors. The accounts were next read by the Secretary. It appeared that the grand total of receipts, including 9341. 14s. 80, for interest, and a ba !mice of 2811. 9s. 110„ was 179,275/. I4s. ed. The expenses were 93,971/. 10s. 70. The capital was stated to be 1,200,980/. The total outlay had bred 1,786,079/. 103 4d. The stock and materials were valued at 149,104/. I Is. 4d. Mr. L. HEYWORTII described the concern as the best managed in the kingdom, and an example to all others, and asked what would be the probable cost of the branch from Iluyton to Warrington ? The CHAIRMAN replied, about 150,0001. Mr. HEvwort - rn concluded by moving that the report be adopted, and printed for the use of the proprietors. Mr. MAXWELL congratulated the meeting on the restoration of una nimity amongst the Directors;and seconded the motion.—Carried. It was stated that 250 new waggcns, for the conveyanee of pigs and other live stock, had been ordered. ' Mr. BICKERSTETN, seconded by Mr. lIAssAL:r., moved that a dividend of six per cent. be paid to the proprietors, payable on and after the Gth February.—Carried. Thanks were voted to the Chairman, and the meeting separated. CHURCH-RATE ABOLITION SOCIETY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. I . 3ungay, February 1, 1839. Si a,—Your paper of yesterday contained an Address from the Chair. scan and necretary of the Church rate Abolition Society, to the people of England, upon which you made remarks with. your accustomed Wm rality, touching the subject of religious freedom, for which The Sun has long been esteeemed far abovesome papers, which affect to attach-them selves exclusively to nonconforming principles. lt was The Sun, single-handed and alone, which in 'IF3S moved the people, when the Church authorities of this town, took the well-rernem biled, illegal, and oppressive proceedings against me. The excitement thus roused, continued unabated through 1535, and Ism and towards the autumn of the latter year, a party of gentlemen established a Society in London called the,Church-rate Abolition Society. The affairs of this Society seem to have been conducted with be c;ming energy, until the motion of Mr. Spting Rice was disposed of in March,lB37, when apathy, and the quiet do-nothing policy became so apparent, that Dissenters in the country instantly felt there was some thing wrong, while the Accredited Organ of the Committee urged the propriety of waiting in patience the• division of a Committee of the .House of Commons, which bad been appointed to inquire into the mode ,:f renewing and granting Church leases ; ar• if the religious ground on which conscientious men object to pay' the compulsory demands of a State Church could be postponed , till a COmmittee of that House should have come to a decision. This state of things, whys deceived nobody, at once led many excellent men; deeply impressed with the idea that the Church-rate Abolition Society was tot in earnest for good, to take the afFairs of their own locality into their own management; and hence the simultaneous agitation which arose, and at present prevails all over the land with increasing force. You are not aware perhaps that the Church-rate Abolition Committee, which has been in the receipt of large sums of money, have never up to the present moment published any account of its receipts and disburse ments, although from various circumstances, it has long been obvious Oat those who subscribe.l the money have been anxious for an account in detail—and this ha' been another reason why many Dissenters have determined not to put their interests as Christian citizens under the con trol of such Committees for the time to come. During the last week a Newspaper, usually considered a rival cf the Church.rate Abolition Committee's organ, has come to the rescue of this Committee, and I would ask that champion of public right and private judgment, what its proceedings have been for the past two years ? who the parties were who attended its meetings ? what the resolutions which have been proposed, negatived, or passed ? and what the amount of subscription and expense /has been ? and when its tale shall have been told, I would ask my friends in the country to judge for themselves. To the Editor of that Paper I would remark with all humility, that he is the wisest and holiest "Christian Advocate," who not only urges cheerful and voluntary contribution towards the purposes by which the principles of the Gospel can be brought into action, hut who also urges upon those who undertake the responsibility of funds, that they arc bound to render a voluntary and ready account of their stewardship. The sums which are collected from congregations in the country consist mostly of the voluntary offerings of worthy poor persons, who would often be glad of the bread which the penny they give would purchase, but believing the money will be faithfully applied to the cause of Him, " whose they are and whom they serve"—they give their mite cheerfully, and without grudging; while this view of the subject, at a time when bread is at a starving price, makes Christian men think and feel deeply, and believe they are right in withdrawing their confidence from societies which have been conducted, as there is reason to believe the affairs of this Society have been conducted. Let the Society publish an acoount of its doings, the money re ceiver', 'the money expended, the communications it has had with Go vernment, instead of such paragraphs as that which it lately promul gated, " that the Church.rate Abolition Society had had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, which was satilfactory." Satis factory to whom ? What was stated to the Chancellor of the Exche quer, and what did he say ? ft is not pretended that the Chancellor of the Exchequer intends to abolish the impost, and if he does not, to whom was the interview satisfactory, and upon what ground ? Thesis men, to whom the do-nothing system of policy is " satisfactory" are the men seeking to establish another Society, to obtain " Religious Equa lity," while they do not come to the light as to the past—they do not make public their sayings to the Chancellor of the Exchequer —we find they make no progress, and they are satisfied ;—that they have confer ence with the head of the do-nothing Ministry, and are satisfied—but they do net allow us to participate in their satisfaction. We should rejoice to find, and be able to prove, the Committee to be as fine gold, and that they should demonstrate it by publishing their sa tisfactory interviews with the Ministry, and, until this is done, I advise all Dissenters in the country to keep their money, to defray the expenses of the persecution in their own localities. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, .TOHN CHILDS. lilt DISTRICT BANK. Never, perhaps. in any one's.recollection did the public curiosity rise to a higher pitch than on Wednesday in this town, from the circum stance of -a meeting of the Proprietors of the Bank taking place that day, and to whom reports of the real state of the establishment was to be made known. This curiosity, however, was not satisfied till a Second Edition of. the Manchester Guardian appeared, about half-past seven in the evening. On reading the proceedings, one opinion seemed only to prevail, and that opinion was, that the body of Directors had been guilty of the most culpable negligence, and reports have since been rife by no means favourab!e to some of ,the Board. The only re deeming quality seems to be, that they were large shareholders, that they never sold a Share, and that all of them, without exception, have large cash balances with the Bank. The Shares have fallen from 201. 10s. to 121. 13s. or 121. 10s. . The sales of damaged goods, saved from the wrecks of the American vessels stranded in the late storm at Liverpool, brought such an unpre. cedented number of buyers, as to cause extraordinary competition—and a decided majority of lots, consisting of fustians, flue prints, and linens, actually brought more money than their original cost. Upwards of 45,000 persons have been to visit the Manchester Mechanics' Exhibition since the 25th December, so that it is now pretty certain that 1,5001. will be realised by exhibitions . alone, to which may be added 4001. made for life admissions, making altogether about 2,0001. This handsome sum will place the Institution on a healthy footing.. SPORTING INTELLIGENCi!.. HUNTING AP7IOINTMENTS, Her Majesty's staghounds meet on Monday at Stoke Common; Wednesday, at New Lodge; Friday, at Red Hill-11. The Brighten harriers on Monday at Pateham ; Wednesday, at the Race Course; Friday, at the Dyke-11. The Brookside harriers on Monday at Newmarket Hill ; 'Thus day, aterelscornbe Tye—half-past 10. • Inc East Sussex hounds on Monday at Stret t Green—qr. to 11. Sir R. Sutton's hounds on Monday at the Eagle ; Tuesday, at Kettletborpe ; Wednesday, at Faldingworth Grange ; Thursday, at Langton-by-Wragby ; Saturday, at Harpswell-11. The Duke of flutland's hounds on Monday at Gowerby ; Thurs day, at Belton Park—half-past 10. Lord Yarborough's hounds on Monday at Ormsby Mill ; Wed nesday, at Fox Dales; Friday, at Herowry Lodge, Icianby-11. • Mr. Mure's hounds on Monday at Bisby ; Thursday, at Bowrn bridge.7:-.half- past 10. The Cheshire hounds on Monday at Arley ; Wednesday, at Duddon Heath ; Thursday, at Duddon Heath ; Saturday, it Mar bury, IIC2X North ich—haF-past 10 .. ' Sir T. Boughey's hounds on Monday at Bishop's Wood ; Wed- nesday, at Chetwynd; Friday, at the Plough Inn, Weston Heath -half-past 10. Mr. S. Owen's hounds on Monday at PitChford Hall; Wednes-' day, at The Wrekin • Friday, at The Wrekin—half-past 10 . The Monmouthshire hounds' on Monday at Talycoed Wood ; Friday, at Skinchill-10. The Herefordshire hounds on Monday at the 4th milestone on the Abergavenny Road; Friday, at Bredwardine-10. Mr. Candler's hounds on Monday at Grafton Mill ; Wednesday, at Westwood Park ; Friday, at the Old Hills—half-past 10. The Holderness hounds on Monday at Brandsburton Moor ; Tuesday, at Catwick Mill; Thursday, at Withernwick; Saturday, at Lund Village-11 Mr. Tudway's hounds on Monday at Farringdon ; Wednesday, at High Ham • Friday, at Berkeley Lodge, Black Dog Woods. Mr. Horlock's hounds on Monday at Neston Park ; Wednesday, at Ford Gate ; Saturday, at the George Inn, Sandy Lane. Mr. A. Smith's hounds on Monday at Oare Hill; Thursday, at ll al Solihull ; Friday, at B W aA e l t h h ree. i i . 1 1 1 ES : i Friday, sictieii etineo rtn Clinton-half-past Charltonhohuoanulfnd- hounds saositio n C I u m Clumps-11. Mondays— tr?ionday at Sibton Gate ; • Thursday, at Petham ; Friday, at SW eec h G a t e —h a lf-p as t 10. The Tickhani henn:lis on Monday at Rodersham Place; Thtirs day, at Doddington—half-past 10. HORACE VERNON, OR LIFE IN THE WEST.— This is oxie pf those novels that have of late become so popular, in which, the author has made,bis Story the vehicle for intro. clueing a variety of incidents, which, as well as the personages concerned, have been rendered sufficiently notoricus in the Fashionable World." 'Some of the facts are well wrought out, but it is not difficult to discover that fiction is largely mixed with truth, and that allusions arc made to individuals who are classed with cbaracters far from dubious. Th e h ero , whose folli es i n pursu i ng t h e and hi s f am il y i n ru i n. vicesH or a Horace V t h e e r b n e o a n u , i m s o a n e d i c t y i n h v a o n l k v ee himselfr, The under-plots and sketches of character, are all well sustained. PRICE OF SUGAR. EFFECT OF MONOPOLY. Table showing the ex-duty price of We'd India . Sugar iu Mincing, one, and comparing the same against foreign sugars :7-- London, Feb. 1, 1839. 'The Gazette of this day quotes the average price of British Per cwt. Plantation Muscovado Sugar, exclusive of duty, at 37s. 4id llascovado Sugars raised by free labour in the'Manilla are worth this week from 225. to 245. per cwt., being about I6s. per cwt. less than the average price of %Vest India Sugar. The bounty on refined Sugar having, in October last, been reduced to 355. Sd., per cwt., no sales for exportation at that rate of bounty have been effected; the excessively high prices paid by all British consumers cannot, therefore, now be attributed to the bounty. Nevertheless, this reduction still leaves, allowing I s. per cwt. for the poisoaous dirt con tained in the Muscovado or moist Sugar—and which is extracted by the process of refining, a clear bounty of 10s. Bd. per cwt., which would, in the event of an ample supply of Sugar from the Wcst Indies, come into active operation, and by stimulating the exportation of refined Sugar, . a lways maintain the aver age price of West India Muscovados 10s. per c wt. above the ,price of free labour Sugar fr om oth e r .quarters. British Treacle is worth Bs. 6d. per cwt. in the foreign markets. The per cwt , being same has teen sold this week at 3 3 5. an excess of price paid by the nation of 'Na. 6d. per cwt., in other words, 245. 6d. per cwt. on Treacle contributed by the poorman towards W es t I n di a B ounty, an d not, as it is erroneously supposed, towards revenue. 955. CotFOFIE3F;B:—The hecdwut, is 50s , per c wt,, about 50 ,pel . cent, ad valorem. ty on West India Coffee, the price o f it rang i ng f rom The duty on St. Domingo Coffee, the average price of it being 425. per cwt., is 140 s. per cwt, or about 300 per cent. ad valorem. The nrotec. tire duty, therefore, on West India Coffee is equivalent to 250 per cent. Some importers of Coffee, avail themselves of the privileges conferred by the East India Company's Charter, to ship Coffee from the Brazils to the Cape of Good Hope, and thence to England, where, in consequence of the privilege alluded to above, it is admitted for home use at a duty of 84s. per cwt. Sales of Brazil Coffee brought by this circuitous route have occurred in Mincing.lane, so that through trickery, and favouritism in duty, the British public are unconsciously made consumers of Coffee raised by stave labour, to the exclusion of that cultivated by free hands in St. Domingo. 'We have already shown that the gain to the monopolists, and the loss to the British community by the protective laws on West India produce amounts to 4,210,0001. per annum. We understand that Mr. Duncombe, the member for Finsbury, has promised to several of his constituents that he will nr d v t e h a a n t on h a e m i e la n s d p m l e e n d t p,ed the Addr ess i n th e f o ll ow i ng a himself to divide the House on is :—" That the amendment in 1832, on the representative system, has disappointed the people ; that it is not, and cannot be, a final measure; and that the constitutiox of the Commons' House of Parliament requires further and immediate reforma tion." —Morning Chronicle. BELL'S LIFE IN LONDON. —The pugilistic con t 'st between Burke and Bendigo is fixed for Tuesday, Feb. 12. The full particulars will appear in Bell's Life in London cf the following Sunday. T he publication of Bell's Life in London commences at 12 o'clock on Saturday noon, at the Office, No. 170, Strand ; by which early publication the Papers can be sent off by the Two o'Clock Saturday After noon Birmingham Railway train. The price of Bell's Life in London is Fivepence only. ILLUz , TRATIONS OF SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES. (Extracted from the Cincinnati Philanthropist of the 11th and 25th of Dec., 1838.) Theory of Slavery, extracted from a Memoir on the subject—Read be fire " the South Carolina Society for the Advancement of Learning." BY JUDGE HARPER. 1. Judge Harper is in doubt whether the cause of humanity has ken served by PLACING THE :MURDER OF A SLAVE ON TltE SAME }TOTING WITH THAT OF ♦ FREEMAN. 2. 3iaves have a better seeurityfor l feand limb, than freemen, S. There have been FEWER MURDERS OP SLAVES IN THE SOUTH, THAN OP PARENTS, CHILDREN, APPRENTICES, and other murders— causi. and UNNATURAL, in societies where slavery does not exist. 4. Seeing the evils of the labouring classes in Europe and the thickly settled Parts of our own country are so intolerable, he intimates strongly, that it would be better for them IF THEY WERE SLAVES, HELD AS PRopEr.TY BY MASTERS, having a -direct interest in preserving their tiers, their health, and their strength. 5, The slaves are far less liable to cruel and brutal treatment from their masters, than are wives and children in other countries from their husbands and parents : Slavery, owing to the self-interest of the master and the deep affection he is apt to cherish for his slave, is AN INCOMPA. Rt&BLY BETTER SECURITY TO THE SLAVE, than the CONNUBIAL RELA. 1105 IS To THE WIFE or the FILIAL RELATION TO THE CHILD. 6. It is true that the slave is driven to his labour by stripes, but stripes and blows are to him no degradation. 7. Slavery tends rather to humanize than brutalize. PRACTICE. ILLUSTRATION I. From the Clinton (Miss.) Gas. July 23, 1836. Resolution 15, Provides for the appointment of a vigilance (alias Lynch) committee, whose duties are prescribed in resolutions 2 and 4, viz.: " That t he movements of every stranger . from the north should be carefully watched," &c. ; and " That it is our decided opinion that any individual who dares to circulate, with a view to effectuate the designs of the abolitionists, any of the incendiary tracts or newspapers now in a course of transmission to this country, IS JUSTLY WORTHY IN THE SIGHT OF GOD AND MAN OF IMMEDIATE DEATH; and we doubt not that such would be the punishment of any such offender in any part of the state of Mississippi where he may be found." Among other names on this committee are found Gen. H. S. Toote and R. H. Buckner, EN., whose zeal for the " divine institution" may be seen in ILLUSTRATION 11. From the Southern Argus April 11, 1833. Published at Columbus, Miss. MISSISSIPPI STATE LOTTERY. FOR THE BENEFIT CF BRANDON ACADEMY. To la 2 drawn at Clinton, Miss., positively by the 2d June, 1837, under the superintendence-of the following gentlemen :—R. H. BUCK NER, Esq., Gen. H. Dunlap, Gen. Silas Brown, Gen. H. S. TOOTE, Bur Garland, Esq., Capt. Geo. W. House, Gen. H. G. Runnels, W. H. Shelton, Esq., A. R. Johnson, Esq., Wm. W. Pinckard, Esq., Henry Dawson and James M. Wall. GRAND SCHEME. Class No. 1. (Authorized by the Legislature of 1829.) Real and personal estate pledged to the amount of 550,000 dollars, for the faithful performance of the operation. CAPITAL PRIZE, A splendid plantation, four links west of Clinton, 500 acres in culti. nation, with a first rate new Mill and Gin, Dwelling House, Negro Ca bins, Stables, &c., with 30 first rate NEGROES ; Mules, Horses, Oxen, Cattle and HOGS; Farming utensils, and every article necessary to carry on a large cotton plantation. ILLUSTRATIPN 111. From the Charleston (S. C.) Mercury. A copy in my possession. " NEGROES," By THOMAS N. GADSDEN. Will be sold at the north of the Exchange at 11 o'clock, this day, Ist April (1834), a prime family of Negroes, viz. : A remarkably likely WENCH, about 32 years old, a first rate cook, good washer and ironer, &c., of warranted character, with her 4 chil dren, viz.:— A likely plough boy, 14 years old, A do. girl 8 do. do. A do. boy 6 do. do. An INFANT, 6 or 8 months do. Conditions cash—purchasers to pay for bills of sale. Again, in the same publication, Bt THOMAS N. GADSIMN, Will be sold at the north of the Exchange at I 1 o'clock, this day, 10th April, without reserve, to satisfy a mortgage from James Dupre to Thomas Benett, six very likely NEGROES, accustomed to the city, viz : Charles, a likely young fellow, 14 years old ; Sarah, a prime wench about 35 years old; Susan, a smart girl about 7 years old; John, a smart boy, 6 years old; Isaac, a smart boy, 4 years old ; an INFANT, 6 months old. ILLUSTRATION IV. 150 DOLLARS REWARD, Ranaway from the subscriber living in South Carolina, about the 12th of ~Tune, 1838, a negro. man named Sharlerack, about 27 or 28 years of age, not quite nix feet high, but very near—has rather a down look, has a scar on the top of his head that is naked of hair, eccasioned by being scalded with boiling water when young. This scar cannot be seen for his hair unless closely examined. Be reads print tolerably well, and I have no doubt will alter his name and attempt to pass as a Freeman : I purchased him of Dr. Holt, of Lexington, who bought him of Col. Hutchins G, Burton, of Halifax, N, C., where Shaderack was raised, and has followed the Training of, Race Horses, and was Training for me when he went away.% I have no doubt but he will be lurking about the county of Ilalifax, N. C., until he gets an opportunity of getting on to a free State, and any person or persons aiding or assisting him so to do, ailewarti of two hundred Dollars will be given for their being 'legally convicted thereof—one hundred dollars will be given for Shade rack being apprehended and confined in any gaol either in the State of • North Carolina or Virginia, so that I get him again, or one hundred and fifty dollars will be given to any person who will deliver him to me at my residence in South Carolina, Abbottsville District, Lodie WILLIAM EDDINS. Sept. IS. • N. E. If Shaderack should be confined in any goal in North Carolina or Virginia, give notice to my agent Mr. M. H. Pettaray of Halifax, N. C. W. E. ILLUSTRATION Y. BAN 4 WAY. From the mouth of the Wabash, on the 22d October, a negro man namcid 1. awson, about 22 years of a3e, about 5 feet 8 inches high, weighs about 1501b5., remarkably well made ; black; has a small foot and ankle, no marks recollected except those on his back, is cunning and artful. Ile was purchased of the estate of John Bruce, Esq., of Lexington, and when last heard from was on his way to Lexington. A liberal reward will be given for his apprehension and delivery to the Jailor of Lexington. Nov. 13, 1838. A. WICKLIFFE. FOR SAT,E. A ncgro girl 16 yoars old, and a boy about 8, both likely and healthy, Inquire at this office. November, G, 1838. ILLUSTRATION VI. A SLAVE IN SEARCH OF HIS WIFE, RAN A WAY from the subscriber on Saturday night the 10th inst., a yellow negro man named ADAM. He is about six feet high and proportionably built : be has a scar on his upper lip, caused by the kick of a horse ; had on an over-coat of light coloured coarse cloth, and a drab coloured hat. It is probable that he will endeavour to get to Mobile, as he has a wife there belonging (as lam informed) to Mr. Henry' Lazarus of Mobile. Any person who will apprehend and confine him in any gaol so I can recover him, will be rewarded by Perry County, Nov. 17, IS3S. CHARLES CROW. ILLINTRATIOINT vie. VALUABLE PROPERTY AT AUCTION. We shall offer for sale, on Thursday, the 20th day of December next, on the premises, the Farm, Negroes, Farming Utensils, Furniture, &c., &c., now owned by us, situated about four miles from Lexington between Versailles and Parker's Mill Roads, THE NEGROES number 48, 25 of whom are likely young men, 10 are boys from Bto 15 years old, 5 are women with 8 children. The men and boys are composed of farm hands, wearers, hacklers, and spinners. ILLUSTRATION Till. PUBLIC SALE OF REAL ESTATE AND NEGROES. Will be exposed to public sale, on Monday, the 10th of Dec. (being County Court day), a large number of VALUABLE NEGROES, Consisting of Men. Women, Boys, and Girls. Among the Negroes some good factory hands, a first-rate chain.spin ncr and Riling do., a good house servant, two good nurses, &c. For the Negroes a credit of twelve months will be given, with notes with approved security. Sale to commence at 11 o'clock, A. M. W. A. WARNER. ILLUSTRLTION IX. PUBLIC SALE OF NEGROES. By virtue of a deed of trust made to me by Charles Whelan, for the benefit of J. W. and It. Leavitt, and of L. B. Brown, of the city of New York, which deed is of record in Green county, I shall sell at public auc.. tion, for cash, on the main street in the town of Greensborough, on Saturday the f 22d day of December next, a negro woman about 30 years old, and her child about 11 months old; a negro girl about ten years old, and a negro girl about eight years old. Nov. 27 , IS3S. WM. T 4 APP, Trustee. ILLUSTRATION X. Important Trust Sale of Land and Negroes. By virtue of a deed of trust, executed to us by William 11. Hinton, for certain purposes therein named, bearing date 28th June, 1837, and duly recorded in the Clerk's office of the County Court of Green, we shall pro. ceed to sell on 'Tuesday the 11th day of December next, &c. The land and appurtenances will be sold on a credit. For cash, at the same time, will be sold several Negro Men, Women, and Children, all of which may be seen and more particularly described, and terms more explicitly made known on the clay of sale, Eric, Ala., Nov. 5, IS3B. SIDNEY S. PERRY. ILLVSTRATION XI. FOR SALE, A likely Negro woman of good qualities, sound and healthy. In quire at this office. Lexington, Aug. 10, IS3S. ILLUSTRATION NIL Admi,istrator's Sale. In pursuance to an order from the Orphan's Court of Dallas county, I shall proceed to sell at public auction on Friday, the 21st December next, at the plantation of R. W. Greening, two miles south.east of Athens, Dallas candy, all the personal estate of R. W. Greening de ceased, consisting of 17 •aluable Negroes, hones and mules, plantation tools, a quantity of corn and fodder, &c. Nov. 17, 1836. J. J. GREENING, Adm'r. ILLUSTRATION XIII. From the Elizabethtown (N. C.) Plurnix. 175 DOLLARS REWARD. Ranaway from the Subscriber, in the month of July last, a Negro Fellow by the name of PRINCE, about thirty years old, a very low, thick set fellow, of Guinea blood — rough features, and much addicted to the use of spirits—well known in Ballahac a:ld OM Neck : has a mother living near Mr. Benjamin Tom's, and a wife at Mr. Job Goodwin's. I will give twenty-five dollars re ward for his apprehension, if taken in the State, Fifty Dollars if taken out of the State, or in or on the borders of the Dismal Swamp. I will also give Twenty-fire Dollars for information, by which I can prosecute with effect, any persons who has or now do harbor or conceal said fellow. I will give Fifty Dollars reward for the apprehension of a Negro Fellow by the name of ABRAM, • if taken in the State; Seventy-five Dollars if out of the State, or in or on the borders of the Dismal Swamp. Ancl I will also give Twenty five Dollars for information by which I can prosecute with effect, any persons who has or now do harbor or conceal said fellow. Abram is about forty-two years old, 5 feet 6 or S inches high, a slick, black fellow, well made, and has some knowledge of the use of carpenter's tools, an artful and ingenious fellow, and upon the whole a great scoun. drel. He was conditionally sold by me about six years since, for his misconduct, and made his escape. He has a wife near Hertford, and is known in that neighbourhood by the name of " Abram Copeland."—lf those fellows are taken, I wish them lodged in some safe jail, and infor mation given me of the fact. Durant's Neck, N. C. Dec. 7, 1838. ILLUSTRATION XIV, JON. H. JACOCKS. The Subscriber offers for sale his Blacksmith Nat. He is decidedly the best . Negro smith I ever saw. He is well acquainted with making and tempering all kinds of steel springs, welding cast steel to iron, on the latest improvement, making ploughs and axes. He has been chiefly engaged in making the iron work for Carriages and Gigs. He is about 2B years of age, remarkably large and likely. I will also sell his wife, a likely woman, about 38 years of age, with her youngest child, about 18 months old. The only cause of my selling him is, I cannot con troul him. Hertford, Dec. 5,183 S. J. GORDON. Not even a desire intimated to sell husband, wife, and child togetlitt PROPOSED EXTENSIVE EMBANK- MENT OF THE THAMES. The following report was agreed to and ordered to be printed at dos last Court of Common Council. It comprehends projects for the most. important improvements that ever have been suggested, and was brought up by Mr. Robinson, the Chairman of the Navigation Committee. " TO THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD MAYOR, ALDERMEN, AND COMMONS OF' THE CITY OF LONDON IN COMMON COUNCIL ASSEMBLED, " We, whose names are hereunto subscribed of your Committee for. improving the navigation of the Riv er Thames, and for preventing en— croachments on the said river, do certify that on the 6th day of Dccem. ber. 1830, it was referred to your Committee to consider the expe diency of applying to Parliament to authorize the granting in fee certain parts of the soil or bed on each side of the river Thames; in. pursuance of which on the 3d day of August, 1832, your Committee presented a report to your Hon. Court recommending an application to Parliament for that purpose, accompanied by a full report from Sir J. Rennie and Mr. Mayne relative to embanking the liver, in the• conclusion of which report those gentlemen state, that viewing that; .inportant subject in every possible manner, they are decidedly of opinion either as regards the improvement of the navigation, or the salubrity and ornament of the metropolis, that some arrangement for regulating the line of wharfs should be carried into effect as early as possible; which report was ordered to be printed, and the consideration thereof adjourned. • " That in the year 1535 an application was made to your Com— mittee by the Select Ccmtnittee of the House of. Commons appointed to consider and report upon such plans as might be most fitting and convenient for the permanent accommodation of the Houses of Parlia— ment, stating that in order to carry the intended ;plan of the new , Houses of Parliament into effect, it wc,uld be necessary to embank part of the river Thames contiguous to Palace yard and the House of Lords. "'That your Committee, after considering the said application, gave permission to the Commissioners of hit; Majesty's Woods and Forests to make the proposed embankment, provided that, in order to make the said embankment uniform and beneficial to the river, the Parliament Houses, and the public, power should be given to the Corporation of London to allow all parties desirous of making pro jections at their wharfs, or other premises, into the river to continue the embankment upon such terms as might be agreed upon between, the parties desirous of prcjecting and the Corporation of London. " That on the 30th day of March, 1836, your Committee were at tended by Mr. J. Walker on behalf of his Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and Forests, who laid before them a plan for embanking the river above and below Westminster-bridge on the Middlesex side, and also on the opposite shore, between Vauxhall and Blackfriars.bridges, and stated that it was the wish of Government to embank in the front of the new Houses of Parliament, and from Westminster.bridge to Fife house, in the line and to the extent shown in the plan ; and your Com mittee, after considering the same, saw no objection to the plan sub milted to them by Mr. James Walker, provided the. Government would aree to a general line of embankment, and to support a Bill authorising the same. " That the cofferdam for the embankment of the new Houses of Par. !lament was shortly afterwards commenced, and is now completed, and the effect has been, as your Committee anticipated, to occasion a great accumulation of mud both above and below the same, to the injury and annoyance of the wharfingers, the watermen plying at Westminster bridge, and the inhabitants of the houses above and below the bridge, several of whom have made complaints to the Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods end Forests, and to your Committee on the subject. " That your Committee being of opinion that a continuation of the embankment at Westminster is the only effectual remedy for the evils complained of, and that an embankment on both sides of the river would materially improve the navigation of the same, appointed a depu tation to confer with the Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods and Forests upon the subject, who, on the 16th day of August last, held a conference with the Commissioners at the office at Whitehall-place, when the Commissioners expressed themselves favourable to a plan of embankment from London-bridge to Vauxhall-bridge, but considered that the first step to be taken was to have a correct survey made by some eminent engineer to ascertain the best line of embankment to be adopted both for the improvement of the navigation of the river and the property on each side thereof, and they requested your Committee would communicate with them in writing upon the subject. " That on the 17th of September last the Remembrancer, by, the di rection of your Committee, sent the following letter to Mr. Alexander Mylne, one of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests : ." Guildhall, September 17, 183 S. , _ " Sir,—l am requested by the Navigation Committee of the Cor poration of London to state to you, for the information of the Com missioners of her Majesty's Woods, &c., that the great inconvenience occasioned by the accumulation of mud near the embankment for the new Houses of Parliament renders it necessary that some immediate step should be taken to obviate the same, and that. the Navigation Com mittee considers that the annoyance can only be effectually removed by continuing the line of embankment. Under these circumstances, the Navigation Committee are of opinion that a survey and plan should be made of the river Thames, for the purpose of ascertaining the most desirable line of en - .lsankment on both sides of the river nom London_ bridge to Vaux hall.bridge, and also the expense of making the pro. posed embankment, and of excavating and deepening the bed of the river where requisite; and that a Bill should be brought into Par liament in the next Session for embanking the river Thames, accord. ing to a pla❑ to be agreed upon, in which power should be given to the Commissioners of Woods, &c., to embank the bed and soil of the river opposite the Crown property, and that power should be given to the Corporation either to embank themselves or to permit the owners of the wharfs and Property on each side of the river to embank under their directions, upon such terms as may upon consideration be thought desirable, half of the expense of the surrey and the Act of Parliament to be borne by the Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods, &c. " ' The favour of an early answer is requested, in order that the sub- Ji>ct may be brought under the consideration of the Court of Common Council before the time expirl a for giving notice of en application to Parliament. " I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, " EDWARD TYRRELL, City Remembrancer.' " Mr. Alexander Mylne.' " And on the 4th of January we received the following answer from Major. General Sir B. C. Stephenson, another of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, enclosing the following let ter from Mr.Edw•ard John Stanley, one of the Secretaries of the Treasury : " Office of Woods, &c., Jan. 4, 1839. " Sir,—With reference to your letter of the 17th of September last, stating that the great inconvenience occasioned by the accumulation of mud near the embankment for the new Houses of Parliament renders it necessary that some immediate steps should be taken to obviate the same, that the Navigation Committee of the Corporation of London consider that the annoyance can only be effectually re. moved by continuing the line of embankment, and that under these circumstances the Navigation Committee are of opinion that a survey and plan should be made of the river Thames for time purpose of ascer taining the most desirable lire of embankment on both sides of the river, i rom London-bridge to Vauxhall-bridge, and also the expense of making the proposed embankment, and of excavating and deepening the bed of the river where requisite; that a Bill should be brought into Parliament in the next Session for embanking the river Thames accord_ ing to the plan to be agreed upon, in which Bill power:should be given to the Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods, &c., to embank the bed and soil of the river opposite the Crown property, and that powers should be given to the Corporation either themselves to embank or to permit the owners of wharfs and other property On each side of the river to embank, tinder their directions, upon such terms as may upon con. sideration he thought desirable, and that half of the expense of the sur. vey and of the Act of Parliament should be borne by the Commissioners of this Board, and intimating that it would be desirable that the subject should be brought under the consideration of the Court of Common Council before the expiration of the time fur giving notice of an application to Parliament ; and on behalf of the Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods, &e., I have to acquaint you, for the information of the Navigation Committee, that the said Commis.. sinners have brought the subject matter of your said letter under the consideration of the Lords of her Majesty's Treasury, who, by a letter dated the 27th ult, from Mr. E. J. Stanley (of which a copy is enclosed herewith), have signified to the said Commissioners their Lordships' authority to take measures for having the necessary survey and estimates proceeded with by such engineers as may he mutually agreed upon by the Commissioners of this Board and by the Corporation, at the joint expense of the Crown and the City of London. " 1 have therefore to propose that Mr. James Walker, of No. 23, Great George-street, Westminster, civil engineer, be employed on behalf of the Commissioners of this Board and the Corporation respectively, to make the survey, plan, and estimates requisite on this occasion, prepa ratory to an application on the subject being made to Parliament, which, however, the said Commissioners apprehend it would not be practicable , to accomplish in the ensuing Session. " I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, " Mr. Edward Tyrrell.' "'B. C. STEPHENSON. (Enclosure.) " • Treasury Chambers, Nov. 27, 1838. " My Lord and Gentlemen,—The Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury having had under their consideration your Report of the 30th ult., on an application from the Navigation Committee of the Corporation of London for a survey of the river Thames from Lon don.bridge to Vauxhall bridge, with a view to further embankments, I, have it in command to convey to you their Lordships' authority to take the necessary steps for having the survey and estimates referred to in your Report proceeded with by such engineers as may be mutually agreed upon by you and the Corporation, at the joint expense of the Crown and the City, as recommended by you. I am, my Lord and Gentlemen, your obedient servant, " E. J. STANLEY. " ' The Commissioners of Woods and Forests, &c.' " And your Committee, considering it to be desirable that a survey and plan should be made of the river Thames, for the purpose of ascer. toining the best line of embankment on both sides of the river to Vaux hall-bridge, and approving of Mr. James Walker, with the assistance of Mr. Stephen Leach, the Clerk of the Works of the Thames Naviga tion, as the engineers to be employed for that purpose, recommend to this Hon. Court to give their sanction to the proposed survey and plan of the river Thames, upon the terms mentioned in the letter of Major. General Sir B. C. Stephenson, and that half of the expense of the same to be borne by the Corporation of London should be charged upon the rental navigation fund. All which is respectfully submitted to the judgment of this Hon. Court. Dated the 17th day of January, 1639. " J. ROBINSON. " W. S. HALE. " It. TAYLOR. " E. WILSON. " JAMES FRISBY. " FORD HALE. " ISAAC NEAL. " JOHN HOARD. " JOHN DIXON. " T. MITCHELL. " J. THOMAS. " T. CORNET. " W. STEVENS. " R. WESTWOOD." The Earl and Countess of Antrim arrived at Mi vart's Hotel on Thursday evening, accompanied by their family, from Ensharn Hall, near Witney, where they have been visiting the Hon. Colonel Parker. Mr. Edward Clark has been appointed Recorder of Hastings and Rye in the room of Mr. Austin, resigned. Sir A. L. Hay has addressed the electors of Banff, &c., intimating his intention of offering himself as a candidato for the representation of these burghs at next election. His letter is dated from Ghent. Mr. Fox Manic we understand, also intends to offer himself.—Edinburgh Observer.: CRIMINAL STATISTICS.—•A table taken from the I mblished returns of the number of criminal cases disposed of at each of the Police offices of the metropolis in the year 1838: Determined Sent for Trial. Summarily. Bow-street 2 O2l 5,739 Queen-square 1,787 5,749 Marlborough-street 1 703 6,124 Marylebone. 2,824 4,556 Hatton-garden 0 ,772 4,097 Worship-street 2,442 5.658 Whitechapel 2,380 2 B9B Union- Hall 3,057 6,945 Thames Bl5 . _ 2,673 Total 19,801 44,430