The Sun. — London, England, 1839-04-30 00:00:00

RVENING EDITION tighter, and that failures have not taken place. Much, 'VY much, will depend on the news by the Great Western. SPECIE —Some so ve rei , rns have recently been shipped to England, b ut t h e most ° of the shipments have been in half-dullars and five-franc pieees to France. Our banks h ave recently h a d some calls on ti.em to settle balances; but as exc h ange keeps down, there is no fear of any call for export. The following is the export : lEXPOItTS FOft THE WEEK ENDING APRIL 3. Gold. Silver. 27;200 To Europe To the West Indies Dol. 8,000 STOCK S Dol. 8,000 27,200 .---ere has a decided ge for the better i n stocks Th this week been . The same cause chan that has given confidence to the Money Market, has improved stock. MOOO 7, however, and the condition of the South, is such that there is but a feeble chance for stocks to recover, The following are the daily transactions in Saturday p.rn.—Notwithstanding the great excitement fthe street ther e was a general rise of stock. A good eeling manifested, increased confidence, large sales, Do ha/are went up, Kentucky rose, Harlem up, and stocks generally improved. United States, which wrs expected to fall, sold at 111 to 112, the same as yesterday. better Monday p.m.The week has opened with a decided feeli ng . U nited States Bank has risen full 2 per Zlit ; Delaware up, and every stock on the list improved. The change sinc e l ast wee k h as b een very f avoura bl e . Tuesday p.m.—S toc k s are a ll we ll susta i ne d to day; united States, Delaware, and others on the list are a shade better than yesterday. Wednesday p.m.—Stocks are all better today. United tates Ba n k fi rm at 1131 ; this is an advance of S per cent. l i n a few d ays. Delaware, higher, and very firm. Ha:- . er n jumped up Ef per cent. Everything on the list is unproved. Thursday p. m .—S toc k s have fallen off to-day. D e l a- Ware L per cent. ; B an k o f C ommerce ; V ic k s b urg i; entuck went y . i; and oth er s t oc k s i n p ro p ort i on . H a rlem up t o 57, an advance of 1 per cent. Frith Y P.m.—Stocks ar e d own t o -d a y. U n ited States Bank fell off -It • Delaware 1 ; Harlem down to 54, a fall dof p e r cent. Vicksburgs7i Everything on the list e • . . GRAND DEMONSTRATION IN FA VOUR OF THE FIVE CHURCH-RATE VIC GAOL, ON THEIR LIBERATION FROM . - Talmo, Arnie 27. (PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. ) , (Continued from our Paper of yesterday.) / h e I he C 11 Alumate (Mr. Stokes) next proposed the a th of th e consc i entious Church-rate opponents w h o had recently suffered the loss of their property. Those Persons were not f ew ; th ere were man y is this borough Who had sacrificed their property to their principles. He would give the healths of all, particularly of Mr. Poole; Mr. Lawry, and Mr. Tonkin, who had been the 12°8t recently distrained upon.—(Loud cheers.) Un fortunately, Truro was not the only place where the lame system was in operation. He saw by The Sun t tl the p rece di ng day, that in one place the " harp i es o f a 'Church had seized upon a mahogany and an oak t able for 11 id., and in another they had taken 15 bushels of oats for a claim of 2s. I d..--.( Loud cries of " Shame, 1114ra a.") The Hon. Gentleman concluded by giving the h aalths of those who had suffered, and the toast Was welcomed by the most vociferous cheering. th 'Mr. POOLE on the part of the individuals named in a last to as t returne d thanks, and noticed at consider jable length, some of the religious, moral, and legal ob ections to the exaction of Church-rates. There were al l sort s of objections for all kinds of men ; and how bad, therefore, must such a system be to which there were "Posed such a number of objections.--(Cheers.) He p as mu c h grat i f i ed to see such a meeting as this. Alread y they had seen g rea t a lt era ti ons i n th Church, and it s discipline. Such assemblies as that which had yet to-d ay would effect more. Formerly the Church used to put those opposed to it in towers, and confine them for their lives chained to the walls. They had a cell called Little Ease, in which they used to place recu sants, where they could neither sit down nor stand up. nor put themselves in any posture by which they could be relieved. The times had changed and so had 7a.---(Loud cheers.) They did not now slink home from prison, but a whole city went out to meet the s b ufferer s -- (Continued cheeri ng ) —. and they w ere , ' O ught home in triumph, and a meet i ng lik e t hi s was Ofeld, to show th em th a t we on l y t hi n k none the worse Of them, b ut t h at we esteem them the more highly.-- (Cheers.) It was most gratifying to see such unanimity sPrevail,trato n for it was quite impossible that such a demon lasting _mild be made without producing great and effect a.--(Cheers.) on R b . eh M al i f ch o c f ll, tl!bfho has taken, a very active part given them all the weiwr l e a rs, and who has consequently standing in society, herge e and influence of his superior ceived with three rounds onf ered the room, and was re- The applause. CHAIRMAN then gave " The opponents of Church-rates who have honoured us with their company to-day, an d t h an k s to them for their presence."— (Cheers.) Th e y certainly had been hard, erhas not too hard, u p on th ose w h o were not opponents p of Ch p urch rates ; b ut t h ere m i g h t b e persons mho sincerely thought that t it w as necessary t h at there should be an Establish meat maint a i ne d b y t h e pu b l i c at large. They should hive them full credit for their sincerity, much as they 1 ht think it a perversion of judgment.—(Cheers.) a t !e7 Wished to deny to no man the right of freedom of n ,i s „ lni nn--they only wished to prevent other men's ow hra from interfering with, or violating their principles. L i a Would gi v e them " Mr. Colenso, and all others who ,7 come from a distance to do honour to the cause on this occasion."—(Loud cheers.) .Mr. COLRNSO, of Penzance, rose, and was greeted /tl th renewed cheering. He claimed their indulgence Oa account of his infirm health, while he adverted to one z r two, matters of interest. He felt highly honoured b y °t °3 P e rmitted to associate with them this day ; it was the highest pleasure be experienced to meet those who were espousin g lib era l sent i men ts, especially where he he a av , anything lik e p r i es tly intolerance, or where keud the cry o f oppress i on. --(Cheers.) They had heard a great deal of late about the efficiency of .01 the este !Ailments in this country. The Ministers, when they in troduced th e Speech from the Throne, talked about the efficiency of the Church. They all knew that that Church had been long efficient for evil, but as to its er. c'ency in ot h er respects, they knew very li tt l e a b out labL"d cheers.) Then they had heard a great deal a_ ce , the efficien cy o f the army , and he was proud to novvledge thei r superiority r but Wellington, with his hundred thousand men, was never so proud as he (Mr. C.) was to-day, when marching at the head of the victims of an oppressing Church.—(Cheers.) Much had been said of late about Church and State. The Establishment was using all its art to associate within its walls all the influence it could. It made its attacks on Popery and Dissent, but he saw very little difference between Popery abroad and Protestantism at h ome. —(Cheers.) They had asserted to-day a noble Principle, and they had made a demonstration that he should never forget ; but it must not be allowed to remain where it was. He would beg, as an old Re former, to recommend to them that they should form some kind of nucleus, to lay a foundation for their future proceedings, so as to convince the Tories abroad that they were determined to carry their point.—( Cheers.) Mr. Colenso then related several instances of clerical rapacity in his own neighbourhood, and stated that they had got rid of Church-rates in his parish for about five years ; but now they had a new Vicar, who, taking courage from what had occurred at Truro, threatened to make an attempt to obtain a rate. This gentleman had actually had a quarrel with the friends of the former parson, about the question as to whether be had died a fe w minutes before or after 12, because it appeared, that if the former incumbent had died before 12 the present spiritual guide woul d b e entitled to the receipt of 35 5. more than he would otherwise receive. After a great deal o f t r ouble and inquiry of the relatives and friends of the deceased, he discoveret,l, and he thereby gainedthat the death had oc curred a tow minutes before i, the 335. on a salary of several . hundreds a year. The A t occasion that he admin:stered mim e parson, on the ..rs . the sacrament, put a piece of gold into the plate, in order to induce the r ecipients of the communion to be more than usually liberal. The money was collected, a 4,1 .I placed before h i m and the churchwarden. The clergyman immediately took the plate and gathered the money into his hand, and then put it into his pocket, re marking th a t as h e had just come into the parish he was going round to see his poor parishioners, and was de termined to make some liberal gifts, towards which the money then collected would be very useful. He had it fr om t h e b est aut h or i ty , that from that day to this not a single poor person from ono endd receivedoftb fromeparishto ba the oth er cou ld b e di scov ered that the p arson a farthing.— (L ou d cries of " Shame !") Mr. C o l enso spoke of the p l easur e he felt in seeing so 1 1 1 . 1 , 841 7 young men embarked in the cause nuerty, and he urged them to go on and a well, of ll w r o e u l t io b u e s The CHAIRMAN next gave " The Committ ee ," for w h at who se exertions they were so muc h i n d e bt e d had been done since the prosecution.—(Chee Mr. Teatime and Mr. E. DAVEY returned thanks. The C HAIRMAN sa id , i n connec ti on with t h e last toa st b e could not help giving the Chairman ofthat Committe e the respected gentleman who was to have Presided to-day, " Mr. Robert Michell"—(Long co n • t ioued cheering)--a gentleman whose name and whose ability added character to whatever undertaking he a light be engaged in. He would give his health with _three times three, being assured that they would most cordially : respond to it.—The toast was most raptur ously applauded. Mr, MICHELL said he could not sufficiently express the obligations th e y h a d l a id him under in drinking his health in the manner they had done. It was a compli ment to which he never aspired. He had been willing at all times to do every thing to promote the cause of civil and religious liberty that was in his power. H e !lad Presid e d at one of the i r meet i ngs , an d it was rather Incumbent upon him to state the result of that meeting, and he should do it with some regret. That meeting was i held, an d agreed to a memor i a l, w hi c h was numer " Gtt ligned, and sent to Lord John Russell. No answer had been given to that memorial.—(Hear.) But he had other communications to make to them, w hich perhaps might be more satisfactory, and which he had received while acting in another capacity, as their Treasurer. He had three or four documents to show them that their cause had been contemplated in different parts of the country in a way which was highly gratifying.—(Hear, and cheers.) He had received a copy of an advertisement, with the Lyme post mark upon it, copied from the Western Times, in which the person who interested himself was trying to raise _ . subscriptions on behalf of the causi of Mr. Barrett and the other defendants. That proved that they had taken it up with some warmth.—(Cheets.) He had also a communication from Mr. F. W. Geake, of St. Colamb, who sent 5/. towards the fund.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. Michell then read a document that he had received con taining a history of the weathercock life of Baron Gur ney, which afforded some amusement, but which need not be repeated here, as most of the readers of The Sun are well acquainted with his history, and concluded by stating that he would do everything in his power to pro mote the object that they had in view. —(Cheers.) The CUAIRMAN next gave "the Friends who had so activel.y exerted themselves in obtaining funds to bear pecuniarly harmless the defendants in the late prosecu tion, particularly Mr. Dogood and Mr. L. Latimer."— (Cheers.) The expenses in that prosecution were ex ceedingly heavy, and by exertion they would no doubt be raised, and thus, as far as their pockets went, the defendants would not be sufferers, though it would be impossiale to compensate them for being dragged from their homes and incarcerated in a gaol for a month to the injury of their busi ness and the distress of their wives and families. The defendants must at first have felt deeply, till they came to reflect that they were rioters by a fiction of law, and not in public opinion.—(Cheers.) Mr. H. T. DOOGOOD congratulated those whom he saw around him, and he also congratulated the defend ants, whom he had known a long time, on their return from prison. He should honour them much more than he had ever done ; he should always revere them as martyrs in this religious crusade.—(Loud cheers.) He knew very well the effect which all these proceedings would have upon the opposite party. He took occasion to observe some time ago, that that party had seen the necessity of endeavouring to make a compromise in the parish of St. Mary, if they could ; because instead of having some seven or eight persons to contend against there were now nearer seventy or eighty. They could not keep up perpetual war in the parish of St. Mary. They had contemplated the pro ceedings of to-day with very great hatred and with fear ; they had said that there would not be 40 persons to dine.—(Laughter.) They had said that the bringing in our friends publicly would be a failure, and they had endeavoured to persuade our friends not to allow them selves to be brought in triumph, having resorted to forgery to effect their purpose.—(Hear, hear.) They had actually forged the name of our friend, Mr. Sylva nus James (a Quaker), in a letter to Mr. Edwards, to induce him and his companions not to come home together, or to make a public entry into the town.— (Hear, hear.—Mr. Doogood here read the forged let ter to which he referred, which, of course, excited much indignation.) What were they to conclude when they saw such a letter as that sent to the defendants ? The Tories were afraid of the effect of this demonstration causing the abolition of Church rates in this borough, and making a powerful impression throughout the king dom.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. Doogood then went on to show that there was no doubt that the prosecution had been paid for by the Tories as a party, and concluded by urging that the subscription on behalf of the parties should be continued till the whole amount of the ex penses incurred in their defence was raised. Mr. T. LATIMER remarked that his occupations would not permit him to do more than to call the atten tion of the meeting to what had been done since the last. Ha looked upon the recent prosecution as one of a most disgraceful character, inasmuch as it was not com menced by the party for the purpose of punishing men for breaking the law, but for the purpose of putting down a formidable opposition to a tax which was unjust in its nature, and peculiarly vexatious to many of the parties on whom it was levied. Entertaining these opinions he had taken a warm interest in the struggle that was now going on, and he would read to them some communications which he received from different parts of the country, in hearing which they would feel highly gratified. His accounts from the several towns in Cornwall were very satisfactory, and he believed much money would be raised. Edward Baines, Esq., M. P. had sent 1/. ; Thomas Wilson, Esq., of London, bl.; and Carteret J. W. Ellis, Esq., had also sent 51. with a letter, which, coming as it did from a Churchman connected with the county, was extremely im portant. The following is the letter referred to : Reform-Club, London, April 22, 1839. " Sir,—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your lctterof the 20th inst. on behalf of Messrs. Barrett, Edwards, Randall, Spur, and Ball, and cheerfully re sponding to the appeal, I enclose you five pounds for the fund intended to bear pecuniarily harmless the sufferers by the late most harsh and ill-timed sentence. . " The bigoted adherents of the illiberal and unjust impost of Church-rates mnst eventually discover that their absurd efforts against a bold, steady, and unbending expres sion of public opinion, will prove as futile as an attempt to turn the tide of the Atlantic; and, however tardily, the conviction will be forced upon them, that whilst persecution makes martyrs, it never establishes a truth. —(Cheers. ) " As a member of the Church of England, I deeply regret that noli me tangere spirit of anti-Reform amongst its Ministers and disciples, which brings down heavy and indiscriminate odium on the system and its adherents ; and I am heartily desirous that the friends of liberty of conscience Should not slacken in their efforts to benefit the cause of true religion, by abating- this ecclesiastical nui sance of Church-rates. " I have the honour, &c. CARTERET J. W. ELLIS." The seeding of this letter elicited tremendous cheers, which were again and again repeated. Mr. Latimer also read the valuable letter from Mr. Tooke, already published, and a letter from Mr. Turner, M.P., who declined to subscribe. This last letter excited great disapprobation. He also read another letter from Mr. Turner to Mr. Michell, in which the Hon. Member stated his regret that the defendants did not accept the terms of his offer in a mediation that he had tried to effect between the parties, but which the defendants declined because they considered that it would be a confession of guilt which they would never acknowledge by any act of their own. This letter was also very much hissed, on which Mr. COLENSO rose and said if he had known that this was a meeting of Mr. Tooke's friends, and not of friends to the cause of religious liberty, unconnected with party, he would not have attended the meeting. Mr. MICHELL replied that he had received that letter from Mr. Turner as the Chairman of the last public meet ing, and be considered himself bound to place it before the present meeting.—( Cheers. ) Mr. LATIMER also replied that he had received the letter which he bad just read, as an official letter addressed to him by Mr. Turner, as the Hon. Secretary of the Committee, and he had no doubt that Mr. Turner wrcte it with a view to its coming before the public. The meet ing was not a meeting of Mr. Tooke's friends, but as that gentleman's letter was more congenial with the sentiments of those present than Mr. Turner's, that would account for the demonstration of feeling evinced on the occasion. He ( Mr. Latimer) was happy to observe that Mr. Childs, of Bungay, bad sent a pound to The Sun, and that Mr. R. Peek had contributed, through the Patriot, 51. towards the same object. The accounts of subscriptions received were much applauded, as the names of the contributors were announced. The CHAIRMAN proposed, as the next toast, " Civil and Religious Liberty," coupling it with the names of 'the several Dissenting ministers present.—( Loud cheers.) The Rev. Mr. HELLINGS, of Exeter, said that he had no idea a week or two ago that he should have had the honour and the pleasure which he had experienced this day. Circumstances of affliction in the family of his friend, Mr. Hobbs, had rendered it necessary that be should leave Bodrnin for a time, and he ( Mr. Hellings) had attended to supply his place. While there, he heard of the im prisonment of the defendants, and he felt induced to apply to the goal for admission to see them, but was refused. He waited therefore patiently till they were released from their unrighteous bondage, when he was introduced to them, and be felt it not only a pleasure but a pride to have a place in the vehicle which brought them into their native town.—( Loud cheers.) The Revs. W. Moons and T. ROBINSON also addressed the Meeting at considerable length, and in powerful speeches, the former gentleman making the declaration, that he would never again pay another church -rate, a declaration which Mr. Robinson will also, no doubt, act upon. • The CHAIRMAN then gave "the Liberty of the Press, and thanks to the disinterested part that the liberal por tion of it has taken in the late prosecution." Mr. RICKEREY returned thanks for the Falmouth Packet, and Mr. LATIMER on behalf of the Editor of the West Briton, who was unavodably absent. Mr. Latimer stated that he could not sit down without expressing his high ad miration at the noble part which The Sun had taken dur ing these proceedings, and he thought their warmest thanks were especially due to that Journal, not only for its aid on the present occasion, but for the bold and uncompromising manner in which it supported every question which went to promote the rights of mankind, whether of a civil or reli gious character.—( Long continued cheering.) Several other toasts were drunk, and many speeches made which the length of our report, however, will not per. mit us to give. to n notice the the writ death of Mr. We regret to have of the d a y , and "Tom author t T h i c ion m i s o s s t li p a o y p n u e l s ar B s a o y n l g y s , ko as t e i r of some of .‘One Hour ; or, the Carnival Ba ' ll ' " Secret," and other successful pieces. He m Noddy'sthhad r beer., we e arc sorry to hear, for some time in distressed cir cumstances, and his death, which was fores een from t ravages disease had m ade in his frame, took place at Chel tenham on Mond a y last. One benevole nt institution, which truly blushes to find its good efforts fame, an d which, therefore, We shall not name, was not unmindful of his claims in season when aware of his distress. I t i s a painful thing to reflect that within the last fortnight we base had to record the deaths of three men not undistin- Vuished in literature, each steeped to the lips in distress ; sit., John Galt, Millhouse of Nottingham, and now Mr. Haynes Bayly. It is fortunate, however, that for such cases there is one ark of refuge, the Literary Fund Society. The Peruvian Government, by a decree of the 14th of December, 18.311, has made Anglo- Peruvian Bonds legal tender in the payment of ground rents, due to the National Treasury. on buildings and building lands. 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The ruhlie is respectfully informed, that the PRESENT MANAGEMENT WILL TERMINATE WITH THIS SEASON ; The following Pregramme is therefore give* of its fuel ar rangements : The Standard Plays, as brought out at this Theatre, will each he porfensul mum were, : CORIOLA.N US, lON, THE TWO FOSCAEI, WEENIE, and TIROINIUS. TO-MORROW EVENING, MAT I. Will be perforated the New Play, in Five Akita, milk RICHELIEU, Oft IHE CONSPIRACY, Written by Sir E. Lytton Bulwor, Bart. The Characters by Mr. Elton, Mr. Diddear, Mr. Macready, Mr. Warde, Mr. k'- lama, Mr. Vining. Mr. Roberts, Mr. Phelps, Mr. G. Ben nett, Mr. Howe, Miss E. Phillips, Mr. Tilbury, Mr. Tar sold, Mr. W. 1.. Payne, Mr. C. J. Smith, Mr. Bender. Mr. Paulo, Mr. Gough, Mr. Thorne, Mr. Brady, Mr. Bar tle, Mr. Smith, Mr. Kirke, Mr. Hollingsworth, Mr. Wal. Ikon, Mr. Ayliffe, Mr. Andre ws Mr. T. M a tth ews , Mi ss Vandenheff, Miss Charles, Mesdames Reel, Corder, Lee, Yalanduke, Mathews, Mew, and Mullin. After which, the New Dramatis Romance, *ailed AGNES BERNAUER, THE MAID OF AUGSBURG. After which, the New Farce, in One Aet, Bled SAYINGS AND DOINGS. On Thursday, a New Opera, called Henrique, er the Love Pilgrim. THIATHE ROYAL, LYCEUM. THIS EVENING, Aram 30. A MILITARY PROMENADE CONCERT By permission •f HER MOST. GRACIOUS MAJESTY, Aid under tho Patronage of H. R. H. THE . DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE. The Orchestra, consisting exclusively of Wind Instrameuts, will be formed by the annulled Band of HER. MAJESTY'S COLDSTREADI GUARDS, Ira Fall Utairrn. PROGRAMME. I' A ItT I. Overture—" Anacreon," (Cherubini.) Quadrille--" Le Tete do Bronze," (Musard). Trio—" Vorrei parler ma," Falstaff, (Balt.). Waltz—" Aurora," (Labintzki). Grand March—(Parry). , Solo on the Oboe,- by Dlr., X eating. Overturv—" Le Alcade de la Vega," (Onsloav). TA P.T. Overture—" Guillaume Tell," (Rossini). Cavatina—" Tutte e Sciotto." Sonnanabula, (Bellini). Quadrille—" Le Danois," (141usard). • Spanish Channt—( Anonymous). Carnival and Engendfuer Galops, (Strauss). Echo Chorus from Preciosa, (Weber). Waltz " Alexander," Strauss. The doors open at half-past Seven. The Coneert to cent menet! at Eight and terminate by Eleven. Admittance to the Promenade, One Mifflin. Reserved Seats Two Chilling'. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Oainea. LONDON: TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1639. The Petitions to the Lords in favour of Postage Reform, were again numerous last night. The Earl of HARDWICKR, in presenting a petition for an alteration in the Sale of Beer Act, stated that he, as a Magistrate, had convicted a Beer Shop-keeper and been fined for his pains. He is therefore very angry with Beer Shops. The Copyright in Designs Bills were read a second time, after a few words praising the Bills from Lord BROUGHAM, who thought, however, they might go further. _ . The Church Discipline Bill was read a second time ; the discussion is to be taken on it on going into Com mittee. In the Commons, also, the petitions in favour of Postage Reform were numerous. Mr. EWART was declared duly elected for Wigan, and gave notice that he would to-morrow present a petition from some voters of Wigan, who complain of having been carried off, and having had narcotic drugs admi nistered to them, to prevent them voting. The House was occupied, for the greater part of the evening, with the Prisons Discipline Bill in Committee. In the House of Peers on Friday night the Earl of ABERDEBN, on presenting a petition against the Newfoundland House of Assembly, spoke of that body with great contempt, because one of the Members was a hired servant of 101. a-year, and he described the class of persons who formed the Assembly as by no means well qualified for Legis lative functions. According to the Noble Earl, nobody is well qualified except Peers and Bishops. The law, being merely the instrument by which certain classes seek or maintain dominion over other classes, in the opinion of a Peer nobody is or cln be fit to wield it, but a Peer or somebody like a Peer. How should a servant or a labourer be fit, for he would make the law to serve his own purposes, and put clown the Nobility ? The Noble Earl's sentiment is unaffectedly natural. He feels and knows that he and his peers have always made and used the laws, for the sole purpose of aggrandisingtheir own class; and he feels and knows that whoever has the mak ing of laws will act in the same manner, and he at once concludes that those other classes must be un fit to make laws. Under a thin disguise of promoting inquiry, he and the Tories wish to suspend or put down altogether the popular Assembly of Newfoundland, which is of the people, and represents them ; and at the same time the Tories, under Sir RO BERT P EEL, arc anxious to protect the aristocratic or privileged As sembly of Jamaica, which represents 1,500 persons, connected with the property of the island, and en ables them to make laws for 350,000. Such a Parliament is, in principle, so very like our House of Lords, and our House of Commons, and is therefore so very fit to mak e l aws in the estimation of Tories and Peers, that the very same men who are anxious t o put down the popular representation of Newfoundland, cry out that it is an outrage against liberty to suspend the planters' legislative power in Ja maica. This is a specimen both of the incon sistency of the Tories and their unblushing, un altered, enduring resolution to use legislation merely for the purpose of promoting their own selfish ends. Their conduct in this instance is well worthy of the attention of those who think that there is no dif ference between the Whigs and Tories, and who would, out of pure patriotism, rather have the Tories P** - : • • , ' . itt• Zht b ig eO/ utIV, ° ro of re o f li t 0 1 041 01 ,1 a o t .t $ 0 ,gb`A" O r i 0 _b ill ' c vcrY I o°g 111 4, 144, 5 %4 1461 THE SUN, LONDON, ITESDAY,:APRIL 30, 1839. than the Whigs in office. In the Times of Satuz day, to quote another instance of Tory feeling, the (11 2m o cracy of England is spoken of in terms of the most unmeasured and bitter contempt. The bulk 'of the people, the most industrious and skilful in Europe, who are ground down to poverty by unjust a ad par tial taxation, by Corn-laws and other regulations which have been made by such efficient legislators as the Earl of ABERDEEN_the bulk of the people are called by the Times, the great organ of .the Tories, the " pauper multitude." To give Uni versal Suffrage to the people is to establish the des potism of the " ignorant, pauper multitude over the enlightened minority," who constitute the fit legisla tors of the Earl of ABERDEEN. Again the bulk of the people are called the " swinish multitude," and it is implied that they are fit only to wallow in the mire, and be the slaves of the aristocracy. Such phrases are signifi cant of Tory thoughts and are an index to Tory acts. Those who so speak of the bulk of the people, would so treat them; and, were they in office to-morrow, would regard the " pauper multitude," though their labour is the single source of every atom of wealth owned by Lord ABERDEEN and his co-peers, as " a swinish multitude," wholly unfit for any thing but to toil, and to be killed like pigs when the Tory gentlemen, who alone are fit to exercise legislative functions, shall suppose that to be for their interest. Two years ago, the Tories, backed by the Times, called out to re-conquer Ireland, rather than allow the Irish to be free. So it is plain that they would re-conquer the British rather than allow them to be anything but the " pauper, swinish, mul titude." If the Tories, then, were in office, we should have the powers of the Government wielded by a set of politicians who profess the most unmea sured contempt for the bulk of the people, and who would be ready to put them down, and keep them down, by the sword. They have done so before, and would do so again, were they in power. With out any regard to individuals, we should look on that as a great and deplorable misfortune. To have the Government and the bulk of the people at enmity must lead to anarchy. The Whigs have never professed such contempt for the bulk of the people, and never have acted on such diabolical, tyrannical principles as the Tories. They inherited the Government from the Tories after the latter had possessed it for nearly half a century, during which time it had been con ducted, in consequence of the commotions in some other countries, on the most arbitrary principles. The habits of the existing generation were formed on that arbitary system. Considerable naval and military successes had been achieved in conjunc tions with it ; great additions, too, had been in the same period made, by the natural pro g ress of society, to our population and wealth ; and the most reflecting of our people, as well as the unthinking populace, became attached to a system that was associated with much national glory. It is not the fault of the Whigs, therefore, th a t t h e b u lk o f t h e opulent and upper classes were, and still continue, much attached to she Tory syst e m of policy, and that the bulk of the middle and lower classes, taking their cue from the others, should also love the tyranny, an d be averse from its overthrow. In fact, .the bulk of the generation which is now passing away were almost all Tories, and warmly attached to the Tory policy. From the rising generation, under the guidance of the generation which has just risen, we may expect a warmer and more enlightened love of liberty ; but the Whigs had to administer a Govern ment formed be the Tories, and when th e b u lk o f t h e opulent and influential classes were all Tories. We never have said or supposed, or even dreamed, that the Whigs, who had been, like the rest of us, fashioned in some measure by the Tory system, took tine best and wisest means to exting uish it a n d es t a bli s h a better. We know they did not. We have fre quently, anti we hope on good ground, accused them of not having, done all which they could and ought to have clone ; but that does not so blind us to the peculiarities of their situation as to make us condemn them as worse than the Tories, or make us suppose for one moment that it would promote the public welfare, and be better for the cause of liberty, were the Tories restored to power. We know that would please those who are anxious for a fight : we are not ; and till the public opinion in favour of liberty becomes en lightened and consolidated, so as to ensure its triumph—till young England shall gather its strength—we desire to see the Government of the country remain, in preference, in the hands of those who do not avow contempt for the " pauper, swinish multitude," and have never im plied that the people have been and must be slaves by proposing to " re•conquer them:' We must admit that in the present state of opinion in this country no Government is possible but one of the Whigs or of the Tories ; at the same, time the whole people will have a Government ; and the difference is in our opinion so wide between those who recognise the sovereignty of the people as tine foundation of all political power, and those who treat the people as little better than brutes, that we cannot for a in° neat hesitate which to prefer. We have never for a moment supposed that the Whigs were perfect, but the only choice being between them and the Tories, and the public peace being more likely to be preserved by a Government which keeps alive a hope that some Reform may be got from them than by those who declare themselves the enemies of the people and Reform, we are still for the Whigs. Gentlemen of the flash mob usually employ one of their number to attract the attention of their lictim, while the rest pick his pocket. To Sir ROBERT PEEL the Tories aasign the former office, while they muster together the rare fellows to take their be-mused opponents by surprise. Now, it may be very true that Sir R. do es not d e° not intend to treat th e J ama i ca question as a party one—he speaks for himself—but his parti-coloured partisans do not feel themselves bound by his policy, except to take advantage of it as they list. It has ever been thus with the Tories ; they make some body or other their little Oliver Twist, whom they put through the window to open the door for them, they (Sikes and the rest) waitin ,, ou tside, ready to enter and plunder th e house. 'On this occasion Sir ROBERT PEEL performs the part of Oliver, little fellow and looks quite as unknowing asthat when he is found out ; but notw i thstanding his looks, the people are apt to suppose that Sir It o uunT, who has been breeched , long ago, is not so simple as n ot to know what s wh at as well as any Dodger of his party, or unwilling to share in the profits of their misdoing. Of this sort of make-believe innocence is the pretence set up oy sonic o the organs o tne party, that the Prisons' Bill, which the Jamaica Assem bly alleges to be the ground o f the abandomnent of its functions, was smuggled through Parliament, what m eans . no body knowing or caring b y How stands the fact ? In the Lords, Lord ELLENBOROUGH saitl,‘l have read throug h the Bill, and I entirely approve of it a nd Lord ELLENBOROUGII was not t h e ;'' least among the partisans of the Tory faction. When the Bill was before the Commons, Lord CHANDOS was in his place. Now Lord CHAN- D os was an i m personation of the W est I ndia in terest, an active man of polities, and his Lordship this Bill ; for h e h a d pre was; fully awar e of viously move d for theß_ produ c ti on of the pro_ test, which Mr. ur tGE , the Agent for had prielsleented against it on the Assembly , truth o f the matter behalf of that bod y . appears to be , that the steam of T ory ism was not then up, and now it is scarcely p oss i ble to keep it under, to prevent the vessel from starting before its time. Had the Jamaica Bill come on last of night, we should have had a flaming exhibi t i on ' Tory pa triotism and statesmanship ; the interval of a week will, perhaps, change or modify the tactics, because e in that time the su b j ect will he mad 2 plain to the country, though the Tories will, doubtless, be as dis honest as the occasion serves, and therefore we must be alive, whig—Radical—E ma nct • . pationist— West India Proprietor, and all who, it k concerns, to preserve the peace of the Island, and to make provision for the future security of life and property. For our own part, we know not what to think of Tory tactics. It seems to U 9 that they have deter mined to assail the Government a t all points, but that, scorning the difficulties of their own po sition, they mean to seize first on the ques tions most favourable to the Government, and then to proceed by degrees to such as are least so, reserving for the last, by way of bonne bouche, those on which the Government are most assailable. If this be their 'policy, though we do not see the wisdom of it, they did right to select, first the Irish question, and now, the Jamaica one ; for with respect to the last, it would ,be difficult to find an other in which there had been so solicitous a regard for existing institutions —such repugnance to visit with severity the most ascertained determination to evade a duty which admitted of no delay, and finally, when it ceased to be possible to refrain from steps by which the British Parliament should vindicate the measures it had resolved upon, and protect the negro, so marked a purpose not to carry the remedy one degree beyond the evil. What the Tory measure is to be, whether to sa crifice the negro to the planter, or the 'planter to the negro, or the security of the West India pro perty, or the Colony altogether, and along with it the other West India Colonies, we are impatient to know. That the Tories will select a wrong side of the question, we are sufficiently apprised by their proceedings on other occasions. Since writing the above we have received a copy of the following resolutions. They show that that veteran body of righteous agitators in the cause of humanity, the Anti-Slavery Society, are not asleep, and we trust that their example will be followed by all similar bodies without delay, for the occasion admits of none. From what we have heard, in dif ferent quarters, we believe, that our trust is not mis placed. The Anti-Slavery Societies will not be swayed by factious motives to withhold support to a measure so important to the objects of their indefa tigable exertions : " SUSPENSION OF THE FUNCTIONS OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF JAMAICA. " At a Meeting of the Committee of the London Anti- Slavery Society, held at their Office, No. 18, Alderman bury, on Friday, the 26th April, 1839, " HzNaT WA YMOUTH, ESQ., in the Chair. " On the motion of T. FowELL BUXTON, Esq., seconded by JOSEPH BALDWIN, Esq., " It was resolved unanimously, " That a Temporary Suspension of the Constitution of Jamaica is necessary for the purpose of obtaining good and efficient laws for the government of that island, and espe cially for securing to the emancipated population the full enjoyment of their rights and privileges as British subjects. (Signed) " HENRY WAYMOUTII, Chairman." On perusing the Appendix to a pamphlet by Mr. NORTHHOUSE on " Coal Combination," we have been much gratified by seeing the numerous communications made to the LORD MAYOR, ex pressive of thanks and gratitude to his Lordship for his exertions in rooting out this monopoly. They are from persons of almost every rank and class, except, of course, coal-owners in the north and those interested in the abuse, but chiefly from noblemen and gentlemen who have taken an interest in the question ; not so much on their own account as on account of the suffering and starving poor of the metropolis. Among these are - two of a different stamp—one from the Marquis of LONDONDERRY, which the public have all heard of, and another from Mr. POTTER, which the Court of Common Council unani mously denounced and censured. In contrast with the letter of the Noble Marquis, in which he told the LORD MAYOR. he knew nothing about the story, we may place one from another Nobleman and a Judge, who from his long and extensive practice as a barrister, was not likely to come to a conclusion without inquiry. Lord WYNFORD thus writes to the LORD MAYOR on the 3d of Fe bruary :—" Accept my thanks, as one of the public, for breaking down the conspiracy in the Coal trade. I have the honeur to be, with great respect, &c.” The Marquis of SLIGO, whose exertions and sacrifices in behalf of suf fering humanity are well known, wrote to the LORD MAYOR in the same month, expressing the obligations due to his Lordship for his exertions to reduce the price of coals, and hie desire to co-operate in the beneficent task. Besides these, there have been many similar acknowledg ments from the Duke of CLEVELAND, Lord STANLEY, Lord Lif,FoRD, Sir FRANCIS BUR DETT, and other distinguished characters. Mr. GALLOWAY, the Common Councilman, who knows something about City trade, and also City tricks, thus expressed himself at the beginning of the year with regard to the fitness of the LORD MAYOR for the herculean task, and the great bene fits he had conferred on the lower classes : I know, my Lord, you possess all the valuable attributes for successfully accomplishing this great task, the reduction of the price of coals to a fair and reasonable charge in the Port of London. This Rill, indeed, render the most important service to the numerous poor, as well as to all other classes of the people in the metropolis and its surrounding counties. With many thanks for the great benefits you have already conferred on nearly three millions of the people, in keep ing down the price of this most essential necessary of life, during the winter season. I am, my dear Lord, your most sincere friend, ALEXANDER GALLOWAY. We may give another excellent authority on the subject, a genuine Tory, worth fifty of that class of Tories who regulate their political principles according to their selfish interests—Sir JOHN HALL, of the St. Katharine Docks. In his evi dence before the Coal Committee, he proved that within the last three years the 'mice of coals had been raised ferty per cent ; that of this proportion the shipowners participated to about 16 per cent.; and that the great source of the evil was the repeal in 1836 of the 2Sth of GWO. 111., c. 53, by which it was declared an " indictable offence, if more than four persons united to make regulations with re spect to the manner of carrying on the coal trade.'' In the month of January, Sir Jollti thus writes to the LORD MAYOR : The public owe your Lordship obligations for the attention you arc pleased to pay to the subject of the coal trade, and I cannot but persuade myself that great and important benefits must attend your Lordship's exertions. About the extent of the evil, and the cause of it, there is no occasion to add one word—they are ad mitted by all impartial persons. The only question is the remedy and all that is wanting is some per severing, independent Member of Parliament, who will take up the subject in the House of Commons, as it has been taken up in the City, setting at nought, as the LORD MAYOR has done, all the pre judices and interests of colleagues or friends. We close these extracts with a letter from a staunch Reformer in the country, merely adding that Mr. NORTIIIIOUSE'S pamphlet ought to be read by every enemy of this grievous monopoly. My Lord Excuse m• making so free, being a stranger to you. I never open my Sun paper but I read with great pleasure the efforts you make to crush the most abominable combination that has been carried on, to my knowledge, half a century. Excuse me, my dear Sir, root to the core of tha evil. I nstea d of coals being offered from waggons at 225. per ton, which by land is two hun dred miles, I have no doubt )ou will have coals offered, if a free importation is allowed, for considerably leas money than 225. London is not more than 120 miles from the coal fields of Staffordshire and Derbyshire ; superior coals there are not in the kingdom than the former, nor is there iu the known world such a vein for thickness and quantity. Any Dudley, Wolverhampton, or Birmingham gentleman, can corroborate what I state. Although an old silk-manufacturer, I have some knowledge of the Coal Trade (inland).—Allow me to subscribe myself, your Lordship's humble servant, (Signed) RICHARD GAUNT. Leek, February 19, 1839. P. S.—l am an enemy to combinations in food and fuel. The latter part of the report of the interesting proceedings at Truro, which our Correspondent was under the necessity of delaying, appears in The Sun of to-day. The addresses of the Merent speakers will not fail to be read with that deep at tention which they deserve. They all breathe one spirit--a spirit of triumph over the vain attempt to suppress, by persecuting means, the opposition of conscientious minds to the payment of a tax in sup port of a religious system held to be unscriptural and sinful. They all evince one determination, fixed and irrevocable, that no compromise shall hereafter be made with the Church-rate abomina tion, and that agitation shall never cease in Truro until the land be cleansed from its impurity. Nor, we trust, will this agitation be confined to Truro. To be effectual it must be general. A partial outbreak, if not seconded by all who hold similar sentiments with the insurgents, is sure to be, if not entirely crushed, unproductive of any results of an important .character ; whereas a uni versal movement, indicating as it does, that some great cause is at work, strikes the tyrant with dismay, and soon brings him to terms. One of the speakers at the Truro meeting alluded to a cell in the Church -towers, which was used in former days for those malignants whose swal low was not large enough to gulp down all the prescriptions of the priest. The unfortunate cul prit was so ingeniously placed in this dungeon, that he could neither sit, stand, nor lie, without great pain, and to this cell was given the appropriate name of " Little Ease. Now the Dis senters must take a hint from the Church. They must place the cross-grained old dame in her own cell of Little Ease. She must not be allowed to sit, stand, or lie comfortably—she must have neither sleep to her eyes nor slumber to her eyelids, until she renounces her false claims to the property of others, forswears all improper con nection with Baron Gun NEY, and promises to be have herself better for the future. By the arrival of the I,ulependence at Liverpool from New York, v hence she sailed on the Sth inst., we have received interesting intelligence from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, which wal be found i❑ another part of The Sun. The boun dary question is in a fair way of being amicably settled—" a consummation devoutly to be wished" by the people of Great Britain and the United States. Great praise is due to General SCOTT for the share he has had in adjusting all differences be tween the Governors of the State (f Maine and New Brunswick. The correspondence on both sides is characterised by a frank sincerity, and an individual spirit of good feeling, which must go a great way tow.irds the simplification of ulterior proceedings. When Govermnents and their Representatives are mutually sincere in their desire to maintain peace, there is no question, how ever intricate, which cannot be adjusted without eli citing a vindictive or distrustful feeling. We regret, however, to announce that there is no diminution of the bad feeling between the fron tier Canadians and the American '6 Sympathisers." Burning of dwelling-houses, barns, out-houses, and in short destruction of property in every way, are crimes nightly perpetrated on both sides Of the frontier. The Americans, under the conduct of the scoundrel refugees were the aggressors, and the Canadians retaliated. Governor SERA RD, of the State of New York, has issued a proclamation, of large rewards for the apprehension of in cendiaries, but the authorities, on both sides, had failed to make prisoners of any of the leaders of this detestable combination. The House of Assembly of Upper Canada has passed a resolution in favour of uniting the two provinces. Sir ALLAN APNAB and Mr. H. MEI - mi. will visit this country as Commissioners for negotiating a union which the Upper Cana dians deem so desirable. The Fredericton Sentinel of the 23d of March is filled with an account of the prorogation of the Assembly on that day by the Lieutenant-Governor Sir J. HARVEY in person. His Excellency made a long speech on the occasion, in which he congra tulated the Assembly on its loyalty and liberality, and finally dismissed the Members in that best of all humours—good humour with themselves. It is not of any political importance just now, and there fore we need not occupy our columns with it to the exclusion of more interesting matter. The reconciliation of SOULT and THIERS, which on Saturday promised to be productive of such happy consequences to France, was without any result up to a late hour on Sunday. The list of a Cabinet, including among its Members SouLT, PASSY, and CUNIN GRIDAINE, was prepared and submitted to the KING by MM. PA ss Y and DUPIN, but to the surprise of these gentlemen his MAJESTY was pleased to examine it in silence, without stating whether he did or did not approve of it. From this it was inferred that the whole negociation was but the development of some new intrigue to break up the Coalition. The September laws in France, or as they would be called here, the gagging laws, against the Press, are quite in abeyance at present. About three weeks ago the Editors of three Journals were ac quitted of the serious charge of attempting to create discontent in the army, and hatred against the KING'S Government ; and at the end of last week two more were acquitted of similar charges. In fact, almost any thing may be written or said against the KING, under the present peculiar cir cumstances of the country, provided only there is a little care taken in the selection of names and phrases. LOUIS PHILIPPE has been libelled in almost every possible way, but then for that name has been substituted SOULT, or the Camarilla, or the 221. Juries will not convict, and every de partment of the State—trade, commerce, Le gislation, and Cabinet-making are completely paralysed. The people, according to Conser vative Journals, both in France and in this country, are indifferent to this anomalous state of affairs, and the plan of the KING is to weary out the leaders of the Chamber by delay, in the meantime furnishing employment and amuse ment to the populace in carrying on great public works, or celebrating fetes and holidays. Possibly the KING and his Camarilla may so deceive them selves. So was CHARLES X. deceived. The people then were quiet till their leaders stirred them 'up to mutiny on the 27th of July, and these leaders appear now to have the same power over them. What, in fact, has kept them quiet but the exer tions, commands, and the synipathy of the Liberals, displayed by public subscription for those out of employment ? Can this continue, and are the ma nifestations made at the elections, at jury trials, and in the great majority of the public prints, not to be regarded as more safe tests of 7 public feeling than the fictitious and deceitful calm of the Parisian populace ? We may be mis taken, but after the events of the last two years, after the unequivocal partiality shown by the KING for the Northern Powers, his disregard for repre sentative Government, his State prosecutions, and his hitherto successful attempts to destroy every embryo Cabinet opposed to his supreme will, one little step further might produce results which the CITIZEN-KING and his dynasty would be the first to deplore. The news from Madrid is not later than the ac counts received yesterday. The following Royal Ordinance appears in the Madrid Gazette of the ISth inst. : " Her Majesty the Que.:n Regent, in conformity with the opinion of her Councilor Ministers, has thought proper to remove General Don Antonio Van Haien from the com mand of the army of the Centre and Captain-Generalship of Valencia and Aragon, naming at the same time as his successor, ad interim, to the above commands, Major- General Don Augustin Nogueras, and has also given orders that a Court-martial be immediately formed for the examination of the operations before Segura without delay." The military talent of General NOGUERAS are said to be utterly contemptible. He is, moreover, like all the QUEEN'S Generals, in such bad health that half his campaigns are made in bed. Why, in such a crisis, not recal NARVAEZ ? The following are extracts from the Paris papers of Sunday : _ __ MOVEMENTS OP THE RUSSIAN FLEET.—We have re ceived the following letter _ _ " Odessa, April 30. " The Black Sea fleet, consisting of thirty ships of the line, completely manned and armed, has just assembled i❑ our road. Part of this fleet under the command of hear- Admiral Prince Gortschakoff will sail to-morrow or the next day to join the squadron under the command of Admiral Ommanctz, which has been at anchor for these three weeks off Sinope, to observe what is passing in the Dardanelles. The reinforcement of this latter squadron has been ordered in con• sequence of the despatch front Admiral Ommanetz announcing that the English fleet was off Tebesme, and that be had learned that the English intended to take pos. session of the Dardanelles the moment hostilities should break out between Turkey and Egypt. The greater part of the Black Sea fleet will remain under the command of Admiral Lazarieff, who is Commander-in-Chief of that fleet; but it is affirmed that the Grand Duke Constantine, the Emperor's son, High Admiral of Russia, and Admiral Prince Monzikoff, will arrive at Odessa in the course of May, in which case the former will take the title of Chief Admiral of the Fleet, and the latter will have the real command. " A great number of foreign naval officers, especially Danes, Swedes, and Dutch, have just been attached to the Russian navy actually in service. " Everybody here thinks that war is very probable, but nobody even in the a-my or navy likes the Emperor Ni cholas. The army is averse to a war with Turkey, and all our merchants agree that war with England would be a death-blow to the commerce of Russia."—Le Commerce. The llfunilcur of Sunday contains the following para graph : " All the letters from the Levant, received via Mar seilles, concur in announcing that peace betwen the Sul tan and the Pasha of Egypt will not be disturbed. This result is due to the interference of all the Arnbasadors ac credited to the Sublime Porte." Lesage, the accomplice of Soufflard in the horrible murder of a Madame Renaud, and who was confined in the prison of La Roquctt, Paris, hung himself on Satur day morning BAIL COURT.- : •_(TIIIII DAY.) LIBEL. A rule calling on Messrs. Harmer and Bell, the proprie tors of the Weekly Dispatch newspar, to show cause why a criminal information should not be granted against them for the publication of a libel on Capt. Hewett, was granted this day. The alleged libel, which appeared in the Weekly Dispatch, ststed that Captain Hewett bad caused two Hundred lashes to be inflicted on a sailor under his command as a punishment. It appeared from the affi davit read in suppert of the application, that tl.e sa for alluded to had been tried by a court-martial for disorderly conduct, and sentenced to receive thirty-six lashes ; but that after twenty-four lashes had been inflicted, the re mainder of his sentence had been remitted. Sir Watkin Williams Wynn and Miss Wynn will give a ball and supper at the mansion of the lion. Baronet, lit St. James's-square, on Tuesday, the 21st May. EDTTiOrq. METROPOLITAN POLITICAL SUMMARY. --••- The Times or this morning, in the course of a leading ,article suggested by the Jamaica Bill, takes the oppor tunity of dealing largely in hyperbole, as re;p^cts the po litical deserts of Sir R. Peel. We do not wouiler at this. for the Right lion. Baronet's publi c character being con siderably the worse for wear, stands touch in need of revarnishing. " Never was there a political leader," nays our Contemporary, " who more dissatiatied his opponents than Sir Robert Peel dies. With a rigidity which they find altogether unpardonable, he positively &clic*, to shape his course to their views. When they ehoose a ground, and putting themselves into attitude, call on him t o aarihe a blots, he churlishly rejects their invitation to the offensive, and refases to a eommodate them with a c._ m. mencemeni; of quarrel. \t her, they etrta., is trde to haluce hint to follow, he unaccountably adhered to his own steadfast position." The allusion to Sir R. Peel's Spartan like " rigidity," is exceedingly rich and rev y ! The Times might just as well talk co the " rigidity" ()fan eel ! In another article on the subjcct of the DCA' P.,er law, out Contemporary, alludine cursorily to tl e prope3elßaral Police for ce , sa y s ;—" As regards the expo use of this no w Gendarmerie, whether it be defrayed out of the Consoli dated F u nd, or by a C ounty - rate, i t w ill fall with equal weieht ce Mainly on the a look. t. x ble coran:unity." Tote Morning Chronicle, in a sorer to the 7'inte.' asser tion, " It is false that the Ministry has lust ground with the nation by its non-democratic policy," instances the case of the Ballot in the following terms:—" In 1833 the 1 - louse of Commons divided on the Vote by Ballot, ayes, 106 ; noes, 211. This was in the first Parliament elected under the Reform Act ; and showed the strength 1 of the progressive Reformers at that time. In 1834 the question was not mooted, nor in 1833, until after the Tories were driven from office. It cannot, therefore, be said that it obtained increased support fin the sake of opposition to a Tory Government; and yet in twat Parliament, chosen under the Peel and Wellington Ad ministration, in which the Liberal ma'erity over t! • Tories had been reduced more than one half, it had en accession of 38 votes; the numbers being, ayes 144, noes 317. In the followirg year t :ere was no muster 64, the question. Only 227 members voted ;81 for, and 139 against. We put that year out of the question. The division in 1835 was 153 for the Ballot, and against it 265—an advance on the former division in the same Par liament. Then came the last election, in which the Mi nisterial majority was again reduced, and the supporters of the Ballot again increased ;. and with an incteue seen siderably exceeding the Ministerial diminution. The numbers in 1838 were--198 for the Ballet, and - against it 315. The opposition to that measure had therefore remained substantially the same, whilst its supporters have very nearly doubled their ritirr.bers ; and this process iccludes three Parliaments, two elections, and two changes of Ministry. So much for the dwind ling of Democracy. The facts mark distinctly the change in the relative position of the different sections of Liberals. They point out the " non-democratic policy," as the Times calls it, of the Ministry as the occasion both of the ge neral loss to their party, and of the particular gain of that portion which advocates further reform. They are , the voice of the existing constituencies, calling for the • freedom of the franchise which they pessate ' -- The Morning Herald, speaking of the -Commission for superintend g the reduction of the Natioaal Dtiot, re marks as follows :—" We adverted recently to the fee., that the Commissioners appointed to superintend the reduc tion of the National Debt have, during the last year, done nothing towards the furtherance of the objects for which the National Debt Commission was, professedly, created. The national expenditure now far exceeds the national income ; and even Whig financiers, despite their fondness ter the jugglerits of arithmet•c, do not profess to have yet discovered the art of paying debt without assets. Were the national revenues, ho sever, in a very different condi tion, still it might be doul•ted. whether a reduction of th • Natio.ial D. blot England:ought not to remain mattenapted until the process eat, be attempted with a very different measure of knowledge. and with very different powers frcm those with which the Commissioners in question are clothed."d The Morning Advertiser contains the following remarks on the Jamaica Assembly- :—" In our yesterday's paper we referred generally to the circumstances which render it hopeless to expect an alteration in the conduct of the As sembly, and absolutely necessar3 to ads pt the measure of the Government, if not a stronger one. We now proceed to perform our promise of referring to those circumstances. The members of the Assembly are composed for the most part of mere attorneys, agents to the proprietors, who, in losing the absolute command which they for merly possessed over the slaves, feel that they have lost all that, t o th e i r l ove o f tyranny, ren d ere d their posi tion de s i ra bl e . T o fi n d t h at t h e men, once their slaves, are now equal in freedom—citisens like themselves, of the same country, and shortly about to enjoy equal political privileges, is more than ordinary minds can well endure— let alone minds satiated with thirst of power, aid habitu ated to exercise almost unrestrained controul over the lives and actions of others." KET.— April 2) Wails End Todd's Benshanr IS 9 Walls Endßraddyll's Herron 04 3 Walls End Haswell ii:i ll Walls End Larnbton ...a . CI W. E. North Hatton Lyons 'Al 9 Walls End Pemberton Walls End Russell's Hutton '44 3 Walls End Stewart's \Valls rand NVlnotell .... 22 6 Walls End liartlevool n4 3 Walls End Adelaide Walls End Barrett Wills End Gardon ...... Falls End South Durham 2l 0 Walls End Seymour Tees ll 6 %Valls End Tees '23 0 List market-thy, 9. COAL M AIL Adairs s. d lll 6 Holy well Main 2O 6 Ord's Itedhugh 'Canfield Moor 2.3 0 Willington Wylana Walls Emt Bell and Brown 21 Walls End Bea icke and Co 22 f Walls End Dunn's lB (1 Walls End Onsfortk Walk End Hilda Walls End Hotspur Walls End Kiliingworth ;el 1,, Walls End Northumberland 21 • Walla End Riddell's Walls End South Tantield lst f ilhips arrived since MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS "tleriF tri 7f.,c CITY, 7' WEL O'CLOCK CorTos MAIMET, MoNDAy.-Notwitintand- - inn the arrival of the New York packet, wo continue to have a dull market for Cotton. To-day's ealcs-2 000 bags at the quotations of last Friday. Arrivals this morning. —French mail, ship letters from Monte-Video, Pictou, and New York, sth April, by the Independence, arrived at Liverpool. We have the arrival this morning of two American packet ships, of the Ist and Bth in: t. tTheg i intelligence in li u g i ence they bring are of a pacific nature ; every thing ae Canadas, and along the northern frontier. General- Scott has returned from Maine to Washington. Th e pa pers do not speak favourably of the Stock Market, which hart been depressed during the week, owing to an appr o b en „i oa that the Southern and South. \Vett Banks would be unable to continue their resumption of specie payments. United States Bank Stock receded to 1121 113; Exchange, 8/ to per cent. prem. The Great Western had not arrived out when the packet of the Bth sailed. The Papers have also brought the re signation of Mr. Biddle, not owing to political motives, but to his ill health. The synagogue of the Jews at Philadelphia was destroyed by fire on Saturday. Money was very scarce at New York. Consols, which closed yesterday at 92k 93 for the AO - and 93,1, opened this morning with an improvement at 93-1 for the Account, and 23 4 - for Money. Tho favour able information on the Boundary Question, no doubt, gave an impulse to the Market. Exchequer Bills, 40 42 • India Bonds, 43 45; Bank Stock, 1961 1971 ; India Stork, 2551 2.56 i. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active a shade low( r, 20y b ; Portugleese, ditto, 361 Three per Cents., ; Belgian, 1031 104 ; Brazilian, 781 f ; Colombian, 81t7I t ; Mexican, 24k 2b ; Dutch Two-anti-a- Half per CentS . • s 35,E 56 ; Ftve per Cents., 102} PRICKS or STOCKS THIS op I' AT ONE O'CLOCL Bank Stock l97s, 7, India Meek 3 por Coot. lied. Data Sends to 3 per Cent. Cans. its!.i 34 South Sea Steek ...... Spa per Cunt — Old Annuities I)itte Red New 114 per Cent 101,4 14 $ per Cent. Annuities, 17a1 New 5 per Cent. - }Ash. Bills, .S 1 ,01)41 40 ea Bank Long Annuities toexpire Ditto IWO 40 45 pm Jan. 5, 19110 14 44 346 I Ditto Small 43 42 pm. Oct. 1 , ), IMO lt 5-le 2 (, I Ditto Constaereial — Jae. 5, 1%0 Jan. 5, MAO lank Stock ter Aseoutit 10$ April 5, MO lndia Stool ter Asestuet ... 2 , 6 Jan. 5. 1570 1 Consols for Account.... —MN% 11ALF-PAST CIIVA The bank broker has purchased this mersing about 70,000 Consols, which caused Stock to be rather scarce in the Market. Consols may be quoted at 93 for the Account, Age ; Exchequer Bills 40 42 ; 13ank Stock 107. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active, 20k; Portu guese, 3Cri ; Three per Cent!. 22 ; Colombian, 301 4 ; Dutch Two.and.a. Half per Cents. bbi ; Fire per Cam. 102 ; Mexican, 25. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS Batik Stock .......».» Js7 Indi4Stsek per Cent. Red 3 per Cent. 3>4 per Cent. lied I4I Ditto New Annuities New 3 , 4 per Cent 101 , 4 Bills, 1,15.0 .2' 44 Pm- New S per Cent Ditto 904,V. ...... Long Annuities to expire Ditto 54055 191 Jan. 19ii0 Oct. 15159 fir Jan. 1,5G0 I. I. E I " NlF;ilittlj";NgiSi a .n i s t7e Portuguese Dit per to p e ::: . ............ at ................... Itu,sias loath, 6 per cent.... -,•• Ditto, Metallic ................. bper ........ Ditto, Consolidated ......« . French, 5 per Cent...-•«- —f, ---a. Exchange .................... . ---o French, 3 per 5ent.......... Dutch, per cent. 75 Ditto, 5 per cent...... ....... ARES ............. 7ay ..... . .......... ............•• ...... ..... ..... • .... ..................... Ly ('Trunk) Asturian, 5 per cent — Itz•lgion, 5 per cent I OZ Brazilian Ronde Buenos Ayr. s, (S per cunt — Chinon, 6 per cent Cohunthan, 6 per cent Ditto, ltii4 10 3 4 Dani,h, 3 per cent ........ 75! i i Greek Bonds, IVS, Spec ct. Mexican, 5 per cent Ditto, li per rent., Peruvian, 1525,6 per cent — Sll. Eastern Counties Hallway.... Great Western Railway London and Brighton Bathyal London and Blackwall Radii London and CIO don North Midland ...... COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majo.ty rode out on horseback yesterday, attended by the Viscountess Forbes, Baroness Lehzen, Miss Q u . n . tin, Marquis of Ileadfort, Colonel Buckley, Earl of Surrey, Honourable Willia m Cow p er, and Lord Mi re d Paget. The Earl of Minto and Viscount Melbourne had as , at dience yesterday of the Queen. The Royal dinner party at the Palace last everieg in. eluded the Earl of Albemarle, Earl of Surrey, Vim:mat Falkland, Lord Byron, and Mr. Brand. Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar left town yesterday fey Sandhurst. A deputation respecting New Zealand, tontistieg of rlraernjoziirahandka,,nisil,r,: Jlr. Fent~ick, and Colonel tervitw yesterday with the Marquis of Norittaby at the Colonial-office. His Excellency Andrem Stevenson, the American Mi nister, transacted business at 'h• e Fo re:gaol:fire and the Treasury, on Saturday. The Duke of Roxburgh and Mr. Villiers Stuart b" interviews with Viscount Melbourne yesterday, in D. " - ing. street. ~; ~ . i. ~..