The Sun. — London, England, 1845-11-26 00:00:00

1G • v oti, • „ F led, 0 of coal' e ott rest oi w°icti pith o f • - h t tion e rn Il•ntry. 0, is co u `..:tb .4 WO 'Oct edi ler to Sital "/~ RAIT T KE9I 1 Sheffield, shire ExcIIANC.,E:LI:he sales ai e- li i i ~xun.e..,u, ;...i , c.i• ,‘te, and Cheshire 61 4- I :,o , tcn, Newark, am. . -3--Caledonlan 91 "i = Cam - bridge and Lincoln, 'Ala Crime 4i/ ' Grand Junction 227-Ditto, 401. Shares -Derby r 11')' 5A4-2Leicester and Birm'in gham, 174:4-141!.edr'illhearnnd, itainhaai,2l3-London and York, N ll4 4--Manchester Sheffield and Midlan , Fifth Shares, _ .., **,„'lidland,l39-'Ditto, 40/. Shares 19-North Union I t on ), 3.1 ) -pirect 1114 mil--bitto (II) 142 Nor I Staffordshire,4 3 / 4 kdon 21' Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter Stares, Trent Valley, 16. Sr Rhenish, V/4. -Notting T 111A.NIP-Illt Nov. 24. uu:..qA,.....-11,- s i.!..3 core- • t ~ A , i ,, J unC STOCK ,x • ''' '' ''' '. • l'lde:', rd and Tav; ato t i. 1 .. ti t .. ' B . bit --Bikenhoad, lAnca•line, au( t' !‘e n c .° gClo ‘-s. n nd Hun- Exeter, Neuark, at.d Shalield, 3-Lly a 16- ....L.. and Birmingham, Lei %atom! /I r.--Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester, 2 11- . ee i tli. and Dumfries, 2 4-Leeds and Thirsk, 1I %- ~,Tbil and Dereham, 6 4-North Staffordshire, J/_ ~ c d . LI vA?rth westeni, 21 5.-Leicester and Tainw r oF . th_ B ,.4_7s .. . 62s -Nottingha n and Mansfield, ~.2 4 .- -(;°ttingliatn, Erewash Ambergate, and Manchester, 2 ,4 i . re )„1.,V, \Worcester, a; c 1 Wolverhampton, -"ineral,47s. c.--South Alidland, 6/. 2s. c. t. s. ato, New, 614 ,Sroci t r BRISTOL„ Nov. 24. 15%-Shropst 1 ction, Ex w.....b. Ex The sales are-Bristol and Exeter, 23 10 n to Ar -Bristol and Sout h Wales Jun Southampton, An,„-,ounionth, 13 4-Mandiester and ..---"‘and., New 18 1 4 1 Vale of Neath, 3',‘• Sr o - SHEFFIELD, Nov. 24. ectste; L9uarter Shares, and Man eittgiet itzcitalvor..-The sales are-Sheffield No. 6/. Is. 6d„ . - Go 1 1 and Lin- cointi;„4/4"-Grimsby and Sheffield, 10-Sheffield ( _ ole and Don 're, 3/. I Is. 6(1- Wakefield and Harrogate, 2%. 8,,_,,, LEEDS, Nov. 24. Mid id, "`A .teRANGE.he sales are-York and North_ hopearborough Branch, 5 04-Huddersfield a i nd INI and Brad fortC/427;11uddersfield and Sheffield, 17- Le e ' s and beir a b is cash-Ditto, Extensions, 38 1 / 2 cash-Leeds h-...ew. tittle ury, 13 cash-Leeds and Thirsk, 103, 4 cash-New .nl _r IN ol taiittraati,d terwick, 103 4 -Oxford, Worcester, and Goole, 30 k 11 .,e 0 4 ", 15 cas h - Wakefield Pontefract, ' Lincoln, 3% e t and York, 3/. 75.-Sheffield and • k and Preston, 434,117, Aor.thern, 1 / 4 -Liverpool, Orrnskir , Mold, 4 e 12 est R iding Linion, 6 %5-Birkenhead, Chester, lc i 3. C d• dis d-Lewis- 36d p.- orth y .--- ran mons. -. Lancli : s lir 1 1 Direct, 10s. 4_o. orksbire, 7s. p.-s and Liverpoo . Buxton, hall '4lolcester and lle.dford 65 Al. p.-Mancliestel : • ,-,.. - lq i u t ,,,a, and Midland, 2 3 / 4 ' P . -North Western, _ ilu c e rld and Bradford, 2s 6d. dis.-Wakefield and Harro t Gd.l).--Welsh Midlands, 2%. 1 4 1 1 Ex HULL, Nov. 24. Aberdeen, „ 3 ~.S!Listor.--The sale! are d Lincoln, SA kirand ujont hrsk, 123 (1-Cambridge an "' ,1 I ' / 2 . . 81 noi t t I°111(' N0v.24. and Ber- Nielt,97, zsrektloP.-The sales are-Newcastle kit s"•rthßri• 1 N Carlisle Branch, 21. 14x.-Lon • li as tt y erk ~,/ ,is 1, .L. en : . 9s. 6d.-Manchester, I nt ton, ' " andrand anion, I/. liatlo Welsh Midland, .%. ek .... ....._Mid1ai d, 2/ p•- //1 11 -L2-- RTON AND CHELTENHAM Aa • DIRECT RAILWAY. g Deem' in the right,,, general meeting of the Shareholders s held Yett ert r and Cheltenham Direct Railway N!a for th dap, at the offices of Messrs. Routh, Austin-friars, n kei t i n e Purpose of considering the present state a n d elle of their affairs. Mr. William Ander_to to , the e - h .the Provisional Directors, was votcl the ta ise,, 4l vi and in opening the business of the Parpfbi remarked that they had met there for , 1114 n t , eof havi. Company props Fly • hug ated. ~ng the affairs of the v all of those present tided to 0 ne was quite sure right, and 7 11,, ti .0 that which they thought was nis ,7 0 4 „, not tell them that he did so too. , 1 ; 0 01,; ) , 41 before the public in connexion with this In'elfel,,and the Public had a right to expect fro him e lets he couldgive of it. He told t 4 4 rs T . f ~ You " the scheme he g he was asked to join it,. Yon t eean to 0 „, Icily IA" do that ahich rig . find at " that there t n,Y name down ; but it I afterwards 1 46 , er e Is anything wrong bubble in it, or any thtl'"'' I° it . Ishall be the first to expose t , ~ 1/, t,_ shares allotted o "lta, upon "en had seventy five 1 Os a,,,Nfore )1 which he paid 1571. - • When, id his i ztley t( ' ) e vvent to the office after he had pa _ . 34 ' give ell the banker's - receipt and sign the sub p ll 4 d eed • e Jetotith _ . and Par liamentary contract, he naturally t toe4P,eFted that the scrip would be hot handed ; for 0,. .h e bite . But no, it was s ceds without i' i tati eh h had signed the two kirc fat e was toldthat scrip ready, and was not . s ilbs.., at d the Sal-,,t,„ eY to this I • had been unable to obtain it.. nt lY, la 11 • that the Provi 444 Di recto rs °Weyer, he ascertained regard to JA hid been disappointed with . st ._ a t , Tb her of sharetakenup, and they were inve . i k ivin '"e affair s 8 h, g i t. 1 , sof the Company wit es would th 1/0 4 2 ;:e was then informed that the expens I ,,kt 4441 . but 64., but certainly they would not exceed,e tt Zp, i , 4 ? 11r hnow he understood the amount would o It s tltat the e• 2 -le Must, in justice to the committee,.e. 41 Y"i81 clknowledgeof the transa t o on th , e aline all of the lA:Phty, e Stock Exchange in the shares Id 1 1 been llnd they believed all the shares sold 0 - bo manner. la ~ ataeuti, a.ght i n a bond fide . t',' 7 71, 10 ' which had been paid upon deposit was "POO/ wand h . • y were th e , 'lt t e liabilities of the Compan 1)1 1 ,1 Weald adoptr the meeting to determine what steps l'o r his of i he tho tinder existing circumstances. '. kr44; on it would be better to have a committee r Y. • ttee li t L . hov,„ "Tal • 41ai d mode of proceeding Pow,„ , that was the committee Paver le intendid, e cl to propose, giving the fin titit_tatintke what steps they thought expedient or to sd, heolihite`7,e affair s of the Company, and, if necessary, e a B h ad h e : °Pinion upon the legality of te teas So 1 ,,! * k . vcr n taken by the provisional committee. had light to d 111.1% apprehended that the committee litter. St ded uct tile 10s. at all. ts th e 'llelit ILO s aid they acted under the subscribers' the th er t nlitt e ri.e", Parlientary contract, which gave hat et tu e wore3 o et power, but it must be remembered t - I, t eeat e , ele parties who had not executed these in te tign . b lllsB B a • of , os of the'LW, from what he could learn of thepro- Ndens ) n comittee, they were taking the advicethey de legal' ti Qndeavouring to ascertain how 11 %4 •Y a - - h had been s the k 14 th . span the money wine liithrarehoia•en• naiads instead of taking steps to secure \0 111 ( f tli scredr s f teni loss. Such proceedings were 10 4 , ,apt eon table to honourable men, and he for one he 8. '.Per sharesetit to receive back his deposits minus t thi n , ir Wi tu .' • I ledi et i itir44 WRITE said the committee cl.is •llo,2a,tely h knek ledge of the purchases which A l i ~,ka hapLe4 Valle inn the shares of the Company. ',eft:: I;IsooLled to be a member of the ~ house'," and ed - ' o lllpa 42411' hundred of the shares to the broker 4 4 t 41 1t1 4 7 ,,,,. They had now, however, come f?r kileitsaet• -s 't him th • dhe could not ratify 04 . -N I o ti. e Scrip, an tk o t° e, hes e l Z an Cuntridge, two of the acting corn tte,:_cl,the StaetZedt the oom, when the former cm 14tonWN tot theen of the Chairman, that the com It t ka ll ltti t o d. deposits not all being paid up, had . s'" to sub l 'solve th e C Each Director in te d a s erib , ompany. it ki Ya th e b , e for 75 instead of 50 shares, and in a ton 0 ,. ?,°as and accounts would be open for the 4 .6 o f !I.!! parties. 41)14 ~,oral t h e 'be ahareholdtrs warmly censured the con totilt't° tliesol•Prtneging committe and protested that scri p, and mg the con,pa • the' to have issued ISlee ti'Qo called -ny . ey ought 33,1 to a di, , a meeting of the shareholders Iptv r hot_ soitition. 4 the -1.11 said i lax„ me Ltefri , the Belfast and Enniskillen Rail '4 . " I ng th 'ng ittce returned all the deposits LonEtbie then there was not a suffiiient sum subscribed V1:1(1:104, t 4tit e i t t n to go to Parliament clear of all de kit)ste Ilatt be up.,4 themselves all the expense ,0 th, credittl ucurred, and it would redound • t ze if the,. of their own managing corn" _'lle e tta „..Y were to follow this -45 7,0004 1'1440 asked Mr a -reexample. Id ~tell how 4r. klaz,labilities had been incurred? con to,4PrePerly replied that it had nearly all been fairly the t '1 44 1.1 incurred. Ind.ed the * , onl • one ac •tldverti,;e ezaed to a ndthat re w: • 13 ) ount of e e„„„."ng ag ent , was the account lit ..astam, • Id% *. qttta ".asked how much that amounted to? h. _ tt,,,,i4 rephed that it amounted to 2,2001. The in', „t . a gett h a d kt.itt, it IQ charged 25 per cent. to the Com tkt,4 Per e enta t "t be borne in mind that he received a NI: . f ee of 4&)e,fr°lll the newspapers. There was a re blitek atibi k w hich they were in hopes they should c3t the'enAink. ),„ 0 sohei.__ 4,•ii.eaked if he could tell them the amount Ct. tht,;urs bill? L ,"tee. " tePlied t hat ~, r 1 ,,,,. at the solicitors gave up an their ttanten,,, ~ kpiLet shavo,-, 'nen M the appointment of a cora -14114 A '.."ClerS, teedl oto take what steps t ,,_ et a, , sy , iee tzt ne __ s _ _ hewer v kli 'nth I , "wy tor benefit of the sar h c aloosi as secondedby Mr,R and carried h 1 1 0 Y. ouTa, NO e°lntaitt 11 k! he el , b_.,ee Was then nominated, and thanks 'wed to the Chairman, the meeting termi -111 kili, e 4 . , 1 ?,° t 4 , , (I rtkrici Duke of ----- expected to at vi e n, , M odena is sh?rtly ti4itlailt ~..,apitultel: itlisea/Itttzfl,hiiss tlomrpenenewal 1.,,kt 4e w t the long -spoken-of matrimonial alliance of the ttleig.nliengeesstiatotiothaes {,qDtkh,'llleux and one of the Princesses of Modena. 15;`4et, ,de Berri ca expressly to Vienna on tt.lle .„‘nala ts,' p4yri?ftter ersonally to invite the members of au n 1 bila_llaois,4 Lap the mirriage festivities of Itrecdca.ghTtehre tvti744) aft e ' r til!d tho hereditary Prince t of_ e L t t ?44 11 1 , 0 h dining to Fthe ImperialiPra_iaLcug, w horn's project li'lett,44 itch fer thernother°llsri clian mail via Trioste an kw, , h as . future, . 9 left the same Ili pl :V h i the A unt tt much satisfaction to the f mercantile ulthe co Lord m - St V Cotnril; an An agent rorecently been piti4etia, ittili‘s...of thelronan 11,4%k tiAti4lettr.equent haslslandscommunicationswith the autho g-Aethi‘ti„4ltrsilc4lt 1,11 TANHN IN SINDE.—We understand ;Zl.tbil t",aB been made to the captors of the booty tak _ ~,, ir i p t ,t ue troops under Major-General Sir Charles N . a reatrru,r7 and liarch, 1843. The amount of b o uillon b t the 144; of ~44: estate(' at upwards of 4000091:cy will pro- Itetii4reaise ike,4,2,!lnty b is not known, but t he y n tors. To the tt__oo,4R wiii fzir r.ktili, so. that not les than half a million WM' Ith o we 0 .5 divided among t time Itit:l4l:ttelosea'bra6tt3t4ilesof the battles iftoned in de at the ... pre_ nth "' Ilderabad, but who were not actually. h) 4,„ ed. The , specific po o s•ixtthe rti n (we believe ono 11Its, 4ft__residue is given to the forces engaged in 4 ier ti 4 C deducting what they have already received li llt3 ' kid i ii , 44 of extra hafts on this account. the stamp /,,Vtlldtrt.:' the Bank of England on account of the b 8 1 ,s -. kg% At Qd•ur@ n u °f to upwards of 21,000/.A&n S 4411,,Q2/` ,1111,, -,gob It ' 4 3 1. lim. 'l.."' ATTEMPTED INCENDIARISM. —On 01 goin,,•EV-. about eleven o' .l ck asPoliceman Bennett iv,oi(jwityyt 'l,le rond, when at ‘ the ,backPof Dowager Lady , jl.golt,...!iedence he saw a small light at a little distance. ch it,s 'terr, he found it proceeded from a hollow tree, /„14 dirkatil °TI 'e. row of palings led from the tree in ;I the Ei r l °F some stacks and a shed. lie immediately II tXtilßl!o_9l at the house, and succeeded, with assistance, tvie:Pited 11:!"Ing. the flames. The night being very dark it at theZratifroni perceiving, any person near by : th polo, ktm.esNavas blob, in the direction of the stacks. glat4 li.sw -r• . - Sir it,,, D ESK OP CANTERDIIRY.---It is said 04tertiZuell Peel has bestow I the vacant deanery at 4 4st -i R ~,,' e( ot°l4;e lithel,4oth:r:,;:, mbe•liFtooew, eut..ythall, Archdeacon of dok e Member for the ~~`. --____ .___,_........__. TUE I:EALTH OF THE LORD REVIEW OF THE BRITISH CORN NOBLE INSTANCE OF INTRE- I TR APE. pmi ry-A SHIP'S CREW SAVED. Considerable alarm has been created, net unty edionget, the p--nmtial friends of Lord Lyndhurst, bat in the mind of the public generally, by the rumours which for scene ' days past have been afloat respecting the state of his Lordship's health ; and a paragraph u hick appeared on Saturday, .and which we extracted on Monday from the Berkshire Chronicle of that date, has tended not a little to increase the prevalent anxiety with regard to the Lord Chancellor. Doubting the accuracy of these state ments. but not being fully prepared to contradict them, vie have thought it necessary to hive especial inquiries made, e g:-lelenitin now in attendance on the Noble Lotd at his meta-ion in Oxlertisinrt. IF:, in their communi cations, it appears that his Lordship fe!t rather indis posed on last Friday se'nnight; he was, however, on the day following not unable to travel, and went from town, accompanied by one of his secretaries, to Turville park, near Henley-upon-Thames, where he still remains. Shortly alter his Lordship reached home his indisposi tion asi um( d so serious a character, that Mr. Brooks, a surge; ,n, who resides at -Henley, and who is the ordinary medical attendant of the family at Turville park, was sent for. That gentleman c, nsidered the case to be of so grave a character as to require the advice of a physi- cian, and Dr. Locock was forthwith summoned to his Lordship's bedside. During the whole of Sunday, Mon day, and Tuesday (the 16th, 1 and 18th of this month), the malady under which the Noble Lord laboured as sumed a very alarming character, and a general impres sion began to spread that there was no chaece of his Lord ship's rt covery. It appears that his illness arose princi pally from obstruction of the bowels, an ailment by which he has on former occasions been assailed. The remedies, necessary for repelling an attack of this nature have usually a tendency to debilitate the patient, and, moreover, the effects of the disorder itself lead to great exhaustion ; so that their combined operation upon the constitution of one who has reached the advanced age of 73 could not fail to have produced most distressing effects. Ne vertheless his Lordship's indisposition yielded to medical treatment on Tuesday ; and though greatly enfeebled, and able to take very little food, his case manifested symptoms of improvement on Wednesday. On Thursday and Friday he was much better ; on Saturday last he was able to get out of bed ; and since then his Lordship has been gradually advancing towards convalescence. He is himself cheerful and sanguine enough to express a hope that on Thursday se'nnight, which will be the first seal day, it possibly may be in his power to take his seat in the Court of Chancery. But the rapidity with which a young patient recovers strength can hardly be expected in the case of a man who has suffered " the wear and tear" of professional and political life fur nearly half a century, who never appeared to hus band his strength or take advantage of the means by which longevity is promoted. His case, however, is now likely to terminate satisfactorily, and it may be hoped that, with a constitution naturally good, with the care and caution which a warning like this is calculated to superinduce, and with a full use of the aids and appli ances which a high state of civilisation furnishes, the country will for many years continue to enjoy the benefit of his services, and his personal friends the pleasure of witnessiug,: and, as it were, enjoying the further pro longation of his valuable life.— Times. 1 LU;l:11 aCCVWII:6 :lave not late been of a charsczer give much encouragement, the trade in wheat has, since our last, assumed a de cidedly firmer tone at the leading provincial inlrkets ; and, contrary to the usual course of affairs, prices have begun to move upwards in the country, whilst they have remained nearly stationary in the metro politan markets. Not only has a small advance been established this week at the leading towns, such as Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Wakefield, &c., but at several of the markets in the agricultural districts higher prices have also been obtained, though farmers have brought forward god supplies. It is nut a com mon occurrence for the provincial markets to take the lead in an upward movement ; but vast experi ence has proved that whenever the trade exhibits this somewhat rare feature, the rise is occasioned by legitimate causes, gem rally in consequence of a know /edge—which none are so capable of arriving at as the growers themselves—that the harvest has turned out really defective. We are, therefore, disposed to re gard the turn which business has taken at the chief country markets as a direct confirmation of the opinions we have all along maintained, viz., that the crop of wheat is decidedly short of that of average seasons. Being per fectly convinced on this point, we cannot view the late reaction in prices in any other light than the effect of the mistrust and uneasiness which immediately fol lowed the reports so industriously circulated by a portion of the press in the early part of the month re lative to the presumed intention of Ministers to throw open the ports for the free admission of corn. It being now, however, very generally understood that no such step is contemplated, confidence is gradually being re stored. It would, indeed, be singular if the effect should long continue in force after the cause had been removed; and the natural corclusion therefore is, that the value of wheat will soon recover its former position, or, perhaps, go beyond the point at which the retrograde movement commenced. , Abeut ati. tie of ea:tuber last, the bit: tilde Helen, I Captain Clayton, of this port, loft Quebec on her home ward voyage, with a cargo of timber. The weather proved favourable till towards the end of the mouth, when it began ar blow a stiff gale from the eastward. Early on the morning of the 31. t it increased in vio leac-a but the vessel, under double-reefed topsails, rode gallantly on, and, as she Ras stout and trim built, the crew felt little fear. About half-past eight o'clock, while off the east end of one of the Newfoundland banks, they discovered a vessel less fortunately situated, and Captaia Clayton was not so selfishly concerned for the safety of his own ship as to have no sympathy with the crew of another, seemingly in a most perilous state. He hailed the vessel, and asked whether they had any boat which might bear them on beard the Helen? The answer returned was in the negative, accompanied with an earnest prayer that he would do his best to save them. Captain Clayton hesitated for a little what to do. The vessel was water-logged, without a rudder, and her mimen mast and foremast carrie d away; and if he aban doned her to her fate she must soon be buried with her crew beneath the billows; on the other hand, if he ' ordered some of his own meri to push off in a boat and attempt their rescue, they might perish, and his own vessel would be left with too few hands to work her with efficiency. In this dilemma he placed a boat at the disposal of any of his crew who would volunteer as a forlorn hope to the ill-fated vessel. Three men, without hesitation, offered themselves. We feel pleasure in recording the names of the men who could thus cast aside all ideas of personal safety, that they might at least make an effort to rescue their fellow creatures from a watery grave. The men who acted thus nobly, were, Daniel Meares, second mate, a native of the north of Scotland ; Jame. M'Kenea, the carpenter ; and John Martin, of Belfast. Without much loss of time they ntered a small two-oared boat, the only one they could command, and rowed on to the wreck, which they ri ached after encountering a host of dangers. " The ship hung heaving on the verge of death," and the crew, in number twenty -two, were standing on the poop, their voices rising loud above the air of the tempest, en treating deliverance. Seven of them were got without accident into the boat, and the captain of the vessel, which proved to be the Harrison of Landon, told the boatmen to return for the others, and he would reward them. But they did not require a pecu niary inducement to stimulate them in their mis sion of mercy. Again and again they returned to the Harrison, and at length every individual was placed in comparative safety on board the Helen. A poor cat, too, it is worth while mentioning, which had shared the fate of the crew, also participated in the deliverance. The storm raged with increasing violence all the day, and during the following night, and there was no doubt on the minds of any that the Harrison must have sunk very soon after her crew had been rescued. The Harrison had been in a disabled state for nearly a week previous to the 31st, and the storm of that day made the wreck complete. The crew had been on short allowance for some time, but there was no fear of immediate famine, as they had luckily a good stock of biscuit and beef, the latter of which was stowed in a "stow-house" on the mainmast. Their joy at being saved was, it may be con- - ceived, extreme, and the captain on reaching the deck of the Helen, fell upon his knees and openly expressed his gratitude to heaven for their wonderful deliverance. About the 10th instant the Helen fell in with a vessel bound for Greenock. which relieved her of nine of the crew of the Harrison, as the provisions of so many men pressed rather closely on their supplies. On Monday last the Helen reached the port of Belfast, where the captain of the lost vessel acknowledged the services of the three men who had acted so heroically, by giving each of them a handsome deuceur in money, as he pro mised.—Banner of Utter. DISCOURAGEMENT. Independent of the admitted deficiency in the produce of wheat, there are abundant reasons why the value of wheat cannot be expected to range low ; the most for cible of which is, unquestionably, the extensive failure in the potato crop. The accounts from Ireland on this subject have, it is true, been a shade less gloomy this than the preceding week ; this, however, is the utmost that can be said. It is not for a moment asserted, even by parties anxious to take the most favourable view of the matter, that the injury is not extensive, and the only mitigating circumstance appears to be, that the crop is found not to have been so completely as was at one period feared. In our last number we took notice of the condition in which the shipments of potatoes from Yorkshire have lately reached the river Thames : we have since then prosecuted our researches on this point, and are sorry to say that, with the exception of a few vessels which have had an unusually quick run, the bulk of the supply has come to hand greatly damaged. The fear that that portion of the crop secured in an appa rently sound state will not keep, has hitherto prevented any scarcity being felt, as it has had the effect of causing the growers to hasten supplies to market ; but when a serious falling off does occur—and that this will take place ere long there is sufficient reason to ap prehend—an immense increase in the consumption of bread, and indeed of all other articles of food, must inevitatly follow. We have endeavoured, in the foregoing remarks, to steer clear of all exaggeration ; our purpose being to lay before our readers the best information we have been enabled to collect on a matter of such vital importance, leaving them to make their own deductions. As a redeeming point, we have every reason to be lieve that the crops of spring corn have generally given a good return, and the produce of hay, straw, turnips, tnangold wurtzel, and other articles of cattle feed, are large. 'no, arrivals of wheat coastwise into London have been moderate, whilst the quantity exhibited at Mark-lane by land-carriage samples has been extremely small. Oa Wednesday there was scarcely a sample on the Kent stands, and only a run or two from Essex and Suf folk. The trilling Lature of the supply rendered im pol.tant operations impossible, but the little offered for sale was placed at prices quite equal to those obtained earlier in the week ; indeed, fine qualities, whether old or new, sold at terms slightly above those of Monday. Later in the week millers manifested an increasing disposition to get into stock, and on Friday the turn was decidedly against the buyer. There being hardly any thing exhibiting from the home counties, the few cargoes offered free on board on the coast were sold without difficulty at an advance of ls. per quarter. The transactions in tree foreign wheat have not been of much importance, but millers have been under the necessity of taking small quantities for mixing with the damp samples of new English, and holders having dis played no anxiety to press sales, former terms have, in some cases, been slightly exceeded. CITY THEATRE. The effect of the recent fall in prices is now beginning to manifest itself in the returns ; the general average for the kingdom, published on Thursday, being only 58s. 6d. per quarter. For the present, therefore, no further re duction in the duty ca❑ be expected. We need scarcely say that few importers will pay the existing rate of 14s. per quarter, and the whole of the arrivals from abroad are consequently being warehoused under lock. As bonded wheat has for some time past been, and still continues to he, held at prices scarcely 10s. per qr. below those of free, there is at the moment no great inducement to enter into speculative investments, and comparatively little business has this week been done in parcels under lock. The fact that it is impossible to import from any part of the world at nearly the rates bonded wheat may be bought ate., Mark-lane, may be taken as a sufficient rea son why holders have not been anxious to part with their stocks ; and there can be no doubt that a very slight rise in prices of free would cause bonded to be held at enhanced terms. There has been rather an improved sale for the best marks of town-manufactured flour this week, at fully previous prices ; and ship samples were held with in creased firmness on Friday. The supply of barley has been rather large ; the total quantity reported up to this (Saturday) evening amount ing to 11,915 quarters, inclusive of 3.181 quarters, foreign. The maltsters and distillers have throughout the week conducted their operations with more than ordinary caution ; and, notwithstanding the material fall which prices had previously undergone, the tendency was still downwards at the close of the week ; 38s. to 395. per quarter have become extreme rates for choice qualities ; and other descriptions have been sold at pro portionate terms. Malt has been equally difficult of disposal as barley, and the few sales effected have been at prices which would not have been accepted last week. Large arrivals of oats two consecutive weeks, and the previously very high value of the article, have caused a great change in the position of the trade in this grain. The dealers, though generally bare of stocks, have hitherto refrained from buying more than absolutely necessary for immediate use. There has, consequently, been a great accu mulation of 11( acing cargoes ; and, as the days allowed for discharging have in many instances run out, factors have been under the necessity either of landing or ac cepting the best price they could get. The business dens on Wednesday was at a further decline of is. per quarter ; but on Friday some improvement took place in the demand, and it was nut difficult to make progress in sales at the rates of the preceding market day. Bonded oats have receded to fully the same extent as free, and on some of the late continental purchases there is likely to be a loss instead of a profit. Beaus have not recovered any portion of the depres sion of Monday ; indeed, they wete easier to buy at the close than in the commencement of the week. Large blue peas have continued in request for ship ment, and have brought high terms ; but white, maple, and grey have barely supported former rates. The only alteration in the duties on Thursday was a fall of Is. per quarter on barley.—Mark-lane Express. THE SUN, LONDON WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 26, 1845 for a while from those humiliations which it seems at present to be courting ; for great prepararations, we are told, are waking for resis:ance or p-ggression, new im provements being attempted in military discipline, in the fabrication of arms, in the science of tactics, and in the ermion of fortifications. They discern clearly enough what is about t:; happen, partly from knowing their own designs, and partly from observing the inevitable course of events. It remains to be been whether they will find us prepared for the struggle or not ; but there will cer tainly be ccnsiderable danger should our interests in that part of the world be confided to no abler hands than those of Sir John Davis.—Chronicle. A. HEAVY BLOW AND SURE When Dr. Chalmers and his now so-called " Free" adherents ruled the roast in Glasgow some ten or fifteen years ago, nothing would satisfy them but to build no fewer than twenty additional churches in this city and neighbourhood, ostensibly "to excavate the heathen," so they said, but in reality to smother the Voluntaries, then denominated "the vermin." Their love for the Church of Scotland iu those days knew no bounds. It never en tered into their noddles that they would play any reel of Bogie against her in any Canonmills-hall, far less that they would dash any of her " wee bit endoomenties" away from them for ever. No such " Disruption" was ever contemplated by them at the period we speak of. And so they testified, affirmed, and declared in the most solemn manner, Ix th verbally and in writing, both in pulpit and in hall; both in civil and ecclesiastical c ,urts and records, that those twenty churches were to he built and to remain in connexion with the Established Church of Scotland, absolutely and unconditionally, in all tim coming. " Retract ! no—not a hair's-breadth !" Very well. The " Disruption" came. The " reel of Bogie;" sure enough, was played out, in a state of feverish ex citement to many, and to the grief and ra gret and dis. may of others. led into the free vortex without rhyme or reason, and occasioning sobs and tears yet unknowe amongst other innocent parties, ruined or victimised thereby, all through the instrumem:tality of a few stub born, vain glorious ecclesiastics, who wished to become little Popes in this kingdom, above the sovereignty of the law, which rules all other denominations of man , kind. And when these parties, after all their cantrips, saw that they could not sweep the establishment (in which they themselves had so long nestled) from the face of the earth, they then tried, by process of law—yes, by process of law—which they formerly contemned, as witness their own conduct in the ever memorable Auch terardy case, they tried—and we cannot too often repeat, because it signally exposes their own folly and most glaring inconsistency ; they tried, by process of law, in other words, by a good, thumping Court of Session law plea, to sever the connection between these twenty churches and the Establishment, to roup them, yea, to sell them, and to divide the free residue or proceeds thereof amongst themselves. This was certainly a new process fur " excavating the heathen," on their own professed original principles. But the law of the land keeps people to their own engagements, voluntarily and solemnly undertaken by them ; and it is well that it is so, otherwise this would be a miserable world for schis matics of various kinds. The law of the land preserves social rule, established order, and constituted rights ; and, acting on these principles, it has just turned the " free," and we presume we must call them the very pious, pursuers out of court. It has told them that they cannot sell these churches and divide the proceeds amongst themselves. It has told them that they can not subvert their own declarations, or deface, or alter. or destroy the title deeds to which they became willing parties when in their sound and sober senses ; but they must abide by these through good and evil times, at all bands and against all mortals as law will. The Court of Session, therefore, per Lord Robertson (ordinary) has just dismissed the process of these " free and-easy' . pursuers, and found them liable to their Erastian oppo nents in all expenses. And every man of sense and right principle will rejoice et this, and say that they have just b.: en served right. Bnt what a noise we shall hear about it in the " free" organs ! They will try to bamboo ale their " free" ad herents, or to mystify the matter with the usual cant about the headship, and the Erastian thraldom, or other things of that sort, so rife of late in this " free," be nighted land. But common sense and calm reflection should tell them that they have fought and discomfited with their own weapons ; and so, here we quietly leave them for the present.—Scotch Reformer's Gazette. THE LATE FIRE at, the GLASGOW' The loss sustained by Mr. Anderson is very great, and sympathy c,r his misfortune has been widely and generally expressed. The unprecedented exertions he made to renfler his place of amusement one worthy of the city, and the success with which these exertions were crowned in raising an establishment unequalled in this country, at least fur its interior magnificence, we should have wished to see meet a better fate, but the event has been ordered otherwise. The building, we understand. cost upwards of 7,0001, and Mr. Anderson estimates the loss of scenery, wardrobe, machinery, and properties, at 3,00(1, making in all a sum of about 10,0004 To coy , r this loss he is insured to the extent of 6.5001. in the to! lowing offices:—ln the Yorkshire, 2,0001. on the building, sod 1.0001. on the scenery, wardrobe, &c.; in the Sun 1.500/. ; and in the Royal Exchange 2,0001. An iron safe, which was placed in Mr. A.'s own room, on the second floor, contained a number of valuable papers, in cluding his insurance policies, the books of the theatre, and upwards of 100 L in bank notes, gold, and silver. The sure was yesterday found in the lower part of the house, having descended with the floor on which it rested. It was taken out, but the whole of the paper' , ind notes were reduced to ashes. From 40/. to 50/. in gold and silver were recovered, completely blackened by the action of the fire. Not the least painful circumstance connected with this calamity is the distress to which the people belonging to the establishment have been re duced • upwards of 100 have been suddenly thrown out of employment, and in addition, they have lost valuable articles of dress, music, musical instruments, workmen's tools, &c. Their case is one deserving of public sympa thy, and we are happy to understand that, in the course of to-day, subscription-sheets will be placed in the dif ferent benks, and at the bar of the Exchange, fur the purpose of raising the means of immediate relief to them and their families. Many of them are entire strangers in the city, having no friends to apply to, and we therefore confidently hope that the generosity of the public will be largely extended to them. On Wednesday night last, the attenders of the Adelphi Theatre were thrown into a state of considerable alarm, about eight o'clock, by the fall of the eastern brick wall of the City Theatre, adjoining along with the gable on the south of that fated building, which, as our readers are aware, was destroyed by fire on Tuesday evening last. The noise occasioned by the fall is described as having been most alarming—almost resembling the shock of an earth quake ; and such was the effect upon the minds of the audience in the Adelphi, that had the theatre been crowded, the consequences would have been most disastrous. As it was, the moment the shock was heard, the people got upon their legs and rushed to the doors, the ladies screaming with terror ; and until the cause of the disturbance was described by Mr. Miller and his dramatic corps, who, along with Mr. Knowles, did their best to quiet the panic, the house was in one general uproar. After this, however, the performances proceeded as usual. The wall laving, fallen inside the City Theatre no person was injured—indeed, it was almost impossible that any one could have been hurt by the casualty, as the Glasgow police superintend ent had established a sufficient patrol, stationed at proper distances, within about 15 or 20 yards of the tottering ruins. Yesterday afternoon the necessary measures were taken by the authorities to provide against accidents, by having the north and south walls pulled to the ground. Saturday Post. We are sorry to learn that the murrain, or some thing like it, has made its appearance among both the foreign and home grown fruits. It is said to be quite evi dent that the apples and pears will not keep this year, as the rot is making rapid havoc among them. The fruit-dealers, like the potato merchants, are hurrying their stocks to market.—Greenock Advertiser. ACCIDENT.—An accident which might have re sulted in very disastrous consequences occurred on Wed nesday, at St. Catharine's Bay. An English gentleman, who had been only a few days in the island, and who meditated taking his departure the following morning, was taking advantage of every moment he could seize to explore the beauties with which the coast abounds. When he left Gorey, about eleven o'clock in the forenoon, the sun had broken forth into momentary radiance, but he had not proceeded very far, when the rain again beginning to descend, in a few moments waxed into a tor rent. The sky was dark and gloomy, and the vapour which arose from the surface of the sea diffused a peculiarly thick haze, for at least a hundred yards upwards from the shore. The gentleman was riding onwards at a furious gallop, in the hope of getting himself and horse sheltered under some adjacent " shieling, ' when all of a sudden his charger making a start at some object or other lying upon the ground, the rider was in a moment pitched from his saddle, and thrown headlong upon the sward which girds the edge of the road next the water. llis efforts to regain his feet had well nigh rendered the mishap fatal, for seizing hold of a branch which grew at the very edge of the precipice, the slender twig broke in twain, and the gentleman losing his balance, fell down upon a ledge of rock below. In this posi tion he lay for several moments, when his self-possession returning, he well surveyed the nature of his predicament, before making further attempts at rising. In the course of a quarter of an hour he was on his horse again, no further token of his " hairbreadth 'scape" remaining than an ugly scratch in his cheek from rather close contiguity with a bramble bush.—Jersey 7'itnes. The French man-of-war brig L'Abeille, of 18 guns, Captain Du Brasses, out from Cherbourg six days, bound to Senegal, as a cruiser, was brought in here on Sunday morn ing. She is quite a new vessel, and has a crew of 150 men. In the thick fog of Saturday, she had a narrow escape from being lost, being embayed in the Mount's Bay, and obliged to anchor near Mullion, within two miles of the land, when having fired two guns and hoisted a whiff, two men went off from the shore, one a coast guard man and the other a fisher man. The Captain, by the advice of these men, got under weigh, and off the Black Head, a Falmouth pilot boarded her, and brought her into Falmouth harbour. The officers speak in high terms of the capabilities of our port. —Ea/mouth Parket. PARISH REPORTS OF THE POTATO CROP.—We have received several corroborations of the statements in rst throughout many in t u t our last regarding the careless and delu sive character of the reports sent in by many of the c ler gy in re p l y to the country he Lordadvocate's have b e en made circular. cases in the neighbourhood of Edinbur g h, the y wil l on l y deceive the Government a s to the actual stat e of the case. In one case, where the ret urn b y the minister is said to have been favourable, one farmer (to take one instance among se veral) has lost 300 bolls by rot in his pits within three o l u f t a t s e t hI returns t u have n weeks. The crop in the parish was generally pitted in ay parent!), good condition, and perhaps the minister, who is , lamet matter, e g er l y : might ru t l e t i i hn n g k tii t r ini d t s ilt a t s, a t ds o i sc h ce a rre \ t ' da e ii tn m a bt a ol d e e r r aa e t n r s n os—o o fia`n; n p all important rteavnetil at disease," s culpa ble carelessness should be displayed.—Scotsmun. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. TlMES.—There is a certain work on " Corn and Currency" most respectfully and sympathetically ad dressed to the landowners by one of their class, and dis plal ing more than sufficient information and ability to accs.unt fur its having come to a second edition. Long ere this, however, it would have been overlaid and for gotten under the subsequent accumulation of literature on and about those recondite subjects, but for one little circumstance. If it has not conferred celebrity on its author, its author has done that service to it ; fbr it is by no less a person than Sir James Graham (of Ne ther by), Bart., M.P. Though rather passie in some of its topics—for it was published in 1826—it possesses, under the circumstances, a freshness ever new. and an interest just now more than ever on the ascendant. It has been carefully investigated by those who consider it discreditable to modify a published opinion, and, we are bound to add, that their generous industry has not been entirely without its reward. How far the Right Hon. Author may himself be haunted by his litera scripta or his vox niissa—those once for midable bugbears of political men—perhaps we are not the party to guess. But if there ever was a time when he might turn over the leaf not only with that mental and vis . ble composure which practice alone can impart, but also with advantage to the nation, that time, we think, has now arrived. The currency is the chief subject of the book, and would undoubtedly have been first in the title had that been an euphoneous arrange ' ment. On this point Sir James Graham exhibits a very keen apprehension of the misery and injustice occasioned by the alternate expansions and contractions of the cir culating medium during and after the war. How far these vicissitudes were entirely artificial, how far they resulted from political and commercial events, and how "fur they are now completely under the control either of Bank or Parliament, are questions apparently beside the scope of Sir James's inquiries. He makes out a case against the Act of 1795, and not less against the Act of 1819 ; be describes the crisis of 1825, and :me or two more ; he exhibits some striking asles ; detects some considerable wrongs ; but perhaps Laves no impression so definite as that a depreciation of the currency, from whatever reason arising, has an almost exactly proportionate effect in in creasing the price of corn and other principal commodi ties of life. It is the now Right Hon. Baronet's view of the corn-laws which gives to the work its chief present in terest; and fortunately this also is the point on which he happens to be most explicit. Addressing himself to his brother landowners he probably felt that figures would be asked for, and while he assures them of their abstract right to some equivalent boons which a just Legislature would certainly allow, he recommends them to volunteer the first step in the adjustment by surrendering their share in the existing injurious compromise. He asks them, in fact, to give up all attempt to fix the price of corn, and content themselves with what he calls a " pro tective " duty of 15s. a quarter,—to accept a fixed duty in lieu of a fixed price. Advice so unpalatable is intro (Need with a preface so much to the purpose, so gene rally significant, and so peculiarly appropriate to the Right lion. Baronet's own career, that our readers will thank us for the extract : " I am aware that you will not be inclined to attand to the suggestions which I am about to offer; past errors are ad mitted with reluctance; measures of precaution, especially if they be of a decisive character, are slowly adopted against dangers which are not immediate ; and the course of legisla tion is very rarely the result of previous wisdom; it is rather guided by circumstances, and influenced by the occasion." Sir James makes it his purpose to view a prohibitory system of corn-laws in the bearings as an attempt to regulate prices. Wishing well to the landowners—nay, avowing a decided predilection in their favour—for that very reason he advises them to renounce a complisation which does not really save them from the losses entailed by gold payments end contracted issues. " It may be doubted even whether the existing (1826) system of prohibition be so entire a benefit to the landowner himself as he would seem tc imagine; for, in the variety of seas,ms, it is impossible that the land cultivated within these islands can, year by year, from one harvest to another, pro duce a supply of corn exactly commensurate with the de mand. At one time the prohibitory system is unjust to the grower; at another, to the consumer. The grower is injured when, after a harvest somewhat deficient, the ports are opened by a sudden rise of price, and a large accumulation of foreign corn is poured at once into this country; bringing on the farmer the losses incident to over-production, and ultimately to the landlord a correspondent decline of rent. The consumer is injured in the interval between the rise of price and the importation of foreign grain ; he is even exposed to the horys of famine; for in proportion as the demand for foreign grain is unusual, the supply in case of emergency must be precarious. Thus the alternate evils of redundancy and scarcity, unsteady prices and uncertain rents, are the inevitable consequences of the present system of our corn-laws. Farming is therefore made both a gambling and a hazardous speculation. No caution can guard against ruin ous losses, for no prudence can foresee the chances on which they depend ; whether the price •f wheat will rise to 78s. per quarter, when the profit of the farmer would be enor mous, or touch the maximum of 80s.. when by the opening• of the ports and of the granaries of corn is bond, wheat wou!d instantly fall at least 50 per cent., to his entire ruin, is a matter almost of accident, frequently influenced by fraud; thus the full operation of the present corn-laws ex poses agricultural capital to losses rather incident to the hazard table that to fair mercantile speculation." As the writer proceeds to prove, the conclusion is that " thus revenue from the soil is literally made the sport of wind and of weather." It is unneces sary to observe that the argument applies to the present .tiding-scale as much as to that against which the enlightened Lord of Netherby was levelling his indignant remonstrances. Still less is it ncc..s ary to remind our readers of a recent instance which fully illustrates the tendency to a sudden ruinous iownfal. Amongst the numerous resources and claims of the present Ministry is the stnclt of credit it has gained by a certain million pounds sterling, or therea bouts, paid at once into the Treasury on the importation of several millions of quarters of foreign corn, the effect of which, pleasant as it might be to the manufacture's and her Majesty's Ministers, was to lower the price of corn immediately more than the Baronet's 50 per cent. It is only just now that the national and universal cala mity of a bad harvest has rescued the agriculturists out of that slough of despond ; though we are by no means sure that the agriculturists will not find the remedy worse than the disease. But let us go on with Sir James. We shall find him keeping up the spirit of his argument : " The landlord's best customer is the manufacturer; but his prosperity depends entirely on high profits, which it is the avowed tendency of high prices to reduce. (As the writer had demonstrated above.) If corn be dearer in Eng land than elsewhere, wages must be higher; and if wages be higher, profits must be lower; thus our foreign compe • titers obtain the greatest possible advantage ; and if the sys tem become permanent, manufacturing employment, except for the home market, must decrease in this country ; and surely it is not the interest of any class so to enhance the price of labour and provisions as to secure to the foreigner successful competition, and to choke with obstructions the principal channels of native industry. The feeling of the public must be hostile to the present corn-law ; the receivers of rent are a very small body ; backed by public opinion they are almost omnipotent; in violation of public opinion they cannot long retain an exclusive advan tage. The contest is fearful ; for on what ground will it be decided? On the very topic which inflames to madness; that hunger which breaks through walls will be arrayed against them, reason will be heard no longer, the barriers of society will be broken down, and estates, distinctions, honours, swept away in one resistless torrent." It is impossible to suppose that arguments so cogent in themselves, so emphatically and so eloquently expressed, can he either forgotten or unfelt. We are sure, how ever, that we do the writer a service in recalling them as well to his attention as to that of his many admiring readers. Even from the grave and obsolete antiquity would we search for reasons and motives on such a theme; much more then from the early writings of one who happily still lives to give them their full, mature, and practical force. In a day or two we will present our readers with a little more virgin ore from the same mine. POST.—No language we could use would be too strong to express the indignation which every just man—which every man who loves truth—ought to feel, at the present moment, against those who are labouring in the pubic press to excite an alarm of famine. That this iniquitous project is undertaken solely for a party purpose is evi dent. The enemies of the law which gives protection to the British agriculterist, hope, by exciting a public cla mour, and producing a pressure from without, to cause the Government to ,open the ports fur the reception of foreign corn free of duty. They further hope that this grand object having been accomplished, they will have influence enough to obstruct for ever the revival of the law which restricts and regulates the import of foreign grain. It is the grossest hypocrisy to pretend that the exaggeration and violent declamation about impending famine, to which we allude, arise out of a nal concern for the British consumers. They who are acquainted with the subject know very well, that the real opera tion of the opening of the ports would be an imme diate rise of the price abroad, and, in fact, a putting into the pockets of the foreign holders the diffe rence which now exists between the price of free corn and foreign corn in bond, and liable to duty. The foreign holders are closely watching our proceedings, and the moment they have reason to believe that we must buy from them at any price, they will make us pay accordingly. During the short time that an in fluential journal led the world to believe that the ports were about to be opened, wheat in foreign ports rose some seven shillings a quarter, and it has fallen again since events have proved that the journal in q uestinnhad l b t ee is been misled, and had consequently misled the pu blic. difficult to say whether the falsehood orth n e nonsense promuy lgated promulgated on the foreign-corn question alarmists is the more conspicuous. Welook say they, and we see other nations supplying themselves in the foreign ports which we refuse_ . to enter. , Refuse to enter ! What outrage ous absurdity is tais . Iles any one suppose that the duty imposed upon foreign corn, when brought to market for consumption in England, prevents our merchants from purchasing foreign corn ? The very reverse is the truth. Our merchants are now steadily and leisureiy supplying themselves with foreign corn at every port in the world where it can be bought. They are carrying on their Operations sue jest to the gradual effects of the sliding-scale, upon which they can calculate, and beyond all question our chance of foreign supply is infinitely better under this system than if all were thrown into a state of confusion and chaos by the opening of the ports. Then, indeed, a helter-skelter scramble would take place, and all the well-planned operations of trade would be rendered of no avail. There is no nation in the world supplying itself in foreign ports as England is at this moment. At this moment offers of cargoes of wheat from the Mediterranean are daily arriving to our merchants. It would not be so, if, in a paroxysm of madness or of fear, the Ministers w ere to open the ports. This would be hoisting a signal of distress which, far from bringing succour, would make the foreigner hold off till we paid double for assistance. It is said we are looking on while our neighbours lay in stores which they will be prevented by restrictive laws from sharing . with uc. Another roost absurd I untruth. It is we who are laying in the stores. Our merchants, and not foreign merchants, are buying up THE ROYAL ACADEMY. A portion of our readers, unacquainted with the con stitution of the Royal Academy, may not be aware, that at the end of every year, on the 31st of December, the President lays down his golden chain and badge, and submits himself to re-election by his brethren. Refer ring to the ill health and already preferred resignation of Sir gartin A. Shee, the approaching anniversary is looked forward to with more than usual interest. Will the president persevere in his determination ? and if so, who is likely to become his successor ? Her Majesty, as we recently noticed, granted a pension of 200/ per annuz on Lady Shee; and the Academy , have, we understand, secured to Sir Martin, by an a priori resolution, the 3001. a year, bequeathed to the president for the time he holds the office, by Sir Francis Chantrey, but which will not fall in till the death of his widow, Lady Chan trey. Tnese look like preparations for a change. Of academicians eligible for the vacated chair, several are mentioned. Mr. Eastlake is spoken of in the fore ground ; but, it is asked, will he give up his app)int ments in the Commission of Fine Arts, the British Institution, &c., which produce a revenue, for the unprofitable station of president, which entails much expense, and is only valuable as it may bring com missions to the holder? Sir Robert Westmacott. of so high standing in every way, as an artist and in private character, is also named ; but the majority would seem to desire a painter, and not a sculptor. The same remark applies to Mr. Cockerel]. Mr. Pickersgill occu pies an eminent position, and is one of the oldest mem bers of the body ; but we cannot tell whether he is po pular enough, especially where there has of late years been so copious an infusion of young blood. Others are also mentioned ; but there is much embarrassment in the choice ; and it would be difficult, if not impossible, at this era, to find an individual combining so many qua lifications> for the office as were united in Sir Martin Shee.—Literary Gazette. THE PORTS OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA.—A bill declar ing Port Adelaide a free port, by abolishing dues and fees of every description heretofore payable by vessels visiting or frequenting our harbours, passed the Council on Thuisday, July 3, and takes effect from that day. Its operation is not restricted to vessels of any nation , but applies equally to all ships, from whatever part of the globe they may have taken their departure. Doubtless the captains in command of the first arrivals will be as much surprised to hear that they have no tonnage dues, landing dues, entrance dues, clearance dues, light dues, harbour dues, pilotage dues, or Custom house fees to pay, as were our Hon. Members of Council, and the colonists generally, at this spontaneous act of liberality on the pert of Isis Excellency the Governor.—South Austra lian Register. TRADE. -- A considerable im provement has taken place during the last two weeks in our importations. The docks have not been so crowded with ship ping for a long time ; vessels have been lying ten abreast in the Wet Docks, while the out harbours have been well filled. The chief import has been grain, and that in very large quantities, from Germany, Sweden, and Denmark. The local trade of the port also stands good:—Scotsman. CHINESE POLICY. It is to be hoped that the importance of our relations with the Chinese empire will not be estimated by the amount of intelligence which generally reaches this country by the overland mail. Little corrt ct and ex plicit information on this subject appears to find its way to the Indian journals. A few hasty private letters, communications dictated by the overflowing bile of some officer living in a sort of exile at HongsKonss, and the highly-coloured statements of merchants, whether pros perous or unprosperous, added to the meagre articles of a half-starved press, constitute the sole basis on which they erect their speculations. There is, conse quently, little reason to be surprised at the narrowness of their views and the general indecision of their lan guage ; and still less cause have we to wonder at the vague, shifting, contradictory notions of such of our Contemporaries here at home as live in he Ipls sat depend ence on such guides, in all that relates to the po!icy of the further east. To do the Indian press justice, however, we must admit that it has recently put forward correctei views, respecting China:and the Chinese, tiianits habitual copyists in England, who, affecting to be for once inde pendent of their teachers, have fallen into the grossest errors. When we argued some time back that it would be impolitic to restore Chusan to the Chinese under pre sent circumstances, the fickle oracle of Printing House square, with tolerably well-feigned indignation, de nounced our suggestions as highly profligate. With a sort of Malay CI ergy, which so frequently urges that journal into the practice of running a-muck, it flung itself into an offensive attitude, and prepared to make a surrender of reason to its destructive propensities. But happening to be more familiar with the facts of the case. we were enabled, by a very few plain words, to still the rage of one Contemporary, and may hereafter, perhaps, enjoy the advantage—if advantage it be—of having it as our coadjutor in this matter. We repeat, therefore, that Chusan ought not to be evacuated. Not because it would most likely, in that case, fall into the hands of the French—though that, we are prepared to maintain, ought to be an additional in ducement for as to do justice to ourselves—but because the Mantchoo Government of China has not fulfilled its engagements with us. The most factious and itrejudice6 journalist will probably admit that there are more ways than one of breaking a treaty, and that the most cun ning and subtle infraction is as much a breach of com pact as a gross and clumsy inf.ingcment. This truth, which, out of deference to common sense, must be recog nised, will supply us with sufficient reasons for insisting on the retention of Chusan. We formerly rested our arguments chiefly on what has taken plaCe at Canton ever since the peace ; but f ac t s are c o ming for war d singly, and invested with no pomp or ,appearance of in terest, which ought to be regarded as still more signi ficant and conclusive. In reality, the Chinese authorities carry on the war against us still. They have only changed the phenomena of hostilities, and for material imple ments substituted others, fashioned in ethical and poli tical forges, which they trust will prove far more effec tual. In plain English, the Mandarins at all the con sular ports, acting of course under instructions from Pekin, are labouring to undermine the foundations of our commerce, and, by instigating the multitude to put in practice a perpetual system of annoyance and auda cious insolence, to drive us from those much coveted markets in disgust or d es p a i r . Th e y w h o understand the civil polity of China will be able to perceive how this may be done, though the Chinese people be gene rally well disposed towards us. Mobs under such a despotism as that of the Mantchoos are swayed by two impulses—the one natural, which they would obey if they could; the other communicated to them by autho rity, which, as a rule, they m us t o b e y. When engaged in persecuting an En g li s h man un d er th e eye of the Mandarins, they overact their part in order to ward off from themselves the suspicion of favouring the outside barbarians. It signifies little to their victim, therefore, that in their hearts they are sorry for what they do, and prefer their commercial visitors from the sea to the ruthless tyrants from Mantchooria, to whom their own want of courage has given an irre sistible ascendency over them. But, however this part of the question may really stand, every communication we receive from China may be said to lay before us fresh proofs that the Tartar authorities are resolved to render the treaty with Great Britain as nugatory as possible. Our exclusion from the trade of the north-east coast be yond the thirty-second degree of latitude, may be matter of regret, because it was in that part of the empire that we might have found the best market for our woollens; but the fault was our own, and arose out of that hasty and pedantic diplomacy which has so frequently marred our prospects in the east. The Chinese had a perfect right to overreach us if they could. They were not bound to consult our interest. All they had to do was to watch over their own. Accordingly, nothing can be further from our intention than to blame them for what must be regarded as our own blunder. But that system of petty vexations—that constant obstruction of our trade—that fanatical and ferocious persecution which has been unremittingly carried on against our countrymen at Canton—and those clandestine hostilities which have been incessantly pursued against natives of all ranks who either favoured us while we were in force in the country, or are suspected of having a leaning to wards us now—these things, taken collectively, consti tute a good ground for entering' into fresh negotiations with the Government, and demanding other conditions, which, from its character, it may be more likely to fulfil. Meanwhile we may, without the least shadow of injustice, retain possession of Chusan, where an im mense trade with the Chinese could be carried on with little chance of unpleasant collisions between us and them. As has been repeatedly shown in time of war moreover—and wars will one day or another unquestionably arise—the possession of this island must prove of the highest importance, commanding as it does the entrance to the Yang-tee-Kiang, which has justly been denominated the great artery of the empire. But it is as a means of preserving peace that we are chiefly disposed to value it. Under present circamstances the renewal of hostilities may, in our opinion, be con stantly looked for, considering the evil disposition of the Mandarin=, and the kind services which the emissaries of certain friendly Powers are so actively engaged in per forming for us in China. To prevent the evil conse quences of these and other causes of misunderstanding, we have no representative at the Court of Pekin or on the coast, for Sir John Davis is little better than a cypher. j All his energies evaporate in squabbles with the British merchants at Ho ng-Kong ; and if this were not the case he is obviously quite incapable of coping with the subtle diplomatists of China- A new mission to Pekin, there fore, might be very prudently undertaken just now, and the ambassador who should conduct it would find suffi cient employment for his abilities, hoe ever keen or brilliant they might be. He might remove much misunderstanding, and postpone conside rably the period of inevitable collision between the two countries. We say inevitable because it would, in our our opinion, be wholly impossi ble to preserve fer aiiy greet h.ngth of time purely pa cific relations wi:h such a Government as that of China. Despotisms are like childr« n, easily forgetting past (Hs i asters and chastisements, arid prone to provoke fresh ones by acts of petulant caprice. In the actual posture ! of affairs, hoe eve r, an able English statesman at Pekin might possibly check the tendency of the Mantchoo Court to insolence and injustice, awl thus preserve it NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 24.—Her Majesty's ship Presi dent, 50, with the flag of Rear-Admiral Daeres, the Commander-in-Chief at the Cape of Good Hope, sailed yesterday morning, with a steady wind from the north. A great number of merchant vessels, which had been detained at the Motherbank and Cowes by contrary winds, sailed in the course of the day. The Admiralty have ordered the Childers, 16, and Wanderer, 16, to be repaired by job, or task work, and got ready for three years' service, without loss of time : they will be brought down to the harbour forthwith aid take❑ in hand. Another brig, the Harlequin, 16, will be moved out of dock this week, and fitted for commis sion with all expedition ; it is conjectured the services of these brigs will be required in India, or on the station. 'I he Rattler screw-steamer, has been brought into the basin, and yesterday orders were received for her being docked and repaired with all speed ; to do so, the arti• fivers at work on the Amphitrite have been taken off and put on the Rattler. She will be put into dock on Friday. Being an experimental screw -steamer, she will probably be kept on home service until further trials have been made, and in that case she will be sent to Ireland, in place of the Stromboli, and that steamer is ordered to fit for foreign service. The Dee steamer will sail to-morrow to Devonport, and, having taken some marines on board, go on to Mil ford Miven, and land them there. She is afterwards to proceed to Cork, and to be placed under the orders of Rear-Admiral Sir Heigh Pigot. The Retribution, Alarm, and Lizard are daily expected from the eastward. 'The Retribution will embark a de tachment of marine artillery, under command of Second Lieutenant Hall, and the crew be paid in advance ; and at present it is intended she shall relieve the Gorgon at the Brazils, she having been three years in commission. The Alarm is to go to the West Indies, and will embark Captain D. Pring, C 8., and his family for passage to Jamaica, being appointed to command the Imaum, reciving ship at that island, and hoist a second-class commodore's broad pendant, and carry on the port duties in the absence of the commander-in-chief ; the Lizard is intended for packet service in the Mediter ranean. Arrangements are orderi d to be made for the recep tion of her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the Royal Family and suite, to-morrow, at the Clarence Victual ling-yard. The royal party are expected about noon, and the branch railway from the Gosport terminus into the yard having been completed some time, the carriage will go direct to the jetty, and one guard of honour only be requisite. The Bth Regiment are ordered to furnish it, and Msjor• General the Hon. Sir Hercules Paken ham, Colonel Daly, and the staff of the garrison, will cross to Gosport by the ten o'clock bridge. The cap. tains and commanders of her Majesty's ships in the port are ordered to be at the landing stairs, in their respective boats, and escort the royal barge to the Fairy yacht, in which the Queen and the party will pass over to Osborne-house. Admiral Sir Charles Ogle, Bart, will be in attendance to re ceive her Majesty. Captain Lord A. Fitzclarence has arrived to take the command of the yacht ; and the Victoria and Albert yacht has had her engines exercised and fires lighted in case she should be wanted. His Royal Highness Prince Alberl, before he returns to London, will inspect the suite of apartments in the Ad miralty House in the dockyard, which has been ex pressly fitted up, *MO =maned for her Majesty's use, and now ready fur occupation. The carriage and luggage will be sent to Trinity-wharf, Cowes, in the Comet steamer, Lieut. Prettyman. A report has been prevailing this day in the garrison, that the Bth Regiment are to be sent to New Zealand, to augment the force, now absolutely necessary in that colony. We can safely state that unless a brigade of troops should be sent out the Bth will not go on foreign service yet. The 24th and 32d Regiments stand on the Roster First, and there are not !any orders relating to the 24th, than that they are to come over from Ireland in the spring. SHEERNESS, Nov. 23. --Yesterday morning's post brought orders here to refit, with all dispatch, all the small craft available in this ordinary ; and the Electra, 18, the Snake, 16, and the Ferret, 10, are accordingly to be taken in hand on Monday, and it is probable that the Griffin, 6, when the probation of the Eclair's stores with which she is loaded is over, will also be refitted for com mission. _ _ _ The Bittern, 16, just commissioned by Commander Hope, and the Dido, 20, and Viper, 6, under repair in dock, are also ordered to be expedited in their fittings. The Euryalus, late convict ship, arrived on Friday in tow of the Wildfire steamer. She is to be fitted as a coal depot for this port, a convenience which was much wanted here, in consequence of the trouble and expense in coalin by boats and carts from the coal sheds. The St. Lawrence, 46, has had the manouvrer re moved from her bottom, and delivered over to the in ventor, Mr. Fullerton. The 'Trafalgar (120) Flag-ship The seaman (Holmes) who lost both his arms by the accidental ex p osion of a gun, while exercising during the late ex perimental cruises, is going on favourably in Melville Hospital, Chatham. Upwards of 3001. have been sub scribed for him by the officers and men belonging to th Trafalgar. Mr. Thomas Lewis, leading man of shipwrights, has been superannuated from the Dock-yard on a pension of 321. per annum ; and John Coulton and James Walshe, labourers, on pensions of 241. and 151. respec tively. EXPERIMENTS IN WOOLWICH MA .SUES, Nov. 24. —Vice-Admiral Sir William Hall Gage, G.C.H., one of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty; Lord Wm. Lennox, Sir Wm. Gossett, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings, Knt., clerk of the Ordnance; Major-General James Webber Smith, C. 8.; Col. Cockburn, Col. Lacy, Col. Turner, C. 8., Lieut.-Col. Grant, Lieut.-Col. Dansey, C. 8., &c., assembled in the marshes at two o'clock P.M. to-day, to witness experiments with shells, fitted with Sergeant-Major Freeburn's fusees, and also an inven tion by Capt. Addison, for heating shot to a red heat in a limited time, and at less expense than by any plan hitherto adopted. The experiments commenced with the fusees, and out of twenty shells fired, twelve from two thirty-two pounder guns, and eight from an eight-inch gun, seventeen exploded on striking the bulk-head, with tremendous effect, throwing the massive timbers, after they had been torn to pieces to a considerable distance. Two of the shells did not explode, and one being doubtful, was reported as not having exploded. The result of the experiments with Sergeant-Major Freeburn's shells was very satisfactory. No premature explosions will take place with them, and the shells will explode by con cussion, on striking the object. The officers then proceeded to witness the experiment with Captain Addison's furnace. for red-hot shot. This invention has the appearance of a miniature caravan placed upon four wheels, and contains a furnace capable of heating thirty 32-pounder solid shot at one time, and of being drawn by a horse from one part to another. At an hour and a quarter after the fire had been lighted, the shot were taken out, and readily set fire to havings of wood. A fresh supply of cold shot was after wards added, and in twenty minutes they were taken out, equally red hot; and the same quantity could be furnished every twenty minutes for any length of time after the first. This invention gave great satisfaction. Its weight has been reduced to 1 ton 8 cwt. A tube capable of holding four red hot shot, and moving them close to the mouth of the guns for which they may be required was tried, and appeared to answer the purpose remarkably well. A SHOCKING BAD SIXPENCE.—A short time ago a chemist of this town happened to take a bad sixpence, and putting it with other silver in his pocket, only discovered his mistake when he tendered it for payment. It was refused of course. A second time did he thoughtlessly and unconsciously tender it, and a second time did lie receive it back again with sundry apologies. Curiosity led him, on his return home, to look at the deceitful coin, and applying his scientific know ledge, he dipped it—the coin we mean—in vitriolic acid. Guess his surprise when he found that the brassy Brummagem looking little "varmint" proved to be a real, genuine, un alloyed, golden half guinea of George the First's coinage ! This is a literal fact, but we hope it will not encourage our pensive public to take bad money on the speculation that it may all turn out to be gold disguised as in some fairy tale under some vile and counterfeit presentment.—Berke Chronicle. the surplus corn of foreign countries, for our mer chants can afford to pay, while others cannot. Why then should we derange that which is going on steadily, as business ought to go on ? If there be an insufficient supply, the price thereby produced will open the ports. The sliding-scale will open the ports, and by that time (though not before) something will have been provided by our merchants worth opening the ports for. To open them now, would serve no put pose but that of gratifying the factious views of the Anti- Corn-law League. It is said that we knowingly post pone cur demand for foreign wheat till the time when the supply will be must costly. Another absurdity_ another falsehood. We do not postpone our demand. Our demand is now steadily proceeding, and we are ac quiring foreign corn at less cost, because we are acquir ing it while a considerable barrier exists between the foreign produce and the British consumer. The propa gators of lies on the subject of the supply of foreign corn leave entirely o u t o f account t h e oper ations of our merchants in anticipation of the future demand. They assume what they must be ignorant, indeed, if they do not know to be false, that until our ports are open, no purchase, or no important purchase, of foreign grain takes place. It is strange that any portion of the public should be gulled by nonsense such as this. We believe the sliding-scale to be right in principle. but whether it be right or wrong, the operation of those whose business it is to watch and calculate upon the facts which they are at the utmost pains to ascer tain—the operations of the great dealers in corn, have been adapted to the machinery of the sliding-scale. In conformity with what may be expected from it, they are making their preparations, and to open the ports suddenly, vs vile their measures are in progress, would be to ruin them, and to destroy our own means of safety, if, indeed, it be true that we shall require considerable aid from foreign supply. If, again, it be true that our (avn produce is considerably short of our ordinary con sumption, what palpable madness it is to be clamouring for cheapness of price ! Does not every one know that a rise in price is the natural remedy %%hid' the habits and the reason of mankind supply to induce economy in the use of the commodity of which a scalci•y is appre heudei ? Shall we by any desperate measure set k a momentary depression of the price of home-grown corn, and tries induce a greater consumption at the very mo ment that we say we have not enough to sustain the pre sent rate of consumption till next harvest ? Really, such representations are too preposterous to be borne with common patience. We have the satisfaction, however, of believing that the Government is not raided by the lies which are pelted about town and country with such vehemence ; and we hope Government will have manli ness enough not to give way before clamour, which it well knows to be dishonest. CHRONICLE.—The Nation recommends to the con sideratioa of repeal wardens, to be read in their parishes, a " few short and easy rules " as to the uses to which railways may be put. We had the gratification of printing them in the Chronicle yesterday : " A hint on this subject," the Nation says, "may be thought enough ; but wesee no objection to speaking plainly; and, therefore, we give a few practical views, which may be unproved as engineers turn their attention to the subject. " First, then, every railway within five miles of Dublin could in one night be totally cut off from the interior coun try. To lift a mile of rail, to till a perch or two of any cutting or tunnel, to break down a piece of an embankment, seem obvious and easy enough. " Second-L.The materials of railways, good hammered iron and wooden sleepers, need we point out that such things may ho of use in other lines than assisting locomotion. "Third—Troops upon their march by rail might be con veniently met with in divers places. Hofer, with his Tyro liens' could hardly desire a deadlier amb us h th an t h e b r i nks of a deep cutting upon a railway. Imagine a few hundred men lying in wait upon such a spot, with masses of rock and trunks of trees ready to roll down—and a train or two ad vancing with a regiment of infantry, and the engine pant ing near and nearer, till the polished studs of brass on its front are distinguishable, and its name may nearly be read; Now, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost !—now-2 " But 'tis a dream. No enemy will dare put us to realise these scenes. Yet, let all understand what a railway may, and what it may not do." it requires a" fine philanthropist and legislator to dis cover such advantages in the railway system—one of those obstinate martyrs who would cut off his nose in order to spite his face. Suppose the rails are down and the tunnels complete, the Irish philosopher instantly begins to think how it would be easy to I.ft the former and fill up the latter again. This also would give fresh work to the neglected poor ; and, causing a wholesome and perpetual demand upon capitalists, would enforce a circulation of money through the country. " Second— goad hammered iron and wooden sleepers" would be capitally handy to make pikes with. The " second" is admirable : the logical precision and neatness of the rules to be read in parishes. Get your • subscriptions and your Parliamentary Acts ; pay your engineers, landowners, and workmen ; and you have at once good hammered iron and wooden sleepers ready for demo lishing Saxons. The cheapness of the weapon is uncle. viable. The boys could have the pikes for nothing. There are historical examples for the practice. The refined and intrepid Vandals, when they invaded Rome, pulled out the iron clamps of the Cc losseum for the same purpose : the Turks (an exceedingly eiviT,ed and maiigned race) fired off the heads and limbs of Phidias' statues from the Parthenon, when be sieeed there. There is also the case of the enlightened Chinese, mintioned by Char!. s Lamb, who having eaten a pig which was roasted in the burning of a house, burned down a house every day a ith a pig in it, in order to get his faveuri•e crack ling. Young Ireland is fur legislating in this way. Travellers, who have visited the country, have seen the system many times put in practice; and in the Irish domestic economy have admired a piano figur ing very handsomely as an apple-cupboard, or a window replaced advantageously by a pair of pantaloons or a wig. Here it is proposed to employ the plan on a grand and noble scale, and to put arms in the hands of ingenious patriots who are about to levy war. Then we wind up ith the night attack—the Irish in ambush, with the rocks and trees handy; the smashing of the engine, and the roasting, crushing, and slaughter of the Saxon tegimeut in the train. And the allele of tke wretched, tawdry romance finishes with that accustomed invoca tion so commonly used among certain patriots in Ire land now—out the Nation writers merely. The Captain Rocks and Molly Maguire's men used a similar one before they went out to niurder. Has Swift left no suc cessor? Are these people, who could listen to sense and wit once, to be led by such harangues as those of Mr. Sinnott the other day, and as this of the Nation ? Fancy a country in which popular journals are found which call these plans of incendiarism " practical views"—•a country where starvation is imminent, and employment is the only chance of averting it. The native legislators do their best at this moment to frighten out of Ireland its sole means of livelihood, as if in such a time, and to starving men, bread were not more necessary than the best Parliament that ever was devised, or all the spouters that ever roared through lungs ! You want your land lords to come and live among you ; shoot at those who are there, and so encourage the rest back again. You want money and work ; curse and threaten the may people in the world that can give it you. You want railroads to develope your own internal resources ; pro mise to' destroy them, so that you may get pikes to kill the Saxon with. This argument goes on day by day, and is talked to the best, wisest, bravest, cleverest people in the world. If Swift were but by to listen to it ! Bat they seem to prefer an orator out of Swift's Hospital now—a bedlatuite with a murderous monomania. SE NTINEL. —The total abolition of the corn-laws seems now at hand. The friends of the farmers who rejected the fixed duty of the Whigs, will ere long be driven by the man of their choice to surrender the whole of their monopoly. There is no longer any opportunity for parly or compromise. Impending famine, the precursor of riot, it may be of revolution, threatens to extort the opening of the ports. We may have soon to select between the downfal of the landowners or the sub version of the monarchy. The gigantic fraud of pro tection against foreign growers of corn has been laid bare in all its details. It is now known that protection means robbery, since it throws taxation on the indus trious classes and exempts the property classes from its pressure. But more than this is known. It is well understood that the imposition of the taxes on food was originally consented to, on condition that the landlords would support the Bullion Committee in the Bill which compelled the Bank of England to resume cash payments. Sir James Graham is our authority, and lie has called that bargain an imprudent bargain; we denounce it as a base one ; and punishment is now, though tardily, about to overtake the criminals. I:jint let us attempt to exhibit the bearings of this question without heat or rancour, neither as exclusive partisans of manufactures or agriculture, for there has been too much of vituperation, too little of argument on both sides. We will endeavour to write in the spirit of a mediator between extreme parties. Why dal the land owners originally demand the exclusion of foreign corn from the home market ? Because t h ey perceived that the highly . taxed labour of this country could not compete with the comparatively low taxed labour of the rest of the world. Had we been free from a national debt at the peace of 1815, the landlords would nut have sought or required any legis lative protection ; therefore, in reality, it was not the dread of the foreign producer, but the dread of the domestic tax• gatherer that guided their polity. Or, if this mode of stating the fact be deemed ambiguous, we would say that the domestic tax-gatherer immediately and the foreign producer media•ely created the corn laws. In simple truth, high taxes render high prices necessary. ; m onopo l y is favourable to high prices ; therefore the landlords claimed a monopoly for the commodities which they sold. So far, they only" acted as all other traders would act, had they the power ; they threw off taxation from themselves and placed it on the consumers of grain and other farm produce. Now, had the Legislature granted to all other classes of producers the same amount of protection as they mum& d to the agriculturists, there would have been no cause of complaint. But the very reverse was the case. The next measure was Peel's Bill of 1819. That Bill, overlooking the fact, that taxes ought to enhance prices in exact proportion to such taxes, enacted that gold, at its natural cr untaxed value, should be the standard measure of all t a xed commodi ties. The consequence was, that, while all agricultu ral produce remained high, all other industrial prod uce r en abled e s a e p l his produce dear, an became low ; so that t d he bu la y nd a lo fi rd ot isa h ' er s produce This is the real iniquity of the system. T he nobility, by a fraud, became as fiscally privileged, as were the French nobility before the Revolution : they sue. ceeded by the joint action of the money laws and the to escape taxation ; f or , w h atever wholly to the tax gatherer th e y a l ways got b ac k csa c t h ot ( g : iic►, and generally with a high b onus f rom t h e con . the food in which th e y t ra d e d . R epea l t h e retain Peel's Bill, and then the landlords would have to sell as cheap as other traders. It is the knowledge of this fact that makes them so tenacious of their piivil. ge. Is there any mode by which, on aura rendering their monopoly, they could still obtain high prices to cover their just share of taxation as pro ducers ? Undoubtedly there is. It is by reverting