The Sun. — London, England, 1840-02-24 00:00:00

GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, Incorporated by Act of Parliament, 69, Lombard-street, London. Notice is hereby given, that the HALF-YEARLY GENE.. RAL MEETING of the Proprietors of this Company will be held on TUESDAY, the 25th instant, at the Company's Office, 69, Lombard-street, at Ono o'Clock precisely,.pur suant to the Act of Parliament, to transact the usual business, and to declare the Dividend for the Half-year ending December 31, 1839. JOHN WILSON, Sec. London, Feb. 4, 1840. PRESENT STATE OF CUBA. This day is published, in 1 vol. 15v0., with a Map, price 15s. cloth lettered, CUBA ; with Notices of PORTO RICO, and the SLAVE TRADE. By D. TURNBULL, Esq., Member of the Royal Academy of History at Madrid, and of the Royal Patriotic and Economical Societies at Havana. •. The above is the first of a series of works, entitled "Travels in the West," on—lst. The Spanish West Indies; 2d. The British West Indies. 33. St. Domingo, and the French and Danish West Indies. 4th. 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On Wednesday, the 2'_;th inst., in 3 vols. post Bvo., T LI E PATH FINDER; Or, THE INLAND SEA. By the Author of " Tl:e Pioneers," " The Prairie," " Last of the Mohicans,"&c. " Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head, Aid Learning wiser grow without his books." COWPER.. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNDER ~ THE MANAGEMENT OF MADAME VEST RIS THIS EVENING, Frs. 24. Will be presented ~he Grand Allegorical and National Masque, in hon( ur of her Majesty's Nuptials, entitled THE FORTUNATE ISLES; OR, THE TRIUMPHS 01. BRITANNIA. The Music composed and selected by Mr. H. R. Bishop. After which, THE BEGGAR'S OPERA. Captain Macheath, Mr. W. Harrison ; Peachum, Mr. W. Farren ; Lockit, Mr. Bartley ; Filch, Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Peachum, Mrs C. Jones ; Polly Peachum, Miss Rainforth; Lucy Lockit, Madame Vestris. • . To conclude with the Comic Pantomime, called HARLEQUIN AND THE MERRIE DEVIL OF ED MONTON; OR THE GREA T BED OF WARE. 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The extraordinary marvels, performed nightly by the GREAT WIZARD of the NORTH, are of a nature so myste rious and truly wonderful, that, notwithstanding the march of intellect, there is a general exclamation, " Is this extraordi nary being Mortal or Supernatural?" On THIS EVENING (MONDAY), FEB. 24, 1940, and during the week, the GREAT WIZARD of the NORTH will 'perform his extraordinary Mysteries a la Magique—proving that he has the power to make the " eyes the fools o the other senses," concluding with the paralysing GUN TRICK, Boxes, 2s. 6d.—Pit, Is. 6d —Gallery, 6 d. Doors open at Half-past Six—commencing at half-past Seven. THE ROYAL "WEDDING SUN" OF MOI•TDAY, 10TH INST., CONTAINS TWO BEAUTIFUL MEDALLION PORTRAITS OF THE QUEEN AND PRINCE ALBERT, EXECUTED IN THE VERY FIRST STYLE OF THE ART. THE LIKE NESSES ARE PRONOUNCED BY COMPETENT JUDGES TO BE AD MIRABLE. THE EXPENSE OF PRODUCING THESE PORTRAITS HAS BEEN VERY GREAT; BUT THE CHARGE IS ONLY ONE SHILLING. THE SUN, CONTAINING THESE PORTRAITS, MAY BE RECEIVED BY POST IN ALL PARTS OF THE KINGDOM. PARTIES IN REMOTE PLACES CAN REMIT A SHILLING OR TWO, HALF A SOVEREIGN, OR A SOVEREIGN,-FOR ONE PENNY BY THE POST ; AND THEIR OR DERS WILL BE PUNCTUALLY AT TENDED TO. THE SUN ALSO CONTAINS A FULL ACCOUNT OF THE AUGUST CERE MONY, WITH ALL PARTICULARS APPERTAINING TO SO INTERES TING AN OCCASION. ORDERS FOR THE " ROYAL WED DING SUN" WILL BE RECEIVED BY ALL NEWS-AGENTS AND POST MASTERS THROUGHOUT THE KINGDOM, AND AT " THE SUN" OFFICE, 112, STRAND, LONDON. WATZU AT LONDON BRIDON TO-MORROW. 5S minutes after 0 I Evening 27 minutes after 7. ~R. r~ 1 ~ Mi ~."1i fir? %J;;; x s;~,:s 4 LONDON: - MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1840. A meeting is to be held this day the purpose of forming in the metropolis an Anti.c , Association. Several other facts are mentio r n n edl w n the provincial papers, and in letters from our Cor respondents, which show that the people are pain fully alive to this im p ortant sub jec t . It is impos sible it should be otherwise. Every profession i s overdone with candidates for employment, every business is overstocked with competing claimants for custom. Socialism has grown up in part from the intenseness of competition in a limited commu nity, - Which cannot extend its territory at pleasure, and cannot bring food, which is equivalent to an extension of territory, from other countries. Na - ture hems us in by the ocean ; and when the skill, •courage, , and "perseverance of our people have con verted that into a great highway of communication, opening the whole world to supply the wants of our people, then the law steps in and pre vents the people from prating by their exertions in . Overcoming the difficulties which nature has placed in their way. Our ancestors, under the influer.ce of a strong necessity, overran different countries to ex tend the sphere from which they could obtain food ; while this generation, acting on the prejudice de rived from that period, continue to honour the qua lities w hien were then useful, and erect statues to conquering Generals, and at the same time, by a Corn-law, prohibit, in fact, that virtual extension of our territory, for which conquest alone was and is valuable. Our Saxon progenitors had some reason, in their want of food, to spread themselves over the world as far as they could ; but we have no reason for our conquests, or establishing our colonies, since we at the same time stop our people from getting food, which is equivalent to conquering countries, from other parts of the world. Our states men are at once short-sighted and inconsistent, for they cannot foresee the r u i n to their system which time is bringing forward, and which they hasten to promote by colonization, while they seek to pre vent it by impeding the. importation of food. On the ono hand, they are at great expense to establish and maintain new homes for our circumscribed people, and, on the other, they do all they can to limit their resources to this narrow isl an d. It is this latter part of their conduct which makes our people too numerous for the comparatively few employments to which they are thus limited. Those who are now about to discuss the influence of the Corn-laws, will, we hope, take an enlarged view of the question, and, forsaking the narrow ground of the injuriousness of the Corn-laws to the manufacturers,will attempt to show that it is an enact ment as much in opposition to the natural course of society now as would have been a law in the second century to confine the; German tribes to their original homes ; that it iSpernicious, accordingly, to the whole community, and is the main cause for that difficulty, which all classes and condi tions now feel, to obtain a suitable reward for their labours or provide for their families. We are duly sensible of the :injury the Cern-law does to our manufactures ; but that is only one part of the enormous evils they inflict on the community, while other persons are taught to suppose, by that single consideration being pressed on the public, that other classes would be injured by the same chant e. It will be wise, therefore, in those who are now taking the lead in this measure, to extend their views, and seek :to obtain the repeal of the Corn-laws, on account of their general, not their local or partial mischief- Our readers must have been much amused by the proceedings at the Freemason's Tavern on Friday. The Tories called the meeting, and intended to pass strong resolutions against the claims of the Commons on the subje , et of Privilege. They were, however, forestalled, and disappointed. The Libe rals laid their plans well, and took possession of the chair and the meeting before the Tories had collected. Mr. Under-Sheriff FRANCE took on himself, when he :arrived, to claim the chair, to which he had about as much right as any other attorney who is employed by the Sheriff. His presumption in reading the Riot Act in a room, because his claims were -resisted, and his own friends had kicked up a row, is an unexampled piece of ar rogance. We presume that the Tories will not call a public meeting of any kind after this example of their inability to control such a meeting, even on the supposed popular questio❑ of opposing the pri vileges of the House of Commons. Press of matter has hitherto prevented us from adverting at length to the debate on Mr. DUN. COMER'S motion for the release of JOHN THO ROGOOD, and the exemption of conscientious Dissenters from the payment of Church-rates. If the result was unsuccessful as to the main object of the motion, the discussion which preceded it cannot fail to open the eyes of the Dissenting comm_unity to the real state of their cause, to the faults they have committed; and to the course they have to pursue, in order to im press the Legislature with a proper sense both of their importance and of the necessity of granting their just demands. That the Dissenters have been losing ground of late cannot admit of a doubt. The House of Com mons, which used to treat them with respect, if not with deference, now turns up its nose at them, and almost kicks their petitions under the table. Yet it is but a short time—not quite three vears—sinee the House ordered a Bill to be brought in for abolishing Church-rates, and supporting the Church entirely out of its own funds. Last year, the House passed a resolution which, while it showed a consi derable deduction from the amount of zeal formerly exhibited on the Church-rate question, evinced an apparent desire to relieve the Dissenters from the grievous burden of which they complained at an early period of the following Session. The resolution to which we refer evaS couched in the following words : " That it will be the duty of the Legislature, at the earliest possible period of ae next Session of Parliament, to make such alter ttions in the existing laws for levying Church rates as should prevent the recurrence of a like violence (the imprisonment of THOROGOOD) being ever again inflicted on that portion of her MAJESTY'S subjects who conscientiously dissent from the rites or doctrines of the Established Church." The question is brought before the House again this Session, and again we find a further fall of the barometer. In 1840 the Dissenters are _ told by her MAJESTY'S Leader of the House of Commons, that the victim of Ecclesiastical vengeance, for whom the House had last year expressed its sympathy,, whom it acknowledged by its vote to have been subjected to violence, and through whose sufferings it had been induced to pledge itself that it would take speedy measures to prevent the " recurrence of the like violence"—the Dissenters are told by Lord JOHN RUSSELL that this persecuted': man is deserving of no sympathy, because he ought. not to have al lowed his scruples of conscienceseligious scruples, mind—to get the better of his _!*ramount duty to obey the Church-rate law ; that, moreover, the said law, which compels Dissenters to give their money to the maintenance of`: a: religious system which they hold to be highly gen:mental to the in terests of Christianity, is founded - op a wise, fair, and just principle ; and that all . he will consent to do, in the way of relief to the;Dissenters, is to transfer—not the burden to the shoulders which ought to bear it, but—the duty of enforcing the payment of the conscience-oppressing tax from one Court to anotherfrom a Court which cannot get at the property of the recusant, to one that shall have_no difficulty in bringing it instanter to the hammer. A grand mea sure of relief truly And what says " the House" on this subject ? Just 62 Members out of the whole 658 are found disposed to relieve the Dis senters from the greatest of their still too numerous grievances ! But it is the , easiest thing in the world to ac count for this backsliding on the part of Honour able Gentlemen. The Dissenters three years ago wer e "up and doing." They were hearty in their own cause—fu ll of energy and activity. They held public meetings, made speeches, sent delegates from all parts of the country to the metropolis, loaded the table of the House with their petitions ; they showed, in short, that they were in earnest. That is the whole secret of the Church-rate Abo. lition Bill being brought in. temp and t h at time, i very , t e h v e a rr n s a c i t s e s n e h t: t : e p . r e u s v r i e t l r a ' o v f e w a e b s n e t e l h ) n u u t s g i a r a a s m d t u e . ally cooling down, until they have arrived at the point of torpidity. They feel, or—which is the same thing—they seem to Teel, no interest in their own concerns, but have handed them over to others whose prejudices are opposed to Dissent, or whose interests lie in a different direction from theirs. They put their trust in Cabipet Ministers, in humbug Societies, in time-serving Patriots, when they ought to trust only to themselves. They are become " quiet," and the Times now tells them that quiet ness is a title to " respect a bili t Let them look i n t o their . own history, and tell us what they have ever got by being qu e but the pity of their friends andthecO n their enemies ? Those degradin g b a d ges o f cont em pt a \ tp‘i THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, FETIRUARY 24, IS4O. ferior caste, the Test and Corporation Acts, were fixed upon them for the space of a hundred and fifty years. And why ? Because they were quiet— because they gave ear to so-called friends and would-be patriots, who, when thOrshowed any symptoms of restiveness, always exclaimed, " For Gods sake don't stir ! Tills IS NOT THE TIME." At last, however, they did stir. In 1828 they made a general and simultaneous movement, and shook off at once the yoke which had galled their necks during a century and a half of— quietness. WhEtt they may do in their present circum stances it is not for us to conjecture. They are not only trampled upon by their open and avowed enemies, but they have received a rude slap in the face from their professed friends and former advo cates. If anything can rouse their from their apathy, this, we think, ought. England is not the only country in which the Church is in danger. Indications of a more terrible fate than any with which Socialism threatens the Lordly disci ples of the humble JESUS in England, begin to disturb the repose of the Established Hierarchy of Sweden. The Socialists, if they had their own way, would dis pense with the services of the Right Rev. Bench in their sacerdotal and legislatorial capacity, and by abolishieg rich benefices, prebends, and stalls, at present maintained more for the personal comfort of lazy shep herds than to supply the spiritual wants of their starving flocks, reduce these lordly personages to the alterna tive of working or starving. This, of course. forms the climax of clerical wretchedness—the utmost extent of Episcopal misery, in the opinion of the Right Rev. Fathers in Gad of the English Church. But dreadful as it must be to contemplate the spectacle of a Bishop without a coach, a professed cook, a brace of butlers, a 'troop of menials in rich liveries, and a seat in Parliament ; the human imagination will, without difficulty, conceive that a more appalling, because a more mysterious and undefined, apprehension of danger might seize upon the mind of a Hierarchy less richly endowed than that of England. Now, a letter from Stockholm, received on Monday last in Paris, giving an account of the ceremonial of the opening of the late Swedish Diet, narrates a circumstance, or, rather, w e should say miracle, which had it occurred in England would have made the nation ring from one extremity to the r with shouts of the " Church in danger ;" and which, we have no doubt, has ere this formed the sub ject of many a Swedish homily, and many an Episcopal inuendo suggestive of a charge of infidelity against the heir-apparent to the Swedish Throne. In giving the account of this miracle a prominent place here, we are not without a hope that it will prove as useful as a forged Papal Bull to the Rev. Messrs. M'CrifEE, M•NEILE and their friends, at the next gathering of the religionists, not of " peace" but of the " sword," at Exeter Hall. After describing the appearance of the Diet, and the dresses of the KING, and the different orders, the writer adds, with solemn emphasis : " Just as the King was delivering that part of the speech in which he speaks of the period as being near at bend when he must, in the order of nature, descend into the tomb, a loose stone fell from a statute over the heads of the order of the clergy, and fell, with great force close to the Primate, the Archbishop of Upsal, and six bishops who were sitting with him, but fortunately no person was injured." The attentive readers of sacred and profane history cannot but see in the descent of this stone so near the heads of seven Bishops, at such a time and, in such a place, one of those omens . which mysteriously herald the approach of the greatest catastrophes. The fall of Nineveh, of Babylon, of Jerusalem, and of Rome was predicted by signs and wonders ; and if GUSEBIUS is to be credited, all the early persecutions of the Chris tians were indicated by miracles, many of which do not appear to us half so prognosticative of danger as the descent of a pebble, some two pounds weight, within a foot or two of the bare skulls of six Bishops and an Archbishop. The lucky escape of the Bishops' beads makes nothing against the danger to the Church ; for, be it observed, that the KING was speak ing of a period which, as friends of the Swedish Hierarchy, we trust is far distant—the time of his own interment. Then, that the danger is to come from Rome is apparent from the descent of the stone from a statue, which is manifestly an emblem of idolatry. Nay perhaps the statue itself is commemo rative of the exigence of some Popish Saint, and if so, the inference is as clear as is the presence of the sun at noon-day. The stone, be it remarked, was " loose," which indicates that the attack - on the Hierarchy is to be premeditated, and not from any sudden impulse. From this it may be inferred that Prince OSCAR is either a Papist or an Infidel in his heart, and that he is now " lowening" the stone, or, in other words, leaguing himself with Rome. Perhaps, like the Whigs, he has a secret agent there, for a purpose not a jot more justi fiable than the abolition of the slave trade. If the charity of the Bishop of EXETER does not begin and end at home, we implore him to consider by what means the calamity which threatens his Right Reverend Brethren in Sweden may be averted. As no miracle is reported to have preceded the birth of ROBERT OWEN, we are not under any alarm of serious danger to the Established Church of England from his attacks. We respect the fears of a Prelate so wise in his generation as Dr. PHILLEoTTr, but his Lordship's prowess is a sufficient guarantee of safety from attacks made by ordinary mortals coming into the world in the ordinary way What fills us with unspeakable terror is the descent of a " loose stone" so near the heads of six Bishops and an Archbishop. Although there is nothing absolutely new in the fol lowing extracts from two letters written by officers on board the Volage, of whose engagement with twenty nine Chinese war-junks an account was brought by the last overland mail from India, they will be read with in terest, as affording a satisfactory confirmation of the news previously received. The writers take no notice of the reported interference of Superintendent ELLIOTT, who, in the previous accounts from Bombay, was stated to have commanded Captain SMITH to cease firing, and so saved from inevitable destruction more than twenty of the enemy's junks. One of the officers expressly says that, but for the " great and becoming mo deration of Capt. SMITH, the whole of the Chinese flotilla would have been destroyed." But this might have been the act of the Superintendant notwithstanding, and the probability is that it was so. Superintendent ELLIOTT was on board the Volage durk:g the action, and as Captain SMITH was bound to receive instructions from him, as the Representative of the Government, it is not probable that on such an occasion he neglected to consult with him on the extent of the chastisement • which it was judicious to inflict on the Chinese. Of an act so lauded by one party and condemned by another, as the moderation of the British in this engagement, it may appear presumptuous to speak decisively without still further intelligence from Hong Kong. Judging, how. ever, from the statements, upon which conclusions so opposite have been arrived at, our impression is, that if there was a necessity for firing a shot at all, there was an equally great necessity that the result of the action should be as decisive as possible. As a demon stration of our power in the case of such egotistical barbarians as the Chinese, it would surely have been more effective to have sunk the whole flotilla than a few junks, especially as the celestials will never be per suaded that any one of them escaped which it was in our power to destroy. They will give us no credit for humanity, nor is it natural that they should, under such cirenmstances. We arc, therefore, persuaded that, taking the most humane view of the conduct of the British in this affair, it was short-sighted in the extreme, and in the end will be productive of i ncrease d bl oo d s hed. Had the crews of the junk s b een se i ze d, an d a f te r being wholly in the power of the B r iti s h, b een set as hore without in jury and without ransom, the humanity and policy of such moderation even the Chinese would have been ebliged to admit. Of such a course we would be among the first to pronounce an ardent approval. The first extract which we shall give from these letters is dated " Hong Kong, Nov. 6, 1839 In my last I mentioned that negotiations were in progress for arranging temporarily the affairs here. An officer with the Hong merchants came down to Macao, and every tiling was settled by them and Captain Elliot for re opening the trade at the Bucca Tigris. At this moment the ship Thomas. Ottley, arrived, and in defiance of the superintendent's injunctions, entered the Bogue by signing the bond. All was at an end then. The Commissioner sent back the Hong merchants who had left Macao, and said he would agree to nothing; but th e s hi ps coming to Whempao, the delivery .of the man up, and called upon the Portuguese again to drive forth the English, many of them having returned under an impression that all was concluded. The supplies were again stopped, the servants left, and many English were obliged to seek refuge in the houses of the Portuguese. Under these circumstances, and the increased force in the neighbourhood of the shipping, together with a large camp outside of Macao, overawing the Portuguese, Capt. Elliot wrote to Capt. Smith, suggesting that, as he had done all in his power to arrange matters, without success, the only thing left was to go to the Bogue with the ships, and ask for the people to be unmolested in Macao. Capt. Smith concurred with him, and proceeded up, and I think von will agree with me that in the chop addressed to the Commissioner, nothing was asked for more than was proper, and the discourteous a c t o f sen ding it back by a pilot uto nswered, shows very pl a i n ly th e f ee ling by whien they were actuated. 6 , When their force came down upon us it became a simple question—' which was to give way ?' and after all that had taken place it wou'd never have done for us to retire. Ido not know the extent of damage done. We were engage one hour. One junk blew up, three sunk ; and I do not think there are many left that will be fit for serv'ee. They have had a severe lesson, but not an unde served one, when it is taken into consideration that the fArnilies of our countrymen have been driven twice from M.:cao—the atrocious attack upon Mr. Moss—the attelipt to poison the water in the vicinity of the shipping—the call of the authorities upon the people to fire upon and seiz,, the English wherever they could be found—the burn ing of the Bilbiano, taking her for an English vessel, &c. The next is of a date two days later, and is as fol lows : " Concerning the conflict which to,lc place at Chumpce, I can only assure you that every effort was made to avert collision with the Chinese; but retirement before a force, moved out probably for the purpose of intimidation, and the declared intention of proceeding to seize a man in satisfaction for the native, Lin-wei-he, was impossible. Captain Smith, however, displayed great r.nd becoming moderation, for there would have been no difficulty in ut terly destroying the whole flotilla. It was a side wind, and the ships ran un and down the line, with each broadside bearing; but he thought that to repel onward movements was the limit to which he was justified in proceeding. It is satisisctory to know that the Commissioner witnessed this proof of our prowess ; and I can not doubt it wit impress the Chinese Government whole somely. We not yet heard how the affair has been taken. You will be glad to hear that the larger portion of the cargoes has been sent up and disposed of at favourable prices. The disturbed condition of affairs has at least had the advantage of helping prices. " Concerning the opium -traffic, it is only necessary to remark that it is in the situation that might be expected from these fool'sh measures of the Commissioner—that is to say, as flourishing as possible. When he arrived in these provinces, and for some months before, it was per ce ly stagnant. He (Lin) gives it such an in pulse, and casts it into such desperate hands, both natve and foreign, that I feel assured we shall soon see these coasts the prey of people who are little else than buccaneers. If the Commissioner had adopted moderate measures, the lawless traffie would have been swamped instead of the lawful. The two cannot co.exist." Tee " foolish measures" here censured are not wholly the Commissioner's. The last overland mail from India brought us a Proclamation by Superintendent ELLIOTT, promulgated since his expulsion from Canton, strictly forbidding all British subjects from trafficking in opium. Now we regard the issuing of such pro clamations by the Superintendent as exceedingly pre posterous in the present state of our relations with the Chinese Government. It is surely no business of ours, after an ignominious expulsion from their ports, to em ploy ourselves in vindicating the authority of their Coss tong-house regulations. By the arrival at Cork, on Thursday last, cf the packet-ship South America, which was compelled to put in there in consequence of the stormy state of the weather in the Channel, we have received New York Papers to the 3d inst., inclusive. They bring very little news of interest. The Maine Boundary question excited great attention, and it required all the firmness of the Federal Government to prevent the " loafers" of Maine from involving Great Britain and the United States in a general war. This is is not surprising. The United States abound in desperate characters, and in political and financial gamblers, who contemplate the approach of war as a flock of vultures might be supposed to do the carcase of an ox rolling down a pre cipice. The ruin of a nation is nothing to them, provided they can hope to enrich themselves. The j-bbers in loans, the army and navy contractors, and the hundreds who everywhere expect to share their g ains, arc all clamorous about the invasion of the Maine Boundary, and the expediency of chastising the inso lence of the " Brittishers." It is greatly to be re gretted that Mr. FAIRFIELD, the Governor of Maine, is as busy as the busiest of these persons, in blowing into a flame the embers of international strife. Still there is a strong anti-war party even in Maine ; and taking the States of the Union collectively, five-sixths of the people are averse to a war with Great Britain, which, however it would terminate, would unquestionably inflict commercial distress, to an unparalleled extent, upon the people of the United Sta-es. In addition to the papers relative to this question, which were submitted to Congress at the date of our previous advices from New York, the PRE SIDENT communicated to the Senate, on the 29th ult., two notes, of the dates of the 26th and 28th respec tively, the first from Mr. Fox, the British Minister, and addressed to Mr. FORSYTH, and the second the answer of the American Minister to Mr. Fox's communi cation. The following extract from Mr. Fonsynes note will show the purport of this correspondence, which, on the part of the British Ambassador. was to correct misstatements Made by Governor FAIRFIELD : The undersigned, Secretary of State of the United States, has the honaue.to reply, by direction of the Presi dent, to the note addressed to him on the 26Th inst. by Mr. Fox, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten• fiery of Great Britain. " The President derives great satisfaction from the infor mation conveyed by Mr. Fox's note, that with reference to the reported .movements of British troops within the territory in dispute, no actual change has taken place in the attitude of her Majesty's authorities in the territory since the arrangements entered into by the two Governments, at the commencement of last year, for the preservation of tranquillity within its limits, and from his assurances that there exists no intention on the part of her Ma jesty's authorities to infringe the terms of those atrange merits, so long as they are faithfully observed on the side of the United States. The President, however, cannot repress a feeling of regret that the British colonial authorities, without graver motives than the possibility of a departure from the arrangements by the State of Maine, should take upon themselves the discretion, and along with it, the fearful responsibility of probable consequences, of being guided by circumstances, liable as these are to be misapprehended and misjudged in the adoption, within the disputed territory, of measures of defence and precaution, in manifest violation of the understanding between the two countries, whenever they may imagine that acts of hostile aggression over the disputed territory are meditated or threatened on the part of the State of Maine. The President cannot but hope that, when her Majesty's Go vernment at home shall be apprised of the position as sumed in this regard by its colonial agents, proper steps wilt be taken to place the performance cf express and so lemn agreements upon a more secure basis than colonial discretion, to be exercised on apprehended disregard of such agreements on the part of the State of Maine. " Mr. Fox has already been made the channel of con vr,yance to his Government of the &sire and determina_ tioa of the President that the obligations of the country shall he faithfully discharged; that desire is prompted by a sense of expediency as well as of justice, and by an anxious wish to preserve the amicable relations now, so manifestly for the advantage of both, subsisting between the United States and Great Britain. The question of domestic slavery having been brought before Congress, the House of Representatives voted, by a majority of 10i to 108, that no petitions or me morials for the abolition of slavery would be received or entertained by the House! Upon this infamous reso lution we shall take an early opportunity of com menting. If this majority comprise within it many Members who support Governor FAIRFIELD'S policy of a war with England, we fairly warn them, that in the event of hostilities, the question of slavery will not be entirely left to their determination. To popularize an American war, an English Minister would have only to hold up this vote in the House of Commons. We trust this remark will not be lost upon the pro slaver!. clamourers for a war with this country. We subjoin the latest monetary and commercial in. teifgence from the New York Morning Herald of the 3d inst. The only news from the Canadas, where all continues tranquil, is that Sir GEORGE ARTHUR will not lave Toronto before the union of the two Provinces. NEW YORK MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. SUNDAY, :FEB. 2-6 P.M.-The news by the Patrick Henri, connected with the progress of events on this side, being inauQpicicus to toe maintenance of fictitious prices, causel a decline in prices at the stock hoard yesterday. United States Bank fell 2 per cent; American Exchange Bank, l ; Delaware and Hudson, I ; North American Trust and Banking Co., 11; Providence Railroad, 1; Harlem, 11. There were sates of old corporation bonds, at 13 discount. Post notes of the United States Bank, due yesterday, payable in Philadelphia, were offering at 7 per cent. The banks continue to diicount readily all short busi ness paper at the 1 gal rate of interest. The same class o f piper, at 1 mg dates, is taken in the street at 1 a 11 per cent. per month. There is a gnat deal of other paper floating, which ranges from 1 to 6 per cent. per month, according to quality. Moat of it is old accommodation paper. Capitalists are becoming daily more shy of it, and it is almost irnpossihk to negotiate any paper that is tainted with old speculative affairs, as the risk is very great. The towering mass of credits, the high prices of com modities, the fictitious business, the extravagant valuation of property, and the money price of labour, that reached their zenith in 1836, with the expansion of banking ope ratimli in both hemispheres, and have since been feebly supported by the struggles of the speculators, have now reached a point at which the downward tendency can no longer be retarded. Commercial, legislative, and natural causes, all conspire to complete the revolution that has so !erg been goink forward. Amid the confusion pro duced by the culmination of events now in progress, holders of property must give way, and prices sink below even specie rates. The ,- will then react and vacillate until the working of • the new system pro euces steadiness. The news from England represents aff,irs• there as very similar to those of this country, with the cliff rence ti at her interests arc more manufae ; g, and those oft e United States agr cul ural. The re , ults of the severe car ailment of the Bark of England's cirttlAtion are now jukt visible in the multitude of failure that we reported. The expert trade of Greet Britain was retarded up to September last by the continuance of the maximum of circulation. So long as this remained the same, the manufacturers and leading dealers could get along by bolstering and renewals, at a high rate of in terest, in the same manner as that practised here. In September,lhe necessity of curtailment was too imperative to be delayed, and the circulation has decreased ten per cent. since that time. The effect of this was immediately felt in the manufacturing districts. In the United States there is no powe - iful national Bank, on the movements of which depend the activity of trade ; but the policy of the more influential portion of the Banks centering in Philadelphia, has been the same as that of the Bank of England up to September, viz. to balster ; but having less means, suspension was resorted to in order to enable , hem to maintain the same amount of circulation. The result was the same as in England— a stagnation of trade. The same necessity fur curtail ment now prevails here as in England, but will be brought about by • different means—the first of which is the Re sumption Bill, which passed the Pensylvania House of Representatives, on Thursday night, by a vote of 69 to 24, mid was sent to the Senate on Friday. The following are the points of the Bill: PENNSYLVANIA RESUMPTION BILL. The hanks are required to resume the payment of gold and silver for all their liabilities, whether notes or deposits, on the 15th day of February, 1840. If they do not do so, any person aggrieved may make complaint before a judge of the court, and the judge shall appoint the tenth judicial day thereafter for a hearing of the parties, and it is made the duty of the deputy Attorney- General of the county to prosecute the case. And, if the facts are substantiated, the judge shall, within two !lays, in form the governor of the fact, and it then becomes the duty of the governor, on receiving such information, forthwith to issue his proclaina.ion, declaring the charter of such bank null and void for all purposes, except to fulfil its con tracts previously entered into, and to enable the trustees to collect all moneys due to the said bank. The governor is further required to' appoint three proper persons (called Commissioners) to take charge of the bank so forfeiting,its charter; and the said commissioners are required to make oath, and give sufficient security, before entering upon the duties of their office. The duty of the said Commissioners shall be to collect the debts due to :.he bank, and pay over semi monthly, pro rata, amongst the creditcrs, all the mon 1? that may come into their handa, and they are re quired to make a final settlement at the end of three years. The noteholders are to be paid first ; the depositors second ; and the stockholders last. The discussion in the Senate, on the plan for assuming the State debts, which has been avowed by those most in terested in the stocks, as the only means of sustaining their credit, indicates that this last resource e ill find no favour; and to effect new loans, in the words of Messrs. Baring and Co., " a more comprehensive guarantee than that of' individual States will be required." From what source, then, will be derived the $10,000,000 necessary to pay England the interest due in 1840 on State loans? Toe answer is made fearfully distinct, in the failure of the State of Pennsylvania, yesterday, to pay the interest on her loans, amounting to $600.000, and due at the Bank of Pennsylvania. Applicants for payment were answered, " that no provision had been made for it." $200,000 were borrowed to pay the interest which is to be reimbursed on the Ist of March. Pennsylvania has thus commenced that series of Sate bankruptcies which will for ever destroy the credit of many of the States. The State of Maryland Housd of Representatives hes passed a law,suppressing small bills, by a vote of 47 to 10. Many other States have similar laws. With the operation of the different Bills now about to become laws, bank paper will become almost annihilated. The alarm, panic, and confusion will be tremendous, and property must change hands far below specie prices. . At such a moment, the operation of a general b tnkrupt law will be imperatively called for, and will be highly beneficial in its effects. The immense crops will be sold at such prices as greatly to facilitate their exportation. All the necessaries of life will be lower, probably, than ever before known. The money prices of labour must sink in proportion ; but if a carpenter, for instance, gets but $l, where but three years since he got $3, the $1 will command more of the neces saries of life than did the $3 at that time. Above all, rents and real estate must feel the reduction. They have hitherto been sustained more than other species of property, and the change will therefore be more perceptible. The general result will be a reanimation of trade. The English markets will slowly recover, and a demand for produce revived to an extent that must take off the surplus. The States will be restrained from borrowing, a gcaeral resumption of the sound banks restore the currency, and the operation of the Sub.treasury Bill tend to prevent any farther expansion. A general bankrupt law would then have clewed the wreck, and left all open for a new season of prosperity. RATE OF SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE. 500 dots Corporation Bonds 9Bf 63 *sh's U. S. Bank 40 do. Dry Dock - 50 do. Commerce ( Scrip) s6ods 96 16 do. American Exchange Bank 25 do. Kentucky Bank 50 do. , Delawaro and Hudson 80 do. N. A. Trust 4J 125 0.0. N. A. Trust 404 47 do. Canton Co. Balt 10 do. Paterson Bank 9 5 do. Mohawk '9O s 6l 250 do. N. Jersey R. IZ. , ,60,1s 7B 50 do. Boston and Providence opg... lot 15 do. Stonington 150 do. Harlem was so severely injured that he lingered onilv two ho ura ; the other, while forehead, fell overboard „Ind instt ‘ntly surtk. Arrived, on the 13th, the British brig L la, from Greenock, out 46 days, bound to Trinidad, Ist len with coals and stores, with loss of bulwarks and stanchio us, and compelled to throw part of the cargo overboard at sea, On the 16th, the Iberia, from GibrAlter and Cadiz ; during her transit from the former port, a pas.,enger, Liet, genant Marshall, of the 46th Foot, stationed in that garrison', in a fit of temporary insanity jumped overboard and was dro word. The British schooner, Elizabeth, from Halifax to Cork, out 35 days, with timber, leaky, and loss of rudder and bulwarks. " Mr. Southern, the Secretary to the British Legation at this Court, arrived here from Madrid, via Cadiz, yes terday morning." Foreign ships of war in the Tagus.—The Donegal, 11 a venge, and Espoir, British ; Le Blonde, French. The Paris Jour,'_ials o; Friday and S iturday talk of nothing but the resignatioo of the Ministry. The Duke de NEMOURS, who arrive.) at Paris from Brussels,. waited upon Marshal SOULT anti his colleagues, and condoled with them upon his and their unhappy fate. His Royal Highness is a person of rnivisterial ill omen. His appanage bill was the doom of the Mott Cabinet, and his dotation bill has annihilated the Sisuvr Ministry. But the Royal Duke has found a patron more munificent than the churlish Chamber of Depu ties. His younger brother, the Duke D'A /matt, has commanded' that his estates be charged with an annuity to the Duke DE NEMOURS, ingnal to that refused by the Chamber of Deputies. _lt would have been wet had this been done before the ap plication to the Chamber was made ; and in fact the aiility of the young Duke so liberally to provide for Isis brother, evinces the shamelessness of the application to the National Representafves. The crivate property . of Vac ORLEANS family is immense ; and the attempt to quarter them upon the public purse is scandalously mean, not to say dishonest. Tue following extract from a letter from Teulon, re lative to the Port Mahon affair, appears in the . Paris Papers of Saturday : .4 The Members of the Commission which was entraatedl to give its opinion on the formation of a French hospital at Mahon, have received orders from the Minister at War to return to their several places of abode, and tbis esta blishment, which it seemed to be intended to form with alt speed, remains suspended." Count MOLE and M. FLOUREUS were on Thursday elected members of the French Academy. The rejec tion of M. VICTOR HUGO on two occasions of a va cancy, has excited some surprise in the literary circles of Paris. Up to a late hour on Saturday the KING had done nothing towards reconstructing the Cabinet. His MAJESTY was very angry with SOULT and his colleagues for allowing the Bill to be lost withopt a discussion. BO URSE.—PAMS, SATURDAY, FEB. 22. first Highest Lowest lwittt Price Price. Price. Prielo _ French 3 ner Cents ll3 ... 113 20 .. 113 ... 1 3 0 45% per Cents ICS .., US ... 103 ... 102 4 per Cents lO2 75 . >t3 75 ... 11t1 75 ... 103 75' 3 per Cents B2 ... 82 10 ... 82 ... S 2 & Bank of ciance Latlitte Bank I,ooof. Sh 1065 ...1065 ...1(62 50 ...1 f 2 59 5,000 f. Sh 5190 ...5200 ...5190 ...5:;00 Belgian Bank 942 50 ... 1142 50 ... 1)40 ... 940 f, per Cents 3 per Cents 72 20 ... 72 20 ... 72 2) ... 72 20 United States Bank Loan 994, ... 99!4 ... 99t ai ... gir* Spanish Active... Passive 7 ... 7 ... 7 ... New , cferr6.l Portuguese 3 per Cents ON ... 2.3% ... 23N ... 23% Neapolitan lOl 10 ... 101 20 ... 1114 10 ... 104 2 lttnnan ..... 1! , .I . ...,.. 103_%, ... 103 ... 19314 St. Germain Versailles. It. B L.B. RAILWAY SHAREK 635 ... 625 ... 535 530 ... 542 50 ... 550 360 ... 365 ... 360 ... 460 ... 460 460 ... 46t( Orleans .. Mulhausen to Thann .. 4lO ... 410 ::. 410 .7,. 410 Strasburg to Bale 337 50 ... 242 50 ... 037 50 ... 241 2S BELGIAN l• UNDS—Bausme, FIB. 2'2. Actual Debt, 2IY - per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Csnt lOl% Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent 94 3 per Cent. 72% Loan of City, 1532, 4 per Cent ......... .......... It's Society of Commerce, 4!.4 per Cent 197 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 93 ; 11, National Society . Exchange on London (short) - -Brussels Pavers, Feb. 22., • . AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vrxxsra, FEB. 14. Five per Cents. Metalliquas • 10914 Foss!' per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Shares 1741 ...,11igenzeixe Zeitung, Feb 12. ANNUITY OF THE KING OF THE BELGIANS —l6 appears from a return made to the House of Commons, that since the 6th of January, 1816, up to the sth of January, 1840, the sum of 1,108,6201. 13s. 9id. ' had been paid to and received by Prince Leopold, now King of the Belgians, of which he has paid into the Exche quer 195,0001. THE MARKETS.-(141Iii DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The past week's arrivals were good of most kinds of Grain and considerable of Flour. The fresh supplies of all articles have been small. Fine dry parcels of English Wheat have ob— tained full Is. per quarter advance, and other qualities have met a fair sale at f( rmer prices. Good Malting Barley has sold at last Monday's rates, but middling sorts • were rather lower. Dry Beans and Grey Pease rather dearer. Oats maintained the terms of Monday se'nnight. In the Flour-trade no improvement. Fine English Spring Tares hare obtained 9s. to Its., and Foreign 7s. to Bs. per bushel. PRICES ON 80. Wheat, Red (old) 555. - White (old) (159. - Red 1ti.39) 544. COA. Floc, 625.635. .tan OF SPIT' Beans, Small ;new) 44r. 4b , —.-......-- (old) e. --I. Tick (new) 36s 38.- - (old) 42,.44 Superfine 685. 70s -Whtte (1839) 60s. (AL --- Fine 665. '70.; -Superfine 745. 133. --Fereignfree 603 F:26 Et yc 468. 405 HarroW (new) "$..4 )e (01d)... ,„ 415.464. Brank Oats, Feed s...—t. New . 23x . 275. Poland Barley 30i 38 , . - Grinding ,308. --- Malting 3Ss 45s . . New "6 - ,238.. - Potatoe 293.32.0. -- N e w 193.325. Malt 56*, t 5! Fine New 663. i4s, - Scotch Irish 225. ... 25c.27r. Pease, Grey, New --- Maple New Flour Town (rer sack) 52, 621. - Seconds 545.565 Wliite 3Ss. 40 , .1 N& rth Country ....603 52, -- Boilers 4N. 4;2 I Bran ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAST WERK. Wheat. Barley. I U.LS. rqouri ,o 3 q I rs. ls;6i:qrs. I 18,157 qrs. 11,284 sacks 2,926 200 brit,. English Irish Foreign 8,744 I 7,510 I The show of Cattle was tolerably large, buyers were nume rous, and prices of fine Beef advanced full 4d. per stone, but the inferior sorts met no alteration. Choice Mutton sold at 55., and fine Downs ss. 4d. In-Veal a pleasant trade at pre-. vious prices, and fine young Porkßrs ss. 4d. per stone. Beef, 3.. 4d. to ss. ; Mutton, 4s. 2d. 'fro 53. 4d. ; Veal, ss. to 53. 10d. ; Pork, 4s. 4d. to ss. 4d. Cattle at Alarket—Beasts, 2,771 Sheep, 21,130—Calves, 75—Pigs, 493. BILLINGSGATE Supplies good, and prices lower. Turbot, 15s. ; top price Cod, 2s. to 10s. ; Soles, 6d. to 4s: per pair ; Lobsters, Is. to ss. ; Salmon, 2s. tSd. per lb. ;,Oysters, 245. to 60s. per bushel Whitings, 4d. to Bd. ; and Haddock., Bd. to Is. Bd. BERMONDSEY WATERSIDE POTATO MARKET. Trade has improved, and prices? have rather advanced ; the supply was liberal. Scotch Reds fBs. to 745. Jersey Blues 603. to 655. Wisbeach 565. to 60s: York Reds 70s. to 78s. STATE OF TRADE. There is no movement of any cons, , qu2nee in any of the markets. The rivers and small harbours in the neigh bourhood are ice -bound, and trade is mostly confined to the wants of the city. The prospect of financial affairs is by far too gloomy to allow of any new enterprizes being en gaged in by wholesale dealers. The supplies of merchati dize of all descriptions are large, and the c.nstant tendency of prices is to recede. The weather was very inclement yesterday, which prevented the transaction of much out door business. The effect of the news was n7t therefore very perceptible. The Liverpool is, however, close at hand with twenty-five days later, and no movement will bemade until her arrival. COTTON.—During the fore part of the week, there was a moderate business done in this article, averaging about 700 bags per day, at rates current at the close of the pre vious week, say—Upland., 8+ a SI; Mobile, 9,1 a 10+ ; New Orleans, 8+ a 10i; Florida, 8+ a 91. The southern markets evince, generally, accumulating stocks and declining prices, with very little animation. On the 18th instant the QUEEN REGENT of Spai n , accompanied by the young Queen ISABELLA H., opened the Cortes. This intelligence was communi cated to the French Government on Saturday. The following are the despatches received by telegraph . " THE SUB-PREFECT OF BAYONNE TO THE MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR. " Bayonne, Feb. 20, 1840. " On the 18th, the Queen Regent, in person, opened the Chambers ; Queen Isabella was present at the cere mony, which terminated well. " Madrid is perfectly tranquil." " Madrid, Feb. 18. " THE AMBASSADOR OF FRANCE TO THE MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS. " The Queen Regent, accompanied by Queen Isabella, opened the Session of the Cortes to-day. Their Majes' ies on entering the assembly were received with the greatest enthusiasm, and on their r assa g e the populace testified similar feelings. The Speech from the Throne has given genuine approbation. The aspeet . of Aladrid is satisfactory in every respect." By the arrival of' the Iberia at Falmouth on Satur dlv, we have received Lisbon papers of the 17th inst. inclusive. Nearly a fortnight had there been consumed in debating the answer of the CORTES to the Speech from the Throne, in the course of which the Slave question was a particularly prominent subject of angry discussion. Several deputies were loud in their repro bation of England, and advised an immediate declara tion of war against-this country. This counsel provoked much merriment among the more sensible part of the membe!s of that Assembly. The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs recommended calmness and the avoidance of all irritating remarks ; stated that the national dignity was so hurt by Lord PALMERSTON'S Bill, that the negotiations for a Treaty must be considered as broken off; expressed a hope that the two Governments would come- to an ami cable understanding. without foreign intervention ; and admitted that he had found in his office two proposals from Lord PALMERSTON for the purchase of Goa, which had been rejected by his predecessor in office. The debate terminated in no result of the slightest im portance. We copy from the private correspondence of a Contemporary the following miscellaneous news from Lisbon : " The law for the exportation of wine of the first an 4 second quality from the antro for ports not in Europe, whether in foreign or national vessek at the duty of I pi r cent. ad valorem, was unanimously passed in the Senate on the 6th instant. " A verdict was found, on the 11th inst ant, ag,inst Ge neral M'Donald, who has been so long a prisoner in the Castle of San Joa da Fix, at Oporto, and suspected of going to Braga for the purpose of raising a guerilla ban ditti in favour of Don Miguel. He was consequently re manded to prison until final judgment he preferred. " A band of guerillas, of 33 foot and horse, was fallen in with near Caveiras by the Queen's troops a few days since, when a struggle ensued ; two of the former were killed, and eight taken prisoners. The British brig Avalon, from Newfoundland, laden with dry cod fish, was driven on the Cabadello at the en trance of the river Douro on Thursday, the 13th instant— crew saved. A small part of her cargo has been dis charged, and, should the weather continue•favourable, it is exp , Tted the whole, together with her stores, will be laude.', The hull of the v esse l cannot b e got o ff , A fatal a ident „ ~r dOn bo d her :iiajesty's,,,ip tight last ; one, while in the act of to:vet ing down a boat, fell, and his head coming in contact with her gunwale. SEED MARKET, The arrivals of Seeds have been small, and but little passing in the market. Prices of all kinds unaltered. Linseed 40s. W 48s. per quarter, and Rapp Sell 4,1/. per last. .140 P AUK ET. The demand limited. Tl* market quiet. Prices iirralY sustained, particul ar ly f or thekolory sorts. TALLOW MARKET. P. Y. C. secured a steadibusintss at 51s. 6d. to Sls. 9cl - Stock is 19,000. TEA MARKET. There was a good attendance of the trade, but not much done. 1 - W4l,l:cry firm, Arid prices looking up. Nothing but fresh news froth China, slrMving the re.opening of trade to be nearer than is anticipated, can send prices down. COLONIAL MARKET. No public sales, and very little by private treaty. For the week there is a fair amount of business advertised. MORPETII.—SATURDAY AFTERNOON. ---- (From a Correspondent.) —Th e Morpeth election has con cluded; the Tories are thoroughly beaten ; their candidate o' 3 ° proposed, but, before he enneludjd his speech, retired, afraid of being driven to a poll, as he had not a quarter of the votes. He was accompanied by all the Tory squires. In Bedlington shire, where Lord Carlisle has no interest, Captain Howard eras supported by all but five voters; and Chartists, Radical Re formers, and Whigs, have ill united to support him. Upwards of 1000 persons accompanied him into the town. CONFESSION OF A MURDERER.—About fortnight ago Mr. Nevell Norway was murdered on the road from Rodmin to his place at Wadebridge in Cornwall. Suspi cion attached to two brothers, Wm. and James Lightfoot• sons of th. , sexton of St. Breock, ho were arrested and un derwent a final examination at Wadeb . ridge on Wednesday last, when William made a full confession of the murder. The other prisoner said nothing. They were fully committed to take their trial at the Suing Assizes on the 2dth of March. Lord Leveson having accepted the office of Un der Secretary for Foreign Affairs, a vacancy occurred in the represen• ation of Alorpeth, woich called two candidates into the field, viz., the Hon. Captain Howard and ALijoi. Cadogrot Whig and Tory—the former the son of the Earl of Carlisle, the layer the protege of " Pretty Dick;" and the contest bet ended in the utter defeat of the Tories. O n W c d nes a y nigh _Master Hodgson delivered a lecture on total abstinence, from the committee-room window, to Kin over the teetotallers; .ana , at the cooclusion of hi 3 address he ordered a barrel or beer, to buy the other section of the community. It is 38 years sine; thei e was a contested election in Alorpeth.— Gateshead 0 - server. A letter from Vienna, tiated the 10th FehruarY published in the Frankfrirter Jow•nal, says—" I am able to in form you, on authority almost certain, of the plan of a marriage 1 etween his Highness Prince Augustus of Saze Coburg ( ( ohary (born 13th May, 1818), a n d b rot h er to t h e King Portugal, with the Princess Jennma, sister to the Emperor Of Brazil, horn May 1,1821. VIENNA, FEB. 11. —`1 1 !If? lee mr,:l frf-Ir erteis auti rLilllkary Uot provlu el ': who but lately celebrated t h e fif t i eth anniversary of his entr ance in the service. r ~, c ,,.