The Sun.
London, England, 1839-07-13 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION.

(Cheers.) Why reserve for himself the pleasing duty of
remitting taxes, and leave his opponents the labour of Im-
posing them ?—( Cheers and laughter.) The Right Hon.
Gentleman referred to a pledge. He (Sir Robert Peel)
was against such an experiment upon the interest of the
public creditor. If the deficiency which had so lament-
ably existed for three years should extend into a fourth, no
doubt Parliament must devise some measure to avert fur-
ther disgrace from the nation ; but it would be unwise to
pledge the House to provide a substitute merely for one
particular tax, for then they might object to -übstitute on
any other grounds. He was reedy to give M. Rowland 11111
credit fur the greatest ability and candour. That gentle-
man stated that any loss the revenue might sustain from
a penny postage would be made good from the increase
of ether branches of commerce. But who was to determine
the benefit ariing from other sources?—(Cheers.) If
they confined themselves to a pledge upon one ground,
many parties might reasonably object to an imposition of a
new tax, on the ground that the redeemed postage would
do them no good.._ (Cheers.) But if they had the
revenue at large to make up, there could be no such par-
tial objections made. The Right Hon. Gentleman had
sail there was a difference between political and financial
arrangements, but be ( sir R. Peel) could see none. His
firm belief was, that if the House redeemed the pledge
they were celled upon to give, they would be pledging
themselves to a property tax.—( Hear, hear.) That might
be the wisest course to adopt, but it would be a
great question with him whether it would be wise
to impose such a tax. He objected to the pledge
altogether, thinking that it would be far bet-
ter, and more becoming on the part of the Ministers
of the Crown, to leave it to Parliament to take such steps
as the case might require. He should therefore object to
giving the pledge required. For doing so, the Right
Hon. Gentleman might, if he pleased, cast upon him the
odium of opposing the measure, for that he cared nothing
for; he would, however leave that public arena in which he
had been engaged for upwards of thirty years; than concur
with the proposition that was now brought forward, of
pledging that House to make good any deficiency that
might tyke place.—( Hear, hear.) Hon. Members might
fancy that the popular will was in favour of the measure,
and that the people would not be satisfied without it ; but
his firm conviction was that if a month was allowed to
pass, and the subject was brought forward early in the next
Session, the public would be perfectly sati fied.—( Hear.
hear.) lie objected to Parliament divesting itself of its
proper functions, and he should therefere oppose the propo-
sition.

Mr. P. THOMSON concurred with the Right Hon.
Gentleman in the observations he had made relative to the
necessity of maintaining the public credit of th country ; but
with respect to the pledge that was esked for the House
they were in this 'situation ; they could not give the plan
a trial unless they came to Parliament, and asked for powers
to carry it into effect for a time, coupled with the pledge.
The Right Hon. Gentleman wished to have the vote for
the proposed tax submitted toethe House at the same time.
That was impossible. How' could they ask for a tee to
supply deficiency, the eaten of which was not kncwn.
One person said there would be no deficiency, another
said it would be considerable, while Lord Ashburn-
ham said the revenue would be entirely annihilated.
Until the experiment was tried, therefore it was impossible
to tell the amount that was required ; and unless the pre-
sent pledge was adopted by the House, they must defer
the plan until they had a surplus of 1,600,0001. L should
be recollected that Mr. Hill bad said that the revenue
would be increased in other branches. The Bill merely
gave the Treasury power to make engagements for the
reduction of postage—to charge postage by weight, and to
enable the Stamp-office to contribute to the Post-office
department. Alt these regulations would come next year
before Parliament in the shape of a Bill, to which its assent
must be given. He trusted, under all the circumstances,
that the House would not refuse to the country the pre-
sent beneficial experiment of a reduction of tax ttion
(Hear, hear.)
Mr. WARBURTON was rejoiced to find that they
were to fight for a measure which they conceived to be of
the grestest importance to the country. He preferred
having it contended for inch by inch, rather than to have
it passed sub sitentio. One of the objections urged was
that the period of the Sess'on was too late to bring for-
ward such a propositiou ; but Hon. Members must have
seen arid watched the progress of the measure before the
Committee, and they must have read the evidence and re-
port of that Committee. The same ergurnent would
apply to their Lordships not being in possession of its de-
tails. The evidence taken before the Committee had
been printed, and must have been long since in the hands
of the Alembers of their Lordships' House. There was
no extraordinary power or re-action deman3.ecl by the
Chancellor of the Exchequer; for, under the existing
laws, be had the power of reducing the rate of post-
age to any sum he pleased—even to an infinitesimal.—
( Hear.) fie had also the power to charge postage
in advance, but there was no power to charge by weight,
or to compel the Stamp-office to collect a portion of the
postage. The statienere before the Committee had given
evidence in favour of the scheme; and that because an in-
dividual now proposed a measure of safeguard, they should
imagine that they were to be injured was most prepos-
terous. This question should not be argued as a mere
question of taxation. The primary object of the
Post-office was not taxation but public conveni-
ence. The Post-office was net originally instituted
for the purpose of texetion, and therefore this ought
not to be treated as a mere question of revenue.
The original object cf the institution of the Post-office,
was to ensure the safe and speedy conveyance of letters.
Was it therefore right to impose a tax upon letters of 1,500
per cent.'? and were they not forced to take the subject
into consideration by the facility of evasion, and by the
institution of railroads and every one who had been ex-
amined, bed stated that if they reduced the tax, they
should so reduce it, as to bring a new class within reach of
the Post-effice. He would rctronstrate against the impo-
sition of any new tax, until the plan had been
tried, as lie considered a new tax would he a great
evil, more especially if imposed to cover a temporary
deficiency.—( Cheers.) He had told the Cbanceilcr of
the Exchequer that he would give co pledge, but would
wait until he saw his clause, end then judge for himself.
He acknowledged that Parliament was bound, when an' .
deficiency appeared, to make that deficiency good, and he
should feel bound to do so, whether be gave a pledge or
not. It was well for the opponents of the measure to en-
deavour
to alarm the country, by talking of the imposition
of a new tax. He would say, let them revise the large
branches of the imports—the coffee, the sugar, and the
timber—(Cheers)—and they would by that means secure a
surplus revenue of upwards of five millions, and at the same
time reduce the price of articles to the public ; therefore,
let not the public be alarmed by the threat of the impo-
sition of new taxes. The Chancellor of the Exchequer
would be enabled to make good the deficiency without the
imposition of new taxes.—(Hear, hear.) There was
also tobacco and tea, all these articles of import
were on such a footing as no reasonable men
could approve of, and if these were placed upon a proper
footing, that would be all that was necessary to make good
the deficiency. Ile would quote the authority, of Lord.
Ashburton for stating that any deficiency of revenue would
be made good from other sources, in consequence of the
increased comtnunication which would take place. He
was of opinion that the experiment could not be fairly tried
under three years, and then he would be prepared to con-
sider the means for making good the deficiency. He con-
sidered this a question cf the utmost importance to all.
classes of the community, and he should support the re-
duction.

Lord S AND ON rose amidst general impatience and
cries of" Divide." He had the greatest esteem for his Right
Hon. Friend on account of the patriotic nature of his op.
position, but seeing that he ( Lord Sad don) had always
advocated the system of a cheap postage, he must support
the motion of the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite, and
throw the whole responsibility on her Majesty's Govern.
ment. —( Hear, hear, and Divide, divide.)
The House then divided, when there appeared—
For the motion for bringing up the Report... 213
Against it .. 113

Majority

'On our re-admission into the gallery, we found
Sir R. PEEL on his legs, moving the omission of those
words which pledged the House to make good any defi-
ciency that might take place.
After a few words from the CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER,
Mr. WALLACE said that as he had taken a promi-
nent part in bringing about this great measure, and had
agreed to the pledge required, he would be prepared at
any period to vindicate honestly the pledge he had given,
and to vote immed'ately for any tax which Parliament
should think most Edvisable to impose for the purpose of
making *good any deficiency which should take place in
the Revenue from the adoption of this measure.—( Hear,
hear, bear.)
Strangers were ordered to withdraw, and the Mize
divided, when there appeared—
For Sir R. Peel's amendment
Against it 1 b 4
Majority
The Report was then agreed to.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL moved that the Hocse, at its
rising, do adjourn to Monday next.—Agreed to.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER ob-
tained leave to bring in a Bill to carry into effect certain
Improvements in the Metropolis, under the direction of the
Commissioners of W, ods, Forests, and Works.
Sir C. KNIGHTLEY moved that the evidence and
proceedings taken before the Carlow Election Committee
be laid on the table of the House, and that it be printed.
—Ordered._

_ -
Mr. BARING brought in a Bill to explain and amend
I and 2 Vie. c. 99, so far as relates to flues and penalties
levied under the Rf•venue Laws.
The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of,
and the House adjourned at a QUARTER PAST Two
O'CLOCK.

A WIFE'S PERILS.—The work of fiction which
has just appeared under the title of " Temptation, or a
Wife's Perils," is one of those sterling productions of
which the literature of the day offers us so few specimens.
It has the singular quality of combining the intellectual
excitement of such works as " Delphine," and " Clair
D'Albe," with the excellent moral tendency, and much
of the truth and skill in details which characterize the
novels of Miss Austen. Some of -its characters, too,
(particularly that of Lord Montgomery), are perfectly
original, while the exciting and passion-fraught nature of
the plot, and the skill with which it is worked out, will
render this novel one of the chief favourites, not of the
i
season merely, but of this popular class of our literature.
FIRE AT A LUCIFER MANUFACTORY.—.
Thursday forenoon an explosion took place on the premises
of Mr. Jones, manufactureroofntlehusecwameals-atmatches,engaged
iala
used for the
n the m
a.
situated in
Queen-street, Finsbury, which was attended with serious
neounfisscetquureen,
matches
s report, and set fire to
the building. Mr. Jones effected his escape, but was dread-
fully burnt, and was obliged to be taken to the hospital.
Before the engines reached the spot very great damage was
do ..e to the premises by fire. Mr. Jones is not insured,
and it is only about three weeks since his premises were
destroyed by fire.

METROPITVLEIMIE'ATNCOP\AIPTIENYNT WOOD-
(STEREOTOMY OF THE CUBE.)
Capital 120,000/., in 6,C00 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 31. per Share.
PATRONS.
His Royal Highness the Duke of SUSSEX.
His Grace the Duke of HAMILTON and BRANDON.
The 310. t Nobie the Marquis of DOUGLAS.
The Right Hon. the Earl of MUNSTER.
The Right Hon. the Eari of ELGIN.
The Right Hon. the Earl of DUNNIORE.
The Right Hon. the Earl of CLARENDON.
The Right Hon. the Earl DE GREY.
The Right Hon. the Earl cf ROSSLYN.
The Right Hon. the Earl of LINCOLN.
The Rigitt it-m. the Earl of SELKIRK.
The Right Hon. Lord Viscount CANNING.
The Right Hon. Lord CARRINGTON.
Lord REDESDAI.E.
The Han. C. PELHAM VILLIERS, M.P.
The Hon. JAMES BRUCE.
Sir THOMAS BARRETT LENNARD, Bart.
COL. 'NEL RUSHBROOK, M.P.
HENRY FLA NDLEY, Esq.,
WILLIAM ALEXANDER MACKINNON, Esq. ,M. P.
DIRECTORS.
Colonel Si,' Purges Camac, Henry Harrison, Esq.
K. C. S. George Barrett Lennard, Esq.
John Chichester, Esq. Row anti Ronald, Esq.
George Cochrane, Esq. Captain Slade.
Whit power to add to their number.
BA NXERS.—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith ; Messrs.
Ransom and Co.
SOLICITORS. —Messrs. Hodson and Burton, 10, Salisbury-
S'reet, Strand.
This Company has been formed for the purpose of applyinz
a principle of scierce, discovered by a French Nobleman (and
for which a patent has been obtained) to various purposes of
construction, aell more putiaularly in the present instance to
Wood Pavement for the carriage-ways of the Metropolis.
It is generally admitted that the greatest possible inconveni-
ences arc experienced from the only twa methods of paving (the
stone and the Macadamised) which have been hitherto used in
the streets of London, the stone pavement possessing the disad-
vantages of great noise and interruption to business, while the
Macadamised pavement. with its other evils, requires constant
repair, at a very considerable expens
The immediate object, therefore, of this Company, is the ap-
plication of the above-mentioned scientific principle to the pur-
poses of paving with wood, it having been established to the
satisfaction of scientific men that a pavement laid down upon
this principle will he most economical and enduring ; and as it
ca-snot suffer from abrasion, must be alike free from (lust and
mud.

Arrangements have been made by this Company with the
Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods and Forests to execute
a carriage pavement upon an extensive scale at Whitehall, and
contracts have also been entered into with private individuals.
Applications for shares to be made by letter (post-paid), to
Henry Harrison, Esq., 23, Bruton-street, Berkeley-square,
where Prospectuses may be obtained ; and also at the office of
Messrs. Hodgson and Burton, Salisbury-street, Strand.
yITHE RE AS, an ADVERTISEMENT ap-
peared in the Morning Chronicle of yesterday, offering a
reward to any person who might give information tending to the
recapture of Mr., alias CAPTAIN BRAM ‘VELL, who has
lately effected his Escape from Finch's Madhouse at Kensing-
ton, and who is there described of unsound mind,
These arc to give No. ice, that the said Braniwell is NOT of
Unsound Mind, nor a proper person to be confined, and to warn
all pet sons against giving any information respecting him, as they
will thereby expose themselves to an action for false imprison-
ment ; and all persons arc hereby called upon to afford the said
Bramwell all aid and protection, for which they shall be re-
warded. 0.1 behalf of the " Lunatics' Friends Society,"
49, Haymarket. RICHARD PATERNOSTER.

IS Majesty the KING of PRUSSIA,
having KUTHGRISED and GUARANTEED
annual DISTRIBUTION of MONEY PREMIUMS, which
(though they are NO LOTTERIES), offer many possi-
bilities of obtaining
LARGE FORTUNES,
HEINE BRO FLIERS at HAMBURGH,
are NOW SELLING SHARES for the said DISTRIBU.
TION. Persons desirous to purchase may receive, PREVI-
OUS to giving any order, the PROSPECTUS and PAR•
TICULARS, upon ad4ressing, WITHOUT DELAY, a
line to

lIEINF. BROTHERS at HAMBURGH.
P. S. The rera DISTRIBUTION culitains Portions from
91. 10s. and upwards, to 10,401;1.,

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN.
LAST NIGHT BUT TWO of the SEASON, and of the
PRESENT MANAGEMENT.
THIS EVENIN6, JLLY 13,
Will be performed the Historical Play of
KING HENRY V.,
From the Text of Shakspcare.
King Henry the Fifth, Mr. Macready.
After which,
THE QUAKER.
To conclude with,
CHAOS IS COME AGAIN.
On Mcnday, King Henry V., with Fra Diav&o.

LONDON:
SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1839.

Lord BROUGHAM moved last night a resolution to the
effect that it is expedient to place beer-houses on the same
footing, in all respects, as those of licensed victuallers,
and explained in one of his speeches that what he
wished was to place the beer-houses completely under
tle control of the MagistrateF, so that, without giving
any reason or without a conviction, they might take
away the licenses. That would be tantamount to de-
stroying them altogether, for the Magistrates would
undoubtedly take away the licensys.
The M ircluis of SVEsTmiNsTER, Viscount MET,-
BOURNE, Lord PORTMAN, and other Noble Lords op-
posed the mot]on - It found favour, however, with the
majority of the Lords, and by 41 to 37 they adopted
Lord BROUGHAM'S I%,solution.
The Bills of Exchange Bill was read a second time;
but is to be opposed on going into a Committee by
Lord ASHBURTON.
A brief conversation took place on the Postage Plan,
when Lord MELBOURNE stated that the plan would
be brought forwaid at all events. Some of their Lord-
ships, they and their friends being far greater recipients
of public revenue than contributors to it, hinted their
hostility to any plan which shouldendanger the revenue.
Their Lordships adjourned at Half-past Six till Monday.
The first business of any importance in the Commons
was Mr. ATTWOOD'S motion for a Committee on the
National Petition, on which we have elsewhere made a
few remarks.

His motion for a Committee was opposed by Lord
JOHN RUSSELL, Mr. DISRAELI, Mr. SLANEY, and
others. It was supported by Mr. HOME, Mr. O'CoN-
NEL, Mr. WAKLEY and others, and was fioall3, after a
lengthened debate, lost by '235 to 46, both the great
parties uniting to resist the motion. Great good,
however, will come from the discussion. It will tend to
moderate the people, and tend to make their opponents
grant some of their requests. It is amusing to find
that Mr. ATTWOOD attributes all our evils to
a want of paper money, and Mr. SLANEY
to a want of public walks. E ich Member
has his hobby, on which he trots forth on every
opportunity. Both are amiable, well-intentioned
Gentlemen ; both take after many other well-intentioned
Gentlemen, who have made their crotchets into laws ;
but we submit to them that the crotchets of no indi-
viduals are the proper foundation for the laws of I
community. Lord JOHN RUSSELL See ls;o havteles
crotchet, which is, that our laws are amongstmsa the best of'
all possible laws. He disregards the evidence of the
sufferina. millions ; disregards the facts whiccontinually
require him to make new laws for the security of
pro-
perty, as, for example, the rural police and
because prisonsnew
th the
people is desirous to establish ; and concludes,
people are not worse off than in some of the neighbour-
jog countries, that our laws are excellent. He is an ex-
cellent man, but has convinced us that a Minister can
have crotchets as well as any ot her person.
After the National Petition was disposed of, the
House proceeded to discuss the Po,tage Question, on
bringing up the Report of the Committee of last Friday.
We have neither time nor space to enter further into
the question than to state the result. Mr. GOULBURN
opposed the resolution of the CHANCELLOROf the EXCHE-
QUER in a long speech, which turned principally on the
deficiency of the revenue, and the necessity to take time
to consider all the eircumstancrs. Mr. RICE defended
the plan, and spoke in much higher terms of the mani-
f* • :es of the reduction of postage than last
.* •,.osed the fallacies of Mr. GOULBURN,
ana r- • :r`ji, which he and Sir ROBERT PEEL went
huntJAPit • different pretexts to oppose the mo-
`tion-,:::.A=4 eches from Sir R. PEEL, Mr. P.
THOld-STYN
ARBURTON, and Lord SANDON,
The 1-j0".0,, ..4ided on the original motion, and Mr.
Gourtjur dmerrt w-
„

ale ()ries), (ll'

of a Uniform Penny Postage, found themselves in a mi.- 1
nority of 100.
Sir ROBERT PEEL afterwards moved to leave out the I
words, " pledging the House to make good any defi-
ciency in the revenue," and he was not much more for-
tunate than his colleague. He was supported by
125, and opposed by 184, leaving him in a mi-
nority of 59. So the Tories were defeated,
completely defeated, on the Postage Question, and
so they will ever be on popular and just measures. The
large majorities for the plan show that the Tory Mem-
bers for the towns prefer their seats to supporting a
faction, and only support a faction when that is com-
patible with preserving their scats.

The Tory attempt to stop the plan for a Uniform
Penny Postage was completely unsuccessful. They
were defeated by large majorities.

Mr. ATTWOOD brought the grievances of the
bulk of the people under the notice of the House
of Commons last night, and moved for a Committee
of the whole House to take into consideration the
National Petition. A debate much more protracted
than was expected ensued, and a' considerable
number of Members expressed their opinions on
the question. The greater number of speakers
were on the side of the, petition ; those who op-
posed it generally preferring to express their opi-
nion by the more significant eloquence of a vote
than by argument. It will, however, be satisfac-
tory to the petitioners to remark, though the
strongest opposition was expressed to their views,
and their vio'ent language exciting the people
to arm was firmly condemned, that the pe-
tition was treated with courtesy, and them-
selves with respect. In fact, it was not from any
consideration of Mr. ATTWOOD, but from a con-
sideration of what was due to twelve hundred thou-
sand petitioners, which made the House give pre-
cedence to Mr. ATTWOOD'S motion. The Hon
- Member was sensible of this, and began his speech
by thanking Lord JOHN RUSSELL and the House
for having afforded him an opportunity of address-
ing them. Mr. WAK LEY, too, bore testimony to the
courteous and proper manner in which Lord J. It us-
SELL spoke of the petition, and declared that there
was nothing in the Noble Lord's speech to complain
of. As far, therefore, as the avoidance of all con-
tumelious language goes, the people have corn-
manded the respect of the House of Commons,,:
and, looking to past times, they have obtained ant
improved position.
At the same time, it is our duty to impress upon
them the statement made in the House by their
best friends, and which is, we know also, the opi-
nion of their friends who are not in the House—of
men who have for years laboured to improve both
their moral and their physical condition—it is our
duty to inform the working classes, who are Chart-
ists, that their best friends, both in the House and
out of the House, condemn very strongly their
violent language and conduct, and declare that they
have done an immense injury to their own cause
and to the cause of the public liberty. They have
every where alarmed the middle classes for their
property and their lives, and made them ready to sup-
port any Government, though it were an odious
tyranny, which promised them protection. The mid-
dle classes suppose that it is only by a cordial
union with the Government that they can expect
protection ; they have been made dependent on it,
and are willing to support it at all hazards. In fact
we know that they have flown to it for help, and
that the Government has had great difficulty in
resisting the demands of the middle classes for
strong and coercive measures. It has risked, we
believe, the loss of political support, by not feeling
as much alarm, and acting on it, as many mill-
owners. The alarm of the middle classes is the
natural and necessary consequence of the language
and conduct of those who have assumed, though we
believe without authority, to act on behalf of the
people. If the latter couldsucceed without the middle
classes, and in spite of them, their conduct might
be rational; but against the middle classes, the upper
classes, and all the sinister interests disposing of all
the organized power in the State, they could have
no hope of success ; and the violent language and
conduct of their leaders have only defeated
their own object and postponed, if not annihilated,
those reforms which are essential, not merely to
the prosperity, but to the safety and existence of
the commonwealth.
It is of no consequence that the Chartists say—

,4 We have right an our side. We have as much righ,
to be represented as you, and our allegiance, like
yours, is only due in return for protection." There
are many things of this kind we are ready in the
abstract to admit ; but abstract doctrines never yet
guided the actions of people. What is abstract-
edly right—what men deduce scientifically front
principles—is of far less importance than what
men have been accustomed to. Now the customs
of our society for ages have been totally at variance
with what the Chartists—though perhaps with
reason—call abstract rights ; and the great bulk
of society, even many of the working classes,
accustomed to something diffeient from what the
Chartists claim, condemn their proceedings.
They must succeed, therefore, if at all, not only
against the customs of society, and against all the
rest of society, but against themselves. The great
changes which they demand are clearly hopeless at
present ; while the violent language some of them
have used has indisposed moderate men to reforms
which were a year ago within the reach of the
united middle and lower classes. Such, in sub-
stance, is the language held by the best friends to
the extension of liberty, both within the walls of
Parliament and beyond them.

Another remarkable feature of the debate was
the language used in the House itself ; not one,
nut several, Gentlemen, embracing no extreme
opinions, plainly stated that the House had
ac-ualy, grossly, and continually neglected the
public interests in the prosecution of factious and
party purposes. The House was told that it had '
made laws for the benefit of a class, and the injury
of the public, and told that it had lost, and
deserved to lose the confidence of the people.
Standing on a bench immediately behind the Mi-
nisters, Mr. WA K L EY, in so many words,
recommended the people not to petition the House
any more, as that was both undeserved and use-
less. By more than one Member the language
of the people was described as
.very frequently
treasonable ; the people having already reached
that point which Mr. WAKLEY recommended, and
which is the end of all obedience. The acting
from habit, to which we have already alluded, will
preserve things in their old tracks for some time,
but as sure as action follows thought, so sure will
the treasonable language now generally used
on the one hand, and the condemnation
pronounced on the House itself—in the House
by its own Members—on the other, produce
either a complete alteration in the conduct
of that House, or the total overthrow of its
authority. Men do not continue to worship an
idol, after they have attained a conviction that it is
only a useless lump of hewn stone. When things
are at the worst they begin to mend, says the pro-
verb ; and dark, therefore, as are now the national
prospects, from the selfish, factious, and dis-
honest proceedings of the Legislature, there arises,
from the debate on the National Petition, some
hope that the dawn of a brighter day is not far off.

Having, in common with all liberal men, always
felt a great interest in the fate of Poland, and
having frequently devoted our columns to advocate
the cause of her unfortunate sons, it was with regret
that we learned that one of them had rendered him-
self conspicuous at the meeting lately held by the
Chartists at Clerkenwell. For persons like the
Polishec t io efu
State, and actually receiving their
subsistence from it, to take an active part in politics,
rtrn or theespo who are not only enjoying the
siding against the Government, is ungrateful and in-
decent, and it is also to the last degree stupid. Most
heartily must the Russians rejoice when they see
their opponent,: actin;; in a manner so calculated to
render them both odious and contemptible. That
this must he the effect of such proceedings there
can be no doubt, unless it be clearly shown that
they meet with the reprobation of the Poles in
genet al. It, therefore, gave us pleasure to see a
letter in the Times signed " A Pole," stating that
the person who appeared at Clerkenwell was one
who had been struck off the list of Refugees
receiving an allowance from Government for taking
part in a similar meeting on some former occasion.
We also learn from another
quarter that he is
strongly suspected of being in the ay of Russia.
This would at once explain the wholep at all events, we trust the Poles will recollect the
warning given
them by the Duke of SUSSEX, and beware of
" %lc:lves in sheep' loth' -"

We have received the whole of the Paris Papers of
Thursday, but they contain no news of any interest.
Toe Court of Peers continued with closed doors to
deliberate upon the sentence of the prisoners. It was
not expected that a verdict would be given before
Friday evening. Great fears were entertained of
another insurrectionary movement, should the Govern-
ment persist in executing such of the prisoners as may
be condemned to death. Among other Republican
plots recently discovered is one for the seizure of some
member of the Royal family to be kept as a
hostage fur BARBES, and to be put to death
in the event of the execution of that intrepid in-
surgent.
This has filled the Royal Family with the
utmost alarm ; none of the Princes daring to move
abroad unless surrounded by a guard. In fact BARGES
is hardly more a prisoner than King Louts PHILLIPPE
and his family.
The accounts from French Afric•i are of the 25th,
ult. ABD-EL-KADEIT had issued a furious proclam,:tion
against ail Musiulman parents sending their children
to be educated in Paris.

The KING of tliel'itexcm, and his family, have
given 4,0001. towards the relief of the sufferers from
the late storm in France.
M. Mermilliod, a deputy, has communicated the follow-
ing article to the Journal du Havre.
" It is in consequence of a series of misunderstood re-
ports that the journals have spoken of the project of the
Government to establish a line of Government packets be-
tween Bordeaux and the United States. The Minister of
Public Works himself, has just announced that it was the
intention of the Government to establish two lines of
steamers, but in the following manner : One between
Havre and New York, the other between Bordeaux, the
Gulf of Mexico, and South America. The Minister de-
nies any other project.
BOURSE—PARIS, THURSDAY, JULY II .
HALF-PAST THREE.—For the Acc•::unt the Three per
Cents. opened at 79f. 50c., from which they did not rally,
declined to 79f. 40c., and closed at 79f. 45c., lower than
yesterday by 10 cents. The Five per Cents. opened at
111 f. 80c., and closed at II lf. 70c., a fall of bc. For '
Money the Three per Cents. are sc. lower; the Five per
Cents. 20e. The Bank of France Shares have advanced
sf. The Laffitte Bank Shares have declined .sf. The
Belgian Bank Shares are sf. higher The Belgian Three
per Cents. for the Account, 72f. 10c. ; neither they nor
the Five per Cents. have been quoted for money. The
Spanish Active unvaried. Moat of the Railway Shares
have advanced. The Mulhausen to Tharin, 10f. ; Bordeaux
to La Tease, 20f. ; Strasburg to Basle, 10e. ; St. Ger-
main, 7f. 50c. The Versailles Right Bank 22f. 50c. ; the
Versailles Left Bank have declined 7f. 50c., as have the
Orleans. The Havre have not varied.

'list Higllest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Price
French 5 per Cents
4 per Cents lO2 ... 1‘,2 ... 102 ... 102
3 per Cents 7O 40 ... 79 40 ... 79 40 ... 71) 40
Bank of I,ranee 2712 50 —.2712 50 ...2712 50 ...2712 50
Laffitte Bark IYOOf. SI, lO5O ...135') ...10;5 ...1015
5,000 f. sh 5215 ...5215 —.5215 ...5215
Belgian Bank

Coupons ...... 43 ... 45 ... 45 ... 45
Spanish Ac ive
Passive 414 .• . 414 ... 414 ... 414
New Ihierre i
.!;ea; oli tan
Roman , 1i,114 ... 10!'. ... 1011 W ... 101 Si

RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germaiq
Versailles, It. B O5O 665 650 COO
LB 315 315 ... 300 302 50
Havre
Orleans
Strasburg to Bale 345 310 ... 302 50 314:
Nfulhausen to Thann
Bordeaux to La les:e ...... 440 440 440 440

A petition was presented to the House of Commons
on Thursday, from the Parochial Schoolmasters of
Scotland, complaining of the inadequacy of their sala-
ries, and praying that they may be raised to their ori-
ginal average, about one half of the minimum stipend of
the clergy, 651. It also stated the remarkable fact that
this useful body of men do not receive more on an ave-
rage than 201. each annually. Thus 1,200 teachers are
paid annually 24,0001., or taking patronage into ac-
count, about as much as is paid to the pious Bishop of
London !

Llanidloes Flannel Market, Was, from the recent
showers, rather better supplied with goods than usual, but
few buyers attended. Things in this town are very on.

eel s _lna." We cannot
- I satisfactory, and several failures have Occurred. treat
mention ' caution is shorn in the purchase of wools, and the market
.as 10.,t by 213 to 113, .
oyal ritgnness snatne in Connexion withrboland ' is exceedingly small.—Shrewsbury Chronicle.
attempt too ppose the introduction 111'

without again expressing our admiration of his Royal
Highness's noble conduct in coming forward on
behalf of that ill-fated country on a late occasion,
the Poles will do well to lay to heart the sound and
excellent advice he then tendered them, in different
parts of his admirable speech. No doubt the wise
and reflecting among them will do so ; but all men
are not wise and reflecting, not even when schooled,
like the Poles, in the hard school of adversity.
We must therefore be prepared for some demon-
stration on the part of the silly and intemperate
among them, of dissent from some of his Royal
Highness's doctrines, and of disinclination to fol-
low his sage counsel. We should lament it, as it
seems to us not only uncalled for, but calculated to
do injury to the cause. Englishmen, however, will
recollect, that where there is freedom, there must
be discrepancy of opinion ; they will not, there-
fore, suffer the mistake of a few to destroy
their interest in the fate of a great nation ;
and, among the Poles, we are confident
there will be no lack of men to meet a reply
to any such misguided declaration, in such a man-
ner as to co►firm in the mind of the British public
their interest in Poland, by showing that her cause
is not only just and sacred in itself, but defended
by men of sound practical views, as well as of
exalted sentiments and indomitable resolution.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THISDAY.)

At the meeting of certain planters and others,
stating themselves to be interested in the Island of
Jamaica, held on Thursday, attended by about
fifty persons, Mr. BURGE, the lawyer who is hired
to white-wash the Jamaica Assembly, made a very
long and very senseless palaver, by way of prelude
to a string of resolutions which he had been so kind
as to provide for the occasion. This gentleman
wields his brush, if not with much discretion, cer-
tainly with zeal enough, and must, we think,
have worn out many a gross in the service of the
Assembly, which, in spite of all his labour,
is just as black as it was at the beginning. His is,
therefore, a vain endeavour. It is, in truth, be-
yond the wit and power of man to make cut any-
thing like even a decent case for that body of
Lilliputian legislators.
A great noise was made about preparing the
negroes for exercising the rights of freemen. A
previous apprentieeship of six or seven years was
deemed essential before a slave could be supposed
to know how to breathe the air of freedom ; but
the question never seems to have occurred to any one
how the dealers in human flesh, the owners of
human stock, the beings who had been degraded
by the vices and the crimes which necessarily
accompany the ownership of slaves, were to be pre-
pared for the important task of making laws for a
free community—for a community, too, made free
in spite of them by a power which they could not
resist, but whose benevolent purposes they did
what they could to thwart. This obvious ques-
tion, we say, seems to have escaped consideration,
and hence in reality the difficulties which have of
late beset the friends of negro emancipation. No
provision was made by the Imperial Legisla-
ture, for a state of things which a know-
ledge of the Jamaica Constitution, as it is
called, and of the materials of which the Assembly,
the law-making apparatus of that island, is com-
posed, ought to have led the abolitionists to anti-
cipate, and we are now reaping the fruits of this
blunder.

As to the prating. of Mr. BURGE about the
Constitution of Jamaica " remaining inviolate," in
consequence of the alteration made by the Tory-
Lords in the Bill lately passed, it is sheer
humbug. Every body knows that this so-
called Constitution has been violated every
time that Parliament has superseded its func-
tions by taking into its own hands the
task of legislating for the Colony. He pretends
to hope that the Assembly, soothed by the sop
which party spirit has thrown to it in the mutilation
committed on the Bill in the House of Lords, will
resume its duties, and that in the teeth of its re-
corded declaration that it never would do so until
the Prisons' Act was repealed. If the Assembly
can act thus, it only proves what a worthless piece
of machinery it is. For our own part, we do hope
and trust that it will persist in its contumacy until
it provoke the Imperial Legislature to abolish it
altogether, for it is the curse of Jamaica.
We observe that a Mr. MORRICE had the as•
surance to state to the meeting, in reference to the
treatment of the negroes by their former rnasterg,
" that no man with a black face ever received a
second angry word !" None but a man with a brass
lace could have dared to make; uch an assei Lion.

DEAL, JULY 12. —Wind S.W., moderate. Sailed the
Sirgapore for South Australia; Fingalton, Primrose,
Quebec.

PORTSMOUTH, JULY 12 Wind W. S. W., strong breezes.
PLYMOUTH, JULY IL—Wind S. la} E.—Arrived the
Lydia, Broughton, from Odessa; Vulcan, Memel ; Frede-
rica Wilhelmina, Janeks, ditto.
FALMOUTH, JULY 11.—Wind S. S. W. to S. W., strong
breezes.— Arrived the Albert, Harvey, from Malta.
LIVERPOOL, JULY 12.—Wind N. W.—Arrived the Kell-
sick Wood, Thompson, from Demerara; Bolivar, Castel-
lano, Carthagena; Orbit, Robinson, St. John's, New
Brunswick ; Jane Walker, White, do. ; Tyrone. Gre-
gory, Mobile ; Margaret, Leslie, New Orleans ; Flamer,
Billet, Newfoundland ; Providence, do. ; Lobelia, Dear-
ness, Riga. Off port the United States, from Charleston ;
Ward, St. John's, New 11-unswiek.
DOVER, JULY 12.—Off port the Walmer Castle, Bou-
cher, from Bombay.
COWES, JULY 12 —Arrived Globe, Symons, Virginia.
ISLE OF WIGHT, JULY 12.—Arrived off port the Clyde,
Mathe, Batavia.
POOLE, JULY 11.—Arrived the Experiment, Badcock,
from Newfoundland.
STARCROSS, 12.—Arrived the Amyntas, Popham,
from Richebuc'o.
OFF THE START, JULY 11.—Arrived the Sympathie,
Jacobson, St. Thomas's.
GLOUCESTER, JULY 12.—Arrived the Janthe, Miramicbi.
NIARYPORT, JULY 11.—Off port, the Jane, Collins,
from Bathurst.
DUBLIN, JULY 11.—Arrived the Yare, Yates, from
Barbadocs ; Corrib, Carling, Demerara.
HULL, July 12.—Wind, S.W. fresh breeze.—Arrived
the Providence, Wilson, from St. John's, N;•w Brunswick ;
Red Rover, Acre, Hamburg; Tiger (steamer), ditto.

We can find room to day for only the first division
on the Penny Postage. We shall give the second divi-
sion, as well as that on Mr. ATTWOOD'S mo!ion, on
Monday.

Letters and Papers from Madrid of the 4th instant
announce that Marshal SOULT'S answer to the address
of the citizens of Bilboa created a great sensation in
the Spanish capital, which was manifested on the Bourse
by a decided improvement in the Funds. From the
provinces the accounts were unimportant. ESPARTERO
was busy fortifying himself at Amurrio, as if he meant
to continue there as long as he did at Logrono.