The Sun.
London, England, 1837-12-26 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, Dix. 23.

There has been little animation in the cotton-market this week,
the demand on no day exceeding the consumption ; but, with our
limited stocks, this has been sufficient to effect an advance, since
last week, of Ad. to %d. per pound in American cotton, at which
rates the market is very firm. Sea island continues in fair demand
at full prices. Egyptian and Brazil are in moderate demand, and
fully support former rates. The better qualities of Surat are in
fair demand ; the lower are neglected, but unaltered in price. The
sales of the week amount to 18,240 bales, including 4,000 Ame-
rican, 150 Pernam, and 1,000 Surat on speculation : 700 Egyptian
are also reported, which were taken on speculation last week.
d. d. d. A.
200 Sea Islands 13% to 26 30 Demeraras 5... 10 fto 11
30 Stained ditto 5 7 100 Peruvians ..... BE 9
5,800 Uplands 7% 9 270 Laguayras B— 84
1,000 Mobile, &c. ... 74 Bil 1,7b0 Surats .... 5% 6i
6,890 New Orleans... 6'4 —9% Bengals
290 Egyptians 9l —l3 30 Carthagenas ~, si 0
1,120 Pernams, Sze 9% —lO4 Manilla 0 0
270 Bahias , 7% 9
150 West India...., 74 —8%
Maranhams 9% —9l "-- Barbadoes
300 Sawginned B—Bi f 40 Smyrna 6:- 0
The sales to-day are 3,000 bags, of which 150 Pernams, and 150
Surats, are on speculation. The market wears a firm and healthy
aspect, only rather too limited a supply for the wants of the trade.

Bales.
Taken on speculation this year
Same in 1836 ...
Forwarded to the country unsold this year
Same in 1836
Increase of import this year compared with the
same date last year
Decrease of stock
Increase of quantity taken for consumption 63,400
Increase of quantity taken for export lB,BOO

Comparative View of the Imports and Exports of Cotton into and
from the whole Kingdom, from the Ist of January to the 16th
inst., and of the Imports and Exports for the same period last
year :

Into the Kingdom this year. Bags.
American
.
South American
%Vest Indies, Demerara, &c.
East Indies
Egypt, &c.

Total of all descriptions 1,123,222
Same period last year.
American 8ag5.746,641
South American
West Indies, Demerara, &c.
East Indies
Egypt, &c.

Decrease of Imports as compared with same
period last year
Exports in 1837.
American, 50,175 ; Brazil, 5,191 ; EseL India, 72,277 ;
West India, —; Other kinds, —.
Total in 1837
Same period last year
Stock.

Dec. 22, 1837
Same time, 1836

Two children were burnt to death last week at Shef-
field.

However this may be, there is little doubt that the French
Canadians are generally united in the interests of Papineau,
and the insurgent leaders. Evon those in Montreal who re-
peat apparently loyal are suspected. Three volunteer com-
panies in that city are under the command of French Cana-
dians—and not a soldier in their ranks is of French Canadian
extraction—nor an officer, with the exception of the captains.
The language of the press, and resolutions of public meetings
on both sides, indicate the existence of the most embittered
feeling between the Gallo and the Anglo Canadians. Recent
occurrences have stimulated that feeling, till animosities have

been excited which no conciliation can allay. A desultory
and predatory warfare will probably be kept up during the
winter. The rural districts, which are now in the possession
of the insurgents, will continue to afford them a retreat. The
royalists will remain in possession of Montreal and Quebec—
and the fortified posts be subject to occasional alarms, but ex-
posed to no very serious danger. Present appearances would in-
dicate that the affair will end in the abandonment of the lower
province by the British Government to the French Cana-
dians--an event, to say the least, extremely improbable, or the
re-union of the two Can ldas under the old system. Inde-
pendeuce is now the avowed object of the Papincau party—
while fhe ultra Royalists are bent upon such a union of the
provinces as will give the BritiQh power an uncontested politi-
cal ascendancy. These are the antagonist objects of the two
ultra factions—lndependence and Re-union: meanwhile there
is a large party disposed to continue the present political or-
ganisation, and to give the French Canadians such influence
in public affairs as they are entitled to from their numbers and
position. It is obvious that affairs have now reached a crisis.
The French Canadians must either be subjugated—treated as
a conquered people and their political power merged in the
re-union of the pro ces—or the Lower Province must con-

tinue for years the scene of popular outbreak and insurrection-
ary violence.
To meet this crisis, the Royalists appear to be concentrating
all their military force in Lower Canada. The Upper Pro-
vince has been emptied of its regular troops, and the entire
43d regiment, recently stationed at New Brunswick, were to
march by the post route to Quebec, as soon as the necessary
provisions could be made for their accommodation on the
road. The detachment at Annapolis has been ordered to St.
John's. Volunteer companies are forming in many of the
counties. Lord Gosford has authorised the formation of a
volunteer corps of lignt infantry—to be called the Quebec
Light Infantry Corp;—and appointed its officers. Similar
military organization was going on with great spirit at Que-
bec--and meetings of the loyal citizens for mutual defence
were holding throughout the province.
In Upper Canada the same spirit prevails among the inha-
bitants. Meetings have been held at various places, at which
resolutions have been passed, proffering all requisite aid to the
loyalists of their sister province. Four militia colonels in
Glengarry county have applied to Lieut.-Governor Head for
arms and ammunition to prepare their regiments to lend such
aid to the loyalists of Lover Canada as circumstances may
render necessary. Other volunteer movements have been
made in other parts of the province.
We observe with regret in some of our newspapers a dispo-
sition to agitate in favour of the insurgents, and to excite a
spirit of hostility against the Anglo- Canadians. As far as
the present struggle is a contest for independence, it excites,
of course, the sympathies of our citizens ; but there is no doubt
that the whole policy of our Government and our institutions
suggests the observance of a strict national neutrality, and the
nature of our connexions with great Britain renders that duty
in the present instance doubly important. We have made ar-
rangements to procure the earliest and most authentic intel-
ligence from the seat of war, and shall keep our readers duly
advised of the progress of the insurrection. But we shall as-
sume the charac.er of annalists not partisanst as that best
adapted to the pri sent position of affairs and the uniform po-
licy of our country.
Since the above was written we bare received papers of
Saturday from Montreal, and have conversed with an intelli-
gent gentleman who left that city on Saturday. From the
former we learn that the insurgents had mustered in conside-
rable numbers no th of the city, building fortifications, and
making other demonstrations of an intended
_engagement with
the Queen's troops. The postmaster at Vaudcuil is stated to
have joined the insurgent camp, and the mail bag for Bytown
had been sent back to Montreal, as it was not deemed safe to
carry it further than St. Eustache. Some fifty families of
Royalists fled for safety to Montreal, where they arrived on
Thursday and Friday. fhe number of insurgents in arms at
Grand Brule is said to be greater than that originally at St.
Charles.

We learn from the gentleman to whom we refer in the
above paragraph, that it was understood when he left Mon-
treal that Lieu,.-Colonel Wetherall would march on last
Monday for Grand Brule.

We extract from the Montreal Herald of Saturday, Dec.
2, The only parag:aphs of interest :
"It has been generally expected that the Governor would,
ere this, have declared the district of Montreal under martial
law, and while no reascn appears to exist that he should hesi-
tate, events are daily occurring which prove the immediate
and most urgent necessity of putting it in force. On Tues-
day last a person named Chartrand, a respectable mason, re-
siding in St. John's, and a loyal ♦olunteer, left his ~house to
collect a debt due to him a few miles out of the village by one
Roy, and on his return he was arrested by five men with
laaded muskets, who set him up against a tree and fired at
him. One ball pierced his heart, and several others showed
the deadly aim which his savage murderers took. We have
conversed with a gentleman who saw the dead body. In con-
sequence of Chartrand's not returning to St. John's, fears
were entertained that be had been taken prisoner by some of
the rebels, who had scouts over all the neighbourhood, and
Mr. M'Crae with twelve of the Dorchester Volunteers set out
in search of him, when they learned the particulars of his
untiinelytate."
We are glad to learn that Sir John Colborne has made seve-
ral promotions among the Royal Volunteer Cavalry. But it is
impossible to please every body ; and we doubt not, that such
a step will shock the conciliatory taste of the Governor-
in-Chief. What a terrible affair it must appear to his Lord-
ship to reward " foreigners" for mauling " the great body of
the people." But, in sober seriousness, the measure may not
meet cordial approbation at head-quarters, for so careful has
the British Government always been to avoid mortifying the
pride of La Grand IV ation Canadienne, that not a single regi-
ment in the service bars the name of Quebec on its colours.
It was, perhaps, a lucky thing for Wolfe that he died in the
arms of victory, for he might otherwise have been laid on the
shelf to please le peuple.
Never was St. Andrew's day more appropriately celebrated
than on Thursday last—never was a procession more nume-
rously attended in this city, than that of the Ist or Royal
Scots Regiment, which has proved itself worthy of its honour-
able name. The liberty pole which was hoisted at St. Charles's
at the meeting of the six counties, together with a wooden
tablet bearing the inscription, " A Papineau, par ses conci-
toyens reconnoissans," have been brought into town. General
Brown's military coat, with epaulets, is also in possession of
one of the soldiers.

Mr. Spiers, who was reported as having been murdered by
the rebels, returned to town on Thursday with the Royals,

Wetherall's victory was much more complete than has been
reported; the carnage was so great that it has not been pub.
lished. The malcontents lost at least 500 men, by shot, fire,
and water. They fought very well until they were charged
by the bayonet, and then the butchery was dreadful. Upwards
of 100 were in a barn full of hay and straw, which was set fire
to, and they were burned alive or smothered. Many attempted
to cross the river, and were drowned. Brown's carpet bag,
with one clean shirt and one pair of stockings, his new regi-
mentals' were found; and in the bag many letters, which im-
plicated parties not hitherto suspected.
Colonel Gore has marched with five or six hundred men
against St. Denis. The fate of that town was decided on Sa-
turday last, but is not yet known. The orders are to destroy
everything—to raze the houses to the ground or burn them;
and it is expected that, as in the affair of St. Charles, no
quarter will be given.
Colonel Wetherdll also leaves Montreal this day for Grand
Brule, where the enemy were in force, but without provi-
sions. They have been pillaging the whole country without
mercy.
One thousand poimds have been offered by the Governor
for the head of Papineau, and also for that of Brown. This
will probably secure them. These are hard times, and a thou-
sand pounds are not to be despised.
They arc in great spirits, and full of military ardour at
Montreal. The volunteers are very assiduous in their duties,
and every gentleman in the city carries his musket.
Every thing reported from Burlington may be considered
as false.

One thousand of the Glengarry Volunteers are expected to
arrive daily at Montreal. Your's, &c.

THE ARMY.

It is stated in the Halifax papers, that the first division of
the 85th Regiment, under Lieut.-Colonel Maunsel, had ar-
rived at New Brunswick from Halifax. The 43d Regiment
were to march by the post route for Canada, as soon as the
necessary preparations were made. The 34th arc said to have
a.nivcd at Metis, in this province. This is stated in the lifer-
cury, on the authority of private letters from below, but we
have not been able to discover from the Halifax papers that
the 34th Regiment had left that place.
M. LabalmotLdiere, 83d Regiment, returned last evening,
via Boston, from Halifax, where, it will be recollected, he
carried dispatches relative to the movement of troops in this
province.

LATEST FROM CANADA.

" the only further information we have from Lower Canada
is, that the whole country is in a state of fermentation ; and
that about 2,000 habitans are assembled at Grand Brule, and
that the communications with Montreal and the adjoining
country were altogether interrupted.
" In some of the seigneuries the dissaffected had paid do-
miciliary visits to the Loyalists, and disarmed them. Mang
of the latter have removed to Montreal with their families.
It must be remembered that Montreal is an Island, and that
repeated embarkations and disembarkaiions arc a sad impedi-
ment to the celerity of military movements.
" In the mean time the inhabitants of British and American
descent arc not idle. They are mustering in great numbers
and spirit ; and on the night of the 23th of November about
500 men from Clarenccville, on the Richelieu, near the
frontier of this state, turned out with alacrity against a sup-
posed attack from the insurgents. They had no occasion to
show their courage, however, as it was a false alarm. Their
zeal may encourage others ( Upper Canada.)
" The Scotch settlers in Glengarry, to the number of 2,000
have declared their readiness to march to the assistance of the
Government. The Radicals in the Upper Province, although
clamourous for Reform, are by no means ready for revolution,
and have intimated their willingness to quell M. Papineau's
pretentions. Their example has been followed in other
places. The following paragraphs, containing the latest in
formation from Quebec, the seat of Government of British
North America:—

" The enrolling of men for the several volunteer corps of
artillery and infantry commenced yesterday, did went on
with a spirit beyond the expectation of the most sanguine.
We understand that upwards of 400 men had volunteered be-
fore three o'clock, and probably before this evening the seve-
ral corps now authorised will have completed their complement.
One company, nearly 80, consists of sailors, many among
them old men-of-war-men, who will make excellent hands at
the batteries.

" The guns en the works were fired yesterday, for the pur-
pose of scaling the guns, which alarmed the country people,
who supposed that the city was actually attacked.—Quebec
Mercury, Nov. 30.
" For a week before Thursday last, the weather was some
of the worst we ever recollect in Canada. The temperature
was mild, with mixed rain and snow, and violent easterly
winds. On Tues,lay night the rain froze as it fell, and coated
everything with pure ice nearly an inch in thickness. Immense
destruction has been made in the woods. Oak trees of two
feet in diameter have been broken off by the weight of the ice
on the branches and twigs. Other trees have limbs of about
a foot in diameter split off, and all the smaller trees and bushs
have their tops bent down to the ground, and many of them
split. The orchards have also suffered. The mischief hag
not extended, however, more than about six miles from the
river. Since Thur.i.day it has been cold; the thermomoter 5
degrees above Zero, and on Saturday night there was suffi-
cient snow to make good winter roads. Th 3 floating, ice in
the river is increasing fast.—Gazette.

MR. O'CONNELL'S SECOND LETTER

ON POOR LAWS.

" TO MY CONSTITUENTS.

" Fellow.countrymen,—This letter is intended to fix
your attention upon two objections to the proposed poor
law; both are important, though of unequal magnitude.
" The first is this :—By the 19th section of the Bill, at
page 7 of the printed copy, it is enacted that no clergyman
of any persuasion can be elected a guardian of the poor.
" I submit that it would be infinitely better to have
clergymen of all denominations eligible—that is, capable
of being elected, if the rate-payers think fit to elect them.
It is a mistake to think that the Catholic and Protestant
clergy quarrel or create jealousies when engaged together
in works of charity or benevolence. The contrary is
proved by one thousand instances in which they have cor-
dially co-operated together in such works. Indeed this
enactment is one of the proofs of the utter, and I may say
contemptuous, ignorance of the real state of Ireland on
which this Bill is framed. _

" The real guardims Of the poor are the clergy. Why
should they be shut out from any share whatever in the
legal guardianship ? It is really too bad.
The second objection, however, is of vital consequence.
It is the grand and overwhelming error of the Bill. It is
the most important feature of the measure.
" It involves these questions :—How, and by whom are
the rates and cesses to be paid ? Who are to be the
payers ? Are they to be the landlords or the tenants ?
the residents in Ireland or the absentees? •

" The answer to each question is—the occupiers are to
pay : that is, the tenants are to pay and not the land-
lords : the residents are to pay—not the absentees.
" I proceed now to show how the occupiers are to pay,
and also what remedy they arc to have for a part—a small
part, indeed—of the rates against the landlords and the ab-
sentees.:
" By the 67th section, page 23, the occupier is rendered
.liable t%_the payment of the entire rate ; that rate can be
enforceTby distress and sale, or by suit, in like manner as
the grand jury cess.
" By the 69th section every tenant holding at a rent not
lexceeding .5/. a-year is not to pay any poor rates. Tbi

" The occupier also, if he lays out money in the cultivation
of his farm, or improvement of his house, renders it of more
value. What is the consequence ? Fin. every shilling he lays
out he increases Lis proportion of the poor-rate, and exonerates
in the ratio.of his (the tenant's) expenditure, his landlord, who
does not lay out one shilling.
" What can be more inconsistent with good policy than
this, to discourage improvement, and encourage absenteeism ?
" I have thus shown the state of the occupiers of lands. I
wish my constituents to understand that the occupiers of houses
are worse off, for this simple reason, that the rent of a house
is, in general, less in proportion to its value, than the rent of
lands. The value of houses is given by way of fine in very
many instances. In most instances, some fine is given. That
fine is not to be taken into calculation in offer to exonerate

the occupier from the poor-rate. No such thing; it is the
landlord or the house-owner that will be exonerated from the
pour rate, in the exact ratio of the fine he receives. By paying
the fine, the rent of the tenant is less, and the annual calcu-
lated profit above the rent is more. It is upon that profit the
occupier will pay his proportion of the second half of the poor
rate ; and of course, that proportion will be the greater in
proportion to the greatness of the fine, and of the sums of mo-
ney laid out in improvements.
" Inhabitants of Dublin—the more you improve your houses,
the more you fino down your rents, the more poor-rates you
will have to pay, and the less poor-rates will be paid by your
landlords.

"Is this to be borne—is this burden on the occupiers and
residents on Ireland to be endured, in order to exonerate the
rents of landlords and absentees from poor•rate, and to give a
pecuniary bonus to landlords to transport themselves out of
Ireland, and to augment the baleful number of absentees ?
" But this is not all ; the tenant is still worse off, the land-
lord is still better off. Look at the 74th section, page 25 :
you will find the mode in which the tenant or occupier is to
he repaid by the landlord the part of the poor -rate chargeable
on the landlord.

"Observe, in the first place, that the entire rate is to be
paid, without any deduction, by the occupier, and that in

every instance.
" In Ireland it is no small inconvenience to a tenant to be
oblied to advance money on account of his landlord ; but let
that pa,s. Under this Bill the occupit. r must advance the
landlord's share of the rate.

" But, having advanced it, how is the occupier to be repaid
by the I.lndlord?
" The 74th section will tell you the astounding fact, that
the occupier is to be repaid only out of the gale to accrue
next after such rdranee.

" This is almost incredible, but it is not less true. The
wor!s of the 74th section are express. I will give them, to
exYhit a rnenstrosty of legislation I believe unparalleled.
Oh! 1.1:e Union ! ! the Union !!!

" Provided always that no person entitled to rent shall be
compellable to accept in part payment thereof any receipt for
rate un'ess the residue of the Fortion or gale of rent, next ac-
cruing due after the payment of the rate by the person tender-
ing the receipt, be also tendered and paid.'
" Thus the receipt of the rate-collector for the landlord's
share of the poor r :te shall be taken as part of the occupier'
rent in one case, and in one casx only —that is, in case the
occupier shall pay.up in full all rent due of him when he paid
the rate, and all the gale to become due after he paid the rate.
It is, in short, only out of a gale to become due after the

pN)r-rate has been raid, that it is to be allowed, and only upon
the terms of paying up all that gale.
" This is, indeed, a boon to landlords. It is, iudeed, the

first time an Irish tenqnt was ever required to pay a rent not
due, but to become due.

" Was I not right in calling this a landlords' bill—an ab-
sentees' Bill ?

'‘ It ought to be entitled, an Act the better to enable harit
landlords and absentees to extort large rcuts, and to throw the
support of the Irish poor on the residents and occupiers of
lands and houses in Ireland.'

Besides, there is this peculiar bar lsbip in placing theso
payments on cecupiers resident in Ireland, that it is a plan
diametrically o, polite to the general policy of the present Ad-
ministration. That policy has been to throw the tithes and
other burdens on the roots, that is, as much as possible on the
landlords. This plan is to throw as little as possible upon
the rents and landlords, and as much as possible upon the
occu;iers.

Thus the Ministry contradict thernFelra, end whilst they
advocate the placing other burdens on the rent and landlords,
they now insist upon throwing this burden on the occupiers
and residents.

" Why should the Ministry violate their own principles and,
in this instance, act in a way directly the reverse of that
which they pursue on other occasions ? I have no doubt that
one reason is, because unless they conciliated the landlords
they would have no chance of passing the Bill through the
House of Lords. The second reason I fear is this, that this
Bill has originated with the Grey section of the Cabinet, and
that scot on is necessarily tinged by the extinguishable hatred
of Ireland and Irishmen which is well known to rage in Earl
Grey's breast, and from which sprung the atrocious Coer-
cion Act. •

" Our business is, if possible, to save the Ministry from the
fatal effects of such a mistake as is involved in this Poor-law
Bill. We owe too deep a gratitude to Lord, Melbourne's Ad-
ministration, and, above all and before all, to the Government
of the Earl of Mu?grave, not to exert every energy in our
power to rescue that Administration from the fatal effects of
this ill-considered measure.

My object is this if we are to have a Poor-law in Ire-
laud, let the rates come out of rents, and out of rents almost
exclusively. Tax the rents, one, two, or ten shillings in the
pound. Relieve the occupiers, the payers of wages, the em-
ployers of labourers; lean on the non-residents, on the absen-
tees, on the men who take all and restore none, who employ
nobody in Ireland, pay no wages in Ireland, drain everything,
and return nothing.
" What is then to be done ? Alas 1 I fear very little ; no-
thing, certainly, effectual, unless every parish, town, city, and
county in Ireland bestirs itself, and clamours loud and long
against this Bill.
" It has been said that the Bill may be amended in Com-
mittee. I tell the people of Ireland that it will not be so
amended ; that it cannot be se amended, unless the people, by
overwhelming petitions to Parliament, compel the Ministry to
attend to their cries.
" Citizens of Dublin, it depends on yourselves. Men of
Ireland, it depends on yourselves. I do my duty in exposing
the absurdities—the glaring mischiefs cf this Bill. What sup-
port am Ito expect ?
" From the prey, little—very. little. There is a maudlin
affectation of sentimentality about what is called a provision
for the poor' which distorts the views of most of our public
writers, and prevents them from seeing that, at all events, this
Bill is no provision for the poor,' but is really a provision
to render occupants and residents poor indeed, and to proclaim
protection and rewards to landlords and absentees- 111,
" Even the English press will do nothing for us. Irish
poor laws are not of sufficient interest to justify the, London
papers to insert my letters on this subject. Even The Sun
which takes co kind and zealous a part on most subjects con-
nected with Ireland, does not feel itself warranted to consume
its space by printing my commentary on this Bill. I could

not give a stronger proof of the utter disregard of purely Irish
affairs which pervades, and naturally pervades, society in Eng-
land. This is a subject exclusively Irish, and therefore public
opinion is either diverted into a wrong channel or rendered
powerless of protection to the unfortunate Irish people.
" My determination, therefore, is to redouble my agitation
on this subject. The less assistance I get from others, the
more am I bound to exert myself to supply the deficiency.
" I am thoroughly convinced that if this Bill passes, or any
Poor-law Bill which does not put the rates on the rents and
absentees, and not on the occupiers, new agrarian distur-
bances will disfigure and disgrace the country, and prevent
our advances towards Justice from England,' or justice for
ourselves.
" Fellow-countrymen, I call for your aid • assist me to get
ricrof the obnoxious clauses in this Bill. I respectfully en-
treat the Clergy of every persuasion will be pleased to ex-
plain the fatal effects likely to be produced by this Bill, and
then I implore the people to assist me by petitions and remon-
strances to prevent its enactment.
" I have the honour to be, Fellow-countrymen,
" Your faithful servant,
" DANIEL O'CONNELL."

THE TRITE SUN.

LONDON

SATURDAY EVENING DECEMBER 23, 1837.

This evening is the last on which the daily True
Sun will appear. We have now for eighteen months
devoted to it every energy of our minds, far more intent
upon national improvement than on success in a mere
commercial undertaking. We have fearlessly advo-
cated the interests of the whole community, as distin-

guished from those of narrow sections. We have
bearded the oligarchy In its strongholds, and exposed
alike the open profligacy of the Tory, and the tortuous
duplicity of the Whig factions.
We do not affect to be insensible to the strong ap-
probation of our views which has been expressed by
some of the highest minds of our time. We are
deeply grateful to that part of the public press which
has awarded to us its honest praise, and we shall re-
member with pride, that amongst the public and the
press, it is from the intelligent we have received the
most hearty support.
We have neither spared our time nor our capital in
the effort we have Made to establish a Daily Journal
unshackled by party ties, untrammelled by the neces-
sity of advocating class intgests, and have made consi-
derable sacrifices in so doing. But we do not see a
reasonable prospect of a remunerative return within
such a definite period as would justify a perseverance
on the part of private individuals, who value their
pecuniary independence as the foundation of their
political usefulness.
But let it not be said we have suddenly abandoned
our efforts. We have, for several months, laid before
the more opulent of the Liberal party the actual posi-
tion of the paper. We have informed them that, after
the present period, the distributive efforts of the Liberal
party must be taxed to carry out to ultimate success
the national object we had commenced with much pro-
mise, and continued so long as individual pructimee
ould permit.
With some generous exceptions, this met with no
efficient response.
We trust that the Liberal cause will not suffer from
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commercial failure to apathy on the part of the people.
There isb scarcely a mechanics' institute, or a place
where industrious and intelligent tradesmen and work-
ing men assemble, that the daily True Sun has vot
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of readers than any other Newspaper, hut the indus-
trious many who have most sympathised with us have
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an intellectual necessity they have not the means to
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Under these circumstances the daily True Sun
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and will henceforward be merged in that journal. And
we wish and hope that the new vigout which our own
circulation will infuse into our contemporary may enable
him to take that independent political position which
we have ourselves occupied.
Let the people remember that upon the support they
afford him will depend the degree of his independence.
Let them remember that the labourer is worthy of his
hire ; and that if they would maintain an iadepenTent
press they must make strenuous efforts in aid of the
journal which dares to be independent. Beyond our
sincere desire that The Sun may deserve and command
success, we have not the slightest interest in that

journal.
From some remarks which appear in anotbr part
of the paper it will be seen that the True Sun Weekly
Paper will still remain in our hands.
tr-07- On Monday, and following days, during the
week, The Sun Evening Paper will be published at
our Office, as a substitute for the True Sun.

The following military appointments are now va-
elm : A Colonelcy in the Artillery, by the death of Coloed
Colby ; the post of Captain in the Royal Hospital, Dublin,
by the death of Major Dawson ; and the Quartermastership
of the 37th Regiment, by the death of Quartermaster Hayes.
GRAVESEND, DEC. 25.—A very distressing fire
broke out yesterday morning on the farm of Mr. Skinner, an
eminent agriculturist at West Thurroek, in Essex, about four
miles from Tilbury Fort—and nearly the whole of the home-
stead, including the barns and outhouses, seven large stacks of
hay and corn, three calves, several pigs, &c., fell a prey to
the conflagration. The horses were saved by great exertion
of the farm servants ; both men and horses much scorched.
It is supposed to be the work of an incendiary. The fire was
discovered about two o'clock, e.m.,_and was blazing when the
steam-boats passed yesterday at mid-day.
TFIE HAWICK RIOTERS.-The sentence on the
• Hawick rioters is the subject of general remark by the Press
of Scotland, most of whose members state their opinion that
the sentence is of a severity disproportioned to the offence of
which they were found guilty. The Kelso Chronicle says—
" The speech of the Lord President indicates anything but an
impartial spirit ; and when it is considered that the prisoners
were found guilty only by a majority of tne jury, the sentences
appear to us unnecessarily severe. We trust that the,steps will
be immediately taken, by representations addressed to the
proper quarters, for the rescinding or mitigating of the sen-
tences of men who were misled by outraged feelings, and how-
ever blameably they acted, did not do so from malice. We
quite agree with Lord Cockburn in his zeal for freedom of
election ; but does Isis Lordship think that freedom of election
will be best obtained by the settling of 57 fictitious voters upon
a small property called Dalgleish in Selkirkshire, and of 41 on
Redford-green, in the same county? Are these deeds not pro-
vocative of indignation more than the outrages committed at
Hawick, much as these 'outrages may be lamented by every
lover of liberty. But, perhaps, his Lordship's views of freedom
of election may not go beyond those of a Whig of 1689.
NOVEL SPECIES OF INTIMIDATION.—A clergy-
man who happened to be a passenger in one of our mails re-
corded the other day the following anecdote :—A person re-
siding in the parish of having fallen under the ban of the
Kirk Session, was duly cited before the proper tribunal, and,
after admission or proof, sentenced to stand a public rebuke.
The offender was a soldier, and, often as he had done parade
duty in a different arena, the idea of exhibiting himself before
the assembled congregation was so appalling that he secretly
determined to get out of the scrape with the best grace
possible. With this view he went early to church, dressed
in regimentals, and carried his gun along with him, which,
from the by-paths he took and the hour of the morning, he
managed to secrete without observation. In due time the
worshippers assembled, and after the services of the day had
been ended, the soldier was called on to stand up. This
summons he instantly obeyed, and by way of suiting the ac-
tion to the word, presented his musket at the head of the
clergyman. An exhibition so novel and unexpected asto-
nished and petrified every spectator; the minister himself
looked unutterable things, and after pausing and changing
colour he timidly inquired—." What, Sir, do you mean by
that ?" " Only," said the other coolly, "to show you
I'm a disciplinarian as wall as yourself." This was too
much ; most people thought the man mad, and as there is no
saying what a madman will do, no one seemed willing to incur
the responsibility of securinr, and disarming so desperate a
character. In this feeling the minister sympathized, and after
a little time cowered down in the pulpit, so as to be out of the
reach of a weapon, which, for aught lee knew, might be charged
with ball or deadly slug. The belligerent doggedly main-
tained his ground, and, without relaxing a muscle, kept
pointing at the pulpit as unerringly as the needle points to the
pole. For the space of ten minutes or so the coagregation
was paralyzed ; after which the clergyman called out from the
place where he had ensconced himself, " Is the fellow away
aetki " No," said the Precentor, ""he's still standing in the
JAI'. t, with the gun in his hand ready to fire." Then tell
717, c,••••'''ft!ltio* me to take himself off, and I'll forgive him this time ;"
cement which elicited a general titter, during which
444:::: :e-1, -2r iii4rtpttia4at retired as proud, as he said himself, as " his ain
wah when he captured the standard at Waterloo.—
.40,,....'4V.'reDfiritiria !Courier.

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