The Sun.
London, England, 1839-07-20 00:00:00

CAUTION,

THE Public are respectfully cautioned against
the base and dishonest attempts of many Shopkeepers,
who endeavour to foist upwi them Imitations of the following articles,
composed of the m ist pernicious ingredients, under the i re of being
ch.,:tp. To prevent such impo ition, it is necessary to notice the
fodowing
ROWLANIIS' MACASSAR CIL;
Each bottle has their signature, in red, on the wrapper, thus
A. ROWLA & SON, HAI' i ON GARDEN.
Counter-signed A LEX. ROWLAND.
Price 3s. rd., 75., Ills M., and 2ts. per bottle.
ROWLAND,'KALYDOR

1-!as their signature engraved on the Government Stamp, which is
pasted over the cork of each Lottle, alst, written, in red on the
wrapper, thus—
A. ROWLAND & SON, 2n, HATTON GARDEN.
Price 4s. tid. and Bs. Gd. per bott.e.
ROWLANDS' ODONTO

..„
Has the Government Stamp pasted around each box, on which is
their signature, s ab•ive. Price ‘2s. Sad pvr Box,
0- purchasing, be sure to ask for « Howland's."
;May be had of respectable Medicine Venders iid Perfumers.

pRANKS'S SPECIFIC SOLUTION OF
COPAIBA.L.
Vt ithin a period of Two Mouths upwards of Three Hundred Patients
were successfully treated at the Metropolitan Hospitals with
FRANK ,'S SPECIFIC SOLUTION of COPAIBA.
By Joseph Henry Green, Esq., F.R.S., one of the Council of the
Royal College of Surgeons, surgeon to St. Thomas's Hospital, and
Professor or Surgery in the King's College, London.
" I have mime trial of Mr. Frank's Solution of Copaiba, at St.
Thomas's Hospital, in a variety of eases of discharges in the male
and female, and the results warrant my stating, that it is an effica.
cious remedy, and one xhich does not produce the usual unpleasant
effects o Cepaiba.
(Signed) "JOSEPH HENRY GREEN.
46, Lincoln's-Inn-fields, April 15, 1831
By Bransby Cooper, Esq., F.R.S., Surgeon to Guy's Hospital, and
Lectutt r on Anatomy, &c &c., and others most eminent in the
Medical Profession.
_P'.,.. street
an'd`
iNillr. Bransby Coo Per present, his compliments to Mr. Geo. Franks,
nth., as great pleasure in bearing testimony of the efficacy of his So.
Th invalueleP
..._ "• of Copaiba in Gonorrhoea, for which disease Mr. Cooper has
i'. _lredw. the solution in ten or twelve cases with perfect success.
r ing. g a
Mediciner d eins s ,Apri 113
of Gonorrhoea, GI confidentlyl6r3csc.o"mrnencled in all cases
Irritaticri of the eets Urethral Ilischarges. Spasmodic Strictures,
Kidneys, Bladder, Urethra, and Prostate Gland i
its purifying efteet
plicable re all casessoupon the gent ral health render it particularly ap.
Prepared
Qnly
by fcrelazed fibre and nervous debility.
Lonaon, and may he hid
Franks, Surgeon, iio, tßackfriars.road,
dem, in Bottles at 2s. sid °fall Medicine-venders in the United King.
Cauriosr.— Un. ea. ~ (4.4 rt. 6d.. and I Is. cams.
on the Government Stamp It Freitag, Blaltfriars road," is engraved
/*-- Vii. Franks may i
.i cannot be genuine.
e consulted until Two o'clock daily.

DAVIES'S CANDLES, 6(1. per lb.; Wax
Candles, ls. 2d. ; Fine Wax, Is. sd. ; extra fine
Moulds, Wax Wicks, id. ; transparent Wax, Is. 9d. ; ge-
nuine Sperm, Is 9d. ; genuine Wax, 2s. Id. ; Yellow Soap,
465., 545., and 60s. per 1121bs. ; Mottled, 625. and 665. ;
Windsor and Palm, Is. 4d. per packet; Old Brown Windsor,
Is. 9d. ; Rose, 2s. ; Camphor, 2s. ; superior Almond Soap,
2s. 6d. ; superfine Sealing Wax, 4s. 6d per lb. ; genuine
Sperm Oil, Bs. 6d. per gallon.
For Cash, at DAVIES'S Old-Established Warehouse, 63,
St. Martin's-lane, opposite New Slaughter's Coffee-House.

21, Fleet-street.
TEETH—THE NEW DURABLE TEETH.
ESSRS. CARTWRIGHT
and RROWNE, Surgeon Dentists, beg to call the at-
tention of the Public to their NEW DURABLE TEETH,
which so closely resemble the natural teeth, both in shape and co-
lour, that they cannot be distinguished from them by the closest
observer, with the advantage that they will NEVER CH AN( ;E
COLOUR, DECAY, WEAR OUT, or BREAK OFF,
and a Complete Set of Teeth, on Fine Gold, for which they
will only charge from Fifteen to Eighteen Guineas, will last for
Twenty Years or upwards. A single tooth fitted at One
Guinea, and inferior sorts of teeth from fit per
Messrs. C. and 8., from their great experience in the pro-
fession, can guarantee to restore perfect mastication and articu-
lation, having succeeded in thousands of cases, in many of which
other dentists had entirely failed.

P ÜBLI CATION S.

THE QUEEN AND THE BISHOPS!

AFVERYI3ODY should ask for CLEAVE'S
PENNY GAZETTE—Containing Hoffman's Dead
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Whiskers, by an American—The Queen and the Bishops (au
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Just published, price 65.,
PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS on the
PROSTATE GLAND and its DISEASES; toge-
ther with suggestions for an Improved Mode of Treatnxent.
By FRANCIS BURDETT COURTENAY,
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London,
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Anatomy of the Prostate Gland. Stone in the Prostate—Syrup-
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ANNUAL STATEMENT OF THE
COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION OF THE
UNITED STATES.

We have received from Washington an abstract of this inte-
resting document, from which we present the following;_
Imports for the year ending Sept. 30, 1838.
Dollars.
Total amount ..
Of which were imported in American vessels ... 102.987,448
In foreign vessels 10,629,950
Exports.
Total amount
Of which were domestic produce
Foreign produce
Domestic Articles.

Exported in Americanve;Sel;- ---
-----
79,855,599
Exported in foreign vessels 16,178,222
Foreign Articles.
Exported in American vessels 9,964,200
Exported in foreign vessels
Navigation.
American shipping entered the ports of the United Tons.
States for the year ending Sept. 30, 1838
Ditto, cleared from ditto
Foreign vessels entered during same period
Ditto,cleared ditto 604,166
Registered tonnage, as corrected Sept. 30, 1838 821,391
Enrolled and licensed
Fishing vessels

Total tons
Employed in whale fishery
Shipping built in the United States during the
year ending Sept. 30, 1833:
Registered 41,830
Enrolled

Tons
—Philadelphia Inquirer

113,i34

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.—The Symmetry, Ceylon to
London, 15th inst., lat. 49, lon. 11 ; City of York, for
New York, 16th, Ist. 50, lon. 6, by the Princess Char-
lotte, arrived off Falmouth ; Great Western (steamer),
Bristol to New York, I,lth inat., lat. 51, lon. 20, by the
Recovery, Sisson, arrived at Gloucester; Thomas Laurie,
from St. Peter's Bay, New South Wales, lat. 40, lon. 36,
by the Vulcan, Patrick, arrived off Falmouth ; Vestal,
Hamburg to Newfoundland, 4th inst., lat. 47, lon. 20,
by the Richard Bell, arrived at Shields ; Kickleborough,
fur Batavia, Bth ult., lat. 8, lon. 28; Manco, Liverpoo,
to New; York, 12th inst., lat. 46, lon. 21, by the Colum-
bian arrived at Liverpool; Tom, Dublin to Quebec, 27th
ult., lat. 46. lon. 52, by the Portia, arrived at Gloucester;
Chester, from Liverpool, lat. 49, lon. 10, with loss of
bead and cutwater, by the Wm. Ash, arrived at Starcross ;
Mercer, of Bremen, 7th inst., lat. 48, lon. 17, by the
Gerhard, Herman, arrived at Bremen.

(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons
Thursday, July 18, 1839.)
The Petition of William Lovett, of 6, Upper North-
place, Gray's Inn-road, and of John Collins, 6, Court,
Bread-street, Birmingham,
Showetb,
That on the 6th of the present month your petitioners
were apprehended at Birmingham by the constables of that
place, charged with having published a seditious and ma-
licious libel, tending to excite dis-ffection and discontent
towards her Majesty's person and Government, and to
cause a breach of the peace.
That your petitioners were forthwith taken to the public
office, where ;hey were kept in custody for some time, and
then brought before a Bench of Magistrates, and questioned
respecting certain Resolutions which had been placarded
on the preceding day.
That your petitioners, at half-past eleven o'clock at night,
were committed, and lodged in the gaol until the next
morning at seven o'clock, when they were removed to the
county gaol at Warwick.
That your petitioners were then formally committed,
and bail was demanded for their appearance at the
Assizes to take their trial, and to be of good behaviour
and keep the peace in the mean time.
That the bail demanded was in the sum of 1,0001.,
that is, 500/. by each of your petitioners, and two se-
curities in 2501. each.
That your petitioners thereon complained of the ex-
orbitant amount of the bail, they being working men,
and the difficulty of their finding men in their own
sphere capable of perfecting bail to such an amount ' - to
which they received for answer, that the Magistrates had
well considered their determination, and were not disposed
to make any alteration.
When your petitioners were removed to the county
gaol of Warwick, they were stripped stark naked in the
presence of two turnkeys, and in that condition examined
all over, to discover if there were any particular marks on
their bodies. This was an indignity by them so severely
felt, that they feel themselves bound to notice it most em-
phatically to your Honeurable House.
That your petitioners were then taken into a room in
which there were not less than eight prisoners, recently
brougbt into the gaol, and with-these men (some of whom
were in a -filthy state) were compelled again to strip them-
selves naked, and bathe in the same cistern of water as
these men did, and dry themselves as well as they could
on the same towel.
That a common felon was ordered to cut the hair of your
petitioner William Lovett, and to this indignity your peti-
tioner was compelled to submit.
That your petitioners'. shirts were taken from them, and
the initial letters of their names in Roman letters an inch
long stamped thereon in indelible ink.
That your petitioners were then put into a ward con-
taining 22 prisoners, one of whom was infected with the
itch.
That during each of the nine days your petitioners were
confined in the county gaol of Warwick, they were at five
different times, and sometimes more fi equently, each day,
compelled to fall into their exact places among the pri-
soners in the open yard, there to answer to their names,
to receive their food, to be examined by the doctor to dis-
cover if they had taken the itch ; and exhibited to
persons who came to see the prison, when they were com-
pelled to stand bare-headed.
. That your petitioners were limited to a common gaol
allowance, and no one was allowed to suLtply them with
any addition thereto.
That this allowance consisted of a small loaf, which your
petitioners suppose might weigh lilb., one pint of oatmeal
gruel each, with no condiment in it but salt, at 9 A. td. for
breakfast. For dinner, at twelve, about 2 oz. of cheese
each day, except Sundays and Wednesdays, when they were
served with a pint of what was called " beef soup," in
which there was no appearance of meat, excepting some
slimy, stringy particles, which, hanging about the spoon, so
offended your petitioners' stomachs, that they were com-
pelled to forego eating it ; and at six e St. one more pint of
oatmeal gruel, While from twelve on Sunday, until nine
a. m. on Monday, your petitioners were not served with
any food.
But, in addition to this the common gaol allowance,
your petitioners, in common with all the untried prisoners,
were permitted to expend threepence each only per day in
butter,sugar,bacon,eggs,salt,pepper,worated,thread,or tape.
But your petitioners were not allowed to have either the
eggs or bacon cooked, and bad themselves no access to
fire to cook them, and did actually eat both eggs and ba-
con raw.
That, during eleven hours out of the twenty-four, your
petitioners were locked up in a vaulted cell with a brick
floor, at the door of which cell they, to their ,great dis-
comfort were compelled to leave their boots.
That in this cell there was neither chair, stool, nor table,
the whole furniture consisting only of a wooden tub, an iron
bedstead, with a wooden pillow, a straw mattress, two
blankets, and a rug, but no sheets.
That your petitioners were compelled, under the penalty
of solitary confinement, to make their own bed in a parti-
cular manner, and each morning to fold up the mattress,
&c. in a close and compact form, to the exclusion of the
air; so that when they were unfolded in the evening the
smell was'offensivb.to an extent not to be conceived.
That during two hours each morning, half an hour before
being locked up at night, and once in each day, your peti-
tioners were turned into a yard, and not allowed to retreat
into any place for shelter.
That 3 our petitioners were prohibited from seeing any
person except in the presence of the gaoler, at certain fixed
times, then only for n few minutei ; a wicket gate, with
spikes at the top of it, being between them and their
friends.
That the watch and money of your petitioners, and every
tiling else their pockets contained, were taken from them,
and they were not allowed the use of knife, fork, plate,
er any vessel, save only 'a small wooden tub, and a spuon
of the same material.
That no books or printed papers (the Bible and Praycr--
book excepted) were permitted.
That your petitioners were debarred from the free use
of pen, ink, and paper ; no letters addressed to them were
delivered to them until they had been examined ; and
every part of the paper which was not written upon care-
fully tern off:
That your petitioners were not allowed to write to any
person, however necessary it might be, except in a particu-
lar room, where other prisoners were also allowed to write,
in which they were locked up, and were compelled to
leave their letters open to be examined before they were
dispatched by post.
That your petitioners, at the same time, beg to be un-
derstood as making no complaint of the personal conduct
of Mr. Atkins, the Governor.
Your petitioners having been thus treated as common
felons, in a gaol where the discipline is particularly se-
vere; having been treated wiih great indignity ; having been
deprived of all comforts in every respect, limited both in
quantity end quality of food, and otherwise treated as is
shown in this their petition, pray your Honourable House to
take the same into your consideration, as treatment such
as no Englishman shOuld be subject to while under con-
finement pending the production of bail, and previous to
being convicted of a crime,—your petitioners believing
that it is not possible that they should be convicted of any
crime or offence whatever.
And your petitioners will ever pray,
WM. LOVETT,
6, Upper North-place, Gray's Inn Road.
JOHN COLLINS,
6, court, Bread-street, Birmingham.

CORRESPONDENCE IN THE GRATTAN ME-
MOIRS.—One of the most valuable features in the two vo-
lumes of " The Life and Times of the Right Hon.
Henry Grattan," by his son Henry Grattan, Esq., M P.,
just published by Mr. Colburn, is the number of letters
introduced, on a great variety of topics—those of a public
nature affording instruction, those of a private nature., en.
tertainment ; the official ones throwing a new light on the
affairs of Ireland ; and the whole together offering- a useful
lesson to politicians. Besides those initiatory to the
memoirs from Dean Swift to the Duke of Dorset, and
from Lord Chesterfield to Chief Justice Marlay, the other
%ricers are Gervase, Parker, Busbe, Colonel Marlay,
Broome the poet, Mossop the actor, Robert Day, Lord
Buckingham, Lord Weymouth, Sir Richard Heron, Ed
mund Pery, Lord Tyrone, Lord Temple, Lord Clanri-
conic, Lord Hillsborough, Lord Charlemont, Mr. Ede!),
Lord Shelburne, Charles Fox, Charles Sheridan, Lord
Rockingham, Edmund Burke, Sir Lucius O'Brien, Mr.
Waite, and Mr. Grattan ; addressed principally to each
other, or from some among them to Lord North, Mr. Be-
resford, Right Hon. John Forster, Sir Stainer Porter, R. B.
Sheridan, Mr. Hutchinson, John Robinson, and Sir
Jonah Barrington. Such a mass of original correspon-
dence from the most distinguished men of their day, forms
of itself, independent of the great interest attached to the
memoirs themselves, an inexhaustible fund of entertain-
ment and instruction, applicable to all classes of readers,
but more especially to the politician and the philosopher,
who will not fail to profit by so useful and seasonable a
publication.
THE LATE EXTENSIVE FIRE IN SPITAL7
ereens.—Wednesiay evening a highly respectable and
numerous meeting was held at the National Schoolroom,
Quaker-street, Spitalfields, to adopt measures f,nrtoentslehrtincfl
into a subscription to alleviate the distress
about a hundred poor families have been plunged by the
late fire. The Rev. Mr. Stone, the rector of the parish,
presided, and made a powerful appeal to the sympathies of
the assemblage. Several gentlemen in the neighbourhood
have undertaken to receive subscription_s,. and a list cf
places at which donations may be left will be duly adver.
tised.
ENORMOUS RECEIPT OF LETTERS.--The
greatest number of letters that were ever known to pars
through the General Post-office in one day was received at
St. Martin's-lc-Grand on Monday last. Their number
exceeded 90,000, and their amount of postage no let,s than
4050/., an amount greater by 5301. than any that has hi.
therto been collected in one day. This enormous number
can only be accounted for by the simultaneous arrival of the
overland India mail with those from the Colonies and the
Continent, and the receipt of a vast number of letters
from all parts of England, Ireland. and Scotland. In
order to prepare for the delivery of so extraordinary a
number, there were no less than 200 sorters employed un-
ceasingly for five hours, and at the termination of their
labours many of them were so exhausted both from their
exertions and the extreme heat and closeness of the offices
in which they were engaged, as to be scarcely able to walks

The following is the letter which the Mayor of
Birmingham sent to Lord John Russell :
" Birmingham, July /7, 1839.
" Wednesday night, Eleven o'clock, p.m.
" MY LORD,—The hurry in which I have been com-
pelled to address your Lordship dining the lest two
nights has prevented my sending any details of the
existing disturbances—details now rendered necessary,
not only by the directions in your Lordship's letter of
yesterday, but by some statements of a most unfounded
character, which the Magistrates understand have been
lately sent to your Lordships.
The Magistrates, after several days of perfect quiet
(from Tuesday the 9th, to Sunday the 14th inst., both
inclusive) thinking Monday the 15th a day very likely
to need protection, on account of it holiday character,
sat at the public office till about five o'clock, p.m., to
consult as to the means of defence in case of any out-
break. Although their Fitting on former days had been
marked by the production of numberless reports of
the most alarming character (scarcely one of
which proved true.) they received at their sitting
only two reports of any moment ; one, that a meeting
was to be held at half-past twelve (noon) at Holloway-
head ; the other,that the mob intended to arm them-
selves at night. ith regard to the first, if a meeting
were designed Bette took plce ; and with respect to the
second, it came before the Magistrates backed by
evidence no better or more specific than that which had
characterised all previous rumours, and was, like them,
too vague, even if true, for definite action. At five
o'clock the Magistrates adjourned, leaving word at the
oublic office that if any the slightest appearance of
disturbance arose, they were to he sent for forthwith—
an arrangement adopted for one or two evenings since
the town had resumed its wonted appearance of quiet.
At seven, one of the magistrates was at the public
office ; he found all tranquil, and went home. At
half-past seven a gentleman saw the close of the meet-
ing held without the knowledge of the Magistrates at
Holloway-head, and observed the members of it move
towards the centre of the town. He arrived at the
Bull=ring at eight, and declares (so little did
he anticipate any evil effects from this meeting)
that even at a quarter-past eight, when he was
in the Buil-ring, and after seeing so much more
than wss then known by the Magistrates, he had
not the slightest fear or
.expectation of riot or disturb-
ance. Ater quarter-past eight one of the Magistrates
was in. New-street, a very F.lPort distance from the
Bull-rind, and although eneag-d in conversation for
o
some minutes in that street, neither saw any symptoms
nor heard any rumours of disturbance. At about the
same hour another Magi=trate passed through the Bull-
ring, and, seeing no semblance of disturbance, went
home. About half-past eight it appears that the Bull-
ring began to fill—the upper part of it being especially
crowded, when a body of men, women and lads, ap-
peared at the lower part of the Bull-ring. This body,
there is every reason to believe, came from the War-
wick-road, where great numbers had congregated to
receive two " Convention Delegates," who were to have
been released from Warwick gaol that evening on bail.
The Delegates did not arrive so soon as was expected,
and the mob moved towards the town. On its arrival
the attack was begun by a party, consisting chiefly of
women and lads, on the shop of Mr. Bourne ; after assail-
ing it for some minutes, breaking in, and commencing the
plunder of it, many of the assailants moved higher up the
Bull-ring, and deliberately attacked other shops on both
sides of the place, breaking their windows. In the
meantime the chief of the police started on the first
material symptom of disturbance (at about half-past
eight), for the house of the nearest Magistrate (Dr.
Booth), whence he immediately drove up to my resi-
dence, about a mile and a half from the Bull-ring. He
reached my house about nine o'clock. Without a mo-
ment's loss of time we returned to Dr. Booth's, when
we were informed that the crowd were breaking the
windows of the public-office. Dr. Booth and myself
instantly galloped to the barracks, about a mile on the
other side of the town, and by twenty minutes before
ten had brought to the Bull-ring a considerable number
of the military (Dragoons), who were immediately em-
ployed, some in guarding the Bull-ring, and others in scour-
ing the streets for a great distance round. By this time
many other Magistrates had arrived, at the public-office.
We found Mr. Bourne's house in flames, as also the house
of Mr. Legget (the only two fired, or materially injured
by fire). Several bodies of soldiers were dispatched to
guard the fire-engines on their route. to the Bull-ring,
and in a few minutes the first engihe appeared, and
was followed in rapid succession by others. All were
immediately set to work, 'and by dint of the indifatiga-
ble exertions, at once of the firemen and of all the spec-
tators, the fires by twelve o'clock (midnight) were
mainly overcome, although they continued to burn with
diminished fierceness for about an hour longer. A
question has been raised whether it was not perfectly
within the power of the London police to put down the
disturbance at the first outbreak. The general opinion
I find is, that it might have done so ; but it is
said the London police were ordered not to act
without a Magistrate. Such, in fact, is Superinten-
dent May's statement of the instructions he received
from the Magistrate through myself. I can only
say I do not remember having either sanctioned
or.conveyed any such instruction;. At the same time
I am sure that if. such instructions were given, they
were -meant to-rbe conditional upon the number and
force of the mob they would have to encounter. If
small, and within their power to overcome it, it is ma-
nifest the Magistrates could not have desired to keep
the police inactive ; but if the mob were large and dan-
gerous, assuredly the Magistrates would have been most
culpable had they allowed the police to attack it, until
by the presence of a Magistrate such a military force
bad been collected as would have prevented the possi-
bility both of needless injury to the police, and of the
more fatal effects of a repulse. From the evidence of
Superintendent May, however, it appears that there
was no period from the moment the outbreak began,
at which the police force could with safety and discre-
tion have interfered with the mob in the Bull-ring ; all
they could do was to clear the street in the immediate
vicinity of the public office, and this they did before
the military arrived. Thus far, my Lord, I have stated
facts ; from these I think I am fairly entitled to draw
the following inferences—that the Magistrates were duly
in attendance at the Public-office on Monday, as on the
other days, since the commencement of the disturb-
ances—that they left the Public-office on Monday even-
ing, only when they were satisfied there was no just
ground of fear that the peace of the town would be
disturbed—that no riot could be anticipated from the
information given to the Magistrates, and it was so sud-
den that the requisite summons, so especially enjoined,
could not have bean conveyed at an earlier moment—
. that the instant it reached them, its call was obeyed—
and that the troops, with admirable alacrity, were on
the spot in the shortest time that under the circum-
stances was practicable.
" It is not for me, my Lord, to eulogise the body to
which I belong, however warmly I may and do approve
of the conduct of its members during the distressing
scenes of Monday night ; and though, as an individual
Member of it, I feel that I should by no implication per-
mit such eulogy to apply to myself ; but my entire con-
fidence in the proofs that can be adduced of their readi-
ness, their untiring zeal, and the prudence as well as the
firmness and personal courage which characterised their
acts throughout the whole of the recent disturbances,
make me share most largely in the anxious wish of my
brother Magistrates, that at the earliest convenient mo-
ment a commission of inquiry may test their proceed-
ings, and try the correctness of the disparaging state-
ments which have been so abundantly urged against
them. It is, perhaps, not a lietle remarkable that,
though throughout the disturbances, every outbreak has
been promptly suppressed, this has been done without
the loss of a single
" I have the honour to be, my Lord,
" Your Lordship's obeditnt humble servant,
(Signed) " WM. SCHOLEFIELD, Mayor.
" The Right Hon. the Lord J. Russell."

We bear that some quantity of cotton is about to
be shipped cif to the Continent, in consequence of the con-
siderable decline in price which that article bas lately sus-
tained. This will constitute a drawing fund, and, if a more
liberal demand fur our manufactured goods should also
.7
spring up, of which there are se mptomtbse, telipetprilutripoonsseooff the
ro
Bank in rendering money dear will be partially answered.
The delay is, however, inconvenient, inasmuch during
ahnudt be much interfered
rather imnawtilethni of the
trading
inpger%io.odrlodf
clonunbott
:ink. This is a tavot.r-
lsatot:kprjeocbabuintigoifiraarytemrn!,tayzpepseia,
fr.
tth
o,:.1.);3
able omen. We have an idea that foreign bonds are slip»
ped into the London matket in much larger quantities than
the public at all enspett ; and until a heavy tax is laid
upon them there will be no cessation of the evil. A pro-
vident Legislature would not, in 'our humble opinion, leave
the national bank so
and their agents. Nothingcompletely
at the mercy of the issue,*
gold asyt,hsetsireadily convertible into
ofellfbouretiiffonabiomncid.., dabblingiins whichg°
the public are, unfor-
tunately,
is not a marktt in EurtoYpeewhrermre
the Bank must necessai'l
bf ; and. vulnerable as
tbthise sortsam same game
traffice, theftan bbe
played upon a large scale. It appears quite inexplicable
to reflecting persons that so vicious a system has not very
long ago been put an end to. Were it for cotton, corn,
tallow, and other stepies that the Bank were called upon
to give gold the embarrassments of the present time would
he of less importance than they are. A better state of
things might be looked forward to eith something Ike a
certainty, but If the treesure of the country is to be wasted
on worthless paper, the trading clasees may, perhaps, hope
.n vain fir any immi. diet,' relief.—Murning Post,
A WAlt CAUSED BY a CHANGE OF WIND!
—I inquired of the chief the came of the present war in
which he was engaged. Ile replied, that the enemy bed
set fire to !owe land for the put-pope of burning off the
brush and fern, preparatory to plane.ng. as is iiivariabi. the
.
custom of the that unfortunately a change of wind pi.opie;
teek pace which caused the fire to turn in a contrary
d.reetion, place, had been
destroyed. and every thing eithin had fall, n a prey to the
flames. It
whereby a wei-tapii, or sacred
was erityitted the fire wee purely accidental,
but the lass of the New Zealanders must be enforced ;
and, continued the chief, ppolivri rrt
ti:ng.,t,o thedecsapsitevateend
heads,. .4 yonder is part
--p olack,
years' .Residence lit New Z:.aland,; •