The Sun.
London, England, 1837-02-21 00:00:00

ST. JAMES'S.

A new operatic burletta, from the elegant pen of Mrs. Car-
ter Hall, to whom the public is much indebted for a consider-
able portion of the pleasing literature of the day, was produced
here last evening, and met with the most decided success. It
is entitled The French kfiigce, and its principal object seemed
to us to be to give Mr. Morris Barnett another opportunity to
display his talent in the personation of 'that description of
French character in which he has gained so much deserved
popularity. The plot or incident of the piece of last night is
very slight ; its aim being, as we have before observed, to af-
ford Mr. Barnett an occasion to pourtray the varied emotions
which alternately dominate in the bosom of the emigre. The
piece depended for its success upon the exertions of Mr. Bar-
nett, and we are bound to record that he did ample justice to
the materials with which the clever authoress had supplied him.
The house was numerously and fashionably attended.

Mr. Parnther will give a Grand Concert tomorrow
(Wednesday) at his mansion in Grafton-street, at which seve-
ral distinguished artistes will assist.
The Earl and Countess of Surrey and family arrived
in Hyde Park-place on Saturday, from their seat at Little-
hampton, for the season.
" CRICHTON".—The romance so long announced
under this title, by the popular author of " Rookwood," will be
positively published by Mr. Bentley, on Saturday, the 25th
instant. Mr. Ainsworth has enriched his work, we hear,
with many new and interesting anecdotes of the " Admirable
Crichton," which will give to his new production a lasting
value. This is a subject which Sir Walter Scott himself
would have revelled in; and we hear that, grand as the theme
is, Mr. Ainsworth has handled it in a masterly manner, so as
to entitle him to rank beside the most distinguished novelists of
the day.—Morning Post.
NEW POOR-LAW RIOT.—The Poor-law. Commis-
sioner having been prevented from attending at Camelford
according to his appointment, by large assemblages of people
who had marched into the town, apparently with riotous in-
tentions, ten magistrates from different parts of the county
met there on Saturday last, for the purpose of investigating
the matter, and taking measures accordingly. Several per-
sons deposed that from 400 to 500 men, principally labourers
from the neighbouring slate quarries, came into the town on
the Ist and 2d instant in marching order, with drum and fife,
and armed with sticks, apparently with the intention of inti-
midating the Commissioner, and 'preventing the provisions
of the Poor-law Act from being carried into effect; but that
no act of violence was committed, with the exception of a
few panes of glass being broken in the evening. A party
of six London police having arrived on Wednesday, and
sixty soldiers of the 99th Regiment on Friday, a miller
from St. Teath parish, named James Sibley, who had made
himself conspicuous by addressing the populace on the
cruelties of the New Poor-laws, especially of the workhouse
system, and who had been active on several occasions in in-
flaming the minds of the people, and exciting them to come
forward in the way they did, was taken into custody on Sa-
turday evening, and committed to Bodmin gaol on Sunday
morning ; but no other persons have yet been arrested. On
Monday, Commissioner Gilbert arrived, and was met by the
Guardians of the different parishes composing the union, when
the business went on without interruption. The services of
the soldiers not being required, the Commissioner, at the
request of the Guardians, forwarded a report to that effect to
the proper quarter, and stated that the sooner they were with-
drawn the better. We hope the misguided labourers and
quarry-men will see the folly of being duped by mistaken or
designing demagogues, and not offer any further interruption
to the execution of an Act which is producing the best effects,
in various parts of the country, to the really necessitous and
deserving poor, as well as to the long-burdened rate-payers.
Sibley has since been released from prison on bail, and is to
take his trial at the next assizes.— West Briton.

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LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 21, 1837.

In the House of Lords yesterday a great many petitions
were presented o❑ the subject of Church-rates ; amongst
them were several got up by the Bishops of HEREFORD
and EXETER, with Lord BEXLEY and some other Lords,
against the abolition of the impost, and for the connection
of Church and State.

Lord CLONCURRY having presented a petition for the
reform of Irish Corporations, in which allusion was made
to Lord LYNDHURST'S designation of the Irish as aliens,
the latter Noble Lord interposed. Some conversation on
the subject ensued, the result of which was, that Lord
CLONCURRY consented to withdraw the petition.
The Grand Juries (Ireland) Bill went through Com-
mittee.

The Report of the Births, Marriages, &c., Suspension
Bill was received, and their Lordships then adjourned.
In the House of Commons, the principal debate was on
Lord F. EGERTON'S motion on the subject of Irish Cor-
porations. Lord FRANCIS trespassed upon the patience
of the House upwards of an hour, iterating ad nauseam all
the obsolete sophisms, thread-bare common-places, and
exploded fallacies, by which he and his unscrupulous party
last year insidiously sought to stifle Reform, and swamp the
Ministerial measure, for giving to Ireland similar municipal
institutions to those enjoyed by England and Scotland.
We have alluded elsewhere to the tactics of the Tories as
seen in this , their renewed attempt, to withhold from the
Sister Country even-handed justice and equal rights : it
will be necessary in this place, therefore, only to state that
apart from the interest which must be felt in a struggle
upon a question which Lord JOHN RUSSELL has declared
" vital to the Administration," the debate necessarily
possessed no novelty, and but little of interest. At one
o'clock the House was adjourned till this day.

It is quite evident from the tenor of the Tor; speeches
last night in the House of Commons, that'the faction are
resolved that Ireland shall not have Municipal Reform.
She is—so run their arguments—of " unsound mind," and
therefore not fit to be trusted with the management of her
own affairs. England and Scotland are both trust-worthy ;
but nut so the Sister Country. She is, to all intents and
purposes, a Lunatic, and must consequently be still kept
confined in the strait-waistcoat of Toryism. And do the
faction really imagine that Ireland will submit to such
treatment ? That she will be as tranquil this year, as
she was the last ? That she will not, the
more strenuously she is opposed, the more stre-
nuously insist on her rights ? If she does succumb
to Tory domination, all we can say is, she will richly
deserve to be trampled upon, and spit upon as a
slave. But we need not be apprehensive on this score.
With the KING'S Ministers and the English people for her
advocates, she will triumph over all opposition, were it a
thousand times greater than it is, or is likely to be.
Mr. CHARLES BULLER, in one of the best speeches of
the evening, put the question on its proper footing, when
he said that by giving the Irish people an interest in the
management of their own affairs, their self-respect would
be called forth, and they would become better men and
better citizens. " By making them," asked the Hon.
Member, "administrators of the law, would they not be-
come its auxiliaries, instead of being, as they too often
were, its opponents ?" To be sure they would. But the
Tories cannot see this. In their eyes, Ireland is incapable
of social and political improvement ; and truly they are
somewhat justified in thinking so, for they have striven hard,
during the last half century, to reduce her to the lowest
state of degradation.
The speech of that sapient senator EMERSON TENNENT,
is only worthy of notice as having been the means of elicit-
ing from Lord MORPETH one of the most triumphant de-
fences of the policy of the Irish Government we ever re-
member to have read. His Lordship did not deal, like the
Hon. Member for Belfast, with vague, random assertions,
but with stubborn facts. One by one, he demolished all
Mr. TENNENT'S fine-spun rhetorical sophistries, which as
they had evidently cost that gentleman a week's hard
labour, must have occasioned him proportionate vexation.
In every respect Lord MoarETH's speech was unanswer-
able, and accordingly all who followed him, took special
care to shoot wide of the remark.
Of Mr. PETER BORTHWICK, it may be enough to say,
that he cleared the House as effectually, as he cleared the
Surrey when he travestied Othello at that theatre ; and that
Hon. Members only returned to their seats when they
found that PETER'S brief oration was brought to a close.
But the most absurd exhibition of the evening was that
volunteered by Lord STANLEY. He put the question
solely and exclusively on religious grounds, and argued it
on those grounds with all the bitter, frantic zeal of a red-
hot fanatic. He would not have the Irish Church Esta-
blishment overthrown ; not he ! It should still flourish in
all its rank luxuriance ; still squat, like an incubus, on the
breast of Ireland ; and therefore—mark the sequitur f—as
he was in favour of a Protestant Establishment, he was
totally opposed to all Municipal Corporation Reforms
His Lordship is here running a-muck at phantoms—tilting
with wind-mills. Who proposes, or dreams of propo-
sing, to make Corporate Reform a means of destroy-
ing the Irish Church Establishment ? The two things
have not one point in common. They differ like black
and white—truth and falsehood—sun and shadow. But
in his eagerness to confound the two things, and so

lead the House astray from the main question, his
Lordship lost sight of all discretion—of all consistency ;
and,in alluding to the National Association, asked with an
insulting air, " If the House would concede to clamour
that which they would not give to justice ?" Here is the i
cloven foot with a vengeance ! Here we have faction
speaking out with unconscious sincerity. Lord STANLEY
may attempt to explain away his words—and he did make an
attempt to do so last night—but that will not mend the matter,
but rather make it worse, by showing his own conviction
that he has let the truth slip out unawares ; as, in spite of
himself, Bob Acres's valour slipped out at his fingers' ends.
We now have it on Lord STANLEY'S express authority, that
his party are fully aware that in opposing Irish Corporate
Reform they have been opposing the demands of justice.
His Lordship cannot—and shall not—he allowed to back
out of this. We pin him down to the declaration, as Ire-
land pinned down Lord LYNDHURST to his taunt about
" Irish aliens." As the Duke of WELLINGTON said to
HUSKISSON, " there is no mistake ; and there shall be no
mistake !"

Lord STANLEY was pleased further to remark, that

there were but few petitions in favour of Municipal Reform
for Ireland. To this we reply—there is the National As-
sociation, in which the voice of united Ireland speaks out,
in tones not to be mistaken, that she requires, and will
have, equal justice with England. But enough on this
subject. The Tories evidently imagine that by standing
out against the Corporation Bill, they will drive Minis-
ters from the helm. A few weeks will decide this
point ; and greatly, indeed, shall we be mistaken if it do
not end in the utter discomfiture of the faction.

The object of the Meeting held yesterday at the Crown
and Anchor is one that cannot fail to come home to the
bosom of every genuine Reformer. No real lover of liberty
can reflect upon the services rendered to the cause by
Mesa and his companions, and upon the fate which they
underwent, without feeling that he owes personally a debt
of gratitude to those intrepid assertors of the rights of
man. They were reformers at a time when to be so
was not only a reproach but a crime. They had none
of the support and encouragement which wealth, power,
and numbers confer on the cause in which they enlist them-
selves. It was their lot to stand up, almost alone, against
the wealthy and the powerful, and to advocate the rights of
the people, when the people themselves were inactive, if
not indifferent to their own interests. There may, perhaps,
be some cold, selfish'persons who consider those men as little
better than fools—at best as political enthusiasts—for ex-
posing themselves to certain destruction, in defence of their
principles. But let it never be forgotten that in all ages
of the world, and in all countries, it has been to the un-
daunted assertion of principles, even at the hazard of life
itself, that truth owes its triumphs. Some must take the
lead in attacking the strongholds of corruption—some must
head the forlorn hope in storming the citadel of tyranny—
and this was the noble office which the Martyrs of 1793
took upon themselves. They opened to us of the present
day the way to practical reform—they, in fact, made the
breach through which we have entered, and driven out the
enemy.

Is it then too much to expect that some sense of grati-
tude should be shown by those who are gathering in the
harvest towards those who sowed the seed ? Surely it is
not. It is a duty which we are religiously bound to dis-
charge, and which we cannot postpone. It is true,
they can now derive leo pleasure from any efforts on
our part, to commemorate their virtues and their services ;
but we ourselves shall be gratified, and our posterity will
profit, by the erection of a monument to those who, in the
worst of times, sacrificed themselves for their country.

Were it not for the sufferings of the people of Ireland,
and the cost of blood and treasure which a civil war would
entail on England, we should look on the contest respect-
ing the government of that country with the most perfect
indifference. As to the result, there can be no doubt—the
only question is as to time. The principles on-which the
two parties are resolved to act are now distinctly known,
and impartial observers may therefore judge with some de-
gree of certainty which are the best entitled to success.
The plan of the MELBOURNE Government is to treat Ire-
land as a free independent country ; to grant her the laws
and institutions enjoyed by the inhabitants of the rest of
the empire ; and conciliate her affections and friendly co-
operation by acts of kindness and justice. The plan of Sir
ROBERT PEEL is directly the reverse. Ireland, he says,
has a national religion which is hostile to the Protestant
Church of Ireland—by granting municipal privileges to the
Catholics the Protestant Church is endangered—and in
order to uphold that Church, one-third of the inhabitants
of the United Kingdom must be treated as men of an infe-
rior caste. But if this principle is worth any thing, it can
be of no avail unless carried into full effect. The privi-
leges the Irish people have already acquired give them
power, if not will, to injure the Church, and the only effec-
tual remedy, therefore, is to return to the good old Protes-
tant and humane system—to treat the Catholics as outcasts
from society—to hunt their pastors like wild beasts over
hill and dale—and practice every species of injustice and
cruelty, to keep up this monstrous Establishment. To do
things by halves is the worst policy ; but unjust and absurd
and cruel as such a system of Government is, it really does
not differ much from that which the Tory party must
adopt, if' they adhere to the principle of maintaining, at all
hazards, the Irish Church in all its supremacy. The Irish
People will now contend with more unity of purpose, and
more determined courage, for the two points at issue, than
they have ever contended in former times for their indepen-
dence, or the redress of all their 'grievances. At no for-
mer period had they such moral and physical strength as at
Present ; and if a powerful political party, with the Duke
of WELLINGTON at its head, and with all the No-Popery-
cry men in the rear, were afraid to refuse them privileges
which gave them tenfold more power over the Irish Pro-
testant Church, will Sir ROBERT PEEL risk such an alter-
native now, to ward off what he knows to be an imaginary
evil? His'conduct, during the Reform crisis, proves that
be is too cautious and prudent to have recourse to such a
desperate—such an awful extremity. There are only two
courses now open for him—to consent to a modified Irish
Municipal Bill, as he consented, in opposition to
the Lords, to a modified. English Municipal Bill ;
or to rush into office as he did two years ago, and trust to
circumstances and accident, and his own plausible ingenuity,
for extricating himself from the manifold embarrassments
with which he must be surrounded. If he adopts the
latter alternative, (supposing it possible that any House of
Commons should restore him to office), will he twist and
turn as he did on the Catholic question—will he contrast
the horrors of civil war with the risk of merely a possible
evil, and, after many bitter lamentations, confess that he
yields not from choice but necessity, and grants to the
people of Ireland privileges, for the vindication of which his
predecessors were driven from office ? If such is his in-
tention, we leave the thinking, the generous, and impartial
people of England and Scotland, to decide which of the two
parties it is more manly and more righteous to support.

The whole of the Paris Papers of Sunday have been re-
ceived. We copy from the Charge of Saturday evening
the following details of the dreadful explosion of the Bona
powder magazine, as communicated to the French Govern-
ment :

On Friday the Minister of War received the reports of
Lieutenant-General Baron Rapatel, Brigadier Trezel, and
the different heads of the service, on the disastrous accident at
Bona on the 30th ult. It appears from these reports, that at
a quarter past seven in the morning of that day, the magazine
of the Casba blew up, au instant after the storekeeper Bcr-
geret had entered it to fetch ammunition. The explosion
has thrown down the greater part of the stone buildings, and all
those constructed with planks, in which were lodged the 3d
battalion of the 17th light infantry, and a detachment of the
Ist battalion of the African light infantry.

" Officers, soldiers, and citizens, with Marshal Trezel at
their head, immediately went up the Casba, and zealously
exerted themselves in aiding the victims of the event. M.
Disaut, the civil sub-intendant, was one of the first on the
spot ; the commandant of the naval station, M. Herpin do
Fremont, and port-captain Bompart instantly sent their men
thither. The first were led by M. Lestic, of the Dragon.
M. Evain, the military sub-intendant, hastened to the place
with the hospital officers. A provisionary hospital was pre-
pared in the fort of the Casba; and the surgeons took no re-
pose until all the wounded were dressed, after which they were
carried to the military hospital at Bona.
" From all the information the authorities have been able to
collect, this misfortune must have originated in some inexpli-
cable accident, which happened to the storekeeper; Bergeret,
and the cannoneer, Sigre, who entered the magazine in the
morning with the usual lantern, and in a quarter of an hour
after the explosion took place. Not the least vestige of their
bodies or clothes has yet been found.
" To prevent exaggerated reports spreading among the Arabs
as to the extent of our loss in men and stores, General Trezel
immediately despatched a detachment of infantry for the camp

at Drehan, and ordered the morning and evening gun to be
filled as usual.
" We have now to fulfil the painful duty of stating the loss
we have suffered by this sad misfortune.
" Three officers killed : M. Bernard, captain-commandant
of the Casba, who, with his wife, perished in his apartments ;
M. Perraud, lieutenant of the fourth company of the coast
guard; and M. Rossolin, sub-lieutenant of the third company
of voltigeurs of the 17th light infantry.
" Four officers wounded, but not dangerously : M. Dela-
croix- Louvrais, Captain of the 17th light ; M. Renaud, cap-
tain of the same ; M. Ferradou, sub-lieutenant of the same ;
and M. Delanouc, sub-lieutenant of the 62nd of the line.
" The returns of the names of sub-officers and soldiers
killed or wounded cannot yet be given accurately, but the num-
ber is strictly correct. The official details for each corps are
as follow :
" 17th light, 66 killed, 108 wounded ; 59th of the line, 1
killed, 2 wounded ; 62d of the line, 1 killed, 13 wounded ;
63d of the line, 2 killed, 3 wounded ; 2d light, 3 killed 1
wounded ; Ist bat of Africa, 21 killed, 41 wounded ; 2d bat.,
2 wounded ; 3d bat., 1 killed ; 4th Company coast guard, 9
killed, 17 wounded ; 2d regiment none ; ad regiment of Af-
rican chasseurs, 1 killed.
" Total-105 killed, 188 wounded.
" General Trezel has encamped the troops around the fort,
who are employed in removing the ruins within and without
the fort. They have begun to repair the breaches and re-
build the parapets; the commandant of engineers thinks the
whole will be finished in 15 days."
Nothing is talked of in Paris but the dismissal of Marshal
CLAUSEL and the African expedition. CLAUSEL is pre-
paring a pamphlet which he intends to publish by way of
defence, and which he threatens will contain disclosures
which will upset the Cabinet. The army is in the worst
possible temper. Both officers and men are dissatisfied
with the conduct of the King and Government. CLAUSEL,
SOULT, GERARD, MOLITOR, VOIROL, and SCHRAMM are
loud in their denunciations of the Ministry. SCHRAMM has
been suspended in the Director-Generalship of the per-
sonnel of the army by Lieutenant-General CUBIERAS, for
daring in his character of Deputy of the Lower Rhine to
protest against the conduct of the Government towards Ge-
neral VOIROL. However, to pacify him Ministers are

looking out for another appointment for him, to take from
his dismissal the semblance of a disgrace.
The trial of MEUNIER is shortly expected to come on.
The following interesting particulars appear in the Dreit
of Sunday ; .

" The following are the facts now established concerning
Meunier, Lavaux (to whom the name of Barre, that of an
uncle, was given by mistake), and Lacazcs :—lt was not a
friend of Meunier's, but the prisoner himself, that revealed to
the President, Baron Pasquier, that, one night, after having
passed all the evening together, Lavaux, Lacazes, and Meu-
nier, heated by drink, in discoursing upon politics, agreed in
the advantages that would result to the country by the death of
the King. Still more excited, they even proposed to draw
lots who should strike the fatal blow. The proposal was
adopted. Three square pieces of paper, one of which only
contained a little ball made out of the crumb of bread, were
then arranged and rolled up. The papers were shuffled toge-
ther, and each drew. The little ball of bread then fell to the
lot of Meunier, who was thus designated as the person destined
to assassinate the King. ' I do not know,' added Meunier,
upon his examination, whether Lavaux and Lacazes imagined
that all that passed between us on that evening was but a joke.
For my part, I considered the whole business in the most
serious light ; and since that moment the idea has incessantly
pursued me, until the day I put my plan in execution.'
Lavaux and Lacazes, when interrogated, declared that they
did not know what Meunier meant, and that nothing had ever
passed between them to give him such an idea. They are,
however, committed to prison, and proceedings have com-
menced against them."

We have no important intelligence from the north of
Spain. Don CAatosis determined to proceed with the
trial of GOMEZ, who is accused of cowardice, treachery,
and purloining the public treasure. One of GoMEz's prin-
cipal accusers is the wretch CABRERA, who, it appears, is
still alive. We have received the copy of a letter addressed
by GOMEZ to a friend of his, dated the 30th ult., in which
he very manfully rebuts the graver charges preferred
against him, and professes his willingness to meet his ac-
cusers. On the principle of giving " the devil his due,"
we willingly allow that GOMEZ merits very different treat-
ment from the hands of the Pretender. He is not only
the best soldier, but the most honourable man opposed to
the QUEEN.

EXCHEQUER COURT.-(THIS DAY

MYNN V. HALL AND OTHERS.

This was an action to recover compensation in damages for
injuries done to 41 paintings, which were warehoused in the
Custom-house by the negligence of the defendants, who were
the King's warehouse-men. It appeared that the plaintiff
bought the oil paintings from a Mr. Wright, for a sum of 12/.,
and a pipe of wine. They were then in the warehouse of the
defendants. On the plaintiff taking them out he found many
of the paintings cut into halfs, apparently in order to make up
the requisite number. That there was fraud there could be
no doubt, but they did not charge it upon the defendants, who
were most respectable men ; but it had evidently been done by
some of their servants, and of course they were liable for
their acts.
Several witnesses deposed to the value of the paintings.
The Jury found for the plaintiff—Damages 151., in addition
to 5/. which the defendants had paid into Court.

Dr. Bowring, M.P., is confined to his bed by severe
indisposition.
The Duke of Devonshire's Concerts will not com•
mence until the middle of March.

'Fhe Earl and Countess of Ranfurly, who rarely
visit Ireland, and have been many years resident in Paris, have
given a series of Balls and dinner parties, to the English
people of fashion visiting the French metropolis during the
gay season.
The Earl and Countess of Munster are on a visit to
the Earl of Egremont, at Petworth.
The Marquis of Camden arrived in Arlington-street
yesterday afternoon, from the Wilderness.
The Duke and Duchess of Bedford and Lady
Georgiana Russell, were expected to arrive at Woburn Abbey
last evening, from Byron's Court, Tyrone.
The Earl and Countess of Craven are daily expected
in Charles-street, from Combo Abbey.
Lord and Lady Frederick Fitzclarence are not ex-
pected to return from the Earl of Glasgow's hunting-seat,
Etal House, Berwick-upon-Tweed, until the close of the
hunting season, in April, when they will arrive at Windsor
Castle, on a visit to their Majesties.
The Duke of Wellington has left Apsley House,
for Strathfieldsaye.
Earl and Countess Cowper have left for their seat,
Pansanger, Herts.
The Duke of Richmond has left the Brunswick
Hotel, Jermyn_street, for Goodwood Park.
The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland are ex-
pected to leave Alnwick Castle this day fortnight.
The Countess Dowager of Cork is on a visit to
General Sir George Pigot, at Daventry, in Northamptonshire.
Immediately after Easter, her Ladyship will commence her
parties in Burlington-street.
The Countess of Essex is rapidly recovering, al-
though her attack of influenza and asthma was considered to
be of the most 'fatal description. Her Ladyship has taken a
house near 131.11 ah. _ _

Lady Mary Fox is still a great sufferer from the
prevailing epidemic. Her Ladyship went last week to Rich-
mond to see the bride Countess of Winchilsca, and on her re.
turn was seized with the usual symptoms of influenza, which
have continued until the present time without abatement.
We understand that the first stone of the London
Grand Junction Railway will be laid on Wednesday next, in
Ampton-street, Gray's-inn-road.
As regards the 2d Dragoon Guards, now vacant,
we understand Sir Herbert Taylor, who served for some time
in it, will obtain it, if so inclined • but should he not apply,
general rumour gives it to Sir Theophilus Pritzler.— United
Service Gazette.

The Royal Scots Fusileer Guards will not be re-
moved to Dublin until late in August. It has been reported
generally that they were to be sent there in June.
The lion. Robert Forbes, son of General Forbes,
has been appointed Magistrate and Collector at Moorsheda-
bad, East Indies, in the place of Mr. Torrens.
The General Steam Navigation Company's packet,
the John Bull, from Hamburg, arrived off the Custom-house,
on Sunday, and also the Attwood, from Rotterdam.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial
Department from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope,
and from the Governor of British Guiana ; and at the Fo-
reign Department, from Lord Durham, the British Ambassa-
dor, at St. Petersburg.
Despatches, dated the 15th of August, were re-
ceived yesterday, at the Colonial Office, from the Governor of
New South Wales. _ _

We are sorry to find that the pressure for money is,
just at the present moment, very severely felt in this town; so
much so as to excite no little alarm for the maintenance of
commercial credit. Stocks, and particularly the stock of cot-
ton, are rapidly accumulating, while the demand for many of
the leading .articles of cornmerce is, as might naturally be ex-
pected, in the present state of money matters, gradually de-
clining. Under these circumstances, mercantile men seem to
think that the period ha» arrived, when it is a duty they owe
to themselves and to the community of which they are most
useful members, to memorialise the Government, and to solicit
from it such assistance, pecuniary or otherwise, as may en-
able them to escape the ruin with which the convulsions in our
monetary system threaten the commercial world. The pro-
priety of laying their case before the Government was talked
of on Saturday ; and to-day, we believe, tho different Mercan-
tile Associations will meet for the purpose of determining on the
course which it may be proper for commercial men to adopt
at this most trying crisis. Government will, we have not the
slightest doubt, do all that it can to support commmercial
credit at the present Nucture,Liverpool Albion of Monday.

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