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THE SUN, LONDON. THURSDA Y, AUGUST 8, 1835

_RACTER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS,
BY A MENIBER.— A young Member needs a great deal of
instruction; he has to be taught by how few the business
of the country is conducted. He finds out that it would
be a very awkward circumstance if all men were equally
efficient ; that as it is, we get through very little business
with a great deal of difficulty, hut that then it would be
impossible to do anything. Toadies—bores—the "
vum pecus"—some with more,. and some with less ser
of
self-sufficiency, and love of babbling, must exist in
all societies, and the young Member of Parliament
soon discovers that the House does not consist of 658 So-
lomons. I think, indeed, we might easily be made much
more useful than we are, by a division of labour, in which
the business of the country would be conducted by the
whole House, instead of by one-eighth. There would be
less hard work for the gentlemen who really do the work,
and it would make us who do but little, more conversant
with what we ought all to knovv. —Mr. B. Wall'a Pamphlet.
" BURN'S COMMERCIAL LANCE, ''
FOR
TILE LAST SIX MONTHS.-The quantity of cotton yarn
exported in the first six months of 1838 was 53,273.4671b5.;
and the quantity in the first six months of 1839 was
37,239 6151b5. ; showing a decrease of 16,033,3521b5., or
about thirty per cent. There is a decrease in the export
to Holland, of 5,135,0931 b•:. ; to Naples and Sicily, of
2,1)86.813165. ; to liu,:,sia, of 2,432,4381b5. ; to India and
China, of 2,16-1.1031b5. ; to Trieste, Venice, and the
Austrian ports. 921,120165.; to Turkey and the Levant,
579,7301b5. There would seem to have been a small in-
crease (115,5631b5. ) to British North America, and a de-
crease to the United States, of 252,7591b5., being about
five-sixths of the whole quantity exported thither. The
stock of cotton in Great Britain (on the 28th of June last,
we presume) is estimated at 657,889 bags, which is stated
to be equal to the consumption of 321 weeks, if only 20,000
bags are consumed weekly during the year. This sheet
also contains a comparative statement of the prices of yarn
and cotton, which exhibits the striking fact that, although
the price of American cotton was nearly 2d. per pound
higher on the Ist of July last, than at the corresponding
date of last year, the average prices of yarn are now rather
below those of that period.
THE LATE JAMES WOOD, ESQ.—l'Vith re-
gard to the proceedings in Chancery in this case, we have
just learnt that they have been stayed, the bill having been
dismissed at the instance of the plaintiff himself. We
presume it has been withdrawn for the purpose of being
preferred in an amended state either in that or some other
Court. The bill, though it embraced many other objects,
seems to have been mainly intended to procure the appoint-
ment of a receiver of the personal estate of the testator, in
the room of Dr. Maddy, whose limited administration had
expired.—Gloucester Journal.
THE LATE ALLEGED MURDER AT BRIGH-
TON.—James Johnson was tried at Lewes on Thursday on
a charge of having murdered his wife, Julia Johnson, at
Brighton, by cutting her throat. The circumstances of
the ease have recently been before the public. The pri-
soner was acquitted.
THE CRITICAL STATE OF THE WEATHER.
—Why does every body consult the barometer daily, and
ask his neighbour every morning what he thinks of the
weather? Because every body knows that the crisis of
the Corn-law question is at hand, and a few showers and
a little cold weather must produce a dearth; which will
lead to consequences not to be contemplated but with
dismay. We do not, however, , desire to see the
repeal of those wicked laws brought about through the
misery, disease, and death consequent upon a famine. We
have laboured to show that the abolition of the Corn.
laws is called for by the principles of justice and
Christianity, and that they were imposed in defiance of
the most obvious dictates of religion and morality. Had
the Corn-laws n"ver been enacted, there could
have now been no danger of a famine in England,
The God of nature has provided different seasons for the
the various families of mankind ; and if we did riot violate
his laws, by preventing the exchange of the gifts of one
nation for those of another, we should now command a
supply of food from countries whose harvest is over, and
whose granaries are filled with abundance of corn. The
rich plains of Spain, from the borders of Andalusia to the foot
of the Pyrenees, are now brown with stubble, the wheat having
been gathered for several weeks ; in the United States of
America an unprecedented crop of grain has been secured;
in the tropical climes a perpetual harvest gladdens the
hearts of men. Why are not these blessings allowed to be
shared by Englishmen ? Well may the legislators, who
solved that question with a selfish Corn-law, tremble at
every rain-drop which now falls upon the corn fields of
Etri!land !--Anti- Corn-law Circular.
The skeleton of Marengo, the barb horse, which
Napoleon rode at Waterloo and at most of his great
battles, has been presented to the museum of the United
Service Institution, in Middle Scotland-yard, by Lieut.-
Colonel Angerstein, of the Grenadier Guards. Marengo
was a beautifully formed Arab of parent blood, about
thirteen hands and a half high. He was frequently wounded,
and at Waterloo was struck by a musket ball on the hip
when the Emperor was on him, which disproves the asser
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tion that he did not go into the fire.
CAUTION TO THE PUBLIC.—THE GENTLE.
MAN WITH THE CARPET BAG AGAIN.-Tuesday, infor-
mation was given at Lambeth-street police-office of a fel-
low who has been most successful in victimizing the public.
It appeared that on that day week a person who is supposed
to be a foreign Jew, dressed in a puce-coloured frock coat,
with large whiskers, about thirty-eight years of age, and
who speaks the English language with tolerable
fluency, took lodgings at the Leopard Coffee-
house, in Fenchurch-street, where he rema'ncd till
Thursday, on which day he decamped, taking with him con-
siderable property belonging to the landlord and persons
lodging in his house. A number of scraps of pap,r which he
had left after him on the top of his bed were put into the
hands of Lea, the officer, who, on pasting them together,
found them to consist of pawnbrokers' tickets for watches,
rings, &c , pledged at the west snd of the town, and also a
hill of exchange, which led to the discovery of another rob.
bery which the fellow had perpetrated in the preceding
week. Lea ascertained that on the 6-h of last month th tC
same fellow took up his quarters xt Mr. Goodwin's, the
Old Rough public-house, in Crown.street, Soho, and while
there he entered the apartment of a Mr. Harrison, and
stole therefrom considerable property, among which was
a Lill of exchange for 401 and a bond for 1.0001. He is
in the habit of carrying a carpet and a blue bag, in the
latter of which it is suspected he carries a quantity of ske-
'eon keys, &c.

reported—and the object of the Act thus defeated.
( Hear, hear. )
Mr. H UME said his clause would not apply unless when
the majority of the guardians agreed to it.
Lord HOWICK said it would be impossible to intro-
duce the clause into the present Bill, " for regulating
the collection of rates," &e. and he considered it was a
clause improper to be introduced into any Bill.
The clause was agreed to, and the House resumed.
ELECTION PETITIONS.—PORTUGUESE
SLAVE TRADE.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL said it might be f the
venience of the House if he stated the courseor con-
which he
meant to pursue with respect to two or three election pe-
titions, the days for the consideration of which were likely
to be near the end of the Session. He would on Friday
move to postpone them beyond the time the Session would
probably last, in order that the ballot might not take
pace till next Session. There was another question, re-
lating to the motion of the Hon. Member for the Tower
Hamlets which stood for to-night, with respect to the Por-
tuguese -lave trade. The Government had determined
to issue such orders as in their opinion would be most
efficacious for the purpose of suppressing the Portuguese
slave trade, and the slave trade carried on under other flags.
With the view of making these orders effectual, the Noble
Lord, the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, would to-night
give notice of his intention to bring in a Bill on this sub
ject to morrow.—( Cheers.) He trusted that the Hon.
Member would see that no public purpose would be an-
swered by moving the Address to-night; and the more
effectual course would be to proceed as rapidly as possi-
ble to pass the Bill, for which purpose he should move the
suspension of the Standing Orders.
Sir S. L US HINGTON said that after the annunciation
which had just been made to the House by the Noble
Lord, he had great pleasure in withdrawing his notice,
which had only been given in consequence of what had
unfottnnately happen,' elsewhere.

MILITIA PAY BILL.
• Lord HOWICK moved the Order of the Day for the
second reading of the Militia Pay Bill.
Mr. HU.VIE trusted that next session some measure
would be brought forward respecting the militia, which
was admitted on all hands to be inefficient. The militia
ought either to be given up or made efficient.
Lord HO WICK concurred with the lion. Member fur
Kilkenny in the state of the militia being unsatisfactory,
and that it ought to be put on an efficient foc,ting. He
had prepared the heads of a Bill, the introduction of
which had been prevented by the state of the order hook.
The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to
b., committed to-morrow.
ROGUE MONEY ASSESSMENT (SCOTLAND)
BILL.
On the motion on the LORD ADVOCATE, the
Rogue Money Assessment (Scotland) Bill passed through
Committee, and the Report was ordered to be received
to-morrow.
METROPOLIS IMPROVEMENTS BILL.
On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EX.
CHEQUER, the Report on this Bill was received, and
the third reading fixed for to-morrow.
STAGE CARRIAGES BILL.
This Bill was then committed.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said
that one of the great results of this Bill would be to esta-
blish, by coaches and omnibuses, intercommunication be-
tween the railroads, and thus much increase the traffic of
those lines, and greatly add to the facilities of the public.
The reduction on the vehicles would be id. per mile.
Mr. PALMER hoped the reduction would be confined
to those stage coaches which were not in connection with
the railroads.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said
this was the most extravagant hope be had yet heard.
The object of this mei sure was to lighten and equalize the
duty on all stage coaches.
The House then resumed, and the Report was ordered
to be received to-morrow.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER ob-
tained leave to bring in a Bill to continue an Act of the
Ist and 2d years of the reign of her present Majesty. re-
lating to legal proceedings of certain Joint-stock Banking
Companies against their own members, and by such mem-
bers against the Companies.
After a few words from Mr. HUME and Mr. FINCH.
Lord MORPETH obtained leave to bring in a Bill to
amend the Act of 36th Geo. 111., relative to the River
Poodle. —(Laughter.)
Lord JOHN RUSSELL obtained leave to bring in a
Bill to improve the police of the town of Manchester. The
provisions of the Bill were the same as those in the Bill
for Birmingham, with the exception that no looney was
required. The Noble Lord also obtained leave to bring
in a similar 13111 with respect to Bolton.
The Bills were severally brought in and read a first, and
ordered to be read a second time to-morrow.
The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and
the House adjourned at Half-past Ten o'Clock.
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Immediately. in 3 Vols., post tivo.,
CONFESSIONS AND
.AiDVENTURES OF A THUG.
By CAPAIN MEADOWS TAYLOR,
Of the Service of H. H. the Nizam.
PALADORE—I have heard, have read strange fables of enormity
Devised to make men wonder ; but this hardness
Transcends all fiction.—LAW OF LOMBARDY.
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street.

ups Majesty the KING of PRUSSIA,
X Navin, AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED
DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY PREMIUMS, which
(though they are NO LOTTERIES), offer many possi-
bilities of obtaining
LARGE FORTUNES,
HEINE BRO fIIERS at HAMBURGH,
are NOW SELLING SHARES for the said DISTRIBIL
TIONS. Persons desirous to purchase may receive, PREVI-
OUS to giving any order, the PROSPECTUS and PAR-
TICULARS, upon addressing, WITHOUT DELAY, a
line to

HEINE BROTHERS at HAMBURGH.
P.R. THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains Portions
from NINE POUNDS TEN SHILLINGS and upwards,
to TEN THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED POUNDS.
A RISE IN THE PRICE of the SHARES for the
NEXT DISTRIBUTION will very soon take place, there
being only few of them on hand, and nearly all cleared off.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
The New Drama, entitled the " Ladye of Lambythe," having►
met with the most transcendant success, it will be repeated
every Evening till further notice. After which, the Veteran
Dowton will appear in a popular character.
TO-NIGH F (THURSDAY)
Third Time, the Old English Drama, called
THE LADYE OF LAMBYTHE;
Or, A Bridal Three Centuries Back !
Eva, Mrs. Vining. Katherine, Miss Grant.
Lucie, Miss Martin.
Walter More, Mr. E. F. Saville. Wilbert, Mr. Dale.
John the Jester, Mr. Smith.
After which
THE HYPOCRITE!
Dr. Cantwell. Mr. Dointon.
To conclude with the last New French Drama, entitled
DIANE DE CHITRI.

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LONDON:
THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1839.

The House of Lords did not meet yesterday.
The Commons met at Thrf e o'Clork.
Petitions were presented against the new Birming-
ham Police Bill, and the Bank of Ireland Bill.
A new writ was issued for Perth, the sitting Mem-
ber having accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.
Both Colonel WOOD and Mr. HUME complained of
measures having been brought on yesterday unexpect-
edly, and contrary to an understanding.
According to Mr. EWART and Sir JOHN HOBHOUSS
the Portuguese arc beginning to establish a slave-trade
in the East as well as in the West, and the Indian
Government found it a difficult matter to deal with,
Really our policy is unfortunate. We waste our tree.
sure and blood to aggrandize Russia, now our enemy,
and ruin France, now our friend, and we have re-
established the independence of Portugal that we may
have the expense and trouble of putting an end to the
cruelties perpetrated under its independent flag.
The Lords' amendments to the Canada Government
Biil were agreed 'to.-
Some of their Lordships' amendments to the Corpo-
ration Bill for Ireland, were pronounced by Mr.
SPEAKER to be contrary to the privileges of the Com-
mons, but not necessarily fatal to the Bill. They are
to be taken into consideration on Friday.
On Lord JOHN RUSSELL moving that the Rural
Constabulary Bill be committed, Mr. HUME moved to
put it off tor three months, on the ground that before a
rural police were established, the Magistrates ought to
be made responsible.
Mr. WARBURTON, who seems to take a middle course,
recommended that the Bill should be passed for two
years. But Lord JOHN RUSSELL objected, on the ground
of contracts which would have to he made under it, and
the improbability of their getting respectable men to
enter it. After a brief debate the motion for a Com-
mittee was carried by 85 to 14.
In the Committee some objections were made to the
office of Chief Constable, and Lord JOHN RUSSELL
said he had conversed on the subject with Sir JAMES
GRAHAM that is, settled with the chief of the Tories
now in town—how the matter is to be, and so it will be.
Sir JAMES and Lord JOHN have agreed that the rules
shall be revised by the Lords Lieutenant, and made
uniform.

in the course of the discussion in Committee, Mr.
WAKLEY made some appropriate observations on the
meaning of the term Liberals, whose policy and cha-
racter have changed so much that the public requires a
new political dictionary. A Liberal at present is 2
man who has got hold of place, and carries Tory princi-
ples further than the Tories.
We rather rejoice to see the Birmingham Liberals
caught in their own trap. They wanted a Police Bill
from the Government all in a hurry, and to be esta-
blished by the public money, reprobated their fine
scheme the moment it was-a.nnounced. Lord J. RUS-
SELL, however, acting under the suggestion of Sir R.
PEEL, brings it forward
placing the appointment of the
Commissioner in the hands of the Government. The
Liberal Town Council of Birmingham remonstrate and
petition against a Police Bill framed on Sir ROBERT'S
suggestion ; the City of London petition against it, the
Members for Birmingham oppose it, all in vain ; the Bill
was read a second time last night by 74 to 2.2. After Mr.
WAKLEy's observations on the Liberals, we are rather
surprised at his saying that Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S pro-
ceedings placed the Liberal party in a humiliating posi-
tion. Does he then continu,; to belong to the Li-
beral party ?
sense of the word, extinct°. Or does he, after his clause
We thought it was, in the ordinary
to prevent little boys havinr, a stolen ride, also belong
to the party that is more Tory- than the Tories ?
The Collection of Rates Bill went through a Commit-
tee, after some discussion, and two or three divisions.
On Friday Lord JOHN RUSSELL iS to move to post-
pone certain election petitions now pending, beyond the
time when the Honte is likely
to sit, so that the ballot
will not be taken till ext. Session.
Another 13d1 oil the subject of the Portuguese Slave
Trade is to be brought forward to enable the Go%era-
ment to make the orders effectual icr its suppression,
which it means to issue,

TO the ELECTORS of the BOROUGH of
SOUTHWARK.
BROTHER ELECTORS,
I observe a movement on the part of some of the Electors of
yout Borough, in anticipation of the retiretnttnt df tine of your
present Members from Parliament, and it is right, therefore,
that I announce to you my titichthg,ed intention of becoming a
Candidate for the honourable distinction of vont- Representative,
thenever a vacancy shat) ha'e taken plate:
Von are acquainted, I belie+rei *ith my Opiiiidns; for I have
explained them upon former occasions, and I have lived always
amongst you. lam a Reformer upon principle—that principle
being founded upon thought and conviction—not the result of
disappointment, or the adoption of expediency. I recognize no
party but the party that does rightly ; and I will support the
enactment of good laws, as I would oppose them that are mis-
chievous, from whatever source they proceed, or with whomever
they may originate : but to ensure the one and protect us
from the other, it seen s to me that three great principles must
be kept in view by Reformers, as the test of all our opinions,
and he who equivocates upon this subject, or shrinks from em-
bracing these principles as a rule of his political conduct, is no
real friend of the people's rights, and is unworthy of the support.
of any true Reformer, either in Southwark or elsewhere. Upon
these, which I take to be leading principles, I declare myself
explicitly— first, that to carry out and establish your liberties,
it is indispensable that you should have a largely Extended Suf-
frage, not at all short of Household Suffrage ; secondly, that
you are equally entitled to perfect indemnity from all possible
consequences of
.your voting, by the veil of the Ballot ; and
t'lirdly. that you must obtain that power over the conduct of
those that represerit you, which would be the inevitable result
of the adoption of Triennial Parliaments—beyond which term
for the duration of Parliament, as we have seen in past times,
responsibility is forgotten, and accountability ceases. The
Reform Bill, however great in itself as a pivot, wherein every-
thing which is desirable for us may be made to revolve, is
but the means to an end. It is defective mainly from its cir-
cumscribed action, and has done but part of its work. Yon
must now do the remainder, by requiring of those who seek to
represent you, a perfect and unflinching conformity to your
sentiments upon this subject. Obtain such enactments as those I
have pointed out, and other good laws will arise, almost without
effort, and certainly without disturbance. The People's wants
must then be attended to, for the remedy will be in their own
hands. Do you think, if thus represented, of our own free and
unbiassed will, and our Representatives were clothed with real
responsibility, that our present Corn-laws would exist for an-
other Sesson—that incubus imposed upon us by the extrava-
eancies of the landed interest to prop up their overgrown mort-
gages, and which by degrees is sapping the subsistence of the
whole People ? Would not the evils of many of the present
Poor-law details be immediately redressed? Would you re-
tain for an instant your rate-paying clauses—that unholy war-
tare carried on against the Poorer classes—as if the payment of
a man's taxes assisted his judgment in the choice of hi. Repre-
sentative in Parliament ? or would you rather say in such a
ease, as is now said for you, that the doctrine of finality is best
fitted to your condition—that the laws of our country want no
amendment, and that your intellectual, your moral, and your so-
cial capabilities shall advance no further ?
You will gather from these remarks my general opinions,
upon every thing you can desire to know at this moment, but
as a conclusion, I may add, that I am a friend to the most un-
bounded liberty of conscience, being determined nevertheless
to protect the rights of all, both Churchman and Dissenter;—
that I wish to see established good and equal laws and privi-
leges for all our fellow-subjects, of whatever colour, or creed,
or condition ;—that I advocate the diffusion of knowledge and
education upon the broadest principles ; and that I aim more
especially to improve the temporal welfare of the working
part of the community, not only as a bulwark against the ag-
gressions of the idle and the thoughtless, but also as the surest
means of promoting the good order, as well as of consolidating
the freedom and happiness of society at large.
Depend upon me at the right time, that I will solicit your
suffrages in the usual form. There is yet, however, no vacancy,
or the certainty of vacancy, but my feelings and interests are
with you, and my best abilities are at your command. I shall
be proud to become your Representative, and if honoured by
your choice, it will be my study to attend to your smallest
wishes, and my ambition to serve you faithfully.
I have the honour to be, Brother Electors,
Your devoted servant,
BENJAMIN WOOD

The Jury at Warwick have found COLLINS and
LOVETT guilty. That was to be expected. We
explained the philosophy of this the day before
yesterday. There is a great contest in society be-
tween the working and the poorer classes and those
above them, particularly those immediately above
them ; the Chartists nearly all belong to the work-
ing classes ; the Jurors are all taken from those
whom the Chartists assail. It is to be expected
therefore that they should all be found guilty.
They will receive law but justice will be denied
them.

TheATTORNEY-GENERAL, in opening his case,
adverted at considerable length to the state of Bir-
mingham before the placard was issued, for which
CoLLINs and LOVETT are found guilty of a
seditious libel, and he held up the language of
that placard, particularly the phrase, " blood-thirsty
police," to the reprobation of the jury, with more
ingenuity than justice. He also alluded to the fires at
Birmingham, which occurred after the event, as ag-
gravating the guilt of these two Chartists. That
was skilful in the advocate ; a fair and honest man,
more anxious to do justice than obtain a convic-
tion, would not have so acted. To have repre-
sented the case fairly, which the QUEEN'S officer,
or rather the public officer, should have thought
his duty, the Jury ought to have been reminded
that the class of persons to whom Messrs. COL-
LINs and LOVETT belong had been attacked by
the Magistrates when they were assembled, in com-
pany with women and children, reading a news-
paper. He was bound, as it appear to us, as an
officer charged with no narrow party or personal
prosecution, but with a great public duty, to pro-
mote the public welfare, to have entered somewhat
into the feelings and position of the individuals he
was arraigning, and not with a kind of spiteful
partizanship have sought to present their conduct
in the most hideous aspect. Without expecting
him to condemn the Birmingham Magistrates, he
should have mentioned to the Jury the influence
which their conduct must have had over the feelings
of the two prisoners, and he should have disdained,
we think, the ordinary arts of a hired advocate in
the fulfilment of a duty.

We do not think that sufficient importance was
ascribed on the trial to the conduct of the Magis-
trates in first attacking the people. On that point,
however, hinges all the guilt of the two Chartists,
for in proportion as the attack of the Magistrates
• was uncalled for, wanton, and unprovoked, or was
necessary and mercifully made, so would these men
be justified or not in writing as they did of it. Now,
we held from the first that the attack of the Magis-
trates was wholly unjustifiable, and continuing to
hold that opinion, our readers will not be surprized
that we should advert to one circumstance which
seems to us to give it weight and authenticity.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, in his opening
speech on Friday, dwelt on the fact that the people
had been warned by the Magistrates against meet-
ing in the Bull-ring, and if that warning had been
a good one, we should be induced to give up the
cause. But how were they warned ? A procla-
mation was issued. When ? As long ago as the
10th of May. That proclamation the Magistrates
allowed to he a dead letter. It did not stop a single
meeting. It was never enforced. The people met,
probably five days in the week, subsequent to the
10th of May, and were never interrupted. They
had a right to suppose, therefore, that the Magis-
trates permitted their meetings. No second pro-
clamation was issued. No step was taken for 54
cap; to prevent their meeting. and, being no more
earned in the law tha Lor—d Chief Justice DEN-

Several Bills were forwarded a stage, and two Bids
for establishing a 'Nice force in Manchester and Bolter,
were brought in. The House rose atlf-past Ten
o Clock.

It is not held to be moral to take advantage of
an idiot, or to commit cruelty on a man inclined to
he a rogue. An upright man loves and does jus-
tice for its own sake. An honourable man would
think it mean to take an advantage of another,
He would despise hirmelf if he could, and he des-
pises others who do it. All upfight, honest, and
honourable men do what is right, because that
agreeable to themselves. In general we are not
advocates for making personal feelings the rule of
public conduct, which ought in all cases to be
strictly regulated by the single principle of the
public benefit. But we know not why the
rule we have just adverted to, as guiding
the conduct of the most enlightened individuals
should be considered improper policy in classes or
in nations. The whole science of which ADAM
SMITH is still the leading oracle in this country,
proceeds on the principle that the division of labour
which promotes the advantage of individuals can-
not be injurious to empires. On the same general
principle we state it as our conviction, that what all
upright, honest, and honourable men would perform
with pride and pleasure in their individual capacity,
must be equally advantageous to them in their poli-
tical and public functions.
Now we admit that the Chartists, both in their
objects, and in their manner of seeking them, are
no better than idiots. Their Convention, their sa-
cred month, their pikes, their five points, their
virulent language, their ill-prepared resistance to
the law, which, while they pretend to oppose it, they
obey and reverence, all smack very strongly of extreme
folly; but we cannot conclude that the middle and
upper classes, who have not shown more political
wisdom than the Chartists, are therefore justified
in taking advantage of their folly. It does not
justify persecution or coercive enactments. Let
those who pride themselves on their superior know-
ledge and attainments, or their greater wisdom and
uprightness, do in their public capacity as they
would do in their private capacity, and disdain to
profit by the folly of others.
We admit, too, that some of the leaders of the
Chartists are worse than fools, designing knaves
—but while their knavery—in imposing on the un-
wary and cheating them (against which, by-the-by,
in the manner they do it, no law has yet been framed)
—should be exposed and punished, it will not justify
those who are not Chartists in treating the misled,
deluded followers of the knaves with scorn or
cruelty. Those who are not Chartists may be
contented with the consciousness of their own vir-
tues, and abstain from committing injustice towards
those who are not so virtuous as themselves. We
make these observations because we notice a
strong desire in some of our Contemporaries, in
certain politicians and certain classes, to take
advantage of the folly or knavery of the Chartists to
attain their own ends. That may be politic, but
it is not the mode in which upright, honest, and
honourable m?n act in their private capacity.
We are for doing justice to the Chartists, whe-
ther they ask it or not, because justice is
of itself a blessing, and because it would ultimately
be for the benefit of the middle and upper classes.
Some statesmen, and LORD JOHN, RUSSELL
amongst them, lay it down as a rule, because the
Chartists demand what is unjust, they are not to
have what is just. Sometimes our politicians stand
out on principle, and would not give way to popu-
lar demands on any consideration ; but they assert
that they may pilfer the people when the
popular voice forbids it not. The Char-
tists have not demanded, in conjunction
with the middle classes, the repeal of the Devil's
Laws ; and therefore, say the Tories, and therefore
acquiesce the Whigs, and therefore exult the cow-
ardly pilfering landlords, we will keep up those
laws. If the people had generally demanded the
repeal, those lordly legislators who despise the po-
pular demands would have yielded, but they con-
tinue their injustice in deference to the popular
silence. Thus, when the silence of the foolish
Chartists serves the purpose of the landlords, it is
held to be an unanswerable reason for doing wrong.
When they demand what is wrong, and that hap-
pens to displease the ruling classes, they are held
to be unworthy of consideration. We cannot ac-
quiesce in that doctrine, and maintain now, as we
have maintained all along, that whether the Char-
tists demand it or not, the Devil's Laws should have
been, and should now, be repealed, and justice
should be done to the people.
In conclusion, we will observe, that the present
condition of the country. in conjunction with the
Devil's Laws, is not enough noticed. If public
discontent, if the increase of the army, if the
establishment of a new coercive force, if a general
arming of the people, and a general terror, if the
disorders at Birmingham, Stockport, Manchester,
Newcastle, be not caused by the Corn Laws, as
we think it could be shown that they are, it cannot
be denied that the alarming state of the country
co-exists with those laws. If the scoundrel ava-
rice of the legislating landlords have not caused
the public distress, at least it has not secured pub
lit tranquillity or public prosperity.

This Bill was sent up from the Commons, where
passed with unanimity. Was that circumstance
any recommendation to the favour of the Upper
House ? Oh no; quite the contrary : it seems to
have inspired the assembly of notables with a pecu-
liar hatred towards the measure, for they would
hardly allow the banding to squeak its first note
before they throttled it in truly hangman-like style.
The Duke of WELLINGTON held up his finger, and
in the twinkling of an eye the legislative labours of
half a century on the slave-trade were annihilated.
The miserable natives of Africa were delivered
over, bound hand and foot, without even a twinge
of remorse, to the tender mercies of the bloodhounds
of Portugal.
Did the Tory Lords, who obeyed the signal of
their fugleman on this occasion, give a thought to
the question of justice, of humanity, of Christ-
ianity involved in their votes ? Not a straw did
they care about the matter, they merely fol-
lowed their leader. And as blindly did they
follow, the very next night, another leader,
who proposed a vote as directly in the teeth of the
former one as it is possible to conceive ! Who can
contemplate such senseless conduct, such weather-
cock legislation as this, without a feeling of utter
contempt for the titled absurdities which encumber
the benches of the Upper Chamber, and of shame
that the destiny of a great country should be at
their disposal ?
Of a piece with their other proceedings was their
vot! of Tuesday night. We do not regard that
vote as of the smallest consequence in itself, and
for this obvious reason, that those who passed it
really knew nothing whatever of the merits of the
case, n 0,., indeed, did they pretend to do so. All
that they knew was that the resolutions of Lord
BROUGHAM condemned—by implication if not di-
rectly—the conduct of the Irish Government.
They wanted no more, and they rushed to the vote
with the unreasoning eagerness of partizans who
are determined to sacrifice every sentiment of
honour, truth, and we will acid justice, to the grati-
fication of their factious feelings. It must be quite
clear to any unbiased mind, that any motion arising
out of four folio volumes of evidence relating to
matters which took place three years ago, and so
difficult of digestion that even the Committee be-
fore whom it was taken, though adopting the novel
principle of the subdivision of labour, were afraid
to venture upon the task of making out a Report of
it—it is evident, we say, that a motion of this kind
could not by possibility be carried on its merits.
All, therefore, that the party have done is to con-
demn, in a more formal manner, that which they
have over and over again condemned before ;
and they have done this in the face of a
much more ample justification than was ever
presented to their consideration in former discus-
sions of the subject—a justification, by the bve,
which appears to us, taking, as we are bound to
all the circumstances into account, most triumphant.
There is not much gain, therefore, to the Tory
cause in the proceeding of Tuesday night, and there
is this little drawback attending it, that, whereas
the Tory Lords have made the want of time to ex-
amine the Bills sent up to them from the Commons,
a pretence for rejecting them, here they exhibit the
great sincerity with which they advance this excuse
to wasting so much time, rendered doubly precious
as the Session , draws to a close, in a fruitless
discussion.

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prison,r,: is is so considerable that our camp is cucum-
bered h them

" NEzta, Jc NE 27.
" Mr. Consul—The day before yesterday, when I an-
nounced to you the result of the battle of Rezib, I could
not inform you of the exact number of prisoners ; it amounts
to 10,000. We have picked up already 12,000 muskets,
but many more lie scattered on the ground on concealed 10
the river.
" The whole number of muskets lost by the Ottoman
army must exceed 15.000. We have taken 104 pieces of
artillery ; but we expect to find some more, as the army
brought into the field a greater number of pieces, and Caw
not, I think, have saved any.
" General SOLIMAN PACHA."
Letters from Semlin announce the sudden appearance
of the plague at Silistria. Of six persons infected three
had died. Seventy persons died at Milo, where it had
manifested itself, in the course of a few days. It had
likewise appeared at Rhades, where it excited the ut-
most alarm among the inhabitants.
A letter from Aix la Chapelle, of the Ist inst., states
that the Emperor of RUSSIA, accompanied by his tw°
sons, had set out from St. Petersburgh to Odersa, to
be nearer the scene of action in the East.
The following extract, faom the Gate* de Fiance,
of Tuesday evening, presents a deplorable picture of
colonial mis-government. •
We find the following- article in the Courier de Bor-
deaux
We receive melancholy news from our colonies. The
ruin of our commercial marine is begun. The Vaillant
has returned to Bourdeaux in ballast—in ballast, do Y",
hear, growers of beetroot A general consternation
spread in the city when this news became known.
'Change it was the melancholy subject of all conversanond
The report of the captain of the Vaillant passed from ban
to hand."
We annex this afflicting document:—
"On the 29th of Jude I touched at Point-a-lPitre
coming from New York, in order to procure a return efirg:
for France, but the depreciation of the prices of sugsr le
the market of the mother country, and the late ordinance
of the Government for the free exportation, had reduced
the freight to such a degree that I could not obtain noor:
than 400 hogsheads as half my cargo, at the miserable
rate of four deniers, and flat too for Havre.
" In this distressing situation I have thought
return in ballast, thus commencing the series of disasters
which cannot fail to befal our navigation in the Antilles'
the King's Government does not come to its aid. the
I left Point-a-Pitre on the sth of July, arrived on
any
Ist of August at the Lazaretto, without having mei
P ej
ship ; the health of every person on board is
good : the colony was likewise healthy, yet I shall ba:bi;
nevertheless, to perform ten days quarantine to add t? _
of
p 0
_re
profits of the voyage, when, perhaps, in other rts
France this quarantine would have been limited to
a the
visit of the officers, or to two or three days deign:ft, so
it best to
most, which would be no more than just, since we.us'"
goods whatever on board." add the
To these statements, says the Courier, we can
following, extracted from letters from eau
Guadeloupe to
The Olinda, bound for Havre, wanted 150 hegsbs
complete ber cargo. 13sl,
The Bravo, of Naples, has sailed for Camplae-Y
and several French ships belonging to different ports in
be obliged to follow the example, if they desire to 01311`
a freight.
only 3 or 4
The freight for France was extremely lon ‘, his
deniers were effered for Havre. There were ;to ire''!
for Bordeaux
Swedish, American, and English ah•;I'll
arrived at Point-a- Pitre ; some letters even add that
those ships will not be able to find a full cargo.
barrels
Flour from Bordeaux had likewise fallen ; I•3°°
41
coming from the Jeune Estelle, had been sold at 43 to
francs. oc ts
We have not the courage to add a single reflectio

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ohristhdeemplsoerlavbelse._staGteamzeentiteO-dfeoFurradnisraes.ters. The facts sP'
BO UR SE. —PARIS, TUESDAY, AOO. 6. mot
first Highest Lowelt ?We
Price Price. Price. .12 40
*trench 5 per Cents
4,4, per Cents lO5 90 ... 105 00 ... 1"2 ."' ' 103 ,ft
4 per tents lO-3 ... 1,3 ... 103 ". 8' '''
3 per Cents HO 40 ... MO 40 .. SO 40 ... ;.,,,
• 2sr.s.
Bank of rranee 2B 0 . '2840 ...2820 ...„,,, 50
Lattitte Bank I.noof. sh inr.., 50
-^,'• ....1052 50 ...1052 50 ...."'„„;
5,000 f. ;qr.. 50,0 r. 5020 ...sL''' .5
nelgian 3 per Lents • • ...it 75 ......'2151 75 '..••. -71 7.5 ...
.7t7; 1
Belgian Bank 770 ... 770 ... 765 ••• ---1,01
Spanish Ac, ive
Passive 4,4, ... .p„ .. Vi ••• if2s
1C2,,,..... 102y4 .... 10:6i ..•
-

Roman

IiAILWAY
St. Germain
Versailles, It. B „, 615 ... 615 45
„. 615
615
LB 655 „„„ 6)5 ... 640 ,„, 6
3,35 •... 335 ... 325 .. "),
Havre
Orleans . .
Strasburg to Bale 452 50 ... 452 50 ... 45'2 50 ••• '"
.
821i1 75 ... 328 75 ... 325 ... al°Z

ASPHALTES AND BITUMENS.
Seyssel (A)

• •
rJEWIAN UNDS...BRUSSELig, AUGUST 6
55i
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent 9is
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent.
3 per Cent. 72
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent
Society of Commerce, 4;,:per Cent ll6
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 4S
National Society .
—Brussels Papers, August 6.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, JULY 29.
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Fostr per Cents
Three portents.
Bank Shares ......... ............. ....... 15116
—Allgemeine Zeitung...
August 3

Letters and papers from Madrid of the 30th ult.
have been received this morning. The election for the
Capital closed with the return of Senors ARaUELLER►
CALTRAVA, LOPEZ, CANTERO, MENDIZABAL, OSCA,
MIRANDA, and ALoNzo, all Liberals of the Mov-
ment :party. From the theatre of war there is no
news whatever.

LATEST NEWS FROM AMERICA.
By the arrival at Liverpool of the packet ships
Memphis aHd Cambridge from New York, we have
received American Papers to the 19th ult. inclusive,
being two days later than the last arrivals. They
bring no poitical news of interest, except that Go'
vernor FAIRFIELD informed Mr. FoRsYTH,
Se-
cretary of State, that the State of Maine would
not agree to Lord PALMERSTON'S proposal of a
joint Commission for ascertaining the boundary
line. From the frontier the substance of the se'
counts 'will be found in the subjoined extracts from
the New York Papers:—
FURTHER TROUBLE ON THE FRONTIERS. The Coburg
(Upper Canada) Star says that a large meeting of itet:
formers had: been held there, which resulted in IN,
The mob carried standards, inscribed " Durham and
e'
It seems that after they were collected together,
a band of Orangemen and British officers assaultsci
them with shillelahs, and demanded the surrendered f
°
tte flags. This was refused; and an attempt being 111 e
;o force them, one of the bearars presented a pistol and
eer
tempted twice to fire it. He was seized, horribly rologiay;
and carried off.
The flags were taken, Durham's name torn, and
whole torn into a thousand shreds, and trampled on with
contempt.
mad
m
In the closing part of the day a new attack was
upon the Reformers. One was pursued in his wagg°!:
who fired twice on his pursuers. Neither shot took circa_
One man was seized, and rode upon a rail, and other'
took shelter under heaps of shavings, in cellars, in the
woods, &c.
The Lewistown Telegraph gives an account of two bsur.n:.
ings near Queenston—one of the barns and outhouse rT..
longing to Dr. Newburn, at Stamford ; and the other, the
house and barns of Mr. Overhault, at Short Hills. 13_,"0
wpreoirpe,HeErbtyoAt. honftmchiroe.n_wspooirckunooufs
g of
linnyenelnidstina.ries, and both were to
the 69th Regiment left Woodstock. in New Brunswick,
the 22d ultimo the bead quarterv.,
for St. John, in the same province, leaving one comp 1!./
.son at that place, under the command of Captam
The Halifax Journal contains some particulars of tet
London-
derry, bound to St. John, New Brunswick. S
oly loss of the ship Aide-de-Camp, fromheLhoandd3o3
mTi "
eh
iogamna garrison
Halifax, where th • wants had, as far
reached
remainderpassengers on board, of whom sixteen were drowned. The
who had blundertakenbeen su
tp e umane
Governor Sir GEORGE ARTHUR issued a pro-
asossie,
the
yhed b a
tCasokrittee of gentlemen
St. Augustine we have intelligence to
ulf3or,rbidding Orange processions on the
f
F ID --From
pro-
clamation
the sth inst. I
of the Ist
Mitchell and Lieutenant Pugh, with twelve men
at!' station near Deadman's
Infantry, died lately of p9ison,
Information has reached there that Captain
Bay. The cause was subseq
a keg of white lead thrown dew,: the well.
;:ent y. discovered to have been
FROM SOUTII AMERICA.— Advice:.
are received to the 11th of May. from Buenos Ay,!.
'11:. Argentine nc
public are still convulsed wittihmeinatienseteinferemw:trhst: Manuel
Oribe, who was driven some Go!vo•
ment of the Oriental Republic by Don Fructuoso It;.vera;
has taken up arms against his rival, and beat him in
pitched battle in April List. The Correntinos, or Rivera:
army of 5,000 men, were completely cut to pieces by 01-
Entre Rios. Rivera had joined the French. The blockade
of the river Plata was expect d to continue for some time.