The Sun.
London, England, 1825-09-30 00:00:00

LONDON MARKETS.

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CORN EXCHANGE, SEP•r. 30.
The arrivals of this week are considerable.. Fine Wheat "
sells at about the same terms as Monday, but other qualities
are very dull and rather cheaper. Barley goes off' very heavily, ,
and hardly maintains last quotations. Beans and Pease are
unaltered. Oats are plentiful, but goOd samples maintain
Monday's terms, and other qualities are rather cheaper.
ARRIVALS—EngIish Wheat, 9,800; Barley, 6,200; Oats,
20,500 ; Irish Oats, 2,860 ; Foreign Wheat, 2,200 ; Barley.
6,100; Oats, 400 qrs. ; Flour, 10,600 sacks.

SMITHFIELD MARKET, SEPT. 30.
The following is an accurate Report of the numbers and
prices at Smithfield Market this morning:—

CATTLE AT MAItKET
Beasts 650 I Sheep
Calves
To sink the Ofral, per stone of Btb.
Beef 4s 6(1 to 5s 2d f Veal ,.. is vii to 6s , 6d .
Mutton 4s 10d to 5s 4d; Pork ..
Lamb Os Od to Oa Od. '

HAY AND STRAW, PER. LOATO.,' 4 , • .
Hay
straw I:1 Ns to £2 .55.,

. _ . .
TA TAO A was presented to the Kinglof Papier:a
by his Majesty's desire, wheo lie was.'at IsrussOss ,
.
last week, for the purpose of enabling
to express to the modei-n RAisCius, in the most,
flattering terms, how much he was chirMed
the excellence of his performance.--(Aurnal de
Bruxelles.)

Mr. OWEN, of New Lan'ark, goes out:pasien-
ger on board the packet ship Nero York, Giptaisa
BENNETT, for New York, which will sail froth
Liverpool on Saturday.
The Commissioners of Charities have beeu

some time prosecuting their inquiries 'in the neighbourhoods
Wellington, Dulverton, and Nether Stowey. They !mire now
commenced the investigation of the charities of Bridgewater.
They will proceed in the next place to Minster and Minehead,
for the Carhampton hundred ; and froth thence to lhninster,
where they will conclude their inquiries into the Soinersetshire
Charities with the Abdick and North Curry hun:lreds.
MR. COURTNEY'S AERIAL FLIGHT AT HASTINGS.
Extract of a letter, dated Hastings, Sept. 28 ;--" Mr. G.
Courtney, the flying American individual, who recently distin-
guished himself at Dover, by descending from the Heights tit:.
derneath a rope over the town, attached to what are by.
seamen termed sheaving blocks, exhibited himself in •a
similar manner on Monday, at five o'clock in the after-
noon, at Hastings, in the presence of several thousand
spectators, assembled in a variety of situations to witnesa
his flight. The rope was placed on- the elevated part ofi
the Castle, over the gunner's house, Marine Parade, and, '
Shingles, to the Sands, a distance of 900 feet, and 'which del,
scent he accomplished in 9 seconds. When he arrived at'the'
termination of the rope, for want of precaution, the sud.len ":'
was so great, as to occasion blood to issue from his mouth. Ho' •
was dressed in white, decorated with blue ribands, and retni..i
nerated by public contributions. A standard was hoisted froin' •'
the point of nutted° 1. .

kDINBURGII BLIND AsYmm..—Friday, being
,
the anniversary of the foundation of the Blind Asylum? tlic,
pupils, male and female, were examined in the great basket- r
room of the Asylum, in Nicolson-street, in Presence of several,.
of the Directors, and a crowded assemblage of the friends of,the
Institution, of whom the great majority were ladies.' Several,.
of the pupils showed great dexteriry in writing what they cad
the string alphabet, which consists in making partieular,
representing the letters of the r.l, habet, on small pieces 44
twine. In the geography class, several of the pupils diSPLyed
great knowledge of the science ; particularly a young female. ,
named Margaret Baxter, who, upon a large globe constructed
for the use of the blind, pointed out any country, island, cityriver, lake, or sea, with the greatest facility, and calculated'
l.h
latitudes and longitudes of various places with the utmost AC,'
curacy. A beautiful and ingenious map of the solar systeln,'..;,
contrived by the secretary, Mr. Johnston, was displayal,
which M`Beath showed great dexterity, considering that etc
had only one previous lesson. There are constantly at work ;
at the Asylum about twenty-six looms. Four weeks, agO; a'
mark was made on the respective webs, and a prize of a sove-
reign offered to the person who should produce the most cloth,:
well woven. Patrick Bradley, who had been long blind, buS'
who, while he enjoyed vision, had been bred a weaver, No-,
duced 125 yards of striped Holland ; and John Kennedy,
,At
blind boy of fourteen years, taught in' the Asylum, produced'
126 yards; and they were pronounced the successful comps ~
titors.—(Edinburgh Oburver.)
Wednesday night a gang of 16 poachers from ~
Colerne were surprised at Hartham, near Corg
sham, by a party of keepers and tenants of PAUL ‘,
AIt:TH[SEN, Esq., 19 in number, and after a.sharp
scuffle eleven were secured, and lodged in Cor-
sham blind-house. On the following S morning
they were taken before J. Fuller, and committed.
to Devizes House of Correction. for trial.
Thursday evening while the Poole mail was:i4,. .•
.
the act of changing horses at Stoney Cross, the'
three first horses which were put to started o'fr...
with the coach, and although the guard awd coach:
man immediately procured saddle horses, and-
rode in pursuit, tht- y did not overtake them tin'
,
after a six-mile chase.

'IIIE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

Extracts from the Alornmg I' Hpers, Sept. 30,1 525.

[THE TIMES,]
The public, we believe, are not aware of one
subject with which the Cabinet has been occu-
pied at its recent meetings 7 and when they come
to hear it, those who watch political symptoms
will confess, that one of a more truly portentous

character has seldom effered itself to the atten-

lion of this or any other Government : we mean
the spirit which has for some time directed the
combinations of the working classes against their

employers. If this spirit proceeds as it threatens,
ev't. give it as our well-weighed opinion, that nei-
ther lawful authority, nor private property—(as
for commerce and manufactures, they are out of
the question)--will be worth so much as ti ?e
years purchase from the date at which we are
riting.--The union of the Thames shipwrights
has been already noticed in this paper, and as the
history of that confederacy presents a fair sample
of the consequences to be looked for from an ex-
tension, or rather from'a consolidation of the sys-
tem, we think proper to mention it once more.
The agreement entered into at Portsea by Mr.
Young, and other delegates from the Association
of Master.F.hip-builders, was, we now admit, an
unmanly concession on the part of these gentle-
men ; and the consent to ratify it by the body of
roasters, an act uf great folly and improvidence.
They ought to have foreseen, from the previous
conduct of the men by whom the working ship-
wrights were governed; that every acquiescence
by the ship-builders would be the signal for new
encroachments by the others—that every inch
given would become an ell taken—that their only
policy was to put down dishonest cupidity by
inflexible determination, and by a sacrifice of six
or eight weeks' profits on their capital, to secure
its beneficial employment for a whole generation
to come.--As it was, however, a compact was
made by Mr. Young with the well-known leader
Gast and one or two other chieftains, which the
bodies of builders and shipwrights afterwards
respectively confirmed. The treaty was adhered
to by the masters, but was broken by the men.
It had been agreed that a book of prices,
framed by the- journeymen, •should be consi-
dered and modified if necessary in each yard,
between the master and his men,. without any
intrusion or intermeddling by the self-called
" General Committee." This condition was
evaded by the journeymen,, at the instigation
of their leaders. People were named in seve-
ral yards to confer upon and settle the book
of priCes—but they never did, or would, ac-
tually settle them—and at last out comes a
resolution that the journeymen would not work
for any master who r..fused to accept the Price-
book as framed by the men themselves. The
truth appears to be, that a quiet reasonable set-
tlement was the reverse or what Mr. Gast. and
his associates wanted. Those men had become
great'ptiblie functionaries; they had been lifted
into high authority by the combination ; they
found it a much finer thing to receive pay and en-
joy rower, 'as Kings or Viceroys, over their de-
luded brother _workmen, than to earn honest
wage.s as workmen themselves. To them, there-
fore,—we mean the leaders and committee
men,—it would be death to see all disputed
questions settled, the shipwrights contentedly
doing their employers business, no further occa-
sion for their own mighty services, but pay and
power both at an end, and Messrs. Gast and
Co, reduced to wield the, adze or hatchet of a
plain ship-carpenter, instead of a kingly sceptre.
An attempt at palliation for the faithless conduct
dictated by him to his deluded followers was
lately made by, Mr. Gast. He said, if we re-
collect rightly, that the final resolution of the
journeymen to reject the work of such masters as
should not submit to the Price-book, was not de-
clared until the masters had refused to answer ap-
plications made to them hi the name of the " col-
lective body" of workmen. Then let us ask
what right this " collective body" had to
address individual masters at all ? Was it
the collective body that were to be hired
and paid in each private dock-yard on
the river ? or was it individual journey-
men, in their personal capacity, to perform
Mandel ,work, and to receive separate wages ?
Well, then, if a ship-builder hired the men, as
of.course he did, individually., what. business had
Mr.'Gast and his Committee-men to force them-
selVes in upon the affairs .of private persons, and
disturb (not even clandestinely-, for that cannot
be helped, but) formally and impudently the
doMeitic relation. of roaster and servant in their
daily occopations? The ship-builders were wise
to „reject at once all intercourse with this mob
Government—they would have been wiser still,
• instead of acting on the defensive, they had
struck the first blow,: after proof of the treachery
practhed against them, and dismissed
_on the spot
every journeyman in their dockyards, whO held
outagainst his regular duty, and obeyed the un-;
principled manda;te of artful, insidious, and tur-
bolent.incendjaries, acting from no motive but of
selfskambition, and wholly indifferent, as welt
to'.4be.interesis of the wort:jog classes whom 'they,
seduce amid sacrifice, as of the capitalists, who.
empipy,.and of the country which tolerates and
protects them.. But what has been the course of
thwse-great personages since the•above 111141541 e.,
tiO4..?' Why, it is, just,, what we might have
gnesse.d--7-supported as they are in idleness and
insolence by the contributions of their unhappy
fnilowers just, aporeosir, what was calculated
to *,time resolution of the Ktng's Government,
wh;"Must save the country by effectually crush-
ing. App. Several shipwrights having
.engaged
to'execnte some work at a particular dockyard,
loaly JeFeived a pererriptory order to cease from
datlpig:apen penalty of Peing expelled the !
nos committee, in the fulness of their vindictive
deapko,ti,sro-ore said to have passed a resolution that
nnouEneyman under their sway shall ever again
for any of these masters who have been.
nepylean resisting their tyranny ! A large East
Indianian, not many days ago,. was brought into
aveitmi Hosts for repairs, -which would have
em-
ploye
d' 400 workmen for almost 6 weeks. Tile
opportunity was too tempting—a general strike

was agreed upon ; but the owners of the yard for'
once were firm, and the work is to be done, by
permission of Government, in a royal dock-yard.
There seems to be no variety of mischievous per-
verseness left untried by these depredators upon
the rights and free agency of their fellow-subjects,
—they act not merely within their ow❑ sphere,
but make incursions into other trades ; and like
despots of a higher denomination, bring complex
forces to bear upon a single victim. Thus car-
penters have in a recent case conspired with saw-
yers, and made a joint attack "upon the trade in
timber. A large timber-merchant had an exten-
sive order for timber, which was to be cut in a
certain manlier. The sawyers of course took a
genteel advantage of the merchant, and struck
for an increase of wages. The merchant resisted
this imposition, and announced that he would
employ machinery in place of the refractory
workmen. What came next ? The carpenters
informed him, that if he persevered, not a man
of them would work up timber which had
been cut into planks by a machine! This,
then, is the miserable condition that we-are re-
duced to. The " Unions" are overgrowing the
country every where. There are Unions of
Unions, or delegates from each trade to consti-
tute a general assembly representing all—to sti-
mulate each other, gild give their laws to a com-
munity which will soon have no other legislators.
This is a gigantic image of the Corresponding
Societies which menaced once before this country
with destruction. It is an instrument, first for a
monopoly of labour—next for a monopoly of
power. It is a war of numbers against property
—of rapacity against industry—a war on behalf
of the foreign enemies of England against her
manufactures, her commerce, and her peace. The
first victims of such an unnatural system, if it,
continues, may be men of respectability and
affluence ; but far the most numerous and help-
less victims will be the poor themselves. Their
leaders, as in the case of the journeymen coach-
maker's, will run off with their funds, and leave
the deluded devils to the discipline of the bayonet
and the hangman : but in the mean time we are
menaced with a fourth estate within the realm,
and one capable of devouring all the others
through whose indifference and supineness it will
have grown up. Let the Ministers look Ave!!
to it. A servile war brought Rome herself,
and in the days of her energy, to the brink of
destruction.

[NEW TIMES.]
We yesterday received Bombay Couriers to
May 15, and we were favoured with a sight of
Singapore Chronicles to the Ist of April. The
latter contain very important intelligence from
Siam. Heretofore the Burman Emperor had
treated the. Siamese with great insolence, and,
indeed, subsequently to 1822, he had carried on
a sort of desultory warfare on their frontiers ;
but the British invasion caused him to alter his
tone wonderfully towards the Siamese. He wrote
a letter himself to the King of Siam, offering
to repair in peson to Bangkok, for the purpose
of being present at the funeral obsequies of the
late Siamese Monarch, and he coupled this com-
plimentary proposal with a request that the
King of Siam would join forces with him
against the English. It is asserted that this com-
munication, for a time staggered the Siamese, but
in the meanwhile they learnt the capture, by
our forces, of Tavoy, Mergui, and Martaban,
places not far distant from their own territory ;
and they wisely determined rather to join the
conquerors than tho conquered. The result was
the Embassy, which we learnt, by the last ac-
counts from Rangoon, had reached that place,
and which was reciprocated by sending an Eng-
lish Officer to Siam. The Siamese have the cha-
racter of beiug much more weak and effeminate
than the Burmans; but yet their co-operation
against the latter cannot but operate very bene-
ficially towards the progress of the British arms.
The Singapore Papers state that the Island of
Banca, which we ceded to the Dutch in 1815,
has been nothing but a source of loss and em-
barrassment to its new owners, and that it has
been lately visited by a fatal epidemic, which
has carried off great numbers of Europeans,
as well as of the native population.—The Bom-
bay Papers contain accounts from Calcutta to
the 27th of April. Letters from Cachar to
the 12th of April, state that the campaign in
that quarter was considered as closed till after
the rains. The Governor-General has marked
the successes in Arracan and Assam by different
acts of grace to the native troops which had been
implicated in the mutiny of Barrackpore. The
regiment which had lost one of its colours was
authorised to receive a new standard, and the
individuals who had been sentenced to work on
the roads have received a free pardon. A letter
I had been received at Chittagong on the 16th of
April from General Morrison's army, mentioning
that he had. received intelligence from Sir A.
Campbell of the capture both of Donahew and
'Prome: It• was understood from other sources
that Sir Archibald intended to storm Donahew
on the 6th of April, and he may therefore pro-
bably have taken that place ; but Prome is at a
considerable distance, and this part of the news is
-therefore probably premature. It was expected
that the army at Arracan would soon push forward
;to the Irrawaddy, to join Sir Archibald Campbell
'at Prome,conformably to the plan which we long
since stated to have been determined upon.—
I hese Papers contain an order of the King An
. :Council for distributing the booty captured from
the piratical tribes in the Gulf of Persia, one
moiety to be given to the East India Company,
and' the other moiety to the land and sea forces
employed on that expedition.

[BRITISIS PRESS.]
The intelligence from Turkey, in the French
Papers which arrived last night, is of considerable
importance. The discontent of the Porte, it is
said, increases towards this country, and confe-
rences have taken place between the Reis Effendi
and Mr. Turner, the British Charge d'Affaires,
which have been conducted in a very angry and
even menacing tone on the part of the. former.
In consequence of the spirited manner m which
Mr. Turner vindicated his countr?s honour, a
note was subsequently transmitted in more trto-

derate terms, but insisting, on the recal of Sir
Frederick Adam, Admiral Neale, and Commo-
dore Hamilton, all of whom the Turkish Minister
considers as open and active enemies to the Sul-
tan. The period has returned for the election of

the members of the. Greek Government and Le-
gislature.
It was understood that Ypsilanti would
be appointed President of the Senate, and that
Colocotroni would, be placed at the head of
the Executive Department. The Etoile, notices
the report that Austria intended to establish a
Cordon sunituire in Dalmatia and Friuli, against
the plague which prevails in some parts of the
Morea. A German Paper observes, that if the
fact be true, Russia also will be obliged in self-
defence to adopt a similar course, and advance
her troops towards Bessarabia and Wallachia.—
The Echo du Midi contains the following :
Cc We are assured that there is about to be form-
ed in France a company of Body Guards for his
Catholic Majesty, composed of 300 men, all fo-
reigners, but principally French. It is thought
that this company will be organised, mounted,
armed, and equipped in a city of the south, pro-
bably at Carcassone. This measure will not be
an innovation. Spain had, in the days of her pro-
sperity. 'Walloon Guards, composed of French-
men as we know."

[THE PUBLIC LEDGER.]
We give to-day the remainder of the intelli-
gence, Contained in The Austrian Observer of the

17th inst. respecting the affairs of Greece ; and
perhaps a finer tribute to the Greek cause human
ingenuity could not pay. After having ransacked
every hole and corner for news that should give
a sombre colouring to the situation of that people,
it has failed, after a two weeks' laborious search,
in adducing a single fact against that people ;
whilst it is compelled to admit, that the garrison
of Missolonghi, up to the middle of last month,
had gallantly and successfully repelled every'
effort of the enemy. It also makes the relnctailt
confession, that the Turkish fleet fled in disorder
at the very appearance of the Greek flotilla, and
with so much precipitation, as if the Captain
Pacha had for the moment forgotten, that his in-
structions were to" sink, burn, and destroy," and
not to run away. As to the pretended statement of
the Greek, who is said to have arrived at Corfu
from Missolonghi, it has so much the appearance cif
a trumped-up story, that we have not the least
scruple in rejecting it ; and we strongly suspect
that the pretended Greek was merely an emissary
of the Austrian Government. That the Turkish
Seraskier, whose original force never exceeded
30,000 men, should still have 25,000 men under
arms, after a harrassing siege of nearly 2 months,
in the course of which several desperate attempts
had been made to take the place by storm--
would be such a novelty, that its parallel could
not be found in the annals of warfare. With the
exception of this unique statement, every thing
that The Austrian Observer has adduced, is
clearly to the advantage of the Greeks : and
surely no other testimony of the favourable state
of their affairs is necessary. However, if this be
not deemed sufficient evidence, we can still pro-
duce much stronger in the total omission of all
allusion to recent occurrences in the Morea. Not
a word has that Journal bestowed on the Egyp-
tian expedition, though its fate must decide the
campaign, and perhaps the war ; and yet, with
this staring fact before them, some of our con-
temporaries have ventured to throw doubts on
the advantages recently gained by the Greeks in
that province. If the Austrian Observer enter-
tained similar doubts, it would have lost no time
in giving the world the benefit of them ; and, as
it has not done this, the cause may be easily ima-
gined. In the mean time, we learn from the
Brussels Papers, which arrived yesterday, that
the latest accounts frotmGreece have produced
a very strong sensation in the political coteries a
Vienna. In particular, the application to the
English Government is said to have made an -ex-
traordinary impression ; and it is hinted that it is
likely to be the subject of some discussions
between the two Governments. If the Court
of Vienna wish to -see au end of the
troubles of Greece, it will applaud the step
taken by the people of that country, and use all
its influence to engage our Government to ac-
cede to it. Otherwise these troubles will continue
to haunt Austria ; as all the efforts of her Ally,
the Porte, to suppress them, will prove unavail-
ing. In the mean time, the appointment of the
Duke of Cambridge as Grand Master of the
Order, created by his Majesty in the lonian
Islands, is by no means a bad omen for the
Greeks, as it shows the interest which his Ma-
jesty takes in that part of the G reek nation, which
is placed under his august protection. This ap-
pointment at this particular time, probably means
more than meets the eye ; and it will have a
much greater influence on the fortunes of Greece,
or we are much mistaken, than the matter, at
this moment would seem to warrant. However,

it would be premature as yet to be more explicit
ou the subject ; but this we think we may ven-
ture to say, that the cause of the Greeks has
more powerful support in this country, than is
commonly imagined.

I:MORNING CHRONICLE.]

We yesterday received Madrid Gazettes to
the 18th instant; the contents of which have been
chiefly anticipated through the greater expedi-
tion of the French Couriers. 'Hwy, however,
contain a financial measure which must be inte-
resting, although not very consolatory, to the
number of holders of Spanish Stock in this coun-
try•. The Royal Decree on this subject is pre-
ceded by a long preamble, which, at first sight,
would almost induce one to believe that Ring
Ferdinand was really determined to set about the
regulation of his finances and the improvement of
the national credit ; but, when we look at the
list of the Members appointed for the new Board
(whose names are too long for insertion), we(!e-
spair of any good coming out of the plan. The'
Board to be created is a mixed one, and among
the Generals of the army chosen there is not one
under sixty years of age ; the Bishops are the
most fanatical of their cloth, and those of
the other classes are on a par with them.
These men are to be aided by the General of
doubt good-
the Franciscan Ftiars, and no

care will be taken not to touch the Church'
property, the only means, in fact, left to
realize the objects the King professes to have in
view. This Board is to piopose the resources
which can be made applicable to the exigencies
of the State, cover the yearly deficit, and " pay
with religious exactness the interest on the legi-
timate and acknowledged debts of the State."—
This is a distinction important to the holders of
the Cortes Bonds, as it positively excludes them.
Here, therefore, we have the result of the known
and boasted efforts which the French Government
have so long been making, for the purpose of regu-
lating and improving the finances of Spain. This
is all that can be obtained for the relief of the
Spanish people ! This is the great effort of M.
Zea Bermudez and his Director M. de Villele !
—This empty measure, which possibly w, ill, ere
long, be followed by some flattering report or other,
is evidently intended as the precursor of a new
Loan, for fresh taxes and contributions cannot be
wrung from the Spanish people under existing
circumstances. If so, we hope and trust the
London capitalists will not be so prodigal of their
money as it is expected they will be, or afford
King Ferdinand a fresh opportunity of laugh-
ing at their credulity.

We understand that an Haytian Commissioner
has been for some time in Ear/ape, negociating,
under the auspices of the French Government,
for the formal cession of the Eastern, or old'
Spanish part of the island of Hayti, to the Re-
public. •It is added, that the sum to be paid for
this transfer is already agreed upon; but some
difficulty has arisen as to the terms of payment.
The Spanish Government are pressed for money,
and want the cash down ; the nay tians ask the
same credit they have obtained from France.—
(Ibid.)

[MORNING POST.I
Acconnts from Zante to the 20th ult. state that
the Greek Electors had assembled at Napoli. di
Romania to renew the Government and the Le-
gislative Body. There is something noble in this
tranquil fulfilmvnt of a public duty within sight,
and almost under the cannon of an invading
enemy. It has something of the grandeur and
energy of antiquity, and tends to increase our
confidence in the exalted nature of the Greek
character, and in the capacity of the people
for establishing independence and for enjoy-
ing' Constitutional liberty. According to these
advices, it was not likely that Mavrocor7
dato or his party should be re-elected : it was
thought more probable that Ypsilanti should
be appointed President •of the Senate, and
that Colocotroni should be entrusted with
the Executive Power. A private letter from
Trieste, given by the Quolidiennc, says that
on the 10th of August three Greek fire-ships en-
tered the ancient port of Alexandria, under
the Russian, English, and Austrian flags. One
of them having approached a large Egyptian
frigate laden with military stores, set itself on
fire : but the wind being unfavourable, the frigate
had time to make its escape. The English
vessels are said to have cut their cables in
order to open 'a passage• for the lireship; but
a French frigate on the contrary is reported ,
to have given it a broadside and sunk it.
The two others then sailed away from the
harbour pursued by Belhy Aga, with a Turkish
frigate and two brigs ; but the Greek fleet ap-
pearing within two leagues of the shore, the pur-
suers thought it prudent to return. The Paella
of Egypt, however, rendered furious by the au-
dacity of the Greeks, embarked in person, and
resumed the chace with eight vessels, but having
gone as far as Cyprus without falling in with any
one, he came back to Alexandria just in time to
witness the arrival of the Turkish fleet from
Constantinople.

[MORNING HERALD.]
We have received other letters on the small-
ness raid insufficieucy of the Salaries paid to
Clerks, &c. in the Post-office. We have already
more than once drawn the attention of our read-
ers to this subject, as well as to improvements
which might be introduced into that eqablish-
meta, especially in the more early delivery of
letters ; but on both points, it would seem, that
we have hitherto pleaded in vain. We hope,
however, that when the New Post-office is opened,
that the whole establishment will start %% Rh a new
grace ; and that Lombard-street will leave be-
hind it all its abuses and unbecoming parsimony.
in the meantime, as facts are every thing, we
should be obliged to any of our Correspondents,
who would furnish us with a scale of the real
amount of the salaries paid the various Secre-
taries, Clerks, &c. down to tile poor Twopenny
Postmen, who trudge about the streets to the
great accommodation of the public, almost slip-
shod, and with all the outward and visible
sigriL., of abject poverty. Nothing can exceed
the regularity anil usefulness of this establishment.
It is undoubtedly in most of its details by far
the most perfect of any similarestablisment which
exists in the world. ln proportion to its general
merits are the claims of those through whose la-
bour and instrumentality its perfection and utility
exist. And as there can be no member of the
Government, or indeed of the community, who
must not witness and experience its merits, so
we trust there will be found in the proper quar-
ter both the inclination and the power to inquire
into and redress any injustice or inadequacy of
remuneration which may exist m its details.

DUNDEE, The Rev. ALEXANDER
FLETct preached
2
EP 51; the Caledoeian Hall,
Dundee, on Thursday evening last. The hall
was crowded, and may have contained from three
hundred to four hundred people. . Few ladies
'bflYtotilenrde
ogi fto the
and,ritttit)iet uiClrea"fco? ,eihat would he still mo
ocdirill
chief
u styrfmtoi.r:
the activity of his doorkeeper in turning away
persons who looked hiArher than the plate at en-
tering, the small pittance collected would have
been much less. Before entering the hall, Mr.
Fletcher whispered to his- doorkeeper, " You
may give those who contribute handsomely a copy
of my pamphlet." The door-keeper replied,
" From what I haw. seen, few of your pamphlets
wall be disposed of."