The Sun.
London, England, 1836-04-07 00:00:00

7bt

LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 7, 1836.

The enthusiastic welcome given to Mr. O'CONNELL
on Monday last by the Reformers of Nottingham,
has made our Tory Contemporaries, the Times and
Morning Post, quite mad with rage and vexation.
They seem to take it as a sort of personal affront, that
a man whom they have been abusing, in the choicest
Wapping dialect, for months past, should have been
honoured with such an enviable distinction. In the
midst of its tribulation, however, the Morning Post
discovers the materials of consolation, in the reflection
that—let the Reformers of England receive Mr. O'CoN-
NELL in what manner they please, the House of Lords
will not pay the slightest deference to such significant
tokens of popular respect, but throw out the Irish
Corporation Bill, with as much cool indifference as if
it were a mere turnpike Bill. " We shall soon have
an opportunity," says our Contemporary, " of trying
the prophetic powers of Mr. O'CONNELL ; for that
the Irish Municipal Bill should be read a third time in
the House of Lords, is about as impossible as that
Lord JoHN RUSSELL'S tragedy should be read at all
in any house whatever." We agree with our Con-
temporary that it is far from impossible that the Lords
may reject the Bill in question ; but at the same time,
we cannot find—as he does—the slightest cause for
xultation in such a rejection. For what must be the
inevitable consequence of so frantic a proceeding ?
Why, to throw the country—and more especially
Ireland—into a state of the most violent agita-
tion--and this for no earthly purpose ; for dogged
and desperate as maw be the opposition of their Lord-
ships . geqiiittaiust pass, in spite of them. They
blow. The utmost tt
ttit
ca. .more pre l finalclaynbepcoosmsibinlyg
do,the loarwboof
ex-
'Acted I
_,'than they ccira\et, he waves, or forbid the winds
'Acted to do, by so suici4 1 a course of conduct, is to
dev pe the people's g enath, and their own weak-
nes . '" and, Heave' knows, they have developed
t"
•
quite enough o 14 this last already, and have no need to
make it still more undeniably manifest. The Upper

House is no longer the bug-bear to the country that it
once was. The giant has dwindled to the dimensions
of the dwarf, and the people can now look him in the
face without a shudder. Our Contemporary goes on to
remark, "the Ministers by whom the Bill was introduced,
never intended it to become law." A more bare-faced
calumny than this was never perpetrated, even :by a
Tory journal. What I a Government play fast-and-
loose with the country, with the experience of the past,
and the recollection of the PEEL Ministry, who were
ejected from office for playing precisely the same tricky
game, staring them in the face ? Impossible I The
MELBOURNE Cabinet has no existence but in the
people. It has no Court influence—no Aristocratic
support to back it, but relics for its continuance on
the people, and the people only. How absurd, then,
to imagine that a Government so situated, and to all
appearance, in the full possession of its senses, should
voluntarily, and without the slightest motive, commit
an act offeto de se ! It is useless, however, to dwell
further on the absurdity of this freshest Conservative
slander. Yet a few weeks, and it will be quite suf-
ficiently refuted. Our Contemporary, the Times,
who, as we observed before, is equally indignant with
the Post, at the idea of Mr. O'CONNELL'S having
been so triumphantly received at Nottingham, confines
himself chiefly to abuse of tie Hon. and Learned Gen-
tleman. He makes few or no allusions to the Irish
Corporation Bill, or the way in which the Lords may
be expected to treat it ; but contents himself with an
expression of astonishment at the surpassing—the un-
paralleled—vulgarity, of the Member for Dublin's elo-
quence. This surprise comes with peculiar propriety
from a Journal which is remarkable for nothing so
much as the maiden purity of its own language. All
must remember the classic purity of the epithets which
the Times for months together, was in the daily
habit of lavishing on the Duke of CUMBER-
LAND and the Boroughmongers ; no wonder
therefore that, in Mr. O'CoNNELL's case, it is such
a stickler for the graces and refinements of rhetoric.
But what does our respected Contemporary mean by
his insinuation that the personalities now so frequently
indulged in by Members of the House of Commons,
are to be attributed to the evil influence of Mr.
O'CoNNELL ? Are the Conservatives—who would
scorn to be guided by such a man, even in
the choice of their Billingsgate—all patterns of
Attic grace and propriety ? Is there no undue blus-
ter in Sir R. VYVYAN—no relish for a dull and
vapid personality in Colonel SIBTHORP ? Does Sir
H. HARDJNGE blend the meekness of the lamb with
the wisdom of the serpent, or the Recorder of Dub-
lin, together with the robe, put on the dignified mode-
ration of the judge ? Personal as Mr. O'CONNELL
may be at times—and we are by no means willing to
defend his personalities—we know of certain Conser-
vatives who are ten times more addicted to the use of
the St.Giles's dialect. Our Contemporary must be sadly
at a loss for something to say, when he can descend to
Inch cant as this. But the truth is, the Notting-
ham affair has put him quite beside himself with rage ;
and what is passion carried to extreme, but sheer
lunacy ?

There seems to be a determination on the part of the
landowners not to be satisfied with any plan for the
commutation of tithes, which shall not transfer to them
the largest portion of the tithe owners' property. The
whole drift of their proceedings
.leads us to conclude
that this is the great object of their ambition—an ob-
ject quite in keeping with the general tenor of their
conduct—perfectly in unison with that rapacity in
grasping, and that selfishness in holding, all that they
can, by which, as a class, they have:uniformly been
distinguished. In their present attempt to plunder the
:• f`. re.rwr.rrrt;en on:rit
laws, &c. &c. &c. All speak the same language. In

all we find the aristocratic class legislating for their
own exclusive benefit, clawing every possible advantage
to themselves, and shifting every possible burden to the
shoulders of the other classes.

It has been surmised by some that the opposition
raised by the landowners to Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S
Bill, is founded on a notion which they have taken up
of late, respecting the security of tithe property. They
look at the fate of tithes in Ireland—they think they
see the utter extinction of the system in that country
by means of popular agitation, and they hope to see
the same result in England by the same means, if they
can but ward off a commutation for a few years longer.
We can hardly bring ourselves to believe that there is
any ground for imputing to the landowners so ridicu-
lous a hallucination as this. It is impossible that they
should be either so ignorant of the opinions entertained
by the people, respecting the nature of what is com-
monly called church property, or so blind to their own
position in public estimation, as to suppose that if
tithes were abolished to-morrow, they would be
allowed to pocket the advantage. The people of
England will assuredly ere long put an end to tithe in
its presentform, but they will as certainly insist upon its
payment in some other form. An equivalent from the
landowners they will never dispense with ; and if the
latter imagine that they will gain by postponing the
final adjustment of the question—if they think that a
period will ever arrive when they shall be able to
make better terms than at present—they are labouring
under a very dangerous delusion. Any settlement
that can take place, whether now or hereafter, must be
based on the existing state of things at the time ; and
what is to render that state more favourable to the
proprietor of the soil than it is at present, we confess
we cannot comprehend. If he cannot show cause for
stripping the tithe owner of his rights in 1836, will
his case be mended in 1840 ? We think not. None
of the difficulties which now embarrass the question
will then have been removed, while the main difficulty
—the master grievance as the landlords represent it—
will be augmented, for the amount of the tithe will go
on increasing as the wants of an increasing population
call for a more extended cultivation, or cause a greater
quantity of produce to be raised from the land already
cultivated.

It is not a little amusing to observe sthe professions
of attachment to the Church which the landowners mix
up with their tirades against its just claims. They
would not for the world—not they—that the national
Establishment should not be maintained with becoming
dignity. They are extremely anxious that all the ne-
cessary wants of the Clergy should be provided for ;
but why, they ask, should they be called upon
for more than is requisite for that purpose ?
This affectation of liberality has a plausible appear-
ance, and is apt to deceive those who look no farther
than the surface. But what does it in reality imply ?
Simply this--that the tithe is a boon granted by the
landowners to the clergy ; and that if there were no
clergy, there would be no claim for tithe on the land.
Now, this may be a very comfortable doctrine for the
landowners to hold and to propagate, but it is utterly
false. The proprietor of the soil has no more right to
the tithe than the man in the moon has. When he
purchased his land, he purchased it minus one tenth of
the produce, in all time to come, and he paid so much
the less for it, on account of that burden. When, there-
fore, the tithe-owner takes his tithe, he takes that
which is strictly his own, and which never belonged to
the owner of the soil. Between the titles of the parties
to their property respectively, there is no difference,
except that the title of the tithe-owner is the more

THE SUN, LON

ancient and uninterrupted of the two. Let not the
landowner, then, imagine that he has an absolute and
not a qualified right to his land, or that he holds it
by any other tenure than the same conventional rule
of society by which a certain portion of its produce
is secured to another party. Who that party may be
cannot be a matter of any consequence to him, provided
he be disposed to act fairly and honestly. But when
he endeavours to limit the tithe-owner's right by the
supposed necessities of the Church, and thus to evade
the performance of the contract which has descended
to him with his land, we feel it our duty to protest in
the name of the people of England against a principle
so unreasonable, so unjust, and so injurious to the
interests of the community. We maintain that the tithe
belongs to the State—that is, to the people ; and that
it rests with the people to determine, through their

Representatives, to what purposes it shall be appro-
priated. Let the people, therefore, be on their guard
against the delusions with which the landowners are
attempting to poison their minds respecting tithes—
for they may rest assured it is not\their benefit that is
the object in view.

We have received the whole of the Paris Journals of
Tuesday. The Phare of Bayonne contains the fol-
lowing letter from Lord JOHN HAY, Commander of
the British fleet off the coast of Spain, to General
CORDOVA, relative to the defence of the Spanish gar-
risons on the coast. It is dated the 24th of March :
" EXCELLENCY—I hasten to inform you that I have
this moment received orders for the Government of his Bri-
tannic Majesty to afford your Excellency, and the troops
which you command, the most active and efficacious co-
operation in preventing the fortresses on this coast, which
display the flag of Queen Isabella 11., from falling into the
power of the troops of the Pretender, and also in retaking
from the rebels such of these places as may have already
fallen into their hands. His Britannic Majesty's squadron
has, moreover, received considerable reinforcements of ships
and troops from England, together with orders to aid and
protect all the operations which your Excellency may think
proper to undertake on this coast. I have also to inform
your Excellency that all the ships under my command have
received instructions to take on board troops of her Ma-
jesty Isabella 11., and convey them to any points on the
coast. 1 have given to the officer who is bearer of this let-
ter every information with respect to the number of troops
each ship can receive, and I entreat your Excellency to be
assured that all the forces of this squadron will actively co-
operate in the movements of your army, and that I shall
have a real satisfaction in meeting your wishes."

We really do not perceive in what this differs from
active intervention; and having gone so far it would be
much more worthy of our Govornment to march a
regular army into Spain, and so put an end to the war
in one campaign. It redounds but little to our credit
to order out a fleet, to watch the movements of a rebel
Prince whom we hesitate to pronounce an enemy.
Don CARLOS has much reason to complain of us.
While we are observing towards him the conduct of
covert foes, we demand from him all the courtesies due
to a strictly neutral Power. This is unworthy of
Great Britain. By our temporizing we indirectly mag-
nify the hopes of the Carlists, who are led by their
Chiefs to suppose that they are making a successful
stand against the arms of the QUEEN REGENT,
Portugal, France, and England.
The Moniteur of Tuesday has the following im-
portant paragraph from the Journal de Paris of
Monday evening
" The Carlist papers have been repeating for the last
two or three days an extract from the Times, in which it
is stated that the Spanish Carlists are rejoicing at the in-
terception of a letter from General Alava to General Cor-
dova. According to them, the purport of the letter was
to acquaint General Cordova with the fact that the French
Government has positively refused its intervention. Cer-
tain expressions, textually given, are moreover attributed
to the King of the French.
" There is but one thing in which this piece of news is
deficient, and that is the basis. In order that the interven-
tion should have been refused to General Alava, it was
necessary that he should have applied for it It is, however,
- - - - -

The Times quotes the above in its article of this
morning, and makes a feeble attempt to call its correct-
ness into question. We do not blame the Tivres fu
considering itself well informed ; we blame it for not
giving the name of the Carlist officer who made it the

dupe of a hoax intended for the purpose of floating off
Don CARLOS' New Paper freight. We stated at the
time that our Contemporary was misinformed ; that
the Queen of SPAIN would not have presumed to assure
the Cortes that France and England afforded her all the
supplies and other assistance she needed, had either of
these Powers declined to afford her such assistance. Be-
sides, the very way in which the Times published the com-
munication respecting General ALAVA'S demand of
intervention, and the refusal of LOUIS PHILLIPPE,
was not only conclusive of the fact, that the intelli-
gence was a fabrication, but that, moreover, it was one
of the very grossest and clumsiest kind. It was cer-
tainly strange that our sharp-sighted Contemporary
should be gulled by an intercepted communications from
—Onate !—written, too, or reported to have been, written,
by a person who could have known nothing whatever
about the matter ! Had the rumour rested on the
interception of a letter from General ALAVA to
MENDIZABAL, or from M. TRIERS to Lord PAL-,
MERSTON, We would not have felt any surprise if
credit had been attached to it. But to talk of a letter
from Onate as substantiating the correctness of such a
statement, is too ridiculous. The truth, however, was,
that the rumour was put in circulation by the Carlist
stockjobbers for a most nefarious purpose. How our
Contemporary was led to support their views, is not for
us to determine.

The project of law submitted to the Chamber of
Deputies on Monday, relative to the manufacture of
Beet-root Sugar, will be found in another column. It
has excited a cry of indignation against the Minister
of Finance, which will not be long confined to the

capital.
The New Convention for further accelerating the
interchange of Post Office communications between
Great Britain and France was signed on the 29th
ult. in Paris by M. TRIERS and Lord GRANVILLE.
We have not yet been favoured with a copy of it.

PARIS, APRIL s.—The funds continue to rise ; the
augmentation has been 15 centimes. This favourable state
of the funds is still ascribed to the large sums thrown into
the market by the rich banker who is the depositary of
the American indemnity. Some speculators who are usu-
ally well informed affirm that they have seen a letter ad-
dressed by the English Consul at Bayonne to the Ambas-
sador at Paris, in which he gave new and curious details on
the 'deplorable condition of the Carlist party, which has
neither provision nor money, and the ruin of which will be
speedy, unless the absolute Powers of the North make haste
to come to its assistance.—illessager, April sth.

FRENCH FUNDS.—PeeIs, APRIL 5.
Five per Cents., 107 f. 95c. 85c. doe. 90c.
Fonr and a Half ner Cents. 103 f.
Three per Cents. 81f. 95c. 9Cc. 95c.
Bank Actions, 2,215 f. 2,240 f.
Rente de Naples, 102 f. 20c. 15c. 10c.
Roman Five per Cents., 104%.
Spanish Actives, 4 %9,4 .
Spanish Passives, 144 55%.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents., 102Yi
Portuguese Loan, Five per Cents., 814.
Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents. 52.
Haytian Loan, 385 E 330 f. 385 f.
EXCHANGE ON ioNeoN.
lOne month, paper, 25f. 47,40.; money, 25f. 4714 c.
'Three months, paper, 25f. ; money, 25f. 32yic.
- • •

—Cours
Bouttsr., THREE o'CLocx.--)rhe payments of the differences
of the las t month have been legularly made to-day.
The Three per Cents. are worse ; the reception of the law
of the beet-root sugar in the Chamber, yesterday, has had some
influence on the market. There is a fear of another modifica-
tion in the RAnistry. The Three per Cents. opened at
82f. 15c., fell, to 82f. 5c., and remain demanded at that price.
The news from Santander that Captain Hay has officially
offered h is interference, by order of the British Government,
addressed' V) General Cordova, has has no effect on the
Spanish seF curities. The Actives opened at 464, receded to
46+, but improved again to 40. No other news.
Cloak' tER TO FOUL—Five per Cents., 108 f. —c..; Three
per Cc nts.,
82f. —c. ; Five per Cents. 4anish, —; Three
per C(
;nth. Spanish, —; Cortes, —; Coupons, —; Gueb-
hards, Differes, 16i; New Loan, ; Actives, 461;
Passi
yes, 140. Ducats, 102 15 ; Romans, 1044 ; Pedros, 814 ;

Belgians, 102:1 ; Dutcb, —f. —c. ; Ilaytians,, 35f. —c. ;
Miguels, —; Brabant Bank, —; Belgian Bank, 16; Con-
tinuation, —c. ; New Differes, —; Five per Cent. Perpe-
tuelles, —; Royal Loan, —.

We have received advices from Madrid to the 29th
of March. General CoItDOvA had communicated to,
the Minister of War the official note addressed to him
by Lord JOHN HAY, on the subject of the coast
blockade. CORDOVA informed Count A LMODOVAR
that he had previously informed the army of the
friendly co-operation of the British Government. This
communication produced a very favourable effect upon
the Cortes, and the inhabitants of the Spanish capital
generally. As the support of our Government is attri-
buted to the influence of MENDIZABAL, this mani-
festation on our part will greatly increase his influence
in the Chambers. Lord JOHN HAY'S letter to COR-
DOVA, with the latter's notification of the event to the
Minister of War was published in the Gazette, ac-
companied with the following observations :
" The frank, sincere, and generous assistance of the Err,-
lish nation, our ally, ensures the prompt cessation of the
civil war, which all good Spaniards wish for. Now that
the naval forces of England second the movements of
our army it is impossible that the rebels should take
possession of any point on the northern coast ; thus they
will be deprived of the facility of establishing communi-
cations, receiving supplies, and thereby directing, as they
please, their movements and combinations. Our troops,
at the same time that they will receive an efficient and
energetic support
for the development of their military
operations, will be better enabled to pursue the factious
in the interior, to their complete extermination.
" The French Government on its side has sent us arms
and ammunition. It has given orders for the rebels
that have taken shelter upon the French territory to be sent
into the interior of the country, and has adopted mea-
sures to prevent all conveyance of arms and ammunition

to the Pretender.
" This close union of the Governments that have signed
the Quadruple Alliance, and their sympathy in the cause
of Isabella 11., give to that cause a moral strength which
will resist victoriously the powerless efforts of our enemies.
The proceedings of the Governments of England and
France justify the confidence which our Government feels.
" We affirm, without fear of deceiving ourselves, that
from the 14th of last September the Treaty of the Qua-
druple Alliance has produced, thanks to the conduct of our
generous allies, the advantages which we had promised our-
selves, and that it has received the execution that the immi-
nent object that dictated it required."
The Gazette also announces the ratification of a
treaty between France and Spain for the mutual sur-
render of prisoners who may have incurred the penalty
of death.

The Cabinet remains in the imperfect state in which
it was at the late dissolution of the Cortes. Various
rumours are in circulation respecting the new appoint-
ments ; but, until they are confirmed, it would be a
waste of time to dwell upon them. MENDIZABAL
will have a large majority in the Chambers.

In our extracts from the Brussels and German
Journals received this day, will be found some obser-
vations on the tone of the French and English Press,
with respect to the occupation of Cracow by the
three protecting Powers. The writer, who dates his
communication from Berlin, denies that the occu-
pation of Cracow is the manifestation of a system
opposed to the liberal policy of France and England.
On the contrary he asserts that " the measure was
executed, because plans of conspiracy in Cracow kept
up the fermentation in the kingdom of Poland, threat-
ened Posen and Gallicia, and because the combined
action of the Three Powers, with respect to Polish
disturbances, is fixed by treaties and verbal confer-
ences." With what modesty the Scribes in the pay of
Russia allude to the resources of the Government
Let an act of oppression be committed against the
most obscure political refugee, and the first remon-
strance against the injustice is sure to be met
by a cry that nothing less would have saved the
Throne of the AUTOCRAT ! On the present oc-
casion orAy mark well the new avearance which the
_ as assume.---vve ue-
nounced the invasion of the " free and strictly neutral
City" as an act of tyranny ; an open violation of the
Treaty of Vienna ; a1,.l a aiLeeL Insult, if not a threat,
levelled against the Cabinets of London and Paris.
But mark well the Russian Scribe's defence :—The
three protecting Powers have no cause of enmity
against the liberal Governments of Western Europe.
With them the occupation of Cracow was a question
of life or death I Their very' existence depended upon,
it. Had they waited to consult with France and
Eng-
land, there would have been a forcible dismemberment
of the dominions of Austria, Russia, and Prussia I
In fact, there were some twenty or thirty Poles in
Cracow, who, if allowed a week longer to deliberate,
would have shook. to their foundations three of the
most powerful nations in Europe !

Such are the absurdities which our Government is
expected to swallow—such the shallow sophistries
by which Russia hopes to delude the statesmen who
direct the administration of the affairs of France and
England. We are first insulted—then laughed at by
tools of the Autocrat. While Cracow was under the
hoofs of Russian Calmucs NESSELRODE knew no-
thing of the matter; but now that Poland is left
without hope—now that we are represented as trembling
with apprehension of Russian wrath—it is found con-
venient to amuse us with drolleries about the dangers
of conspiracies, and the imminent peril which assailed
the throne of the AUTOCRAT, and his Imperial and
Royal Confreres !

New York papers to the 16th of March have been
received. They state on the authority of letters from
Washington, that Mr. Secretary CASS had been ap-
pointed Ambassador to the Court of France ; that
Speaker POLK was to succeed him in the War De-
partment ; and that Mr. MASON, of Virginia, was to
assume the vacant Speakership.
We subjoin the latest accounts from Florida. They
are important :

(Private Correspondence of the Courier and Enquirer.)
PICOLATA, MARCH I.—" General Gaines's operations
have been not only unforeseen, but threaten to rr
fortunate for the interests of the campaign, With 1,100
men he marched to Camp King, a .a -there used the pro-
visions that were necessary ti, the purposes of Ge-
neral Scott—having ear-'-u with him from Tampa Bay,
where there werr.:, abundant stores, provisions sufficient
only for his march to Camp King. In the engagement
with the Indians he has had by no means the best of the
battle—and it would perhaps be better that the Indians
should drive him from the territory than that he should
force them to fall back—as (without troops to intercept
them) they may secure a retreat into the country south,
where it would be impossible to dislodge them this year.
By this movement, on the part of Gaines, General Scott's
plans for the present, from all I can learn, are greatly em-
barrassed. There is great want of means of transporting
supplies to the interior. The Georgia mounted men have
nearly all refused to come under regulations and gone back
—one or two officers and some 20 men remaining—not
full companies. Four regiments of similar troops are be-
lieved, however, to have arrived within a few miles of this,
and are likely to prove of great importance to General
Scott. I will give you further particulars in a day or two."
" PICOLATA, MARCH 3, 1836.-1 have this moment
reached Picolata, and learn from good authority that Gen.
Gaines has had two engagements with the Indians. Intel-
ligence from Fort Drane (just received) dated Ist March,
states that General Gaines left Fort King on the morning
of the 26th ult., and reached the Ouithlacoochee, near
Clinch's battle ground. Reconnoitring the River, he was
fired upon from the opposite bank. One man was killed
and six or seven wounded. On the 28th the battle con-
tinued across the river. One killed and eight or nine
wounded. Among the latter was Lieutenant lzard, of the
Dragoons. On Sunday the Indians attacked them in their
encampment, about ten o'clock A.M. The battle lasted two
hours. One sergeant killed—wounded one officer (Lieut.
Duncan). The number killed in all five or six, wounded
40. I write in great haste, as the steam-boat is about to
start for Savannah. You may rely on the above intelligence
in the main.
PICOLATA, MARCH 5, 1836.—An express arrived this
morning from Camp King, but bringing no intelligence of
moment. Private letters received here, however, state that

General Gaines had been wounded in the chin. His situa-
tion, indeed, must, under all the circumstances, be a des-
perate one. All communication between him and General
Clinch (at Fort Drane) has been for some time cut off.
An express, carrying supplies, had been sent to him, on
Tuesday last, from the latter place, but was soon overtaken
and recalled, for fear of being intercepted by the Indians.
Gaines, it would seem, must either sacrifice his troops in a
desperate attempt to cut his way through the enemy, or he
must destroy the latter.- Gaines took with him from Camp
King on Friday last, 26th, supplies to last him for but
eight days. He is, therefore, at this moment, it is to be
feared, suffering for want of provisions. It is said that
about 100 mounted men (volunteers) from Alachua, have

resolved to proceed to his assistance.
Immediately subsequent to the recal of the express car-
rying provisisions, Gen. Clinch dispatched another express,
informing Gen. Gaines of the fact, and the reason of the
recal. Gaines may, therefore, by this time, have sent an
armed escort to secure the transmission of supplies. The
Indians manifested great daring in the attack they made
upon Gaines. Without waiting for him to cross the
river, they passed over it and attacked him on the east.
They are said to have literally lined the river on the
west for the space of two miles. This river, or stream
rather, is not more than sixty yards across ; and the In-
dians, we are told, were distinctly heard taunting
Gaines's men—pouring out volleys of abuse, as they had
done shot, and daring them to cross the river. 1 believe I
mentioned to you that the Indians, it was thought, would
have avoided the battle-ground of the Ouithlachoochee, as
they never return to a place where they have suffered
disaster of any kind. They, however, it appears, claimed
for themselves the victory over Clinch, which accounts for
their being again near the scene of their asserted triumph.
I am sorry to say that Lieut. Izard, of the Dragoons, who
was wounded in the late engagement, is not expected to live.
We have had the most dreadful weather fOr the last
week. The rain has poured almost a deluge, and we still
have winter and are destitute of all comforts here. The
campaign (owing to Gaines's movements) will not open be-
fore the 12th or 15th.
Gen. Scott has succeeded in retaining about 200 out of
the four companies (last arrived) of Georgia mounted men.
He crossed the river yesterday (in spite of the weather)
and harangued them, which had the desired effect. It is
thought that if he had an opportunity of addressing their
predecessors in the same style, they, too, would have re-
mained. The 700 South Carolina mounted men are by
this time at St. Augustine. I am happy to say that the
conduct of the South Carolina troops is the theme of uni-
versal admiration.
The day (Wednesday, 2d) that I rode to this place from
St: Augustine, in company with Gen. Eustis and his aids,
we saw the trace of the Indian moccasin distinctly, and
fresh, upon the road about twelve miles (it may be less)
from this. Gen. Eustis returned the next day, and imme-
diately sent out a company in pursuit. They encountered
six Indians—both parties fired, and one Indian, it was
thought, was severely wounded. They then took to the
cover of the woods and disappeared.
(From the Charleston Courier.)
" BATTLE WITH THE INDIANS.
" By the schooner Samuel S. Mills, Capt. Southwick,
arrived here this morning, we have received the St. Augus-
tine Herald, from which we extract the important intelli-
gence subjoined :
" Office of the Herald, St. Augustine, March 6, 1836.
" The express rider started from this place yesterday
morning for Picolata, and returned last night. He states
that he was shot at by a party of Indians, 15 or 20 in
number, as he supposes. Three of them fired their rifles,
the balls passing through the top of his cap. He started
again for Picolata, and arrived safe there this morning. A
negro man belonging to Mr. Pacety came in this afternoon,
reporting that he saw nine Indians at his master's house
about daylight this morning. Their tracks are seen on the
road in several places, and scouting parties have been out,
but owing to the numerous swamps and thickets, and their
activity, it is very difficult to intercept them, and as yet none
have been taken.
"' An alarm was given in the encampment of volunteers,
about two miles from town, last night. It is said an Indian
was seen and fired upon by one of the centinels, and also by
the officer of the guard, and chased for half a mile, when he
escaped into a thicket.
(From the New York American.)
" General Gaines left Tampa-Bay with 1,140 men, and
reached Fort King on the 22d of February, taking with
him only subsistence to last to that place. There he called
upon General Clinch for 14,000 rations, but only 10,000
could be furnished, and those had been just placed there by
order of General Scott, for the support of a battalion of
Georgia foot then on the march to Fort King. Thus in-
sufficiently provisioned, he made a dash for the Ouithla-
choochee, near Gen. Clinch's former battle-ground, where
it was truly believed the main body of the enemy were.
HP_ _Prr;.Pri no the hank of the river on Saturday
evening, the 27th. The Indians on the opposite bank im-
mediately opened a fire on him, which was continued all
Sunday from each side, neither party crossing-. At six
0',1.f.k on g"---2,,j- a c chine cxeocral sent an express
to General Clinch stating his situation, and calling for more
ammunition and provisions. His loss up to that time was
two volunteers from Louisiana killed, and ten regulars and
volunteers wounded ; among the latter Lieutenant Izard,
of the Dragoons, dangerously. On Monday morning, the
29th, about ten o'clock, while Gen. Gaines was preparing
means to cross the river, he was attacked on three sides of
his camp by the Indians, who kept up a vigorous assault
for about two hours, frequently approaching very near his
intrenchments. They were finally repulsed with, as is sup-
posed, considerable loss. The loss of General Gaines's com-
mand was one sergeant killed, and 10 regulars and 20 vo-
lunteers wounded—among the regulars Lieut. Duncan.
The force of the Indians was estimated at 1,.500 men.
General Gaines was intrencbing himself, and acting on the
defensive, having made no sortie. He calls loudly for more
force, ammunition, and provisions. His situation is a very
critical one, and he may be compelled to retreat upon Fort
King, a distance of thirty miles, at the hazard of great
loss—for no timely relief can reach him in the capacity of
Adjutant-General, and nearly half his force is regulars.
The South Carolina mounted regiment had not yet ap-
peared. They must, however, be there in a day or two.
Six days previous one company of the Georgia mounted
men arrived opposite Picolata, but they refused, with the
exception of about twenty, to be mustered into the service,
and of course could not be received, and bad gone home.
Four other companies had just arrived, whether with better
intentions than the others was not yet known. Without
mounted men, it is the general opinion it would not be ex-
pedient to take the field.
(From a Charleston Paper of the 7th of March.)

" A letter from" New Orleans, dated the 25th of
says, The Mexicans have revolted, and General Bravo has
come out against centralism.'
" A letter from St. Augustine, dated the 28th ult., re-
ceived at Charleston, says that General Gaines has arrived
at Fort Drane, with 1,112 men. The Columbia riflemen,
and another company left Picolata on the 27th in the
steam-boat Santee, for Volusia, where a fort is to be
established."

THE POOR IN IRELAND.

To the EDITOR of the MORNING CHRONICLE

Sin,—My attention has just been called to a paragraph
in your leading article of yesterday, in respect to the con-
dition of the poor in T` Ad, in which you have made a
gr ,+7;if,.. • , name in connection with this subject,
•thid singled out one phrase to give some colour to your
own reasoning. You are pleased to say, " Robins, in an-
nouncing the sale of a large estate in the Queen's county,
recommends it on the special ground that it contains not a
single pauper." Again, that it has been literally denuded
of paupers ; that numbers of families have been expelled,
their houses demolished, and their gardens laid down in
those verdant and sunny pastures of which I have drawn so
Arid a picture. I am not inclined to attribute this to
any ill-natured feeling towards me, and very much suspect
that while you were writing upon the destitute state of
the poor in Ireland, you were, par accident, reading my
announcement of Buckland, wherein I have spoken of
the verdant lawns and the beauteous scenery of North
Devon. in terms nearly allied to those you have been
so good as to impute to me for the Timahoe estate
in Ireland. But let us see how one single fact will
clear. the way, and point to you the probability of this
lttle mistake of yours. One paragraph from my de-
scription will suffice. " With a view to remind the Irish
andillumine the English capitalist, I will point out a few
advantages that have but little weight in their estimation
heretofore. It has been too much the fashion to talk
of Irish property as of suppositious value, the rental as
exceedingly difficult of collection, and the tenantry poor
and dissatisfied. In some parts of Ireland, where land is
over-let, or rented by those real oppressors of the poor,
the middle men, it may be the foregoing remarks will
occasionally apply ; but on this property, in the very best
and most civilized part of Ireland, a refreshing contrast is
presented—the people are happy, there are no perpetual
leases, no middle-men—there is not a pauper on the whole
of this fine property, and for twenty years past no abate-
ment of rent, and not a single arrear." This is my round
unvarnished tale, in the place of the florid picture your ima-
ginative powers gave me credit for. In conclusion I would.
venture to ask you if in fairness the liberal possessor of
such a property who twenty years ago made so great a re-
duction in his rental, that no one subsequently asked for
the smallest diminution, shotild be classed amongst those
against whom you have written so angrily ? If you had
visited your wrath upon those landlords who lease their
property not to the honest and industrious yeoman, but to
those who are too well known in Ireland as " the middle-

men," you might then have extended your anger witnuu..
beityr unjust.
You will be pleased, no doubt, to learn, then, in despite
of your severe philippic, I sold the estate yesterday for
70,000/., or twenty-five years' purchase ; thus proving at
in-
least, that a contented happy tenantry, and without paw
pers, are still appreciated by those who have moneyney to
vest in perfect safety.
Covent-garden, April 5.

GEORGE ROBINS.

CORN AVERAGES•

--wara.---.
GENTEI2AL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN .
, ~ 9
FarY the Week ended 'March 95, ititi, m ide up from the Returns of 0,
Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in Englaii4 and Wales, I, "
Inspectors
Imperial Quarter.
Wheat
34 60 :
ir a.. I
It. Oatsy. ......... 22,1 s 4 91.4 li Br,
ce
,a
snes .......................... (5.).1
Barley
IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF TIIF. SI% WEFJCS
PRECEDING.
Wheat 4ls. id I Oats
Barley 293 lid I Rye
nuT i i s OW FORE22:G;;;4141cllo. itti:P.ecaasnes ..................
.:13:1::
:l:
1..
Wheat
Barley ...... .. Lis. 4d. I Rye
21255.. 3ikill.. 1
Pease...ns ................... 5..„....y.:1