The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-03 00:00:00

EVENING SUN

COURT CIRCULAR.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Sophia Matilda
arrived in town in a carriage and four, at three o'clock
yesterday afternoon, from her residence at Blackheath,
and visited her Majesty at Buckingham Palace. Her
Royal Highness afterwards paid visits to their Royal
Highnesses the Duchess of Kent, at Clarence House, St.
James's, and to the Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucester
House.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her
Majesty yesterday afternoon.
llis Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived
in town yesterday from her residence at Kew, and visited
his Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Hesse Philippsthal
at Marlborough House, and her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucester House.

The Judicial Committee of her Majesty's Most Hon.
Privy Council had a meeting yesterday in the Council
Chamber. The Lords present were Lord Brougham,
Lord Campbell, Mr. Justice Erskine, and the Judge of
the Admiralty Court. Sir Alexander Johnston and Sir
Edward East sat as Privy Councillors. Mr, Pemberton,
Q.C., and Mr. Purton Cooper, Q.C., were heard for the
appellants, and Mr. Turner, Q.C., and Mr. Lloyd, for the
respondents, in an appeal of " liamdassv. Davidass," from
the Supreme Court of Judicature at Bombay. The case
lasted the whole day.

ADELAIDE GALLERY.
MESMERISM.

Last evening Mr. liaise, the Lecturer on Animal
Magnetism, was permitted, by the Proprietor of the
Adelaide Gallery, to subject one of his patients to a se-
ries of electrical experiments, from the powerful three-
feet plate machine, made by E. M. Clarke, of the
Strand, who superintended the discharge, of a Leyden
battery of six jars, constituting one of the most power-
ful batteries in the kingdom.
Mr. liaise stated that his object in bringing his patient
there was to convince the public that the exhibition
of her insensibility to the electric power during the
magnetic sleep was not assumed or collusive. lie said,
that there could be no suspicion of collusion when the
experiment was to be conducted by the most skilful elec.
tro-magnetician in the kingdom,who was, at the same times
disbeliever in the existence of mesmeric influence, and a
declared opponent of those who profess that mystery as a
science. Whatever credit for wisdom a reporter might
gain by affected scepticism, itis impossible for any honest
observer to say other than this : The young lady sus-
tained, without the least manifestation of sensibility, re-
peated shocks, any one of which would, in the lan- •
guage of those present, knock down a bullock. Every
one of those gentlemen who assist Mr. Clarke in his
arrangement of the electrical apparatus, openly declared
that they would not for any pecuniary consideration con-
sent to be subjected to a similar experiment. The loud
plaudits of nearly 500 persons who attended the gallery,
without any previous intimation of the wonder they
were about to witness, must console Mr. liaise for the
rash and unfounded calumnies with which he has been
elsewhere assailed.

Mr. Emanuel and Mr. Sedgwick delightfully relieved
the intervals between the divine performance of the
Infant Harpist by concerti upon the piano and concertina.
Mr. Booth delivered a lecture upon•the various kinds of
gas, and gave the numerous and respectable company
almost delirious pleasure by his exceedingly funny illus-
trations of the effects of
.the laughing gas.

EMIGRATION.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR—In The Sun of last night, you have reported the
procedings of a public meeting, held at the London Ta-
vern on the 30th November, to take into conaideration
a national scheme of emigration. Whilst I sympathise,
as much as any gentleman at the meeting, with the suf-
fering thousands in Paisley and other places in the
United Kingdom, I am unwilling to allow erroneous
statements, made at that meeting, to go abroad without
contradiction, as such errors will only add to the misery
and wetchedness which millions of my fellow-countrymen
have now to contend with.
It is not only laudable, but it is incumbent on every
man in the country to stand forward and afford relief to
his fellow-men, if he be able, by any act or any advice,
to give assistance ; but, to do so efficiently, he must
make himself acquainted with the causes of those .suf-
ferings.
If a man be sick, and a physician be called in to pre-
Scribe for and to relieve him, it is necessary that the phy-
sician should first inquire into the nature and duration of
the disease, and satisfy himself as to what he considers
to be the causes before he can prescribe the proper remedy
to remove the disorder. On the same principle the dele-
gates from Paisley, and the other gentlemen who at--
tended the meeting, ought to have inquired into the
nature of the distress, its duration and true causes,.
before they call on the British public, by resolutions at a
meeting in the London Tavern, to promote wholesale
emigration as the remedy.
It is evident from the language of the speakers that
they have not adopted that course, and that they spoke
of measures to be adopted which .would not only aggra-
vate the distress of the pre.kOnt;_,
sufferers, but be the
means of bringing others iir/flie community, now ex-
empt and struggling to avoid it, Into tliesame unhappy
condition. 4 •
I admit, with them, that there are may thousands in
great distress, and the picture they have drawn of eight
or ten of our industrious population being obliged'-to re-;
cupy one small room, twelve feet square, perhaps with,
out fire, and. with little covering and less food, even of
the coarsest kind, to satisfy the cravings of nature ; and
I will further add, which I know to be the case, that low
typhus fevers, brought on by .want of food, -want of
cleanliness, want 'of comfortable lodging, and good air,
are daily sweeping off numbers 'of our fellow-country- .
men, and are fast thinning the ranks of the miserable, by
hurrying them to the grave, the only home where they
are free from their oppressors.
Mr. Crawford, -the advocate for Paisley, knows very
well that the distress has been coming on for the last
two years, and that failure of the manufacturers there,
and the want of work, and want of wages, are the proxi-
mate causes, of that distress. lie ought also to know
that there are causes to which all the thinking and honest
part of the community attribute that distress; namely,
the maintenance of impolitic and unjust restrictions on
the industry and trade of the country, to the support of
a wicked monopoly of food, which, by preventing our
taking the corn, cattle, and food that America and other
countries have in abundance, and are anxious to give to ,
our starving people in exchange for the produce of their
labour; that the unjust class legislation of the aristo-
cracy is the real cause of the present distress. Mr. Craw-
ford and others who attended that meeting, must know
that the aristocracy, by supporting the enormous taxation
of five millions sterling yearly, and by unequal and un-
just laws laying the greater part of that amount, by in-
direct taxation, on the sugar, beer, and necessaries of the
working and middle classes, are the cause of the present
almost unexampled distress; and I greatly fear that the
men who are thus encouraging a wholesale national emi-
gration, are put forward by the aristocracy and Tories
to divert the attention of the nation from the corn and
provision-laws, which are the immediate cause of this
distress ; a want of representation, or of extended suf-
frage to the people, being the true cause of all the mis-
rule,
seenowaround us.

I shall, in another letter, examine the arguments used
at the public meeting on Wednesday at the London
a t
ioof Sphlearni ff
of Rogers)a
great
national scheme of emigration, and he
Tavern, and prove how fallacious they are. But I con-
sider it necessary to undeceive the public as to one of
the gross and exaggerated statements made at that meet-
i warmlyn
i s (alp approbation
n not
Mr, .
the
concluded by
stating that " Her 3lajesty's provinces of Upper and
Lower Canada would take two millions of e • =ants with
great and lasting advantage to themselves."
Britannia steamer, files of New York Papers By the
received, by which it appears that have been
the emigrants from
Scotland are in a state of starvation
there, and that
there are no means of relief but
an unfeeling world." Let the "the cold charities of
they have a claim on th people recollect, that here
and that, although suche poor-rates against starvation,
a claim is at best a very poor
dependence, yet it is bet
no relief, in the Canad better than no claim, and perhaps
I shall resume the 1S:
the following extract subject, but urge the publication of "
of October last. from the Canada Times of the 15th
IL
DESTITUTE I
MMIGRANTS —W e h ave repeatedly taken
the
occasion to censure .
conduct of those who have been -
inducing the
British North America
of the Mother country to emigrate to
public works in , at a time when there are no
the disposal course of prosecution, nor any means at
. posal of the Government, or private benevolent
msti • tutions, to aid the destitute, or to give them employ-
ment. And we have expressed the opinion, that
many of the poor immigrants would be left destitute
~ ,
of the common comforts of life at the approach
of that season when they would become in- . '
dispensable. In proof of the correctness of
this opinion, we refer to the fact, that at the present ,
time there are at St. Francis, Lower Canada, two hundred
immigrants from the Highlands of Scotland, in a most „ .
wretched and destitute situation, and actually on the point
of starving! Relief has been asked from the Montreal St. ,
Andrew's Society, but in vain; and the poor creatures
are thrown upon the cold charities of an unfeeling world,
for the bare means of subsistence failing in which to fa-
niish, to sicken, and die, in a land of strangers, far from
the silver streams, the green valleys, and wild mountains ,
of their fatherland. Who can contemplate a situation
more deplorable)
EMIGRATION FROM CANADA.—WhiIe Dr. Rolph and
other equally patriotic individuals are using all their
little strength in endeavouring to entice the poor of the
mother country into this province, to beg, steal, or
starve, many of the oldest inhabitants, those who have
been the pioneers in the settlement of the country, who
of
have composed the hardy yeomanry Upper Canada -
for
twenty, thirty, and even forty years, have reared 1
families, and know no other spot as Home, are sellingarge
their all, and going to seek an asylum in the deep forests,
out
or upon the wild prairies of the Western States."este'
No
doubt a change of Ministers at home, with an anticipa-
Lion of a change of policy here, is the actual cause of so
many very respectable and intelligent individuals
mentioned below, leaving their fine, comfortable as
are
.
to be occupied by strangers, and flying from homes
(to use the language of Sir Francis Head) as
us
)
land of pestilence. It is much to be r as from a
really, can they be worse off than here, under
; but,
nation of a Tory Government ?--Kingstonnder the domi-
nation Herald.
E -I D

Jr. Clutterbuck who pre-
sidedATAUnother name was mentioned in our JourfiaL
at theMß.—lectitanwicass' Institution OR wednesday
g:THAMPTONI DEC. I._ The Great -Liver-
occupied, having 110 passengers on board. A great in-
crease of sailed hence this morning
crease of with every berth
passengers seems to have occurred on this
voyage in consequence of the communication by steam
being now opened throughout. The steamer India will
await the arrival of the Great Liverpool, and convey pas-
sengers on from Suez to the various appointed Indian
stations.

EVENING SUN

SPIRIT of the Pur4Lic JOURNILi‘t
FRO:4 THZ EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—The Post renews its outcry for Par-
liamentary animadversion on all who seek to
bring the majesty of the Corn-laws into hatred
and contempt. We are still left in doubt hoe' far
this monopolist menace extends its objects. 'Whe-
ther the Post would begin with Lord John Rus-
sell's reply to the people of Ply mouth ; or whether
the Post would confine Parliamentary vengeance
to its colleagues of the press. It is certain that
a portion of the press has done its best to
aggravate the dangerous discredit to the policy
of the Poses patrons which is too likely to flow
from the plain language of Lord John Russell.
But which portion ► The Morning Chronicle?
The Globe? Pooh !—the Times and the Post.
Would it have been possible for ourselves or our
Liberal colleagues, how seditiously and hies-
phernously soever we might be minded towards
the Corn-laws, to inflict such heavy blows and
great discouragements on the upholders of those
laws, as the Times did, for example, yesterday,
in the following paragraph:—
" Because fbrmer Conservative Governments
have carried the Catholic Emancipation Act,
which had always, under certain restrictions, been
advocated by themselves; and because they also
abolished the Test and Corporation Acts, which
they never were desirous of retaining forone hour
beyond the existence of a State) necessity,
his Lordship consoles himself with the reflection
that the whole pharmacopoeia ofWhiggery, so flat-
tering to his own vanity, will sooner or later be
adopted. Like a genuine empiric, he contends
that his favourite hygeian theory or homceopa-
hie exhibitions can alone save the country ; and
I* appears to be not a little enraged at the
plattsible anticipation, that in the hands of a
Conservative Ministry the well-being of the na-
tion will be secured. A better testimony to the
uprhtness of her Majesty's present Govern-
can hardly be desired."
The rage of Lord John Russell is not so ap-
parent as that of the Times. Contempt of
place, and of his successors in place, is all his
impressions indicate. How curiously the latter
failing is justified by the Times' advocacy, so far
as it must be considered an organ of the party in
power ! So then, it is a plausible antici-
pation that Ministers will rat on the
Corn-laws, as on Emancipation, Test Acts,
and every thing else, so soon as they see
State necessity for it. And what is State neces-
sity in their eyes ? The necessity of keeping
their places. We have a right to assume that it
cannot be any other necessity—first, from the
language of Sir Robert Peel himself; at the pe-
riod of his great former concession—when he
admitted that it was an act against his principles
—therefore simply to keep power—power for
himself or his party—(whichever face he might
put on it)—by acting on the views of opponents.
The same necessity, and no other, can bring
about the abandonment of the Corn-laws by a
Ministry which obtained office precisely by re-
sisting their repeal. The Corn-law repealers
have merely to see that State necessity enough
is administered.
STANDARD.—Lord John Russell's answer
to the Address of his few partisans at Plymouth
still supplies a theme to the Opposition Journals,
but they have prudently discontinued their refer-
ence to his Lordship's complaint that the revenue
has been defrauded by depriving it of the benefit
of a regular taxation of food. ;This complaint
was something too strong for the public taste.
At present our Liberal Contemporaries expa-
tiate upon the Noble Lord's prediction that Sir
Robert Peel will adopt the principle of the
food tax, when " he shall be summoned to do so
by the peaceful but powerful voice of the people
of England and Scotland." Yes; but, as Porson
said, " Not till then." We may ask, in passing,
why is Ireland left out—lreland which is a part
of the United Kingdom, and the part most deeply
interested in the protection of agriculture? Leav-
in..r' this case of " Justice to Ireland," however,
to be settled between Lord John Russell and
his late patron and master, the Lord Mayor, we
concede that Sir Robert Peel will substitute a
food tax law for the present protecting laws
when lie shall be summoned to do so by the
united voices of the country. It will then be
his duty to make the concession. This is a
free country, and no Minister is justified in
resisting for a moment the unanimous de-
termination of the people ; nor, indeed,
will silty Minister ever successfully attempt
to resist it. Lord John Russell's predic-
tion is, therefore, a prediction of the safest
kind. Give him but the condition (such virtue
is there in an "if"), and the conclusion is cer-
tain. Here, however, is the difficulty. Are the
plc united and zealous in favour of the Noble
proposition? First, as to the free corn trade
—is it a symptom of such union and zeal
that the mill-owners and money jobbers who
constitute the League are driven to the
somewhat degrading necessity of luring
men—incompetent newspaper reporters, de-
serted schoolmasters, and rejected strolling
players—to wander over the country to advocate
their cause? When before did it happen in Eng.
land that a popular movement was dependent
upon such instruments? We have no recollection
that hired lecturers were employed in the anti-
slavery movement, or in the Reform move-
ment, or in the Romanist movement in Ireland
—the only part of; the United Kingdom where it
was not unpopular. Just now the Non-Intrusion
question is the subject of much excitement in
Scotland, or at least very lately that question
was the subject of much excitement; but we do
not find condott:eri engaged in the contest on
either side.
COURIER.—In spite of the course of argu
meat pursued by some of our Contemporaries on
the subject of emigration, and notwithstanding'
the severity of their sneers and the closeness o!
their logic, we may velitu re to predict that Govern-
ment wilt not be frightened front attempting, at
least, to profit by the spirit of enterprise that pre-
vails at home, and to convert colonial wilds and
deserts to fertility and productiveness. Land job
hers may be baulked—die dividends ofColonization
Companies may be diminished —the sharks prowl-
ing about emigration offices may be disappointed
of their prey—the cry of distress may 1161 eictious
journalists—but the extent and promptitude of
the relief afforded thereby to the country would
easily reconcile us to such disasters. It is true, as
stated by an Evening Con temporary, that itis only
in relation to the means of profitable employment,
that our population can be considered as exces-
sive or superabundant. There is nothing very
startling its the novelty of this doctrine, and
were there any available mode of furnishing
sufficient employment in the parent State to
capital and labour, it would unquestionably
be unnecessary to trouble ourselves about
the best means of transrerrie., either or both to
our colonies; but unfortunattly it 'happens, as
practice and theory combine to prove, that with
all her "erey. Eneland unable-to Carve out work tor her pol;alat.'" ton coalmen:ill
rate with their wants. Do what what we
may, and
let political r conomists preach it,. learned! y a. they
may, other nations wilt! manolteture IIING•iel V 4,4,
and protect,
by means of and other dtt-
ties, their manuthetures Agaiiist rivalry.
England may would or change her ti,:eal policy
into whatever shape she will, other nations will
adhere to the protective system, tent compel her
to look to her own resources titr the manyu,fein
ploying her people,
and these YeSOUrCeS are no-
where so available orso abundan
abundant as in 0"T
colonies.
At the present moment we consider the true policy
ofFaigland to be, not to waste her m tie and energies
in arising after "foreign trade,. at best uncertain
and iraverine,,,, but to promote the _us providebrowth and
expansioa of her Colonies, and thus
herself, as it were, with the best,. safest, and
most constant customers; and, theretbre, we
cannot look with indifference upon anything that
tends to that desirable end.

COLON-lAL SOCIETY•

A Special General Meeting of the Members of the
Colonial Society and of the Colonial Society Club
was held yesterday morning at the Club Committee
Room, St. Jurnes's-street, to receive the Report of
the Committee of Management on the Report
and Rules submitted at the last general meeting by the
Provisional Committee appointed to confer and report
on the amalgamation of the two bodie3; to appoint a
Committee of Management of the amalgamated body ;
to choose new trustees and lessees in the place of the
present ; and on other business.
One of our reporters applied for admission, but was in-
formed that the proceedings were private.

FALMOUTH, Nov. 29.—1 t has blown tremen-
dously here to-day from the south and west, with in-
cessant and heavy rain. Her Majesty's packet Crane,
I*eut. Bill, with mails from the West Indies, arrived
awing the afternoon, bringing dates from Barbadoes to
the 28th of October, Jamaica 2d, and St. Thomas's 7th
of November, with a freight of about 8,000 dollars and
fourteen passengers—no news. „Her Majesty's packet
Aeldrake, sailed from St. Thomt;'s on the Gth inst.,
the day previously to the Crane, and therefore may be
hoorly looked fur, The Montrose steamer, with mails
for the Peninsula, left at noon, but in consequence of
the tettyestuous weather and heavy sea experienced on
opening the Lizard, was compelled to return to port, and
sorilr now await a favourable change. Her Majesty's
racket Express, from Mexico, may also be momentarily
:expected up.
The COU eK de Lyons relates that a person of
property,Commune of Saint-Chef, in repairing
shA foundation wait has discovered at the depth of about
13 feet beloT thrtfaee an antique mosaic, about feet
in breadth, 4 f t in height, representing Ganymede
borne away by the Eagle of Jupiter. It is said to be of
the finest execution, and in perfect preservation.