The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1841

25 do North Am. Trust Co cash 301
- w 30.

DIVIDEND.—The Loather Manufacturers' Bank has de-
clared a dividend of four per cent. for the last six months,
pay on let February.

50 do do n
75 do do n w 30,
50 do. do b 30 days 31
20 do American Exchange Bank
60 do Farmers' Trust
100 do Stonington Railroad s 30 days 261
200 do do n w 26i
50 do do
100 do
75 do Harlem Railroad 36:i
100 do do 20 days 37
50 do Canton Company
50 do do
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MONEY MARKET.
WEEK ENDING JANUARY 30, 1841.
The improvement in our money market noticed last
week still continues. Prime business paper is readily dis-
counted by the banks, and prices out of doors do not vary
materially from legal interest. The demand for money
upon other securities has been less than for some time
past, and such loans are negotiated with more facility and
upon better terms. The rate of foreign exchange and the
amount of bills which may reasonably be expected from
the crop now going forward, form a reasonable guarantee
against any export of the precious metals for some time to
come, which, with the comparatively small amount of busi-
ness engagements maturing, affords every prospect of a
continued abundance of money.
The banks of Baltimore and Virginia are expected to
resume early next week ; those of Georgia are by law re-
quired to resume on the lst proximo ; and the force of
public opinion must gradually bring about a resumption by
the sound banks !n other parts of the country. The sea-
son of the year—when we are delivering the proceeds of
the crops—is favourable to such action, and its successful
accomplishment will do much towards placing financial
matters on a sound and firm basis.

...
30 do New Jersey 75.
20 do Long hand Railroad b 60 days 56
50 d 0....
50 do do
-101
10 do North River Bank B3
60 do Mechanics' Bank Ass B2
50 do Bank of Commerce scrip 97
67 do Delaware and Hudson -1:
50 do
25 do. do th w 94.}
.cash 91

50 do Vicksburg
50 do do

SALES AT THY SECOND BOARD.
200 shares N. A. Trust Co.
10 do Delaware and Hudson

The improvement in Stocks noticed last week has not
been maintained. The favourable news per Columbia had
the effect of raising the market for a day or two ; but since
Monday prices have been on the decline, and in some de-
scriptions a fall of four or five per cent. has taken place.
This is in part owing to Stock thrown upon the market by
purchasers at IJw prices, for the purpose of realising pro-
fits ; and in part to some want of confidence existing in
the ability of the United States' Bank to sustain a re-
sumption. The first a cause which always operates upon
the market after a material rise, particularly so at present,
when speculators are satisfied with less profits than for-
merly. The latter resulting from the extreme sensitive-
ness of the community engendered by the many fluctua-
tions and reverses of the last three or four years. We have
every reason to believe that these doubts are unfounded,
and the successful negotiations of all, or nearly all, the
sterling Bills drawn against the loan, which was confirmed
per Columbia, afford a satisfactory evidence of the confi-
dence of some, and should be sufficient to silence any
doubts still remaining.
At the Philadelphia Stock Board, yesterday, drafts on
New York to the amount of 10,000 dollars were sold at i
of 1 per cent. premium.

75 do Vicksburg
75 do do ..
50 do Long Island Railroad reg. 551
- - 551
-,,1

50 do — do b 60 days ...
25 do Stonington Railroad b GO days 27-A-
-25 do do b n w 27
50 do United States Bank
50 do

MEXICO AND TEXAS.
Letters from Mexico and Texas state that a Mexican forte
had entered the territory of San Patricio, and a further inva-
sion of Texas was anticipated.
We learn from Yucatan that the British schooner True Blue
had been seized for smuggling. Her Britannic Majesty's ship
Comas captured the Eusebio, belonging to Yucatan, as a re-
prisal, on the ground that the Government of Yucatan could
not be recognised by the British authorities. Eight thousand
one hundred and ninety-three dollars, the proceeds of a sale,
were given to the British owners, and with a protest to the
Comas, that the seizure of the Eusebio was contrary to the
laws of nations. The True Blue was afterwards re-captured
by the Comas.
So.ne little feeling has been excited by the account of the
apttre of the American barque Jones, on the coast of Africa,
by tic:. Britannic Majesty's brig Dolphin, on a charge of slav-
ing. The case was heard at Sierra Leone, and after a deten-
tion of two months the barque was cleared. Meanwhile one of
the c ..ew died, and the property, about $lO,OOO on board, dui
not improve in value, as may well be supposed.

GREAT PUBLIC MEETING.—AGGRESSIONS
AND AGGRANDISEMENT OF ENGLAND.
(From the New York Herald.)
We understand that preparations are making to call a
great mass American meeting in the Park, for the purpose
of taking into consideration the conduct of the British Go-
vernment, in relation to the burning of the Caroline—also
on the north-eastern boundary question—also on the
north-western territory—also on the recent seizures of
American merchantmen by British cruisers in the Atricin
seas.
We learn further that the conduct of England in her
aggressions and aggrandisement throughout the world,
will be considered and presented to the nation in several
strong points of view.
We conceive that this movement will be the first of a
series of movements throughout the country, of a more im-
portant nature than any that have taken place for the last
quarter of a century.

EIGHT DA YS' LATER FROM AME-

RICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE ACADIA STEAMER.
The Acadia, Royal mail steamer (Captain Dallier),
anchored at Liverpool on Monday, shortly before three
o'clock, having performed her passage in ten days and
a half, and bringing eight days later news than the ac-
counts received by the Columbus and Roscoe.
Mr. M'Leod's trial will not take place until the last
week in March, unless a special Commission be issued,
which is not probable.
A letter mentions that Mr. M'Leod had determined
on giving bail, as it was feared by his friends that his
health would be seriously impaired if he continued so
long in confinement. Meetings have been held in va-
rious parts of the Western district, but it does not ap-
pear that the excitement consequent on the affair has
in any great degree increased.
The party in the States desirous of a rupture with
England, seem to be exerting themselves in adding to
the disagreements between the two countries. It is
now pretended that America is ill used and insulted,
by the English blockade of Chinese ports, and recent
seizures by the British of American vessels employed
in the African slave trade. The movement of British
troops into the Maine territory, by order of the Go-
vernor-General of Canada, is construed in the most
hostile manner.
The Garrick packet ship has been got off, and a
steamer had left New York to tow her up.
The packet ship North America, from Liverpool,
had a fine outward run, having reached New York in
2.2 days.
The Acadia has brought over 81 passengers.
United States Bank Shares has again receded from the
former reduced rates, and all our private sources of in-
formation are most unfavourable as to the prospects of
the Bank.

(From the New York Herald of Jan. 30.)
HIGHLY IMPORTANT FROM THE NIAGARA FRONTIER.--
CASE OF MISOD.
The intelligence from Western New York, and the
Niagara frontier, begins to be highly interesting. The
official correspondence between Mr. Fos, the British Mi-
nister, and Mr. Fors)th, respecting the burning of the
Caroline, and the arrest of M'Lcod, has created a
flame all over the border. Public meetings have been held
on the subject, in Buffalo, in Batavia, and other places,
denouncing the claims and conduct of England.
We have despatched a correspondent to the Niagara
frontier, from whom we have received the following :
" Lockport, Jan. 25, IS4I.
" The trial of M'Leod cannot take place until the fourth
Monday in March, unless a special commission oyer and
terminer should issue, which is not probable. His case will
come before the Grand Jury at the County Court, to be
held early in February; but that Court can only indict
him. The evidence before the Grand Jury is private, of
course, and not to be reported. It has been stated in some
pints that he was to be tried immediately—this may have
misled some.
" I have not been able to obtain any information in rela-
tion to his history, to be depended on. There is nothing
peculiar in his situation in gaol, except that he sleeps all
day, and is up all night, probably expecting assistance
from Canada, to enable him to escape. If 1 can find any
one who can give any of the information asked by you I
will procure it to done.
" The statement that Mr. Brotherston, the cashier of
the Suspension 13ridge Bank, had become M'Leod's bail
in 5 000 dollars is also erroneous. M'Leod was arrested
under a charge of murder, which is not a bailable offence.
The excitement on this affair increases every day. Meet-
ings are holding all over the western district, and if an at-
tempt be made to rescue him, I would not answer for the
consequences.
" Why don't your merchants and mariners, sailors and
jack-tars, take up the conduct of the English seitures in
the African seas ? We would not stand such a thing in the
west one day."

MONEY MARKET.
(From the New York Herald of Jan. 29.)
Friday, Jan. 29,6 p.m.
A startling fact has been developed to day. It is
fraught with the deepest interest to many largo interests
in this city, and deeply involves the existence of many
banking concerns. The United States Bank has elected
a precarious resumption by means of borrowing on this
side largely to meet present wants. This was, however,
acknowledged insufficient to meet her necessities, and at
the very moment of a final failure, the bank received ad-
vices from England giving her authority to draw, it is
stated, to the amount of 1,100,000/., or 5,000,000 dollars,
on certain parties in London. Whether this credit was
based on cotton, to be remitted from the south to meet
the bills, or upon other securities, does not appear. The
institution has, however, issued to the three Philadelrhia
banks, in payment of balances. over 200,000/. of sterlin
bills; she has issued 225,000/. try settle her debt due
a jur!gment on dishonoured notes, and other large souls,
making 1,4100,000 f. sterling of bills drawn un the Los-
don house. These bills were issued at a very low rate,
and have been offering in the market for this past at 6:1,
freely. Sales to some extent last week were made. The
permission to draw, although said to have been arranged
some time before, was not given until the latest
minute of the packet's sailing. The reason of this
was that the Bank of England, on hearing of the
negotiation, intimated in pretty strong terms to the houses
concerned, that the bills would be discredited, and also
stated that it was the policy of the• bank to discountenance
the paper of those concerned in &sipping coin. One mo.
merit's reflection as to the posithm of affairs in England,
brings the conviction that this w ould undoubtedly be the
case. The bank had little over 1,000,000/. in its coffers
at the latest dates, and the difficu Ries in regard to foreign
exchanges were far from remove d, and the bank has for
some months proscribed the paper of those houses engaged
in the export of bullion. The exchanges are in favour of
this country, and a small actual decline would cause an
import of coin from Great Britain. What course then is
the bank likely to pursue in regard to a borrower that
throws 1,000,000/. of sterling bills in the market in one
operation with a prospect of coming for more ? Precisely
that which she has followed on former occasions, particu-
larly in 1836, when she struck down the American trade
without the slightest hesitation. If she did it then, when
we were so large customers, she is far snore likely to do it
now, when the borrower in this instance is the only ob-
stacle in the way of a revival of the export trade, and
who is at this moment operating, through her suspended
branch in New Orleans, to raise the price of cotton upon
the English manufactures, and consequently to retard the
English export trade. The discrediting of these bills
will be productive of the most disastrous consequences to
all connected with them.
SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 30,
(From the Commercial Advertiser.)
50 shares United States Bank
50 do do do
50 do do do next week 51
100 do do do
75 do do do
48 do do do ... 51i
50 do do do . 5ll
50 do do do b3O days 51
150 da do do
50 do do do . 5l-
l do do do s3o days 50
50 do do do
100 do Delaware and Hudson Can. alO days 94
100 do do do

70 do do do
100 do do dca next week 941
125 do do e.. -14
100 do do do b6o days 94f
50 do do do
375 do North American Trust Co
75 do do do
60 do do do
50 do do do
225 do do do
25 do do do
25 do Phoenix Bank
100 do Vicksburg Bank 9g-50
50 do do do
150 do do do ..... 9l
40 do Paterson Railroadl s4:q,
ii do Boston and ProYi deuce Railroad
25 do Stonington Rai'road
75 do do do ...., 3l
75 do do do ... 3l
125 do do do ._,„.. 3ll
4
50 do do do ...... . 31i
150 do do do s3o drys 31}
50 do do da b6o days 32
100 do Harlem Railroad
50 do do do
28 do Utica and 'Schenectady R. It
130 do do tdo March 3 127 i
50 do Long Island Railroad -
450 do do do .. 561
63 do William sburgh Fi.re Ins. Co
10 do Canton Co. ...... ...... b3O days 30
10 do do do . 3O
The business done at the Board this morning was to a
fair extent, and nearly at yesti trday's prices. The only
variation we have to notice ar,a United Status Bank ad-
vanced j, and the sales were large ; Paterson advanced f;
Stonington U ; Harlem i ; and Canton 3: ; while North
American fell off il,, and Vick.sburgh i.
STATE SrocKs.--5000 dollars Onio Sixes were sold
this morning at 97, and 4000 dollars Indiana Bonds at 65i.
EXCHANGE.-IForeign.—T. here is a fair demand for bills
on England to g,o out by ti.le Boston steamer. Southern
bil!s can be bought from '7 to 8 per cent. Sterling bills
arc at Bto 81. On Pari 3 sf. 25c. to sf. 23c.
I)omestic.--1000 da ,ars on Philadelphia sold to day at
99;i„. We quote :
On Boston ..., ,„, .........
Philadelphia.- i to 1
Baltimore . .., ito i
Richmond ...,
Charleston.. „,. 2 to 21
Savannah .
~,„,,, 3i to 4
Augusta..
Mobile .
New Or.reans...- . 2l. to 2i
North Carolina
Cinc;.nnati •...., ..... ••••
• Lo'aisville ...,., ...... -
4t.. Louis . , .......... 4

SPAIN.

We have received Madrid journals of the 6th inst. inclusive.
The Madrid Gazette of the 6th publishes a decree of the
Regency, dated the 4th inst., containing the following articles :
—" 1. All soldiers and labourers who, in conformity with the
terms of the decree of the 4th of January, 1613, have obtained
grants of land at any period are not to be disturbed in the pos-
session thereof. 2d. Those persons who have been dispossessed
of their grants on the re-establishment of the absolute Govern-
ment will he restored forthwith to possession of those lands.
3d. It this restitution should be impossible in consequence of a
sale or alienation of those lands, the political chiefs, after having
taken the opinion of the provincial deputies, shall propose the
proper measures to indemnify those who cannot be restored to
possession of their lands. 4th. From the day of the date of
this decree all lands gratuitously granted to military
men shall be freed from ihe payment of all dues or rent-
charges, on condition that the possessors conform to the
articles of the decree of the 4th January, 1813.
Signed by the Duke of Vittoria, at the Palace, February
4, 1841,

" DON MANUEL CORTINA."
The Eco del Cootercio of the 6th instant, gives the follow-
ing result of the state of the poll on the afternoon of the sth
instant :

Dart:TIES.
Don Augustin Arguelles
1)on Manuel Gil Santibanez
Don Vincent Collantes 1,590
Don Carlos Martin Romeral ... 1,786
Don F. F. Ferro Montaos
Don Joan Alvarez y Mendizabal
Don Ramon Madrid Davila
1)on Ramon Madrid Davila 9,032
Don Pedro Mendez Vigo 1,063
Don J. G. de la Cortina ..
Don Fernando Corradi
SENATORS.
Don Martin de los Heros
Don Valentin Artigosa
Don J. F. Campuzano
" A fter the satisfactory solution of the Douro question," says
the Eco det Comercio, " which for a moment alarmed Spain
and Portugal, it is necessary the Government should not neg-
lect this affair, in order that the nation may derive every possible
advantage from the navigation of that river. The necessity
for the prey once of our Ambassador at Lisbon is most urgent,
for the purpose of removing any difficulty that may occur.
Our Consul at Oporto should be an enlightened and
zealous man, qualified to settle the affair to our satisfac-
tion, and, finally, the Administrator chosen by the Go-
vernment for the Custom-house of La Frejenada, must be a
man equally competent for the post. It is, moreover, indis-
pensable that we should always have at Oporto some vessel of
the national navy in imitation of Franco and England, who
have everywhere vessels of war for the protection of their trade.
Our Government would do well also to station another at
Lisbon."
The Director• of the Treasury had tendered his resignation!
Which had not yet been accepted by the Regency.
The transactions in the Five per Cents. on the 6th amounted
to 15,690,000 reals, and were :26 in number ; two were nego •
tiated for cash at 28,14 and 3A, and the rsst at 29 jt at 60 days.

THE TURKISH AND EGYPTIAN

FLEETS.

(From the Semaphore of Marseilles of the 8:h instant.)
The following arc the vessels which have been handed
over to Admiral Walker and Mazloum Bey by Mehemet
Ali:—
_ .

LINE•OF-BATTLE SHlPS.—Mainoudie (three-decker),
140 guns; Massoudie (three-decker), 124; Fevzie, 96;
Fetbie, 96 ; Mendouhie, 90; Techifrie, 90 ; Terkifie, 90 ;
Ncutretie, 72; Nizaniee, 60 ; and Bourdigafier, 72 guns.
FRIGATES.—Chadie, 64 guns ; Sourie, 60 ; Tarir-
Bahri, 62 ; Hifzi-Raman, 64; Nczzimi-Safer, 64 ;
Naviki-Bahri, 56; Caidi-Zafcr, 50 ; Mivati- Zafer, 48;
Chebabi-Bahri, 56 ; and Fazloullah, 44 guns.
CORVEITF,S.—Messiri-Ferah, 26 guns ; Carzi-Jafer,
22 ; Djai-Ferah, 20; and Fedjiri-Sefid, 22 guns.
TOTAL.—Ten line-of•battle ships, 10 frigates, and 4
corvettes, mounting 1,58 S guns.
The Pacha has )ct 35• vessels of war, viz. :

LINE-or-BATTLE Snips. Mahulet-el-Koubra, 100
guns ; Mansoural3l, 100 ; Skander, 100 ; Aboukir, 80;
Masr, 102 ; Akki, 102 ; Homs, 100 ; Beylam, 80 ; Alep,
100 ; Fayoum, 100 ; and 13enisouef, 102 guns.
FraGATEs.—Chiri-Gihad, 60 guns ; 13aenid, 60 ; Bah-
vie, 60; Damietta ; and Menoufic, 02 guns.
CORVETTES.-Giad-Bekr, 22 guns; Tanta, 24; Pe-
linger-Gihad, 22 ; Gena-Bahri, 22 ; and Damanhour,
26 guns.
13siGs,—Chabini-Derie, 20 guns ; Saika, 22 ; Semendi-
Gihad, •20; Washington, 22; Chabhari-Gihad, 16; and
Timsah, 12 gulls.

CUTTEIis.—NOS. 1 and 9.
STEAMERS.-The Nile, 150 horse-power ; the •Egyp-
tian, 50 ; and the Boulac, 20.
Two transports.
There were besides in the port of Alexandria when the
Oriental left, on the 22d January, two French corvettes,
one British corvette, and three English or Turkish
packets.

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.

uomNiurrElis ON PETITIONS FOR PRIVAIE BILLS

FOR THIS DAY

Bury (Sussex) Inclosure.
'2. Britannia Life Assurance Company.
3. Durham and Sunderland Railway.
4. Upper llevford Inclosure.
a. Denby Gas.
6. Middlesbrough Improvement..
7. Stuniperosi. Roads.
Ipswirh Docks.
:1. Hull Flax and Cottiiii Mill Compa
I Kidderminster Tenement,.
I I. Salisbury Small

STATE AND PROSPECTS OF THE NEW
ADMINISTRATION,„ - ..: ,
(Feern the York Herald, Jan. 30.)
The formation of the new administration, tinder t len,' el
flarri-en, both as to men and measures, goes on very
slo a ly. 'l'hei are eeming into shape, principally under
the Ilidliagt ilit'llt of Messrs. Clay and Webster, eho are
the wester spirit= of Ihe Eritrean, et. aed eandidati s for the
succession seria fiat. The old administration seems to take
things with great indifference. General Harrison will be
in Washington on the Bth of February, and will take the
reins on the 4th of March. Mr. Van Buren returns to
New York at the same time.
Ia the meantime the friends of the President elect, in
Congress, are shaping things as well and as rapidly as they
can. The following is considered the latest and best ver-
sion of new Cabinet :--
Daniel Webster, of Massachusetts, Secretary of State.
Thomas Ewing, of Ohio, Postmaster-General.
John M. Clayton, of Delaware, Secretary of the
Bell, of fefTLetemueissisaene.,,S taseecereretaryryoef
fWthaer.Navy.
Tr.:!oirahs..uarpyßo.
J. J. Crittenden, of Kentucky, Attorney-General.
John Sergeant, of Philadelphia, was first named for
Treasury, but in consequence of the rival claims of Thad-
deus Stevens for Postmaster-General, both coming from
the same State, they were both set aside. Francis
Granger, of New Yolk, has also been named for the
Navy, but his chances of success are not so apparent.
01 the Foreign Ministers not much has been said. Mr.
Stevenson, now American Minister in London, will be re-
called in the spring ; but General Case, now in Paris, will
remain for a while, at the request, it is said, of General
Harrison himself, both having been fellow-soldiers in the
battle of the Thames.
There will be a great contest among a variety of candi-
dates for the Collectorships—Post Offices--aand other
seriable m o
most
st the
important lazza ron
lucrative places—but nothing certain can be affirmed of
he
any until after the 4th of March—then will come the
e.points, both for this country
and for foreign nations, arc not so much the men,
as the measures and policy of the new Administra-
tion. On these matters new difficulty will be encoun-
tered in the adjustment that was contemplated—par-
ticularly in the financial policy. Symptoms of division
among the friends of General Harrison have already ap-
peared. Henry A. Wise, of Virginia, a man of consider-
able talent and popularity, has declared opposition to two
of the prominent points of Cabinet policy given out by
Messrs. Clay and Webster. We allude to the project to
increase the tariff on wines and silks—and to that for the
division among the States of the proceeds of the public
lands. Mr. Wise may be actuated by two motives in de-
claring opposition to these measures—one because they are
bad in themselves—and the other (which gives edge to the
former) because his father-in-law, John Sergeant, has
been left out of the Cabinet, in consequence of fearing
that his appointment might injure Mr. Clay's popularity in
Pennsylvania.
Taking into view all these influences and developments,
the friends of the new Administration have thus far re-
solved upon the following measures:-
1. A special session of Congress in May, or as soon
after as practicable.
2. Distribution to the States of the proceeds of the sales
of public lands, amounting to $3,000,000, or thereabouts.
This is practical agrarianism.
3. Revision and increase of the present tariff laws—
particularly in the articles now free of duty—equal to
$5,000,000, or more.
4. Repeal or modification of the specie clause of the
Sub-Treasury law--if not the creatien of a new National
Bank.
5. And probably, though not so certain, a Bankrupt
Law, with or without a provision embracing corporations,
as the case may be.
These are the leading measures that may constitute the
internal policy of the new Administration. Many suppose
that the existing United States Bank of Pennsylvania will
resume its fiscal connection with the Government—but
the opposition to such a project from New England, New
York, and large financial interests in the South, would
seem to present an insurmountable barrier to its accom-
plishment in any form.
It is very evident already, that there will be great dif-
ficulty and great disappointment in the adjustment of the
internal policy of the new Administration. The general
expectation is to raise all values by the fiscal action of the
Government, so as to enable the several States, the banks,
and many large stock-jobbers to stand as they did in 1836 ;
but this hope will be hardly realised. The old admini-
stration party will oppose such projects from the jump—and
best views of the financial policy of the
they yet possessarethe great power and influence in the couutry.
Such
new Cabinet—their foreign policy has not been developed
at all. We are disposed to think, however, from the ele-
ments in motion, that they will take a high and indepen-
dent ground in our relations with England. The spirit of
is
she gettingexcited on several subjects. The
Caroline at Schlosser, and the recent arrest
the
burning nation
of
of M`Leod—the seizure of American merchantmen in the
African seas, by British cruisers—the movement of British
by order of the
to b elieve that
iews of Messrs.
ttrhoeoßp sr
Governor-Generali i
tri ,
gt
ho tGh oe vde irsnpmou tfeencdt :hneaarvrdei
at territory rgyi
adoptedoef s I.lri
eat
ahi nseoe
nv,
Mudge and Featherstonaugh, that that territory belongs
to Canada—the blockade of the Chinese ports, excluding
therefrom American ships—the claims of England upon
f England throughout the world, arc
the north-west territory—all these points, coupled with the
of this country to the belief that
aggrandizementp
coo p l e
they must be up and doing, in order to preserve their
rights and liberties en land and on water.
1
These very important matters will be subjects of deep
consultation for the new administration ; and it is believed

,‘ICIRDEIt AT itt

We stated in our paper of Monday last, on the au-
thority of the C'arnarron Herald, that a gamekeeper, in
the service of Mr. Edward Lloyd, of Rhaggatt, named ,
Evan Evans, had disappeared, and was supposed to have '
been murdered by a tailor, named Edward Chubb. In
searching the house of Chubb clothes were found with
blood upon them, which corresponded with the descrip-
tion given by the wife of Evans of the clothes he wore
at the time of his disappearance. But there being no
evidence on which to charge him with the murder, he
was committed on a charge of sheep stealing, a quantity
of sheep skins having been found in his house.
It appears that the wife of the prisoner has subse-
quently stated, that on his return home on the evening
of the keeper's disappearance, he told her that he had
" settled Evans," that he had called him out on the Sa-
turday night in the way before spoken of, and had led
him about two miles from his house, pretending to show
him some snares that had been set ; that during the
walk he had tried to shoot him from behind no less than
three times, but that each time his pistol had missed
fire, and that the gamekeeper, being deaf; did not hear
the noise, and mistook the flashing in the pan for a
gleam of lightning ; that having failed in these attempts
he led him to the bank of a certain slate quarry, which
he described, and having told him to look about fOr the
wires, struck him with the pistol from behind, and thrust
him over into the water; that there was a fall of •?5 yards
to the water, and that the pool was six yards deep.
In consequence of this statement the pool referred to
was submitted to a rigorous search, and several men
were employed for four hours breaking up the ice, which
had accumulated over it. A small boat used for fish-
ing (a coricle) was then let down, by which means the
body was soon discovered, but the boat not being strong
enough to raise it, another man was let down by ropes,
who succeeded in bringing the body up.
An inquest was held on the body on Monday and
Tuesday, at which the evidence of 35 witnesses was re-
ceived ; but beyond the statement of the wife of the
prisoner regarding what he had said to her, there was
nothing elicited, except evidence of a circumstantial
character. The testimony of these witnesses, although
far from conclusive as to the guilt of the prisoner, was
quite sufficient in the minds of the jurors to justify their
verdict of " Wilful Murder against Edward Chubb,"
which they returned accordingly.

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SUNDAY MEETINGS OF TIIE WORKING
CLA SSES..--( From a Correspondent.)—A large meeting of
the above class was held last Sunday evening, at the
Working Man's Chapel, Dock-head, Bermondsey, to
hear, after a comfortable tea, two of the society address
the meeting on the difference between true Christianity
and the Christianity of the present day; and also an in-
aptiry into what was truth, and showed, in a very forcible
manner, that the people, instead of paying the priests
sonic two, three, or five hundred pounds a-year, for
thinking and paying for them, must, in order to
arrive at truth,] do the work themselves, by employing
the faculties God has given them. The meeting was
highly delighted; and although the priests and the reli-
gious bigots are alarmed at this attempt to enlighten the
people, it is hoped that this is the commencement of a
great movement amongst all classes in this metropolis.
ENGLISH OPERA.—Balfe is about to open
this theatre, apparently in great force. He has three
operas in preparation—one by himself, called filo/an/he,
and the other two by John Barnett and Maefarren. Ma.
dame Balfe—who, as Nldlle. Lina Roser, played and sang
with so much success upon the Continent, at Vienna,
Frankfort, Berlin, Milan, Venice, Turin, and Florence—is
to be the prima donna ; and two young ladies of the names
of Howard and Gould (the latter a pupil of J. Barnett)
will be introduced under the auspices of the new manage-
ment. Henry Phillips and Wilson are both engage ;
and Barker, Stratton, and Duruset have been ack:ed to the
strength of the company.
AGRICULTURE.—The coating of snow which
lately covered the earth has naturally produced a stagna-
tion of the general operations of agriculture. No injury,
however, is likely to be done to the farmers' prospects.
The wheat crops are well sheltered by their silvery cover-
ing ; and if we should be blessed with a genial spring we
may look for plenteous pasturage and a bulky sheaf. From
different parts of the kingdom the accounts are, upon the
whole, encouraging. In Lincolnshire the marsh sheep
have weathered the winter well ; in Nottinghamshire the
younr, wheats have not sustained any material injury from
the frost' and floods ; in Somersetshire their appearance
is favourable, but the lambing season has not been a good
one ; in Cambridgeshire no fears are entertained for the
crops ; and from other districts the accounts arc of a simi-
lar character. This old-fashioned winter, we hope, will
render the spring and summer more favourable, and fill to
overflowing the hand of autumn.—Chelmsford Chronicle.
We have authority to contradict the stateinent
that has gone the round of the daily papers, copioefd,f,w;
the Brighton Gazette, which circulates a report _
wealthy
projected marriage of the son of an eccentric d
Kentish inn-
Nobleman with the pretty daughter of
keeper," &c., such report being entirely without foundation.

that General Harrison has the will and the disposition to MEDICAL REFORM.-ADULTERA-
manage our foreign affairs with the like energy and promp- TION OF DRUGS.
titude with which General Jackson settled the French
claims. We will see.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin,—A few weeks ago there appeared in the columns
of The Sun, taken from a pamphlet, addressed to Mr.
Warburton, some notices of the mal-practices of drug-
gists in the adulteration of drugs, from which it would
appear that the well-directed efforts of the medical prac-
tioner are often rendered unavailing, and the public arc

both directly and indirectly robbed of their money and
their lives. I have read that pamphlet, and from facts
which have come within my own knowledge, as well as
respectable testimony, am convinced that its statements
are founded in truth ; the chief defect being that it has
not stated all the adulterations practised in the more
efficient remedies that are employed.
A. few days ago, Mr. Hawes introduced into his Bill
for Medical Reform, which is to be read a second time
on Friday next, certain clauses in this Bill, providing
for the better education of chemists and druggists, and
for their registration ; the Bill also makes it compul-
sory o❑ them to undergo an examination on certain sub-
jects of study, in which they are now (with some few
exceptions) notoriously ignorant ; and it indirectly pro-
vides a remedy for the extinction of quackery ; but its
introduction has preceded inquiry ; it is therefore looked
upon with suspicion by some, and with aversion by others
of the druggists, and hence, doubtless, has arisen the de-
termination in a portion of that class—it remains to be
seen how large a portion—to organise an opposition to
it, in which neither exertions nor expense will be spared,
to render the Bill, with regard to themselves and their

London, February 13, 1841.

THE CORN-LAWS AND THE

CLERGY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

W 11. SOUrfAlt.

practices, perfectly nugatory.
Mr. Hawes's Bill, certain chemists and druggists de
Clare, is calculated materially to affect their interests,
and they arc determined to oppose it. It unfortunately
happens that the Members of the Legislature are not
well versed in the subjects of trade, still less in the de-
tails of one that differs so much from all others. The
medical profession labours under the same disadvantages,
and hence it is not unusual to find the whole burden of
inquiry and of legislation in such cases, to rest on two or
three individuals, whose particular attention has been de-
voted to such subjects, or who themselves have been, or
are practically acquainted with them. The Bill is in
good hands now, and if Mr. Hawes is firm in maintain-
ing his position, without being diverted from it by the
clamours with which he will be assailed, he will deserve,
and receive, not only the thanks of the medical profes-
sion, but of every respectable chemist and druggist, and
be hailed as a public benefactor.
There seem to be two things imperatively necessary
to qualify the chemist and druggist for his office, as the
coaijutor of the medical practitioner ; the first is an
education suitable to his station and office, and the next
to provide some check upon the facilities which he has
to be dishonest. For the first, Mr. Hawes's Bill in some
measure provides, the rest must be left to time ; for the
second, in his Bill there is no provision, and 1 therefore
offer a few remarks on its utility and necessity.
The druggists originally belonged to, and formed,
with the apothecaries, a part of the Grocer's Company,
the Wardens of which Company visited, at certain pe-
riods, the shops of its members, to inspect their weights
and measures, and the articles which they sold, and
were empowered to fine and imprison all offenders. Not
content with this, an officer, called a garbler, was ap-
pointed by the Company, whose duty it was to inspect,
and if necessary, to garble all drugs and spices which
were imported, before they could be offered for sale ; the
penalty for selling ungarbled goods being, on conviction,
attended by forfeiture of the whole, and not unfre-
quently the offence was punished by a fine in addition.
The garbling consisted in cleansing the different sub-
stances from extraneous matter, such as dust, stones, fo-
reign substances, and of any portion, which, in the trans-
mission, had become damaged, or by fraud had been
intermixed.
The origin of the custom appears to be coeval with
the origin of the trade itself. Previous to the reign of
James the First, garbling existed, and was practised as
one of the customs of the City of London, but in 1604
it passed into a law, and for many years was found to
be of great advantage in protecting the public from
imposition and fraud. Another effect resulted from
the existence of the law, which was, that drugs and
spices were imported in a much purer state, the de-
mand for articles of inferior qualities being thus kept
down. Unfortunately the garbler's fees remained the
same, and thus an office calculated to prove a prolec-
tion to the honest trader, became, in time, a source of
oppression ; for although the labour of garbling had
almost became nominal, the simple act of inspection in
most cases being sufficient, there was no reduction in
the fees, and therefore persons of every description en-
gaged in trade affected by, its provisions, united in en-
deavouring to obtain its repeal.
The great defect in this law consisted in the method
of pay went, making it to depend on self-imposed fees
instead of on a regular stated salary. The pecuniary
value of the office may be estimated, when it is stated
that, in 1686, the right of admission to, and lease 01,
the office for sixty-nine years was purchased for about a
thousand pounds, subject, in addition, to the annual
payment of A ttempts were made as early es
.1 6.9 a a tlic sm.:, al :olepsiiies of alai chew s and
traders alleetr4 by it, to he r elieacit ttom a pm t of the
heavy fees uhicli they were liable, but without
success. Another attempt was made in 174.17,• wlii:o,
after a protraeted inquiry, the office was found to he a
grievance that could no longer be borne, and the Act of
James I. was repealed.
Since that period no check has existed to the im-
portation of drugs in any state, and as great competition
exists in the wholesale trade, it is met, as such compe-
titions arc usually met, by a depreciation in quality.
Those who have had the opportunity of examining the
state in which drugs are now imported, and whose
judgment is not biassed by interest, must be convinced
that the re-enactment of sonic law of this kind is ne-
cessary ; that a system of rigid inspection of every
drug is necessary, and that the analysis or testing of
the various chemicals used in medicine is imperatively
called for. But as the facts connected with the use of
damaged drugs in an impure state, of foreign and
home-manufactured chemicals in the like state, and the
various ways and means of wholesale and petty corruption
cannot he known without evidence or testimony, a Par-
liamentary inquiry into the present state and practices
of the drug trade is necessary previous to any legisla-
tion. There is, however, a strong feeling of dislike to
this inquiry on the part of many, which it is not diffi-
cult to understand ; but as the " greatest happiness
principle" is unquestionably concerned in the matter, I
trust, Mr. Editor, your exertions will be used in the
advocacy of this righteous cause.
There is another thing too, which appears essential to
a thorough reformation, that is the extinction, the total
and absolute extinction, of quackery. To this sub-
ject I regret to find that Mr. Warburton has de-
clared his determined opposition. It is, perhaps, on
this very point that the corruptionists amongst the
druggists will rally around him ; for many of them have
their little venture in this unhallowed traffic, in the
shape of some dinner, stomachic, or antibilious pill, or
favourite cough drop, or essence, for which they will
clamour and fight as though it were the sheet anchor of
their existence. The no-legislation would in this cifse
shield them, and the opposition to Mr. Hawes's Bill,
" calculated so materially to injure their interests," will,
it is to be hoped, be estimated at its just value.
I have proceeded on the supposition that no man's
interest can consist in doing wrong. There may be,
and doubtless are, various motives which influence men
in their opinions and in their actions ; but when, in the
latter case, they interfere with the well-being of society,
the limit of non-interference is passed, and law should
be called in to put down what nothing else can put
down.
Should some few additional facts to those which you
before gave on the adulteration of drugs be of sufficient
interest to your readers, I may be induced to address
you again on this subject, and in the hope that the cause
will receive your hearty support and advocacy,
I remain, Mr. Editor, your humble servant,
A DRUGGIST.

Sia,—The Committee of the Anti-Corn-law Assoeia.
tion desire to express their approbation of your unre-
mitting labours in the great and good work of exposing
the injustice and cruelty of the monopoly of bread.
'l'hat
a law so monstrous should ever have been sanc-
tioned by our lawgivers can only be accounted for by
the junction in conspiracy of those who, both in tempo-
ral and spiritual matters, lord it over all in their power.
The former have defied the rule of right," Do as you
would be done unto." The latter have chosen another
another guide than Him, who put it to his hearers,
" If any of you fathers be asked by your child for
will ye give him a stone ; if for a fisb, will ye give him
a serpent ?"
Even in our less corrupt establishment in the north
we have a standing committee, ready at a rnoment's no-
tice ro sound the alarm when a hungry nation would at-
tack that system which fills their (the CleTghy's) lacoffrdersers
out of the poor mans scanty pittance, while te
of the rich must not be so much as looked a.t.
ness the motion for inquiry! Their conduct is second
only to the wickedness of Him who spared to take of
his flock, and sent for the solitary lamb of his neigh-
bour. The kingdoms of the world and the glory of
grinding
them have proved the Statc.paid clergy.. unworthy of
that Master who would make no sacrifice to obtain them.
in
The allotments .of the starving poor
have been
cbrought a. s lowAn as
inquiry
will keep
is about to be instituted in life by the same grint
the provision for the poor of Scotland. ,e trust you
oponotice.prtunity to pass without
'i l
expressingvg ei
would
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notubj e
acl subject o
satisfactiont:vm t timely
this
in
your views of civil and re•
ligious liberty. Go on, Sir ; promote the happiness of
the greatest number, and it will
more.—Four's respectfully,
promote your own the
Peterhead, Feb, 10,