The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-23 00:00:00

MYSTERCOUS AFFAIR.

On Saturclq evening an_ inquiry took place at the I
Traveller's bend public-house, Moulsey, before Mr.
IV. Carter, one of the Coroners for Surrey, into the cir-
cumstances attending the death of u young female, name
unknown, who was -found dead in the river Thames on
the 17th inst., under rather suspicious circumstances.
Sergeant Moore; of the 0 division of Police, deposed
that, in consequence of information he received, he went
to the river side near Moulsey, and he there found the
body of the deceased, and he had it removed to that
house. He had made inquiries, but had not been able to
obtain any clue !Is to who the deceased was, or where
her connections might be found.
Jane Sporter, servant at the Traveller's Friend, de-
posed that, between twelve and one o'clock on the day
on which the deceased's body was found in the river, the
deceased, accompanied by a man, mole to the house, and
had some refreshments, and the man p; pegged to be'
upbraiding the deceased for some miscontine.:. After
they had been some time in the house, the man asket: for
change of a five-pound note, but the landlady refused to
give it to him, and he then paid for the refreshment he
and the deceased had taken with a half-crown, and they
both !eft the house together, and she saw nothing more
of either of them until the body of the deceased was
brought back to the house some few hours afterwards.
The CORONER inquired whether the man appeared to
be quarrelling with the deceased ? The witness replied
that he appeared to be angry, and she heard him say
something about her having been out all night, and he
appeared to be upbraiding her. She added that she had
not seen any thing of the man since.
A witness, who had examined the clothes of the de-
c.ewied was then called, and he proved that, upon search-
ing her pocket, he found only one halfpenny in it.
• 71, Jury inquired whether any steps had been taken
-• find out who the deceased was, and what
with a view ---ho had been referred to was to her.
connection the man " the steps that were possible
The officer replied that and in answer to
had been taken, hut without suceeaj;
its and bonnet
further questions, it Tval stated that the bt,
of the deceased were found lying en the bunk 0;!he river,
near the place where the body was fowl&
The CORONER having inquired whether it was likely
that any additional evidence could be proctiegi? and
being answered in the negative, addressed the Jury, and
said that there certainly were some circumstances of sus-
picion in the affair, but there was at present no evidence
that would warrant them in coming to any decided con-
eusion. They might, however, return such a Verdict as
would leave the case open for ttr.ther inquiry, in the
event of any additional evidence being brought forward.
The Jury then, in accordance with the suggestion of
the Coroner, returned a verdict of " Found drowned."
The deceased was dressed in a cotton gown, sa.aw
bonnet, boots, and white cotton stockings, and was, ap-
parently, about twenty years of age.

THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.—The
grass crop is good, although not so heavy as had been
anticipated, owing to a lack of rain ; this deficiency is,
however, counterbalanced by having it carried in good
condition, ‘Nithout inconvenience, and new ricks are al-
ready numberless. --Of grain crops, whether on light or
heavy soils, we have to report most favourably, and
nothing is now wanting but one or two days' rain, Ivhich
is also•the case with the beans. Peas will everywhere be
a good:crop ; and clover is in most parts excessively pro-
ductiv§. We heard`but very little complaint of blight
on thee: fruit, which has been stated to be so general at
this'peri... od. As regards hops, we have personally in-,,
spected'a great number of plantations, and can report
that we have seldom seen the plant more vigorous, '
health, or freer from fly. The weather has been all that
could be desired by its cultivators, with the exception of
a few colctand rather frosty nights, occurring at intervals
during the last fortnight. It is, however, our opinion
that the return from this collection will, even in the event
of aril. excellent crop, be much less in quantity than in
formeiseasons of similar productiveness, as, owing
the failure of last year, many grounds have been laid
down and appropriated to the growth of other and more
certain crops.--- Worcester Journal. .
at.tlll4:;-11a rDi oEußs.a—tariiolol-nhdoaayse,ainoffotrir
itilt
t two
that 'up the morning of Tuesday last,
rles
Powell,
o'cloN the body of a man namedh Cl
:tnr o pwoal
aisthareneacpeoilvi ceed,
1 Monmouth-
a quarryman, was found near the
at Crimlin, in the parish of Lan d
of blood having
shire, quite dead, a large stream _eNea,vigation Inn,
death. On Wed-
frOny,sevaral cuts sufficient to causelheld on the body
flowed from his head, some distance along the ground,
nesdaY a Coroner's inquest
Inn,
when, after a
respectable Jury,
it appeared from the evi-
bileefpoarfienetited Caotuntthye
Norat,Tieartiarer.n:id a
lengttined investigation,
• men, named Nathan Jones,
dencb.',Tadduced,
an
i hhourhood, all of whom have
Henry 3N ',nail:ll-at ath 1 cle'eter Peters, three colliers,
well known in that n
absconded,ee
,gniolit in question, wantonly and
unprovokedly knock.
wt where the deceased was found,
the deceased and another man
wounds on the deceased's head by
and hrd inflicted til!
which they decamped, leaving the tm-
kicking him, after
doW ij , close
the on
s 11 di
ed to death. e Jur-returned a
fortunate man to e ~ • t the
\pro&
i-o,t of -wilful murder agains. whole three,. and
committal to take their trial for the offence.
the Clroner issued a warrant for their appreber.uon 92

TOTAL REPEAL:
We have on more than one occasion expreseed
our stroag conviction that a duty on wheat of ass.
a quarter is eraposterously high. The compari-
son we have more than once drawn between the
amount of duty actual:: paid under the existing
law and the proposed rate would suffi-
ciently justify us in this opinion. But ma
are not disposed to leave uriansweratl the
very natural question—if Ss. a quarter be
too high a protection, what amount of duty call
be considered adequate and proper? To this
question we reply frankly. If it can be prOved.
necessary to lay a small tax upon corn, for pur-
sposes of revenue, let that tax be imposed;,
for purposes of protection not one farthing should
be imposed,. unless it be to render the total •
reveal safer, by making it a gradual • process. •
Any tax imposed for protection we esnssider
grossly: and. flagitiously unjust.
From the very existence of our modern so-
ciety, the land has been 'subjected to certain
culiar burdens or charges, which, instead of hav-
ing augmented in Proportion to the augmenting
wealth of society, have been gradually diminish-
ing and being made less by the criminal inge-
nuity of the landed legislator, who has contrived •
fraudulently to shift upon the • poor and needy,
by every variety of device, the burdens which of
old were borne by the class to which he belongs..
We need not run over all these particulars,
more especially as' we have very recently made
an. enumeration of these cunning practices, when
we showed how large a proportion of the na-
tional revenue was now raised from the poor in •
the shape of duties upon the necessaries of life, .
in place of the old direct taxes, and burdens •
which fell almost alone upon property. Poor-
rates, county-rates, and tithes, have, in some
shape or other, been charges upon the land
long before the Norman Conquest. • What the
reformed 'landlords of this Protestant country
have been doing ever since the-Reformation is,
to shift,these burdens from the land, where they
were • unfelt , (except by a baleful ' cupidity
which has never grown, weary in plundering the
patrimony of the poor), and to supply the old •
thrms of revenue by new and burdensome expe-
theots, Which are now eating into the vitals of .
society; impoverishing 411 classes; placing all
'Classes in hostility to each other; and, by a just
and stern retribution, arrayed in a phalanx,
which becomes every day, moreanumerous and
better disciplined, the poor whom the rich have •
''aged, neglected, and trampled under foot,
ftiPtssiris‘• the men who' ought to• have been their
ilatxualify..;nl.protectors,. but hake been, bat their
g
the authors aninourisla's
selfishneess awl ;11Pidit3a
ors oftheir crimes-.
that ahe land, that is, the land-
' We say, then,
taxation for which
lord, under no lieavY
the arrangement'
be is entitled tostake credit' in
our fiscal system. On the- contrary, having
created the present fiscal . ays,-teni • himself, the
landlord has so contrived it as to shift, by
every possible contrivance, his own lime-esta-
blished and, therefore, unfelt burdens, ilpon- the
shoulders of all other classes in the State.
Rut, supposing there were peculiar but 'lens
which, by, the help of a pOlitical algebra teat
works out its calculations by unknown quantities,
could be estimated at ss. a quarter-what then?
tae one, we suppose, will have the hardihood
to pretend that these peculiar burdens of tithes,
county-rate, and poor-rate did not exist in 1773.
Now, throughout the whole of the last century,
up to the date we have just named (which may
be taken as an era in the history of. the corn
' trade, as it is in the history of the laws' staseting
that trade), this country habitually exported a
surplus produce of corn. It is true that
numity of five shillings a" quarter was paid usaes
the exportation of wheat, when" the price 'fell
below a certain point; but, as the bounty
could not tiute cover the expenses of exporta-
tion, it is clear that the price of wheat in England.
must have been ge,sarally cheaper than it was in the
surrounding markets. to which it was exported.
Since that time what a change has taken place !
England is now habitually importing, instead
of an exporting, country:- aSupposing that,
seventy or eighty years :taxi, Our markets were
only on a level witli those ado,
the Corite'aent, they
are now so much dearer, 'that the protection
afforded to the landlord, by expenses on impor-
tation to time tune of 10s. or Els. a quarter, is•con:
sidered a ruinous and wicked neglect of his
interests.
See, then, how bountifully nature has provided,;,
e•ithout the help of artificial duties, to save, these
timeseturiate landlords from the weight ofburdens
which tLeY have borne for centuries, and which
they have • eantrived to diminish by. degrees.
Mother Nature i, s, in these latter days, created
a barrier of 10s. or l'as:.• a quarter for their especial
defence and protectiod. , The rapid increase of
population has given them ,aatadattutatie greater
than the burden is even pretenslead to be.. And
now, while thisenormous advantage is secured to
ase they
them by the operation of ph
ysk icuis,.s-
to a
and their advocates have the issaaanspe l ;sou
pnless a
sert that they will be treated unjustly
further protectipn of 05.41 quarter is given teem ;
thus creating an effective protection of 15 .or
17s. to counterbalance a burden which in reality
does not exist, but which,' by thoee who think
they perceive its existence, is admitted to be less
than
It is difficult to express with sufficient em-
phasis our indignation at the atrocious iniquity
of these pro-landlord proposals. Within the
last seventy years, the nations of the Continent
have been exposed, for above five-and-twenty
years, to all the horrors of war raging in . their
confines, and carried by a most relentless foe to -
their own hearths and altars. They have
been plundered, wasted, ravaged, by the
fellest instruments of devastation. We hose
been enjoying the advantages of internal
tranquillity, while others have been suffering to
the extremity of human endurance. But •
in spite of all this contrast, the price of the prime
eascessary of life, instead of being cheaper in Eats-
land L';an on the Continent, as it then was, has
now beaoate dearer. The most favoured country
has sustained t;:e greatest loss; and with all cur
wonderful improveellcots in tillage, we have only.
contrived to change paales with those who have
been exposed to every Vossible disadvantage
from which we have been free. By this
comparative increase of price, the landlords
have received an enormous protection, greater
than they ever thought of asking for before.
But, seeing the prospect of a greater gain, even'.
this does not content them : for, having been
once fleshed in plunder in the days of the fatal
apostacy, their order has lost none of its keen
rapacity in the interval which has since elapsiai.
Nothing 11,111 now content than but the absolute
power of coopihe- up a population which is increa s-•
ing with unexampled rapidity 1, jthin the
limit
of an island. whose ssowers of
have already outgrown. Miserable, short-
iseoduction thee
al!ited men! When will they learn that. ava-
riceances dons,
an 1- fraud are impolitic, as well as )Ticked T
--that injustice carries its own venge
itl--that extortion and hardness of
‘heart
will meet with their allotted
that those who have robbed the poor,
Will
punishment
are resolved to perpetuate the robbery,
receive, at the handaef the poor,
we tell this cold
mendousrecompeucei Once more, t England,
and icy aristocracy a fearfulan d tre-
the curse of the Reform their feet
Their ancestors dug a pit
eirsibev lands, and
up
heir
them.
a sse by converting
tne seitasatlu
aired 8S 8. holy
bad been how welbetarasn athd they
yie ccoonnfidsitciaotnedo: ttiljPee P°
poverty, which once the prison,
and the stocksaand the las
er
state, into st crime, to be pu
their p now tresubling
inishLedetbiiiem beware
lest the flibric
,ofwall 'down into a hor-
iw abletlt its
destruction.l ollosvfo u tad at i on-
as but one polast
The conduct of the
in a great system of iniet,u,loY•we
.roord
chiefly
as
The Corn-laws We
aristocracy upon those
e they are Ilssely to pur-
a symptom of the course consitdser
st tread cute mote in.
sue. 'Backward they my
"their fathers have trodden •
repentance the steps.
their order are nun.:bered.
in sin, or the days of •
ore learn the lesson- of riling
the They must once
the poor will one day—
the poor by love.
than ant of us imagine-learn
sooner, perhaps,
the lesson of ruling them by vengeanceas-Tasiskt,

•
ANI ICAN FISH I NG. VERY LIKE A.
Nvii,/,v,.—We take from the Buffalo Commercial Ad-
rertiscr the following letter, dated Tonawanda, May 24,
front a pinentory gentleman to a " Brother Bob " in this
city, describing an amusing manner of taking the
iinny .tribe, presuming the process may be new to
many of our readers :—" I have just returned from
rare fishing sport—catching bass in a canoe. You
know I have had the impudence, when inquired Or, to
say that black bass were so plentiful here; that the
voluntarily jump into a canoe when roweit
or paddled near the shore. • Though I harit en-
joyed this singular amusement every spring, for
ten years, the • fact is so incredible— so 'big a
fish story—that I have avoided telling it whenever X
could. Now if you doubt, you have an opportunity of •
testing its truth by Coming here ; and you may bring a.
dozen witnesses at my expense, unless I prove to your
entire satisfaction that what, I here state is literally true
—that you may catch a good string of the best fish (bass
and spotted pike) without any fraud upon them what-
ever,
either -by cheating them with a covered hook or
otherwise, but by theirown voluntary net. For several
evenings we have caught from ten to thirty of an even-
ing, by simply paddling our canoe within about fifteen
feet from the shore, about thirty rods and back. It is
an agreeable and exciting amusement to see ten or twelve
bass in the air at one moment, jumpling like colts, 301119
entirely over the canoe, while others startle one egre-
giously with a rap
aside of the head. Come and see
for
yourself."

* 4

LONDON:
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 1841.

The first Parliament of Queen VICTORIA'S
reign is closed. Tt was yesterday prorogued by
her MAJESTY in person, with a view to its imme-
diate dissolution. The proclamation dissolving it
has not yet appeared, but that is a mere matter
of form, and the monopolist Parliament, a Par-
liament to be for ever reprobated in history, is
extinguished.

We heartily thank her MAJESTY both for put-
ting an end to it, and for the manner in which she
carried the sentence into effect. Her MAJESTY'S
speech was worthy of the occasion. Discarding all
extraneous topics, thereby telling the nation that
neither our foreign relations nor any thing in our
domestic concerns is at present of the least im-
portance, she dismisses the Parliament on the
single ground of ascertaining the sense of her
people, on the propriety of providing for the/
wants of the public service in " the manner the
least burdensome to the community." On that
phrase her MAJESTY laid a strong emphasis;
she read all the speech with dignity and firm,
ness, but her MAJESTY'S manner of readinr; that
passage, demonstrates that she makes ',tie cause
of her Ministers and her people ker cause, and
that ehe lends all the authorit- of the Crown,
with all sincerity and zeal, to the great principle
of relieving the people from some of those taxes
which are a grievous burden on them without
contributing arrything to the Exchequer.
That her MAJESTY duly exercised her prero-
gative adtrlits of no doubt. That she has any
other object in exercising it than that of promot-
ing the interest of her subjects no man but a
thorough Tory partizan will assert. The para-
mount, importance of trade is palpable to all but
the bread-taxers; and the hope that public
bfesbaess may be facilitated by the authority of a
mew Parliament is shared by every human being
in the empire. Generally we have to complain
that the Royal speeches are too meagre, but
this, in few words, says all that is necessary. It
is at once short, and pregnant with meaning.
We were afraid, on reading the Morning PPost
yesterday, that the Ministers would not have
suggested to her MAJESTY to speak out so plainly;
and as that Journal asserted that any forbear-
ance migjit be ascribed to the Sovereign, we
have its authority for saying that her MA-
JEATY has heartily assented to an appeal to
her people, Whether the exigencies of the State
shall be provided for in the /east burthen-
some manner. Her MAJESTY, with all
the authority of the Crown, is fairly committed
to the principles of the Wliig Budget, which
have been so unceremoniously condemned by
the monopolist
the House of Commons. From
electino:7:4lklosts ani appeal is made to the
,l have to decide whether
the taxes shall
shall not be wisely
and je.ried.
Llt , hn
•do .M.1.44Z.511 WU§

our side, and the taxes cannot be levied on
the monopoly principle without constraining her,
the electors must also decide whether her MA-.
JESTY is to have other Ministers, to whose princi-
ples she is opposed, forced on her by a new House
of Commons. To continue the present system the
Crown must be coerced. The Tory monopolists ap-
peal to the electors to destroy at once the rights of
the Crown and the rights of the people. As in the
olden time, the Crown is now allied with the
people to resist the aristocracy, and the people
will be eternally dishonoured if they submit to
the monopolists and allow them to coerce the
QUEEN.

There are certainly not wanting examples in
our history of Ministers being forced on the
Crown, but in those cases the Ministers were on
the popular side. The bulk of the community,
and justice, were with them. Whatever support
the monopolists may obtain in the counties, the
great majority of the people are against them.
They are buoyed up by no enthusiasm in
a supposed good cause. They have no
proud consciousness of rectitude, no solemn
conviction of duty, to encourage them in
their opposition to the Throne. They
seek to preserve a monopoly, which they know is
both odious and unjust. Their motives are the
most sordid, and the most remote from enthu-
siasm. They are at once dishonest to the people,
and disloyal to the Sovereign. To bear up against
disloyalty and dishonesty they have only their
own ambition and their own avarice. Their
bond of union is that of banditti, and the instant
they suppose they are safe, they will quarrel for
the plunder.
Her MAJESTY has done her part, the electors
must now do theirs. Whoever votes for a bread-
taxer, votes against the QUEEN. Whoever rotes
for dear sugar, votes to coerce her MAJESTY.
Whoever votes for the monopolist ship-owners,
votes both to plunder the people and oppress the
QUEEN. No nation ever had a holier cause than
ours, and Britons must have lost all respect for
the Throne, and all respect for principles of mo-
rality, if they constitute a House of Commons
on the principle of maintaining unjust laws, and
forcing her MAJESTY to acquiesce in them.

We have not considered the comparative
statements of the reductions of taxation lately
trumpeted forth by some Whig and Tory jour-
nals as of much value. Unless such statements
be accompanied by a complete knowledge of all
the circumstances on which the reductions were
made, they are as likely to cause an erroneous as
a correct impression. The Tories are said, for
example, to have reduced the taxes subsequent
to the war some 20,000,0001. sterling, while the
Whigs are alleged to have reduced them only
about 7,000,0001. in ten years. But it was surely
much easier to reduce 20,000,0001. on an expen-
diture of 70,000,0001., than 7,000,0001. on
an expenditure of 50,000,0001., with equal
establishments, and which, according to the
Tories, was the lowest possible point to
which expenditure could be carried. If;
after the Tories had reduced the taxes
20,000,0001., alleging that another farthing could
not be spared, the Whigs had reduced taxation
1,000,000/., instead of 7,000,0001., as their op-
ponents admit, they have deserved well of the
country. Unless, therefore, the reductions pre-
viously made by the Tories be taken into ac-
count—and the greater they were, the greater
the merits of those who made still further re-
ductions—the conduct of the Whigs in reducing
taxation cannot be duly appreciated.
Another circumstance, for example, which in-
fluences the merit of the rival parties--the only
point in dispute—is the character of the Opposi-
tion during their respective periods of Govern-
ment. When'the Tories were in office, the Op-
position was continually urging economy, and
'forced them, by out-voting them in some cases,
to make those reductions for which the Tory
scribes now give their party credit. Thus the
repeal of the Salt-tax, of the Leather-tax, of the
Irish Window-tax, &c., &c., in 1522, was forced
on the Tory Government by the Whig and
Radical Opposition, and the merit of those and
of almost all the reductions made while the
Tories were in office, really and truly belongs
to the Whigs.

While the Whigs have been in office, how-
ever, the Opposition, far from forcing the Govern-
ment to be economical, has been continually
abusing it for its saving spirit, and continually
urging on a greater expenditure. In Parliament
and out of Parliament, the Tories have exclaimed
against our too much reduced establishments,
and have never voted for a single reduction, ex-
cept that of the proposed allowance to Prince
ALBERT. Even on that point they resisted
Mr. HUME'S proposition to make the Prince's
income 20,0001. From this plain statement of
well-known facts, it follows that the greater por-
tion of the merit of the Tory reduction is really
due to the Whig Opposition, while all the merit
of the reductions made by the Whigs is exclu-
sively their own. Now, unless these circum-
stances be remembered, the statements made by
our Contemporaries must produce an erroneous
impression.
The principles and the inclination of the Tories,
whether in office or in opposition, tend to in-
crease the public expenditure with the sphere
of the Government operations. Their mis-
chievous propensities require the perpetual curb
of economical opponents. One of the last peti-
tions presented to the monopolist Parliament
was by Sir R. INGLIS for Church extension, and
one of the first acts of the Tory ebvernrnent, if
it be true to its principles if Sir ROBERT PEEL
believe what he has often asserted, namely,
that it is the first duty of the State to provide
for the religious instruction of the people in
the principles of the Church of England--must
be to vote a sum of money to build churches and
endow parsons. The surest way to prevent that,
and every similar waste of tlie public resources,
is to keep the Tories out of office; as the surest
way to make wh'.liever Ministers are in power
economical,is ibr the electors to be above bribes,
and to tr
dist that their representatives shall not
vote away the public money. The Whigs may
oe made more economical, and the Tories may
be taught not to take a single farthing from a
confiding people which is not required for the
public service, if electors determine to support
only men who, like Mr. HUMS, will steadily
resist every wasteful and dishonest application
of the public money.

We direct attention to a communication con-
cerning the county of Middlesex. It will be a
disgrace to the Radicals and Whigs if the me-
tropolitan county do not return two Reformers,
as heretofore, and an indelible disgrace to them if
they do not try, at least, to give Mr. BYNG a
reforming colleague.

We have received a tile of the New Zealand
Gazette, to the 30th of Jan. inclusive. A slight
disturbance had taken place between the civil
authorities and some natives. It appears that a
Dr. TAYLOR had been robbed of some goods by a
native, and on complaining to the Magistrates an
order to arrest the culprit was issued. He resisted,
and being aided by his associates escaped. The
chief Magistrate, Mr. MURPHY, accompaniM by
Lieutenant BEST, and three soldiers, with sonic
constables, went in pursuit of the robber.
On arriving at where he was concealed, the
soldiers were ordered out of sight till the effect
of the Magistrate's presence upon the natives
could be tried. When the constables approached,
one of them was attacked by a native with a
spear, upon which Lieutenant BEST drew his
sword to defend him. The native rushed upon
the officer, and threw him down, when another
native snatched the scabbard of his sword and
made off with it fur the bush. A shot from one
of the soldiers obliged the fellow to drop the
scabbard, but the contest ended with the escape
of all the culprits. This is the only affray which
we believe has yet taken place between the
settlers and the natives. -

Thetellovri* =lick from the 'New Zealand

Gazette of the 16th of January, is important as
showing the agricultural prospects of the colony.
Port Nicholson at that time boasted of support-
ing thirteen inns. and public-houses, and two re-
spectable clubs, one of which is called the " Pick-
wick Club "

We do not think we have ever seen finer oats, barley,
and wheat, than is growing up the Hutt. The ears of
the wheat are six inches long, and the straw nearly
four feet high ; the oats and barley we did not measure,
but some wild oats we measured upon the top of the
Tinakori range some weeks since we found to be three
feet two inches high, and were nearly ripe.
It has generally been allowed by persons who have
visited various parts of New Zealand that they have not
seen any land surpassing the valley of the Hutt in fer-
tility of soil. It was supposed however, the expense of
clearing would prevent its being cultivated at present.
Some persons estimated the expense at 70!. per acre,
but one good agriculturalist added that if it did cost that
sum, it would still be a profitable mode of investing
capital, so high was his opinion of the pro-
ductive power of the soil. Experiment is settling
the question ; land is being well cleared and
fenced at twelve pounds per acre, and it is our
opinion it will be cleared for very much less when per-
sons are practised in the trade, We expect to see it
cleared at 5/. per acre ; for though the trees are often
'large, there is not near the quantity of wood to be
found upon an acre in an American pine forest, which is
commonly cleared and fenced at three to four pounds
per acre.
We hope in a few months to be enabled to report a
large quantity of land under cultivation, as several en-
terprising settlers are now busily occupied upon this im-
portant branch of colonial prosperity... We are satisfied
that a very few years will find the Hutt sending out I
20,009 quarters of Wheat, and as many tons of potatoes.
It must not, however, be overlooked that we have a large
and important agricultural population in the natives.
They have done much for us in the way of
ing land ; in this very harbour the have saved
us an outlay of thousands pounds. They
are skilful in the trade. and foreseeing a
greatly increase& decoy;,,;, have been sedulously
employed in cleabtig
and planting large tracts of country
this sertt',7n. We have no doubt that the produce of the
harbour will this year exceed all our wants, in addition
''to which we know of about seven hundred tons of
potatoes which during the season will be brought into
this market, and be disposable for shipment to the other
colonies. It is quite evident the uncertainty of demand
which existed before this Island was regularly settled as
a British colony, was the main cause of the natives not
producing on a yet larer scale thtin that for which, as
a savage, the New Zealander has long been celebrated.
tur coming here has been attended with a material in-
crease and improvement in their wants, only to be sup-
plied by an increase of labour, which they are seen at
once to be applying in the most profitable manner for
themselves and. us. They have acquired a strong pre-
dilection in favour of flour and bread, they have much
clear land, and we doubt not as soon as they have seen
grain converted into flour, they will become purchasers
of seed wheat, and in a very short time contribute a large
quantity of grain to the mills of this settlement.

The whole of the Paris Journals, of Sunday,
have been received, together with Madrid Papers
of the 13th inst. The news brought by the Spa-
nish Papers has, for the most part, been antici-
pated. Cabrera finding that the world was be-
ginning to forget him, has issued a proclamation
to hii late companions in arms, which will be
found in another column.

The affair of the Didier correspondence con-
tinues to attract the attention of all the leading,
Journals. It is a pity that the Government can-
not see the mischief which it does the King by
stooping to notice every petty libeller of his Ma-
jesty.

Important news from Candia appears in the
Courrier Francais of Sunday, which we have
transferred to our columns of this day.
The following is the protest of the Municipal Council of
Caen,: against the proposed surcharge on the door and window
tax, the opposition to which tax is now occasioning so much
embarrassment to the French Minister of Finance:—
" Monsieur le Prefet,—The census of the doors and win-
dows, &c., now in progress, spreads uneasiness throughout the
population. The legality of the mode attempted to carry it
into operation at Caen is even doubtful. A Ministerial order
-commands the census to be made in a form different from that
which has hitherto been followed. The result of these two
operations is most interesting to this city, because they may
furnish a false basis for the establishment and receipt of various
taxes.

" On the demand of sever. 11 Members of the municipal boiy,
the Mayor demanded permission to call together the council of
the said body, which permission you granted by letter of the
10th instant. The meeting was to be held on the following
day, but in consequence of reasons for which we cannot at pre-
sent find any explanation, you thought proper to withdraw the
permission alluded to.
" Under these grave circumstances the undersigned Members
of the Municipal Council of the city of Caen demand from you,
M. le Prefet, a license for the convocation of an extraordinary
meeting of the Council, in order that it may, after full investi-
gation and mature inquiry, address to the superior authority
such declarations as the measure now under consideration re-
quire..

" Signed by several Members of the Municipality of Cam."
The same nature of protest has been signed in several other
towns of the west of France.

The subjoined observation respecting the financial position of
M. Humann are taken from the Temps :
" Yesterday, at M. Humann's, a great deal of conversation
took place relative to the loan to M. Rothschild and other
potentates of the bank. The fall of Rentes the preceding day
and the rise in the same evening were explained. One said
that the sales had been caused by the necessity which M.
Rothschild felt of being provided with ample means for all
exigences. M. Rothschild had given orders for large sales
but he could not find buyers, for M. Agrado, M. Goubart,
and others had left town ; so therefore he gave orders to
step the offer of sale, and the rise has taken place as a
matter of course. The whole affair is now between M. Roths-
child and M. Human'', and it seems there is a difference of
opinion between the Jew banker and the Minister of the Most
Christian King. M. Rothschild wi,hes to have the loan at a
low price—that is his game—he is a money dealer. M. Hu-
mana demands a much higher figure ; that is all very natural
in a Minister of Finance. M. Rothschild wants to have a loan
made at five per cent. M. Humana speaks only of three per
cent. M. Rothschild desires the whole loan to be contracted
for—M. Humann says a part is only wanted.
This struggle between the Minister and the banker is
good, because it creates opposition; and it is said that Messrs.
Delessar tand Hottinger are competitors for the loan. This is
a piece of good news, for if these gentlemen are serious in their
offers, M. Rothschild will net have the loan on his own terms."
Besides the intelligence from Candle brought by the Acheron
we have received the following letter, to which implicit credit
ought not be given

CANDIA,.IILINE 4.—The Candiots have suffered a serious
check, the consequence of which has been an application made
by the principal chiefs of the emigrants (query, insurgents) in
the island to the Consuls of France and England. These Chiefs
have requested the Consuls to ask, in their names, for a confer-
ence with Tahir Pacha and Mustapha Pacha on board the
fleet, to come to an understanding on the adoption of the means
best calculated to obtain a satisfactory arran:mient. The
Consuls have taken this step which 3-..;„ led to no result. The
Turkish Commander lir-
already corsen!. sed the conference. They have
:.'rvii allow these chiefs, if they desire it, to get
e-nveyed to some foreign country on board English
or (tench ships.
" The Chief has asked for ten days to deliberate on this pro-
posal; this delay has been refused by the Turkish command-
ers. Such is the state of things, and everybody believes that
the question will be speedily settled. The delay of the Turks
in completing their preparations to attack is equivalent to ac-
ceding to the above demand. _

" A notice posted up to-day in Paris announces that the
palace of Malmaison is to be sold by auction ; it is to be put
up at the price of 300,000 francs. It is known that a consi-
derable portion of the estate has been separated from the do-
main."

Yams, JUNE 22.—The squadron of Admiral Hugon which
was obliged to stop at the Hyeres islands, sailed on the 14th,
at three o'clock in the afternoon, and steered to the south.—
Le Commerce.