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FOREMAN—The same as building land in that neigh-
bourhood.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
Mr. Fairhairn's letter will appear on Monday.
Mr. Clark should have addressed his letter, with the cor-
rect report of the inquest• on a Chancery prisoner, to the
Journal in which the erroneous statements appeared.

The ASSESSOR—And what with respect to the value
of the chapel, late the Old Church ?
FOREMAN—According to the value of building land
in that neighbourhood. With respect to the value of
the other property we confirm the former present-
ment.

" THE C HINA S UN "
Which was lately RE-PUBLISHED, IS NOW

The Solicitor, Mr. SMITH, submitted whether, after
the decision of the Commissioners relating to the traverse,
the Jury could not be asked as to occupation.
Mr. Any thought the solicitor had no right to make
the objection. It was not the fault of the Jury if no
evidence had been submitted to them. The verdict
would no doubt cause great difficulty hereafter.
The SOLICITOR for the 'traverse protested against
these objections after the verdict had been delivered.

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Strand.

The ASSESSOR decided that the verdict must be re-
ceived, and that the question of occupation was one for
the decision of the Jury.
The CHAIRMAN then dismissed the Jury, thanking
them for their attendance. _

Mr. LESLIE gave notice that on Tuesday week he
should move that the Commissioners do not sign the de-
cree for the Ranelagh and Counters Creek presentment,
because they were void, as being contrary to law and the
oaths of the Commissioners. He also gave notice of a
motion to prevent the payment of any money by way of
compromise in the case of Medley and Prichard.
The Court then adjourned to Friday, Feb. 19.

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS,
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE.

PUBLIC COMMITTEES FOR MONDAY, FEB. 15, 1841.
South Australia, at two, Mr. Speaker's House.

SOB-COMMITTEE ON PETITIONS FOR PRIVATE RILLS.
Yo. 4, at one, Mr. Speaker's House.

NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE.
Friday, 12th February, 1841.
1. Gourdon Harbour (No. 2)—Committee on Petition, Monday,
Ist March.
2. Neptune Marine Insurance Company—Committee on Petition,
Tuesday, 23d February.
3. Glasgow House of Refuga—Committee on Petition, Monday,
let March.
4. London Bridge Approaches and Royal Exchange Avenues—
Cotnmittee on Petition, Tuesday, 23d February.
5. Poribury Pier and Approaches—Committee on Petition, Tues..
day, 23d February.
6. Pill (Somerset) Dock—Committee on Petition, Tuesday, 23d
February.
7. Wakefield Waterworks—Committee on Petition, Tuesday,
23d February.
8. Newark Court of Requests—Committee on Petition, Tuesday,
23d February.
9. Abingdon (13erks) Inclo ure—Committee on Petition, Wed.
nesday, 24th February.
10. Whitmore (Stafford) Inclosure—Committee on Petition, Wed.
nestlay, 24th February.
11. Tinsley and Doncaster Road—Committee on Petitior, Thurs.
day, 25th February.
12. Northern and Eastern Railway—Committee on Petition, Tues.
day, 23d February.
13. Northern and Eastern Railway (Hertford and Ware Branch)_
Committee on Petition, Tuesday, 23d February.
14. Middlesex Sessions—Committee on Petition, Tuesday, 23d
February.
15. Whittlesea laclosure—Committee on Petition, Tuesday, 23d
February.
16. Birmingham and Heagley Road—Committee on Petition,
Tuesday, 23d February.
17. Whaddon Chase Inelosure—Committee on Petition, Tuesday,
23d February.
IS. Liverpool Local Acts—Committee on Petition, Tuesday, 23d
February,
19. Woodside and Hoylake Road—Committee on Petition, Tues.
day, 23d February.
20. Liverpool Sl?rsey Conservancy—Committee on Petition, Tues.
day, :-.3d February.
21. Birmingham Incloiure —Committee on Petition, Tuesday,
23d February.

COMMITTEES ON PETITIONS FOR PRIVATE BILLS
FOR THE ENSUING WEEK.
Monday, 15th February, IS4I.
1. British Plate Glass Company.
2. East Retford Court of Requests.
3. Gainsburgh Small Debts.
4. Wells (Somerset) Roads
5. Church of England Life and Fire Assurance, Trust, and
Annuity Company.
6. Forth and Clyde Navig4tion.
7. Birkenhead Church.
•8. Birkenhead Gas and WatErworks.
9. Peak Forest Canal.
10. Harrogate Improvement.
I I. Whitby Improvement.
12. King's Lynn Port.
13. Manchester Infirmary.
14. Newport Dock.
Tuesday, 16th February.
1. Bury (Sussex) Inclosure.
2. Britannia Life Assurance Company.
3. Durham and Sunderland Railway.
4. Upper Heyford Inclosure.
5. Derby Gas.
6. Middlesbrough Improvement.
7. Stumperosr. Roads.
8. Ipswich Docks.
9. Hull Flax and Cotton Mill Company.
10. Kidderminster Small Tenements.
11. Salisbury Small Debts.
Thursday, 18th February.
1. Exmouth Market.
2. Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock Railway.
3. Wishaw and Oiliness Railway.
4. Harborough and Bramptt n Road.
5. Leeds and Wakefield Roads.
Friday, 19th February.
1. Meerbrook Sough Drainage, s&e.
.2. Wigan Small Debts.
3. British Commercial Insurance Company.
4. St. Ives Fishery.
5. Wells (Somerset) Market.
6. Dalton Pier.
7. Burwell lien Drainage and Navigation.
8. t liccelcy Inclosure.
3. Levcrington, Inclosure.

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THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN.
"DER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS.

THIS EVENING, FEB. 13,
Will be acted the New Comedy, in Two Acts, entitled •
THE WHITE MILLINER.

Lord Ortolan, Mr. C. Mathews ; :ustice Twilight, Mr. W.
Farren ; Robert Conway, Mr. J. Vining ; Saul Sneczum, Mr.
Keeley ; Ladv Ortolan, Miss Cooper ; Albina, Madame Ves-
t ris ; Mrs. lilvllowpear, Mrs. C. Jones ; Bett.y Furbelow,
Mrs. fl umby.
After which, the New Farce, in One Act, entitled
BROTHER BEN.

Commodero Catlass, Mr. Bartiey ; Benjamin Bowles, Mr.
Charles Alathows; Mr. Shaftleten, Mr. Harley; Dorothy,
C. Jones.

To conclude with

The GRAND CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME, entitled
THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO; OR, HARLEQUIN

AND THE GIANT HELMET.

Harlequin, Mr. C. J. Smith ; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway;
Pantaloon, Mr. Mor.lli ; Columbine, Miss Fairbrother.
On Monday, the Midsummer Night'i Dream, with The
New Pantomime.

Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to
commence at Seven o'Clock.

Dress }loxes, 7r. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; -First and Second
Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price.
as. ; Gallery, Is.
. _

Ti!kete and places for the J3oac: to be taken of Mr. Grogan,
the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets
'lay De had upon application.
Private Box., to be had sotelr of Mr. And: lA's, bookseller
.67 .New Bond-street.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION.

(From the rota and Proceedings of Me Rouse of Commout.)
TEIDAY, FEB. 12.
LORD KEANE.

Queen's Message (Bth February) considered in Committee:—
Motion made, and Question put, " That the annual sum of
2,000 net be granted to her M.jesty, out of the Consolidated
Fund of the United Kingdom of Groat Britain and Ireland,
the said annuity to cemmence from the Bth day of February,
1841, and to be settled in the most beneficial manner upon
Lieutenant-General John Lord Keane, and the two next sur-
viving heirs male of ?tie body of the said John Lord Keane :"
—The Committee divided :

MAJORITY-AYES, 195.
Adam, Sir Charles Goulburn, Henry Parker, J.
Alston, Rowland Graham, Sir James Parnell Sir H.
Anton, Hon. Colonel Grant, Sir A. C. Peel, Hon. Sir R
Archdall, General Grattan, J. Perceval, Colonel
Ashley, Lord Greene, T. Phillipps, Sir R. P.,
Bagot, Hon. W. Grey, Sir C. Phillpotts, J.
Raillie, Colonel H. Grey, Sir G. Pigot, 1). It.
Baldwin, C. B. Grimsditch, Thorns, Pigot, B.
Baring, F. T. Grimston, Lord Planta, J
Barnard, E. G. Grosvenor. Lord R. Pluniptre, J. P.
Basset, John Harcourt, G. G. Polhill, Frederick
Batemon' Sir R. Hardinge, Sir IL Ponsonby C.
Benett, John Hawker, I'. Praed, W. T.
Bentinek, Lord 0. Ilawkins, J. H. Protheroe, Edward
B wes, T. Heatheoat, J. Ilawdon, J. D.
Blake, \V. J. Hobhouse, Sir J. C. Reid, Sir John R.
Blake, M. J. Hobhouse, T. B. Richards, R.
Bodkin, John James Hodges, T. L. Roche E. B.
Bolder°, H. 0 Hodgson, Richard Russell, Laid John
14ottield, Beriah Hogg, J. W. Rutherford, A.
Branitton, 'l'. \V. Holmes, W. A'Court Sardon, Lord
Aridginan, Hewitt Holmes, W. Scarlett, J Y.
Broadley, H. Houston, George Scale, Sir J. H.
Itrocklehtirbt. J. Howard, E. 0. Shaw, Frederick
Brodie. W. D. Howard, F. J. Shell, R. 1..
Broworigg, J. S. Howard, C. W. G. Shit'oy, E. J.
Buller, E. Ingestrie, Laid Srathorp, Colonel
Boller, Sir J. Y. Ingham, Robert S aney, R. A.
Barr, Ilig ford Inglis, Sir It. H. Smith, R. Vernon
Campbell, Sir J. Irving, John Somers, J. P.
Canning, Sir S. Jackson, Serje nt Somerset, Lord G.
Cantilupe, Lord James, air W. C. Standish, C.
Carew, Hon. R. S. Jenkins, Sir R. Stanley, E.
Chapman. A. Jones, Theobald Stanley. Lord
Christopher, R. A. Kelburne, Lord Staunton, Sir G. T.
Clay, W. Knightley, Sir C. Stock, Dr.
Clerk, Sir George Labouchere H. Stuart, Lord James
Cochrane, Sir T. Lascetles, Vs,. S. Stuart, Villiers
Collier, John Law, Hon. C. E. Style, Sir Charles
Colquhoun, J. C. Lennox, Lord G. Sugslen, Sir Edward
t wry, Right Hon. H. Listowel, Earl of Surrey, Earl of
Courtenay, Philip Litton, Ec'ward Talfourd, T. Noon
Cowper, Hon. W. F. Lockhart, A.M. Tancred, H. W.
Crawford, W. Lowther, J H. Teignmouth. Lord
Darner, Hon. G. Lushington, Hon. S. Thompson, Aid.
Darby, George Lygon, Hon. Gen. Trench, Sir F.
Donkin, Sir Rufane Macauley, T. B. Troubridge, Sir I'.
Dottin, Abel Roos Mackenzie, Thomas Vivian, Major C.
Bough's, Sir C. Mackenzie, W. F. Vivian, Sir R.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW.
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The Publication of the Evening Edition of THE Stn.{ com-

buncombe, W.
Ellice, Rt. Hon. E.
Evans, Sir De Lacy
Fei'den, W.
Ferguson, Sir Robert
Filiner, Sir Edward
Fitzalan,
Fort, John
Fortescue, T.
Fox, s
Fremantle, Sir T.
French, F.
Gladstone, W E.
Gladstone, J. N.
Gore, 0. J. lt.
Gore, 0. W.
Goring, H. D.

Aglionliy, H. A.
A inswart h er
13 tilitiridge, E. T.
Brutliertnn, J.
fltillrr, C.
Busfcild,
Currie, Itaikes
Duke, Sir James
Dtmcombe, T. S.
Ellice, E.
Evart, W.
Fielden, J.
Godson, lt.
Hawes, 13.
irt&tor, C. J.
Heron, Sir E.

Macnamara, W.
Marton, George
I%We, Hon. !'ox
Meynell, H.
Miles, W.
Morpeth, Viscount
Neeld, Jofeph
O'Brien, W. Smith
O'Connell, .1.
O'Connell, M. J.
O'Connell, M.
O'Frrrall, It. M.
Ord, W.
Ossulston, or d
Paget, lord A.
Paget, F.
Palmerston, Visct.

:NORITY—NOES,
Hindley, Charles
Loot
Hutton, R.
Jervis, Swynfen
Johnson, General
Langdale, Hon. C
Leader, J. T.
L.ster, E.C.
Lushington, C.
Nolesworth, Sii W.
Morrison, James
Pattison, J.
Philips, M.
Pry me, 6.
Rice, E. B.

White, Colonel H.
Williams, Robert
Winnington, Sir 1.
Wodehousc, Hon. E.
Wood, Sir Matthew
Wood, Colonel
Wood, Colonel T.
Worsley, Lcrd
Wrightson, W. B.
Wynn, C. W.
Wyse, Thomas
Yates, J. A.
Young, John
Young, Sir 1.. W.
TELLERS.
Stanley. E. J.
"fufnell, H.

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Strickland, Sir G '
Th ornely, Thomas.
Villiers,Walker, It,
P.
Warburton,
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Wood, H.

TIILLERS.
Hum; J.
Muntz, O. F.

BANKS OF ISSUE.—Committee on Banks of
Issue re-appointed :--Mr. Chancellor of the:Exchequer,
Sir Robert Peel, Mr. flume, Mr. Labouchere, Mr. Gout-
burn, Mr. Mark Phillips, Mr. O'Connell, Sir James Gra.
ham, Mr. Clay, Mr. Gisborne, Sir John Rae Reid, Mr.
()Await], Mr. Charles Wood, Mr. Rickford, Mr. Warbur-
ton, Mr. Patiison, Mr. H,rries, Mr. Ellice, Mr. Sergeant
Jackson, Mr. fleeter, Mr. Grote, Sir Thomas Fremantle,
Mr. John Abel Smith, Mr. Struts, Mr. Matthias Wood,
and Mr. MoriKn. Poser to send for persons, vipers, and
rreores ; five to be the quorum.
WANT OF DRAINAGE.—At a meeting of the
subt,eribets to the London Fever Hospital, held yesterday
at the Freemasons"cavern, Mr. Houghton stated that
there was a subject of vast importance connected with the
in3titution, which ought to be known to the public. He
meant the want of drainage in certain parts of the metro-
Po!:$•_ Only yesterday no less than nine persons were re-
c do
o out
s of
eled into the Fever Hospital, all from the same neigh-
bourhood,ono
ed
house.
ouTthiosf therases afrinoemweDreruoryf.oianueefiamaiald
in n y
an
cluolee, as he understood, of there being no drain-
age. Dr. Southwood Smith said there was really no
drainage at all in Drury-lane ; the result was that fever
vat; very prevalent there. Mr. Deputy Corney stated
ye,but since the excellentga
mof t e fever w t
amagss foundru eu ts to
of rage
the
dt kri
ea ta
tiftfiur formerly in a P
City authorities in the erection of sewers, it had entirely
disappeared.

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THE SUN. LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, IP4I

revort. It was regarded by the House as highly
Satisfactory.
In a Committee of the whole House to take
her MAJESTY'S Message into consideration, Lord
J. RUSSELL moved that 2,0001. per annum be
granted to Lord KEANE, and his two next sur-
'viving heirs.
Sir H. PEEL gave the resolution his cordial
support, and highly eulogized Lord KEANE.
Viscount Howicx opposed the motion, on the
ground that such rewards should be reserved for
the very highest species of merit. We had had
an increase of the great Military Order of the
Bath since the peace, and he complained that
these honours were too prodigally bestowed. In
particular he objected to continuing the pension
to Lord KEANE'S heirs.

Lord JOIIN RUSSELL defended the grant, and
said that in olden times the Crown had lands,
sinecures, pensions, and high offices of its own to
grant for services. Now it must come to Par-
liament. After a brief discussion the House di-
vided, and the resolution was supported by 193,
and opposed by 43.
In a Committee on the Customs Act, Mr. LA-
BOUCIIERE moved that it is expedient to reduce
the duty on rum and rum-shrub, the produce of
any place within the limits of the East India
Company's Charter.

aounnunN, and several other persons con-
nected with the West India interest, opposed the
motion. It was supported by Mr. LABOUCHERE,
Mr. HAwEs, and others, in able speeches, which
we have no space to abridge. The debate occu-
pied the greater part of the evening, and the Re-
solution was carried without a division.
The Railway Bill was read a second time ; to
be committed on Friday week.

The English Registration Bill was postponed
till next Friday.

The County. Courts Bill was brought in and
read a first time.

Lord MORPETIT'S Irish Registration Bill is to
be postponed front next Friday till Monday
following.
The House adjourned till Monday.

The public, we believe, generally approve of
Mr. Fox MA ut.E's Bill to establish County or
'Local Courts. The only objection we have seen.
'made to it is, that it will confer a considerable
quantity of patronage on the Crown. There are
at present, however, upwards of twenty such
Courts, all of which will be merged in the twenty-
five Courts established by the Bill, with greater
~,jurisdiction, uniform power, and, uniform in
their practice. The real increase in the
number of Courts will not be more than three,
but the whole will be improved. Then these
twenty-five new Courts are to be ambulatory,
and are really meant to carry. a legal means of
redress home to every man's door, which will be
a great saving of trouble, time, and uneasiness to
alt suitors. When these Courts obtain, as by
the second Bill introduced by Mr. Fox MAULE
they will obtain, jurisdicton in matters of bank-
ruptcy, insolvency, and lunacy, they will be a
prodigious improvement on the present system,
and, as far as Courts of Law can, a blessing to
country:.
We regret, with Mr. O'CONNELL, that these
Courts are not to have criminal as well as civil
jurisdiction; hi order to rescue the unhappy and
degra'led peasantry from the cruel gripe of the
country squires and the parson Magistrates. On
all questions of invasion of property, such as oc-
cur in the agricultural districts, stealing horses'
feed, plucking up hedge-stakes, shooting phea-
I sauts, snaring hares, robbing hen-roosts, the
country gentlemen have a strong personal into_
rest, and-it is not in human nature to avoid feel-
' ing a bias against the accused when such charges •
are brought before these Justices. They are, in
fact, parties concerned, and for their honour and
peace, and for the happiness and safety of the
peasantry, the dangerous powers of the Magis-
tracy cannot be too soon taken from them, and
vested in the hands of the paid Judges who will
preside
.over the County Courts. Besides, the
whole brood of the squirearchy- and priesthood
are so damaged in reputation by their support
of Corn-laws, and other nefitrious enactments,
that they never again will be confided in a!, ho-
nest and just men.
We further regret that the jurisdiction of
these Courts, which we suppose will be cheap
and expeditious, should be limited to cases
of 20/. value. That limitation may be for the
interest of the Bar—it is not for the interest
of the people. At the same time it would not
1w proper to allow these Courts to try causes of
any amount, unless both parties consented to sub-
mit to their jurisdiction. But whenever that was
the case, as we believe it would be in every
instance where the parties were honest, and
had only some difference to, settle on which
both thouyiht themselves right, we cannot
see a reason, except to please the lawyers,
why there should be any limitation to
the amount of the sum which might be brought
before these Courts. Suppose that some one of
the Judges of these Courts should justly acquire
the confidence of all the people in the neighbour- jj
hood, that he should be sagacious, discriminat-
ing, calm, temperate, an excellent lawyer, a
most impartial J udge. Suppose that at the same
time the superior Courts should be presided over
by some man who had been so long distinguished
as a political partizan, that his mind was perpe-
tually•warped by one-sided views; or by a man
who was neither a great lawyer nor a calm
Judge, or by a mere chamber pleader, who
was great at technicalities, and ready at
all times to sacrifice the substantial merits
of a case to forms, would it not be a great
cruelty to compol a man who had a great stake
at issue, to carry his cause into one of these su-
perior Courts, and prohibit him from obtaining
speedy justice in a Court in which lie has confi-
dence, and which sits at his own door? If, as we •
hope and believe, the County Courts will be ad-
vantageous to the poor, thelimitation we have ad-
verted to will operate as a denial of cheap justice to
the rich. In our judgment that is erroneous, and
we hope to see this limitation removed in Com-
mittee, leaving it to the option of suitors to pro-
ceed if they please in such Courts, and allowing•
appc-ds front them.

The contest for East Surrey has terminated in
favour of Mr. ANTRW3US, but we are glad to see
that neither Mr. .?..Lcocx nor his supporters arc
discouraged. Mr. A.LCOCK came late into the
field; he had much to contend against ; parsons,
landlords, and many farmers, too, under a mis-
taken notion, were opposed to him ; yet notwith-
standing all these disadvantap s he had a very
respoetable minority in his favour. When a
general election comes, and the Liberal party
have time to prepare for the contest, we confi-
dently look forward to a different result. The
inhabitants of the numerous and populous villages
in the Eastern Division of the County, all inte-
rested in the abolition of laws made for a parti-
cular class, will, when the proper time arrives,
show that they are not t.) be treated as serfs, and
misrepresented in Parliament by any young,
wealthy aristocrat put forward by the Carlton
Club or a banking-hou.,,e.

The Times felt itself yesterday under the neces-
sity of apologizing for allowing its correspondent
" Catholicus" to disparage Sir R. PEEL'S philo-
sophy, and insinuate that he had been a hypo-
crite, to propagate an error.
" We find," it said, " an idea gradually creeping forth,
probably only among very hasty reasoners, that our attach-
ment to Sir Robert Peel is sustaining some diminution. .
Was it fit that such letters should be suppressed or rejected ?
Sir R. Peel himself, we are convinced, as a man of learn-
ing and knowledge, would answer that question in the
negative, The attention which the letters have excited
concur also in that decision.

The speech at Tamworth we think not a wise one. Its
crews and blemishes are ably exposed in those letters which
we have published.
The Times is right ; it was not fit such letters
should have been suppressed. The world would
never have known how intense is the hatred
of the priest party to knowledge, had they
not been published. So great is it, that it
prompts a clever, but thoroughgoing, mem-
ber of that party to doubt whether Sir
ROBERT PEEL be religious, and brand him with
deceit because he has encouraged the people
to cultivate knowledge. So great is it, that the
Times,—now thinking that we have not Church
enough, and priestcraft enough—says that the
speech at Tamworth was not a wise one, and its
errors (namely, the encouragement it gave to
learning), and its blemishes
(namely, its insincere
profession of a love for learning.), " are ably ex-
posed in the letters or CATIIOLICUS." The Thrie3
can most certainly not serve the cause of truth
and freedom more effectually than to publish let-
ters vilifying the most eminent and one of the.
most liberal men of its party, and demonstrating
that the priests are now fully determined, in the
pursuit of their own objects, to trample every ob-
stacle, even their own friends, if they in the least
stand in their way, under their feet. We beg the
Times not to suppress or reject such letters as
those of CATHOLIC S.

Her MAJESTY'S packet Express, from the Bra-
on Thursday morninrr. The former
zils, and Star from Mexico, arrived at Falmeun
sailed from
Rio do Janeiro on the lath of December, and
are,
has no freight. The latter dates from Tam-
pico the 13th, and Vera Cruz the 23d of Decent-

ter, and from •Havannah sth of January, with a
freight of 800,000. dollars. Lieutenant R. B.
JAMES, the Commander, and other officers
and crew of the late packet Spey, lost in. the
Bahama Passage, by striking on a coral reef,
on her outward voyage to Mexico, are come
hoMe in
.the Star from the Havannah, having
succeeded, tiwy left the Wrecks in recovering
all the stores, besides sixty lidttlel of qtlicksilver,
which were shipped by. her. Front Rio Janeiro
we learn that the elections had terminated gene-
rally against the Ministers, their favourite can-
didates being thrown out, whilst the Oppo4tion
party had succeeded in returning two of the ex-
Ministers high upon the fist. The Etehtinge had
declined 31d., and just before the Express. sailed
intelligence had been received by steam-boat.
from Rio Grande stating' that the insurgents
were still unwilling to submit to the authority of
the Central Government. An official personage,
named BENTO DA SILVA LISBOA, hos come pas-
senger per Express, and it is. reported that his
mission is connected with negotiations for an
alliance between the two sisters of the EmpEnoa
and the members of some royal family in Europe.

If we have hitherto abstained from. comment-
ing upon the arrest and imprisonment of Mr.
M.'LEon by the Magistrates of the State of 'New
York, on a charge of murder and arson, arising
out of the burning of the Caroline steamer in the
winter of 1837, it has been because we supposed
the whole affair safer in the hands of the Govern-
ment than in the hands of persons disposed to
make it a handle fbr producing a hostile collision
between two great nations who ought always to
be at peace. But as our Contemporaries .have
been influenced by no such scruples, we find
that we cannot remain silent without the. suspi-
cion cf =indifference, which we certainly do not
feel, to the fate of a British subject unjustly de-
prived of his liberty, and whose life is considered
in peril. The burning of the Caroline was the
act of the British Governthent, and the indivi-
duals • engaged in executing that act were no
more responsible to the laws of the United
States, after its successful accomplishment, than
is Commodore NAPIER to the penalties which
attach in Egypt to the blowing-up of magazines
and the firing. upon the flan. of the PACHA.
Whether the burning of the Caroline was right
or, wrong is nothing to the purpose. We are not
now defending it. All we contend for is, that
being the act of the Government no individnal
in his individual capacity can be justly; or le-
gally; held responsible for it.
Considerable blame is cast upon the Gpvern-
ment for not settling this affair long ago. If the
United States Goverainent refused to regard. it
as other than a private outrage we do not see in
what way Lord PALMERSTON could .deal with it.
But there was a way in which the difficulty
might have been overcome—a way suggested by
The Sun immediately after the suppression of
the Canadian rebellion, and which the country
cannot now but regret was not adopted. We
then recommended to the Government to, take
means for quietly withdrawing from the Canadas
all individuals whose acts during the insurrec-
tion could in any way compromise them on the
Republican side of the frontier. We observed, ,
that if thiS was not done, some of these parsnne
would be likely to fall into the hands of tine:
United States authorities, and • that though we
neither doubted the will nor the ability of the
British Government to defend the liveS of its
own subjects, yet the trouble would be great, and
that after all the wisest policy would be that
which 'most diminished the chances of war
arising out of individual recklessness or bravado.
The. soundness of this advice will not now be
Called in question. HoWever inconvenient it
might have been to effect the removal of Mr..
.11/PLEoro to this country immediately after the
pacification of the Canadas, the trouble would
have been slight compared:with what it will take
to rescue him out of his present perilous con-
dition. •

The Journal des ,Debats professe.ssufprise'that.
on a subject so little suggestive' of military fury'
as the' Customs' Bill, 'nearly- every Member who
addresses the Chamber has something to say
about the enemies of France, as- if the' country
was actually in the jaws of some monster about
to devour her.' On glancing Over the debate from
day to day in the brench papers, we were .forci-
bly. struck with the: saline 'circumstance.. It is
astonishing with what pertinacity Some minds
cling to a painful idea.. That France! has been
humbled to the duSt—that her enemies are power-
ful and combined • for her • destrUctiert—that she
is betrayed by her own Government, andiS there-
fore in a state of hopeless abandonment, would
really .appear. not only to be the conviction, but
to afford delight to half the -representatives of
France in,the Chamber of Deputies; 'They are
wounded, they say, and they do all . they can to
keep the, wound green. When any, lurid ap-
proaches, with salve they thrust it aside, :and
apply salt, pepper, and sand, to make the smart
the- more exquisitely painful. They are. always
parading their dishonour and their helpiessnes
in a manner which would be pitiable were France
either weak or dishonoured, but which becomes
ludicrous when it is known that France is as
powerful at home, and a4much respected abroad,
as &ie --ever was at any period • of her 'hiStory.
And as to enemies we know of but two f:orn
whom France has at' this moment anything to
fear, and these , are but little interested in the
Customs' Bill---namely, M. THIERS and ABD..E:
K A DER. • .

The Paris Journals of Thursday have all reached
us. The Monitenr Univemel, the Moniteur Pa-
riiien, and the Message?' give an offiCial contra-
diction to the statements of the Courrier Fran-
cais, the Temps, the National, and the Com-
merce, respecting the alleged disunion among the
members of the Cabinet. The Monitcur Parisicn
also asserts that the reports about the notes.ad-
dressed by tbreign powers to M. G urzoT relative
to the armaments, "are neither cATeet, nor have
a semblance of probability." We cannot see
what there is improbable in asking for what pur-
pose Fraffce planes her immense army and
powerful navy on a war footing in a season of
profound peace. There is nothing surely strange
—nothing inconsistent with what is dtt; to the
dignity and the freedom of action which every in-
dependent nation is entitled to claim--in request-
ing to be informed upon what grounds the French
Government has thought proper to convert
France into an immense arsenal, where, amid
the clangour of arms, nothing is heard but
shouts of European defiance or the wailings of
despair.
The Editor of the National has been summoned
to the Bar of the Chamber of Peers on the 20th
instant for two articles which appeared in that
Journal, reflecting upon the political character
of that branch of the legislative body. It is not
by cross-examining Editors, or prosecuting the
Press, that the Chamber of Peers will succeed in
doing away with the odium which attaches to
in consequence of its gross subserviency to the
Court.

In the Chamber of Deputies on Thursday the
article of the Customs' Bill fixing the import
duty on linen thread was adopted. After con-
siderable opposition on the part of the thread-
manufacturers the Minister of Commerce suc-
ceeded in prevailing upon the Chamber to fix
the import duty at 10 per cent. instead of 12
p,-,r cent. as fixed by the Committee. The duty
,on Cashmere Indian shawls is fixed at 100 francs
the large size, and 50 francs the smaller sizes.
Letters from Toulon of the Gth inst., received
by the Commerce, bring sad accounts of the
injuries sustained by the shipping in the
late storm. The Castor, which arrived. .early
that morning at Toulon, brought the me-
lancholy news that the Maine transport
corvette commanded by M. CATTIER was lost
in the Gulf of Stora, having on board fifty-seven
men, including the first and second lieutenants,
an ensign, and the chief-surgeon, all of whom
perished. Out of thirty-two merchant-vessels
at Stout and Philippe twenty-eight were stranded
by the violence of the tempest, and most of
their crews were drowned. On the 21st the
weather was tempestuous at Algiers. The Tiber,
loaded with gunpowder, was driven on shore, and
went to pieces. The Acheron sailed from Al-
giers, on-the 26th ult., but up to the 6th instant,
she was not heard of at Toulon, whither she was
bound. The same Journal has the following
paragraph relative to Admiral HuGoN's squad-
ron :

The squadron under Admiral Hugon, of which only
two line-of-bat.tle ships, the Ocean and the Gencreux, had
returned to Toulon, experienced such severe injury as to
render it unfit for sea. The Triton shortly after the hur-
ricane commenced, signaled to the Admiral that she was
making 36 inches water per hour. She subsequently
separated from the fleet, and had not since been heard of.
The Jena and Neptune likewise suffered corsiderably in
their sails and masts, and the latter was believed to have
sought refuge at Cagliari, in Sirdinia. The Urenie fri-
gate, conveying troops and material to Bourbon, had like-
wise put into that harbour.
The news from Algiers brought by the Castor
is of the 28th of January. On the night of the
27th a part of a column of the army at Algiers
had surprised the tribes of ZEROUELA, BEIN-
DAADE and BENI-ZERGUIN, of whom they killed
12, made 22 prisoners, and carried away conside-
rable booty in oxen, mules, and sheep. The
French lost but one Arab killed. On the 29th
of December a part of the garrison at Medeah
surprised three Afab villages, which they burned,
Arabs avid making 18 prisonersrbesides
a-number of bullwks, a flock of sheep, and a
score of horses and ;mules. On the 17th of Jan.

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