The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-03 00:00:00

(From the Standard.)

The President had not yet arrived when our last
letters from Liverpool were written. She is sup-
posed to have been delayed by heavy gales in the
Atiantic,• of which some vessels lately arrived have
had expetie:,ce. The President has been expected
with anxiety, chiefly because it is believed that no
Government despatches came by the Britannia; for, as
regards other news, the Britamii, which sailed some
days later than the President, has anticipated her. The
belief, however, that the Britannia trought no Govern-
ment despatches is erroneous, according to the state-
ment of an authority entitled to respect. It is said that
despatches have been received by the B:itannia,
and that " these dispatches leave no doubt of
an amicable and immediate settlement between the
United States and Great Briniin as far as regards
the question of M'Leod. Mr. Fox had received a com-
mumeation to that effect from the American Govern-
men , couched in the most concd'at ry language."
For ourselves, we anticipated as much from the
inaugural address of General Harrison, which,
whateve r faults of style may seem to characterise it—and
we must no: condemn, even in i,s style, without reflecting
that it was addressedato an American, and net an English
public, breathes from first to last a spit it of manly sincerity,
with a sincere respect fi r justice, and a love of peace.
(From the Courier.)
It will be seen by our Parliamentary report that the
18th cisme of the New Poor-law Continuance Bill, for
enabling the guardians of one union to contract or farm
out their poor with tie guardians of another union, was
withdrawn by Lord John Russell for the present, after
Lurd Granville Somerset had forcibly pointed out the
cruel bearing of its provisions, according to which
paupers might have been dtaughted from their own to any
ether parish, where starvation chanced to be more grin-
gently administered under the dispensations ef the commis- '
sinners, and therefore rates economised in both the one parish
and the other. According to this clause, which, it must be
ob-erved, is intended to be re-introduced in some other
shape, the unhappy tenants of workhouses, or applicants for
reli f, were to be let out on lease, for terms not exceed-
ing seven )ears, to such contracting parishes as should
bi 1 for their support at the lowest money rates of pay--
meet, so that side by side of the usual advertisements
of " Cattle taken to grass at per head," may come to
figure al3o " Paupers to let out on convenient terms ;
tenders for the supply of food at the lowest rate per
head to be addressed, sealed, to the Poor-law Commis-
sioners, Somerset House," &c. This, however, was not
the worst feature in the clause, for the paupers might be
classified under it, and the husbands contracted for to
one union, the wives to another, the sons to a
third, and the daughters to a fourth. We recollect
that, in the first report of the Commissioners appointed
to inquire into the working of the old Poor-laws, it was
'nee a special charge that they tended to the destruc-
tion of family, that is parental, conjugal, filial, and
fraternal affections,
which of course the intent of a
new
was, in favourable contrast, to
nrast Poor-lawanio morality
cherish and re-establish. It was with this laadable
view, we presume, that the new Poor-law theory for
strengthening the ties of kindred was invented, under
which each of the members of the same family, consist-
ing ',of father, mother, sisters, and brothsrs, were to be
separately transported for periods not exceeding seven
yesrs each, renewable on expiration of the terms ad
libitum and ad infinitum, to separate workhouse as-
till .s, as far asunder each from the other as within the
r
extremities of the kingdom could be contrived, so that no
gring. out of family communion,
family bickcrings,
might by possibility arise to impair the family love which,
at first and final parting with each other to be immured in
thwe living tombs from whose sad bourne perhaps never to
all the fullbloom and vi
emerge, was in gour of natural
feeling.

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foi
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BRUSSELS, MARCH 31.--The average price
of wheat last week was 181. 240. and thatof rye 10f. 99c.
per hectolitre.