The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-25 00:00:00

area to the price of land is merely a piece of Colonial-
office vengeance. The despatch which we have quoted,
wms manifestly written in a pet. It was a mean spite
which induced Lord John Russell, or the writer of the
despatch, which he sighed, to direct a reduction in the
nain:naum price of land from I 2s. to ss. -But injury from
this change will not be confined to :he emigrants, whom
Mr. Mother-country wants to punish for having set him at
defiance. The principal sufferers from the great cheap-
ness of land in New Zealand, as we have more than once
pointed out before, will be the landowners and capitalists
of the Australian colonies. One result of this paltry trick
will be to check the sales of public land in New South
Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and South Australia—perhaps
to stop them altogether for a time. We have already
heard of cases in which capital, destined for the pur-
e iase of waste land at Port Philip and in South Australia,
has been transferred to New Zealand, in order to be in-
vested at the rate of ss. per acre, according to Lord John
Russell's last direction to Captain Hobson. So long as
capitalists can obtain land for ss. per acre in New Zea-
land, they will not hesitate to pay for the emigration of
labourers from the neighbouring settlements ; and thus,
while the Emigration Funds of the Australian Colonies
are diminished, their existing stock of labour will also be
decreased. In order to ruin the emigrants to New Zea-
land,from a motive of revenge, Lord John Russell seems
determined to ruin other colonists who have given him no
offence."
Now, can any person believe, always except the
penholder for this Company, that Lord J. RUSSELL
or the Colonial-office would inflict an injury on
the other Australian colonies, because Mr. G. F.
YOUNG, Mr. SOMES, and Mr. MoTTE had written
one or two impertinent letters ? But a complete
answer to the groundless assertion is, that the de-
spatches are directed to Sir GEORGE GIPPS, the
Governor of New South Wales, and he it is who
is authorised, if he think fit, to set Captain HOB-
SON at liberty as to this part of his instructions. It
is not, therefore, the Colonial Minister who ruins
these other colonists in order to take vengeance on
the New Zealand Land Company, but the Chief
Governor of those Colonies, who is merely autho-
rised by the Colonial Minister to ruin them if he
think fit. Is it likely, then, that Sir G. GIPPS,
having no such motives as are ascribed to Lord J.
RUSSELL, in the teeth of the remonstrating colo-
nists, would inflict such an injury on them ? To
us the accusation seems equally groundless and ma-
licious.

We suppose that the Colonial Minister was in-
fluenced to send these despatches by very different
motives from a " mean spite," or a desire " to
take vengeance," or " ruin the emigrants," as the
the Colonial Gazette avers. The fact is, that
the Colonial-office felt itself compelled to in-
terfere, by the number of English who settled
in New Zealand. It sent out Captain HOB-
SON to endeavour to keep order amongst those
settlers. Now, it is doubtful, though scme advan-
tages might be obtained by their congregating round
him, and colonizing under his authority, whether
those advantages would be equivalent to giving
12s. an acre for land, particularly when it might be
in many places appropriated almost for nothing by
the consent of the Chiefs. The Ministers were,
no doubt, sensible of this, and they sanctioned the
reduction, we presume, with a view of inducing
those settlers, as far as possible, to place them-
selves under his authority. When such a motive
lies on the surface, the hungry spite must be great
which leads the writer in the Colonial Gazette to
attribute to a Minister of the Crown such very vile
and base motives as that Joutnal attributes to Lord
JOHN RUSSELL.

If, he or any public officer, were influenced by such
motives as the Colonial Gazette ascribes to him—if
he mischievously and out of spite to a Company
here, injured our Australian Colonies—if he issued
a despatch to ruin any emigrants going to so dis-
tant a place, and going too, whatever may have
been the designs of the parties selling the land at
20s. the acre, with the most honourable motives—
he would deserve to be impeached. If such a
crime were proved against him, we will further
affirm that he would deserve, if ever Minister de
served, to be hanged. Any thing more completely
criminal than injuring distant colonists and
ruining confiding emigrants, to gratify a
personal spite, we cannot conceive in a Minister of
the Crown. The Colonial Gazette cannot allow
such an accusation to rest there—it must convict
Lord JOHN RUSSELL of the crime it charges him
Kith, or it must itself stand convicted of diabolical
malice.

We must express our unfeigned surprise at see-
ing those charges copied, without one word of refu-
tation or remark into the Morning Chronicle.
Does the Chronicle believe that Lord JOHN RUS-
SELL is guilty of this conduct ? If it do, it is
bound to use all its exertions to turn so mischievous
and malignant a Minister out of office. If it do
not, why does it circulate such very serious charges
by its authority, and make the world believe, by
their being inserted in the Morning Chronicle,
that they are true? To be inserted in the limes, the
Post, or the Herald, would at once have made the
public suspect the assertions ; but to see them in
the Ministerial organ gives them the sanc-
tion and authority of the Ministers themselves.
To find them unreproved in the Morning. Chro-
nicle is tantamount to Lord JOHN RUSSELL ad-
mitting the truth of every assertion of the Colonial
Gazette.

A Morning Journal says, "on Wednesday the
Conservatives made the most powerful display of
their strength ever witnessed in Lewes." We shouLl
be glad to know in what sense our Contemporary
uses this very ambiguous word " strength." If he
means numerical " strength," then he is most egre-
giously in error, for the gathering together of one or
two hundred hungry Tories, who have been collected
with incredible difficulty, and not till after repeated
summonses from their local leaders, can no more be
called a proof of Tory " strength," than Sir JAMES
GRAHAM'S late Chinese motion can be called a
proof of Tory sagacity. If, on the contrary, our
Contemporary means intellectual " strength," then
he is equally mistaken ; for speeches more perfectly
unadulterated with any infusion of common sense
or political foresight, were never yet delivered, than
those which were spoken to order at Lewes. Viewed
in either sense, our Contemporary's use of the word
" strength" is so truly unfortunate—so exquisitely
inapposite—that we should not be surprised in his
Journal of this day to read this erratum—" In
our account of the Lewes dinner yesterday, for
strength,' read weakness r "

The Rev. Mr. SHIFFNER, as a high Tory
parson, of course led the van at this notable Lewes
dinner ; and after indulging in some small sentimen-
tality, touching the disconsolate condition of that
superAnnuated gentlewoman, Mother Church, ob-
served that he now "stood forward in opposition to
atheism and infidelity ; and he would say that if
the Church and State were to be dissevered, the
power of the Monarchy would no longer exist."
atheism and infidelity are hard words, and were
once formidable, but—thanks to the improved
spirit of the
their terrors. age—they have long since lost all
We once trembled—we can now af-
ford to laugh at them. And why Because we
know their import, and can app-recite the spirit
that suggests them. Rendered into plain
like English, they mean—not disbelief in Coolebbdcotct:
ptieism on the sub-
trines of Christianity, but—see
yet of tithes ; hostility to Church exactions; hereti-
cal notions of pluralities; shrewd doubts of
episco_
pal integrity, so far as ecclesiastical reforms are
concerned. These are the things, and not mere
' differences of doctrine, that constitute atheism and
infidelity in the eyes of your high Tory Church-
man. He is tolerant enough of Dissent, as a
mere matter of religious opinion, but let
it once threaten his temporalities—make
a significant movement towards his pockets—and
from that moment it degenerates into rank atheism

and infidelity I As regards Mr. SHIFFNER'S re.
mark, that the Monarchy will be endangered by
the severance of the Chuich from the State, our
prompt, unhesitating reply is, that such separation
is the one thing needful to confirm the stability of
the Throne. GOD help it, if it had no other sup-
port than that which it may derive from its con-
nection with an effete and decayed Church Esta-
blishment I Long ere this, it would have been in
a condition to justify the most serious apprehen-
sions of all who cherish the monarchical principle.
Sir A. DALRYMPLE—who, though a great
orator at Lewes, is a very minute one at St. Ste-
phen's—spoke warmly in praise of Sir ROBERT
PEEL, as the acknowledged leader of the Tories.
How is this ? Is there another mutiny in the
camp ? We thought Lord STANLEY had been
the leader. He was virtually recognised as such
at the commencement of the Session, when, speak-
ing in the name of his party, he proclaimed, amid
their unanimous cheers, " war to the knife" against
Ministers. The real truth is, the Tories have no
formally-acknowledged leader, for they have no
fixed principles of action. They are a vacillating,
ill-cemented faction. One day they incline to a
STANLEY—the next, they coquette with a PEEL.
Now, they are all storm and bluster—now, they
are as sluggish as a Dutch canal. A hesitating,
capricious party like this, not knowing its own
mind for a week together, and halting between two
leaders, unable to make a decided choice of either,
must necessarily in the course of.time fall to pieces,
as wanting that principle of coherence that can
alone give it efficiency.

Mr. GEAR, who followed Sir A. DALRYMPLE,
condemned Ministers for not resigning, when the
Tory influence was so strong throughout the
country, and in the House of Commons ; adding
that, "if they possessed but a hundredth part of
the honour which regulated the late Mr. PITT,
they would long since have resigned the reins of
office. The speaker is here strangely oblivious of
the most important passage in Mr. PITT'S life
That great orator, but misguided Statesman, not
only stuck fast to place when Whig influence was
predominant throughout the country; but even
when the majorities in the Commons-we speak of
the period of Lord NORTH'S coalition with Fox—
were upwards of six to one against him ! And yet
Mr. GEAR talks of the meanness of the present
Ministers in not resigning, when they have a good
working majority in their favour ; and worse than
this, has actually the infatuation to contrast their '
tenacity of office with that of the late disinterested
PITT ! "The force of folly can no further go."

We see in Mr. STANLEY'S able and eloquent
speeches at Stockport on Wednesday, full and suf-
ficient reason why the Courier and the Standard
should assail him with vulgar abuse. The Hon.
Gentleman, by merely recapitulating the history of
the Tories, sketching their prospects, pointing out
their disputes with one another, referring to their de-
structiveness, gave them aseries of blows under which
they will reel for some time. The Hon. Gentleman,
on responding to the toast of her Majesty's Minis-
ters, reminded the company that most of them once
formed part of that band of patriots who unceasingly
advocated those amendments in our laws which they
have since carried into execution. The party which
now asserts that the Ministers are incapable was
then in power. They had, said Mr. STANLEY, as
we find his speech reported in the Stockport
Chronicle:—

" For forty years an unlimited sway in Parliament
having the command both of the House of Lords and of
the Sovereign, and having no opposition in the House of
Commons which could prevent them passing any mea-
sures which they thought fit—and yet, I can confidently
ask you, to what page of the Statute Bo' k will you turn to
find one good deed which they have done, to discover one
enactment which they have passed for the amelioration cf
the institutions of the country, for the promotion of civil or
religious liberty, for reforming the abuses, or4improving
the condition of the country ?—(Loud, applause-) ~,This,
then, is the party, who, when in powei, did nothing 'fur:
the people's good, and who now, when in opposition., pro,.
pose no measures for the better governMent of the country,
I do not promise to do anything for the nation's good, who
Iclaim no advantage over those possessed by the present
Government, have no wiser measures to propose, or wiser
plans to pursue ; but who seem to rest contented in the
belief that it is the duty, the only duty of the opposition to
obstruct the march of the Government, and to impede the
progress of the affAirs of the nation.
That justly characterises the Tories, who having
done nothing beneficial for the community when in
office, are now engaged in the statesmanlike wish of

excit:ng contempt abroad for the power of Britain,
and provoking, by their oppression, rebellion at
home. After pointing out the vicious desin of the
Tories in introducing Lord STANLEY'S Disfran-
chising Bill, Mr. STANLEY observed—
The ouestion which Sir R. Peel emphatically mentioned
during the last summer, on the occasion when he was c lied
to the Government in May last, was, " Ireland is my real
difficulty."—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) Is that difficulty
diminished or increased ? Is Ireland I, ss likely to ty.r
sourers of trouble, and more likely to be a means of sup-
; port to a Tory Government now than then? Are the eight
millions of Irishmen, who have been tr.troted and insulted by
beieg called ' aliens,' and savages, worse than the barbarians
of Isew Zaintid, whos.• priests have been sty led sur-
pliced ruffians, win se religion has been insulted by every
dorignity whist it was passible to heap upon it, and who
have themselves been treated in the rno.t wanton and in-
sulting manner, and their rights and franchise as not en.
titled to respect.—( Lt•ud app ause.) Is it likely that
non who have been so insulted anti ahu-ed, will come to
Sir Robett Peel, like the Jew in the Merchant of Venice,
and say, " F. it Sir, you sprat upon us last Monday, and
therefore take our money ?"--( Prolong. d cheers.) I, it
likely that we should again see that country pouring out
regiment after regiment, troop after troop, and soldier
after soldier, to protect the lives and properties of the
loyal and peaceable of this country.—( Continued ap-
pLiuse ) Is it likely that such an event would again
occur, or is it not likely, is it not more probable,
that instead of aiding us in our victories, we should
find it necessary to send troops to them, to prevent
them from breaking into open rebellion ?—(Applause. )
War, and rumours of wars, are said to be impcnaing over
U 5. For my part, Ido not believe that we shall be com-
pelled to have resort to that last and most to be deprecated
necessity for the protection of our commercial interests,
and vindicating the honour pf our country.—(Cheers.) I
believe and trust that the existing differences will he fwirly
and peaceably adjusted—( Great applause)—the chief dif-
ficulty wlrch I see, the chief doubt which I entertain,
depend upon the conduct of the party who are opposed to
the Government, and who seem to seek every opportunity of
sanctioning the conduct of the nation's enemies, encouragihg
them by their arguments and t:ieir assistance, and who
seem to paralyse and cripple the exertions of the Govern-
ment in obtaining redress for the most grievous injuries,
and the vindication of the national honour."

These are plain-spoken home truths, and the
puny exertions of the Tory press will be unable
either to hoodwink the public, or cleanse the cha-
racter of their leaders.

In returning thanks for his own health, Mr,
STANLEY explained, at considerable length, his
views as to the Corn-laws ; and one part of his
speech, refuting an accusation made against the
the Ministers, we must quote. He said—

" I know that many people express much dissatisfaction
because Government have not taken this question up as a
Government question, and proposed on their own respon-
sibility some measure to Parliament. So far from being of
that opinion, I think that of all others the Corn-law ques-
tion ought not to be made a party or a Government
question it
.is a question involving such mighty interest,
and one on which so much ignorance exists, and so many
an made
ad
ye.ou a every
party
prejudices prevail, that nothing car. enable us to pass a law
abolishing the present one but the enlightening the public
rniad and the promulgation of sound opinions on the
subject....—( Applause.) For these reasons it is that
dleir t
once
ete befogenlist
sist
against cil u shouldes t c
n most .
You deeply
would
man of the Tory party ; no matter what his opinions might
be, you would have him pledged to the. support of the
present Corn-laws ; and at the same tine putting the
question forward on the credit of the Government, would
not give it the slightest aitclittonal chance o. passing.
Already we have
,a proof of the advantage of its not
being so introduced ; we hate had the declaration of Sir
R. Peel, which I take to be a most valuable one, and
well worth all the tune and energy that has been spent on
this question, that the maintenance of our position in the
scale of nations depends upon our manufacturing pros.
PeritY_.'—( Applause.) And he adds, if I were only a
friend to the agricultural ioserest, I would say the manu-
facturers are your bust friends.'—(Great applause.) That
is our position ; we di&r with Sir R. Peel only in this,
we think that the present Corn laws have been, are, and
will be, prejudicial to the best interests of the country."

Sir K. PEEL requires an immense deal of con-
viction, and sa],s, according to Mr. STANLEY,

" First show me you arc ruined; And then I will
alter the laws." On this point the bulk of the
manufacturers and of the Liberal party differ from
Sir R. PEEL, and would prefer being saved from
ruin, by the laws being repealed, to going through
that process in order to produce a perfect convic-
tion in his doubting mind.

A meagre report of Mr. STANLEY'S speech win
be found in another part of our Paper, which was
unfortunately in print before we received the Stock-
port Chronicle. We have endeavoured by these
one or two quotations partially to remedy the im-
perfection, but we have still to apologize to our
readers for the incompleteness of the report.

The Moniteur of Thursday, rec,-tred with the
other Paris Journals of the same date, contains the
following telegraphic despatch

OULON APRIL 22
THE MARITIME PREFECT TO THE MTINI,TER, OF MARINE,. The Princes left Algiers on the 17th at noon. They
were to sleep at night at Douera, nod proceed afterw&ds
to Bouffarick, where his Royal Highness thz: Duke of Or-
leans was to assume the command of his division.
The Marshal left on the 18th for Fendouck. He escorts
a convoy, and was to return to Algi rs on the 21st, and
rejoin the Prince, to commence operations. . The Prince's
presence has revived the hopes of the settlers. The army
received him enthusiastically. It :s animated with the
most ardent desire to fight under his auspices.
On learning the arrival of the Duke of OR
LEANS at Algiers, ABD-EL-KADER addressed a
letter to Marshal VALLEE, which contains the
following characteristic passage ;
" Hitherto I have been able to conceive that the ad-
vanced age of your Sovereign preventing him from quitting
his dominions, and crossing the sea, to
come and measure
his arms with me, should defer the task of conquering me
to some of his generals, to whom the Riles of consistency
and my own dignity have induced me to oppose my gene-
rats; but now that the importance of the war compels your
infirm King to send his eldest son to represent him at the
head of his army, I place myself at the bead of mine, and
we shall sec who will be triumphant."
The .illarscilles journals continue to represent a
war between England and Naples as inevitable.
A letter, dated the 14th instant, from Naples,
states that the Sardinian Ambassador had offered
his mediation, which was refused by the King.
The Hydra steamer, which sailed with instructions
to Admiral SToPFoRD on the 7th, returned on
the 12th ; but she was ordered by the Neapolitan
authorities net to approach the port, upon which
she anchored in Baie. Mr. TEMPLE stated that
she had brought fresh instructions for an amicable
arrangement, but this was not believed by the po- '
pulace, among whom a rumour was circulated that
the Bri ish had no ships at Malta that could be
spared for such a service as the blockade of Sicily.
ii It is stated," says the Neapolitan correspondent
of the Courrier Francais, " that some influential
mediators of the French sulphur monopolists both
asked and received very heavy douceurs. Awt 11.
known General, it is affirmed, has received as his
portion 15,000 ducats (2,6401), a Minister and a
Duke, who figured conspicuously, 45,000 ducats
(7,9200 ; in short, 1,000,000 ducats (175,0000
is the present stated to have been made to a still
higher personage. If the contract is annulled,
what has been received must be returned, and there
are few people at Naples disposed to submit to such
an extremity."
It is here only necessary to observe, that in
Paris the conviction that the Sulphur question will
be amicably settled is universally entertained. The
powerful mediation of France was not known at
Naples on the 14th, and hence the warlike tune of
the correspondence.
Of the Reines Conversion Bill twelve articles
or clauses were adopted on Thursday. The only
important amendment introduced in the draught of
the Bill, which has already appeared in our co-
lumns, is one limiting the conversion into Four.and
a-Half-per. cent. stock at par. The Government
wished to recognise two descriptions of stock—
Three-and-a-Half and Four-and-a-Half, but the
Chamber decided otherwise.
The King, of the FRENCH and the members of
the Royal Family at present in France, set out on
Thursday afternoon for Compiegne, to meet the
Princess VICTORIA, bride elect of the Duke de
NEmoußs, and her father, the Duke of SAXE
COBOURG.

The Moni!cur of Thursday contradicts the
statements of the legitimist organs about corn riots
in different parts of France. Though bread is
dear•the people are said to be everywhere, tranquil.
A mixed' Cotrivalision, English and Freucla: has Ocen
ionised to examine the differences which have arisen be-,
terema.the English and the French on the subject of the
gum trade at Portendic. The English Commissioners
are Mr. H. L. Bulwer, Secretary to the Legation at Pa.
lie, and Mr. Rothery. The Commission is to sit at Paris,
and to commence its proceedings in a fortnight. Mr. Ro-
thery was to leave London yesterday.—Le Commerce.
The Moniteur of the 23d publishes in its official part
the) law by which 80,000 men of the class of 1839 are to
be called out to recruit the army and navy; and the law
granting a credit of 890,000 francs for the execution of
paintings and sculptures for the palace of the Chamber of
Peers. These laws are dated the 19th of April.
An ordinance of the 15th directs the publication of the
preliminary treaty of friendship, trade, and navigation,
concluded on the 3d of April. 1836, between France and
the Oriental Republic of the Utuguay.
The King and the Royal Family set out yesterday for
Compiegne, where the Prince and Pi incess of Coburg
are expected.
The 1:co de Aragon has the following letter from head-
quarters, dated the 15th April:—
" The impatience of our troops to march againt Morella
increases every day. The day before yesterday e:e were
informed that the garrison of that place had been rein-
forced by a battalion of Grenadiers, by the sth Arragon-
ese Regiment, and by Bosque with his band. The chief
Garcia is intrusted with the command of the place. It is
believed that this new commander will atten.pt to make
some resi.tance, hut it will avail him nothing.
Esparti ro ha% sent to S iragossa for a train of heavy
artillery, to be employed ag4iost Morella."—Le Consti
bOURSE.—Paais, THURSDAY, APRIL 23.

irsi ti, rest
Price Price Prico. Price
icor!) pet , etas ;l2 81 ... II? 60 .. 112 5 ... 1 2.20
4 nor 104 75 ... 1I!4 75 114 75
3 pert erns BO Si) .8 t 95 63 ;0 S 3 7.
3.111: of rrance
Latta, Bank ;011!f. 5/1 lO-5
...1115 1 95 ...I 65
5,11000. Sl)._ 5197 50 _5107 50 ...5 97 50 7 50
.'elgian Rank
... 80, ... 84./ 50 90
5 ,er Cents
New York
hio .. lO2 75 ... 1(2 75 Ito' 75 ... Ito? 75
S.:tate of New York
-29 ... ... zB.ll,
Passive 714 714 ... 7s •ls
New I .rferre
Near olitmi
Reman
11'4 ... 111412 ... 111414
RAILWAY SHARES.
t. Cermai-
... 70 • _lO5 ... 710 ... 712 50
Versailles, It. B OO5 ... 605 flO5 015
L.8.,911 710 290
Orleans .........
6; rishurg to Bale 4B 75 ... 4.8 75 ... 415 ... 115
ASPEIAL'rF.S AND Br. U.viENs.
l'arn (Maberly's)

The Three Estimates for the Miscellaneous Servie,s
for 1840,
1848 z.,
oCar2el9a,s9 f3.°111., °'lves:"—s hFyolrii.36l/. Public
thanßu in ildirig'l4B3P9a,
Pa-
laces,
fbr Salaries and Expenses of Houses of Parliament,
Commissions, Prisons, &c., 629,5201., 6,124/. less than
in 1839, exclusive, however, of Postages, 84,0001. ;
for Superannuated and Retired Allowances, &c.,
112,447/, more than in 1839, by 5,1321. The total
of the Miscellaneous Estimates for 1840, is, therefore,
961,910/. A return has also been laid on the table of
the House of Commons, of the increase and diminution
of persons employed in the Public Departments in
1839, and the increase is 661.
tt
ee decreasedecrease
,163.3,5',F4h
e
inctrieleasseaimne pSaclarrioieds,isPe7n2s,iloln7si„.ctired Allowances,,.,,
in
It must be remarked, that of this large increase in
public servants, 484 arc in the Post Office, 45 in the
of Pembroke, is in the field ready to redeem
Customs, and 55 constitute the whole establishment
created under the Registration of Births' Act.
We are glad to see that a Mr. James M. Child, a
burgess
that borough, when occasion server, from thraldom to
the Owenites. The candidate, in an address to the
electors,
ac-
quainted swithsays_"
s‘ Having
thecircumstance this
momentoft
e been made
arrivalee at ,
re
nby
of a gentleman named Graham, an alien and a stranger,
ono to whom your righitu and privileges have been so
suspiciously handed over, without the slightest com-
pliment being paid you of allowieg you to exercise your
tree choice in the selection of your representative, I
h:isten to re-assure you of my sincerity in offering my
humble endeavours to redeem you tram the stigma and
entbrArnent you lie under, and repeat that no ex rtion on
my part shall be wanting, short of involving myself and
distressing my family."

who have visited this national establishment during the week
SUDDEN
BRITISH MUSEUM.—The noinhcr of persons
terminating yesterday, was ')0.120. On Monday there were
no less than 13,133; on Tuesday. 1,735; Wednesday. 2,762 ;
Thurst!ay, 536 ; and yesterday, 1,954. The greatest order and
decorum pre'va,led, and the visitors throughout the week have
been principally artizans.
THEATRE.—Great surprise, was erei‘td in the neighbourh. ill
by the sudden elosino. of the above theatre on Thursday even-
CLOSING OF THE VICTORIA
ing. Various reasons have been assigned, but the true one is,
that the landlord has put in an execution for 139/. fur rent.
ELGIN
COUNTY ELECTION.—The writ for
Vie election of a Member of Parliament for the combined coun-
ties of Elgin and
Nairn, in the room of Colonel the Honour.
ab:e F. W. Grant, of Grant, resigned, was re ceiv. d by the
sheriff on TLIVSday mornint, ' • and Saturday. the 23th ea rent
(this clay), has been fixeeftir proceeding to the election at
Forret:4. It is thought- that Major Cumming Bruce wilt be
elected without oppition.—Caledonlail Mercury. - -