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LONDON:
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1841.

By the arrival of the Montreal at Portsmouth
on Saturday, we have received news from New
York to the 19th ult., for which we are indebted
to the itampshire Telegraph, ten days later than
the papers brought by the Cambridge. We re-
gret to say that the intelligence is by no means
of a pleasant character. In addition to the unea-
siness already excited by the question of the Ca-
roline, there are now some personal quarrels on the
borders of Maine and New Brunswick. Three Ame-
fica.us complain of having been grossly insulted
and ill treated at Madawaska; while Sir JOHN
TIARVEY complains, in his letter to the Governor
of Maine, that the English authorities have
been treated with personal violence, and threat-
ened by the Americans, while performing the du-
ties imposed on them by her MAJESTY'S Govern-
-ment. Troops are proceeding to the point where the
dispute and quarrel have arisen, and it was re-
ported ill Canada that a pot tion of the militia had
been ordered out. Money matters, too, seem by
no means settled in America, and the resumption
of cash payments is by some of the banks in-
definitely postponed. .
ALBANY, JAN. 8, 1841. —Our relations with Great Bri-
tain and the burning of the Caroline, are beginning to
excite considerable attention here, andi I shall not be sur-
prised to see, very soon, the subject introduced into the
Legislature in some shape. One thing is very certain,
the people of Boston and New York will suffer no inter-
ferenie in the trial of Mr. M‘Leod from any quarter.
And if the British Government supports the high ground
taken by Mr. Fos, a rupture seems inevitable. The loco
foe() leaden here are putting out feelers to ascertain bow
it will do to charge upon the Whigs, and Gen. Harrison':
administration, in advance, a design to plunge the country
into a war with England. But it will do them no good ,
the people understand the question, and would not be
sorry for a brush with their old antagonists.
(From the Journal of Commerce.)
Hollowell, Me. Jan. 13, 1841.
KENT, GOVERNOR OP MAINE —The Committee, ap-
pointed by the Legislature of Maine, to ccunt the votes for
Governor, made their report in the Senate on Monday.
The whole number of votes counted by the Committee
was 91,179—Edwari Kent bad 45,574—J0hn Fairfield'
45,507—others 98. The report was accepted by both
branches yesterday, and the House elreted by ballot, from
the four highest candidates, Edward Kent and John Fair-
field, and returned their names to the Senate as the two
constitutional candidates, from whom the Senate should
elect a Governor. The Senate elected Edward Kent
36 votes, to 8 for John Fairfield. A committee was ap-
pointed to notify, the Govcror of his election, and to-day at
twelve o'clock he is expected to be inaugurated.
MORE TROUBLES DOWN EAST.—The Boston Berahl of
yesterday states, on the otebority of a getakman who ar-
rived in that city late last Sunday evening, from Maine,
that three gentlemen, wlse3c names are given as Tl.om2s
F. Templeton, George Cady, and John H. Kenwick,
while proceeding on their way from Bangor to Canada,
were stopped near Madawaska by a party of British armed
soldiers, who insulted them and, without provocation, at-
saultedthem. Mr. Cady was knocked down with a blow from
a musket, Mr. Templeton received a bayonet wound in the
shoulder, and Mr. Kenwick, trying to escape, received a
bullet in the thigh. Au officer then came up and checked
:further hostilities.
If this statement is correct, the c.ecurrenee will not tend
is allay the excitement on the subject
Boundary. of the North East
Connected with the above, or some such similar oceu-
neer, we hate no doubt, the following letter from Gene-

ral Sir John Harvey was written, and it fully shows the
Aritish Authorities are on the alert:.—
TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF

MAINE.

Government House, Frederickton, N B.
Dec. 10, 1840.
Sir,—As your Excellency will doubtless be informed
that a detachment of her Majesty's troops has lately ar-
rived in the Madawaska settlement, I deem it to con-
sist with that frankness by which I trust my intercourse
with the authorities of Maine has always been charac-
terized, to acquaint you that the movement in question,
made by order of the Governor-General of these Pro-
vinces, hats no other object than to give support to the civil
authorities of that settlement—one of whose magistrates.
Francis Rice, Esq , has been grossly insulted, threatened
with personal violence, and obstructed in the discharge
of his ditties by persons professing themselves to he citi-
zens of the State of Maine—and another, James M.Laugh.
lan, Esq., also a Magistrate of this province and holding
the office of "warden of the disputed territory," tias been
threatened by rho armed posse stationed at " Fish River,"
with being arrested and sent as a prisoner to Augusta, in
the event of his persevering in the performance of the duty
imposed upon him by the Government of the Queen and
that of this province.
Whether the assertion made, as I am assured, by this
person, that in holding this language he is only act-
ing in accordance sith his instructions, be correct or
otherwise, your Excellency will best know; but refusing,
as I have done, to believe that be can have received any
authority for a proceeding which I must regard ns in-
consistent with other engagements, I have not hesitated
in expressing to the Governor General my conviction
that an armed civil posse, corresponding in amount and
description with that maintained by Maine, will be found
quite inadequate to effect the object in view, viz , the
prevention of acts of unauthorised aggression or inter-
ference, as regards the inhabitants or authorities of the
Madawaska settlement—and I have accordingly no rea-
son to doubt, that, acting upon this suggestion, his Ex-
cellency will forthwith give direction for the troops to be
withdrawn to their former stations.
I have the honour to be, with great consideration, your
Excellency's most obedient servant, J. HARVEY.
CANADA.—The British Colonist says it was currently
reported that orders had been received by the Adjutant-
General to call into active service two companies of each
regiment of militia in the province.
An ordinance has been published by authority, as about
to be passed, for making the Tamisconata Turnpike, a
part of which the Quebec Gazette says is in the territory
chimed by the United States.
MOVEMENT OP TROOPS. The last St. John City
Gazette says, " We learn that the light company of the
29th Regiment, now in the garrison, are under marching
orders for Madawaska, to relieve the detachment of troops
now stationed at that post, whose period of service there
has expired."
THE NEGROES OF THE A MISTAD.—II Seems to be the
general impression at Washington that the negroes of the
Arnistad will be given up to the Spanish Minister, as
the quesiion of Spanish property can be best determined
in the Spanish Courts. Now that this is the general
impression at Washington, I can well believe; as from
the slave holding relations of a great portion of that com-
munity, it is not likely that they would be looked upon
with much favour. But that such an impression can be
founded upon truth, seems to be absolutely incredible. If
these men are to be sent to the Havannab, every principle
of law—every dictate of justice—every sentiment of her.
manity, is to be made to bend to a manifest determination
to make them victims to the sanguinary spirieof Spanish
slavery—a determination against which every man in the
land, who has any regard for the great cause of human
liberty, or any sympathy for the oppressed, ought to speak
in tones of loudest and most indignant reprobation.
DUTIES ON LEAD.--The proposal of Mr. Ruggles to
abolish those duties was met in the Senate by a general
laugh. This is all very well, bat it is very probable that
the Foreign Powers will take a memorandum of this laugh,
and return it, when they are called upon to make altera-
tions in their corn and tobicco laws.
(From the New Orlean's Bee, of Jan. 7.)
YUCATAN.—The bulletin of yesterday contains a cor-
respondence between the Government Secretary of Bri-
tish Honduras, the Commander of H. B. M. ship Comus,
and the military Commandant of Sisal, respecting the cap-
ture and condemnation of the schooner True Blue, belong-
ing to British subjects, alleged to have Len seized while
engaged in the act of smuggling.
The British officers insisted upon the production of the
master and crew of the vessels that captured the True
Blue, to be examined by them to ascertain the particulars
of the seizure. With this request the Commandant ()-
Sisal was not able to comply ; but informed them tha
their request had been forwarded to the Supreme Govern.
ment at Merida.

Tim British officers 'declined recognising the authority
of the Supreme Government at Merida, inasmuch as
the existence of such a Government was not known to

the authorities at Honduras; adding that no other Go-
vernment was known but that of Mexico, which had pro-
claimed the parties holding power in Yucatan as insurgents.
After some further negotiation the British ship Cornus
captured a brigatine, Eusebio, bound for Now Orleans and

belonging to citizens of Yucatan, by way of reprisal, when
the Commandant at Sisal was told that unless indemnity
was given in two days the said vessel would be taken to
the Belize and sold for the benefit of the owners of the True
Blue. 8,103 dollars were then given up to the British,
with a protest against the seizure of the Eusebio, as repug-
nant to the laws of nations. Shortly afterwards, it is said,
the True Blue was recaptured by the Census.
Th.^ questions arising out of these proceedings, whe-
ther the British authorities bad a right to resort to this
extraordinary mode of redress, and whether the officers
of a foreign power have any authority to determine
the existence or non existence of a Government
in Yucatan, for the purposes of suppressing infringement
of the revenue laws. In this matter we think the British
authorities have transcended their just powers—a practice
in %cilia they have got into the habit of indulging lately.

NEW YORK, JAN. 16.
MONEY MARKET.—The determination of the Baltimore
Banks not to resume until the Banks in Virginia lead the
way, is a most extraordinary course of conduct. The
friends of those institutions have constantly declared they
waited only for Philadelphia; now, it appears that those
professions were groundless. Public opinion is against the
course the Banks have taken in that city, and this opinion
will be heard most speedily. The Merchants' and Me-
chanics' Banks of that city have determined to resume, and
let the others do as they please.
The Girard Bank in Philadelphia resumed specie pay-
ments on Wednesday.
THE GARRICK.--WC learn, by the arrival yesterday of
two vessels with part of the cargo of the Garrick, that the
tide ebbs and flows in her, and that she is full of water at
high tide. The between deck has been cut away, and the
cargo is fished out by means of a boat. At low water on
Tuesday the tide left her nearly dry, and it is probable all
the cargo will be saved, with the exception of the salt, of
which she had about 500 bags on board.
The British steamer Dee, stated in a Halifax paper as
supposed to have been lost, arrived at Port Royal on the
28th ult., in twenty days from Halifax.
The new steam frigate was launched at the Navy-arsl
yesterday morning. She is called the Missouri. Her
dimensions are as follows :

Length of keel
Breadth of beam 36
Breadth of outer works
Depth of hOld
.. 23
Whole length between perpendiculars.. 220
Draft of water forward
Draft of water uft
She is to be taken to West Puint to receive her engines,
and will be ready for sea in about five months.

It was to be expected, when the sham philoso-
phy of Sir ROBERT PEEL roused the ire of the
priest party, that the few sensible words pro-
nounced by Lord ELLENBOROUGH on Friday
_ _

evening would not escape their censure. Suffi-
cient time has not yet elapsed to enable them to
reach the collegiate abodes of those recluses
who have thundered forth, in the columns of the
Times, against Sir R. PEEL; they arc not yet
attacked by " CATHOLICUS ;" but they have not
escaped thg notice of a writer, as will be seen in
our extracts from the Journals, who seems to have
taken his cue from the censure which " CATHOLI-
cus" has heaped on Sir ROBERT PEEL, for, as he
says, insincerely professing a love for secu-
lar knowledge. Lord ELLENBOROUGH is sneered
at, for professing an opinion that religious im-
provement is totally inconsistent with physical
degradation, and taunted with wishing for a poor
man a respectable 'wrote and self-respect, in pre_
ference to schoolmasters, clergymen, and
churches. -We have seldom met with sentiments
more just and more honourable than those of the
Noble Lord, and more likely, if they but prompt
his conduct, and make him endeavour to keep
down the priests and life up the people, to be
permanently beneficial to the country.

But Lord ELLENBOROUGII is not the only
Member of the Upper House—though one of
the most distinguished, who thinks church-
building of no use as long as the people be
immersed In filth and wretchedness. To our
astonishment he was preceded in the expres.
sion of that sentiment by the Bishop of LONDON.
While the celebrated " CATuoucus," whose at-
tack on Sir R. PEEL is still resounding through
the empire, declares that all knowledge is vain
and worthless, except Christianity be first
taught, the Bishop of LONDON declares in Par-
liament, and it is spread from Parliament—not in
one Journal only but in every Journal through
the whole empire—that Christianity is worth
nothing, that it cannot be brought home to
the mind, without a knowledge of the art of
constructing sewers and purifying dwellings.
Let
us quote the memorable words of
the Right Reverend Prelate; as reported
In our paper, observing that the substance of the
reports is much the same in all the papers, which
is a warranty of the correctness of what we are
about to quote. Indeed it is still more strongly
expressed in the Standard for it is there said that
the Bishop expressed a hope " that the Bill would
only be considered as a part of a system of salu-

tary regulations for the poor and humble classes
of society, by which they might effect an im-
provement in their moral condition, and bring
them within all the appliances of religion."
Here, however, is our report :
The Right Rev. Prelate entirely concurred in the prays
of the petition, being convinced that a great portion of al*
the disease in great towns arose from imperfect sewerage)
and ventilation. He hoped her Majesty's Government
considered the Bill before the House as only part of a
system of sanatory relief for the whole kingdom. Ile
was convinced they would make great advances towards
improving the moral condition of the lower orders, and
towards bringing them within reach of the appliances of
religion, if they could imbue them with habits of cleanli-
ness. This was an object well worthy of tleir Lordships'
time, for he believed that all other legislative enactments
for their benefit were useless, unless they could introduce
cleanliness into the habitations of the poor.
All other legislation, the voting large sums
to build churches, the endowing colleges, the
granting tithes, the enactment of Sabbath
Observance Bills, the establishing Bishops by
law, &c. &c., are all useless, according to
the Bishop of LONDON, unless the habita-
tions of the poor be made sweet, and their persons
cleanly. Christianity, according to this state-
ment, is only an adjunct of chloride of lime and
spacious sewerage. But both the Bishop and
Lord ELLENBOROUGH agree that it is necessary
to improve the physical condition of the people
before they can be brought within the appliances
of religion.
Sir ROBERT PEEL expressed a somewhat
similar sentiment when he urged " the vast pre-
parations for physical enjoyment " which are
seen in the world, as a proof that the " AL-
MIGHTY had not left in neglect and in-
difference the immortal soul of man," teach-
ing, us to . infer that those whose lives
are one unceasing toil and unceasing pri-
vation, who taste of nothing but penury,
want, and affliction, dear bread, and a starving
family, can never be religious. Their continual
suffering hardens them against all the appliances
of religion. Here, then, we have three eminer
men, great authorities, on time opposite side-
one very learned Prelate and two conspi
cuous Tory statesmen—declaring, in opposi
tion to " CATuoucus"--perhaps, as he wil
say, insincerely—that the bulk of the point
lation must first be placed in tolerably easy sir

cumstauces, made cleanly and comfortable, and
physically happy, before their minds can be im-
bued with Christianity. Whether that be con-
sistent with the general teaching of the priest-
hood, does not concern us ; but we record
such sentiments with satisfaction. To promote
the secular happiness of mankind, secular know-
ledge is indispensable; and if they can only ha
made religious by first being made tolerably
comfortable, then that knowledge which "

THOLICUS" and the Times deride—which sci

entific men teach, and writers in public
journals spread abroad through the land
—must first be in existence before Chris-
tianity can be brought home to the mind. We leave
that party in the Church which attacks know.
ledge to settle this matter with Lord ELLEN.

BOROUGH, the Bishop of LONDON, and Sir Ro-
BERT PEEL : we have done nearly all we wish to

do when we have pointed out the discrepancy be-
tween them, and avowed our adhesion to the plan
of the Government providing for the phyFical
welfare of the people before attempting to make
them religious.

One observation we wish to add. Every man
deeply imbued with the love of any one art or
science very generally, supposes it to be of
pre-eminent value, if not sufficient for all

possible purposes. His attachment to his ai
will be strengthened and confirmed past a

breaking, if the pursuit of it confer on him
honour and riches. But no other man engaged

in a different pursuit would admit his apprecia-
tion of life to be a just one; and every man but
the one who was riding such a hobby to death,
would laugh at an attempt to make all men
happy and virtuous, by making them botanists,
geometricians, painters, or sculptors. Now,
something of this one-sided view and over-esti-

mate of a favourite pursuit, may be traced,
we think, in the recommendation of such
writers as "CATHOLICUS," who would make
the teaching of the priesthood the basis of
all other knowledge. To the priesthood re-
ligious doctrines bring wealth, honour, comfort,
and all those physical enjoyments which Sir
ROBERT PEEL, Lord ELLENBOROUGH, and the

Bishop of LONDON, describe as essential to make

men religious. To other men the doctrines

:aught by the priests bring exaction and dis

comfort, and over them they will not,

tey cannot have, the influence which
Le priesthood assert they have. It is plain

to us, therefore, that the statesmen «•ho

rely much or exclusively on religious doctrines
to promote the morality and the welfare of

society will be deceived. They take the partia

estimate of interested and eveil delighted men,
to whom religion is a great worldly blessing, as
the true test of its importance in social economy.

The Tories are collecting their forces from all
parts, we understand, to resist the second reading
of Lord MORPETH'S Bill on this day week. It
stands for a second reading on Friday next, but
as it might have been inconvenient to some Mem-
bers to bring them to town at the end rather than
at the beginning of a week, it is to be postponed
till Monday. The Liberals will be warned by

the exertions of the Tories, and they will all take
care to be in their places to support Lord Mon-
PETH'S Bill. Another and a better opportunity
certainly will never occur of proving to the Irish
that they may rely on the present Parliament to
grant their just claims.

Lord STANLEY, who seems ready at all times
to peril the empire in the gratification of his per-
sonal views, spleen, and spites, may be resolved
to go all lengths, and to tell the Irish that they
have no alternative brit to lie quietly down and
suffer him and the Orangemen to trample them

into political nothingness, or at once to assert the
majesty of freedom and throw off what, if Lord
STANLEY succeed, will be the unbearable yoke of
bigoted England; but we shall not believe, till
we see the Votes of the House of Commons, that
even the majority of the Tories will sacrifice the
welfare of the country to gratify an ill-tempered
and disappointed renegade. They have property to
preserve ; they are interested in maintaining the
integrity and the peace of the empire ; they have
no foolish bigotry or malevolent passions to gra-
tify by avowing a hatred to Ireland; they will
calmly balance the disadvantages and the advan-
tages of following Lord STANLEY, and they will
not think the chance of throwing Ireland into
rebellion is cheaply purchased by a vexatious
system of registration ; they will take a 'states-
man-like view of the whole question ; they will

not confine themselves merely to the Bill for
restricting the registration or extending the Fran-
chise ; they will remember the character of the
Noble Lord, and that it is his misfortune to ex-
cite the distrust of the Irish for every thing he
recommends.

Statesmen not blinded by passion will look at
the state of Europe, particularly at the cloud r
which lowers from ranee; they will turn to the
United States, and remember that the millions here
are discontented, and yearn- for a democracy like
that which prevails there,dan and with which
there is at present some
All the rational Tories must thinkgel of
. that
ta
tchoel linter-
nal peace of the empire will be cheaply purchased
by the just and temperate measure of Lord MGR-
PETE!. We have considerable confidence in hu-
man nature, when not influenced by avarice or
bigotry; and when brought to the test, we hope
there will be found amongst the Tories, many
gentlemen who, like Mr. BARING WALL, will
not sacrifice the public interest to party attach-
ments. We pretend not to predict the issue of
the contest, but if the House of Commons mean
to promote the public welfare, they will sanction
the second reading of Lord MoapErn's Bill on
this day week by a considerable majority. To
ensure such a result no Liberal will on that day