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PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
CHI v 01-11C narrow and petty views of pub-
lic aft t irs with which the mind of Sir Robert Peel is
most far. ailiar, are strikingly indicated by the mode in
which he prefaced one portion of his speech to his con-
stituents. Passing from medical analysis and paragraph
reforms to the proper political business of the day, he
says—" I dt I not think I should have been induced to
say a word to • you on the subject of party interests—l
lould have la 'en perfectly content to acquiesce in a sus-
pension of hos. jiffies, considering the near approach of
the combatants will meet face to face--
the period when
if I had not iece:
fitly seen the manifesto put forth by
Lord John Russ.
" Party interests," " hostilities,"
combatants ;" tl iese are what Sir Robert Peel sees in
"
the great question of a nation's trade and food. The
House of Commons is not sitting, and so he thinks
there might have be. •n a " suspension of hostilities."
He would have been
" content to acquiesce." There
!
was no party move to l le made, and so he wonders that the
affairs of the country should be brought into earnest dis-
cussion. No man could employ such language, or be
.subject to the train of .bought which it implies, with
,whom the well-being of the community was more than
,a very secondary consideration. The evils from which
redress is needed no more remit their operation than do
the great operations of nature, the beneficent influences
of which are counteracted by those evils. Bread tax
nresses on, most mercilessly ; and monopoly acquiesces
-ki no " suspension of hostilities." The adverse in-
reunfriendly feelings, and growing competition
res:s,
which eur Corn-laws hare fostered in Foreign States,
relax 10 not in the warfare they wage upon our manu-
exity. here is no suspension of the dif-
factoring Pre
ssp, barrassmTents, the failu res, which have be-
ficulties, the en.
fearfully ully ; nor of the misery they spread
esun to multiply so
iiungeris not in abeyance. The
amongst multitudes.
winds blow, the rain fe'lls, and overclouded hopes of har-
vest are testifying the
beestility of the elements to hu-
man monopoly. But what is all this to Sir R Peel
e
He does not perceive how te.. relative position of Whig
"ceded till " the period
.and Tory can be materially ea face
to
," and,
erhen the combatants will meet
not • he would be content
tfserefi)re, it moves him ,
to hold truce es...qh politics, and entertain the electors
e Tamworth wit`.' the paragraphing of te Globe.
Without being a Nerd, a man may fiddle while Rome
as well as great crime,
is burning ; inherent littil.'nets:e
_indifference to what
may generate a cold-blooks d
egard their country.
most deeply interests all who this absortion in.
What a contrast is presented, by . :o the eager-
thei.. most paltry phase of
.political life, .ai
ness which we encounter in other directions.
visters have thrown down the gauntlet to Pono-..
poly, and proposed to invigorate the resources Pi
the nation by lightening its burdens. Political econo-
mists are reiterating their demonstrations that the re-
strictive policy is fraught with injury and ruin. Capital-
ists are calculating the effect of closing markets. The
leagued foes of the bread-tax sleep neither night nor day
in their struggle against the pressure which must crush
them unless it be o'ermastered. The preachers of reli-
gion claim justice for the poor as part and parcel of our
common Christianity, and wash their hands of the im-
piety that taxes, while it prays for, daily bread. With
none who have minds to think, and hearts to feel, is
this a subject of gladiatorial skill, of tongue-fence and
party tactics, but a vital question, that allows no rest
nor peace till the way be found to its satisfactory termi-
nation. Sir Robert Peel sees nothing in it but the ball
to play a party game with, when the " combatants " shall
have gathered on the ground.
TIMES.—It is to the honour of the press that there
is one daily paper which has ever given an un- ,
qualified support to the New Poor-law ; and to have
that particular paper opposed to them has been a great
advantage to the friends of the poor. We could not
have desired a better foil for our arguments upon this
subject than the self-complacent dogmatism with which
they are noticed in the columns of the Journal al-
luded to. It is evident that the gentlemen of the So-
merset-house establishment who favours us with his
replies belongs to what has been aptly called the " silver
fork" school of literature ;—his lucubrations savour
of cambric pocket-handkerchiefs, and are redolent
of Eau de Cologne. Once in a month, or so, the
languid apathy of his nature is roused by the per-
serverance of the Conservative press in attacks, which,
if successful, might perhaps touch his exquisiteness in
the tenderest part, and even stop the supplies of lavender
water; and accordingly he summons up resolution for
the task of writing an article, and settling the Poor-law
controversy for ever. Reading through the arguments
which he professes to answer, or attempting a logical
reply to them, is, of course, out of the question; but he
skims delicately over the surface of one or two prominent
phrases, and annihilates his adversary by the summary
process of assuring the public, upon his veracity, that
all the worst abuses of " the old system " are lurking
under every word. Reasons he does not give ; and, of
course, would not give them " upon compulsion," though
they were " as plenty as blackberries;" but his assertions
as to matters of fact are abundant, and he throws
them about with as much reckless pertinacity as if
all sources of knowledge upon the subject were sealed
up from allrbut himself. In an article of this description
on Saturday last the public were informed, that " the
Times has a panacea for all privations occasioned by high
prices, low wages, and insufficient employment for
labour ;" and that " it is to revert to the old Poor-law
practice of discriminating relief to deserving objects."
The writer proceeded, in a somewhat more confident
than coherent strain, to expose " the fallacy of appor-
tioning relief to desert, and making it in all respects
pleasant and consistent with domestic arrangements ;"
and wound up with the observation, that " it is not to
this transparent quackery, puffed by the Times this
morning, that the labouring', people must look for rescue
from the hardships of their present condition." We need
.hardly take the trouble of assuring our readers, that
cur supposed " panacea for all privations" exists only in
the imagination of the silken economist who professes.to
answer remarks which he has evidently never read.
ADVERTISER.—The doom of the Corn-laws is
sealed : the' death-blow of the monopoly in human food
is about to be struck, and a famishing population have
at last the prospect before them of being able to procure
for themselves daily bread. The singular coincidence of
ciretunstances marshalling themselves in antagonism to
the Corn-laws, which obtains at this moment, clearly in-
dicates a providential interposition on behalf of the starv-
ing masses in the manufacturing districts; and proclaims
in trumpet tones the folly, as well inhumanity, of at-
tempting to uphold the existing monopoly. First of all,
we have the Ministers of her Majesty, not only as indivi-
duals, favourable to a free trade in corn, but standing be-
fore their country in the attitude of men most solemnly
pledged in their collective capacity, to avail themselves
'of every means which the Constitution of the realm
will sanction, to abolish imposts which mercilessly
withhold from the mouths of the poor that food
which their appetites crave, and which the munificence
.of an indulgent Providence had intended for them.
And this solemn pledge, given, we doubt not, with
:perfect cordiality, is about to be repeated in the presence
•of Parliament, and in the hearing of the nation - for
-there cannot be a question that her Majesty's speech to
the new Legislature about to assemble, will contain a re-
iteration of the Ministerial conviction of the absolute ne-
cessity which exists for a repeal of the Corn-laws, pro-
vided it be deemed desirable to prevent the most fearful
anarchy, and to preserve from utter destraction the com-
mercial relations of the country. Nor will Ministers
content themselves with the mere annunciation, in her
Majesty's proximate speech, of anti-Corn-law and anti-
Monopoly measures ; the propounding of these measures
in the Royal Address will be followed up in the Minis-
terial speeches which the discussion on that address
-will necessarily elicit, by the expression of a resolute
determination never to cease their uncompromising
Isiostility to these prohibitory laws, until they be erased
Tema the statute-book. This will very materially
„strengthen the position which Ministers already oc-
cupy as the leadiug opponents of these odious imposts ;
it will inspire the people with increased confidence in
their laadership, and bring into one close and adhesive
phalanx, in the war now waging with the Corn laws, the
entire body
of those opponents to monopoly-. The Mi-
nisterial advocacy of the Corn-law abolition will be
powerfully abetted and enforced by the present pecu-
liarlr heavy pressure of these laws on the working
Classes. Trade is stagnant, commerce is paralyzed, and
us-Triads of thepopulation in the manufacturing districts
ha ye either no employment at all,
or arebutvery par-
tial ly employed and inadequately paid fore r their labour.
and oppseion of these
At such a moment the iniquity
ocfonseu ntl y
their
sanc-
tion hateful taxes are seen with a special clearness, because
felt with a peculiar force. The masses.crare
ready and eager to bring the whole weight
and authority in aid of
whatever efforts Ministers
may make with the view of rit2ding tale country of these
barbarous imposts.
.POST.—We insert in another column a letter from
Lord Francis Egerton to an Eve ning Contemporary,
the mis-statements of the Whig-Radical
Journals respecting his Lordship's connection with the
.Lancashire Yeomanry. His Lordship, .it is now certain,
leas not raised a regiment of yeomanry, nor even a
troop ; nor has his Lordship taken any step towards the
creation of such an addition to this most useful and va-
luable description of public force. It is right that the
Whig-Radical falsehood should be thus effectually con-
tradicted, not merely on the general ground that it is al-
ways right to contradict falsehood, but becauSe the lie in
this particular instance was invented and propagated for
the purpose of creating the impression that his Lordship
eind the great national party of which he is a distin-
uished member, regard the great bulk of their country-
men in the light of enemies, against whom it behoves
them to take precautions at all times, and view the re-
cent transfer of political ascendancy in the Legislature
as an occasion that suggests the expediency of additional
precautions at the present moment. The letter of Lord
Francis Egerton appear:: to us to be a very seasonable
communication to the puolic in another point of eiew. It
sisows the Whig-Radical agitators who labour in the in-
terest of the Queen's present Ministers, to instigate the
hewer claisees of the people to riot and insurrection, how
eeeepletely Lord Francis Egerton, amid men like his Lord-
ship, despise and disregard their extorts. We like his
Lord. 'hips communication, not only as it contradicts a
falsehood industriously circulated by the Government
scribes, for a most mischievous and unprincipled purpose,
abut as ie.mailifests the sober and quiet .scorn with which
the land ici proprietors of England feel themselves entitled
to regard the persevering attempts of the _Edinburgh
`Review, the Morning Chronicle, and all the other
instruments of Whiggery, to infuriate the masses of the
:population in our great manufacturing towns against the
'owners and cultivators of the soil. There is no necessity
for an increase to the Lancashire yeomanry, under the
command of Lord Francis Egerton, and, therefore, the
Noble Load delays to embrace the complimentary offer
sef his own tenantry to form an additional troop to be
commanded by his son. And why is there no such
necessity ? Simply because the masses of the manufac-
t.ruring- population of Lancashire despise as much as Lord
F allele Egerton himself despises the incentives to hosti-
lity against their fellow-subjects interested in the culti-
vation of the soil, and the artful admonitions to violence

and outrage w Bich the journals of a defeated and morti-
fied and dislo) 'al Administration daily put forth.
HERALD.- —We have already stated that the- news
brought by th a North America is three days later than
the last intelli genre from the United States which has
reached this country. We are unable to give an opinion
as to ths, (lets ree of probability which may attach to the
article fpm 'Lockport relative to the reported violent
re` „me snlr. M'Leod by an armed body of Canadians.
Tslea, is. not the time to enter upon a question which is
Taisesi simply on the affirmative or negative of that fact.
But NI ,hilst we feel that the series of aggressions and out-
rages which has been visited on the personal liberty and
the personal safety of M'Leod would amply justify him in
escapir ig, by any means that might offer, from an im-
prison' nent commenced in an act of lawless violence on
'the par t of certain functionaries of the United States, and
since m aintained and enforced in defiance of the clearest
principl RS of the law of nations and those very rights of
free cit izensbip which are the professed object of the
United States most unqualified veneration; we know not
whether at this particular juncture we should be pre-
pared to rejoice at the verification of the report. We
feel, for the first time, something like a conviction that
the predominating tendency of pulic opinion in America
is against the decision of the Judges of the New-York
Fiupreme Court. We perceive such strong indications of
a. returning sense of the demands of reason, of right, and
A' justice in this case, that we would a thousand times
prefer to see the release of M'Leod pronounced by the
solemn and deliberate finding of a legal tribunal in
land where it is of vast importance to all the countries
of the world that have amicable relations with it, but
of still more essential and indispensable moment to its
own power, its own influence, and its own security, that
the majesty of the law should yet be able to vindicate
its own decrees. We shall hail it as a happy omen for
the peace and repose of the most civilised nations of the
globe, if justice in the courts of the United States shall
be found sufficiently strong and sufficiently resolute to
make the language in which she shall pronounce for the
instant release of M'Leod, heard far and near above the
sullen murmurs of a cabal, or the importunate clamours
of a reckless and bloodthirsty faction.
GLOBE.—The Standard, sympathising with the sor-
rows of a numerous body of its party, who have been
living upon hope until they loathe the light food and
pine for more substantial and savoury diet, has kindly
opened its columns to their complaints, in hope of re-
lieving the sufferings they endure, by enabling them to
expatiate upon the miseries of their condition. Judging
from the dolorous complainings in which they indulge,
the torments of 'Tantalus could be but flea-bites com-
pared with theirs. " Ten days," exclaims the organ
of their woes, "must elapse ere Parliament will as-
semble."
It is not absolutely certain that this dis-
mal interval may not be yet further protracted : for it
is only " Said" that Parliament will then meet ; and " to
the ten days interval we must probably add ten days
more, ere we arrive at the time when it shall be ascer-
tained by whom, and upon what principles, the country is
to be governed." Whoever carefully considers the con-
dition of the parties whose case is here disclosed, will
cease to wonder at the language in which they indulge.
Twice ten days, at the very lowest computation, must
measure their tedious revolutions, ere the unhappy
sufferers can expect the slightest mitigation. And in
the interval, what agitations, the result of alternations
of bright hopes and gloomy fears, must convulse their
spirits ! One hour their eyes dancing with delight
as they in imagination expatiate in the regions of
official plenty the next a prey to the harrowins,
thought that by others, but not by them, the sub-
stance of things hoped for may be realised. Truly,
those whose condition is so deplorable are objects of
commiseration ' , in proportion as their case is Imown,
will sympathy be excited. Although we cannot hold
out any very strong hopes of relief, yet we will do our
best to give publicity to their grievances, and thus
shew that we are not insensible to their woes. The
Standard pretty plainly intimates that Sir Robert Peel is
far from guiltless in the matter. The cause of their
calamities is traced to the obscurity in which he has
veiled his purposes. He has given no intimation
of " the principles on which he intends to govern
the country';" and consequently has left the host of
expectants, who are waiting for place under his
Government, in a state of torturing suspense as to the
" persons" of whom his Government will consist. If
the proximate Premier will not speak, he might give a
significant nod, or an expressive shake of his head, from
which something of his " principles" might be inferred.
But he makes no sign. Hence the difficulty of the case,
and the impossibility of knowing "by whom, and upon
what principles, the country is to be governed." It must,
however, be gratifying to the country to be assured,
that, whatever may be the " principles " on which the
slippery proximate Premier may deem it expedient to
conduct the Government, he has "persons' ready to
conform their principles to his.
STANDARD.—The address of the Protestant As-
sociation, calling for an inquiry into the violent proceed-
ings resorted to by the Roman Catholic Clergy of Ire-
land, in order to control the late elections, surely
deserves the support of the country. Enough has
transpired to establish a prima facie case against the
persons accused, as far as five or six county elec-
tions are concerned, and it is due to the interests
of truth that this prima facie case be fully
and fairly investigated. It is due to the Ro-
man Catholic Clergy to acquit them if they are
innocent, of the presumptive disgrace ; and it is due
to the law and to the public peace to, at least, ex-
pose them if they are guilty. We do not, however,
see how either effect can be satisfactorily obtained
except by the committee called for by the Protestant
Association. A collection of inquiries before five
or six distinct committees, trying as many election
petitions, cannot be relied upon as sufficient to
elicit the whole truth. First, because it is by no
means certain that such petitions would be pro-
secuted with sincerity and vigour, if prosecuted at
all, under the heavy burthen of expense which their
prosecution must impose on individuals. Secondly,
because the inquiries of an Election Committee are ne-
cessarily and properly confined within limits too narrow
to reach a system so widely spread as that which is
asserted to have been employed in Ireland. Let it be
supposed that an election town is surrounded by a circum-
vallation of insurgents of five or six miles diameter—these
insurgents all prepared to exclude one class of electors ; it
is apparent that such a circumvallation would be quite suf-
ficient to deter from even the attempt to give their votes
all of the suspected class beyond its limit ; yet it would
puzzle the most acute lawyer to bring intimidation so
remote, and it might be so inert, within that description
of terror which vitiates a return. Somebody must have
approached the hustings, and been driven back, either
by force or imminent danger, to meet the precedents of
intimidation ruled as sufficient to avoid an election.
Let us again suppose the case of a large district of a
county swept clean of all adverse electors by successive
midnight hunts ; the persons unlucky enough to possess
a qualification carried off by dozens and by scores, and
borne away, bound, to a distant county, until the termi-
nation of the contest. If this occurred previously to
the teste of the election writ, though in contemplation of
an immediate contest, an Election Committee could not
with propriety take cognizance of the outrage. The
third objection is not less deserving of consideration—
a petition can be presented only in cases where the
violence has proved successful. But it must be ob-
vious that the closer the struggle, the more nakedly will
illegal means be employed by those who despise
the law ; and if we are to pursue a general evil,
we must not neglect its more salient and unequivocal
symptoms. The whole must be looked at together; and,
to take the prima facie case before us, we may see more
distinctly in Carlow, Waterford, and Dublin, where it
failed after being driven to extremity, the system of ter-
ror which obtained the victory early in Clare, Tipperary,
Cork, and Kerry, and was not, therefore, under the ne-
cessity of so full a self-exposure.
COURlER.—Granting the emergency in which the
country is placed, and the perils which surround her
to be as difficult to be grappled with and mastered
as any of the best of possible instructors' find it
their cue now to represent, we, so far from viewing
in such a condition of affairs any argument or
valid reason for continuing the present pro-
visional Cabinet in office, recognise in it a strong
necessity for their removal, and an urgent demand
for the services of wiser and better men. It must un-
doubtedly seem as strange as unprecedented to hear
the organs of a faction which so long swayed everything
according to its caprice, now appeal to the mischief it
has done, and the wreck of the country's hopes and wishes
it has occasioned, as reasons why its blighting and pes •
tilential rule should be prolonged. There is in this pre-
tence an insensibility to even the appearance of decency
—Raadiheaelight of desperate audacity which we did not, we
commentingconfess, antiucpipoant.e from that portion of our Whig-
Contemporaries, whose lucubrations we are now
small
ppeann,Haidnitbeen confined to the evening
print, which so much delights in low calumnies and
insinuations, it would not have surprised
US ; but, a
journals not wholly bereft
of claims to talent
us and veracity, it has not a
little astonished , especially after its falsehood and
shamelessness had
demonstrated. We
ianrseennsoitbto,
ewutenobdeephrretaodt
eiaftbstiesehueuenriet
estaohszoafruildvay
those croakers, by any means
which the Whigs have be-
queathed to their successors.
endare by no means in-
delicacy of the task
tehlienefdorthcoming Administration of Sir Robert Peel
will have to undertake ; but we know the resources of
patriotism and wisdom are as various as they are fruitful.
We know he will, moreover, command
a measure of
support and confidence in the new Parliament to
add
which the Whigs have long been strangers, and that
the very facilities and advantages of his position will
therefore enable him to triumph over embarrassments
and perils which would be fatal to the country
under
his
d positiontotteri ng w sew ay
the wise
. But when
y
to
ondetrhe thsetrirengptahlisioed
of
and prudent counsels with which he will not fail to sur-
round himself, his own foreseeing and deeply-searching
and the soundness alike
sagacity, his experience,
can see ao difficulty of
his
judgments and his principles,
we
the lenity in
the way of his government—no obstacle to
.working
out of his mild and moderate policy—with which an
ordinary share of prudence will not be able successfully
to deal.

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE FROM UNREQUITED
LOVE.— On Monday the family of Mr. Bulfoy, landlord
of the Weavers' Arms public-house, in Brown's-lane,
Brick-lane, Spitalfields, were thrown into the most inde-
scribable affliction, by the death, by her own hands, of
Miss Bulfoy, a very fine young woman, in her 21st year.
It appears that the deceased, after a lengthened acquaint-
ance, was a short time ago on the point of marriage with
a respectable tradesman in the neighbourhood, but for
some cause or other her intended husband broke off the
match. This circumstance preyed deeply on her mind,
and on the night before, unknown to her parents, she
sent a potboy to a neighbouringchemist for a small quan-
tity of arsenic, and hating procured it she swallowed it
at bed-time, and at two o'clock was a corpse. Informa-
tion of the unfortunate occurrence was forwarded to Mr
Baker, the Coroner, and an inquest will be held on the
body this day.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF.YESTERDAy.
POST.—The principal dealings in the Share market
were in Brighton Railway. A meeting of the proprie-
tors of this Company was held in the course of the day,
and until this was over, a feeling of uneasiness prevailed,
lest, perhaps, some discouraging disclosures should be
made concerning the traffic of the line in its more ad-
vanced and expensive state.
The accounts lately received from Mexico give a very
deplorable idea of the condition of that country. The
enormous rate of duty laid on all foreign productions,
under one form of authority and another, operated
as a complete prohibition to legitimate importations.
The result of this had been, that several vessels coming
in with cargoes were ordered away again ; and if the
same fatal system should be persisted in, the resident
foreign merchants would be compelled to quit the Re-
public. Some measures were to be brought before the
Legislature in relation to the foreign debt ; but as they
would first come under the consideration of the De-
puties, and these persons are paid for their services out
of the public treasury, it is not expected that anything
will be done for the relief of the bondholders. The
same circumstance will in all probability interfere with
the remittances promised to be made to England on ac-
count of the dividends, as requirid by the provisions of
the late conversion.

ADVERTISER.—The advices received to-day through
indirect channels from Germany and Italy, notice, we
regret to find, the occurrence of more failures. At
Vienna, Messrs. Deutsch and Co. had suspended, and at
Graetz a large house in the iron trade, viz, that of Mis-
chey. At Trieste the . Hebrew firm of Raphael Salem
had stopped for 230,000 florins,• and as it carried on a
large business with the Levant, it was feared it might
lead to embarrassments at Alexandria, Aleppo, Jaffa,
Smyrna, or Beyrout. Two Greek houses, involved in
losses by Guy Muller's failure, had also suspended, viz.,
Messrs. Clinny and Cappair, and A. S. Minz. The firm
of J. Hagenauer, at Trioste, loses about 50,000 florins
by the Mullen, but its credit has remained unshaken
by it.

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TIMES.—The failure of Messrs. Troughton and Sons,
the West India merchants, has created a great noise
among their Demerara connections, and will no doubt
do the same here when the particulars are fully known ;
although, as far as at present appears, there is nothing to
justify censure. The Demerara papers received to-day,
of the 3d July, are filled with the particulars of the meet-
ing which was called to investigate their affairs and to
choose trustees for the benefit of the creditors, at which
the leading partner out there submitted a statement of
their accounts, which, though he would not pledge him-
self to its perfect accuracy, considering the embar-
rassed state of their affairs, and the short time
they had had to prepare, contained, he believed, a
fair estimate of their liabilities and assets. The ex-
tent of their liabilities, on the showing of this ac-
count, exceeds what was originally anticipated by
about 50,0001.; for it is stated that the amount of
bills likely to come back, including those for the
Adelphi estate not yet paid, is 120,000/. ; the colonial
debts are placed at 10,0001. ; and the debts at home at
30,000/., making a total of 160,000/. The assets are
described as consisting of remittances to the firm in
London, in amount 18,0001., notes of hand 12,000/., the
Adelphi estate 20,0001., book debts 25,000/., and stock
7,000/., making a total of 82,000/. The difference of
78,000/. is accounted for by loss on 1,735 hogsheads, 143
tierces, and 39 barrels of sugar, all arriving after the fall
in the produce-market in the early part of this year,
17,500/. ; on 2,254 puncheons of molasses, 1,200/. ; on
1,094 puncheons of rum, 10,500/., making altogether a
loss on produce of 40,00 b/. The loss on the Adelphi es-
tate is reckoned at 10,000/., bad debts 10,0001., bad stock
2,000/., profit and loss 4.0001., loss on ships 1,0001., loss
by failures of grocers 4,0001., loss by immigration to
Berbice 2,000/., with other losses of 5,0001., the particu-
lars of which are not stated in the papers. The
party who exhibited this statement was questioned
by many of the creditors, with the view, it would appear,
to show that the firm had been for a long time in a bank-
rupt state, and that the declaration of inability to pay
had been deferred to the latest possible period. It wp„s
admitted in answer that the concern had been in eir.'oar-
rassed circumstances, but they were not of such magni-
tude as to lead to the supposition that by prudence and
circumspection they might not be eventually righted. The
firm contemplated no stoppage till the severe depreciation in
produce occurred, and then it was seen that they could
not carry on business further. They had, in the mean-
time, confined their transactions as much as possible, in
order to render the catastrophe less paralyzing to the
mercantile community. Naturally enough, in the course
of an\ examination like this, a variety of questions were
put, which, though relevant to affairs out there, would
not be interesting here, and therefore, without enumera-
ting these, it is only expedient to add, that trustees are
appointed to examine and take possession of all property
for the general benefit of the creditors. The papers do
not convey any other news of interest.