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THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1840.

AMERICAN NEWS.

EXPRESS FROM LIVERPOOL.

The George Washington, Captain Burrows,
has just arrived here, after a passage of twenty-
three clays. She left New York on the Bth in-
stant, papers of which date have been received
The rate of Exchange was 72 a 8.
The Virginian and the Word packet-ships
had arrived out from Liverpool.

New YORK, SCNDA Y NIGHT. —United States Bank
shares advanced yesterday at the board 1 I per cent., closing
at 721. There was besides considerable business done,
but all in fancy stocks. A few sales were made of Ster-
ling Bills, which were plenty at if a 8, chiefly at 7A, aad
of francs at 5.271 a 25. In Domestic Exchanges very
little is doing, and rates remain the same.
SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE.
25 shares U. S. Bank 72i
10 do ditto
300 do Delaware and Hudscn ..op g 71
25 do Dry Dock Bank 4Z

27 do - ditto
2.5 do North American Trust
110 do ditto

46+
3-5
35

15 do American Exchange Bank B4
10 do ditto 841
55 do Williamsburgh Insurance 65
12 do New York Gas
10 do Canton Company 24i
140 do ditto -
89 do Stonington Railroad
500 do Haarlem Railroad 42
200 do ditto
150 do ditto 4l
13 do American
50 do Patterson Railroad 9O ds 40
g 6,600 Exchange on Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA , JUNE 7, P. M.
Stocks retain firm at previous rates, with the exception
of U.'B. Bank, which declined on Saturday from to 4 per
cent. in price, with but a very limited amount that holders
are willing to sell at the present rates. At the second
Board ab:,ut 300 shares changed owners at 76i b 30 ds
flat, and 76 a 10 flat; 10 shares Camden and Amboy
Railroad at 119. The closing prices were U. S. Bank,
76 a 761 ; North America Bank, 385 bid ; Pennsylvania
Bank, 412 a 425 ; Philadelphia Bank, 97i bid ; Gitard, 401
a4l ; Vicksburgh. 15 a 16.
We have had another cold and stormy day, in which
winter clothing and fires are neither rare nor uncomfortable.
BALTIMORE, JuNE 7, Nine o'Clock, A. M.

A storm of rain commenced last evening, about six
o'clock, and after raging with great violence, settled to a
steady rain, which is continued this morning, with no sign,
so far, of stopping.

Ti e flour market the past week has been rather quiet,
and sacs made pretty generally of Howard-street, at $4
62.}, but it is very dull at that price to-day, and under the
news from England, by the Unicorn, will most probably
give way. City mills is scarce, and fre,,h ground will
bring $4 87i, being wanted for particular markets. The
inspections of the week are 11,484 barrels, and 284 half
barrels.

NATCHEZ.—We !earn frcm the New Orleans Beg
that the steam boat Binds, which was wrecked during the
tcrnado at Natchez, has been picked up at Baton Rouge,
h ving fifty-one dead bodies on board—forty-eight of whom
vvt re males, two females and one child.

KILLED AND WOUNDED IN NATCHEZ.--The Natchez
Courier gives the following report of the number killed
and wounded at that place by the tornado :
Killed in Natchez, 48; killed on the river, 269
Total, 31.7..

Wounded in the city, 74; Wounded in boats, 35
T,tal, 109.

PIRACY AND MURDER.
The New Orleans commercial Bulletin of the oqth
n't•, • etails an act of piracy and murder, of which intelli-
gence was brought there by the steam ship Nachez :
" On the 22d ultimo, the English brig Vernon, John
Cunningham master, sailed from Falmouth, Jamaica, for
Halifax, U. S. ;° and on the eight day out, being a little
north of Cape Antonio, sho was chased by an open bolt,
containing seven men, who fired at the brig. Having
have to, the boat came along side the brig, and the crew
thereof belonging to a revenue cutter at anchor just round
the point, requested the Captain of the Vernon to to on
board of her in his own beat, with his papers, which he
did. Captain C. with three men started for the cutter, in
company with the seven strangers in their boat; and when
they had got a short distance from the brig, the rascals or-
dered him to stop and undress. This done, the pirates
(for so they proved to be) began to murder the three
Englishmen, stabbing and cutting their throats. The cap-
tain and two men were killed, and the other man
jumped over beard, and swam to the shore. lie
wandered on thf. shore five days, when he was dis-
covered by the Captain of a Cape Antonio coaster, by
whom he w,.s furnished with necessaries.
" The Captain, having learned from the destitute wan-
derer the outline of the outrage, gathered a force and
went in search of the pirates and their prize, which he
succeeded in finding. The surviving English sailors
were employed in the forced labour of unloading their
vessel—and it was learned that, after •finishing their job,
they were to have their throats cut. The captain of the
coasting craft resorted to stratagem to circumvent the out-
laws. Ho took with him three old muskets, saluted them
most cordially, and told them he had brought the
guns to---be put in order, and that his vessel was near
by, and calculated for the business, and that he had
come on the same business. They readily accepted
an invitation to breakfast with him, and on their ar-
rival be made use of the force he had prepared for the
occasion, and the whole seven were secured. M. Philpot,
who was the bearer of the information to the Captain-Gene-
ral, and who was present at the examination of the cul-
prit', says the cold-blooded recitals of these demons made
his heart shrink within him. These pirates reside at
Regla, and are well known at Havannah. The sailor ,vho
escaped to the shore says that while he went to the woods
be saw' several parcels of sails, blocks, compasses, and
merchandize, which were probably the effects of other
vessels that had been taken and destroxeri. Tie sur-
viving Englishmen were provided for by. Philpot till
the British Consul should send for them. —New York
Paper.

FIVE DAYS LATER FROM THE UNITED
STATES.—BY EXPRESS.
LIVERPOOL, Wednesday Evening.
The United States, Captain BRITTON, has

just arrived, bringing New York dates to the 14th
'ult. Our papers were delivered with great prornp-
rtrevlitude by Captain BRITTON, who has made
he passage from New York in seventeen days.

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These papers contain no political news of any in-
terest. The Oswego Herald, of the Bth of June,
records a diabolical attempt made by two Canadian
refugees, named LETT and DEFOE, to set fire to
the steamer Great Britain, in that port, when
about to start on her voyage, laden with goods and
passengers, by means of a trunk filled with com-
bustible materials. The explosion occasioned
a considerable destruction of property, but no
lives were lost. LETT and DEFOE were speedily
arrested and sent to prison. The mob, in
their rage, offered to hand them over to
the captain of a British vessel bound for King-
ston, Upper Canada, to be dealt with as traitors,
but he very praiseworthily refused to have any-
thing to do with them. LETT was armed with
four pistols, and a bowie knife, and attempted to
shoot the officer who arrested him.

A Mr. JOHN STILLE, jun., of Philadelphia,
a member of the legal profession, lately absconded
with 100,000 dollars, which he held in trust for
various purposes. He is supposed to have em-
barked for Europe.
The following is the latest commercial news in
the New York Papers :
NEW YORK MONEY MARKET.
(From the New York Courier and Inquirer, of the 13th

of June.)
There was no material change in the value of Stocks
indicated by the operations at the Boards to-day. Some
business was done in sterling bills for to-morrow's packet,
and the extremes of the exchange ranged from 106 to
1074 ; perhaps a fair quotation on London would be
107 to 1071. There were plenty of bills, however, and
but few buyers. On the Continent nothing was done.
The brokers' quotation on Paris is 5.35 to 5 30.
There is no demand for specie. Inland Exchanges are
very dull, and no change in rates of discount.
PHILADELPHIA, JUNE 12.

There has been' a moderate business done in Stocks,
without any material alteration in the prices. Sides of
U. S.'Bank to the extent of about 500 shares, at 751-, 76,
and 75i ; the last sale at 75k, after tha close of the 2nd
Board of Brokers. $6OOO draft on New York, sold at
1041 ; N. A. Bank, 385 to 395 ; Pennsylvania, 412 to
425; Philadelphia Bank 98 to 100 ; Girard, 40 2-3ds to
401 ; Vicksburg 14i asked.
We have no news of interest stirring. Business trans-
action, and a view of the market, I annex. The Le-
gislature of our State have passed a resolution to adjourn
this day.
The market has been very quiet this week in most ar-
ticles of merchandize with the exception of sugar and
coffee, of which considerable sales have been made, nearly
all the sugar taken at first hands at full a per cent. advance
on last week's prices. Coffee has improved a trifle, and
holders firm with small stocks. Molasses remains entirely
neglected, a sale of Matanzas at 23c. is all I hear the last
day or two. Teas, sales small at former prices, say coun-
try packed young hyson a 55c. lb. ; Canton do. 42c. An
invoice of Pernambuco hides a 101 four months. To-
bacco, 300 ceroons for your market, North side Cuba at
from 171 a 20c. lb. as per quality ; Kentucky has been
active, and about 300 hbds. taken principally by the trade
at full prices; inferior grades a 5 a 6c., and prime 8 a
91c. lb. Iron, a sale of 125 tons Pennsylvania pig (coal
blast) at $3l, and 100 tons Bloom at $6O per ton. Flour
is very dull at $4 25 a 41 for Ohio, and $4 621 for Penn-
sylvia ; some lots, not inspected, of Western, as low as
$4. Wheat is wanted for export, and sells on arrival at
96, 98, and 100 c. per bushel. Corn has improved a shade
—yellow 49c. afloat, white 45e. Oats is also better, and
sales by the cargo at 28c. Q. Bark, first No. 1, steady
at S,Y:).
Correspondence of the Courier and Inquirer.

BALTIMORE, JUNE 8-9 O'QLOCK, A.M.
The sales of Howard-street flour yesterday, were made
at $4 50 a $4 56i, principally at the former rate.
The demand for bacon having fallen off, a slight decline
has taken place, and sales of best Western assorted mac
at 81. and of fair to good quality, at 8k znd Eli cents.
Sales of 5,0001b5. Deer Skins, at 22 a 25c. ; 1,0001135.
Western Feathers, very prime, at 50c., and of common to
fair at 41 a 48cts.

(From the Buffalo ComniercialAdvertiser.)
BUFFALO, JUNE 9, 1840.

STATE OF TRADE

The increase of travel upon the various routes leading to
and from this important point, have, during the past week,
shown a manifest improvement. Trade has been more ac-
tive, and the general aspect of business decidedly more favor-
able. The number of emigrants landing, and the quantity of
merchandise passing through is quite considerable. There is
also a very large amount of produce arriving, which must
give the intcrior•a tremendous fall trade. This is not to
be wondered at, as the whole West is now a producer—
and enters the market with full assurance of success. Every
craft that rounds the pier brings to the embrace of our city
a full cargo.
Among the arrivals this week we notice the steam-boat
Madison, with 1,200 bbls. of flour, taken in at St.
Joseph's. This is, we believe, the first consignment
direct from that port this season, by steamboat; and
we are pleased to record the fact that this vessel, which
is one of the largest en the Western waters, found no
difficulty whatever in touching there and taking in her
cargo. Gentlemen familiar with the subject say the har.
hour is the finest upon Lake Michigan; but some local
difference between it and Chicago, and the want of per-
manent improvements have deterred masters of vessels
from making it a particular point. We speak advisedly
when we say that 30,000 bbls. of flour will he shipped
from that place this season, and it is asserted that half that
number arc now awaiting a conveyance from Michigan City.

The Lords stood adjourned over yesterday, and
the Commons did not make a House.

We agree with the Post and the Standard, that
the small majority of 19 against Sir R. INGLIs's
motion is not much of a triumph for the Liberals,
nor much of a defeat for the Tories. A minority
of 151, tellers included, is sufficient, if a cause be
good, to ensure it final if not speedy success.
When the idea was first broached by the Standard
—for to that lying Journal belongs the scandal, we
believe, of first suagesting, when other persons
were denouncing the wealth of the Church, that it
was not rich and powerful enough—it was very
generally ridicUled as a monstrous folly, which no
person would dare to broach in Parliament. The
public, headed by the Times, was then of opinion
that there was too much Church, and there was an
almost general demand to reform, if not to curtail,
its revenues; and we remember well that the pro-
position of the Standard, to give the Church a large
additional sum of the public revenue was generally
scouted, asequally unjust and impracticable. We have,
however, now seen a motion to that effect brought
forward, and seen it supported by 151 Members,
while an almost equal number, the cause of whose
absence is not explained, must, as Members of the
Conservative party, be ready to give it support,
though cold and reluctant. The division, therefore,
as a Ministerial Evening Contemporary says,—
"Is replete with warning to the country. Vigorous
exertion and stout resistance are required to counteract the
spirit of ecclesiastical aggression and extortion that has
seized on High Churchmen, and which the Tories, as a
party, foster and attempt to gratify, because of the aid
they derive from the clergy, as a body, in advancing
their party interests."
The number after all, is parhaps not the most
formidable feature of the division and the de-
bate. Though neither Sir R. PEEL, Sir JAMES
GRAHAM, nor Lord STANLEY, spoke in favour
of the motion, they all voted for it, and are there-
fore pledged to carry its principle into effect when-
ever they possess the power. Why Mr. GOUL-
BURN, another leader of the Tories, did not vote,
we cannot tell, as he was in the House in the early
part of the evening, and is known to be favourable
to the measure. Besides these great leaders, the
rising young men of the party, such as Mr. HER-
BERT, Mr. MILNES, and Mr. GLADSTONE,
with Lords MAHON and SANDON, all voted for it,
and by that pledge themselves to use their power
in office and out of office to impose more Church
on the community. Combining the number with the
talent and influence of those who supported Sir
ROBERT INGLIS, and looking at the probability of
the Tories being in office, we must warn every man
in the country not a member of the Church, that
he must at once bestir himself to prevent at some
future time a large sum being voted for extending
the Church.

But the strength of our opponents and oppres-
sors is for us not so formidable as the disposition
of our friends. The foremost of Lord JOHN
RUSSELL'S reasons for resisting the motion was
the present necessities of the State, and the pro-
bability that to increase the public burdens would
be to increase the discontent. At the same time
as Lord JOHN RUSSELL admits that the want of
churches and the want of priests are evils, he, too,
will be bound, should the revenue be abundant, at
some future day to give a favourable consideration
to Sir ROBERT INGLIS'S demand. The next
objection made by Lord JOHN RUSSELL was the
hostility of those who do not belong to the fa-
voured sect ; so that if they should slumber, or
from prosperous worldly concerns care little for
some additional taxation, Lord JOHN RUSSELL
may be expected not to offer any vigorous op-
position to the High Church party. Moreover, '
the great object of the remainder of Lord
Jon s RUSSELL'S speech was to show that he and
all the Ministers take a deep interest in the aurch,
seek to promote its efficiency, and are favourable
to the extension of its power, though he fears to
impose new taxes on the people for that purpose.
Now in these avowals of partiality to the Church
we see even more cause for apprehension than in
the numbers and influence of the Tories.
But even this is not all. Some of the most ef-
fective parts of Sir R. INGLIS'S spcecli consisted
in quotations from speeches of Sir J. HOB HOUSE,

Lord PALMERSTON, Lord HOWICK, and Lord J.
RUSSELL, pointing out or admitting the insuffi-
ciency of Church accommodation, and professing a
desire to remedy it. A Morning Journal, too, once
the most forward and most consistent in attacking
the Church, took care to impress on its readers yes-
terday, that " it was not hostile to the maintenance of
(religious) establishments," so that where we have
the most right to look for aid in " counteracting the
spirit of ecclesiastical aggression and extortion,"
we find an acknowledgment of the utility of the
Church, and a desire to uphold, strengthen, and
extend it. This circumstance makes us earnest to
impress it on every friend of the voluntary system
throughout the land to be constant and unceasing
in his exertions, for that noble cause is endangered
by feeble or treacherous friends.

It was over and over again stated, during the pro-
gress of the discussion on the Reform Act, that the
Peterloo massacre was its parent. That single
event convinced thousands in the manufacturing
districts that there was no chance of obtaining either
redress or justice till the House of Commons was
reformed. It has been reformed, without causing
any of the beneficial effects which were anticipated.
Again great masses of grievances are growing up,
for which no redress can he obtained, and again a
demand has arisen for a further and a more sweep-
ing Reform. The petitions which we publish else-
where, under the head " Torture in England" seem
to us likely to become, in common with other peti-
tions of the same character, to which it has been our
duty to direct the attention of our readers, to that
further and more sweeping Reform what the Peter-
loo massacre was to the Reform already achieled,
the last drop which makes the full cup of indigna-
tion for "an age of wrongs" overflow. At least
our countrymen must be wholly unworthy of the
character they have always horny, if the middle
classes are not thoroughly ashamed of the torture
inflicted in their name and for their behoof on a few
political offenders, and if the lower classes are not
thoroughly indignant at the unworthy treatment in-
flicted on those whose utmost crime is that they
have assumed to be peculiarly the friends of the
poor.
The number of petitioners is seven, and they all
complain of similar usage. They are treated as
felons, are obliged to tear the little meat they re-
ceive with their hands, and in same cases appear
to be compelled to labour on the trcadwheel. We
need not transcribe here their several complaints,
but shall recommend the petitions of JOSEPH
CRABTREE, confined in the House of Correction
at Wakefield, and of RICHARD WHITE on behalf
of his son, confined in the same place, to particular
attention. The description given by CRABTREE
is minute and specific, and if correct, as we are in.
clined to think, it must require a considerable staff
of turnkeys and watchmen to carry the prison dis-
cipline into effect.
The treatment mentioned may be suffering to the
victims ; to those who devised it, and to those who
carry it into execution, it is an indelible disgrace.
If that be prison discipline, it is a far greater crime,
a more atrocious outrage on humanity, than any
of the misdemeanours or petty felonies committed
by those who are subjected to it. That an aged
man, whose only offence was attending a public
meeting where no violence was committed ; and that
a sick youth, who is said to have twice fallen from
the tread-mill, should have been equally exposed to
such treatment, proves the unsparing cruelty of the
system.

" Each petition," says a Tory Contemporary,
" supposing its allegations-to_ be true, reveals a sys-
tem of torture known only to the Star Chamber
and the Inquisition." In Mr. WHITE'S petition
it is added, that the cells at Wakefield are damp
and unwholesome ; but as this is not supported by
evidence, and is said to be under investigation, we
do not further mention it as aggravating the
miseries of the Wakefield House of Correction.
Without that enough remains to make it doubtful
whether the present horrors of English prisons, as
inflicted on political offenders, can be surpassed by
the dungeons of the Inquisition, or the negro
prisons of Jamaica. -
We must, in conclusion, remind those who are
instrumental in inflicting these cruelties, that they
will mar their own purpose, unless they pursue the
course to its proper conclusion—the death of the
prisoners. To allow them to come out of prison,
will he to disperse missionaries of Chartism. and
apostles of revolution, over the land. Even should
their spirit be broken, and they should carefully
shun the honour of further political martyrdom,
they will talk of their sufferings, and will inspire
many a young and ardent mind with an undying
hatred of our political institutions. Of political
offenders it is eminently true, that if you insult and
injure, wi:hout destroying them, you only irritate
and strengthen the enemies who will destroy you.

In another part of the Paper will be found an
account of an atrocious attack, made on ROBERT
OWEN and his peaceable followers, at the Potte-
ries in Staffordshire. We know little or nothing
of the doctrines of this sect, but we know that
their public conduct deserves great praise for mo-
deration and decent demeanour. They do not, like
some other sects, attempt to maintain or extend
their tenets by violence ; they do not break out
into open rebellion, like the Churchman under the
guidance of the mad Lord GEORGE GORDON ;
nor do they attack private property. like the igno-
rant and misguided persecutors of PRIESTLY—
and why, then, should the Magistrates of Staf-
fordshire allow a lawless, ignorant, and prejudiced
mob to attack men who offend not against the laws
of their country ? We recommend to the cler4y-
mln who lectured on the occasion, to study the
following text of Scripture :—" Refrain from these
men, and let them alone, for if this counsel or this
work he of man, it will come to nought, but if it
be of GOD ye cannot overturn it."

The I-lull Advertiser makes the following ic-
marks on the anomalous position, in which Sir
AUGUSTUS and Mademoiselle D'EsTE—or, as they
ought to be designated, Prince A uGy sT us and
Princess AUGUSTA of SUSSEX—arc placed :
" Sir Augustus and Mademoiselle D'Este arc legally, as
well as morally, entitled to all the advantages that should
arise to the legitimate offspring of a Royal Duke. This
the Duke of Sussex has acknowledged, and the opinion of
two lawyers, eminently qualified to decide upon the point,
was, in 1831, pronounced in favour of the validity of his
Royal Highness's marriage with Lady Augusta Murray.
Dr. Lushington and Mr. Griffiths Richards, united in the
opinion that " the Royal Marriage Act does not extend
to any marriages by any descendants of George 11.,
contracted and solemnised bona fide out of Great Britain,
and beyond the limits of British jurisdiction, and that the
marriage of his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex at
Rome was not a marriage impeachable under that statute.
" Under these circumstances, it is most unjustifiable to
withhold from the generous and accomplished Sir Augus-
tus D'Este and his sister the rights of their birth, nor
will the Duke of Sussex be held blameless for failing to
use his best endeavours to obtain justice for his children
Highly estimable as is the character of the Illustrious
Duke, and greatly as his popular qualities arc appreciated
by the nation, he will not be exempt from heavy censure
should he shrink from discharging the obligations which,
as a parent and a man, he owes to the offspring of his
early affections."

We entirely concur with our respectable Contem-
porary in these opinions. Indeed he has only ex-
pressed the sentiments which every one entertains
who has given the slightest attention to the subject.
There is not, we will venture to say, a dissentient
voice without the walls of Kensington Palace
upon the merits of the question at issue between the
Duke of SUSSEX and his children. Nor do we re-
gard this unanimity as a thing calculated to excite
the least degree of surprise. The wonder would
have been, had there existed a diversity of opinion
on a point so clear. For what really is the ques-
tion but this, whether it is or is not the duty of a
parent to stand up for the rights of his children,
and to assist them in their endeavours to procure
that justice which, without his assistance, may pos-
sibly be beyond their reach.
Can there, we ask, be two opinions in any com-
munity, more especially in a Chiistian community,
on such a question ? We say, with all respect for
the Duke of SUSSEX, that if his Royal Highness
has made up his mind to set the law of nature, and
the opinion of the world, at defiance on this one
most material point, all that he can do by the most
praiseworthy conduct on other points, will be alto-
gether insufficient to save him from the public cen-
sure. We cannot believe it possible that a
Prince, who has hitherto stood so high in the
estimation of the country, will risk his popularity
—were there no ',Uglier motives to influence him—
by taking a course so different from that which the
popular voice and the popular sentiment point out.
But be t as it may, this, in our opinion, admits of
no doubt—that Sir AUGUSTUS D'ESTE is bound,
by a regard to the memory of his honoured mother,
as well as by the duty which lie owes to his sister

and to himself, to use his utmost efforts to obtain
those rights which have been so unjustly withheld.
No dereliction of duty on the part of the Duke of
SUSSEX can absolve him from this obligation, how-
ever painful it may be to his feelings to act in such
a matter, either in opposition to, or even indepen-
dently of, his Royal father, An appeal to the
breast of his illustrious parent is unquestionably
his first step, but should that, unhappily,
fail of success, his next should be to address
himself to her MAJESTY'S constitutional advisers.
We perceive that Sir AUGUSTUS, in con-
junction with Lord SEATON, late Commander-
in-Chief in Canada, had an interview with
Lord MELBOURNE on Wednesday last, on the
subject, it is presumed, of Highland emi-
gration to our Canadian possessions, in which
he is understood to take a deep interest.
The object is a highly patriotic one, and therefore
deserves to be applauded ; but still we hold that,
until the son of the Duke of SUSSEX is recognised
as such—until he is rescued from his present degra-
dation, and placed in the position to which his
birth entitles him, he is culpable, if he do not bend
his principal--we had almost said his whole
—exertions to the attainment of that paramount
object.
_ _

We are confident, such is our opinion of Lord
MELBOURNE'S honest English feeling, combined
as it is with the most correct judgment, that were
SirAUGUSTUS to represent to his Lordship person-
ally the grievous injustice,the unprecedented wrongs,
to which he and his sister have so long and so pa-
tiently submitted, the hardship of their case, and the
necessity of immediate redress, would at once be
admitted. An appeal to the Prime Minister would,
we are persuaded, not be made in vain, and we
would earnestly impress upon Sir AuGusTus
D'EsTE, that after the public opinion has been so
unequivocally expressed in favour of the justice of
his claims, and ►n condemnation of the unworthy
treatment to which he has been subjected, such an
appeal is expected from him. We shall also take
the liberty to remind him that there is much
ancestral wisdom in the adage " Strike the iron
while it is hot."

Since the above observations were put into
type, we have observed that the Dublin Evening
Post has opened its columns to the defence of the
rights of the children of the Duke of SUSSEX.
We hail, with cordial satisfaction, the accession of
our able and influential Contemporary to a cause
which has no other means of advancement than its
intrinsic justice, and claims no other support than
that which a sense of justice dictates. Our readers
are aware that the Dublin Evening Post is the
great organ of the MELBOURNE Administration
in Ireland. Its advocacy of the rights of the son
and daughter of the Duke of SUSSEX, against, to
all appearance, the inclinations of their Royal Fa-
ther, may therefore be instanced as a fresh proof,
were such wanted, that this question is not con-
nected, in the most remote degree, with political
considerations. It is taken up and advocated with
equal earnestness by Journals of all shades of poli-
tical opinion—by the warmest friends, and the
bitterest opponents of the Government. Every
week, too, is adding to the number of its adhe-
rents. These are circumstances which demand the
deepest attention of the Duke of SUSSEX ; nor
can they, we think, escape the notice of those
whose duty it is to watch over the interests of the
Royal Family.

We remind our readers that a meeting in behalf
of the persecuted Jews at Damascus, will be held
at the Mansion-house to-morrow. The requisition
to the LORD MAYOR, which appeared in The Sun
of Tuesday, is signed by almost every man of title
and wealth in the City, and forms a noble con-
trast to the bigoted ignorance of the Christians at
Damascus, and the still mote atrocious bigotry of
the citizens of London in by-gone days. It must
afford great relief to a humane mind to see these
old, absurd, and barbarous prejudices vanishing
'before the light of reason and common sense; and
the very same class of men coining forward now to
denounce as unchristian and wicked the system of
persecution, which was considered meritorious under
the reign of King JOHN. We have no doubt that
this meeting wilt be productive of great benefit to
a persecuted people, to whom we owe many bless-
ings, and who, notwithstanding all the oppressions
to which they have been subjected, conduct them-
selves with a degree of moderation, patience, and
forbearance which Christians have reason to envy.

Dr. LUSH INGTON it appears, has decided in the
Consistory Court, that a Church-rate is not invali-
dated by the omission of property to the amount of
2001. from the rate. It lies altogether in the dis-
cretion of the Judge to determine the invalidating
quantum of omission, such is the glorious precision
of Ecclesiastical law. We recollect the same
Learned Civilian gave an opinion, we are not s•ire
whether it was not in this very case, that an omis-
sion to the amount of sixpence would not be suf-
ficient to set aside the rate.

We observe with pleasure that among the pre-
sentations at her MAJESTY'S Levee yesterday, the
Rev. JAMES ACWORTH, M.A., President of
Holton College, Bradford, and the Rev. JOHN
EUSTACE GILES, Baptist Minister of Leeds,
were introduced as a Deputation from forty-two
Congregations in the 11 est Riding of Yorkshire,
to lay before her MAJESTY two Memorials, one on
behalf of the persecuted JOHN THOROGOOD, and
the other praying for her MAJESTY'S sanction to
the application which they are about to make to
the Senate of Hamburgh, on behalf of the Rev.
J. G. Oucic EN, and the Baptist congregation in
that place, who are now, to the disgrace of that
professedly free and Protestant State, forbidden to
assemble for worship even ill a private house. As
a proof of the interest taken in the case of JOHN
THottooooD in Yorkshire, r, e may state, for the
comfort of the Bishops, that in one day not fewer
than forty congregations met to memorialize her
MAJESTY on the subject, all of them professing
religious tenets different from those of the unfortu-
nate prisoner. The Church, and not the Govern-
ment, is to blame for this wicked persecution. In-
deed, we have reason to.believe that her MAJESTY'S
Ministers are most anxious that THOROGOOD
should be released, but the Ecclesiastical Courts
and the Bishops are still too strong for them.

Letters from Constantinople of the 10th ult. cons
firm the accounts previously received of the distnissar
of KIIOSREW PACHA from the post of Grand Vizie
and President of the Council. In consideration of hi
long service and advanced age the SULTAN has over
looked his peculations, so that the Matti Sherif merely
mentions his infirmities as incapacitating him from
longer discharging the duties of so weighty an office.
KHOSREW'S successor is RAOUF PACHA, a man older
than himself, but one whose bands are said to be com-
paratively clean, and who is well disposed to second
the efforts of the Reform party, and especially RESCHID
PACHA, who is the animating soul of that body. The
new GRAND VIZIER has a powerful and determined
enemy in Russia, not the least of whose recent morti-
fications has been the dismissall tr
of o.t.
Advices were received at Constantinople from Odessa
stating positively that Russia had landed 30,000 fresh
troops on the Circassian coast. These troops were
shortly to be re-inforced by another swarm of Cossacks,
who were ready to embark, burning to revenge upon the
gallant mountaineers the destruction of their companions
in arms. We are astonished at the apathy of the
Governments of France and England on the subject of
the independence of Circassia. So brave a people ought
to be rescued from the barbarians' yoke attempted to be
imposed upon them by the tyrant of Poland.

Brussels and German Papers, the former of Mon-
(lay's date, have reached us. The following extracts
from them include all the news they contain of any
general interest

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BRUSSELS, JUNE 29.—The Illoniteur publishes the fol-
lowing notice :—" Tiic Minister of Finance of the king-
dom of Belgium, who is authorised to open a loan to the
amount of eighty-two millions of francs, informs the public
that he will receive till the Ist of August next all offers
which shall be made to him to fill up the said loan, as well
as all proposals relative either to the rate of interest of the
bonds to be issued, or to the mode of competition which
the persons interested would wish to have adopted. The
time or payment might be arranged In such a manner that
the last payment shall be made in the course of the )car
1842, and not earlier. _

" More ample information will be given at the Office
of the Minister, to any person applying for it.
MERCIER.

" Brussels, 25th June."
Her Royal Highness Madame Adelaide, sister of the
King of the French, is expected at Brussels on Tuesday.
An enermous:thornbaek, 9 feet long, 7 feet broad, and
1% foot thick, has been caught in the North Sea, and
brought to Oitend. It a as immediately sent to the Cabi.
net of Naturslllistery at Tournay.
PoLista FRONTIERS IN JUNE.—The frOlVier is now more
rigorously guarded than ever, so that all strangers pos-
sessing estates in Poland and Silesia are endeavouring to
dispose of them below their value. The labourers, men
And maid servants, who go from Poland to Silesia, or
from Silesia to Poland, to woik on the estates of their
rogitcra, can obtain passports only fur a few weeks at the

utmost. At the expiration of that time they must imme-
diately return to their homes to get their passports re-
newed. Every time they cross the frontiers they are most
strictly searched. It is only to the venality of the Cos-
sacks and of the Russian employer in general, that we are
indebted for being able to cultivate our estates in Poland.
If we were to submit literally to all the vexatious formali-
ties prescribed we would rather suffer our fields to be
fallow. Persons of the highest rank, whose estates are
traversed by the Polish frontier line, have applied to the
Emperor for some modification of the measures prescribed.
Wear that they have either a refusal or an equivocal
answer.