The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-14 00:00:00

PUBLICATIONS.

The Judge-Advocate has been here two or three days,
during which he has visited the tributary boroughs of
Cowbridge and Lantrissent. Mr. Tynte, it is said, op-
poses him. It -vas expected that the election would have
taken place on Wednesday, but, as, from some mistake
in the Crown-office, the writ has not up to this morning
reached the High-Sheriff, the election cannot take place
previous to Friday. The Judge-AdvOcate left this morn-
ing (Sunday) for town to attend a Council.
CHIPPENIJAM.
This election is fixed for Tuesday.
DORCHESTER.

Sir James Graham arrived at Dorchester on Friday.
The election will take place to-day (Monday).
EAST KENT.

At present there has not been any open manifestation
of opposition to the re-election of Sir Edward Knatchbull.
In the course of yesterday Mr. Delamark Banks, the
High-Sheriff, issued his proclamation, by which he has
appointed the election for to-morrow (Monday) week,
MARLBOROUGH.

Here some mistake has arisen, only one precept having
arrived; the election for one Member will therefore take
place on Tuesday.
MONMOUTH COUNTY.

Proclamation was made here this day (Saturday), ap-
pointing Monday, the 20th inst., for the election of one
Knight of the Shire, in the place of Lord Granville
Somerset, who has been appointed Chancellor of the
Duchy of Lancaster. _ _

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Our Leader. Who are you? or the House of Lords at Col
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Just published, the St erenth Edition, price 3s. 6d; en(
fret, on receipt of a Post-office order, for 3s. 6d.,
'I4IANHOOD ; the CAUSES of its PRE-
-NIL MATURE I tECLINE, with plain Directions for
ITS PERFECT 111 '.STORATION; addressed to those
suffering fr, om the (lest uctive effects of Excessive Indulgence,
Solitary H abits, c r I afection ; followed by Observations on
the Treatn sent of Syphilis, Gonorrhtea, Gleet, &c., illus-
tratedwith cases, & ..c. By J. L. CURTIS and COMPANY,
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The in llowing are ,a few of the numerous testimonials this
popular -.vork has rmae ived, and x-ehich the limits of an adver-
tisement will only alto w of being published :
The rage for books i n all departments of Science, literature,
and the arts, was, we ' believe, never so prevalent as at the pre-
sent tim ..... The now voidable consequence of this is, that we
meet a v ery censideral 31e proportion of indifferent, useless, and
even bad books. Wi th the force of this prejudice on our
minds, w e with to little reluctance were induced to peruse
Messrs. Curti ;'s wort :, entitled "Manhood ;" nor did it re-
quire mw
one of the .
:ill perusal I ally to satisfy us that the book was not
col:mono tamp. The scientific views taken by the e
source'
authors of tf ; and origin of many of the most distressing
"ffects of ." rtain del n aved habits, fully establish their claim to
the charaei er of ex io erienced and judicious surgeons. To
quote passe ges from , :lie work in proof of our assertion would
be departin g from the established rules of the daily press. The
result, boa ever, of our • caceful perusal of the work, has been
to impress us with a t horce:gh confidence in the talent and
skill of tl'.t . authors, and ' to satisfy us that those entrusted with
the care of youth are not a little indebted to them for fur-
nisliing tbt 'm with a rr gnats of preventing some of the most
Curtis's wor! c, entitled " Manhood," is one of the
frightful to aladies to wh iris flesh' is hear.—Old England.
forMbeposarsks.. mow coming h e for the public on such a subject which
can lay ei &Ire to the char It. ;ter of being strictly professional, at
the same :time that it is fully intelligible to all who read it.
The rnor r:1 and medical : precepts given in it, render it invalu-
able.-11 lagnet.
The ye trusal of Messrs. . Curtis's book entitled " Manhood,"
has reall ' astonished ns - by developinga.series of maladies, the
ion pointed out b?tween the assigned
never-fa Aug conser4ue in oof the vicious habit of which it
treats. Die clear coui it .xevery capacity. We
cause r end the ef,ects .
strongl ! re. leterav 'ld ato w°rdaily coming from the press,
some,
is perceptible to • y
questionable tendency, made us ex-
The ne uli itucli; of bc tol ,s .
nay tnost of the m, of a
treinely relu cunt to to kveel
uP',/ n of this work by an intelligent
.-
another. Having, however, been
induced by the chars, :ter ,ei. e
its pages,
friend, we ve utured to open and now feel no hesita_
fro its perusal instructed and
tion in sayi ag that -we aria ° -- -ra
edified." Ti- e clear expositio.
to youth, and which are set
diseases which proves so fa lal
a;
the result of common
-1 of the source of many of those
down by ti se every-day übse
causes, such as exposure to col, ~.
rlr
.er
vicissitudes of
suddentempe-
, .
rature, here :ditary tale't, Ice., is; truly ~
aasmuch as Messrs.
ni ely satisfa story. W e say " satisfactory, '
l'ut.-h as Pulmonary
Curtis hay a shorn- that many diseases, S
convincing and extre-
Consumpti, ,n, ? oepsy, &c., hitherto the opp
fitted to judi-
eine, may,
wh n'.taken in proper time, and subna
. ble a termination
cious treat men:e bebrought to as favoura
too
as any othe t,
affections. We do not think we go
rohria of
far in v' r oht -,, of
producing 'g
th" tsociety
muchßanted, so valuable, and so truly
maial saab.: , is deeply indebted to the authors for.
so " tful, so
1d" 11 hood "
47:11m 1 the work eutit e ~ an , &c., to the
careful p .of We ree 0k._..4 7,onservativ-• Journal.
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physical
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se rssuo
sure
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to result from such perusal, will be
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most r, 3adil antag
. ised and felt by those who stand most in
of all classes. The moral as well as
need of
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them....... 5,
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1 Company are to be consulted daily at
11 e.
~ountry patients' requestedews.
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the
ee
npoatnioonticine ,e, general habits of living, and occu-
dausrmatrounteofasthpeos com-
plaint,
y ; the communication must be ac-
e Dart
companied by the -us I , maultation fee of IL, without which,
' taken of their application ; and in
( 11,1 cases the • secresy may be relied QUI
1 IV* inviolabh

Friday morning, Lord Howiek arrived in this town,
and immediately commenced his canvass, accompanied
by a large number of the most influential of the Liberal
party.
Shortly after twelve o'clock, pursuant to public an-
nouncement, his Lordship addressed the inhabitants
from the balcony of the Bridge Inn, and was heard with
an unusual degree of attention, and received with loud
applause.
After a few introductory, observations, the Noble Lord
spoke as follows :—Gentlemen, you must in general be
aware what are the principles on which I come forward
to solicit your euftrages ; you must be aware that I
stend here as a member of the great party which
has taken a very conspicuous part in the affairs of
this country. I have been a humble but sincere
supporter of the measures of that party from the
year 1825 to this time. I supported the abolition
of the Test and Corporation Acts, by which our
Dissenting fellow-countrymen are now placed in
a station of equality with their fellow-subjects of
the Established Church. I supported the emancipation
of our Roman Catholic fellow-subjects ; I supported
measures during the former Government of the Duke of
Wellington, calculated, by degrees, to remedy the then
glaring defects in the representation, and when all these
efforts failed—when by the blind resistance of our op-
ponents to even the most trifling and cautious measures
of improvement a great change became ultimately ne-
cessary—when this took place, and the Reform Bill
was brought forward, I had the honour to hold a sub-
ordinate situation in the Government by which that
measure was proposed, and of it I was a most earnest
and sincere supporter.—(Applause.) Gentlemen, since
that time I have filled the situation of a Member of the
Government ; I was a Member of the Cabinet by
which a change in our municipal institutions was pro-
posed and carried—a change by which the principle of
self-government was intro:bleed into the great towns and
cities of this empire—a measure which, in the first
instance, was only applicable to Scotland, which was
afterwards exteuded to England, and ultimately, after
three or four years of delay and resistance by our oppo-
nents, was extended (though I regret to say in a some-
what crippled shape) to Ireland.—(Loud applause.)
Gentlemen, this will be sufficient to give you a general
knowledge of the political principles on which I now
claim your support. I cannot but believe that in this
town, which derives the right of returning Members of
Parliament from the Reform Bill, a person like myself
connected with the Government by which that measure
was carried, and closely connected with the head of that
Government—(Hear, hear)—l may feel some confidence
that from you I shall receive support—(A shout of
" you're safe," and applause)—against any member of
that party by which all these great measures of improve-
ment and reform to which I have adverted have been
strenuously and obstinately opposed. But, gentlemen,
there is another ground ou which, at thii parti-
cular moment, I make bold to appeal to you fur
your support. You are aware our opponents tell
us the questions to which I have adverted are now
settled, that there is no longer any dispute on the
subject, that they do not wish to repeal the Catholic
Emancipation Bill, the Test and Coporation Acts, the
Parliamentary Reform and the Municipal Reform Acts
—that these matters are all settled, and that on these
points there is no difference between us. Gentlemen, I
think you must admit this is, after all, but a very weak
and inefficient argument ; you must believe in the pro-
gress of human affairs, new questions are constantly
arising, and that those who, in times past, on questions
now settled, have been found to take a part which ex-
perience has shown to be a wrong one, who have
resisted to the latest moment at which resistance
was possible those great and necessary improvements
—you have a right to presume that such a party is
not to be depended upon for effecting further im-
provements, if they are required. But, Gentlemen,
this is not mere conjecture. At the present mo-
ment you must all be aware that the country is
greatly divided upon subjects of extreme impor-
tance to the well-being of every man among you. You
know that the great line of distinction between opposing
parties at this moment is respecting the financial and
commercial policy recommenaed by the two great par-
ties into which the country is divided. On the one side
you have a party insisting upon maintaining what they
call protection, and insisting upon maintaining, under
that name, restrictions—arbitrary restrictions by law—
upon almost every branch of our industry; above all, re-
striction upon the trade in the first article of human
subsistence—l mean corn.—(A shout of "Protection,
Sir.") On the other side you have those (and it is
among these we have taken our stand) who are of opinion
that the languishing commerce of this country can only
be made to revive, that new energy can only be given to
the productive powers of the empire, by a cautious, but
at the same time, a decided advance towards a more li-
beral commercial policy.—(Applause.) For myself, from
the first moment I had a seat in the-House of Commons,i
have uniformly supported this opinion ; in the years
1827 and 1828, immediately after Iliad entered the House,
the Corn-law was the principal topic of discussion. It
was at this time, as you are aware, that the act now in
force was passed. At that time I was one of a very small
minority by which the principle of that Act was strenu-
ously opposed. I was then too new to the House of
Commons to take much part in discussion, but as far as
my vote went it was given on every division in favour
of every amendment proposed for snaking the system
more liberal, and more especially in favour of the prin-
ciple of rather adopting a fixed than a sliding scale of
duty. Gentlemen, experience appears to me fully to
have confirmed the justice of these anticipations of the
mischievous effects of the existing Corn• law, which at
that time influenced my vote, and the votes of those with
whom I acted ; I think it impossible practically to ob-
serve the operation of the present Corn-law without being
satisfied of its being most deeply injurious to all classes in
the community. As one deeply interested in the con-
tinued prosperity of the landed interest, with which my
personal interest is entirely bound up, I have uniformly
held that it is most mistaken and short-sighted policy for
ourselves to adopt this selfish system of excluding the
competition of foreign corn from our markets ; I think
the justice of this opinion has been proved by the result.
I remember since this act was passed, nearly half of the
years which have gone by have been years of agricultural
distress. I know in the years 1833, 1835, and 1536, a
large proportion of the time of the House of Commons
was occupied by the consideration of complaints, and
just complaints, of agricultural distress. If I look on
the other side I also see the law which in many years
worked most disadvantageously for the landed interest,
w °rising still more so for the manufacturing and commer-
cial interests. Can any man doubt the stagnation of trade
of which you have cause to complain at this moment in
this town ? Can any man doubt the difficulties, by which
all the great branches of industry are encumbered, arise
very much from the consequence of bad harvests, aggra-
I rated by .he existing Corn-law—a law which seems care-
MoRMONI sm.—lt is truly lamentable, in an ! fully and studiously devised for the purpose of filling
age overflowing with intellectual light and learning, that 1 all classes with vain expectations which are not to be
anything in the shape of superstition or delusion should realised.—(Applause.) We were told when the law was '
be countenanced for an instant, or that any set of men passed that the descending scale of duties insured the
should be found so base as to practise deceit, under the consumer from the difficulties and distress arising from
garb of religion, upon the more ignorant and unsus • high prices. Has that proved to be the case ? What
petting of mankind. A branch of this new sect, the benefit is it to you the duty elescending to one shilling,
Mormouities, or Latter-Day-Saints, as they are pleased if, by a complicated arrangement of the law, the whole
to style themselves, has arisen here ; and from of that which might be paid in duty really goes to com-
the superstitious, delusive, and ab urd notions in- pensate those who before sustained great losses, or the
culcated by the American Saint, its founder, it payment of the rise in price on the other side of the
is not perhaps so much to be wondered at that water, which takes place in consequence of the capricious
a few ignorant and silly-minded individuals should and uncertain manner in which the ports are opened ?
be led away. One of these pseudo-priests held Why, if the consumer be equally to pay an increased
forth to the family of two who have joined them, price, it seems better that the money which may be
and at the same time pretended to administer the sacred realised should go into the public treasury, and relieve
ordinance of baptism to one of their number—an aged you from other taxes, rather than it should be wasted by
and infirm female, labouring under affliction, and requir- an arrangement advantageous to nobody but the gam-
ing the gentlest treatment than exposure to high excite- Wing speculator.—(Loud applause.) Such, shortly, are
ment, rough handling, and danger of death from drown- my views upon the great question which now occupies
ing. The place chosen for the ceremony was an old lint the attention of the country. I must further state with
hole, full of filthy stagnant water ! The poor old woman reference to the recent change of Administration,
was literally smeared, we cannot say baptised, for as the I that if I should be returned by your votes as a member
vagabond minister was proceeding to plunge her over of the Commons, it will not be in my power to place any
head and ears, away went the edges of the pool, and car- confidence in the new Administration.—(Applause.) I
lied with them the aged woman and the cobbbr priest shall undoubtedly not offer any factious opposition to the
into the bosom of the stinking element ! Pray what be- government of Sir Robert Peel.—(Hear, hear.) When-
came 'of the guardian angel on this occasion 7—Fife ever his measures appear to me to be right, and calcu-
lated to promote the good of the country, those mea-
Suchstions which imply
Herald.
is the split of rivalry with the coach sures, notwithstanding my want of cfoanirfidaenndcesiinneherime
saunpd-
proprietors from Weymouth to Southampton that per-
sons are now taken from one place to the other for the Ph
confidence in that
Administrative, it will be • '
impossible
sum of 55., being a distance of upwards of 70 miles. oisrt.g_ov(eArpnpnLenuts,eoshelßl
But
tcuepivoen
amllyque
ifor me to vote in his favour ; I say it will be impossible,
a different
Copy of a Letter from the late Henry Cowper,
because during the 15 years I have been in Parliament, I
Esq., of Tewen-waters, Herts., to Mr. W. F. France, who is re-
siding at 22, Spring-gardens. "Tewen-waters, Herts., March al,
oassttlo what are the
view of public affairs interests to Sir Robert
time
1840. Sir, In justice to the Messrs. Solomons about the men- .to
I have found myself almostanciof
pub is
tinned in the extract of the advertisement which you have sent
I Peel ; because, if I look bade Sir Peel's paestntcaabrleyeideei_t
me, I beg to inform you that I certainly did write to them to that appears to me
foresight
hases
ig hsth shown himself
1. i
th judgmentin
respect to Sir R. Peel.
effect ; before I possessed the Voice Conductor Sound Magnifiers ficient in
I had been stone deaf. lam within two months of my 87th year, real interests of the country, which are the most essential
and can still feel the comfort and benefit of the Sound Magnifiers qualities of the real statesman.—(Applause.) And, gen-
Invisible Voice Conductors. I am, Sir, your obedient ser.s,, 1
vant, Henry Cowper."—Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, whose talents, notwithstanding, I greatly admire,
tle men, if this is my judgment
and al:
confidence to
Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel, and i
1 lies whom he has called to join him in the Cabinet cer-
-76, King William-street, City, state that their newly. .
invented Invisible Voice Conductor Sound Magnifiers enables per-
sons at an advanced age, and of forty and fifty years' standing of him. I will not go through ,
tainly do not tend to
a might be so invidious
extreme deafness, to join in general conversation, and to catch the as any discussion .
of the personal claims t
concioliatewhmotre 0e my
to your confi-
sound of a distant low speaker at a public assembly. They are the i deuce of all the different members of the Cabinet, but I
size of a very small gold seven-shilling piece, and when in the I cannot avoid recalling to your recollection that in this
cavity of the ears, they are not the least perceptible nor more tin. ' Cabinet are included two persons whose opinions on all
comfortablei‘iessrs than having a small piece of fine wool in its Place. questions of commercial policy, and more especially the
.btSehineblreociyneiosmr:ps: newly-invented Spectacles, immediately they are
placed eartfeocntee vision,rem 0 thatved emistve and j
edcutilbneeLsmwihnigc
chaapi
rpe.aanirds question of the Corn-laws, are diametrically opposite to
those I entertain, and which I think must be entertained
in this great commercial town ;. of course you are aware
distinct, so that the most aged defectivye eye-sight becomes
I allude to the Duke of Buckingham and Sir Edward
and brilliant, and is brought to its youthful, natural, andriogrit
ginal state.
To E. Solomons and Opticians, 36, Old. Knatchbull. You know when the present Corn-law was
passed both these persons, then having seats in the
C 0.,•
Bond.street, and 1, Old Jewry, City :—" In accordance with my
House of Coinmons (the Duke of Buckingham being
promise to report on the efficacy of your Invisible Voice Condit. I then the Marquis of Chandos) were the leaders of what
tors, I have much gratification in being able to say that they afford I may call the ultra agricultural party, who contended
(asl
thhgohutgehs t
distante fli i r t t the
mfaimn
et e) s: inflectionsia
short,
by
me the greatest possible comfort and assistance. They enable,orn-law was in-
me to hoar distinctly remote and mixed sounds—to distinguish I sufficient. You know up to the latest time, within one
tolnte
tilis protection
Subject,
b ject
oftheir aid 1 am
blessed with meat perfect and acute hearing; and in such an obsti-
the preacher or two years, have
on-which they made public speeches
as mine has been of thirty years' standing, when hereto. protested against the slight
alteration of that law, and you know also that they are
the parties who have uniformly held language the most
fire I had not power to hear the ticking of my watch, when applied to every thing like amprovement in our com-
closely to the ear, and after having submitted my severe deafness opposed
his being _
the c .
withoutat erch the.
mercial policy. This
e) various eminent aurists without the slightest relief, I have in. .
deed to congratulate myself
on ray good fortune in hearing your Bible I should. place any
been lately
confidence whatever in the Ad-
deed
character, and in having so much profited by your skilful at. ' ministration which has
formed, but at the
nate case
tention. I deem it my duty to give the fact all the publicity in my same time lam bound to admit that the country has de-
power, and every inquiry to me (directed to No. 11, Coney-street, tided in their favour. The verdict of the country (I will
York), shall be promptly answered... 4 am, gentlemen, your obliged not now inquire for what reasons) has been given against
servant, Michael Walker,-11, Coney.itreet, York,. Aug. 1841." 1 those Ministers who lately were in her Majesty's coun-
,eNt.ehneyofhateexisting 6

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
STANDARD.—We refer our readers with sincere
satisfaction to the correspondence which has taken place
between Colonel Crichton and Sir Robert Peel, in allu-
sion to the insult said to have been offered to the feelings
of the Roman Catholics of Ireland by the High Sheriff
of the county of Fermanagh on a recent occasion.
when a seal of a highly improper character was affixed
to some public document emanating from his office.
We are assured that this outrage, so
,properly de-

precated by the Right Honour—aide jiaronet,-_ was
committed by some underling as .yet undiscovered,
and that, had the letter demanding an explanation
from the High Sheriff been couched in decently
respectful terms he would have shown that he had no
knowledge of, or connection with, the affair. However
this may have been, the leading Protestant residents of
Fermanagh have been convened by Colonel Crichton,
the Lieutenant of the county, for the purpose of taking
into consideration the remarks made by Sir Hobert
Peel on the subject, and have signed an energetic protest
in condemnation of the act, expressing their total
disapprobation of any conduct calculated " to irn-
pair the kindly feelings which so happily sub-
sist between all classes of her Majesty's subjects in that
neighbourhood." This document further states that it:
" no part of the empire does greater tranquillity or More
marked obedience to the law exist than in that loyal
and united county." The reply of Sir Robert Peel,
whilst it disclaims the belief that the conduct com-
phtined of could have been otherwise than dis-
approved of by the Protestant gentlemen or Ferma-
nagh, confirms the impression which the Right Hon.
Gentleman's original allusion to the affair was calculated
to convey—that he will discourage to the utmost all
" provoking and irritating demonstrations of party feel-
ing," come from whichever side they may. As on all oc-
casions in which the conduct of the Protestants of Ire-

land has been impugned, a most ridiculous hubbub ap-
pears to have been raised in regard to the indiscretion in
question. The person morally responsible for the folly
was clearly a subordinate of the High Sheriff; who, be-
fore the excitement consequent on the election had sub-
sided, thought proper to adopt this very objectionable
mode of giving expression to his individual feeling. Why
it should have been attempted to identify this person with
the Protestant people of Ireland we have yet to learn.
COURIER.—ne opposition tactics are beginning to
develop themselves, although who is to be the leader of
the Opposition is not so clearly apparent. Mr. Roebuck,
indeed, put in his claim, and took the field early on the
strength of it, by way of hint significant that he at least
would bear "no rival near the throne," much le ,s crouch
before a superior. Lord John Russell, meanwhile, would
seemed to be dropped by common consent, as unceremo-
niously as in 1835 he was hoisted over Mr. Sping Rice,
his then leader, upon the dictation of bfr. I%aniel O'Con-

nell, and in pursuance of the Lichfield House compact,
to whose purposes that gentleman was not deemed likely
to be an instrument sufficiently subservient and
obsequious. All that transpires about the late Colonial
Secretary is that his Lordship contemplates rusticating
for the present amid the sylvan shades
.and bowers of

made both to Paris and Marseilles. In tracing out this
mysterious affair, every hint must be found of the greatest
possible utility; and from the character of Galignani's
journal, it is to be expected that when the wish of the

sufferers is made known to him, he will give his assist-
ance towards the discovery of the fraud.
CHRONICLE.—Viewing the Corn-laws in the light
of a money question, .Which is our immediate province,
the encouragement which the sliding scale of duties
affords to fictitious sales and gambling will be apparent
to any one who chooses to turn his attention a few
minutes to the great diminution of duty which is pro-
duced by every shilling of rise of price when the price
reaches 70s. After that position is obtained, the trader
who has corn in bond obtains a reduction of 4s. per

quarter of duty for every one shiliing of rise in the
price, and for a rise of 3s. in the price, he realises a
fall of 9s. Bd. per quarter on the duty. Suppose a corn
dealer to have 50,000 quarters of corn in bond, and the
average price to be 705., which subjects him to a duty of
10s. Bd., and that the averages can be run up to 735., that
will at once produce the minimum duty of Is. Here is a
profit to the holder of 22,5001. by the mere raising of the
averages from 70s. to 735. per quarter. Under such cir-

cumsrances it is manifest th.at the dealers in corn have every

inducement to enter into combinations and fictitious

sales for the purpose of enhancing the price of food, so
as to force down the duty to the lowest possible amount.
Allowing that the holders should make a sacrifice of 3s.
per quarter to run up the averages from 70s. to 735. per
quarter, they have still a profit of 6s. per quarter on
their stock on hand equal to 15,0001. on the supposed
quantity of 50,000 quarters. These facts illustrate the
injurious and fallacious operation of the present Corn-
laws, while the averages are in the ascendant. But when
the prices begin to fall, their real poison and pollusion
will be most thoroughly exhibited. It will then be de-
monstrated, beyond the power of successful disputation,
that they are altogether had, radically false, and
vicious in principle. There is no possible device by
which their inherent vice and error can be eradi-
cated, except by their repeal. The error lies in
their origin, by making the duties on foreign
imports depend upon the price at home. If the rule had
depended upon the quantity and quality of home growth,
then there would have been something like a principle
of justice in their composition ; but by the existing sys-
tem, in the case of a deficient harvest, and a general in-
feriority in the quality of British corn, the consumer is
starved, because the coarseness of the home article for-
bids a high price ; and thus, by the increase of the
duties, he is excluded from the supply of wholesome food
from abroad. lle is mocked by an apparent plenty, from
low average prices, and consequent high import duties,
while wholesome flour is scarcely to be obtained, and
only at prices far beyond his means of purchase. The
monopolists may tinker and patch at the sliding scale
until they are blind ; they cannot cure its faults, which
lie at its root and origin, except by its abolition.
Under the present system, the quantity deficient is
only considered in .so far as it may appear in the action
of prices. If, for instance, the average prices should
decline between this and Christmas to 665. per quarter,
foreign wheat would have to pay a duty of 20s. Bd. per
quarter before it could be entered for home consumption.
Now, everybody who has seen the samples of new wheats,
even the best Essex wheat, must admit that they show
a general inferiority in comparison with last crop, and
that many of the second•rates are wholly unfit for food.
Yet the comparatively low averages will induce the belief
that food is by no means scarce at home, and the supply
from abroad will he kept out, or at least very much cir-
cumscribed, in consequence of the rise in the duties.
POST.—An attempt has been made to induce the
holders of Spanish Treasury Bonds to enter into the
proposition of Senor Kull, to accept three per cent. in-
terest upon them, instead of five per cent. which was
guaranteed at the time of their issue, upon tile plea that,
as the holders of stock had agreed to a reduction to that
rate, the unfortunate purchasers of the Treasury Bills
ought not to stand out. This is pure sophistry, and the
creditors of Spain, either on the one or other security,
ought not to sacrifice an iota of their claim on that
country. At the period of the issue of the Treasury
Bonds, the payment was solemnly guaranteed, not only
by the Minister in Spain, but by the Ambassador
here ; and the foreign creditor was content to
take them upon that
.guarantee after the home
creditor had been paid in gold. They are an obli-
gation for the dividend due in 1836, since which not

some Devonshire cottage. - Mr. Roebuck, however, on
the first onset has so irretrievably damaged himself by
his coarse and insolent onslaught on the editors and
proprietors of the Times Journal, for which the provo-
cation was assuredly so slight as ought only to have
evoked a passing smile from a man of mind, that it may
be doubted whether, however disposed to play the
commander-in-chief, an army can be found to follow
under his banner. The ludicrous exhibition of division
and distraction among the passengers by the Radical
dilly, On the first Radical Motion this Session of Mr.
Sharman Crawford, would seem to argue but small com-
mand in the self-assuming leader, whose solemn stalking
out of the House on that occasion with Mr. Ward only
bringing up the rear, was ludicrous enough. That, how-
ever, Mr. Roebuck means mischief of some sort may be
assumed from his notice of motion for the abolition of the
New Poor-law Commissariat of Somerset House, and
transference of all their rights, powers, privileges, and
dominion to the Homeo-ffice. It may be guessed that
the single aim, with " malice prepense and afore-
thought" of this New Poor-law manwuvre, is to endea-
vour to damage the Home-office in popular accepta-
tion by transferring to it, along with all other appur-
tenances, the mass of that unqualified odium which the
Somerset House people have contrived to accumulate
upon the present Administration of the New Poor-laws.
Whilst such is the first dawn of Radical tactics in Par-
liament, the Whig-Radical clique, we perceive. are
showing signs of life out of it. Manchester and Leeds
represent the tail of this Whig-Radicalism, and the first-
named joint of it is at this present moment expending
the last remnant of lingering vitality in a little super-
fluous agitation about Corn-laws, by way of dying hard,
or dying game, as the case may be. The fact is gra-
ciously commemorated in " a requisition to the Mayor
of Manchester, requesting him to call a public
meeting of the inhabitants of the borough, for
the purpose of considering the present distressed
state of the population of that town and neigh-
bourhood, and the propriety of memorialising
the Queen, praying her Majesty not to prorogue
the two Houses of Parliament until they have entered
upon a full consideration of the corn and provision laws,
which, in the opinion of the requisitionists, are the main
cause of the existing sufferings of the people, was drawn
up on Friday last and signed by upwards of six hundred
respectable firms in a few hours. The Mayor fixed a
public town meeting for Thursday next." Thursday
next then is the day " big with the fate" of the three
immortal C's—Curtis, Cobden, and Corn-laws, and
Thursday next, too, is the eventful day for the re-union
of the Commons.

she fraction of a shilling has been received for the divi.-

dends due for the succeeding years. If these be capital-
ised, and the lower rate of interest be accepted for the
. .

securities in question, there is no pledge but that a simi-
lar trick may not again be played. The Treasury bond-
holders stand in a peculiar position, not only as regards
themselves, but if they submit to a reduction as a pre-
cedent for the Spanish Government further to swindle
their creditors by pleading that " the holders of securi-
ties which we have acknowledged ought to be held most
inviolable, have agreed to compromise their claims, why
therefore should you demur ?" Under repeated conver-
sions and reductions, the capital will be so diminished
that but little will remain to be reduced, and of that,
judging from the course hitherto pursued by the Spanish
Government, the creditor will not receive anything. It
will be time enough to entertain the question of compro-
mise when symptoms of an effort to redeem the national
credit be visible.
.ADVERTISER.—The case of the Hamburg ship
Louise, captured by her Britannic Majesty's sloop of
war Grecian, on the ground of her alleged participation
in the slave trade, has at length been decided. The
circumstances under which the seizure was made were
extremely suspicious, and the whole affair has conse-
quently attracted a good deal of attention, both here and
abroad. It is, we believe, the first instance of a vessel
sailing under Hamburgh colours having been detained
on a charge of this kind, and this alone was sufficient
to excite the curiosity and vigilance of the mercantile
community of the wealthy Hansa Town in the
assertion of their honour as a body, The Louise was
commanded by Captain Boyne, and was overhauled
by the Grecian on account of certain suspicious ap-
pearances, which increased as the search went ou.
Among othc.r things, the vessel had a much larger sup-
ply of water on board than could be required by its crew,
or than was, in fact, authorised by the Convention ex-
isting between England and France for the suppression
of the slave trade, and to which Hamburgh acceded, we
believe, about three years ago. The papers on board
were also not of that clear and open character to allay
doubts previously raised, though, perhaps, taken by
themselves, they would not have justified suspicion.
Added to all this, one or two of the parties on board
were of Spanish or Portuguese origin, and as the vessel
was in the South American trade there was evi-
dently every reason for the proceedings of the Bri-
tish commander. The vessel was taken into Cuxha-
ven, and last Monday the decision, of which we re-
ceived a copy to-day, was made known by the Commer-
cial Tribunal of Ilamburgh, and which is to the effect
that the Louise is not a slaver, but that under the cir-
cumstances above detailed, as far as we understand the
judgment, the English sloop-of-war was justified in de-
taining her, but that, taking into consideration the de-
dosition of Captain Boyne as to his ignorance of any
such treaty as that concluded in 1837 between Ham-
burgh on the one side, and Great Britain and France on
the other, for the suppression of the slave-trade, and in
which treaty there are certain clauses specifying what
shall constitute the grounds of search, such as an exces-
sive supply of water, &c., the Louise shall be delivered
up on payment of the costs of the proceedings.

GLOBE.—The Ministers are not to have it all their
own way by taking the supplies in a hurry, shooting
the pheasants at their leisure, and coming back to give
their attention to the national distress at their very
latest convenience. The city of Manchester has set
an example which every large,town should immediately
follow—by petitioning the Queen not to prorogue the
Parliament until something has been effected, or at
least proposed, by the new Government to relieve the
sufferings of the people. We all remember the pro-
fessional tone in which Sir Robert Peel refused to
prescribe " till regularly called in," and until he had
got the fee in his pocket ; but he is a pretty quack in
deed, if, these conditions being complied with, he coolly
tells the patient that he is going out of town for five
or six months, that he will turn the matter over in
his mind, and prescribe when he comes back again.
If the Tories, on coming into office, had no intention
of immediately bringing forward some measures of
their own, how gross an imposition must it have been
to declare that their instant installation as Ministers
was necessary for the nation's welfare I If they are to
postpone operations for nearly half a year, their eager-
ness to get into place six months before they purpose
taking any steps on behalf of the people must have
arisen from a greediness of pay, which did not scruple
to use any delusion, however gross, in order to give
them the position by virtue of which they will obtain
their salaries. No—as we have got them, let us at
least have something for our money ; and though
the prescriptions they will offer may do the patient
no good, it is not to be permitted that they
should avoid discharge from their new functions by
abstaining from exerting them. We like the idea of the
people of Manchester, and we recommend its adoption
by all those cities in which a necessity is felt for obtain-
ing; from the Legislature an immediate measure of relief
for the necessities of those who may—for what the new
Government cares about the matter—be starved to death
before the next year's meeting of Parliament.

DREADFUL FIRE IN PICCADILLY

LATEST PARTICULARS.-LOSS OF LIFE.

The Fire was in a great measure got under about 11
o'clock, when, we regret to state, it was discovered that
one person was killed, and another so dreadfully injured
that his death is expected to take place hourly. The two
unfortunate men both belonged to the County Fire Of-
fice, the name of the deceased is William West, and that
of the other is Weaver. It appears that these two poor
fellows, with Poynder and another fireman, had unper-
ceived entered the passage of Mr. Salmon's shop, fur
the purpose of cutting away some skirting which pre-
vented those on the outside from reaching a body of fire
which was raging in the joists which supported the bal-
cony. Shortly afterwards a crash was heard, followed
by a loud and piercing cry, and the next instant Poynder
rushed out of the passage of the private house of Mr.
Nixon, and stated'there were persons buried under the
burning ruins. Several of the firemen instantly went
in and saw one of the hands of West, who was heard
to exclaim " Oh Lord, Oh Lord ! " followed by a deep
groan. In about an hour and a half the fire-sen suc-
ceeded in getting him out, when the body
.presented a
most dreadful sight. About five o'clock the 111C11 suc-
ceeded in extracting Weaver, who was found to have his
thighs and ribs broken, but alive ; he was instantly eon-
veyed to St. George's Hospital. The front of the pre-
mtses in which the fire originated is expected every
minute to fall in. The damage done to the residence of
the Duke of Grafton is very great.

. „
SIR ROBERT PEEL AND LORD ASHLEY.—
The following Jotter from Lord Ashley, explaining his
reasons for not accepting office under Sir Robert Peel,
has been communicated to us, with a request for in-
sertion :—" Mr. —, In answer to your inquiry
on behalf of the operatives of Lancashire, I have
to reply that an office was tendered to me by Sir
Robert Peel. Having, however, ascertained from him
that his opinions on the subject of the factory question
were not matured, and that he required further time
for deliberation, I declined the acceptance of any place,
under circumstances which would impede, or even
limit, my full and free action in the advancement of
that measure, which I consider to be vital both to the
welfare of the working classes, and the real interests of
the country. In taking this course, however, I neither
express nor feel despair. It will be your duty and
miae, not only to preserve, but to redouble our efforts;
and I still entertain a hope that her Majesty's advisers,
after an investigation conducted with sympathy and can-
dour, will, under God's good providence.; give to us all an
answer of happiness and peace.—l remain, your very obe-
dient humble servant, AsnLEY.—Septemb,er 4, 1841.”
Manchester Chronicle.
There are four large American vessels in the
Menai Straits, all loading with slates for Boston ; viz.,
the barque Tint/nes, of Portland ; the ship Dromo, Hill;
the Louisa, Snow ; and the barque Junius.—Liverpool
Chronicle.

forbid that any controversy relating to our essential
morals should admit of no decision." He adds, and with
what propriety and force the same statement may apply
to the present crisis, let truth determine, " Every monde
has brought on its periodical calumny. The abuse has
taken every shape which the ability of the writers could
give it; plain invective, clumsy raillery, misrepresented
anecdote. No method of villifying the measures, the
abilities, the intentions, or the persons which compose
that body (the party of which he is speaking) has been.
omitted.' Words appear, as by prophecy, to point the
very character of those vituperations by which the Dis-
senting body are profusely assailed in the present day.
Sir, what has transpired in consequence of the recent
Conference of Ministers of every Denomination, held at
the Town Dail, Manchester, on the subject of the Corn-
.laves,.is the immediate occasion of my addressing you in..
this letter ; for I wish it to be solemnly considered, who:.
tiler slquder and lying of the grossest description do not
tend to disparage the character of our country, demora-
lise her people, blind the eyes of her rulers, and pervert
the judgment of our insulted nation ? I ask whether the
purposes of party are paramount to the interests of the
suffering mass; whether a people starving for bread are
to be required to stifle their complaints and see their
children perish amidst wretchedness and want, and in
silence, while the gentlemen of the press are deliberating
and discussing, not how they shall devise or aid in the
best methods to relieve their distresses, but how they shall
must effectually hurl their thunderbolts at the heads of
the Ministers of religion who voluntarily and disinter-
estedly come forward to attempt their deliverance; and
whether the intellectual and moral state of the community
at large is such that unrighteous laws can be maintained by
unmeasured reproaches, venemous scurrility, and malig-
nant personalities. No sooner did the Manchester Con-
ference commence its proceedings than the triple-headed
monster, fabled to be at the gate of hell, seemed to be-
come instinct with real existence, and to pour forth ap-
propriate howlings of fury and madness. I say it
seemed so ; onii was reminded of the classical story—not
that I would liken men to dogs—nevertheless the fiction
of Cerberus was called up to view by the fierce looks
and loud vociferations of those who should be reasona-
ble, candid, and well- principled men.
Look, Sir, at the misrepresentation of the individual
whom you emphatically, and with a studious sanction,
call your " own reporter." He says " There were few
Dissenting ministers present whose names were ever
heard of before witliont the walls of their own chapels,"
except six or seven to whom he refers, of whom one was
not there, and another is altogether misnamed. He
declares that he "neither saw nor heard of
any clergyman of the Church of England," though
in the very same brief enumeration, in pure ignorance or
mendacity, he gives the name of a clergyman us one of
the very six or seven in question. He affirms that the
number of the auditors during the day's proceedings
never excei.ded forty persons, and began with eleven:;
whereas not only were the seats occupied, but multi-
tudes more would have entered had there been accom-
modation. In your own leader it is stated that " about
a score of sectarian preachers have been able to see no
manner of reason why they should not incorporate them-
selves into a synod of tabernacle savans, by holding a
pastoral Conference' for the 'advancement of faction' at
Manchester." You further describe that " neither pains
nor puffs were spared to give the thing ec.at, when 10, on
calling the roll of expected attendants, this mighty stair
dwindles into a conclave of some thirty obscure zealots 1"
It is stated also that these were also " almost exclusively
of the Lancashire brotherhood." Let me just inform you,
Sir—no, you were informed—let .me just refer to
the facts that nearly six hundred and fifty ministers were
present ; that nearly or quite fifteen hundred had given in
their adherence, but unavoidable circumstances . pre-
vented their attendance ; and they came from the most
distant parts of the British empire ; that their eager at-
tendance' on the occasion was never remitted ; that their
unanimity and depth of religious • feelings were never
equalled ; that leading men of nearly all denominations
were associated in it ; and that to the last the hall was
densely crowded by persons admittled as spectators, and
no doubt always contained from ten to twelve hundred
persons !
Is a four days' Convention of this nature to be de-
spised.? Will the witnessing thousands of Manchester
be made to believe—will an insulted country anda based
truth admit the circulation of the great falsehoodt hat
six hundred were only twenty ? Can the ultimatei m-
pression be favourable to any party in Church and State.
who seek to be, or submit to be, beguiled, befooled, and
led astray by audacious mendacity, prompted by hatred,
or prompted by secret instructions, " to make the worst
that can be made of the meeting, that the effect may be
neutralised."

Sir, I know the press, and hail its legitimate use as an
important means of moral benefit to the world. It may
the safeguard of a nation, and the handmaid of reli-
gion. Where used and not abused it must be productive
of the happiest results to the cause of humanity, of truth,
and of religion; but let it be venal, latit be false, let it
be employed for purposes of party and of spleen, let it lie
away a confidence it asks to obtain, and it will become
the scandal of our age, and the ruin of our country. From
the awful consequences of faction and anarchy, springing
from the starvation inflicted by a Corn-law monopoly—
from the blindness of party zeal, which sees not, for it
.will not see, the faults of its own legislation and the mad-
ness of its own oppressive spirit—above all, from the fatal
effects and the too late discovery of the self-destroying
power of a corrupt, truth- despising, man-hating, and God-
defying press, I say devoutly, " Good Lord deliver us!"
I disdain to notice the vulgar questionings and prepos-
terous ridicule employed against me and my brethren.
My aim is higher. It is to protest against a course of
proceeding by which anon mous writers (though better
known perhaps than they suppose) are endeavouring to
prejudice and corrupt the minds of our youth, which, if
not checked, may not only injure the present ago, but
send down their poisoned streams of influence to distant
generations. You may dispute our titles, but we would
not exchange them for those of falsehood and hypocrisy-
You may deny our clerical character, but we will be con-
tent if we can resemble in spirit the unmitred apostles of
a lowly Master. You may call us factious, but we shall
ever believe that the worst faction in a State consists in
attempting to conceal the real state of a nation from its
rulers, and to hold up to scorn the friends of freedom,
humanity, and religion.—I am yours, &e.
Hackney, Aug. 27, 1841. F. A. COX.

* A short Account of a late short Administration
(1766).

--- —z
The following account of a riot in St. Vin-
cent's, and ultimate punishment of the rioters, appear'
in the Barbadocs Mercury. We cannot help observing
that this is the only country in which the
.op,o)o_.
sers of a legally-constituted force go unpan!asll, 4.
One of the Nobles of England, and a Colonel her
Majesty's service have been punished for this offence
itlein.tterovt and in St. Vincent it appears that it will not be tolerated
with impunity :—" We published, iromediate,li.)t;
re-
ceipt of the intelligence, the particulars
rage perpetrated by the mobocracy of the of St.
Vincent, on the 24th of May, in whicce
only checked
and completely routed the police, and w •
prompt hoftalilsesl3•ol:ltacked
from further rebellious conduct by thep
power. The
appear-
ance of the military in aid of the civil_jatisland, informs us
Royal Gazette of the 26th ult.
rioters, who were ably of the proceedings of a Special
Ter-
miner for the trial of the
bills were found for riot and
de-
fended by counsel. True
.so
prisoners.
Seven were sen-
°&tuirt of Oyer and
assault against nine of
forthep n
two, neighteen calendar months
under circumstances in miti-
t:intche ci
hardto imprisonment
labour,
andislso with hard labour, and at
give security in 50/, each,
gation, to twelve montti
the
()arm' e to
and keep the peace for twelve
to be of good beah
# _I (3,oviGazette, July 31.
the expiration of th
months.”—S.• -_2'.....,.___PARIS, SATURDAY.—The
TILE WEATedli,Lis
and become very oppressive. Yester-
day has returned,
four o'clock, M. Chevalier's thermome-
ter morning a
• 13 8-10ths of the Centrigrade scale, or 57 of
was a,, .
midday had risen to 27 1-10th C., 81 F.,
heft • by
Fahren ,
an“
A b y MO had reached 29 6-10ths C., 851 P. The
heat on Saturday was intense, and there was every in-
dication o
f settled weather.
On Thursday evening last, a man named Wil-
liam Cummins; tabourer, of lietton, while in a public-
house company in that township, offered in a drunken
bravado, to allow any one of the company to chop off
one of his fingers for a quart of ale, or two fingers for
two quarts of ale ; the landlord of the house, John
Cowey, took him at his word, and by the most cheerful
acquiescence of Cummins, applied a knife to one of his
little fingers, which was voluntarily laid upon a table,
and with a poker struck the knife, and severed the linger
by the first joint. Such was the agony of the poor un-
fortunate wretch that it took three men to hold him.
When recovering out of a fainting fit, in which he
thought he was dying, he exclaimed, "If I die, don't
hurt Jack Cowey. The wound was dressed by a sur-
geon, and lie is recovering.—Sunderland Herald.
During the week ended 2d September, 5,286
passengers travelled on the London and Brighton mail-
way, and .), r 145 on the Shoreham branch. The receipts
from the former were 2,0771. 9s. 6d., and from the latter
1721. Os. sd. During the same period the receipts for
the merchandize traffic on the branch line were
! 581. Ils. 04d., making the total receipts 2,3051. Os. 1 lid.
—Brighton Gazette.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning 47 minutes aftsr 0. I Evening__ 34 minutes after 1.