The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-05 00:00:00

auYAI. SURREY THEATRE.

Anaz;ng attraction.—Fifth adpearance these Two Years of
Mr. T. P. Cooke—Re-engagement of Mr. Collins. Two
New Dramas and " Paul Clifford," which has been attract-
ing crowded houses.
THIS EVENING. MARCH 5.
Will be acted an tutirely New Drama, entitled

THE KING OF SPADI AND 111$ BARBER.
After which a Nautical Drama in Four Parts, called
POOR JACK : OR THE \UM OF A SAILOR.
n %illicit Mr. J. P. Cooke, arid the entire strength of the
Con.pny, will perform.
To conclude with the Operatic Drama of
PAUL CLIFFORD.
Paul Clifford (with ail the Or igiral Songs), Mr. Collins.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
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to the English Crown. It gave from that period a title
to the eldest sins of the Kings of England ; and if our
G.rrespondent is materially interested in ascertaining the
camber, he could not do better than study the history of his
country for the last SCO years.

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LONDON :
FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1841

The House of Peers was almost exclusively oc-
supied last night by the Bishop of EXETER, who
Jilacle a speech, which lasted two hours and a
!rill, on the sukects of San Sulpice and Canada,
and the growth of Popery. To give a succinct
and full analysis of such a lengthy oration, on
,uch, a subject, isbeyond our power. The Bishop
,-gan by presenting a petition from certain inba-
)itauts of Montreal, praying their Lordships to
address her MAJESTY not to give her as-

to Le oreinance for settling the claims
which the Seminary of San Sulpice has
lo the seignories .of Montreal. The Rev.
l'relate asserted that the consent of the
of Canada to that ordinance had been
obtained by extraordinary means. He hinted at
brib.,.ry, and •he affirmed intimidation. The
Governor-Gel-le:al, contrary to custom, in

a most extraordinary and unheard of manner,
had presided over the Council. The ordinanc.3 was
petitioned agzinst by two-thirds of the British
Protestants resident in. Montreal, and it did what
it was contrary to the Constitution, contrary to the
duty of the Sove.reiga, and beyoLid the moral
power of Parliament. The Right Rev. Prelate
endeavoured to prove, by the history of
the •Setninary, by the laws of the Co-
lony, by the capitulation of Quebec, by the
Act of Constitution, by the Act of Union, by the
Crown having resigned all its rights to the State
of Canada-for a Civil List, that the Seminary
had no legal right whatever to the seignories,
and the Crown had no power to make, as was
lone by the Gover6or-General, any ordinance
of the kind. The Right Rev. Prelate declared
too, thatif Ministers had meant to confer
the property on the Seminary, theme might
lose done so without constituting into
and he instanced the Col-
a corporatiOn
!ege of Maynooth but they had consti-
tuted it" into a corporation, and had thereby
violated the fundamental principles and laws of
•The Constitution, both as they existed before the
Reformation. A
Ficfor.nation and. since

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--orporation was a perpetual body, and it was a
~„neat offence for a Protestant Government to
create a perpetual Romish corporation. The
Rev. Prelate might have tolerated it for nine
hundred and ninety-nine years, but not for a per-
p,2tuity ;, though in the market there is not a
fraction of di&rence in the value of property
held for only ninety-nine years, and perpetual
possession. The .Right Rev. Prelate concluded
elaboi ate speech, full of research, and by no
tneaus destitute of bitterness, by calling on their
Lordships to stand between the country and the
ilanger to which it was exposed from the en-
croachments of Popery, which the Ministers
:incouraged, which WAS everywhere making great
strides, and which the ordinance of the Go-
vernor-General was calculated and intended to
promote.

- Viscount MELBOURNE defended the conduct
of the Governor. Genera], and stated that no
,uch measure was ever passed without giving oc-
casion to such remarks as those iu!tde by the
ri• ,lit Rev. Pi-Aate. The Noble Viscount said,
its to the right of
LLI,„
an Sulpice to the seignories,
it had been Li undisturbed possession of them fi,r
upwards of 70 years; that successive Govern-

successi ye Governors, suceessive sselI!„
Tull( 8, had never questioned the right ; and if their
pcssession, ai.ictic-ne(l by all !tat gay,
security to property, did not confer a right, there
were no rights Which could b 2 considered safe,
and nothing in the affairs of man which could be
considered stall and permanent. To the accu-
sation that the Romish Church was encroaching,
,the Noble Viscount replied that the ecclesiastical
spirit was encroaching everywhere, and he ia-
stanced the Non-intrusionists in Scotland, and the
arrogance of the priesthood in England, as proof;
that other Churches were as rapacious of power
as the priesthood of Rome. With respect to the
Ministers encouraging the Romish aggressions,

he could only give such an assertion an absolute
and peremptory denial. He entreated their
Lordships, as they valued justice and the peace
of Canada, not to support the Right Reverend
Prelate in opposing an ordinance which was the
best settlement that could be effected of a diffi-
cult and perplexing question. As a proof that it
was so, many of the persons who had signed the
petition had since gladly accepted the terms,
and agreed to the seignorial rights claimed by
the Seminary on the terms prescribed by the

ordinances. -
The Duke of WELLINGTON complimented the
Bishop of EXETER very highly forhis instructive
speech ; blamed Lord MELBOURNE for his in-
sufficient answer; and described the ordinance
as a blow struck at the Reformation and at the
rights of the Crown. His Grace called on their
Lordships to consider, in the next few days,
whether they would allow this ordinance to be-
come law or not.

. No motion was submitted to their Lordships,
but the petition was laid on the table, and
motion will be Submitted by the Bishop in
a few days. No doubt, with the support of
the Duke of WELLINGTON, the Lords will
address her MAJESTY to refuse her con-
sent to the ordinance, which will set it aside,
and the affairs of Canada will be again
throWn into some confusion. The Tories seem
bent on renewing a religious contest with their
Catholic fellow-subjects. Their error lies in
considering that ours is now a Protestant Go-
vernment and a Protestant nation. Both Go-
vernment and nation are now partly Catho-
lic; and it is the duty of the Govern-
ment to treat all its subjects, whatever may
be their religious creed, with strict impartiality,
and without any reference to one Church or
another. By departing from that wise principle
the Tories will add religious broils to the com-
mercial, manufacturing, and currency distress,
which threatens us and fills society with deadly
disease. It seems as if they were anxi„us to rea-
lise their own diabolical theory. They propound
the notion that man is essentially a wicked
animal, destined to plague and punishment here;
and they mean, if they are allowed, to prove
that they at least are very wicked, and they will
make the earth very like the hell with which
they threaten mankind. We trust they will be
stopped.

-
The renewed suspension of cash-payments by
the United States Bank will affect England as
well as America, and is calculated to make the

public look with some alarm on bother banks.
Nor are there wanting circumstances of no plea-
sant nature amongst ourselves to excite suspi-
cions of banks and bankers, both private and pub-
lic. The late disclosures made by the bank-
ruptcy of the Messrs. WRIG HT are anything
but assuring, while the recent conduct of the
_

Bank of England has not increased the public
confidence in that establishment.

In a second pamphlet lately published by Mr.
LEATIIAM, the Wakefield banker, "Letter to
William Rayner Wood," whose first pamphlet
setting forth the amount of bills in circulation
obtained considerable notice, there are some
passages which may now be appropriately
quoted. The following refers not only to the
conduct of the Bank, but points out a very heavy
loss sustained by the commercial community in
1839, by its conduct in making money first plen-
tiful and then scarce, which the mercantile
classes will be slow to forgive :

" Had you examined the published low rates of interest by
the Bank, for the discouct of Bills, the loans granted on the
p'edges of Stock, and other securities, for the years 1834 and
1835, up to the middle of 1836, all of them years of high
prices compared with the years following, of ruinously high
rates of interest, panic, and low prices, as well as with the
enormous fluctuations in the Currency of Bills of Exchange
and Acceptances in both periods, your case would have been
fully proved, and made out to demonstration. The Bank of
England at all times acting upon the focus ref the money
market in London, has the power to rule the rate of interest
for the kingdom ; and when she offers low rates of interest, the
market for all other lenders of cash is still lower; and, when
she afers high rates of interest, the market for all other lenders
and borrowers is a still higher rate :--this may be taken as the
rule. When money is abundant, and would naturally soon
be corrected if the nraket were not interfered with, she steps
in is ith large sums, and makes it worth nothing ; and then
follows a train of events full of excitement, with a delirium of
prosperity, succeedosi by periods of depression and langour.
" Thus in the former years, of a rise of prices, the Bank of
EnglAnd ruled and depressed the rates of interest and the
money market, by her endeavours to find employment for her
surrlus funds, to enable her to keep up a seven per cent, divi-
dend to her Proprietors. She then departed from the practice
and rule of more than a hundred years, in taking for the first
time a loan from the East India Company, at two per cent. in-
terest, with which she el ened accounts frith the leading Bill
Brokers ; and although professing in her advertisements and no-
tices, that she would make advances and grant discounts at
three per cent., she was at the same time privately lend-
ing very large sums to the Bill Brokers at two and a half
per cent. It is a curious fact, that although the Bank first
took this loan from the East India Company at two pei cent.,
the interest was raised ultimately to four per cent. in the pe-
riod of a drain of bullion, as money became more scarce.
Now, what did I find to be the effect of these measures, as a
Ba iker, on the money market, where, by the nature of my
business, I am always a lender of ca,h?—that while the Banks r
was allowing two and a half per cent. on deposits, he could not
make even that rate in London, for a time : and at last infor-
mation came from the Bill Brokers, that cash could find no
employment at all on balls. The bills of the old highly respect-
able American houses in London, thus encouraged and created,
were scrambled for by the Bill Brokers at that time, though
soon to become victims, and to be placed in jeopardy, and ex-
po.sed to dishonour, by the altered nu asures of the Bank ;
millions of money were lent on foreign securities with broad
margins, and millions more were actually invested in them,
especially Dutch and American."
I must beg to draw thy attention to a fact that involves the
charge of overtrading, and shows a great error of the commer-
cial body ; though previously allured out of the sale path, by
the glare of the false and delusive prosperity, created for them
by the conduct of the Bank of England, in making money
cheap or of no value, precisely similar to the events preceding
every other panic (and there have been four), since the sto.m
of 1825 and 1826, though less destructive, because there was no
internal discredit. I find then also, in 1839. the very singular
fact, that the enormous sum of 40,000,000 of Bills of Exchange
and Acceptances were discounted at six per cent. by the Bank
of England, in the last six months of that year ; and I can
safely infer from inquiry, that not less that 60,000,000 sterling
more were discounted in the same period by the Bill Brokers,
at seven, eight, ten, and even twelve per cent., to meet, I pre-
sume, or take up, principally, other bills coming due. If the
comm,rcial world had not departed from sound pr:nciples of
business, and from making their capital the measure of their
transactions, this astounding fact could never have existed.
It is no wonder the Bank st curities increased, when I agree
with thee they ought to have decreased, wi.h a large export of
bul'ion ; but what an awful and curious retributive puliishment
is inflicted, on all concerned in this erroneous course ; for, had
the Bank refused to discount even one-tenth of this sum of
100,000,000, what would have been the extent of failu r e,—and
how tar would her own existence have been compromised? for
there was only wanting panic, and general discredit, to finish
the work.

What a powerful argument have you gained in proving, that
the Corn-law has recently Imposed on commerce a ruinously
high rate of interest, for nearly two years, and has robbed the
country of more than twenty millions of gold and capital; and
has actually endangered,—yes, imminently endangered, the
Bank, and driven_ her, not to pawn, as our kings in " olden
times," the Crovin-iewels; but eally to pledge a security of the
English Government (the Dead Weight),. to obtain from
France, her old enemy, the loan of two-and-a-half millions of
Ler gold, when on the eve of a war with this country.
I find in the 10th month (October), 1839, the bullion is re-
turned to the Currency Committee, at 2,52.5001., from which,
if I deduct the gold due to France, not then repaid, there is left
a balance of 25,0001. for the Bank, and the branches, to meet
a circulation and liabilities by law, payable in gold, cf near
twenty. four millions.

••• Men are extremely sensitive and acute when
their own interest is concerned, of which Mr.
LEATHAM, in fact, furnishes a notable .example..
This gentleman is a Member of the Society of
Friends, and he tells us that " I have taken no
part hitherto in thnesagtt
abstractiin o into thequestion
soufluteheet
Corn-law, but the investigation
of the currency has fearfully impressed the con-
viction on my mind that unless a change be
made to a fixed duty the prosperity of our
commerce and manufactures, now languish-
ing-, will ere long expire, and, when ern_
tombed, the prosperity of agriculture will be
followed to the grave, and take a niche in the
same vault." Here, then, is a humane and
kindly man, like all his co-religionists, who
has probably taken a deep interest in the
emancipation of the blacks, but he has been
quite unmoved by the mass of distress he has
seen around him, and has taken no interest in
the absti•act question of the present Corn-law.
He has seen at Wakefield, and all through the
manufacturing.distriet3; men hungering. for want
of employment, females perishing, and children
dying for lack of that food their half-starved mo-
thers had not to give them. All the frightful scenes
have been exhibited in our manufacturing
districts during the last ten years have made no
impression on this good and intellige:-A Quaker;
but the instant he perceives that his pocket i
touched, the instant lie is aware by his investiga-
tion that the trade of banking is rendered less
lu-
crative or dangerous by- adverse exchanges
caused by the necessity to buy food, he becomes
interested in the repeal of the Corn-law, and ad-
vocates a fixed duty.
H is blame of the Bank of England smacks
.of a similar origin. He has suffered in his own
pecuniary concerns by
its conduct, and lie de-
dares that " not all the wealth of India would

induce me to pass another thirty years of
such anxiety unless a.change can be made in the.
future management of the currency." Mr.
LEATHAM may in this respect be taken as
the representative of the bulk of the middle
classes,
who , have " had their property de-
stroyed -by the operations, of the Bank;"
of those merchants and manufacturers who,
calculating on a rate of interest equal to 4 per
cent., when the Bank made money plentiful.
had to give 8 or 10, on a sum amounting to
100,000,0001.; thus sacrificing amongst them at
least 4,000,0004 at the pleasure of and for the
safety of the Bank ; and all these suffering classes,
like Mr. LEAMAN, tracing their distress to the
Bank—for they will never suppose that they have
been in error themselves—will probably be so,,
angry with that establishment that it will be
brought into great peril. As long as the mercan-
tile and manufacturing interests are prosperous,
the Bank monopoly may be continued; but un-
just in its nature, and pregnant with mischief as
it has been, whenever those great interests begin
to sutler the maintenance of the monopbly
will be impossible. It cannot, therefore, be.
otherwise than that the money derangement
America, producing distress and derangement
here, should bring on something like a crisis in
our own money affairs.

The picture Y which Mr. LEATIIAM has dram n
of the resources of the Bank as above quoted, is
dark enough to make us tremble for the conse-
quences. A little panic in our money market,
caused by the stoppage in America, and by
the conduCt of banks and bankers at home,
creating, in ever so small a degree, a demand
for gold, would obviously shake the Bank of
England to its foundation, and leave nothing be-
twixt a stoppage and almost irremediable confu-
sion, but an Order of Council to suspend cash
payments. We know not, we say not, that such
an evil is coming; but with a stagnation in our
trade, with an expenditure far exceeding our re-
venue, with a people living fully up to their
means, and now saving little or nothing, we look
fbrward to the future, unless some bold and vi-
gorous measures to relieve our trade be speedily
adopted, with much apprehension.

At the meeting of the Town Council of Edin-
burgh, on Tuesday last, aletter from the Marquis
of NORMANDY was read, ...,stating that he had
thought it right, as well for the interests of the
University.as for the promotion of sound Biblical
learning in Scotland, to recommend her MA-
JESTY to institute a chair of Biblical criticism in
the Edinburgh University; and to the astonish-
ment of the inhabitants—of all classes—a Com-
mission has been issuedby the Crown, appointing
the Rev. R. S. CANDLISH, Regius Professor, to
fill the chair. This Mr. CANDLISH has been one
of the most active in preaching and practising
open rebellion against the law of the land,
and was commissioned but the other d4y- to the
non-intrusion demagogues at Edinburgh to open
a new church in the Presbytery of Strathbogie,
in utter defiance of an interdict of the Court of
Session, and in direct contradiction to the law
laid down by the House of Peers. Thus the
LORD-ADVOCATE (for, as LORD ABERDEEN says,
he is supreme in Scotland), under the influence
and advice, probably, of his brother non-intru-
sionist, Mr. Fox MALTLE, has conferred a pre-
mium on a rebellious priest, and thereby encou-
raged other reverend agitators to follow his
example. The friends of law and order in Scot-
land are in utter amazement at this outrageous
proceeding.

By the arrival of the George Washington
and United States at Liverpool on Wednesday
we have received New York Papers, of the 14th
ult., bringing the painfully interesting in-
telligence of the stoppage of the United
States Bank, as also of several other banks
throughout the Union. We have given in
another part of The Sun the details of these sus-
pensions as reported in the New York journals.
Mr. M‘LEon was still in custody, and his trial_
was to come on in a few days. United States
Bank Shares had varied so much for some days
previous to the sailing of the packet, that it is
difficult to ascertain their real price. At Phila-
delphia, for instance, on the 9th Feb., they sold
at 30, on the 11th at 28i 291, and on the 12th at
New York they brought only 2G.

Belgian and German Journals of the latest
dates reached us yesterday. The following ex-
tracts from them contain all the news they bring
of any interest :

BRUSSELS, FEB. Vl—The clerks in one of the offices of
the Minister of Finance are busily employed in drawing up
the general Budget of the receipt and expenditurP for the
year 1842, to be laid before the Chambers during the present
Ses:ion.

It appears from a statistical table laid beeore,the Chamber
by th. Mini-ter of Public Works, that the number of com-
munes which have no school houses is 1,040. There are
about 2,500 communes in Belgium ; so that it appears that
two•fifths of them have no school-houses.
BRUSSELS, Mutest 2.—On the Ist of this month Senor
Quadrado was, xeceived by the Minister for Foreign Affairs,
and delivered his credentials as Charge d'Affaire of her Ma-
jesty the Queen of Spain to the King's Government.
Posxx, FEB. 18.—We received from a quarter worthy of
credit, that within these few weeks the march of troops in
the kingdom of Poland to the frontiers of Prussia has recom-
menced, and that a corisdi rable number of fresh regiments has
arrived very recently in Kalisch and the neighbourhood, so
that it is difficult to find quarters for the troops. Accordingly
to a rough 'estimate 50,000 men have already arrived,
and it is said that more divisions will follow, so
that th, whole number may be seventy Ave thousand men,
so that unless the aspect of political affairs should change, of
which there is little probability, while France continues its
military preparations; those troops will form, in the spring a
camp near Kalisch, where they will remain till the continu-
ance of peace in Europe shall be fully secured. At least an
equaily considerable n mber of troops is said to be already
assembled in Warsaw and the eastern provinces of the king-
dom, so that the Russian army at this moment amounts to
150,000 men. It is evident, especially when we consider the
position of the tin .ps, that such a force is not assembled
merely on account of the facility of subsisting them, as was at
first asserted.—Allgemeine Zeitung, Feb. 26.
CRACOW, FEB. 22.—The Austrian garrison evacuated this
city on the 20th inst. The Commander, Colonel Walter, had
intimated to the authorities that hi' Government expected that
a farewell entertainment, a ba I or banquet would be given to
the officers previous to their departure, but the former, how-
ever wiling to gratify those from whom they held their offices,
could not succeed in getting up even the appearance of a de-
monstration of regret on the part of the Cracovians, and the
Austrian troops marched out of the place amidst ex-
pressions of joy from the entire population. Although the
military oceul alien of this " free " city is at an end, its
oppressors continue to be at effectually masters in it as
ever. The direction of affairs is now in the hands of a Ca-
tholic clergyman named Shindler, the President ad interim
of the Senate, a man justly detested and despised by the in-
habitants. He was formerly attached as chaplain to an Aus-
trian regiment, was imported and imposed on the people by.
the Austrians. and has not only been elevated to the highest.
post in the republic, but to the)), st benefice in the city—the'
Cathedral of St. Stanislius. All the patriotic public function-
aries have been superseded in their functions, which are now in-
trusted to creatures "and tools of the soi-disant protecting
Powers. The Senate is filled with the dregs of the nobility, and
seats in that once-respected body have at present fallen into such
ii-repute that several were offered to wealthy merchants, who
t fused them, not wishing to be contaminated by the association.

Madrid Papers of the 23d ult. have been re-
ceived. Spain is at present tranquil, and it is
hoped that if the next year prove abundant the
peasantry will recover from the effects of the
ravages committed during the civil war. It was
reported that the QUEEN and Court would visit
Aranjuez before the opening of the Cortes.
Little business was doing at the Bourse. On the
23d the Fives were done at 28i for cash, and 29/
for sixty days.

The Paris Journals.of Tuesdayhave all reached
us.
They publish a proclamation of the
relativeSUL-
TAN, to the settlement of the Eastern
iuesti
question, which will be found in another column.
published
letters
ri
sn aacntdive service having recently
of the pacific
of the army,
the discipline Policy
ofptahmepGhloevtsernment condemnatoryand6f
Minister of War, has addresMse
circular to the Lieutenant-GeneralsFrance
rns tchiecai
the following
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u.s throughout F
Yradlsi '—'.;:i 's
the duty of the army to give an example
tom countryi‘tillii?taenr'e
if their respec,t
morefor the laws which govern it.
or less severe,
the governpub our military organiza-
ourca's, and published
against the
constitution of
fsotrhdee
leartitfsi criticisms, sot
ittitoni
a'
ita;helibtesesniginnise.dr :be; :filicers
aotiti,faacelcittNie-e sit:t,ti:ev.i
violation cf the
feeling•anocfe odfi' which
I have seen
wishes conscientiously to perform the du-
: withB s 7 , at
the
e profoundstii
t.,
,b se r:
circulars issued on the 17th of July, its:-,
may find sufficient food for the activity
nd 13th of March,
itrieil,:itoTharf yheidsoisffipericeopflreinslse,ih:oon. ,
of his disposition in the attention which the welfare of the
c soldier, and the practical instruction of those under his mo
mud, incessantly .demand; and if, after having faithfully
.
performed all his duties, he should still find some leisure time,
should he not employ it in adding to his acquirements in the
art of war, and thus rendering himself worthy of filling a su-
perior command ?
" I trust that it will be sufficient for me to refer to the evil
in order to arrest its progress. Should, however, military
men persevere in new publications without the formal appro.
ba•ion and permission of superior authority, I shall not hesi •
tate to apply to them the provisions of the law of the 19th of
May, 1834, upon the officers of the army, by immediately re-

quiring the King to deprive them of their employments, ind_
pei,d,rit of the severe penalties,which they may incur.
" I invite you, General, to pay attention that the orders
which I hereby traremit to you be strictly executed, and to
report to me on the instant the sligh,est infraction of them.
" You will likewise have the kindness to acknowledge the
receipt of the present communication, and to insert it in the
order of the day of your division.
THE MARSHAL DUKE OF bALMATIA."

Marshal VICTOR, Duke of Belluno, died of
an attack of gout in Paris on Monday. During
his illness he was daily visited by Peers, Mar-
shals, and the most eminent men of all ranks in
France. • He received all the rites of the Catholic
Church with much seeming devotion.

I Private advices from Paric, speak confidently
of the success of the negotiations now going for-
ward, with a view to restore amicable relations
between France and the Great Powers. Already
has some progress been made in the formation
of a treaty for securing the independence of the
Ottoman Porte, which France is to sign in con-
junction with Austria, Prussia, Russia, and Great
Britain :

The Committee on the Fortifications of the Chamber of
Pcers yesterday appointed .M. Monier reporter Ly a majority
of 4 to 3.

Tie Commit tee decided by the same majority that an amend-
ment to the project of law voted by the Chamber of Deputies
should be proposed, the object of which amendment should be
the suppression of the continuous wall. It is probable that the
public discussion will not take place before the 25th of this
month.

The Univers says, " Numerous complaints have been re-
ceived at the War-office respecting the late purchases 01 horses
for our cavalry regiments.
64 '1 he Minister of War has just ordered an extraordinary
general inspection. Six Generals of Cavalry have received
orders to set out immediately to inspect all the horses lately
added to the regiments."
31. Lucien a literary man, was arrested the day be-
fore yesterday at his residence, in the Rue Notre Dame des
Victories, accused of belonging to a secret society, whose ob-
ject is the overthrow of the Government.

A young student was also arrested yes!erday on suspicion of
being concerned in a plot.
he National says :—" The Chamber of Peers has sum-
moned us to appear at the bar on the Bth of this. month.
Five days later we shall have to appear bt fore the Court of
Assize. It will be recollected that on account of the illness
of M. Delaroche and the indisposition of M. Mare, the
Court had adjourned our affair ti I another Session. We have
now received summonses for the 13th of March."—Le Con-
stitutionnel.

The accouats of the inundation of the Rhone are more fa-
vourab!e. The letters from Avignon announce that the waters
had begun to subside.—Le Commerce.

BO URSE.--PARIS, TUESDAY. AIARCH 2.

first Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Price
French 5 per Cents 5... 111 45 ... 'll3 45 ... 113 25 ... 113 30
4 per Cents lOO ... 10J ... 100 .. 100
3 per Cents 77 10 . ;7 10 ... 76 85 ... 76 85
Sank or France .......
Idelgian Bank
S 74er Cents...
3 per Cents 7O ... 70 ... 70 ... 70
New Loan .. 101,6 ... 1 11/4
... 10:1/4 ... Ril/4
:pan.sh Active TS
... To% ... 25_ ... .15Passive 6 ...... 0
Portuguese 3 per Cents 19%
..• 19%, ... 19% ... 19%
Ne3,011:All
lonian.., /001/4 ... 1011/4 ... WO% ... 1001,.
?AMWAY SHARES.
St. Get main
Ve:sailles.R. B 422 50 ... 422 50 ... 41' ... 415
L. 13• 317 51, ... 30 ... 317 51 .. 318 75
Orleans .. 4BB 75 ... 490 ... 488 75 ... 488 75
5tr,,,,,g to Bale .......
Montpellier to Cette
louen 455 ... 455 ... 455 ... 4.:)5
B t:t.tslAl.l hUNDS—Baussets. Mallon 2.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent,
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per C.nt 19%
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent B9
3 per Cent. Z.7_

---..Thirty.seven--- --
-----------__( I .p,) lf f
Loan of City, 15:32, 4 per Cent B7
Society of Commerce, .15,, per Cent II 2
Batik of Ittlgiunt, 5 per Cent.— .........
National Society .
Exchange on Londom (~liort)
—Brussels Papers, Niarch 2.

MOCK REFORMERS. - "

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sir,—l herewith enclose you the copy of a letter
written by our itimacultte Member, Peter Ainsworth,
wl,e7ein his reasons are given for his abandonment of
his principles. As you have noticed some of them as
coming from Sir Robert Peel, 1 think they are not less
worthy your notice as emanating from the now Member
for Bolton. You may depend upon it the independent
electors of Bolton will relieve him from misrepresenting
them the first opportunity that occurs.—Respectfully,
Belton, March 3, 1841. J. M.

[cove.]
Dear Sir,—l received your letter on Monday last,
and the petition 'from Bolton in fay.,ur of Lord Mor-
peth's Bill, which I presented the same evening to the
House of Commons. I should have written to you
earlier, had I not intended to speak ow the debate, but
as I was unable for two nights to catch the eye of the
Speake-, I hasten to lay before you the grounds of my
opposition to Lord Morpeth's 811. Last year. you
are aware, I sup Ported Lord Stanley's Biil for reform
and amendment in the Irish registration. The Go-
vernment then decidedly opposed the principle of that
Bill ; this year, the same Government have not only
admitted the princillf, but. Lord Morpeth publely
declared he should be happy t ) go along with Lord
Stad .y, as far as he was ahle, in improving the sytt2m
of the Irish registration. However different this Inn,
gunge may Le to that which assailed Lord Stanley's
1111 last year, I should have preferred the Government
taking up this important question, and I shoul I not
have hesitated giving them my support, had not their
Bill, whilst it adopted a mode of registration atmn:t
similar to Lord Stanley's, introduced clauses which gave
a new Reform 8.11 to Ireland, rejecting altogether the
principle of the Reform Bill of 1832, and melting a
new constituency, based upon a .51. rating to the poor.
vfaolrosbric.)l7e either for counties, a
The Reform Bill comprehends two descriptions of
gin, the occupancy of
property as well as population.
housesruaanichfi:
oanv oneicbze:rsteadi n n
The Government Bill recognises the principle of
population only. If carried into law, land-
lords would be enabled to create any num•
her of voters on. their estate?, and we shoal again
witness, as under the 40s. freeholders, a subdivision of
farms, and the revival of a_system in Ireland, injurious
to the moral and social improve:teat of her people. 1
have another objection to this Bill. I thnk it would
give additions 1 weight to the agricultural interest. it
Ireland. In looking over the division` of last year on
Mr. Villiers' motion for an inquiry in,o the present
system of the Corn-laws, I find only ten Irish Members
out of forty voted in its favour. The .50/. tr.mat.tiy
clause in the Eng!ish Reform Bill has Leen considered
a great boon to the agricultural interest ; I am not dis-
posed to inert ase that influence by the adoption of a 51.
rating franebise to the poor (two-thirds of which rate
is payable by the landlords), and thereby to create a
numerous and dependent county constituency. With
these main objections to Lord Morpeth's Bill, which, in
my opinion, will never even pass the Commons, I could
not consistently give it my support.

- I beg to remain, dear Sir,
Most respectfully your's,
P. AINSWORTH.
To. J. Winder, Esq., Bolton.
House al Commong, nirch 1,1841.

FIRE AT COLNBROOK.—An alarming fire
broke out between two and three o'clock on the morning
of Monday last, at the Crown Inn, at Colnbrook. The
tholes were first discovered by the poi ce issuing from tl.e
cindows of a bedroom on the first floor, in which, it
sub equently appeared, some t h3ets and other linen had
been left to zit- before a stove when the itanates retired t,
res.. The landlady, Mrs. Pike, with the family and s(verd
lodgers, had just time to effect their esrape. In the alarm
which Prevailed first oulhrrak of ti .e fire, two n.e..,
who had engaged a bed fur that Light, jump( d out Iron an
upper window, one of whom eleaped wit's cn!y some
slight Lruises; the other fell upon a horse water- troug'i
beneath the window, and broke two of his rib., be-
sides sustaining other injurict. An express was hurtle.
diately sent to Windsor (a distance of n' arly six mile.)
for the town engine, and within less than half an hew' the
engine was at Colnbrook, whe se it rendered the most e ;see-
tial service in stopping the prcg can of the flames. The fire
war fortunately confined to the centre of the inn, which w a•
completely gutted ; and the roof fell in about an hour after
the fire was discovered, leaving the two wings unconsumed.
The flames were got under about five o'clock, and short I)
consisting of
fauf:reorutuhraot
wtiamses‘avlledd,anbguetr
awassuomvero.f
mSooomoey,portion of do,
SOL in noes and 30 sovereigns, which was in a chest of
drawers, was stctel to have bee I lost by the landlady. The
drawers were found after the fire, filled
with a quanfty of
linen partly consumed, but no trace of the money could be
discoverer. The whole of the stabling fortunately escaped.
The stuck of beer was likewise preserved, and also the
principal portion of the wines and spirit=.
The property
is i'lturcd in the Sun Fire Office to the full amount of the
damage sustained.
COMMERCIAL CODE.—A public meeting of
the inhabitants of Liverpool is called for Monday Pest, " to
take into consideration the restrictions and prohibAions of
our Commercial Code, and to determine upon all proper
Ent alures for obtaining such alterations therein as may ap-
pear expedient." It has been convened, pursuant to requi-
siticn, by the Mayor.
SCENERY OF ENGLISH AND FOREIGN SPAS.
p
—As to the ContempLtiiin of a beautiful country, in many
put equal, and even Suelor to
yaw, one beholds mar
son.e of the Spas abroad; cr the view of interest-
ing object", particularly those of human industry and
agriculture; or the display of country residences and
superb domains ; or the sight of neatness, comfort, and
order, i g,neral preva•ling among the country villages
and country towns:—in all te e thiriv; supposing them
to rc•, as tht re is no doubt they tic, influentially and bene-
ficially on the invalid who journeys to his allotted Spa--
England affords them all to a degree that leases no room
for ,envying- those of eJnticental nations.— Granvide's
Spas of England.
MAYNOOTIL—The argument for the extinction~that,
of this establishment, on which an Evening organ of the
Tories relies ,that, in after life, having net her the habits
is, that the students are not the sons of gen-
tlemen; and
nor the feelings of gentlemen, they are necessarily ex-
cluded from good society, keep low company, and be-
come Chartists. Why, it i 4 a well-known fact, and is
the boast of Mr O'Connell and other f, i!nds of May.
n°°tb; that not a Chartist can be found in all Ireland.
J. Edgerton, Esq., aged 76, was burnt to death
in lis bed-room last Saturday at Heggerston. Hi; ckthes
caught fire,