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London, England, 1841-04-07 00:00:00

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MORNING EDITION

he would say that he did not consider it expedient
tbat the papers should be produced at present.—(ll,,:x.)
Negotiations were going on at present on the subject,
and he could assure the House that there was the mos.*.
anxious desire manifested by both Governments to bring
the matter to an amicable and satisfactory termination.--
(Loud cheers.) An exceedingly strong fee:ing on tho
subject, however, existed both in this country and on the
other side of the Atlantic, and while the negotiations
were going on between the two Governments, any debate
on the subject would be likely to defeat the very object
the Hon. Gentleman had in view. He trusted, therefore,
be would consent to postpone his motion until after the
recess.—( Cheers.)

Mr. HOME had certainly intended to bring forward
his motion that evening. He was against all war, but, a
war between this country and the United States he looked
upon as perfectly unnatural.—( Cheers.) After having
heard the statement of the Noble Lord, he could hare no.
objection to postpone his motion until after the recess.
On the motion of Mr. LABOUCHEIZE, the follow-
ing Members were appointed a Select Committee on
Joint Stock Companies, Banking Companies excepted :
Mr. Labouchere, Mr. Sheil, Lord Granville Somerset,.
Mr. G. W. Wood, Sir Thomas Fremantle, Mr Oswald,
Mr. Wolveriey Attwood, Mr. Clay, Mr. Godson, Mr,
Hawkins, Mr. Blake, Mr. Gibson Craig, Mr, Freshfield,.
Mr. Baring (Thetford), and Mr. Brownrigg.
M. JAMES ABEL SMITH obtained leave to bring
in a Bill to enable Municipal Councils to raise money, by
way of annuity, for the payment of old debts, and for that
purpose only. The Bill was subsequently brought in, read
a first, and ordered to be read a second time that day three
weeks.

Lord MOR PE TH obtained leave to bring in a Bill to'
continue, for a limited time, the several Acts relating to the
importation end keeping of arms and gunpowder in Ire-
land. The Bill WAS subsequently brought in, read a first,
end ordered to be read a second time on Tuesday the2oth.
On the motion of Mr. ROBERT GORDON the fol-
lowing Members were appointed a Select Committee on.
Expiring Laws :—Mr. Robert Gordon, Mr. Chancellor
of the Exchequer, Mr Attorney-General, the Lord Advo-
cate, Mr. Attorney-General for Ireland, Sir Thomas Fre-
mantle, Mr. Edward John Stanley, Mr. Charles Wood,
Lord Granville Somerset, Mr. More ()Terrell, Mr.
Grzene, Mr. Wilson Patten, Mr. Hume. Mr. John Jer-
vis, and Mr. Berne'.
On the motion of Mr. L ABOUCHERE, the South
Australia Bill was read a third time and past•ed.
TRADE OF BRITISH POSSESSIONS
ABROAD.
Mr. LABOUCHERE moved the Order of the Day
far receiving the Report of the Resolutions on the Trade
of British Possessions Abroad, and obtained leave to bring
in a Bill founded upon the Resolutions. The Right Hon.
Gentleman suhseque,,tly brought in the Bill, which was
read a first, and ordered to be read a second, time that day
three weeks.

Mr. R. GORDON brought up the Report on the In-
demnity Bill.

The House, at Half-past Seven o'Clock, adjourned to
Tuesday the 20A1 Lat.

FACTS FOR WORKING MEN.

Heavily as the man with 41. a week is burdened wi..!h
the Food Taxes, they are as nothing at all, in proportion•
to his income, compared with what' is wrung from the
hard toiling man who receives only 1/. a week. Supposing
him to be married, aid that he has three children, the
average number in a family, his weekly expenditure for
food w►ll be at least three-fourths of his income, while that
of the man who hat 2001. a year is not much more thara
one-fourth of that sum.

In the calculations we made last week, wa showed that
the ma❑ who lives on 2001. a year pays about 201. to the
F.od Monopolists, which is only one-tenth of his whole
income. In the statement we are about to make, it wilt
he seen that his pour neighbour, who is ill able to bear
any taxation at ail, is forced to lay one-fourth of his in.
cone to the Food Monopolists.
From cert.in ii.quiries we have invde, we ascertain that
a rosn with a wife and three children, who earns 203. a
week, will expend three-fourths of it in something like the
following mariner :

s. d.
Four, 2 dozen lb. at 23. 3d 4 6
18tb 2 3
Putatos, 2 scare lb. at 10d.
ne quart per day . 1 9
Butter, 1:121'. at 10d 1 2
Sugar, lib 0 9
Coffe,, 8 (Z.
B“!un, 31b at 71 1 9

15 1
Ia many instances more butcher's meat will be consumed
and less bread stuffs, but in that case the sum total ex-
pended on food will be about the same. Here,
then, is 15g. Id. a week, or 391. 14s. 2d. a year,
expended uoon food. Now, as the price of every ar-
ticle we have named is enlitncei at lea t one-third by
the Food Taxes, this poor man must pay 131. 2s. Bd.
a year out of his 521., while his more fortunate and
more comfortable neighbour pays only 201. out of his 2001..
a-year. And yet, with such obvious facts as these, which
must stare every working man of common sense iu the
face, at every meal to which he and his family may sit
down, the agents of the landowners have the assurance to.
assert, that the maintenance of the Food Monopoly is " a.
Labourers' Question More wonderful still is the melan-
choly fact, that there are thousands of working men whor►t
that very monopoly has brought to the verge of sta►vatioo,
and who, notwithstanding, are found at every public meet-
ing on the subject, fighting the battle of the landowners..
Ve►ily, a more signal instance of that infatuation which is
the forerunner of swift destruction, has seldom been wit-,
nessed in this or in any other country. —Bolton Free Press.

ODE ON THE FUNERAL OF SIR

JOHN MOORE.

TO TILE EDITOR OF THE SUN,

Silt,—ln your last Number there appeared a letter addressed
to the Rev. W. Muir, Assistant Minister at Temple, in Scot-
land, by a person professing himself the author of the Ode on
the Burial of Sir John Moore.

From his profession I am bound to believe Mr. Muir to be
a gentlemnt of education, and of sufficient critical acumen to
perce ye the authorship of that Ode to be fully established in
" The Memoirs of the Rev. Charles Wolfe," and therefore
cannot conceive any reason he could have had for the publica-
tion of the above-mentioned letter, except perhaps to silence
oostinate pretension by an appeal to living evidence, if such
might still exist. I have the pleasure of being able to satisfy
Mr. Muir on this point by referring to Dr. Dickenson, Bishop
of Meath ; Dr. Russell, Archdeacon of Clogher, and to the
Rev. Mortimer O'Sullivan, rector of Killyman, near Dungan-
non, in Ireland. These distinguished persons were all contem-
porary with Mr. Wolfe in the University of Dublin, two of
them his bosom friends, and I believe one of them, at least,
was ',resent when part of the Ode was actually composed.
The writer of this letter hopes he may be excused for stating,
not as additional evidence, but as an apology for what, might
otherwise have the appearance of officious zeal, that he him-
self had the happiness of enjoying Mr. Wolfe's intimate ac-
quaintance during several of the latter years of his life, and
received from his own lips an acknowledgment of the author-
ship of the Ode in question. Such an avowal from such a
character as" The Memoirs" fsithtully pour:ray, would, he
is convinced, be admitted by Mr. Muir as precluding all doubt
on the subject.—l have the honour to be, Sir,

Your very obedient servant,
JOSEPH MARSHALL.
Chaplain of 11. M. S. Victory.

Portsmouth, April 5.

S IPPIN G INTEL LIGEN CE.

(LLOYD'S.)_

LONDON, APRIL 6.—Wind, this day, at noon. N.N.E.. light
breeze, fine clear weather.
DEAL, Avail. 5.---Wind E.,—Arrived from the River,
and sailed, the Pearl, Burrows, for Sydney ; Eagle, Donkin,
Quebec ; Imogene, Hick, ditto ; Clara and Emma, 'rate,
ditto ; Ellen, Brown, ditto ; Volusia, Finlayson, ditto; Go-
vernor Harcourt, Ady, ditto; General Cairns, Dare, Madeira ;
Champion,sailed
aCllattlhize; Ocean,oumar, Rice, Quebec ;
bound except the Bruns-
wick, for Quebec.
bion,
PORTSMOUTH, APRIL s.—Wind S.W. to S.S.E.—Arrived
BArl di t tO.
the Horatio (transport), Coleman, from Jamaica.
Fanmourir, APRIL 4. —Wind S. S.W., fresh gales.—Ar-
rived the Leeds (steamer), from Gibraltar, left 27th ult.,
Cadiz 28th, Lisbon 30th, Oporto and Vigo Ist.; Tagus,
(steamer), for Vigo ; Hope packet, on a cruize.
PLYMOUTH, Aran. 5. Wind S.W.—Arrived the Sou-
dan (steamer), from Sheerness for Africa ; Rapid, Scilly;
Ergo, Smith, For Malta; Hirondelle, for Africa.
DARTMOUTH, APRIL 3.--Sailed the Fox. Fox, for New-
foundland; Colombia, Clarkson, Havannah ; Ladd, Charleston.
COWES, Aram s.—Arrived the Thomas and Mary, from
London, for Restigouche, with loss of main top-mast ; Wind-
bond, Buenos Acres; Aeles, Jansen, do.
PENZANCE, APRIL 4.—A fourteen feet clinker-built boat,
with two oars, two handspikes, and check of N.,inhdalsabss on biocakret
marked '° Victoria, Le Tessier, of Guernsey,caravel-ebeunS boat
up and carried to Porihleven. A fifteen feet
fastened, and painted
iron
with five thwarts, four rowlocks,
ot bl log in the water,
ack ou and geen inside apparenly
nth n
has been pickedr ,up off the Eddyston to
05 ult.
Thomas W fro
BRISTOL, APRIL s.—Arrived t..e 0 0
f Quebec;
Odessa ; Cheatah, Malta. Sailed theßritannia, or
Susan, Penton, Demerara.
a
200 tons, apparently ao The main boom of a brig, about
PORT TALBOT, APRIL
• t has
1 long time in the wa er, been picked
off the Smalls.
4•—Arrived the Terrier, from Cuba.
MiLroan, APRIL •
3 —Arrived the Westmoreland, from London
CORK, APRIL •
Brunswick, with loss of •
for St. John's, New kc havingb main, maintopsail
fore and main topsails, ere up from long. 17.
yard,
SuNDERLAND, Aran. 4.—Sailed the Defender, Duncan,
for Quebec;
Orion, Steele, ditto; Wanstoek, Hay, ditto.
—Wind S
5
LIVERPOOL, APRIL „ ._Arrived
toe
Heart
of
Oak, Nl‘Danalii• from Mauritius ; Joaquin and Jane, }Javan-
„ah ; Robert Isac, Trueman, Mobile ; Atlantic, Savannah ;
Pere, Dawe, Terceira ; Columbia, Cromac, New Orleans.
Arrived off—the North Star, from New Orleans. Sailed the
Waverley, Snow, for New York ; Litherland, Freeman, Singa-
pore ; Anne Jane, Rigby, Singapore ; Mary Somerville, Lan-
caster, Calcutta ; Mar 11 artly , Webb, Calcutta
; Queen of the
Isles, Rio Janeiro ; 'Elizabeth Wood, Crosby, Barbadocs ;
Syra, Swan, Trinidad ; Arid, Montreal ; Benjamin Hart,
Montreal ; Columbus, Cownv, Quebec ; Emma, Weeks,
Quebec ; Celia (
' --Y, Quebec; Tamerlane, Fisher, Quebec ;
Sarah Barry, Robson, Newfoundland; Cornelia, Hetford, New-
foundland ; Samuel, Kelly, Newfoundland ; Credo, Hum-
phreys, Newfoundland ; Wallace, Tivohig,,, St. John's ; Pa-
ragon, llalifax ; Quiver, Perritt, St. Michael's ; Titan), Mor-
phew, Barbadoes ; Tomlinson, Kirkes, Constantinople ; Sara-
cen, Puckey, Adra.—A quarter to ten.—We are still without
any news of the President.
amouTit, Ara Ir. 4.—Arrived, the Twede, Brodie, Anne.
lam ; Ellen and Maria, for Malta, with loss of mainmast.
The Margaret, from Liverpool to Sydney, arrived at the
Cape of Good Hope ; had forty de.atba -n the passage.
WEYMOUTH, APRIL s.—Arrived, the Vigilant, Walton,
Mauritius.
Has-mice, APRIL s.—Arrived, the Friends, Small, Sings.
pore, sailed December 5.
HULL, APRIL 3.—Sailed, the Andrew Marod, Chambers,
Quebec ; Columbia, Smith, ditto ; Calcutta, APKennell, St.
John's.

PRTCF OF FRENCH CORN.—The official table
of the prices of corn in French markets, made up to the 31st
ult.. shows that the highest price was 21f..25c. per hectolitre
in the markets of Gray St. Laurent and Le Grand Tat
and the lowest 141. 60c. in those of Mots, Vaduz,
vile and Soissons.