The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-15 00:00:00

THE SABBATH QUESTION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sut—What you have lately said about the Sabbath,
has led me to consider the subject, and I find that by
the Fourth Commandment man is directed to keep the
seventh day holy, and that he, his servants, and his
cattle, shall do no manner of work tharcin, which com-
mandment is read every Sunday in all the Churches,
and the people arc made to respond and pray that the
Almighty " will incline their hearts to keep that law,"
which they have systematically, and authoritatively
broken on the preceding day, that being the 7th.
Surely this should not be—God ought to be wor-
shiped iu sincerity and truth.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
Scarborough, Sept. 12. 13. T.

London, 13, liolles-street, and 27, Marlborough
buildings, Bath.
Baron Browne.,Mill has great pleasure in being
able to say that the Spectacles adapted to his sight by Mr.
E. Solomons, some years back, afford him great ease and
cr;mfort, enabling him to read and write either by day or
candle light. He is happy in his sight being so materially
improved, and feels it a duty to recommend them to all
persons requiring the aid of Spec Btacles.
ARON BROWNE MILL.

From W. Coulson, Esq.
I have examined Mr. E. Solomons' Patent Leases, and
they appear to me, from the power of modifying the glare
of light, better calculated to persons with weak sight than
Spectacles in common use.
Wiwast ComsoN, Frederick-place, Old Jrwry.
From .1. G. Andrews, Esq., Senior Surgeon to the Lo:-
don Hospital.
I have much pleasure in bearing testimr,ny to the value
and importance of Mr. E. Solomons' Patent Spectacles,
which materially prevent a too strong glare of light, and
will be found more beneficial than plain or coloured glasses
in defective vision.
J. G. ANDREWS, 4, St. Helen's-place.
To Mr. E. Solomons, Optician, No. 1, Old Jewry
(City), and 36, Old Bond-street.
Mr. E. S.'s Voice Conductors arc the most powerful
instruments extant for relieving deafness. They arc
formed on so small a scale as to be worn quite unperceived.
By their use, musical sounds, and the lowest whisper
breathed at a public assembly, ruay be heard with accurate
distinctness.—Observe, No. 36, Old Bond-street, and 1,
Old Jewry (City).

CALEDONIA, STEAM-SHIP.—ThiS vessel, the
third of Mr. Canard's line of Royel Mail steamers, arrived
:It this port yesterday morning, in 10 hours front
Greenock. As the Caledonia is a fac-simile of the Aca-
dia, which was expected from Halifax and Boston, her ap-
pearance in Formby Channel caused a bustle amongst the
pierheaders, includisag the news-caterers, who were look-
ing for the Acadia. Alistakiog her for the latter vessel,
several Vats pat off to meet her. Two get alongside, and
the sharp fellows is them did not discover their :niitake,
although " Caledonia" was conspicuous on the flag at the
main, until they were at•ked, from the steamer. whether
tho Acadia had been telegraphed ! The Caledonia will
sail, on Saturday meat, for Halifax and Boston.—Livcr•
pool Albion of Sept. 14.
TIIE CHARTISTS EASING THE KIRK.---\Ve
have heard that it is in contemplation by the Chartists to
present a memorial to the Town Council, craving that
they may be allowed to take a lease of Principal M‘Far-
lan's church, for which they are willing to pay a rent of
1501. annually. They mean to ground this application
upon the fact that the Noddy Church is large enough to
hold the Principal's congregation, while it is too small for
theirs ; and that, by the change, the corporation would be
pecuniarily a gainer. Wlietl:er such an application ever
be made or not, the joke is not a lead one. They will
also bring the matter before the 11,,NersiJI the PresbyLry,
ornvicied a minister can be got to present a memorial.—
_ Glasgow Argus.

Deform :
" I must own," says the patriot, " that I am disap-
pointed in the working of the Reform Bill. The Mi-
nisters have not worked that 131 as they said they
would work it, viz., as a means to an end—that end
being Good and Cheap Government."
Hear again, on the same occasion, the Poor Man's
Friend ; with what unaffected sympathy he laments the
cruelty of the Corn-laws. Says he,
" I am, as I formerly told you, for a revisicn of the
Corn-laws ; I think they hear h.2avily on the labouring
classes, and I am as anxious as any man, that the loaf
should be large and of small Prica."
On another public occasion, Monday, January sth,
1835, when called by circumstances to give his consti-
tuents an account of his stewardship, with what honest
pride does this excellent representative appeal to the
perfect consistency of his Pledges and his Votes as the
indubitable test of honesty and integrity of character
Says he,
" Gentlemen, I stand now before you as a candidate
for your favour upon the same principles of independ-
ence, conscious that I have in the strictest sense of the
word, performed every promise which I have made from
these hustings ; and that I have acted in accordance
with every sentiment which I have declared to you, in
public or private, would influence my conduct. Gentle-
men, upon this subject I would venture to challenge my
most inveterate political opponents (V I bad the mis-
fortune to have any) whether my political conduct in
Parliament, and my votes on important questions, have
not been consistent."
It is this perfect honesty of character which gives all
its value to the evidence of the Legislator whose opi-
nions we quote in opposition to the sneers of Toryism.
Hear him further, on the Reform Bill, the Rights of
liasenters, and on English and Irish Church Reform.
" Gentlemen, I told you on other occasions that I
bad taken a deep interest and active part in carrying to
a successful issue that new and great charter of British
liberty, the Reform Bill, and that having achieved that
reform, we ought not to rest satisfied ; for it has been
truly observed by a greater authority than myself, that.
tho great measure was but a means to an end—that end
being the reform of all real abuses in our civil and ec-
clesiastical institutions.—( Loud cheers.)
.Gentlemen,
upon this principle I have acted.; and it was this
Possess, with-
principle, give me leave to say, which encouraged the
as I expressed to you
bringing- l'orward of the measure for the relief of those
of my fellow-subjects who dissented from the Established
Church, to give them those full civil rights and liberties
which all the members of that Church
out regard to sect or party. I most earnestly and warmly
cultivation from sbYeing
stem which
gave my support to that measure.—(Cheers.)
Gentic-
men, 1 entertain as great a desire,
on the occasion of the last. election, to see a commutation
carried
of tithes, in order to relieve. the cultivator of the 'soil
from that factious and continuous annoyance to which
he
most obviously
to its fullest and most beneficial extent.—(Loud cheers.)
osbutucstl
yby p r
et rho
prevents
present
Gentlemen, I supported that measure for an alteration
in the Church of Ireland, which was designated the
Irish Church Bill ; and will again follow the same
course, so that by an honest, faithful, wire, and judicious
application of the overgrown funds of that Church, it
may rest upon a mare secure and satasfactory basis then
that on which it now stands. I think a change also
necessary as regards the revenues of the Church of Eng-
land—(Cheers)—and that they should be more fairly
and justly apportioned ; and that they who bear the
labour and heat of the day tri,), receive their full por-
tion of the reward.—(Cheer:.)
The doubt entertained in 183—, as to the necessity of
the Ballot, had, long before this
time, cleared away from
this excellent man's mind ; and relation to this ques-
tion, and the circumstances in which he himself
was
then placed as a Parliamentary candidate, he said—
" Gentlemen, there is another suhject in which I have
taken a deep interest, and which has been alluded to
by the lion. Baronet who has addressed You—viz., that
of the Ballot. I had the good fortune to be in the en
joyment, of perfect health when the measure was brought
forward, and I gave oq,aisinterested and honest sup-
port to it ; because experience had taught
me that it
was impossible for purity and freedom of election to be
maintained in this borough without that system, or the
electors beingsubject to grievous and serious privations
as regards their private
interests.—( Load cheering.)"
With this mass of disinterested and unimpeachable
evidence in favour of the leading measures for which we
contend, we can well afford to let the Tories sneer at
" anythina. like Whiggery or Radicalism ;"
and perhaps
Mr. James Hartley may seek toi rest his admiration for
the Tory Member for Sandenand on some other virtue
than " his staunch adherence to Conservative Princi-
ples," when we astonish him and the world with the in-
, formation, that all the sound Liberalism we have quote
above, was' addressed by this identical Alderman Thomp-
son to the constituency of Sunderland!

HERALD.—The constantly receding prices of the
funds evinces clearly the extent of the alarm created in
the public mind by the state of foreign affairs, and
particularly by the indiscreet conduct of Captain
Napier, who would seem more anxioes to exasperate
France to a quarrel than his master of the Foreign-
office himself.
The publication of that most important document, the
Quadruple Treaty, which was given exclusively in the
Herald this morning, has excited an extraordinary sen-
sation in the City. It is now sufficiently evident, from
a reviser of the articles, that there is noth;ng whatever
to justify the course taken by Commodore Napier in
attempting to stir up a revolt in. Syria. More real
danger of a war is apprehended generally from what has
taken and may take place in the quarter under his com-
mand than from any other cause.
Late in the day the arrival of the Acadia; one of
the item fine of Halifax steamers, was announced
from Liverpool. She left Halifax, Nova Scotia, on
the evening of the 3d instant, and has therefore
made the run in about ten days. The New York
papers by her are to the 2d, and Boston to the 3d
instant. These papers do not contain any intelligence
of interest. They are almost altogether occupied
with electioneering matters, and the respective merits
and chances of Harrison and Van Buren. Trade ap-
peared to be rather improving, and the fall demand for
goods was said on the whole to show considerable acti-
vity. The rate of exchange on England was 6/ to 7
premium. United States Bank Stock had declined to
63. One of the New York papers gives the following
statement respecting the heavy obligations of the Bank
now falling due here and in the United States. The
amount, it may be observed, would seem somewhat
owcharged, as in respect of the bond held by the Go-
vertment, it is understood that a considerable propor-
tion has been paid off in anticipation as an accommoda-
tion and to meet some pressing exigencies of the State.
As what is called the Gurney loan is secured in whole
or in part by a corresponding deposit of State stocks
or other securities, it is not improbable that Mr. Jaudon
before his departure may have concluded arrangements
for carrying the loan on for a longer period, and the
same perhaps in respect of bonds and renewed post
notes. It is not at all likely that he would have quitted
this country at a juncture when such vast engagements
were at maturity, without in one way or other
making provision for them to the satisfaction of the
holders.
By the time the President steam-ship arrives in
Europe, the post notes, debentures, and bonds created
I by Mr. Jaudon last year, begin to fall due, to the amount
of 3,000,000 dollars or 4,000,000 dollars, as follows:
Dollars.
One-half the Gurney loan
Renewed post notes and bills - - 1,500,000

3,500,000
United States Bonds

Due in specie within six weeks - - 6,000,000
"The institution is already preparing for these pay-
ments, and it is to be hoped that she will be able to get
through them successfully. Her present movements
indicate, however, that it will not be without great de-
rangement of the exchanges, and a great depreciation
of her bills. Had the bank resumed last spring, the
credit attending the measure would have given her
bills a currency that would have enabled her to
command a larger sum in specie without loss. She is
now paying at an average rate of 5 per cent. for specie,
and before the operation is completed, it will in all
probability average 10 per cent. The rate of bills on
England is now 7 per cent., and the rate of United
States Bank paper 4to 5 per cent. If the bank be-
comes a buyer to any extent for the President, as pro-
bably will be the case, to meet her London liabilities,
bills may rise 1 or 2 per cent., in which case the bank
must remit at a loss of 4to 5 per cent. It will be re-
collected that the bank purchased clandestinely for the
packet of July 13, to the extent of 150,000 dollars,
which caused a rise of nearly 1 per cent."
A private letter from Malta of the Ist inst. mentions
it as strongly reported there that Captain Napier had
commenced the bombardment of Beyrout, and had suc-
ceeded in landing 6,000 Albanians. The Sovereign
transport vessel had arrived there from Gibraltar, hav-
ing on hoard 3,000 barrels of powder, besides other
supplies of arms and ammunition. The Index from
England had reached Malta with 2,500 barrels of pow-
der more.

POST.—The English Funds are lower by about
per cent. again to-day. The markets were additionally
depressed by the advices received of a further decline in
the French Eunds. The news communicated in a third
edition of this Journal of the great military precautions
about to be commenced at Paris did not come into the
City sufficiently early to have any effect on prices, the
markets having closed for the day. Two more cases of
default were proclaimed in the usual manner. One was
that of a jobber engaged in various Stock Exchange
transactions; the other that of a firm whose dealings
have been confined more particularly to shares, in con•
nection with Manchester and Liverpool. It was ac•
count day in the Share Market. The settlement for
the Foreign house takes place to-morrow, and this, it is
rather feared, may lead to the disclosure of other cases
of embarrassment on the part of the members. A ecry
little is found to produce them of late years. Indeed
the Stock Exchange has never recovered the shock it
experienced in 1835, in consequence of the explosion
which occurred in the spring of that year in the Spa-
uish market. The public do net come forward with
the confidence they used to do, and we should not be
much surprised if a total change in the organization of
the establishment were found necessary before long.
People seem to be little satisfied with a close corpora-
tion of the kind which exhibits so much weakness, and
we certainly commend the prudence that would suggest
to them the propriety of seeing that their business is in
safe hands, and faithfully executed.
The Count de Lara met the committee of Spanish
bondholders again this morning. Nothing final took
place on the occasion, but we understand the committee
generally are disposed to think well of the Count'scome pro-
' positions, whcever they are. lie appears to have
• to England to make them in consequence of the execg-
, sive disgust excited at Madrid by tue usurious character
of the small loans leek tsd in Lentlon for the use ot the
GOVOIIIIIOIIt. It, turns out now that the " mixed opera-

steamer

SUN.—The English Stocks have been depressed
to-day, in consequence of the sales making from time
to time by the speculators wno have overdone their ac-
counts. Indsed at present our own market, like the
Paris Bourse, is swayed almost entirely by the tide set
in motion through the jobbers, who we apprehend will
have the utmost difficulty in patching matters up be-
tween this and the 14th of next month, the day fixed
upon for the settlement. Two failures were declared
to-day, but they were parties pricipally connected with
the share market. One was a broker doing, we believe,
rather a large commission Lusiness on account of parties
at Manchester and Liverpool. The other was a jobber.
The decline in Consols to-day on the closing price of
Saturday was full I per cent. the extreme rates for
money bargains being 861 to For time the highest
price to-day was 87i ; the lowest 86 ; and the latest
864 to 87. Exchequer Bills dropped to I Is. and Bs.
premium, and India Bonds to 15s. discount. The New
Three-and-a-Half per Cents, declined from 96-1: to 954
to if. The Reduced Annuities were marked 86A-, the
Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Reduced 95 ; and the
Long Annuities 124 all ex-dividend.
The settlement in the Foreign Market, which takes
place to-morrow, kept down the price of all the foreign
stocks. There was a meeting to-day between the Com-
mittee of Spanish Bondholders and Count Lara, but
nothing of importance, we believe, took place upon the
occasion. Spanish Active Bonds left off this afternoon
at 20} ; Portuguese New, at 301 ; Colombian Six per
Cents. at 218 ; Mexican of 1824 at 24 ; French Three
per Cents. at 70f. ; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half par
Cents. at 48 to
There was not so much firtr.ness in Shares to-day,
necessity having led to a few sales. The Great Wes-
tern Shares realised 13} ; the New 3} to 5 ; the Gos-
port Junction, 3 ; the London and Birmingham, 71 to
73 ; and the South Western, 14i to 148 prern. Brigh-
ton Shares were 12 to 111 ; the Blackwell, 24 the
Greenwich, 14 ; the South Eastern, 174 ; and the
North Midland, 16 discount. Provincial Bank of Ire-
land Shares were 19i premium.
We have no papers yet in the City by the Acadia
r from Halifax.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGEId CE.

Oxman, SEPT. 12.—1 n consequence of the resigna
Lion of the Rev. Dr. Symonds, Warden of IN adham
College, there is a vacancy for one of the city lecture-
ships attached to St. Martin's of this city.
The names of the following gentlemen appear as can-
didates Rev. W. S. Bucknell, of Worcester
College ; the Rev. Robert Walker, of Waciham Col.
lege ; the Rev. H. Walker, of Christchurch ; and the
Rev. V‘r. H. Cox, of St. Mary Hall, rector of the
parish.
The election, which is fixed for Monday next, lies
with the Town Council.
The rectory of Witton, Wilts, has been riven to the
Hoo. and Rev. Mr. Harris, of Oriel-
the resignation of the Rev. Mr. Stockwel College,; v
patron,oid b
the by
Earl Pembroke.
The Stockwell has been appointed to the
oßev.
j.s.
rectory of Wylie, Wiltshire, vacant by the death of the
Rev. Francis Baker ; this living also is in the patronage
of the Earl of Pembroke.

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ABERYSTWITII.—The judicious works at the
new harbour have proved, not only an ornament, but a
most important benefit to the town. The channel of the
harbour has been deepened 3 feet 6 inches,
and vessels
which formerly could not enter the harbour, can now do so
and sail without risk. The harbour dues have increased
within the last two years from 6771. to 8201., a flatterth,C6
proof of the extension of the town, and most honourable e-
those who projected and effocted the excellent improv
meat in the harbour.—Cambrian.

'FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OP THIS DAY.
(From the Morning Chronicle.)
In the year 1834, when the railway system was be- .
ginning to develop its powers, the length of turnpike
road in Great Britain was 24,000 miles. The provision
for travelling by stage-coaches. as estimated by multi-
plying the number of passengers for which each coach
was licensed by the number of miles in its route, was •
representable by 597,159,4:20. That is to say, it was
equivalent to the conveyance of one passenger over
that distance, or of that number of passenge.rs (wee
one mile each, or (in round numbers) of 1,200 pas-
sengers 500 miles each. The multiples of miles and
passengers may be indefinitely varied ; still the total re-
presents the amount of travelling provided for annually
vbey thenin
4.was number of
onlyn
three-fifths
ye
e6z01011,0,
soooof6o.
that The h ee n
na,cotuual t, t roa-
r
358,295,652. The weekly average would therefore he
represented by 689,000. At the present time about
1,000 miles of railroad arc open to the public. Some of
these only publish the amount of their receipts, anal not
the number of passengers. About 40,0001. of receipt
are thus unaccounted for. The last weekly return
of passengers taken, independently of this omission, is
639,373. We may fairly assume a total equal to the
number (689,000)which represented the weekly amount
of travelling throughout Great Britain in 18:34. But
then this number indicates, not the number of persons
who travelled by stage-coach in 1834, but that number
multiplied by the number of miles traversed. Now
to average the railway travellers at one mile each would
be ridiculous. Taking into account the traffic on the
larger lines, an average of six miles per passenger is the
lowest that can reasonably be thought of. Oa this as-
sumption, the amount of railway travelling at the pre-
sent moment is six times the entire amount of stage-
coach travelling in Great Britain during the year 183.4.
The estimate is probably much below the fact. It gives
some notion of the amount of advantage and pleasure
which the public has derived from the new system,
and out of some portion of which it is proposed, in
certain quarters, that they should be eepelled by
taxation. The character of the hubbub lately raised
about the peculiar peril of railway travelling may per-
haps begin to show itself from the above statement.
Any person may easily calculate the comparative risk
which he has to encounter. To make the danger equal
by the different modes of conveyance, there ought. not
to be less than six railway accidents fur every single
stage coach accident. And this calculation makes no
allowance for the number of stage coaches taken off the
road since 1834 ; by which, of course, the number of
accidents should be proportionately reduced. Oa a
rough guess, this may be taken to make the proportion
seven to one. There ought then, on the supposition of
equal danger, to be seven railway accidents for one
coach accident. Is this the fact ? Is it anything like
the fact ? There are are few readers of that popular por-
tion of a newspaper which records the accidents and
cffences, who will not at once feel that on outcry
against the safety of railways is exaggeration and
humbug of the most preposterous description. The
last number of the Railway Times contains a collection
of the accidents, by both modes of conveyance, which
had been published during the preceding week. In-
stead of seven railway accidents and one coach accidect,
which would have been the proportion on the suppo-
sition of equal peril, there are nine coach accidents and
four railway accidents. To equalize the peril required
sixty-three casualties of the latter description. The
preponderance of safety in favour cf the railway is as
sixteen to one. It may still 'ue objected that when an
accident does occur to a train, the consequences are
more frightful than in the other case. To see how this
may be, we refer to the report of the Railway Times,
given, mostly verbatim, from the provincial newspapers
of the several localities. The first railway accident is
that of the Huil and Selby road. Three persons, (the
guard, a fireman, and a passenger) were seriously in-
jured, and several slightly bru'sed. 01 the former, two
had limbs broken, but all are in a fair any of recovery.
The next casualty was on the North Midland.
Some workmen had, contrary to orders, placed a crane
on the line. The only mischief was a delay of two
hours and c-half. The third happened on the same line.
The occasion was the same sort of perversity in (he
workmen. A stoker had his collar hone broken, end
the engineer was much hurt. No passenger suffered.
The fourth was on the Birmingham and Gloucester.
Nobody injured ; some passengers alarmed. Two hours
and a half lost. In the whole of this statement, we
find only one passenger suffering any material injury.
We turn now to the coach accidents. 1. Wormleigh-
ton's omnibus, overturned on its way from Leicester to
Luttcrworth ; a passenger so crushed that he died
next day. 2. The Waterwitch, Leeds coach, with
twelve outsides, '° pitched forward, throwing the passen-
gers in all directions." All bruised, as were the insides.
The driver " has sustained a very serious concussion of
the brain," and a commercial gentleman who sat
behind him " seriously injured." 3. The Brighton
Times overturned ; passengers thrown into the road,
but no serious injury. 4. Inverness : horses took
fright, guard much hurt, outside passengers only flung
off into the road, a gentleman inside much bruised, and
a youth with him " jacked up insensible, but afterwards
recovered." 3. The Kelso coach : no injury, but ade
tention of six hours. 6. The Edinburgh coach, En-
gineer ; no injury to the passengers, who had to walk to
the Dalkeith Railway. 7. Barnstable mail ; horses
shied ; a passenger thrown off and hurt, but not mate-
rially. 8. Bristol coach ; horses ran away ; coachman
killed. 9. Collision of the Bath mail from Birming-
ham and the Bristol and Worcester coach. A guard
reverely bruised, and his collar-bone broken ; " one gen-
tleman was much injured, and others a gapd deal
bruised." In observing that all the loss of life, and
by far the greatest amount of physical suffering,
here recorded, is connected with coach travelling, we
by no means intend to imitate the declamation re-
cently put forth on " frequent and frightful" accidents.
Nor is a single week, as we are very well aware, to be
taken as the basis of an arithmetical estimate. We
only wish to stimulate an habitual attention to the facts,
as they occur, in the minds of these who have been un-
duly influenced by apprehension, of..misled by exagger-
ration and fraud. The just impression is rather to be
produced morally than arithmetically. We believe the
question to be a very plain one, and the advantage of
railways, in point of safety, to be quite as decidedly
marked as their general superiority in comfort, cheap-
ness, and celerity. The subject might have been lett
to find its own level in the public mind, had there not
been symptoms of a systematic attempt to serve some
dirty class interest, individual prejudice, or party ob-
ject, by groundless declamations and gross distortions,
the obvious tendency of which was to injure the pro-
perty of the shareholders in these costly undertakings,
to impair the power of their managements for provid-
ing against accidents, to enhance by taxation the price
of the accommodation they afford, and thus to
obstruct the progress of improvement and diminish the
benefit it confers upon the community.
(From the TimeS.)
We lately endeavoured to draw attention to the evi-
dence given before a Select Committee of the House of
Lords on the unequal treatment which India receives
from England, and to the report founded on that evi-
dence. We have now the evidence given before a
Select Committee of the House of Commons on the
same subject, but we regret to find that there is no
report from the Commons' Committee. The Lords
deemed the interests and the rights involved of suffi-
cient importance to induce them to analyze the evi-
dence, and to prepare a report on the questions which
it brought under retiew—a report embodying truly
statesmanlike doctrines, although evincing little courage
or consistency in carrying out to a practical appli-
cation the principles which it developed. use
Commons, on the contrary, who, in the spirit of
virtual representation practically recognized in the
constitution of the Legislature, should regard them-
selves as the peculiar guardians of 100,000,000 of un-
represented British subjects in India, have coolly re-
solved that the evidence only should be reported,
without taking the trouble to express an opinion on
the conclusions which it supports ; thus adding one
other proof to the many that might be adduced of
the indifference with which the claims of India are
received, and her welfare considered. To legislators
who, with the facts known to them which it is shown
were given in evidence, could shrink from such an ob-
ligation, it may weigh little to say that this derelic-
tion of duty, which will be construed into contempt
and insult, twill be known, and recorded, and discussed
in India. Mr. Melvin in his evidence has justly stated
that the public mind is India is daily becoming mare
alive to the position of that country audits importance
to Great Britain, and more sensible to any wrongs,
real or imaginary, arising from British connection,
and that the frequency of public meetings, the
removal of restrictions on the press, and tle
multiplication of newspapers and periodicals, have •
powerful effect of this nature. To continue to disgust
by neglect the most intelligent and enlightened por-
tion of the population of a country
so important and
so sensitive may be of small account to a Select. Com-
mittee of the reformed House of Commons, buti it
perhaps not be wholly inoperative to informst
hers, that there is in this country a
India,
nrusilingg
interest felt in the prosperity of Irtitca, I
I condition, a
offorthites
acquaintance with its social and
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good
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caries of the empire will PsitPer:r IcleesxPibptiiel°glictt Y and de.
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mand at least a correspondingrepresentatives,and will no longer be
that henceforth some oftbe
from their
the yeti&
Indian
satisfied with
questions have been hitherto evaded, and Indian
be founrproe
manner in
Commons' Comm
claims and rights forgotten or trampled under foot.
The
Committee having thus neglected
its duty
anyby roepfiunsiionng
et on
itr reportten
oounr theana et veinddeennecay, to
express
to balance contradictory statements and claims, we shall
advert only to one or two topics which, in our previous
notices, we were obliged either to pass over superficially
or to omit altogether ; and in doing this we shall avail
ourselves of a useful " view of the evidence," published

3-

;hatter. On the folly of the Chartists in seeking to
defeat the objects of those who do cot go the full length
with them on all points, Dr. Smiles, the editor of the
Leeds Times, made soms happy remarks.
" The grand point." he says, "
.to be kept in view, I
think is, to carry out the principle of representation as ra-
pidly as we can, and to get as many. to join with u in our
demands as possible. By this, and oy the close a: d firm
union i,f the middle and working classes alone can any-
thing be gained. Why has the late Universal Suffrage
i movement failed? Because the means of effecting such a
unionlt
i• acre crteo
b. we hopedhol
lynetghlaetettehde;Cwhaorrsteistthsawniitlhipsr,otfihtebymothste
sedulous efforts were made to effect their entire alienation.
The conduct of those who come to meetings such as this,
stealing, in by holes and corners, on purpose to excite dis-
tui bailees, is not the conduct calculated to excite the ap-
probation of men of any class , and I will assert, least of
all of the right-thinking,
the shrewd, and the high)
miral working class."
rebuke here administered to them, and adopt a wiser
\
course of conduct in future.

THE ARMY.

Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon, of the Royal Artillery
having proceeded to Scotland, on leave of absence, the
duties of Assistant Adjutant-General of Artillery will
be performed by Captain Trevor during the Lieute-
nant-Colonel's absence. Major Wood, of the Royal
Artillery, has succeeded Lieutenant-Colonel Bridge in
the command of the artillery at Bermuda.
Lieutenant-Colonel Walker, of the Royal Engineers,
lately in charge of the tngineer department in the
Connaught district, has been discontinued on duty in
this country, and has left Athlone, having been allowed
to retire upon the full pay of his corps from the 13th ult.
Major Stretton, of the 64th, has joined and assumed
the command of the depot companies of that regiment
at Birr ; and Major the Hon. G. A. Browne is ordered
to embark to join the service companies which are about
to be moved from Jamaica to North America.
The first division of the service companies of the 19th
Foot embarked at Cove, on the 11th instant, on board
her Majesty's ship Vanguard, for Malta.
The second division of the service companies of the'
88th Regiment will embark at this port (Dublin) on
the 16th instant, per the Arab steam-vessel, for Cork,
for final embarkation for Malta. The remaining divi-
sion (the last) will embark on board the Arab on her
return from Cork.
On the arrival of the 45th Regiment at Belfast, per
her Majesty's steam-vessel Alban, from Cardiff, the
86th Regiment will embark on board this vessel for Dub-
lin. The first division of the 45th arrived at Belfast on

the 11th instant.
The Gth and 16th Re;iments of Foot, being under
orders to return home from India, the recruiting for
those corps is henceforth to be conducted according to
the regulations of age and standard applicable to the
infantry serving at home. The 6th Foot embarked for
foreign service in 1821, and the 16th in 1819.