The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-13 00:00:00

CHINA.

We have received the following intelligence from a
gull-ter from whence authentic information may safely
b.; expected, as well on account of the locality as of the
means which we know the writer possesses for
asserieg it. But as it varies considerably from all
the news recently published concerning China, and
as the writer evidently miscalculates the time neces-
sary for the transmission of intelligence from the
north of China to Europe (which barely exceeds three
months), we publish it with the reservation of not
holding ourselves responsible for its perfect accuracy,
though in many points the statements, based upon corn
mercial returns, arc evidently correct :
(FRobi a PRIVATE CORRESPONDENT AT MOSCOW,
Dac. 17.) —We Moscovites, placed, as we are,
in the very centre of Russia, and by means of our
commercial relations with Kjachta (or Khadchta),
the utmost point on the frontiers of our eastern
possessions, cannot but receive news from China
much later in date than those arriving by way of Bombay
and Suez. Letters from Pekin arrive at Kjachta in less
than a month, and the mail from Kjachta is regularly for-
warded to Moscow in 28 days, so that we are enabled to
get news from the capital of that enormous empire,inferior
in circumference only to our own, in two months time,
while those arriving by way of India will take from four to
five months. Now, our latest intelligence from Kjachta,
dated about the middle of last month, speaks of events
tending to impress the whole political and commercial
world of Europe with the importance of the Anglo-
Indian expedition to those distant countries. 'lle
English, having accomplished the entire occu-
pation of Chusan, had disembarked their troops
somewhere on the coast of China, where they were
making rapid progress ; hence the news, rather unau-
thenticated, that Pekin itself had fallen into the
hands of the foreign invaders. One thing we know
with certainty, the taking of a Chinese fleet, con-
sisting of forty-five junks, five of which had rich
cargoes, mostly tea, ou board ; whether on the Peiho
or on the Yan-Ke-Kiang river, our correspondent does
not write. Proclamations had been profusely dis-
tributed among the inhabitants, in which the
English announcing their coming, in order to liberate
the people from the galling yoke of the Mantchou dynasty,
which is said to be hated by the nation in gene-
ral. Partial insurrections had broken out in conse-
quence of these proclamations, and the situation of the
empire was designated as being very critical. This news
must be very disastrous for our commercial relations with
Ctiina. Already the price of tea has been raised to 70
roubles banco per chest of 641b5., and a further advance is
expected. In former times, the Chinese were accustomed
to send their cargoes by sea ; now, for fear of the
British, all have been sent by land, so that the
transports will arrive in March or April, instead of
January, as was formerly the case. Last year more
than 100,000 fibroks (chests) of tea were purchased at
Kjachta ; this year not more than 40,000 are ex-
pected. Our own manufactures will not suffer less by
this critical state of things. Our cloths and velveteens
will lie in the magazines of Kjachta without being asked
for. The annual export of Russian broad cloth to China
was estimated at more than 40,000 pieces, and the int-
-1:1rt of tea at 80,000 or 100,000 fibroks a year.

_
MUTINY OP THE SPANISH RE
FUGEES IN FRANCE.

(From the Gazette des Tribunaux.)
Foix, Jas. 4.—Last night the gendarmerie and garri
son of our town were ordered to take up arms. In the
evening it was reported that the Spanish refugees at Pa-
miers had mutinied and refused to obey the municipal
authorities, by whom they had been enjoined to return to
Spain and claim the benefit of the amnesty recently pro-
claimed by the Spanish Government. These reports
were soon confirmed by the arrival of an express at the
hotel of the Prefecture from the Sub-Prefect of Pamiers,
apprising him of the agitation which had manifested itself
in that town.
i, the information I have been able to
At two o'clock a.m., M. Pascal our Prefect, ordered
two companies of the lbth regiment of the line and the
gendarmes to proceed to Pamiers, and shortly afterwards
tnhotefplasrtttislocof f
Januaryou eplaarsttm. e n t.
;he Prefect himself set out for that town,
collecttli reahtue nf eodli o tow following
ne gx
respectingsupplies
eu nptdphl et:
which permits them to return
s causeie
after disorders which
Since the Spanish Government.has granted `ea the soldiers
of Don Carlos an
to their country, the French Government resolved not to
amnesty
Every eay and hour we see large detachments of these
unfortunate wretches enter Foix, who, being left without
an asylum or any resources, abandon the villages in which
allow them any
they are quartered, to conic and demand of their chiefs
what they have to expect. They will not, they say, return
to Spain, because they have no reliance on the amacsty.
There is no Government in the country. Isabel is bu: a
child, who can only weep, and has no power to save them
from party reactions.
A circumstance lately occurred, it is true, which filled
them with the hope of returning to their country other-
wise than as amnestied. A few days ago the Spanish
Colonel Ribeira, the commander of the depot, assembled
the officers, and read to them a proclamation which he had
just received from Don Carlos, and in which the Prince
thanked them for their loyalty, advised them to place their
trust in God, and held out to them a hope that better times
would come to favour their holy cause. In this circular the
Prince declares that lie will never consent to the marriage
of his son with Queen Isabel. After receiving communi-
cation of this address, the refugees, at the suggestion of
Colonel Ribeira, renewed their oath of fidelity to their
sovereign, Don Carlos.
Amidst these agitations, our population lives in constant
fears. Our department, already so poor, and at this mo-
ment covered with two feet of snow, is crowded with our
Transpy
Tencan neighbours. Nyhole caravans travel from
one village to another, and, having no means Qf subsistence,

are obliged to take to mauruuding. Quarrels and angry
altercations frequently occur, but our peasants are gener-
ous, and have pity on the sufferings of these poor crea-
tures. The men received, until the Ist of January, a
daily allowance of 44 centimes (41d.), and the women and
20 centimes (2d.) This pittance, however in-
adequate, had the effect at least of saving us from their too
frequent importunities, but now that it is suppressed they
will again begin to maraud, and perhaps to rob, and then
toere can be no security for our inhabitants.
At the moment I write groups of 12 and 15 reFugees,
soldiers, old men, women, and children, traverse the
streets, begging for a morsel of bread. They are nearly
naked and famishing. What are we to do ? We cannot
refuse them, and still the charity of the people of Fuji,
cannot maintain thousands of persons.
Just as I was going to close my letter, I beard that the
Prefect had come back from Parniers. His firm and per-
suasive language had calmed the irritation which prevailed
among the Spaniards, and he succeeded its inducing them
to set out fur Spain without having recourse to military
force. They are to enter by Catalonia. An escort of the
16th Regiment will accompany them as far as Perpignan.

CHARITY MEETING AT BATH.

(FROM A cottaTseoNoaNr.)
A public meeting was announced for this day (Monday,
11th inst ), for the purpose of appealing to the inhabitants
of Bath for a public subscription to relieve the wants of
the poor.

The Mayor having agreed to take the Chair, opened
the business of the meeting to a very large assembly, the
spacious banquetting-room being crammed, principally by
the labouring classes, who appeared sensibly alive to the
motives of those who are generally the principal actors
in such proceedings.
On the platform were several members of the Town
Council, and a host of the clergy of the " Eitablishment,"
and amongst others, the:Reverend Messrs. Tottenham and
East, two gentlemen of the Magee and M'Neilo school.
Amongst the auditory the proceedings excited but little
interest, and the whole affair as it regards the meeting was
a decided failure; and the spirit and indignation the people
evinced was something new in the history of such pro-
ceedings.
The speakers instead of being met with cheers, as was
wont to be the case on such r.oecasions, were assailed with
loud and vociferous shouts from hundreds of voices—

" We want justice, and not charity!" " Give us justice
and our rights, and keep your charity," and many other
such pertinent exclamations.
The promoters of this " work of love" were in evident
alarm, for a large body of police filled the different avenues
within the hall, and appeared to be prepared for action.
The proceedings were for the most part dumb show,
and were hurried through amidst much visible fear.
Mr. Philp rose to move a resolution, when the Mayor
precipitately quitted the chair, followed by the whole of
his supporters, who all disappeared in an instant, amidst
the hooting, hissing, and ether indignant expressions of
the Assembly. Cries of " Justice, not charity is what we
waist," followed them in their retreat, when the police be-
came exceedingly active in pushing and driving the people
out of the room.

It is said " there is nothing new under the sun," but it
really appears to be a new feature in public affairs when
large bodies of the labouring people see the real cause of
the misery and crime which surrounds them, and raise
their voices for justice and their rights, instead of pity
and charity.

The Operative Anti-Corn-law Association have
resolved to call their fellow-townsmen together at the
Music Hall next Wednesday, where they will lay before
them the workings of these laws, and expose the fallacies
by which they are attempted to be defended. Sir Joshua
Walinsley, as an efficient and leading member of the
Anti-Coin-law League, has consented to take the chair.
—Liverpool Times.
E WEATHER.-The thaw which commenced
on Sunday morning was succeeded by a alight frost in the
evening, and during the night there was a fall of snow.
Mon lay morning, at six o'clock, the thermometer stood
at 32 degrees, (freezing point) with the wind south-west,
and during the middle of the day, the sun having con-
siderable power, it again thawed, but very slightly, except
in the metropolis. In the course of the afternoon the
wind shifted to the west, and when the sun had set it
.gain began to freeze, so that by seven o'clock the roads
and paths round the metropolis were coated with ice,
which made it for persons walking or riding both diffi-
cult and dangerous. At that hour the thermometer
stood at thirty degrees, two degrees below freezing point,
the wind bc:ng on Monday evening N. N. W. In the
course of the night there was another fall of snow, and,
yesterday forenoon there has been a partial thaw, with a
west wind and bright sunshine.

ROBBERY OF PLATE.—Monday information
was given to the police of a quantity of plate having been
stolen from the mansion of the Dowager Countess of Scar-
borough, No. 14, Portman-square. The property in
question consists of silver spoons of various descriptions,
and forks ; the thief effected an entrance by means of the
area-gate, wnich was left open. The whole of the articles
have engraved on them a pelican, surmounted by a coronet.
ROBBERY OF BANK-NOTES.—The police
have received information that on Sunday, between three
and six o'clock. Mr. Pasley, of the King's Head public-
house, Limehouse, was, while in a state of intoxication at
the Red Cross, East Smithfield, plundered of 601. in
Bank of England notes ; the thief is supposed to be a man
dressed in a fustian coat, who was conversing with Mr.
Pesky at the Red Cross, and they were seen to quit the
house together, the former being at the time sober.
Lord Cremorne has, to his infinite credit and
character, paid off all his fa.her's debts : and actuated by
like feelings Lcrd Farnham and his brother the Hon.
Barry Maxwell, at the deaths of their uncle and father,
two years ago, came into the possession of large estates,
have lately discharged all their fathers' obligations.
RAILWAY COLLISION.—It is currently re-
ported that a certain Noble Marquis, in his anxiety to wit-
ness a good case of collision, has offered a large sum to any
of the Railway Companies who will allow two of their en-
eines to have a regular set-to on the rail. We have not
heard whether the Noble Lord or any of his friends in-
tend to act as engine-drivers or stokers on the occasion.
Judex, the Morning Post's well-informed Turf
Correspondent, complains of a literary larceny—some wri-
ter in Bell's Life having stolen his good name. There
was no need to have adopted a name not his own, for his
remarks on handicapping are ingenious, well-put, and alto-
gether clever.
Private letters from Madrid, dated the 31st ult.,
mention the departure of Marshal Saldanba's son for Lis-
bon, with despatches of a nature said to be somewhat con-
ciliatory. It seems that the leaders of the Portuguese
Septembrists had communicated to M. Soler, the new
Charge d'Affaires of Spain at their Court, that anything
but conciliatory measures on the part of Spain would only
serve to fix more firmly the present Chartist Administra-
tion, as M. Magalhaes had contrived to turn tile Douro
question into a matter for popular excitement. At the
same time the Septembrists engaged to overthrow the
Chartists, provided Spain would abandon her present war-
like attitude; and this, together with Mr. Aston's endea-
vours to avert extreme measures, is said to have cooled the
indignation of Espartero against the Portuguese. Letters
received by the Spanish Minister for Foreign Affairs front
his agents in France state that the Moderados who have
emigrated into that country are divided among themselves,
and are dissatisfied with Queen Christina for her favour-
able reception of M. 'Lea Bermudez, while they conceived
that the Marquis Miraflores, Count Cleonard, and others
of their leaders, were slighted.
FURTHER MORTALITY AMONG THE CON-
VICTS AT WOOLWICH,—On Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock
an inquest was held at the Duchess of Wellington, Wool-
wich, before Mr. J. C. Carttar, on the bodies of four
convicts, named George Francis, William Pullien, James
Turner, and William Hamilton. From the evidence of
the surgeon, Dr. Bossy, it appeared that three of the
men died from inflammation of the chest and fever, and the
other from scrofula. Dr. Bossy added, that when any of
the convicts complain of illness, they are remanded from
work until seen by the surgeon ; and as their state of
health will allow they are employed accordingly. Those
that are ndt very ill are sent into the oakum ward. The
Jury expressed themselves satisfied with the evidence, and
returned a verdict-4, Teat the deceased men died from
natural causes." It was mentioned that a great number of
the convicts are suffering from coughs and colds. The
Jury spoke very highly of the cleanly state in which they
found the hospital ship.
COUNTY OF MONAGHAN—RESIGNATION
OF MR. LUCAS.—Mr. Lucas, the Tory Member for the
county of Monaghan, has declared his intention to re-
sign the representation of that county, and will retire at
the next dissolution of Parliament. His chief reason for
taking this step may be learned from the following pa-
ragraph of his address to his constituents :—" The im-
portance which Irish affairs have of late years assumed,
and are likely to retain, in the conduct of the empire,
must render the position of an Irish representative, at
best, one of anxiety and labour; the manner in which
they have lately been carried on in the House of Com-
mons has made it one of constant watchfulness and painful
suspense. Deferred from day to day, and week to week,
without apparent reason ; hurried on unexpectedly with as
little ; withdrawn, after long announcement, or left to be
disposed of in a promiscuous heap at the end of the Ses-
sion, amidst hurry arid confusion—the measures that re-
gard Ireland are a constant source of uncertainty, disap-
pointment, and vexation to all those who arc called upon
to take a part in them."—Drogheda Argue.
FORTIFICATIONS OF PARIS.—The Journal
des Sciences Militaires gives an account of the probable
expense of the fortifications of Paris and its detached
forts. The cost of each fort, of which there are to be 100,
will be 3,000,000 francs, and consequently of the whole,
300,000,009 f. Twenty forts, or fortresses, including the
fortified points of Cliarenton, St. Denis, and Mount Va-
lerian, will cost 16,000,000 francs each, making altogether
300,000,00(1 francs. Barracks, magazines, &c., will cost
another 60,000 000 francs, and artillery and stores
20.000,000 francs more, making the enormous total of
680,000 000 francs, to say nothing of the expense of
keeping them up during a period of peace.
High duties are levied on the following articles,
to protect British agricultural and grazing interests :
tongues, 3d each ; bacon, 28s per cwt. ; pork, salted,
Ns per cwt. ; sausages, 4d per lb; potatoes, 2d per lb;
beer and mum, 31 is Id, or about 2s per gallon; ale, other
than mum, 21 13s : beans, kidney or French, lid per
bushel ; fruits, various duties; cider, 211 10s, per ton ;
hay, 245. per load of 36 trusses ; lard, 8s per cwt ; onions,
34 per bushel ; lentils, 10d per bushel ; pearl bailey, 17s
6d per cwt; mustard and carraway, and many other
seeds. —Mr. M'Grcyor's Evidence before the Import
Duties Committee.
GRESHAM COLLEGE.—Monday being the first
day of Hilary Term, the Rev. Mr. Pullen, Professor of
Astronomy to this endowment, delivered his introductory
lecture to an audience of forty-five persons. The prin-
cipal subject of the discourse eras, the mode of taking
ob-
servatione from the earth's surface, with a description o.
the Transit and Mural instruments, with other objects of
astronomical investigation.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

(MONDAY EVINING.)
TIMES.—Some incidents connected with the passige
of the overland mail from India through Egypt, which
appear to be worthy of note, have not yet been made pub-
lic. The management of the conveyance on the Indian
side seems to have been extremely well conducted. The
mail was brought from Bombay to Suez by the Cleopatra,
one of the East India Company's now steamers, which
was despatched from England about a year ago. She
left Bombay on the Ist ult. ; anchored at Aden early in
the morning of the 10th ; and leaving the same day, ar-
rived at Suez on the 18th. From the information collected
at Aden, all was quiet there ; but an attack was antici-
pated on the 17th or 18th from a very numerous body of
Arabs, acting under the influence of a self-styled saint or
prophet, who promised them success, and declared them
to be invulnerable for this special occasion. As a specimen
of his prophetic power, he had put forward a rather lu-
dicrous one in foretelling that on a given day the hair of
Captain Hawes, the political agent at Aden, would turn
white. The brave garrison were, however, fully prepared
for the encounter. _ _ .

From Suez to Alexandria the transit ef the mail seems
to have worked by no means well, considering that the
importance of the news from China and India should have
urged extraordinary despatch. From the time of landing
the mail at Suez to its being put on board of the Great
Liverpool at Alexandria, a period of six days was occu-
pied, though the distance is not more than three hundred
miles. The Pacha, it should be moreover observed, took
this mail under his special protection, since, in conse-
quence of some reported depredations of the wandering
Bedouins, he allowed a small body of his cavalry to escort
the mail across the Desert—a good service by the way,
which, considering his position with this country,
ought not to be forgosten Thtre was some ap.
parent drawback upon it, as not an absolutely disin-
terested act, in a demand upon each of the passengers
of 3/. sterling for this protection ; but this was
believed to be the act of some inferior agent, wholly
without the knowledge ef the Pacha, who, if it
should reach him, will therefore be excessively indignant
at an act so decidedly calculated to lessen the value of
the service conferred. One cause assigned for the delay
in the passage through Egypt is the necessary attention
paid by the agents to the convenience of the travellers by
that route, who would be much incommoded, or, perhaps,
left behind, if the mail moved more rapidly; but it is
obvious that so great a public service ought not to be im-
peded at such a time by such considerations. It is said,
however, to be quite practicable, if better arrangements
are made in Egypt, to bring on the mail and the passengers
in much less time, and without inconvenience to the pas-
sengers, among whom there are great complaints, in ad-
dition to the delay, of privations and annoyances on :the
route. All travellers to and from India would hail as a
very great boon any reform in these respects.
The transit of the mails from England towards India is
stated to have been subject to similar causes of complaint.
That of the 4th of December from London, though landed
at Alexandria on the 17th, at 8 a an, was met on the Nile
at mid-day of the 22d. at least 24 hours' run from Cairo,
and consequently could not be on board of the Cleopatra
before the 26th, or reach Bombay before the lath ef January.
All these incidents are of great importance when the ob-
ject is how to insure all the expedition possible to the com-
munications with India, and the progressive improvements
mad,; from time to time lead to the hope that the ar-
rangements will soon be brought to perfection. As it is,
there is much cause fcr congratulation both to England
and to India in the rapidity of the transit. As an instance
of the celerity with which this moat interesting journey
may be performed, it may be mentioned that Mr. Parbury,
one of the passengers by the Great Liverpool, only left the
Himalaya mountains, at the northern extremity of British
India, on the 24th of October, and though proceeding
down the entire course of the Sutlege and the Indus rivers,
would reach England in less than two months and a half
from that date. The Great Liverpool has not yet reached
Falmouth, as, from the occurrence of some cases of plague
in Egypt, she will not carry a clean bill of health, and
must, therefore, perform quarantine; but she is daily ex-
pected.

P "s) ST.—The anticipations entertained last week with
regard to the state of the Money Market have been fully
realised. The payment of the dividends renders money
so abundant that the ruling charge for discounts on com-
mercial bills, which was the other day 51 per cent., is now
but 41. It is expected that the change will bring up u
good deal of country paper. There has been no po,sibi-
lity of proceeding with this sort of business to any extent
during the late pressure upon the London market arising
from the contraction of the currency by the Bank. We, how-
ever, hear to-day of a large batch of bills having been sent
by a Lancashire banking-house for the purpose of being
cashed, with the limitation of -5 per cent.
The tea trade seems now becoming additionally de-
pressed. Company's eongous are now quoted at Is. 7d.
per lb., the retrogradation being Id. toad. per lb. There
is probably a doubt in the minds of sonic of the leading
holders that no positive approach has been mado to a set-
tlement of the opium question with the Chinese. The
negotiations with the Pekin authorities, so far as they
have been reported to us, may certainly, from their ex-
cessive vagueness, he supposed to leave ample room for an
unfavourable issue. That such is the feeling in partial
cases is, at all events, to be inferred from the difference
of prices now and immediately anterior to the assumption
on the part of the English Government of a hostile atti-
tude towards China, the current rate at the earlier period
being as low as ls. 2d. per lb. There is no great necessity
for teferring back to the time when l Id, per lb. only was
obtainable. The depression of the market was then pro-
duced by extraordinary circumstances, among which is to be
recollected the bringing forward of several cargoes to-
' gether to be turned into money, at whatever sacrifice to
the importers or proprietors.

HERALD.—This has been a flat day in the funds, and
the Globe's gentleman of the leading article will be sur-
prised no doubt to learn that the prices of Stocks whioh
he " sent up" a few days since with such smirking self-
complacency have been "sent down " again to-day with
just as much rapidity as they went up. Consols, in spite
of Ch:nese triumphs and Indian victories, declined to-day
to 891 to Bauk Stock 163} to 4;. Exchequer Bills

9s. tolls. premium.
The Times this morning in the course of various ob-
servations on the United States Bank and the recent
change of agency, with which for tile most part no fault
can be found, is disposed to cast censure by implication
on the bank because the European shareholders have no
voice in the choice of directors, and therefore no influence
by which to compel or induce an honest and periodical state-
ment of accounts. " There ought, it is said, to be further
some plan adopted for giving to English and European share-
holders generally some influence in the choice of directors
at the chief station in Philadelphia, and arrangements
made by which honest and intelligible accounts shall be
periodically submitted to their inspection." It is quite
true that about three-fifths of the whole number of shares,

representing the 7,000,0001. capital of the bank, are held
in E urope, and principally no doubt in this country, and
that it certainly does appear a hardship that such a mass
of interest should he entirely disenfranchised of any power
of action in the bank management. But it would be un-
fair to challenge this as any wilful error of omission or
commission of the bank itself, or those concerned in
its administration. The disqualification to which
foreign shareholders arc subjected arose out of poli-
tical considerations, and not the unnatural jealousy of
a state of anything like foreign influence or inter-
farence in its internal affairs, even of a merely mone-

tary nature. It is indeed clear that money concerns, for
instance in the matter of currency or paper circulation,
may come to be closely allied with, bear upon, and bias
political considerations, and therefore it is not surprising
that, absolutely to bar out the possibility of any extrinsic
action of the kind the Legislature of Pennsylvania, on
granting the charter under which the bank is now incor-
porated, should introduce a stringent provision for exclud-
ing foreign shareholders from any vote in the choice of
officers, aid therefore from any direct influence upon the
administration of the bank. This may, or may not be, a
grievance, but it is evidently one with which the United
States Bank administration cannot fairly be reproached,
and would, except perhaps under actual circumstances,
have no disinclination to see remedied, a matter however
clearly one of legislative competency alone.
It may not be forgotten that the country at large, and
country bankers here more immediately, owe much of the
United States' Bank Stock with which they arc over-
loaded, to the great damage or ruin of many indi.
viduals, to a sort of conspiracy got up here by certain
bankers and discount houses who happened to be deeply
concerned if not compromised in the safety and solvency
for the time being of the United States Bank, either by
direct holding of large amounts of its stock, or of States'
stocks negotiated through it, or by indirect involvement
with mercantile establishments whose fate depended on the
bank being carried through. The subject has been
brought before the notice of country bankers and the
public on occasions heretofore, but it may not be amiss to
reproduce the process adopted by the confederacy here to
shift from their own shoulders the burden of Bank and
States' stock with which they are encumbered, or to find
among gullible country bankers a market for the same sort
of stocks held by the agency of the United States Bank
and entirely unsaleable in this city, at a moment when the
bank was on the brink of open and declared failure, with
obligations by hundreds of thousands falling due, or ap-
proaching maturity. In the first place the way was
prepared by crying up the surpassing value of these
Transatlantic securities in publications professing to
represent the banking interest all over the country ;
and secondly, when an effect was considered to be
produced, accredited travellers, at very liberal rates of
commission, were despatched among the country
bankers to puff off, take, and press for orders in the Bank
Share and Stock line. In this manner it is that the coun-
try bankers and their friends were let into the unp
• h United
secret of finding their port-folios filled up with
States' Bank Shares, and American States' Stocks, where.
they now remain an unmarketable drug on any terms, just
previous to the precise moment (well known d
of divi-
leasant
pated hero) when the Bank stopped the paymenbolstered
donde, and Bank and States' Stocks, no longer
e
up by the confederate discount and banking houses of this
ver I ld • arge er
city for their own ends, and whilst they _ .
themselves, were suffered to fall, as since theyhave re-
s
mained, some 30, 40, or 50 per cent. in nominal value.
Such is the way in which the country bankers have been
" backed" and bamboozled by their friends here. It sully
be supposed the lesson will not eventually be lost upun them.
If they want names and dates about the particular eoinbr.-
nations of which they have been the object, and tkrider
which they arc now smarting, no difficulty on that, score
need be apprehended, for the facts are sufficiently noto-
torious this place.

At five o'clock on Friday morning,
Sprows-
' too in Norfolk, the thcrmomer stood at thy.ce degrees be-
low zero (Fahrenheit), At nino in tilt same day the
thermometcr stood at three, or 29 degrees below freezing.
The coachmen on the Newmarket-rovl say they have not
experienced two such nights as Thussday and Friday last
week since the year 1814.

NING EDITION.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.

(From the Morning Chronicle.)
One consequence of the contest at Walsall is that
the Corn-laws are, and must henceforth be, through-
out England, a hustings question. Every election will
bring them into discussion. There will be no shirking
or swamping the subject. It will present itself every-
where, and under circumstances of the stongest excite-
ment. In the House of Commons it may he regarded
as an annual bore, to be endured, being an inevitable
evil, but to be got rid of as summarily as possible.
Members may congratulate themselves that the debate
will soon be over. They may indicate in the most
unequivocal manner their contempt for the discussion,
and their determination to be rid of the question. They
may clamour, and laugh, and cough ; snort, bray,
and crow ; but whenever they come again to the
hustings, face it they must. Of that future encoun-
ter they have now fair warning. Their tricks and
gibes will not avail on that arena. The anticipation
can be no very pleasant one for the supporters of
the food monopoly. It will soon begin to haunt
them. They are under the shadow of that coming
event. The bread taxers, and the bread-taxed shall
there stand face to face. And though the influence on
which they rely may carry some of theta through ;
though a majority of servile or enforced suffrages way
be reckoned upon as being at their command ; still
there must be something- appalling in meeting thousands
who execrate them as plunderers of the poor man's
cupboard to replenish their own purses. The case is
not an ordinary one of political opposition. They will
not merely have to present themselves before antagonists
who are simply made so by difference of opinion upon
sonic constitutional abstraction. Their opponents are
multitudes who firmly and justly believe themselves to
be the objects of a cruel, heartless, and sordid robbery.
They must abide the indignant gaze and voices of men
Irons whom, mid from whose pining f willies, they have
taken fourpence out of every shilling's worth of
bread. Some nerve is required for such a prospect.
They will need a front of brass. But there is no
avoiding it. If they can and dare, let them. by
some crooked manoeuvre, unseat the present Minis.
try ; they will only bring it on all the sooner. It is as
1 certain as death ; and if they realise it, and have any
regard fur the estimation of their fellow countrymen,
scarcely less terrible. They will soon hear of the ques-
tion in the House. But that is only the prelude to the
question at the hustings. It is the first toil of the hell ;
and it will strike ominously upon their hearts. Ho:s-
ever, they will, doubtless, try to meet the subject with
their accustomed boldness of demeanour, and so let
them, " with what appetite they may." The new Poor-
law will cot answer to the Tories as a popular diversion
and set-off against the Corn-laws. It cannot, for this
plain reason, that it is quite as much a Tory as a Whig
measure. All the world knows that the journals which
declaim most loudly against its severities have no honest
purpose. We should have probably read the last
of these tirades were Toryism once in power. Not
that we apologise for any harshness or hardness.
The destitute poor are not sufficiently cared for ;
and whether the fault be in enactment or in ilini-
nistration, the evil should be remedied. But there is
no alles iation of the stringency of the Poor-law com-
parable for a moment with that which the repeal of wire
Corn-laws would afford. A flush of employment would
promptly follow. Manufacturers would no 10-iger be
obliged to refuse immense orders because their goods
could only be paid ter in foreign corn. The loom
would be alive. Wages would rise ; for when have

they not risen if masters wanted more hands instead
of fewer? Wno would care about the Poo:-laws—
who feel their stringency, if honest labour obtained
enough for the support of a family ? That stringency
would only fall upon the idle and dissolute ; and in rela-
tion to them, and their attempt to prey upon the steady
and industrious, it is not so very objectionable. if
the Walsall electors give Ow first of a series of
mortal blows to tt.e bread-tax, what a blessing from
the nation hereafter will they earn for themselves
The corn monopoly is the great agency of bring-
ing the_uee2ssitous under the severities of the Poo:-

law. \V hich arc the most pauperised counties in Eag-
land ? The manufacturing ? 0, no such thing ; not-
withstanding the unnatural cheek given to the progress
of manutactuves. It is iu the agricultural counties that
poverty is most abundant and its pressure heaviest ; and
not only so, but the great corn-growing counties are
more pauperised than the grazing districts. Bucking-
hamshire, Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk ; these arc the re-
gions most widely subjected to the calamity and curse
of pauperism. The cost of their poor, as estimated by
the amount per head of the population, is three times
that of manuft.'cturing Lancashire. Dividing England
into twenty-one counties, of which the population was,
according to the census of 1631, chiefly agricultural ;
and twenty-one in which it was chiefly manufacturing,
mining, and trading-. the average annual poor's-rate for
each Individual of the population is, for the former,
nearly Bs., and for the latter only about ss. The corn
monopoly is the centre ut the pestilence of pauperism.
The landlord is the only one to gain ; the labourers on
his property arc the first to lose. No tongue can tell
the misery in which our agricultural districts would
have sunk, hut for the drain of their surplua hands to
manufacturing employment. And the evil spirit of
motkpoly pursues them there. Grinding its own pro•
duct classes to a miserable pittance, its short-sighted
cravings would destroy the only outlet by which its
exiles may support themselves, and react upon the sup-
port and profit of agriculture. In Arthur Young's
Annals of Agriculture," he mentions that a labourer
was then (1601) living in the vicinity of Bury, Who,
when he worked for ss. could purchase, with that 55.,
a bushel of wheat, a bushel of malt, a pound of butter,
a pound of cheese, and a pennyworth of tobacco. The
same articles would cost now about '2.1.15. Meanwhile
rents have doubled and trebled. Part of the differ-
ence, it will be said, is taxation. Yes, so it is, taxation
levied by the corainonopolists, to save their own
pockets and answer their own purposes. That is part
of it ; and the rest the monopoly itself. The Corn-
laws do not become a hustings question for boroughs
only. They will be the hustings question for counties,
and a more formidable one to face than Honourable
Members have found lately. To play the Poor-
law question upon it will be like an inefficient stream of
water upon a fire. Work away at the engine, good
Tories, you will augment the blaze. Agriculture,
under the mon poly system, is a wholsale manufactory
of high rents and pauperism. That the repeal which
would mitigate the pauperism would also dettroy the
rent, is an illogical conclusion. Thriving trade, in-
creasing towns, :and railway communication, are surer
and more enduring raisers of rent than the strictest mo-
nopoly that can be conceived. And they enhance rent
without the accompaniments of bitter alienation, famish-
ing fatuities, destructive riots, midnight ineendiqrisio,
and the curses of plundered poverty that ascend to
Heaven.

(From the Morning Advertiser.)
A. most significant silence has, on the whole, per-
vaded the 'Cory press
upon the subject of our Indian

as well as Chinese affairs, ever since the arrival of the

late intelligence from the East.

The Tories ‘voul,l, no

doubt, bury in oblivion the credit of any suc-
cesses emanating from the present Government ; but
we cannot allow the glory of our Indian Govei =cut to
be passed over in neglect, merely because its mention
may be painful to the ears of envious capacity or spite-
ful faction. The Tories may ascribe it to " luck," or to

any other chance cause that they please ; but we reply
with the General of antiquity, " In this Fortune had
no part." The surrender of Dost l‘lalionied has
brought the war in Affghanistan to a close. The
various dangers which were impending over our
Eastern empire have disappeared one by one, sur-
mounted by the vigour of our Administration, which has
struck down the Persians and Affghans with one nand,
and the Emperor of China with the other. A dangerous
crisis, unexampled since the days of Lord Wellesley's
Administration, has ended in establishing the British
rule in India firmer than ever, and in raising the re-
nown of our arms to an unparalleled pitch throughout
the whole continent of Asia. We shall be told by the
Tories that the merit of these great events is wholly
due to our military force, and not to anY foresight or
well-arranged plans on the part of the Government.
That our gallant army would, under any circumstances,
have maintained its well-earned reputation, we willingly
concede ; but assuredly this fact ought not to be
brought forward in detraction from the merit of the Ad-
efforts of that gallant force
ministration by which the
were directed, or render less conspicuous the imbecility
of the Tories, by whom the very measures which have
led to tlicso signal successes were derided and opposed.
We need no other proof than their recorded sentiments
as we shall now show. When a vote of thanks to Lord
the Indian army, for the capture of
Keane and
Giliznelt, was passing through Parliament, instead of con-
gratulating the country in an honest and hearty manner
upon the successes so nobly achieved, the Tories stig-
matized the war, deprecated its origin, and painted its
:uture prospects in the gloomiest colours. The Govern-
ment was blamed for supporting the legitimate monarch
against Dust Mahomed, who was represented as ho-
vering on the confines of his kingdom with an Over*
whehning form, backed by the sympathy of his country-
ma, and ready to resume his sceptre the instant our
troops %vele withdrawn, Sir Robert Peel, in particu-
lar, larir.nted that our gallant army should ever have
beet; routangled amidst the dangerous defiles of a country
Peo•oled by hostile barbarians, and spoke as despond.
i'.ogly as though it had been the expedition of a second
Crassus against the Parthians. We have, therefore, a
right to say that the Tories denounced the whole policy of
the Affghan expedition ; but let us see to whom belongs
the whole credit of having fomented and brought tola head
the most formidable combination that has ever threatened
our Indian empire, and whom we have to thank for
having exposed it to so great a risk. To all who are
acquainted with the events which preceded the Affghan
expedition, it is evident that the dangerous predica-
ment so promptly met and overcome, was caused solely
by the neglect and want of foresight of Tory Govern-
ments in preceding years. The peril of our Indian
empire was, in Let, as much the result of the eastern.
policy of that party as the more immediate danwrr which

threatened the peace of Europe from the blow given
to Turkish independence. The events of 1829, whicn
laid the Sultan prostrate at the feet of Russia, gave
the finishing stroke to the existence of Persia as an
independent Power, already much shaken by our re-
fusal, on former occasions, to extend our aid to defend
her ag :just the encroachments of her ambitious neigh-
bour. From that moment Persia became the in-
strument of Russian ambition—British influence de-
clined at the Court of Teheran, and a Persian army,
instigated by Russian agents, was finally launched, as
an advanced guard, against the city of Herat. The
loss of our influence in Persia, as Sir Alexander Burnes
had predicted, led to the loss of our influence among the
Princes of Affghanistan. Dost Mahamed, the most able
and powerful of these, swayed as much by the mori.l
effect of our abandonment of Persia as by his own
domestic quarrels and enmity to Runjeet Singh, our
ally, after many warnings, threw himself into the arms
of Persia, and but for the advance of a British force,
would have placed the keys of India in hostile hands.
That region has always been the arena from which have
issued the conquerors of Hindostan. Timour, Nadir
Shah, Grheughis Khan, and the Malmmetan dynasty of
Geiz, h, all sprung from that quarter ; and sa strong a
superstition has in conscquenee been begotten, that
there is a well-known Indian proverb which says, that
" to be Kiug of India, you must be master of Cabool and !
Cendehar." Threatened as we were in all quarters, it be-
ceine of vital importance that we should secure our north-
western frontier. The (Linger and hazard of the enter-
prise need not becencealed nor would Lord Auckland,
we may he assured, have ventured upon such an ex-
treme step without proof both c t its necessity and of
the probability of accomplishing his object. Had the
Tories been in power, ne Aff4han ~xpedition would
have been undertaker--things would have been left to
their course—Russian intrigue would have been per. '
witted to organise a league of Persians and Affghans,
sv:iich, directed first against our unsteady allies, the
S•khs, would have next ended in adding their power
to a coalition, of which Russia would have taken 6e
first opportunity to declare hersaf the head and pro-
tector. Such was the danger we had to guard against
—a greater
never menaced India ; and how it has been
met i 3 now known to all the world. The coalition has been
destroyed—our open foes have been vanquished in the
field—our secret ones have been forced to disown their
intrigues—the English fl ig flaats in triumph by sea and
by land, and with no other echo to mar the joy of vie-
tot y but the croakings of a disappointed, envious, and
unpatriotic faction.

(From the Times.)
The daily recurrence of the:Ministerial Journals to
the Walsall election, proves how grievous is the pro-
spect to them of the loss of another vote. Should that
seat and another (Canterbury) be carried by the Con-
servatives, " justice must be done to Ireland,"—Lord
Stanley's Bill must pass. Bat thee away goes the
po.ver of the mendicant dictator, and away goes that
Alinotry which rests upon his support ! The most
diverting part of the business, however, is, the per-
pleeity the " Liberal" Journals are in as to how the
game is to be played. First, Mr. Lytta Iton was to be
backed, might and main, as the true and genuine " Mi-
nisterial candidate." Then the Corn-law agitators from
-Manchester drove him out of the field, and set up
their own president in his room ; for which they re-
ceived the heartiest execrations of the Chronicle and
Globe. In another day or two, however, perceiving that
it was " Hobson's choice"—Smith or none—they sud-
denly turned round, and declared that the nominee
of the " League" must be supported to the utmost! It
is very natural that such conduct as this should either
excite contempt or lead to onen avowa's of political
ascality. Just as the roue of the clubs, when he some-
times recreates himself with a little pot-house society,
can with case cast off the gentleman and assume the
tone and slang of the pugilist or the pickpocket, so
this little disclosure of that depravation of morals,
which is for the most part kept concealed, warms the
hearts of kindred spirits, and leads to an instant reci-
procation of sentiment on the part of the political
blacklegs who may happen to be within hearing. We
were amused by a little escapade of this sort in the
Ministerial print of Friday morning. A correspondent,
who signs himself " A Member of the League," writes
to the editor in the following s'rain :
" Sir—You complain of the conduct of the Anti-Corn-
law League at Walsall, and ask, ' How it will serve the
one question, the repeal of the Corn laws ?' I'll tell
you bow—by makieg other Liberals yield on this ques-
tion, to preserve their seats. You must remember that it
is from want of support from professed Liberals that the
question is not carried. It is the Liberals in the House
of Commons that prevent it ; and the Liberal party may
make up their minds to this—either to grant the repeal
.of the Corn-laws, or go out. Sir, you are quite right
when you say, that if the League pursue this course
as vacancies may occur, or at a dissolution of the present
Parliament, it requires not the spirit of divination to pre-
dict that the Liberal interest will he overthrown.' You
are quite right ; there is, there can he, no mistake'
about it ; for the League is too powerful for any interest
or party to oppose successfully. Seeing this, what should
be the conduct of the great Liberal party ? Why. most
decidedly to take up the question and settle it.
There at-e but two among the Miniz.tars who
are ate not repeaters to a greater or less degree.
let the tan yield, and propose a settlement of the matter.
We will do our best to obtain total and immediate repeal ;
and, failing in that, will take the next best thing we
can get. Oh,' say you, ' they could never carry it; they
would be forced to go out.' Well, what then ? Do you
tbirik the matter would end there ? Surely nat ; the people
would rally round them, and insist on their return. But
if your policy is merely to keep them in, as at present,
doing nothing, then I must beg leave to differ from you.
,I ant tired, and so are many other Liberals, of doing LO-
thing ; end I ask you what single measure,, f all desired
lay iteformars, do they propose—nay, do not resist ?
The Corn-laws, Ballot, Suffrage Extension, are alike op-
posed by them ; they may be open questions,' but as a
Ministry they will not take them up.
'l' he duty of Liberals is to join with us for repeal; and if
they refuse, we shall, at all hdzirds, do the best we can for
ourselves. If the Whigs are thus forced to go out, then
in opposition they will perhaps be induced to unite with us
iu order to get back again ; and if so, thee would be sure
ao get back. At present they arc in by- ufferance, and
they must come forward and do something, or take the
consequences."
Fur a frank confession of a total absence of the
least atom of respect for the present. Ministers, com-
mend us to this letter, inserted, without the least ex-
ception, in a leading Ministerial Journal! First, our
present extraordinary and inestimable governors are
calmly described as proposing no single measure de-
:sired by " Reformers"—ney, as resisting every such
proposition. The writer naturally enough adds, " I
am tired of keeping them in to do and so are
many others." His remety, therefore, is not reason,
not persuasion, but simple coercion. " The party may
make up their minds tither to do what we (the League)
want, or logo out." Well, but there arc many " Liberals"
both in the Cabinet and in Parliament, who do not. see
abings ex -.ctly in the same light that your gentlemen
of the Leaeue see them. " It is }ruin want of
noapport front the Liberals," says this correspondent,
" that the question is not carried" What. then, is to
be clone? Oh! they must give way—" Yield," says
this modest personage, "to preserve their seats." Of
course is seat in Parliament is to be preferred to voting
according to one's conscience, any- day. But there is
another dflicaLy to be thought ot. Suppose you should
force many '• Liberal" Members to pocket their con-
scienc s on this question, in order to preserve their seats,"
the end of the whole may be, that some of the Whigs
onay still prove stubborn, and the " coach" itself be
." upset" in tr) ing your experiment. But our worthy has a
.resource still left. "If the Whigs are thus forced to go
out, he says, " then,in opposition, they will perhaps be in-
duced to unite with us, ia order to get back again."
Bravo ! well said, most worthy leaguer ; nobly ima-
gined, kinked ! A most lofty and honourable eoneep-'
iton host thou formed of these Whigs, whom thou so
sagaciously proposest to mould to thine own purposes.
We smile, we grow gay, at such a representation of
English noblemen and British statesmen. But a sud-
den recollection crosses the mind :—" Lichfield House'
the tirin compact"—the"has'', brutal, and bloody
Wine's," ou the one side ; and he wbo had so termed
Oen) on the other! We pause
3 : let us quit the sub-
• 4 It may be that this insetting, this coarse-minded
e,
triAcker in principles and in consciences has tato.n but
too rrue au estimate of the worth and honour that be-
long to a Melbourne Administration.
(From the Globe.)

The President's Message is of course mainly occu-
pied with the detailed apology of the monetary system
of his own and the preceding Administration. It may
be termed a well-reasoned document as regards the
PAtiell part of the question. But that is the
smallest part of the question ; just as the Federal
'Gpveroment is likewise the smallest part of the
gdvernmoht existing in the United States. That a
Rational bank and a national debt are not required for
the use of the Federal Government may be very true,
and may he a subject of fitting congratulation by the
-head of that Government. But it is also true that the
several States have
provided themselves pretty de-
c.mtly with those appendave, of old governments,
known hy the name of Public Debts. The Pre.
.sident talks of " the known necessity which so many
the 'tit4.tes will be under to impose taxes for the
s,'ityla(.nt of the interest of their debts." It is more-
certain, that, whether the Federal Government
wants a national bank or not, the commercial interest
want• banking and currency placed on a solid basis.
Toe PresidG nt may be right in "viewing the i:ggre-
rate posers of the General Government as a voluntary
eone,:ssion of the States," and in thinking, therefore,
*4 that ruclu only should be exercised as were, at
the time, intended to be given." But in that case,
it follows that the General Government must be a
=stranger to the most material interests of the actual i
community, It may be very right that it should be so ;
we do not mean to dispute the doctrine of President
Van Buren, as regards the loose federation of the
States. But it follows that the elaborate statement •
of the doings and duties of the Federal Government,
which is annually put forward, includes, in reality, very
little in the shape of a comprehensive estimate of internal
interests and adnainistratior. President Van Buren •
iliselaims all share in internal improvements, all regu-
lation
of the public currency, all promotion of public

works. The very roads which approach the capital may
boast their freedom from central authority, and citizens
may be jolted and upset in the most cons!itutionai man-
ner—and in more remote localities Judge Lynch may
perform his circuits—without the Federal Government
calling any new powers into action, to meet the new sets of
circumstances or exigencies, throughout the community.
The Presidents who have stood upon most purely de-
mocratical principles, have assumed the character ra-
ther of Rois faineants than anything else, and have
congratulated their countrymen on letting their rulers
meddle with their affairs so little. In the meantime
affairs will arise which require some central superinten-
dence ; and the democratic Executive prides itself on
being entitled to afford—none.
(From the Courier.)
The annual message of the President of the United
States on the assemblage of Congress is, under any
circumstances, a document of mush importance, but on
the present occasion it derives additional interest from
the fact that it may be regarded as the valedictory ad-
' dress of Mr. Van Buren, the term of whose presidency
is now so nearly approaching, and the renewal of the
four years' lease of which has so recently been decided
against him. Accordingly, the message is more than
ordinarily general in its purport ; and whilst less space
and ►ess attention are bestowed upon the enumeration
and consideration of the current concerns of the republic,
with such occurrences of public import, external and in-
ternal, as may have supervened since the close of the last
session of the Legislature, more than common earnestness
is displayed in the assertion at unwonted length of the '
leading principles upon which the administration of the
retiring functionary has been conducted, and the con-
tinued and permanent action of which are held to be as
indispensable to the progress and prosperity of the
Union, as they are maintained to be strictly in accord-
ance with the forms and spirit of the Constitution as
tirawn up and understood by its founders. It may be
looked upon therefore not only as the review and vindi-
cation of Van Buren policy during his four }ears'
tenure of office, but as the manifesto of principles
to which one of the two great parties into which the
Federation is divided professes adhesion and adopts as its
rallying ensign. It is not our purpose to follow the
message in the discussion of the two great " contested
points in our public policy," which are signalised as
more peculiarly the line of separation between the fede-
ralist party now in the ascendant, and the democratic,
! in whose hands the destinies of the United States have
reposed for an unbroken period of the lust twelve years,
inw much as questions of a " national debt and a na-
tional bank" are more purely of domestic concernment,
and therefore attractive in other countries chiefly to
the curious in fiscal and economical speculations. But
there are principles of government, not now for the first
time avowed and acted upon, of which the statesmen
elsewhere may be usefully reminded, and the lesson of
which can no where be more serviceably repeated than
in Downing-street.

From the Standard.

! in reply to the demand upon us for some authorita-
tive statement as to the pardon (the virtual pardon we
again say) and the promotion of Frost, we copy the
fo:lowing, front the Sydney Monitor of August IS :-
1 6' ENCOURAGEMENT TO CEIARTIEM.-The good people of
Newport will be gratified to learn that their old friend
Frost, the celebrated Lord John Russell's Chartist Magis-
trate, conducted himself, during the voyage to Hobart Town
in the Mandarin, to the satisfaction of the Surgeon-Super-
intendent. He was appointed, immediately on his arrival at
ILbart Town, a Clerk under the Commissariat Officer of
Port Arthur ; and we have no doubt that he will soon receive
some still better situation under the liberal government of
Sir John Franklyn. We would recommend Sir George
Gipps to forward by the Pilgrim a dispatch to the Colo-
nial-office upon the subject of an opening here for the
unemployed, discontented, starving Chartists of Great
Britain It would certainly be more humane to forward
them here as immigrants, through the aid of a pal:na-
-1 mentary grant, than to drive them to this country through
the instrumentality of state prosecutions. We wish it to
be understood that we are willing to receive them."
This, then, is our answer to the charges of
" fabrication," " folly," falsehood," and the rest,
poured out upon us by the Globe, and repeated with
all candour by the Conservative (!) Morning Post.
This is our replication to the positive and absolute denial
of ail and each of our statements given by authority
in the Globe. It is thus we meet such slanderers and
enemies of truth, and we scorn to meet them in
any other way. The present is not the fiftieth
()evasion in which we have had to thrust their false-
hood down the throats of the same parties ; nor will
it, as we well know, be the last. We wish no more
severe revenge than to compel them to wriggle
out of their dirty and embarrassing position in
just that manner in which the Globe of last
night and its servile echo, the Morning Post, of this
morning, have been compelled to extricate them-
selves. The gist of their exculpation is no longer
that the Standard fabricated the story, or swallowed
it upon hearsay, but that the Sydney Monitor is a
journal sold for three-pence! The truth is, that the
Globe was seven weeks in arrear as to Anl44alasian
news, as it is generally in arrear as to alr intelli-
gence ; and professional jealousy combined with
party malice prompted its abuse of the more
vigilant and active Standard. The Morning Post
of course followed its patron journal. We have allowed
our Liverpool Correspondent to give utterance to the
indignation which a gentleman must feel when his
honour and veracity have been so rudely impeached, as
his have been ; but we own that we grant th© indul-
gence with reluctance ; we have for ourselves no seri-
ous quarrel with such adversaries as the Globe and
Morning Post. " Peace to all such."

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, JAN. 12.
CAMPBELL V. GARLY.

The LORD CHANCELLOR was occupied the entire day
with the further arguments of Counsel in this part heard
case.

VICE CHANCELLOR'S COURT, JAY. 12.
His Honour the VICE-CHANCELLOR, heard petitions.

ROLLS' COURT, JAN. 12.
CAUTION TO LETTER-WRITER!.

The `MASTER of the ROLLS on coming into Court this
morning, stated that a letter had been written and sent to
him by a party in a cause now standing for judg-
!tient. His Lordship handed the letter to Mr.
Tierney, who had been one of the opposing
Counsel to the letter-writer, with permission, if he
thought proper, after reading it, to send it to his
clients; and added, that the writer was evidently aware
that in writing to a Judge he was guilty of a very gross
contempt of Court, for it was anonymous, and manifestly
written in a feigned hand. Such conduct was highly
improper; were the party before him he should have very
little hesitation in committing him to the Fleet.
Mr. TIERNEY, after reading the letter, obtained his
Lordship's permission to destroy the letter, and imme-
diately tore it up._

The MAsTE!t.of the ROLLS then disposed of the unop.
posed petitions, and afterward.; heard motions.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, JAN. 12.
(Sittings in Banco.)
ROTHSCHILD V. CURRIE.
_ _

Lord DRN MAN gave judgment in this case, which was an
action upon a bill of exchange, drawn in England in fa-
vour of a mercantile house in Paris, and payable there.
The bill was endorsed by the defendant to the plaintiff,
who remitted it to Paris for payment there. It was a bill
at three motif hs' date, which expired on the 30th of April,and
there being no days of grace at Paris, and the 30th failing on
a Sunday, the bill became due on the 29th, on which day
it was presented and dishonoured. By the French law
the bill was to be protested on the day it was dishonoured,
' and by the 176th section of the " Code de Commerce,"
the notary was bound to make an exact copy of the protest.
and to have it registered the following day. The Ist of
.111 v, the first day on which the registration could be made,
was thefele du Rid, and the office was closed, is conse-
quence of that and the pressure en the following day
the notary was unable to complete the protest and re-
gistration till after the post hour on the 2d.
The notice was sent by post on the 3d to
England, and reached it on the sth, the same
day on which it would have reached the defendant if he had
been entitled to three days' grace. The question was
whether the notice of dishonour was in time under these
circumstances. In the first place, it was left to the Court
to decide whether, on the assumption that the French law
should prevail, due diligence had been used, and upon that
point the opinion of the Court was in favour of the plaintiff,
the delay being attributable to circumstances over which
the notary had no control. It was assumed in the course
of the argument that the registration should have been
made before novice of dishonour could be regularly given,
but there did not appear to the Court any necessary con-
nection between the registration and notice. The second
' point was, whether the notitleation of the dishonour was a
part and parcel of the contract, or merely an incidental
matter. The bill being made payable in France, although
drawn in England, must be taken to be a foreign bill, and
viewing it in that light, the Court was of opinion that ac-
cording to the French law the notification of dishonour was a
part of the contract, and that was according to the opinion
Li a learned French writer, who says that " the law of the
place where the bill is made payable must be followed, and
the contract must be regulated by the law and usages of
the place to which the contracting parties must be cone
sidered to have submitted themselves." Upon principle,
therefore, and that authority, the Court was of opinion that
the French law regulated the time of giving notice of the
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THE QUEEN V. BOULTER.
'rho COURT gave judgment in this case, whichwas
sued a re-
turn by two Magistrates to a writ of certiorari out of
that Court, to bring up certain proceedings wider the
59th Ceo. 3, chap. 12, sect. 24. It appeared that the
defendant had been permitted to occupy a parish-house
belonging to the hamlet—that be had neglected to deliver
the same to the churchwardens after a month's notice had
determined
under
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bean given. The defendant was then served with a sum-
mons, and appeared before the Magistrates who heard and
case.t
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circumstances,l'he questi for the Court was,
whether
the Magistrates had
jurisdiction, and after going through the leading points
of the case, the Court was of opinion that the Magis-
charged, and as being
Magis-
trates had jurisdiction, and therefore the rule must be dis-
against a Magistrate with costs.
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THE QUEEN V. FALL AND OTHERS.
aPnartoreirdstehornis'of Lord Abinger, for entering up the p ost ea ,
should not be rescinded.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, with whom was Sir W.
I FOLLETT, now appeared to show cause against the
rule The matter originated in the election for over-
seers and churchwardens for the parish of Lambeth, in
Easter, 1839. On that occasion Dr. Doyley, the Rector,
presided, and he conducted it according to the usual and
legal manner. A poll being demanded, he directed that
it should be taken in the porches of the church, but
certain party decided that the poll should take place im-
mediately. The poll, however, took place as the
Rector bad directed, but it was conducted very
irregularly, and at the conclusion a scrutiny was de-
manded. Dr. Doyley granted the scrutiny, and required
the churchwardens, overseers, and collectors to produce
their books, so that it might be ascertained who were en-
titled to vote, and how many votes they had under Sturges
Bourne's Act. They refused to do so, and an application
was made to the Court of Queen's Bench for a mandamus
to compel them to do so. The mandamus was not obeyed,
but a return was made, stating that Dr. Doyley bad not
properly conducted the election, and that they were not
bound under the circumstances to produce the books.
There was a traverse to that return, and it came on for
trial before Lord Abinger at the Spring Assizes for Sur-
rey, and under his Lordship's direction there was a verdict
for the Crown on all the issues. An application was made
by the defendants for a new trial, but the rule was dis
charged. The parties then proceeded to tax the costs of
the prosecution, when Sir F. Pollock applied to reverse
the Master's taxation, and among other objections, it was
stated that no damages had been awarded by the Jury at
the trial of the cause. A summons was taken out before
Lord Abinger for the purpose of entering up the postea,
and that Learned Judge acting, as he understood, in the
discharge of his duty, in carrying into effect the verdict of
the Jury, directed that the postea should be entered up
for the plaintiff on all the issues, with nominal damages.
The Learned Counsel proceeded at some length to contend
that the Court could not interfere in the case, inasmuch as
the order of the Learned Judge did nothing which was
contrary to the intention of the Jury, and that the act «as
no exercise of irresponsible power, but a matter of course.
Sir F. Poneocx and Mr. Ileyes ws re heard in support
of the rule. The arguments were directed principally to
show that the order of Lord Abinger was an interference
with the province of the Jury, which it was the duty of
the Court to put a stop to.
The Court deferred judgment.
THR QUEEN D. THE CORPORATION OP LEEDS.

Mr. ADD:SON moved in this case for a mandamus di-
rected to the Mayor and Aldermen of the Borough of
Leeds, commanding them to receive the vote of Radford
Potts; to admit him as a councillor of the borough, to
which office he had been duly elected. It appeared from
the statement of the Learned Counsel that the borough was
divided into wards, and that Mr. Potts, with three others,
were candidates for Millhill ward. Tho election took
place on the 2d November, and the Alderman, before
whom the election was held, declared Howard and Potts
duly elected, but subsequently, in the evening, be made
another declaration that Howard and Richardson (another
of the candidates) had been duly elected. He had some
doubt, whether, in a case like the present, he should move
for a mandamus or a quo warranto, to be directed to
Richardson, calling upon him to show by what authority
he exercised the office of councillor.

Lord DENMAN having intimated that the latter course
would be the more judicious, a rule nisi for a quo warrant°
was prayed for and granted.

ASSIGNEES OP HORTON V. THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY
COMPANY.

The COURT gave judgment in this case, in which the
question was, whether Horton, who was a contractor for
making a tunnel at Bexhill, in Wilts, had committed an
act of bankruptcy on a certain day, the evidence on that
point being a letter written by Horton, in which ho stated,
" lam new in London to avoid two writs." The Court
was of opinion that the letter had been properly received
in evidence, and their judgment must be for the plaintiffs.
The rule, therefore, must be discharged, subject to an al.
lowanco for such articles and materials as bad been pur-
chased by the defendants after the bankruptcy.

IN THE MATTER OF " THE DON."

The ATTORNEY• GRNERAL moved fora prohibition to
the Admiralty Court in a case in which he thought the
Judge had exceeded his jurisdiction. It was a case of
collision between two vessels, the Tiber and the Don,
and tho latter being in fault, was seize.' and sold, but the
proceeds not being sufficient to pay the damage, the Judge
ordered the costa to be awarded personally against the
owners, which, it was contended, was an excess of juris-
diction.

The COURT granted the rule.
BUSINESS OF THE COURT.

Lord DENMAN said the Court would take the special
paper on Tuesday. and Fridays, and the Crown Paper on
Wednesdays and Saturdays. On the other days they
would go through the bar, calling for motions, and then
take the new trial paper.

BAIL COUR7, JA .Y. 12.
(Before Mr. JUSTICE WILLIAMS.)
TIIE QUEEN U. WALLACE AND ANOTHER.

Mr. JEavts applied on behalf of Patrick Shaw Stewart
Wallace and Michael Shaw Stewart Wallace for a rule
to show cause why they should not be brought up by
habeas corpus and discharged from the custody in which
they were at present, or admitted to bail, or dealt with
according to law in such manner as the Court might
direct, and also for a certiorari to remove the proceedings
into this Court. The parties making the application had
been taken into custody, together with another person
named Stott, on suspicion of having wilfully caused the
loss of the ship Dryad for the purpose of defrauding
various Insurance Companies. On the 29th November,
Patrick Shaw Stewart Wallace and James Stott were
taken to the Mansion-house, and on that occasion the
only evidence offered was, that Stott had effected an insu-
rance upon certain goods stated to have been shipped on
board the ship Dryad, for St. Jago de Cuba ; that the
Dryad had been lost, and that Stott had received the in-
surance for the Wallaces as fora total loss, on giving security
to repay any amount of salvage that might have appeared
to have been made. On that occasion a witness had
stated that he had reason to suspect that he should be able
to bring forward evidence to show that no such goods as
those on which the insurances had been effected had been
shipped on board the Dryad ; and on this evidence,
did not at all affect Wallace, the parties were remanded
for a week. Bail had been offered for Wallace and re-
fused. The next time they were brought up, a witness
named Kelly, who was on board the Dryad, said that he
believed that the Captain had determined to lose the ship,
because two days after they had put to sea, be had put
two tackles into the long,-boat, and this was the whole of
the evidence that had been produced to show that there
had been any wilful losing of the ship; and the Magis-
trate refused to allow this witness to be asked if
he had ever been in custody. They were then
again remanded, and bail was again refused. They were
remanded at various subsequent times until the 2d of
January, when they were again brought up and Stott dis-
charged upon the application of the Counsel for the pro.
secution. Application was made to the Magistrate to
admit the Wallaces to bad, when Mr. Clarkson, the
Counsel for the prosecution, said that he had evidence to
produce if the Magistrate was not satisfied, but that it
would take five or six days to go into. The Magistrate
stated he was perfectly satisfied, and that he should re-
mand the Wallaces to the 29th of January. Thus had
these persons been remanded over three sessions of the
Central Criminal Court, z:nd now a fourth must elapse
before they could be tried. They were kept in prison
without any commitment, and, he spoke advisedly, with-
out any evidence to warrant a commitment—on a specu-
lative fishing for evidence—on the bare assertion of the
counsel for the prosecution that it was probable he might
procure evidence. The reason of the last remand was an
amusing ene ; it was because a witness stated that he had
heard of a boy at Liverpool who had heard of a relative of
his who had been on board the Dryad at the time
she was lost. The only evidence given to warrant a remand
of two days, was the assertion of the counsel for
the prosectiou that he had received information of a seaman
belonging to the Dryad, being on board one of her Ma-
jesty's ships, and that application had been made to have
him brought ho.iie. The object of these r:eliminary in-
vestigations before Magistrates, was to enable parties to
have a general notion of the ease to be brought against
them, in order to be prepared to meet it, but in this case
the evidence which, it appeared, would take five or six
days to go into, was purposely kept back, so that the parties
would be committed to take their trial at the end of the
month without having any idea of the case they should
be called on to meet. Was it not altogether a speculation
to seek to intimidate these parties to obtain money from
them. A more curious jumble than the depositions in this
case had never been seen—the assertions of Counsel, the
statement of witnesses on different occasions, before different
Magistrates, and the observations of the Magistrates were
all jumbled together in the most extraordinary manner,
while all the importants parts of the evidence were left in
blank. He wished to draw his Lordship's particular at-
tention to these depositions, as he was convinced that
without ocular demonstration no sober-minded person
could believe that in this country the liberty of the subject
could be put in jeopardy upon such trumpery pretexts.
Mr. Justice WILLIAMS thought quite enough had been
shown io entitle the applicants to a rule to show cause
why they should not be brought up to have the validity of
their commitment inquired into, and then the Court
could deal with them according to law.
Applicatio❑ granted.
The COURT afterwards sat at Nisi Prins, and disposed
of several undefended causes.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JAN. 12.

PRIVILEGE OF PARLIAMENT. -CASSIDY V. STUARP, M. P.

In this case an outlawry had been issued from this
Court against the defendant, a Member of Parliament
(and late one of the Lords of the Treasury), who was at
the time out of this country. A supersedeas was subse-
quently obtained, on the ground that the defendant not
being liable to arrest, by privilege of Parliament, he could
not be outlawed for not doing that from which his privi-
lege exempted him. Last term Mr. Sergeant Spankie
obtained a rule to show cause why the supersedeas should
not be set aside, and the outlawry confirmed.
Mr. Sergeant BOMPAS now showed cause against the rule,
and contended that inasmuch as a capias could not be en-
forced against a Member of Parliament, neither could an
outlawry be issued for neglect of proceedings which had
such a writ for their object. The plaintiff's proper course
of praceediug was by distress. In the well known case of
the Countess of Huntingdon, the attorney for the plaintiff
againt that lady woe committed for having issued a capias
against her; knowing her to be a Peeress, and the capias
was set aside. In the case of Lord Rokeby, who was an
Irish Peer of Parliament, the attorney, who had issued a
capias, pleaded in support of his proceeding that the de-
fendant had gone by the name of " Thomas Morriss, Esq
commonly called Lord Rokeby," and bad pleaded in that
name, and suffered himself to be arrested thereby ; yet the
Court in that case held that the attorney had sufficient
notice of the privilege to render it incumbent npon him to
inquire before he proceeded. He was accordingly com-
m►tted, as happened in the case of Lady Huntingdon ,
and the Sheriff was ordered to return non est inventus to
the writ. The meaning of that return was not literally
that Rokeby could not be found, for he was well known to
be resident in London at the time ; it was clearly that the
defendant was not found within the jurisdiction of

the Court for execution of the capias ad satisfacien-
dum.' The Learned Sergeant cited at great length
from the statute of William the Third, defining and
confirming the privileges of Members of the House of
Commons, by which he contended the members of that
branch of the Legislature were placed in respect to per-
sonal privilege precisely on the same footing with members
of the House of Lords, He held that the cases which he
had quoted, and those of Lord Egremont and others, were
conclusive, that outlawry could not issue against any Mem-
ber of Parliament. He submitted, therefore, that the rule
must be discharged.
Mr. Sergeant Seassets, in reply said,that the object of
the Act of Parliament on which his Learned Friend relied.
that of William 111., was to limit and restrict the un-
bounded and absurd privileges which the House of Com-
mons bad before laid claim to. That House had claimed
for its members as such, not only an equality of privilege
with the Peers of Parliament, in respect to protee-icea
from personal molestation, but also privileges which the
Peers never thought of claiming, and which no rational
man could think of conceding. The Commons declared
it a breach of privilege to institute any process of law
whatever, or take any proceeding in Chancery against a
member of that House. They went so far as even to
commit all the parties to such proceedings—even the
Judge. But the House of Lords took a more reasonable
view of the matter, and ordered the parties to be dis-
charged. But this did not satisfy the House of Commons.
The Speaker (Seymour) went so far as to take •he office
of Sergeant upon himself, and with his own hands dragged
out of Court the lawyer Pemberton. who appeared in an
action against a member. The Lords discharged this per-
son also, but the Commons continued the unseemly con-
test, until the presumption of that House was con-
quered by the sobriety of the Lords—(A laugh—in
which the Bench joined)—and after the revolution the
Act of William was passed to confine the privilege to
exemption from personal molestation, and to give
to the crecitors of Members lawful means for
receiving their just debts The Learned Sergeant ...lien
cited numerous cases, to show by analogy that there was
no irregularity in issuing a capias, but in enforcing it
The return non est inventna warranted the plaintiff in
issuing an outlawry, which would have the effect of com-
pelling the defendant to satisfy the debt, in the event of a
dissolution of Parliament. There was a wide difference
between the privileges of the two Houses in respect to
arrest. In the Peers it was perpetual and inherent in the
person, in the Memb,•rs of the House of Commons it was
only contingent, and might determine in several ways—by
the act of the individual, or of the Crown, and by accept-
puce of office, or by r. dissokeion There were no legal
objections to a plaintiff's proceeding with his ac:ion to the
end, so as to be prepared with his execution, when either
contingency should give him the opportunity to enforce it.
The Loan CHIRP JUSTICE gave judgment at considerable
length. He said that if the Court granted this rule, and
allowed the outlawry to stand, their Lordships would in
effect give orders to the Sheriffs to arrest a person whom
they themselves would then be the first to discharge from
custody.
. _

The other Judges concurred, and the rule was accord.
ingly discharged, with costs.
FEES OP ARBITRATORS IN REFERENCE.—DORSET V. GINGER.
This was an action for bay sold and delivered, in which
the matters in dispute were referred to two hay salesmen,
and a solicitor named Galley. These refused to publish
their award until they were paid their fees, at the rate of
three guineas a-day for each of the arbitrators, and costs
of drawing and engrossing th e award, and other alleged
separate professional services in the reference, on the part
of Galley, amounting to 11/. 16s. The plaintiffs having
paid the money, and obtained tho award of SON., iniisteA
upon taxing the costs of the arbitrators. The Master
pronounced the charges to be exorbitant, and r edu: ed
them from 451. to 18/. They refused to return the diffe-
rence; and the Solicitor-General last term obtained a rule
nisi to compel them to do so.
Mr. Sergeant STEPHEN now showed cause against the
rule, contending that the charges were reasonable, and
that the award having been published and enforced, the
damages (5001.) having been paid, none of the parties
(especially not the arbitrators) were now before the Court,
so as to enable the Court to disturb the award or any part
of it. It would have been the proper course for the plain-
tiff to have brought an action sgainst th arbitrators to
compel them to award.

The SOLICITOR. GENERAL replied that the charges, es-
pecially that of three guineas per day of three hours, for
the services of hay salesmen in a simple case of hay dea!ing,
were exorbitant, and contended that although in all other
respects, as between plaintiff and defendant, the cause was
at an end, yet the arbitrators, by disobedience of the Mas-
ter's order, continued within the rules of the Court, and
were rightly brought before it by the present application.
Arbitrators and all persons unJertaking to carry into effect
a rule of the Court were, to all inter,ts and purposes the
officers of tho Court to that extent, and were amenable to
its jurisdiction. The Court would therefore not permit
them to say "we will not give you our award until you
pay us mere than the officer of the Court for that purpose
appointed directs us to receive." Nor when they had re-
ceived it would their Lordships allow them to retain it in
contempt of the Master.
The Loan CHIEF JUSTICE said that as this way a new
case, and it was an important question whether the Court
had the jurisdiction or not, their Lordships wished to look
over the affidavits before they gave judgment.