The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-16 00:00:00

TRIAL OF M,LEOD-

A Correspondent of the Albany Argus, writing from
Lockport, March 22, says—
On the opening of the Court, Judge Dayton directed the
clerk not to call the jury, deciding at the same time not to
hold the Court in consequence of an informality, or rather
a material error of the clerk, in giving but five instead of
six days' notice of the drawing of the jury for the term.
M'Leod was arraigned, and pleaded not guilty to the
indictment against him. His counsel, Messrs. Gardner and
Bradley, then moved the Court for two commissions to
issue—one for the examination of Mr. Webster, Secretary
of State, and Mr. Fox, the British Minister at Washington,
—the other to examine M'Nab and others, in Upper Ca.
nada. This was granted, with the condition that the people
might join in the commission.
An application was then made to the Circuit Judge to
allow a certiorari to remove the cause from the Oyer and
Terminer to the Supreme Court, on an affidavit setting
forth some of the circumstances of the offence charged to
have been committed, and that difficult and complicated
questions of law would arise on the trial. The Counsel
urged that at the Oyer and Terminer the presiding Judge
might be overruled by the county Judges, and that it was
proper in this case, for that reason, that this cause should
be tried in the Circuit Court, rather than in the Oyer and
Terminer. _ _ _ _

The Circuit Judge declined allowing the certiorari upon
that ground, as there was no allegation of improper bias,
on the part of the county Judges, and our statute has pro
vided the means of correcting any error in the preceediegs
of the Oyer and Terminer by a Bill of Exceptions.
The counsel asked for time to add an affidavit in rela-
tion to the excit.2ment which hid existed in the county
upon the subject, and the reasons why it was believed a
fair trial could not be had. This was granted, and the
Court adjourned over to the afternoon, to give an oppor-
tunity to serve the writ if allowed.
During the intermis,ion the affidavits were prepared,
the certiorari allowed, and served on the Court on their
going ir, in the afternoon. This gives APLeod's counsel
an opportunity to move the Supreme Court to change the
venue to some other county.
We learn from these Journals that the Go-
vernment has issued a Commission to inquire
into the state and progress of Public Works. It
is signed by Mr. WEBSTER, the Secretary of
State, and contains the following passage, which
is, we think, pretty strong for a Republican
Government :
You will inquire into to man's political opinions or pre-
ferences : but, if it be alleged that any person, having the
power of employing and dismissindismis
labourers,
has used
that power either in employing orgwith any
reference to the political opinions of thou:wit
been employed or dismissed, or for anyy pvioallitaiteeoadlmohariyaphdaaurvttyye
object whatever, or in any other wa
for party or election purposes, you will inquire into the
truth of such sugge3tion ;and
yiofuywouillfinsdtatreeastohe ar
reason to think
it well founded, in any case,
Jar facts and circumstances on which your opinion is
formed.
The general Government will act on the in-
formation supplied by the Commissioners, and
commence, we are afraid, a system of inquisi-
tion worthy of the monarchies of Continental

Europe.
General HARRISON, it appears, had been taken
very ill on Saturday, after dinner. His physi-
cian remained with him the whole night, and he
was extensively cupped. He was considere
better.

We quote the following passar.;e, to 'warn our
Government that the old feelirjg, on. the subject
of our men-of-war visiting ArrjeTican vessels, still
prevails; and to urge it or.i. the Administration,
that her MAJESTY'S OffiCr.l.,3 should be enjoined,
whenever they are obliged to perform this duty,
to act with as much. consideration as. possible.
Civility, which en-4, nothing, is a cheap method
of preserving PrAce :
ANOTHER OU:TRAGE BY A BRITISH CRUISER. —We
learn that lette,s have been received "from the brig Rich-
mond, Bate!, of this port, which state that the vesset had
been ovcrb.auled by a British cruiser. The Richmond
was. on I".ier passage from Salem to St. Helena, and thence
to Mo'mmbiquo ; and a few weeks before her arrival at St.
ilekna, when off the Island of St. Thomas on the coast
of Africa, she was brought to by a British brig of war
(the Persian, our informant thinks), her invoices and other
papers were demanded and examined, and she was finally
suffered to proceed on her voyage, nothing being found to
justify a seizure. This is the fifth Salem vessel that has
been searched by English cruisers with a few months—
Salem Register.
Mr. and Mrs. WEBSTER had arrived at New
York on a visit to her fatter, Mr. HERMAN LE
ROY.

On the frontier things remain quiet. General
SCOTT was in the neighbourhood of Niagara.
The following are extracts and the latest prices.
A considerable quantity of news and extracts
from Amelican papers previously arrived by the
Taranto- will. he. found. in another part ,

Sun, which we received by express from Liver-
pool yesterday evening, and published in a third
edition:—
The Canadian elections present, it seems to US, a very
novel feature. The candidates go on the ground with
a thousand or two of armed followers, and having ar-
rived at the hustings, and ascertained the physical strength
of their opponents, the weaker, or, if you please, the
most cowardly party, gives up, while the other side polls
15 or 20 votes, and declares the election in favour of the
Hon, Samuel Snooks, by a unanimous vote I The unani-
mity of an election, brought about by driving off the op-
nents of a given candidate vi et arrnis, is an improve-
ment upon our " Republican practice," which we suppose
our Canadian brethren consider proof enough of the ad-
vantage which they possess over the " fierce democracy "
in the United States.—New York Inquirer.
THE BURNING OF A STEAMER.—The Natchez Free
Trader furnishes the particulars of the burning of the
steam-boat Creole. When met by the Sultana, the Creole
was a mass of cinders. Her tiller ropes first burned off,
and, of course, she became unmanageable, and was left at
the mercy of her mad enginery, which kept on working
more and more furiously, as the heat of the burning mass
became more intense. When the boat first struck the
shore, one or more threw themselves off and gained the
bank; the rebound of the boat turned her bows another
way, and she took directly across the river again. It is a
lamentable fact that nearly all who threw themselves into
the river rose no more. It will probably never be known
with certainty how many perished in this fierce, brief
struggle with fire and water. There were about 70 pas-
sengers in all, and 20 to 30 arc missing and unaccounted
for.—Boston Paper, April 1.
SeICIDE.—J. D. Adams, formerly cashier of the
Fulton Bank of Boston, committed suicide at St. Louis
on the 6th instant, by drowning himself.

PHILADELPHIA SALE OF STOCKS.—MARcH23.

3,000 State s's, 1864
1,000 State s's, 1864
50 shares U. S. Bank lB
25 do. do. s3 ds flat 18
10 do. Stonington RR.
10 do. Agricultural Bk, Miss. 4 cis flat 20
Sales at the 2d Board.

50 shares U. S. Bank lB
20 do. Wilmington Bk ast
3 000 Penn. s's, 1865
CLOSING PRICES.--SIARCH 30.:

'ted States Bank at 16.1 to 17 ; Pennsylvania 315
.20 ; Philadelphia, 75 to 85 ' • Girard, 28 to 28f ;
icksburg, 5f to 51 ; Camden and Amboy R. R. 861 to
7; Wilmington R. R. 334 to 34.
NEW YORK MONEY MARKET.—MARCH 31.
SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE.
$4,000 State 5f per cent 854
50 Shares United States Bank 164
47 do do

90 do Mechanics' Bank
8 do American Bank lO2
25 do Delaware and Hudson bn w 87:I
15 do State Bank
25 do North American Trust .. . 1 i
30 do do
35 do American Exchange Bank
150 do Vicksburg Bank
30 do Boston and Providence 93
360 do Haerlem Railroad, 2B
50 do do slo ds 274
100 do Long Island ...., 524
50 do Canton do
100 do Stonington
50 do do
It) regard to money we are in very easy position, and
this arises not from the abundance of money, but from the
paucity of demand. The engagements of our business
men have 13.-zen comparatively small for the last year, and
have been entered into on a more prudent bails than in
former years. Many of the grocers and other good houses
are freely discounting their own paper. We infer also
the easincis of the money market from the fact that cases
have come to our knowledge, where holders of good paper
declined receiving the money, legal interest off. Our
Banks we learn continue to discount all the offerings made
of paper coming within their requirements. In the street
such paper as will not go in Bank is selling at 9 a 12 per
cent.

In State Stocks the operations are very limited, and the
quotations may be considered merely nominal. Capi-
talists are anxiously awaiting the adviccs by the , British
Queen in relation to the value of these' securities on the
other side.

The last sales of Pennsylvania Five's at Philadelphia,
were at 74 ; United States Bank, 16 3-4 a 17 ; Pennsyl-
vania, 315 a 320; Philadelphia, 75 a 85; Girard, 28 a
28 1-2 ; Vicksburgb, 5 1-2 a 5 3-4 ; Camden and Amboy
R. R., 86 1-2 a 87 ; Wilmington R. R., 33 3-4 a 34.
U. S. Bank notes are selling at 16 a 18 per cent. dis-
count. A large amount could not be bought at the latter
rate.

The inquiry fur Sterling Exchanges has been rather li-
mited; prime bills may be quoted at 6 3-4 a 7 1-4 ;
Southern, without endorsements, 6 a 6 1-2 ; the principal
sales have been at 7. In Francs the operations for this
steamer have been large and but few good bills now re-
main : the ruling rate has been 5,35, but some bill holders
demand 5,32; on Amsterdam the rate is 39 a 39 1.4;
Hamburgh, 35 5-8 a 35 3-4; Bremen, 76 1-4 a 76 3-4.
In Inland Exchanges the demand to-day has rather
fallen off, but the rates have not materially changed.
We are entirely without export demand for specie. The
Exchanges are in our favour upon almost every country of
the globe, and we continue daily to receive accessions to
our already large supply of coin. We give quotations
below, but the transactiana are unimportant :
Spanish Dollars, 3 to 4 per cent, premium ; Mexican
ditto, par to 1-4 ditto ditto; American Halves, par; Spa-
niila Doubloons, $l6 40; Mexican ditto, $1 .5 60 ; Sove-
reigns, $4 84.
In general business there is beginning to be a little
movement. The navigation to Albany being now open,
we shall have a free communication with the interior, and
the produce of the vast West will come pouring in upon
us. Many country merchants are now in town, and during
the ensuing week there will, no doubt, be considerable
animation in all branches of trade.

The continued delay of the British Queen has tended
to produce a calm in the Cotton market, and it is now
very quiet.—Operators are unwilling to act until the re-
ceipt of the expected advices. Since the arrival of the
Caledonia until within a few days the demand has been
very animated and extensive, and an advance of 1-4 to
1-2 c. was obtained on previous rates. Since the 15th
the sales may be fairly considered at 17,000 bales, at for
Uplands very ordinary to middling 9 1-2 a 10 1-4 cents
per lb. ; fair to good fair and good 10 3-4 a 11, and 11
1-2 cents ; Tennessees and Alabamas 9 1-4 a 10 4 cents;
Mobiles, Louisianas, &c., ordinary to middling 9 3-4 a
10 1-2, fair to good fair, 11 a 11 1-2, good and fine 12 a
12 1-2 and 13 cents.

The exports to Europe since October 1 have been
506,982 bales, against, last season 816,130. The export
to Great Britain has been 345,875 bales, against 499,143
last year. The receipts have been 1,111,319 bales,
against 1,389,353 last year.
Immediately after the arrival of the Caledonia the
operations in Western Flour, at $4 75, were large ; but
the advanced rate which holders now demand has for a
few days past limited the operations almost entirely to re-
tail lots for city use. Western Canal is now held at
$4 87i c. a 5. The stock is estimated at 30 to 40,000
ohls., which is light. We shall receive the usual suppl'es
by the Erie Canal about the 28th April or Ist May, and it
is supposed that the opening price will be $4 75. George-
town and Baltimore Flour is held at $4 69 a,4 75. The
stock of Southern is estimated at about 20,C00 bbls.
Wheat is held at 95 a 100 c., with light sales. The stock
here is about 75 or 80,000 bushels.

The demand for Ashes is small, at Bc. for both kinds.
The stock is very light.

In Naval Stores the transactions are very limited. The
last sale was of about 2,200 bbls. N. G. Soft Turpentine
21 1-2 s. Prime Turpentine is scarce—other descriptions
are plenty. Tar 162 1-2 a 175. Pitch 150 a 175. Ro-
sin 137 1-2 a 150. Wilmington Turpentine 287 1-2.
In Whale Oil the operations have been large within a
few days, at a decline of 1 cent. per gal. About 3,000
brls. have been taken for export at 29c., and another sale
of 2,000 brls. is reported at the same price. A sale has
been made of 7,000 gallons English Linseed Oil, at
80c. cash.

At auction to-day the following Teas were offered and
most of them sold :-18 chests Young Hyson, at 59 1-2;
1,182 half-chests Young Hyson, 45 a 80; 325 13.1 b.
boxes, 53 ; 5 chests Hyson, 54; 218 half-chests Gtr,',.
powder, 56 a 62 ; 18 do. do. Punhoygua, 85 ; 43 cl.lests
do., 55 a 62 ; 100 13-lb. boxes, 56 1-2 ;50 6-Ih. ;.to., 62 ;
19 half-chests Imperial Punhoygua, 79; 153 half-
chests do., 57 a5B ; 19 chests Imperial, 54 ; 200 12-112.
boxes, 58 1-2; 80 Bi-lb. boxes Souchon:s', superior, 53 1-2 ;
76 half-chests Orange Pekoe, 49 ; 100 chests Sou-
Cinnamon, 135. On the
chong, 51 1-2; 10 chests Cong.- 53 • 7 bales Ceylon
sale exhibits a decline ; 'iow'jurade2s—Canton Teas this
it is fully equal to pr., • 'out on the country packed Teas
sidered a slight in-_ .ofi ous sales, and perhaps may be con-
-rates of freight to Liverpool are—C'
provement. The packet
7-16 d. a ?a-16d. ; Flour 31. 6d. , Seed,
pert;
_dean
To L:inden—Cotton 1-2 d. ; Naval. St;. "erce, 129.
3s. dd. To Havre—Cotton lc. per IF s
blr
for square_ ales
i 1.4 e. for round; Ashes, pi for rots ; ,fllO
for Pearls ;
Bark $l4.

INDI',2OI MASSACRE.
It, or seems
Caw
1,..a
that.fa some time in December, the 1c46-
zas,ns,
hearing that an encampment of
Pawnees ;sere on a buffalo hunt, at some distance fromthe
the remainder of their tribe, gave up their own anticipated
h and organized themselves into a war party, with
their chief at their head. They entered the Pawnee
country and lay in ambush near the ill-fated encampment,
until they saw the Pawnee warriors, numbering but seven-
teen, deprrt for their bunting grounds. The Kanzas war.-
riors, sixty-fire in all, then commenced a murderous fire
upon the defenceless women and children, which they con-
tinued until they supposed all within the encampment had
been killed.

On entering the scene of carnage they tomahawked and
scalped more than seventy of their victims—they found
twelve (six women and as many children) unhurt, whom
they decided to retain as prisoners. One of the women,
however, determined not to be taken alive, and suddenly
springing at the nearest warrior, seized him with the
grasp of a tigress by the throat, and bore him to the earth.
It was only when her arms were severed from her body
that she relinquished her grasp—she was then dispatched,
and her scalp added another bloody trophy to those yet
reeking at their bats.
An act of more atrocious cruelty and shameless coward-
ice has seldom come to our notice. It is highly probable
that before summer we shell hear of dire punishment hav-
ing been inflicted upon these wretches by that fierce and
warlike tribe, the Pawnees.

ECCENTRIC HOSPITALITY..—During the late American
war a soldier who bad been wounded and honourably
discharged, being destitute and lenighted, knocked at, the
door of an Irish farmer, when the following dialogue
ensued :
Pabiek—And who the divil are you now ?
sower...My name is John Wilson.

Patrick—And where the divil are you going from, John
.Wilson ?

Seldier—From the American army at Erie, Sir.
Patrick—And what do you want here?
Soldier—l want shelter to-night ; will you permit me
to spread my blanket on your floor and sleep to-night ?
Patrick—Divil take me if I do, John Wilson.
Soldier—On your kitchen floor, Sir ?
Patrick—Not I, by the Hill o'Howth.
Soldier—•ln your stable, then ?
Patrick—l'm hanged if I do that either.
Soldier—l'm dying with hunger : give me but a bone
and a crust ; I ask no more.

Patrick—Divil blow me if I do, Sir.
Soldier—Give me some water to quench my thirst, I
beg of you.
Patrick—Beg and be hanged, I'll do no such thing.
Soldier—Sir, I have been Eghting to secure the blessings
you enjoy. I have assisted in contributing to the glory
and welfare of the country which has hospitably received
you, and can you so inhospitably reject me from your
house ?

Patrick—Reject you; who the divil talked a word about
rejecting you? May be lam not the scurvy spalpeen you
take me to be, John Wilson. You asked me to let
you lie on my floor, my kitchen floor, or my stable ;
now, by the powers, d'ye think I'd let a perfect stranger
do that, when I have half-a-dozen feather beds all
empty ? No, by the Hill o'Howth, John, that I wont.
In the second place, you told me you were dying with
hunger, and wanted a bone and a crust to eat.
Now, honey, d'ye think I'll feed a hungry man
on bones and crusts, when my yard is full of fat pullets,
and turkeys, and pigs ? No, by the powers, not I, that's
flat. In the third place you asked me for some simple
water to quench your thirst. Now, as my water is none
of the best, I never give it to a poor traveller without
mixing it with plenty of wine, or something else
wholesome or cooling. Come into my house, any
honey; divil blow me, but you shall sleep in the
best feather bed I have ; you shall have the best sup-
ger and breakfast that my farm can supply, which, thank
heaven, is none of the worst ; you shall drink as mud,'
water as you choose, provided you mix it with plen4 of
good wine, and provided also you prefer it. Cone in, my
hearty, come in, and feel yourself at home. It shall never
be said that Patrick O'Flaherty treated a :Ilan scurvily, who
has been fighting for the dear country which gave him pro-
tection.

HOG-FEN FOR BOYS.—Captain Willets, of the 6th Dis-
trict Watch, about two o'clock on Saturday morning, pur.
sued a fugitive negro into an alley, in the rear of a
house in Anthooy-street, Five Pointy. The mgrs ma-
naged to conceal himself so as to elude discovery.
Captain Willets, however, found in a pig-pen, in a
corner of the yard, four bogs and three lubberly boys,
lying in snug embrace, and quietly slumbering
together. The boys were brought before the police. They
gave their names as Patrick Towers, Peter M'Cann, and
Thomas Ryan, aged respectively 12, 13, and 14 years.
They all stated that they were destitute of home or educa-
tion, having never been to school. They had often before
slept in the bog pen, and thought it quite hard that they
should have been disturbed in their rest. They were ad.
judged vagrants, and sent to snug quarters at the House
of Refuge.—New York Courier and Inquirer.

The fact we mentioned yesterday that the law
which commands us not to steal has left us igno-
rant of what really belongs to others, deserves, we
think, some further illustration. Nothing but
gross ignorance of that can be pleaded as an ex-
cuse or an apology for the many violations of the
right of property, of which the Legislature is
guilty.

Possession is a very imperfect index to owner-
ship. A man's body is indeed his own, but
as long as slavery existed, that truth was prac-
tically denied, and it required the exertions of
many philanthropic men, through many years,
to procure its final recognition in Europe, while
in AmeriCa it is not yet recognised.
Other things in a man's possession are far from
being his own. The clothes a livery servant
wears belong to his master. The rich pieces of
figured velvet or satin we may find in scores of
houses in Bethnal-green and Spitalfields, are
not the property of the weavers, but of
some silk mercers in Cheapside, or Wood-
street. They even are not the actual
owners of the whole, for, carrying on trade to a
considerable extent on credit, and their stock
being answerable for their debts, the real owners
are their creditors in conjunction with them.
Few captains own the vessels they command,
and in general the cargoes they carry belong not
to the captains but to some merchants per} aps
of another country, and living under diferent
laws from those to which the ship captain pro-
fesses obedience. We most of us live in houses
which we hire, and they actually belong to those
who do not reside in them.

The ownership of the soil of England is nomi-
nally in the Peers, Squires, and Yeomen, but as
that ownership is little, more than a power to re-
ceive the rent, and as the rent is pledged to
mortgagees, annuitants, and others, it is difficult
to say who exactly are the owners of the fine
castles and extensive domains which nominally
belong to the landed gentry of England. •
' The example we have already quoted of the
silk velvet in the weaver's loom, not belonging to
him, may stand, in common with almost all the
work of the labourer's hand, as a proof that the
produce of man's labour is not his own. Posses-
sion, therefore, whatever it may indicate, is not a
proof of ownership.
The examples we yesterday quoted from the
Times of bankers getting hold of property by
issuing notes, are sufficient proofs that the mere
power to obtain possession of property does not
constitute ownership. The burglar, to borrow
the illustration of the Times, has the power of
appropriating wealth to his own use, as well as
the concoctors of banking schemes-and the pro-
prietors of bank charters. Besides the power
to obtain possession of wealth, to constitute owner-
ship the consent of other men must be gained,
and, in the majority of cases, and certainly in
the long run, they only consent when the appro-
priation is just.

The essential condition of ownership, that
which gives it security, and perhaps constitutes
it just for the time, is possession with the con-
sent of other men. At any rate, the consent is
all that is essential to security, and he may
sleep in peace whose right is neither questioned
nor denied by any man. The consent of others,
as one essential element of safe ownership,
is a subject of pre-eminent importance. To
constitute the right of property, consent is ne-
cessary ; and property will cease to be safe, and
to have a valid existence, whenever the bulk of
the people from any cause, such as extreme
poverty, or a sense of gross injustice, withhold
from it their consent and guarantee.
It has been, we think, one of the misfortunes
of our time that the disturbances of war, and
the improper interference of Government with
the issue and circulation of paper money, at the
close of the last and at the commencement of the
present century, have existed in conjunction
with a very rapid creation of wealth by new
arts. New classes of men, in consequence, sud-
denly became extremely wealthy, and that alte-
ration seems to have caused considerable confi'
sion in the public mind as to the 14 -
ownership.

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