The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-06 00:00:00

SIR ROBERT PEEL.

It is with the sincerest pleasure that we lay before our
readers and the Scottish public, the following correspondence
between his Grace the Duke of Argyll and Sir R. Peel, con-
cerning the gross mis-statements which Mr. A. Dunlop thought
proper to publish in several of our Whig contemporaries last
week, respecting the alleged sentiments which the Right Hon.
Baronet was said to have expressed to the deputation of Noe-
Intrusionists, who had an interview with him in London a short
time ago, on the subject of the Church question. Mr. Dunlop's
letter was given in our Paper of Friday last, appended
to some remarks on the Renfrewshire election. me pri-
mary object of that document was to damage the cause of
Mr. Mure, the Conservative candidate, by propagating
false information, and to affect generally the Conservative
interests throughout Scotland. Mr. Dunlop explicitly
averred that Sir Robert Peel, at the interview with the depu-
tation, had expressly declared that no settlement of the Church
question could be allowed that did not embody provisions for
subjecting the Church to the Civil Courts generally, and in
particular for restoring the deposed ministers of Strathbogie.
The use made of this statement was instantly to create a pre-
judice against Mr. Mure, and indirectly to have an adverse influ-
ence on the prospects of Conservative candidates elsewhere, by
denouncing them as supporters of Sir R. Peel and his danger-
ous Church policy. The elector s were earnestly implored to vote
for the Liberal candidate, and thereby resist Sir Robert's threat-
ened attack on the spiritual independence of the Church ! Now,
we say nothing about the shameful breach of confidence of which
Mr. Daniel) was clearly guilty, or the betraying of the un
suspecting Baronet by pretending to consult him on the
Church question, while his object was political ; concealing
under the cloak of an ecclesiastical consultation, the dagger
with which he meant to strike a deadly blow at the interest
of the very person with whom he was holding friendly and
confidential intercourse. All thin is bad enough—doubly
disgraceful when resorted to in a religious cause. But this is
not even the worst feature in the case. It turns out that
Mr. Dunlop's statement is altogether incorrect, a scandalous
misrepresentation of what took place at the interview, and
giving a view of Sir R. Peel's sentiments, expressed on that
~ecasion, different from what he did say as light is from
latter, merely on the knowledge which the public
dar.,:-ness. We could easily have contradicted Mr. Dun-
lo p's
, but our contradiction might have had but little
weight with the .
mpoOdseersaticOn .
party in the Church opposed to us. This has
now been done, m AT most direct and authoritative manner,
•
by both of the 'nostrums personages concerned. Sir Robert
Peel says of Mr. Dunlop's account that it contains " very gross
misrepresent ations ;" and, the Duke of Argyll adds, that his
own recollection of it (his Grace was present at the interview ),
"perfectly coincides with Sir Iltbert Peel's statement of what
passed on the occasion." What will Mr. Dunlop and his
friends say to this? That gentleman is very ingenious In ex-
tricatingwill find some difficulty in devising either an explanation or a
himself from awkward dilemmas ; but we suspect he
vindication of his conduct on this occasion. We now subjoin
the letter of Sir Robert Peel, accompanied with a brief expla-
natory note from his Grace :
, NOTE BY THE DUKE OF ARGYLL.
In answer to a letter addressed by the Duke of Argyll to
Sir Robert Peel, Bart., requesting to know the purport of the
observations addressed by him to a deputation of the Church of
Scotland, at an interview with which he honoured them, the
Duke has received the following reply, which, together with the
note, he would be obliged to the editor of the Edinburgh Ad-
rertiser to insert in his next paper ; and to add that Sir R.
Peel's statement of what passed on the occasion perfectly
coincides with the Duke's recollection of it :
London, 3, Connaught-place West, June 28, 1841.
SIR ROBERT PEEL TO THE DUKE OF ARGYLL.
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Drayton Manor,i'azelyT ;une 25, 1841.
Dear Duke of Argyll—l have had the honoth• of receivine,
your Grace's letter of yesterday, and I reply to it with the
greater alacrity, because extracts from Scotch n,.•wspapers
have been sent me containing very gross misrepresentations
ofsentiments
leapresansedd at the
gentlemen
ce ntl y had
with whichy
your Grace
nanied you, on the subject of the affairs of the Church of
Scotland,
interview
wwhhoichacel-orme:
- To the best of mrecollection, the following is the purpart
of the observations made by me on that occasion :
What I would not enter into an engagement to support the
Bill, which has been submitted to the House of Lords by your
Grace, but that it was the less necessary to discuss in detail the
provisions of that Bill, as it could make no progress during the
remainder of the session, which was then about to terminateti
and that the meeting of the new Paril3nl;ontidait Augustwonlnot, probably, be of sufficient du ratio am h
n .
hick
nt subject wic the
ture consideration of the very imports -
Bill involved.
were to admit (which I could
I observed that, even if I .
that Bill were, in themselves,
not that the provisions ,o! .
ey ,
were p
14 still, • that th Zs rospective
wholly unexceptionab
hot think the- House of Lords would con-
only, and that I did .
ior the future if the General Assembly
sent merely. to legislate.
f h 1 to
mein ose ministers of
should persist in its claima o aut ori y. p
this ground, that those isters had obeyed
the Church upon
Court in Scotland and
the law, as interpreted by the Supreme,
by the House of Lords on an appeal pfe,
erred
at the instance of the Church of Scotlan•.
That _
I presumed that the right to depose the Ministers in-
volved substantially the right to deprive them of the privileges
and emolument s attached, by law to their parochial cures, and
that it appeared to me if such penalties could be inflicted for
the cause assigned, the authority of the Church over the Statute
Law and civil tribunals of the country would be paramount
even in matters of a civil and temporal nature.
That I thought such a claim on the part of the Church would
greatly diminish, if not altogether destroy any advantage that
might have been hoped for from merely prospective legislation,
and that new causes of difference and new conflicts of autho-
rity, not provided for by such legislation'would very soon occur.
A remark was made in the course of conversation, that if
the present state of things were to continue there might ulti-
mately be a separation of the Church from the State in
Scotland; far that the Church might feel it an imperative
duty to forego any temporal advantage she might derive
from an union with the State. To this I replied that I
thought it better not to discuss the extreme measures to
which it might be possible either for the Church or the
State, in certain contingencies, to resort. I said that there
were few persons out of the pale of the Church of Scotland
whe took a more friendly interest in its concerns than I did, or
were more anxious that it should retain unimpaired all its
rightful authority, and that I earnestly hoped that some solu.
lion of the present difficulties would be found, rather through
the influence of moderation and good sense, than in the resort
to extreme measures of any kind.
The above is, according !te my recollection, the general pur-
port of the observations which I made on the occasion to which
your Grace refers, and it will be very satisfactory to me tolcarn
from your Grace that your impressions on this point lie in
conformity with mine.—l have the honour to be,
My dear Lord Duke, your Grace's
Most faithful and obedient servant.
(Signed) ROBERT PEEL.
To his Gra•:e the nuke of Argyll.

falselete
is ‘tchi teh
allegation th e statements
that
soifr
Rfoll'eleptrtuanPnlYeoepofnieasndcaoninhcepnae'r'm.eilyllistjeeocathhbeoowy Cehurch of Scotland, or that he
meditates her enslacementio the Civil Courts, or the subver-
sion of her spiritual independerce. It is nnnecesiary to add
another word of comment. This authoritative exposure will
not be without its effect on the undecided elections in this part
of the United Kingdom. It will show the country to what un-
scrupulous and unjustifiable means the leaders of the Non-In-
trusionists resort in order to effect the party objects for which
they are contending under the mask of a zeal for the spiritual
powers of the Church and the rights of the Christian people.—
Edinburgh, Advertiser,

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MORNING SUN • , THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 6, 1841.
AMERICAN NEWS. 7...d0...805t0n and Worcester
30...d 0 . ...d0... .do ......
106* hours !" TUE REVENUE FOR THE YEAR AND QUARTER ENDING JULY 5
I 1841.
130-do-Canton Co - -------'1•1"---
IncrYeeaarsee.ndiednecJul:
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.-....--No. 1.-An Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain in the. Years and Quarters ended sth of July, 1840,, and sth of July, 1841, skewing the Increase
20 ..do do
RIVAL of the GREAT WESTERN. 10...d0...M0hawk R. R ***** -i-66 '57 strangest events we ever heard of :-" The Coroner of or Decrease on each head thereof. . ,
100...do...Patterson R 11 . ,
3y the Great Western Steam-ship, Capt. Hos- 80L the county yesterday morning held an inquest over
40...d0...New Jersey R R QUARTERS ENDED ' YEAR QUARTERS ENDED
1, which arrived at Kingroad on Saturday 25...d0 do BOl the dead body of a man found on the roof of .. ~, ended .-----..-------------, ended ~..........-....-,
294 Prentiss and Dawson's three-story brick row on Levee- Oct. 10, Jan. 5, April 5, July 5, July 5, ' Oct, 10, Jan. 5, April 5, July 5, ' July 5,
:ning, at half-past eight o'clock, we have re- 50...d0...New11839 1810 1810 181) 1840 1840 1841 1841 1841 1841 ,i7carertasercendeDdecJrculasy 5.e.
*** . o
. York, Boston, and Prov.
do * d 30 street. He had evidently been dead some weeks, and his _____
ved a copy of Lord Sydenham's Speech at the
14...do...Haarlaem It R - 4,562,018 3,644,292 3,557,823 3,767,034 YEAR
- -- ..., ... .....
96'4 flying around him. The most probable surmise we have
ming of the Parliament of the two Canadas, 9,000...d0...0n Philadelphia Sugar Duty applicable to Consolidated
Fund •
yet heard, is that he was labouring under some bodily Sugar Duty applicable to Supplies- - 340,135 1,151,936 - - - - P 09,678 - - - - -
sEcOND BOARD.
ich is well worthy of public attention. We - - 1,100,829 736,614 990,662 171,674 - - - - -
50 shares United States Bank -
re also received our usual files of New York 25...d0 do l9 wandered into cm of the vacant stores, and ascended from Excise Total Customs. 5,778,006 4,779,305 4,571,653 .037,934 20,267,816 5,662,877 4,sso,ses 4,518,504 4,848,586 19,410,877 ......
4,113,159 3.427,271 1,919,996 2,711,951 12,192,377 3,916,149 4,016,366 1,885,470 1,795,3 2 12,613,397 431,020 836,991 2EP,318
pers to the 19th ult. . 50...d0-North American Trust lO story to story until he found his way to the roof, that stamps 1,699,724 1,587,061 1,659,1 es 1,729,6:: 1 6,674, 2 1 1,751,417 1,5!'6,646 1,677,491 1,680,82 i 6,706;!8E1 31,664 fP,361
48,830
l!he Great Western brought 84 passengers. 2,000 Indiana Dollar Bonds
__he probably had a fit, and sank down to rise no Taxes..... 311,283 1,58 :,699 179,038 1,647,808 3,722,848 332,1307 1,186,171 ..21,045 2,000,696 4,372,319 649,471 382,888 -
2,000 Indiana Sterling -
592 more.
e had the ill fortune to sail in the midst of a 2,000 111in0i5,...50 Crown Lands 4 0,000 40 3N 0 41.,000 42,500 162,500 45,660 40,000 32,500 30,060 147,500 15,000
.....• 12,500
ST. JOSEPH'S GRAVE.-We have seen a subscripiion Miscellaneous -
mendous storm, which compelled the packet- THE MARKET, Jerrie 18s paper proposing to raise funds for the purpose of erect- - -
Total OrdinarY Revenue.. 12,365,826 11,788,136 8,537,043 11,373,961 44,065,963 11,855,752 11,931,10 6,477,053 11,522,650 43.757,561 1,13t1,584 1,416,991 496,367 330" ,678
p " England' to put back, and she has en- The sales of Cotton are light. There is no change in ing a suitable monument over the spot. St. Joseph, of
Piere Jose, was one of the Jesuit missionaries who, more 'merest and other Moneys 41,126 41,092 31,913 277,P80 413,211 82,99 31,546 32 151 197,965 345,681 67,',30 99,895
entered nine days of easterly gales, and in the .
Breadatuffs, and in fact nothing of importance done, as we are
' fabundant which commenced early inh ded left the •
a i Re payments of Advances
in the midst oan rain, than two un er years ago, t-e sunny climes and -- - ' ...........
Ist of fog, as her log shows. the morning. The news does not appear to have changed the the luxuries of their native France, and settled them- Total Income ........
12,641,197 12,037,018 8,679,714 111,867,&36 145,196,+65 12,111,230 12,067,620 8,609,200 *,B '4,115 44,672,215 1,138,584 1,60,114 499,367 503,028
LORD SYDENHAM'S SPEECH. course
condition of anything but Tea, which is of higher, but selves along the rivers and lakes of the west, and amid
om the Supplement of the Quebec Gazette, published by determined. Low much is net et deter= _ applied to the Consoli-
,- the dark and dreary forests of Canada, that they might The,=l/
stand at about 5.3 Deduct
The impression is, that Canton Teas will ;191,564 9,772,340 7,483,139 6,895,530 32;48,473 6,682,179 5,937,023 7,590,901 6,753,892 ;1,763,995 crease 1,138,584 . 499,317
authority at Kingston.) teach the Indians to bow to the Cross. They seemed to Ditto, as Advances ands pay otl Ex- Increase.
cents. A lot of low gunpowder offered yesterday at six cents,
PROVINCE OF' CANADA. chequer Bills, issued a Advances ... 23',761 95,61:2 279,550 11 ',050 720,3.3 70,000 30,003 182,C50 10,550 571,C00
b t the advance is counted Possess the devotion of the early apostles for wealth was -
Legislative Council Chamber, Kingston,
June 15,1841. was sold this morning at 65 cents, u
it , Ditto, as part of the Ways and Means
to them as nought •; as could serve no purposes of of
more than this generally. the Year 1 3,016,072 3,135031 916,5'25 4,958,256 11,929,039 3,359,051 3,120,597 1136,149 4,917,733 1 12,333,630 Decrease on
his day, at two o'clock, r. 31., his Excellency the Governor
For Pork buyers now offer only $7 75c. to 39 75c., with but gratification in this then far Off land, and they spent their
meded in state to the Chamber of the Legislative Council, Total. I 12,60,297 1 12,007,018 8,679,714 111,867,836 145,196,865 I 12,111,230 112,087,0:0 I 8,609,200 11,861,175 1 44,6i2,225 the Quarter -1
i__ Tv....1:_---.• 1,..3,11.,,, the Members of the Legislative a very limited demand at any price. days among those whose spiritual good they sought, --.
and loft. _ ,
Chair hnnne lint-Ur the chntla M. the cam" dark 11, WW . . w.. I 3 al 0. al_ T.-1-- 1 n .., --.lAi - - , al- T.. 1.. ICI A I

ARRIVAL of the GREAT WESTERN.
By the Great Western Steam-ship, Capt. Hos-
ken, which arrived at Kingroad on Saturday
evening, at half-past eight o'clock, we have re-
ceived a copy of Lord Sydenham's Speech at the
opening of the Parliament of the two Canadas,
which is well worthy of public attention. We
have also received our usual files of New York
Papers to the 19th ult.
The Great Western brought 84 passengers.
She had the ill fortune to sail in the midst of a
tremendous storm, which compelled the packet-
ship " England' to put back, and she has en-
countered nine days of easterly gales, and in the
midst of fog, as her log shows.
LORD SYDENHAM'S SPEECH.
(From the Supplement of the Quebec Gazette, published by
authority at Kingston.)
PROVINCE OF CANADA.
Legislative Council Chamber, Kingston, June 15, 1841.
This day, at two o'clock, r. 31. his Excellency the Governor
proceeded in state to the Chamber of the Legislative Council,
in the Parliament building, the Members of the Legislative
Council being there assembled. His Excellency was pleased
to command the attendance of the Members of the Assembly,
and that House being present, Mr. Austin Cuvillier, M.P.P.
for the county of Huntingdon, informed his Excellency that
e choice of the Assembly had fallen upon him to be their
Speaker. The Speaker then demanded the customary privi-
leges, which his Excellency having granted, was pleased to
open the first Session of the first Parliament of the province
of Canada with the following Speech from the Throne :
" Hon. Gentlemen of the Legislative Council, and
Gentlemen of the House of Assembly,
"I have deemed it right to assemble you at the earliest pe-
riod which the circumstances of the province and the duties
imposed upon me by the Imperial Act for the union of the Ca-
nadas, under which the Legislature is constituted, have ad-
mitted ; and it is with sincere satisfaction that I now meet you
to deliberate on the great and important interests committed
to our charge.
" A subject of her Majesty, an inhabitant of this province,
has been forcibly detained in the neighbouring States, charged
with a pretended crime. No time was lost by the executive
of this province in remonstrating against the proceeding, and
provision was:made for insuring to the individual the means of de-
fence, pending the further action of her Majesty's Government.
The Queen's representative at Washington has since been in-
structed to demand his release. Of the result of that demand
I am not yet apprised, but I have the Queen's commands to
assure her faithful subjects in Canada of her Majesty's fixed
determination to protect them with the whole weight of her

LOG OF THE GREAT WESTERN.
Report of the Great Western, Lieutenant Hosken, Com-
mander, sailed from New York on the 19th of June, and
_ _

arrived at Bristol July 3.
June 19, 2. 30. r.m.—Spoke the American ship Roscius
close to Sandy Hook, running into New York ; and Alabama,
at anchor between Sandy Hook and the Narrows.
22, 5. 30.—Exchanged colours with the American barque
Argo, running to the westward.
23, B.—Exchanged colours with an American barque show-
ing No. 3,545, Boston signals, standing to the westward.
27, I.—Spoke the Royal Mail steamer Britannia, for Hali-
fax; ri P.m. exchanged colours with a British brig, showing
Nos., supposed to be the Energy, painted ports, no head.
29.—Exchanged colours with the British ship Osprey, run-
ning to the eastward.

EXTRACT FROM THE LOG.
June 19, 1. 10. r. rt.—Left this wharf, strong breezes and
squally, with heavy rains ; fresh breezes and thick weather ;
easterly swell. Wind N. easterly and northerly.
20.—Moderate and cloudy, strong breezes and squally; sea
rising. N. westerly and northerly.
2l.—Fresh gales and squally, with heavy sea ; strong breeze
and squally. N. easterly and N. westerly.
22. Fresh gales and strong squalls; high cross breaking
seas. Northerly and N. easterly.
23.—Moderated to fresh breezes, and dark cloudy weather,
with showers. N.N. E., and easterly.
24.—Light, increased to fresh breezes and thick foggy
weather ; southerly swell. Easterly.
25.—Light breezes, and thick foggy weather ; southerly
swell. Easterly.
26.—Light, increased to moderate breezes, and thick fog ;
southerly swell. Easterly.
27.—Light, increased to strong breeze, and dark hazy
weather ; southerly swell ; strong breezes and squally ; thick
fog and rain at times; short head sea. Easterly and E.N.E.
28.—Decreased to moderate breezes, thick fog, and rain at
times ; fresh breezes and thick fog at times. S. easterly.
29.—Moderate breezes and hazy ; fresh breezes, and thick
fog at times. Southerly.
30.—Strong breezes and hazy. S. westerly.
July I.—Moderate breezes and hazy ; light breezes and
thick haze. W. S. W. _ _

ST. JOSEPH'S GRAVE.—We have seen a subscription
paper proposing to raise funds for the purpose of erect-
ing a suitable monument over the spot. St. Joseph, of
Piere Jose, was one of the Jesuit missionaries who, more
than two hundered years ago, left the sunny climes and
the luxuries of their native France, and settled them-
selves along the rivers and lakes of the west, and amid
the dark and dreary forests of Canada, that they might
teach the Indians to bow to the Cross. They seemed to
possess the devotion of the early apostles, for wealth was
to them as nought ; as it could serve no purposes of
gratification in this then far Off land, and they spent their
days among those whose spiritual good they sought,
and left their bones under the shade of the same dark
forests which had been the scenes of their labours.—To
ereot a lasting monument, be it never so simple, is an ob-
ject for which all should be willing to contribute, that
it may remain a link connecting the future with the past.
A fatal accident occurred on board the steamer the
High, on Friday evening, the sth inst., on her passage
from St. Louis *o this port, in which they crew and pas-
sengers of the boat very deeply sympathise. The boat
had rounded-to, at St. Mary's landing, for the purpose of
putting some passengers on shore, one of whom had a
pair of fowling pieoes loaded, and whilst in the act of
putting them into the yawl, one was accidently dis-
charged, and a young man, a deck-hand on the boat (and
a brother of the mate) received the full charge in the
lower part of his left breast, ranging upward, which
caused his immediate death. The body was brought to
Chester, a few miles below, and left in care of Mr.
Jones, a friend of Captain Price's, and every arrange-
ment made for a respectable funeral ; the mate also re-
mained to pay the last tribute of respect to his much
lamented and unfortunate brother. The man killed has
been a hand on the river for some time. He made his
home at Pittsburgh, where his mother and sisters reside,
and who are yet strangers to their sad bereavement.
This distressing circumstance should serve as an ad-
monition against the miserable practice of taking loaded
guns and pistols on board steam-boats by passengers.
All captains should set their face against it. Two per-
sons have been accidentally killed on this river, within
a few months, in the above manner.—Cincinnati Repub-
lican.

COUNTY OF HERTFORD
. ELECTION.

The nomination of the candidates to represent the
county of Hertford in Parliament, took place yesterday
in the Plough Mead, Hertford. The Conservative can-
didates were accompanied to the hustings by nearly five
hundred horsemen and a great number of carriages filled
with elegantly" dressed ladies. Mr. Alston was also ac-
companied by a large body of horsemen and equipages,
and the scene exhibited at the hustings was quite magni-
ficent from the number of equipages, banners, &c., that
were assembled.

power.
" Arrangements were completed during the course of last
summer by which, under the directions of the Treasury, the
rates of postage between all parts of this colony and the united
kingdom were greatly reduced; and a more speedy and a regu-
lar conveyance of letters between different parts of this pro-
vince has since been established by arrangements made by the
Deputy Postmaster-General under my direction. A com-
mission has been appointed by me to inquire into and report
upon the whole post-office system of British North America,
and I confidently anticipate that the result of its labours will
be the establishment of a plan securing improvements in the
internal communication by post within the colony, equal to
those which we have already obtained in the communication
with the mother country.
" Many subjects of deep importance to the future welfare of
the province demand your early attention, upon some of which
I have directed bills to be prepared, which will be submitted
for your consideration.
" Amongst then, first in importance at the present juncture
of affairs is the adoption of measures for developing the. re-
sources of the province, by well considered and extensive
public works. The rapid settlement of the country—the
value of every man's property within it—the advancement of
the future fortunes, are deepl y affected by this question.
" The improvement of the navigation from the shores of
Lake Erie and Lake Huron to the ocean—the establishment
of new internal communications in the inland districts, are
works requiring a great outlay, but promising commensurate
returns. To undertake them successfully large funds will un-
doubtedly be required, and the financial condition of the pro-
vince as it stands at present would seem to forbid the at-
tempt. But 1 have the satisfaction of informing you that I
have received authority from her Majesty's Government to
state that they are prepared to call on the Imperial Parliament
to afford their assistance towards those important undertak-
ings. In the full belief that peace and tranquillity will be:hap-
pily re-established in this province, under the constitution
settled by Parliament, and that nothing but a relief from its
most pressing difficulties is wanting to its rapid advancement
to prosperity, they will propose to Parliament, by affording the
guarantee of the Impend Treasury for a loan to the extent
of no less than 1,500,000/. sterling, to aid the province, for
the double purpose of diminishing the pressure of the interest
on the public debt, and of enabling it to proceed with those
great public undertakings whose progress during the last few
years has been arrested by the financial difficulties. I shall
direct a measure to be submitted to you, embracing a plan
for this purpose, and I shall lay before you, for your in-
formation and that of the people of Canada, extracts from
the despatches which convey to me this most gratifying as-
surance.
" In immediate connexion with the outlay of capital upon
public works is the subject of emigration, and the disposal and
settlement of public lands. There exist within the province
no means so certain of producing a healthy flow of immigra-
tion from the mother country, and of ultimately establishing
the immigrant as a settler and proprietor within the colony, as
the power of affording sure employment for his labour on his
first arrival. The assistance of Parliament for the public works
which may be undertaken here, will in a great measure pro-
vide for this; but with a view further to aid immigration, I
am authorized to declare to you, that her Majesty's. Govern-
ment are prepared to assist in facilitating the passage of the
immigrant from the port at which he is landed to the place
where his labour may be made available, and that a vote of
motley for this purpose will beproposed to the Imperial Parlia-
ment. The conditions which her Majesty's Government attach
to this measure will be submitted to you, at the same time
that I shall draw your attention to a scheme for the settlement
and disposal of the public lands.
" It appears highly desirable that the primiples of local
self-government, which already prerail to some extent through-
ottt that part of the province which was formerly Upper Ca-
hada, should receive a more extended application there, and
that the people should exercise a greater degree of power over
their own local affairs. I have directed a measure upon thin
subject to be submitted to you, and I solicit your earnest at-
tention to the establishment of such a form of local self-gos
vernment for those districts of the province which are unre,o_
vided with it as may insure satisfaction to the people; whilst
at, preserves inviolate the prerogative of the Crown, and main-
tains the administration of justice pure from party and popular
excitement.
A due provision for the education of the people is one of
the first duties of the State, and in this province especially
the want of it is grievously felt. The establishment of
an efficient system, by. which the blessings of instruc-
tion may be placed wain the reach of all, is a work
of difficulty, but its great and overwhelming impor-
tance demands that it should be undertaken. I recom-
mend the consideration of the subject to, your best attention,
and I shall be most anxious to afford you in your labours all the
co-operation in my power. If it should be found impossible so
to reconcile conflicting opinions as to obtain a measure which
may meet the approbation of all, 1 trust that at least steps may
be taken by which an advance to a more perfect system may be
made, and the difficulty under which the people of this province
now labour may be greatly diminished, subject to such im-
provements hereafter as time and experience may point out.
" Gentlemen of the House of Assembly,
" The financial accounts of the province will be immediately
laid before you, and I shall direct the estimates for the public
service to be submitted to you with the least possible delay. I
rely upon your co-operation in the financial measures which it
will be my duty to propose to you for taking advantage of the
assistance whicli her Majesty's Government propose to afford,
and for carrying into effect the public improvements which are
deemed most dsirable. I shall earnestly endeavour that what-
ever you may appropriate for this latter purpose shall be eco-
nomically employed and rendered effective.
" Hon. Gentlemen and Gentlemen,
"In your wisdom and prudence I confide for the regulatiem
of the different important matters which must necessarily tome
before you. Canada, united under a constitution which the
est desire for the
Imperial Legislature has framed with m e
welfare of this portion of the British empire,ea ear.not fail to
prosper under prudent and sage counsels.
determinationi
of Govern-
generous aid
which I have already announced to you—th
defences
which I am also empowered to state on the ;,art
went to devote annually a large sum for I:ae
province—the fixed and settled determinatr
of the
have the Queen's commands to declare, that her isien which I
newt possessions shall be maintained at all hazardsarch Ae
a, nail 4,
her empire, are pledges of the sincerity with which the
mother
country desires to promote the prosperity of Canada,
assist in the well working of the new institutions w Ib.4and to
it has
established.
" The eyes of England are anxiously fixed upon the
of this great experiment. Should it succeed, the slid oe'rut
liament in your undertakings—the confidence of British _
talists in the credit you may require Irons tliem—the security
which the British people will feel in see:dug your shores and
establishing themselves on your fertile soil, may carry improve-
ment to an unexampled height. 'f he rapid advance of trade
and immigration within the last eighteen months affords ample
evidence of the effects of tranquillity in restoring confidence
and promoting ',prosperity. May no dissensions mar the flat-
tering prospect. which is open before us—may your efforts be
steadily directed to the great -practical improvements of which
the province stands so much, in need, and under the blessing of
that Provides/ice which lies hitherto preserved this portion of
the Britid% dominiore, may your counsels be so guided as to in-
sure to t',lo Queen attached and lo -al sbb'ect s and to United
Canad% a prosperous and contented people."

ATROCIOUS MURXIER.—Mr. Cyrus Cells, a young man
employed at the prison as a guard, while in the act of
combing his hair, was struck from behind with a small
hand axe, on the left side of his head and neck, by a
convict .tamed James Clark. The first blow was suffi-
cient to destroy life, but the monster repeated them until
the head was nearly severed from the body. This mur-
der was premeditated without doubt. A longer handle
than was usual had been put in the axe a short time pre-
vious by Clark, in order, it is supposed, that he might
make a heavier blow. He had, we hear it is said,
threatened to kill Sells. Clark is from Scioto
county, and was sentenced for highway robbery.
He had to be frequently punished in the prison
for bad conduct. The murder of poor Sells
was committed to revenge himself for some of the
castigations he had received. He has, on several occa-
sions, feigned to be deranged, but no one connected with
the prison believes that there is anything ails him more
than to be possessed of a most fiendish and incarnate
spirit.—Ohio State Journal.
EXPERIMENTAL HANGING.—A young lad, twelve years
of age, named Charles Rogers, accidentally hung himself
a few days since at Lyons, in this State. He was very
much devoted to sports of the circus, and once remarked
he believed he should be able to imitate hanging, with-
out fatal results attending it, but upon experimerjtin
found it to fail.—Buffalo paper.
PllENoNENoN.—Yesterday our city WAS, visited by
thick swarms of small flies, that hor
roofs and corners of our buildings, ~red about the
and presented the
appearance of dense and black cl,
suds of smoke arising
out from the chimneys or the rods.
They flew so low as
to cover the passer-by, and
dis-
tant roar of a waterfall.- their hum was like the
--Chicago Amer.
NORTH PROVIDE'
4cF--At the late town meeting in
North Providence
4, was decided, by a very large ma-
jority, to grant no licenses for public-houses for the en-
suing year.-
--=American Paper.
An r_inglish editor, with much gravity, says that the
way they procure black writing ink in South Carolina, is
".f whipping the negroes until they cry, and then catch-
ing the tears.—Anierican Paper.
A panther, measuring seven feet seven inches in
length, and. weighing ninety- six pounds, was shot on
the 30th ult. near Crab Orchard, Ky. No other animal
of that species has been seen in that vicinity for twenty
or thirty years.—American Paper. •
DEPLORABLE ACCIDENT.—A German named Michael
Mourer was mortally wounded a day or two since by the
accidental discharge of a gun. It appears that Mourer
was hunting with a friend—the latter being a few paces
in the rear, when a vine caught the trigger of his gun,
and the contents were discharged in Alourer's back, a
little above the hip. No hopes of his recovery are en-
tertained.—American Paper.
FORTUNATE ESCAPE.—One of the prisoners confined
in the city jail, was at work in the yard on Saturday
afternoon, blasting rocks. He was loading the rock with
powder at the time the thunder storm came up. He was
told to desist, but he said he could cemplete the charge
before the storm, and went on with his work. Scarcely
were the words out of his mouth, when at the first flash
of lightning the electric fluid, attracted by the iron rod
with which he was ramming down the powder, ignited
the charge and shivered the rock on which he was sit-
ting. It was at first supposed the man was dead. It
proved upon examination, that the right hand. was in-
jured, though not seriously, and the chest was somewhat
burned. He is fast recovering from the effects of his own
imprudence.--Brooklyn Daily News.
REMARKABLE TREE.—Mr. Agricola at Golnits, in
Altenburgh, has in his garden an apple tree, which in the
year 1816 bore 268 sorts of apples and other fruit. In
fact, the tree has on it above 300 sorts, but those last
grafted have not yet borne fruit. This gentleman has
effected this curiosity for his amusement by inoculating
and grafting, and has fastened to every branch a little
board, with the name of the sort of apple it bears. The
tree has a strange appearance, from the various shapes
and colours of the leaves, blossoms, and fruits. Some
years ago, the Russians bivouacked near this tree, and
were so surprised at the strange shape of it, and the
number of little boards, that they did not , injure it,
though they cut down other fruit trees for firewood.
Eight layers of stone haVe been added to the Bunker
Hill Monument this season, each layer being two feet
eight inches in thickness, making an additional height of
twenty-one feet four inches. The monument is now,
consequently, upwards of one hundred feet in height, and
it is rapidly increasing in altitude. We predict that the
" top stone ' will be laid on or before the 17th of June,
1842.—Anterican Journal.
THE GRINDSTONE CHEESE.—The Philadelphia Ledger
of Friday contains our story of Parsis butting the grind-
stone, and credits it to the Picayune. Pie 's a good 'un,
but he can't have our nigger. Since his trial of strength
with the grindstone, Parsis has made another unlucky
experiment, by undertaking to bump his head against the
ceiling of a low room. He sprung up like a rocket, and
shot his head clean through the plaster and laths, but in-
stantly the latter gathered round his neck, so that he was
caught like a rat, and could not be unhung until a por-
tion of the ceiling was cut away.— Boston Post.

show how utterly unqualified they we're to 'control the
destinies of this great nation.—(Cheers.) WAS'
im-
possible to countenance a Ministry that. would, have the 1
cruelty to appeal to the passions of the people by a cry
of "Cheap bread," when they knew at the same time 1
that it really meant low wages. He concluded by pro-
posing Mr. Ryder, who, lie said, would be a firm sup- 1
porter of the interests of all classes of the community,
and of all changes calculated to be really advantageous
to the people.
Mr. HALSEY seconded the nomination, and in the I
course of his observations expressed himself adverse to,
the provisions of the New Poor. law, and expressed his
desire that those enactments pressing harshly upon the
poor should be ameliorated.
Lord GRDISTON then addressed the electors. His •
Lordship said he agreed in the opinion that had been
expressed that at an important crisis like the present all
private feelings should give way to the public interest.
He was acquainted with many Whigs whom he respected
and cherished as friends, but he did not respect their
political opinions, and 'therefore he was induced again to
solicit their suffrages on the present occasion. An Hon.
Gentleman had complained of an expression in the ad-
dress of the Conservative candidates, but he con-
sidered that expression quite Parliamentary, and
he had not the least desire that • the contest should
be carried on in any other than a friendly manner,
and without any personalities being resorted to.
The proposer of Mr.. Alston had told them a great deal,
about what he had suffered under a Tory Government,
but he would only say that if he was a fair specimen, h
was a very unfortunate one, for he appeared to have
done exceedingly well, and to have been very prosperous
under Tory rule. The present Ministry had now
brought forward a proposition, which, he believed, they
never intended, or had the least intention to carry.—
(Interruption.) He, however, felt great pleasure in
opposing the present question, and the Ministers finding
themselves in a minority, had apealed to the country,
and recent proceedings clearly showed that they had not
been very scrupulous in using; them in places, to se-
cure a majority of supporters.—(Hear, hear.) The Mi-
nisters told the people they were to have everything
cheap—cheap bread, cheap sugar, cheap timber, and
cheap tea ; but he must say, that with re-
spect to the last mentioned article, they had
such a very curious mode of cheapening it by block-
ading the ports of China. Their timber project would
have the effect of doing great injury to their own
colony of Canada—a colony, be it remembered, that so
very lately had so nobly come forward in support of the
mother country—and, to save three- fifths of a farthing
a pound on the price of sugar (for that was the extent
of the reduction), another colony was to be sacrificed,
and the great and magnificent experiment the people
had made for the abolition of slavery would be destroyed,
and all the horrors of slavery revived. He was sure,
however, that the people of England had too much good
sense to be deceived by such a mischievous project, and
the results of the elections showed that this was the
case. He was opposed to a fixed duty on corn, and lie
was sure that a fixed duty would not act advantageously,
and that a sliding-scale was the only real protection to
the farmer, while, at the same time, it worked with ge-
neral advantage to the country. The honourable can-
didate then congratulated the electors upon the results
of the elections, and said that, if they exerted them-
selves, the victory must be theirs.—(Cheers.)
Mr. ALSTON next came forward and was very favour-
ably
received by his supporters. He said the reception
he had just experienced satisfied him that his conduct
in Parliament had been in accordance with the opinions
of his constituents, and he trusted that his votes showed
he had been actuated by a desire for the general welfare
of the kingdom. He would just allude to the most im-
portant question to them, that of the Corn-laws, and
they were of course all aware how he had voted upon
that question. He told the Government that he would
support them in the alteration of the timber and sugar
duties, but as he went to Parliament upon a positive
pledge to oppose any alteration in the Corn-laws, he was
determined to redeem it to the very letter.—(Cheers.)
Now, however, he stood before them a private indivi-
dual, and if they returned him it would be unpledged
as to any particular course of conduct in reference to
this' question. While, however, he said this,
he must at the same time express his opinion that the
landed interest was entitled to the most substantial pro-
tection, not at the expense of any other interest, but
that all should be equally prosperous ; for if one groat
; interest was depressed the others must equally suffer.
Every one, however, must be aware that the present
sliding scale was a most slippery protection. It was
said that it would prevent fluctuation in prices, and. yet
they saw prices varying from 345. to 80s. and it was
notorious, that great frauds were practised by pretended
sales, where no money passed, the only object being to
ereate fraudulent averages for speculating purposes, and
causing occasionally large quantities of foreign corn to
be admitted at a low rate of duty, to the extent of that
quantity so admitted injuring the English agri-
culturist. If they returned him, therefore, and he
had no doubt they would, he could only say
that the subject of the Corn-laws should have his
most serious consideraihn, and he would never

2.—Light breezes and thick fog. Easterly.
3.—Light breezes and thick fog ; light breezes and fine ;
at two o'clock took in pilot, and at eight came to at King
Read. S. westerly.
Jane 19.—Reported to Lieut. Hosken, by the New York
Times and Evening Star, that the ship Ohio, Lyons, 42
from Liverpool, went on shore this morning on the Romer
Shoals ; the steamer Sampson going down to her assistance
found she had received no damage ; she lay in three fathoms
water, and would be got off.

IMPORTANT FROM CANADA.
We have received some interesting intelligence from King-
ston, the new seat of Canadian Government. His Excellency
the Governor-General had completed all his arrangements.
On Saturday, the lath instant, two days before the meeting of
the United Parliament, he made the following important ap-
pointment. to the Legislative Council :
R. S. S. Jameson, Peter M'Gill, R. E. Caron, George
Pemberton, Barthelemi Joliette, Jules Quesnel, John Fraser,
Etienne Mayrand, F. P. Bruneau, Captain A. Baldwin,
IL, P. Knowlton, Adam Ferric, Hon. P. De Blaquicre,
E. B. Sti:Uvan, William Morris Alexander Fraser, James
Cxooll,, Adam Ferguson, John Morris,
John Hamilton,
Jelin 11PDonald, Oliviere Berthelet, J. B. Tache, Thomas
Al• Kay, Esqrs.
Robert Sympson Jameson, Esq., to be Speaker of the Legis-
htive Council of the Province of Canada.

James Fitzgibbon, Esq., to be Clerk of the Legislative
Council of the Province of Canada.

William Burns Lindsay, Esq., to be Clerk of the Legislative
Assembly of the Province of Canada.

V. S. Jarvo, gentleman. to be Usher of the Black Rod of
the Li•gislative Council of the Province of Canada.
G, Chisholm, gentleman, to be Sergeant at Arms of the
Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada.
Thomas Parke, Esq., has been appointed to be Surveyor
General of the Province of Canada.

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The High Sheriff, R. H. Grausden, Esq., having read
the writ and the Deputy Sheriff having also read the
Bribery Act, and made the usual proclamations, the
former addressed the electors, and said they were assem-
bled to perform a most important duty, and he hoped
they would listen attentively and quietly to the observa-
tions of every gentlemen who might address them.
W. BAKER, Esq., then proposed Lord Grimston as a
candidate, and said that he was their well-known and tried
old friend, and he now again came forward with two other
Conservative gentlemen nobly to support the rights and
liberties of the people.—(Cheers.) It was said that there
was a coalition. It was indeed a noble and glorious
coalition to protect the old institutions and the Constitu-
tion of the country from being overset----a coalition to
prevent the Corn-laws, which all their interests looked
is for support, from being altered, and to preserve and
protect the religion of the realm ; and he was satisfied
that if there was such a coalition in every county, Old
England would again be Old England, and would still
hold he: place among the nations of the earth.
C. G. THOMSON, Esq., seconded the nomination.
W. BLARE then proposed Mr. Alston, amid great
cheering from the supporters of that gentleman. He
said he had great pleasure in proposing Mr. Alston, be-
cause his opinions were wholly different from those of
the other candidates, and believing, as he did, that the
opinions of those gentlemen were detrimental to the best
interests of the country, he had therefore great satisfaction
in supporting Mr. Alston. who was their decided opponent.
He believed that the gentleman who had just been pro-
posed was too much imbued with Tory principles to
do any good for the country, and as he considered
Toryism the bane of this country, he was glad to have
an opportunity of bringing forward an antidote. Mr.
Alston was not an unknown man,—he had already been
well tried, and had never been found wanting. And he
defied any man to say that he had neglected his duty
upon any one occasion.—(Cheers.) And he was quite
at a loss to understand why the present attempt had
been made to turn him out, by the introduction of three
Tory candidates. Ho implored the electors to rescue
the country from the infliction of having three Tory
Members. He had seen enongh of Tory misrule to in-
duce him to consider that the establishment of another
Tory Government must be looked upon as a national
calamity. The Tories had burdened them and their
children, and they and their children would have to
pay thirty millions a year for ever in consequence of
Tory mistakes, Tory misrule, and Tory mismanagement.
The present Government he believed had done
more for the cause of civil and religious liberty, and im-

proving the condition of the country during the last ten
years, than the Tories had in a hundred—and for the
Reform Bill alone the country would owe them an eter-
nal debt of gratitude. He called on them, therefore, to
show their gratitude by returning Mr. Alston, the sup-
porter of that Government as their representative.
The Hon. W. COWPER seconded the nomination, and

said that the electors had only to look to the division
lists of the House of Commons to see in what manner
Mr Alston perfortned his duty, and they would see that
he had never been absent, or neglected his duty, upon
any important occasion ; and he had always been a con-
sistent supporter of the principles upon which he had
been returned as their representative.—(Loud cheers.)
He gave his support to Mr. Alston because he
was one of those who supported the great
principle of civil and religious freedom—of those
principles of enlightened philanthropy which would
give comfort and education to the poor, and freedom
to all classes. He was also anxious to give him his sup-
port, because he was favourable to those great principles
of commercial reform which had been developed by the
present Government, with the sanction of her Majesty,
and which involved the great question whether the manu-
facturers of the country were to languish and be de-
stroyed, or whether they were to be placed in a prosper-
ous and flourishing condition, and as a necessary conse-
quence, that agriculture should also flourish, for it was
impossible that one of those branches of industry could
be prosperous while the other was depressed. The Mi-
nistry had introduced a great experiment to make up the
deficiency of the revenue by causing an increase of con-
sumption of the necessarries of life, and thereby obtain
an increased revenue, instead of creating- fresh taxes, and
the only real objection the Tories had to the proposed
measure, appeared to him to be their dislike to remove
taxes of any description. They pretended, certainly, to
feel sympathy for the West India planters, but he
thought that a protection of 50 per cent. was quite
sufficient for them, and that they need not com-
plain. With respect to the proposed alteration of the
Corn-laws, he thought that the apprehensions that were
entertained of the results to be apprehended from it
were in many instances most absurd, and, in his opi-
nion, it would not in any way operate to the prejudice
of the landholders. Even Sir Robert Peel admitted the
present sliding scale could not stand, although he did not
say what change he should propose ; and therefore the
only question appeared to be, what change should be
made. The present sliding scale had entirely failed in
its intended operation, and he was convinced that it was
injurious to the farmer, and that the moneyed speculator
alone benefited by it, and that, if they had a fixed duty,
they should secure a uniform and moderate pripe, in..
stead of being subjected to flee violent fluctuations of
the present system. The Honourable Gpiitleman
then went on to remark upon the addresses that
had been moved by the Conservative candidates,
and, in allusion to their having called the pre-
sent Government an unprincipled Administration, asked
whetlier that was language becoming honourable Chris-
tian gentlemen, as they professed themselves. He
would not retort the same abuse upon them—the country
had to decide between the two parties—and although the
Government might suffer temporary defeat, he felt quite
sure that the OeTeat principles they had brought forward
must eventually be successful, and that truth would ulti-
mately prevail over error and prejudice. Sir Robert
Peel had carefully abstained from binding himself to any
fixed course of proceeding, and he considered that he
hadi no right to turn out one set of people and then,
perhaps, propose the very same measures which they
would have carried if they had had the power. He con-
sidered the present coalition was got up to destroy the
independence of the county, which, in former
times, had Always been foremost in the cause of re -
form, brit he felt convinced the attempt would
reline the spirit of the electors—the Tories had Mused
the sleeping- lion, and he would never rest till he had
destroyed his disturbers—for his part he was deter-
mined never to relax his exertions until the county was
placed in its former position as regarded its representa-
tives, and he was convinced the same feeling prevailed
among the majority of the electors.—(Cheers.)
G. F. BOSANQUET, Esq.,then proposed Mr. Abel
Smith, and the nomination was seconded by W. PHILIPS,
Esq.
N. lIIBRAAT, Esq., proposed the Hon. Granville
Ryder as a fit and proper person to represent the county
of Hertford in Parliament.—(Great cheering from the
Conservatives.) He respected Mr. Alston as a private
friend and an honourable man, and if the Government
hadcontinued in the torpid state they were some time
back, he should, very probably, not have offered any op-
position to his re-election, They had seen the Ministry
displaced from power, but still clinging with a desperate
tenacity to the petticoats of the Palace, hoping that
something in the chapter of accidents might turn
up in their favour, and foiled in that hope, they
saw them now bring forward a desperate project,
involving the interests of the most important
institutions of the country, in their dying struggle,
expecting that it would give them a little more
vitality, and keep them in place a little longer. They
had seen these Whigs opposing most strenuously the
very same measures when proposed by Messrs. Villiers,
Ewart, and Warburton, which they now themselves sub-
mitted to the country. What was the reason they did
so? Was it because their opinions had conscientiously
changed respecting them ? No. 'The only reason
was because they were in difficulties, and hoped that a
little excitement and agitation would enable them to go
on for a short time longer. The Ministers told them
that they had seriously considered these matters ; if •than
were the case, he thought it an additional reason to

consent to any alteration which he did not think would
give safe and positive protection to the agricultural in-
terest. He supported the Ministers on the Sugar ques-
tion, and it was said that this would ruin the West India
trade. He was himself a West India proprietor to a
small amount, and he could only inform the electors that
the sum he had received out of the Compensation Fund
amounted to nearly half the value of his property if he
had put it up for sale, and the same result had, no doubt,
taken place in the case of the other proprietors. Having
received the amount, and still retaining the whole of the
property, he thought that the planters of the West Indies.
ought not to complain of their interests being affected by
the proposed change. It was said that there would only
be a reduction of three-fifths of a farthing in the pound
to the consumer, and if this were so; this small reduction
could not injure the West India planters. He, however,
thought the reduction would be much. more ; but still he
did not see any good reason why the people of this coun-
try should be deprived of such an advantage, under the
circumstances. He likewise supported the proposition
respecting timber, because he believed it would be a be-
nefit to. the people, and would not inflict any real injury.
As to the proposed fixed duty, he thought eight shillings
too low. lie should propose a duty of twelve, to be
afterwards reduced to ten shillings. The Honourable
Candidate then alluded to some extraordinary occur-
rences that had taken place during his canvass, and said
that upon one occasion an elector told him that he could
not support him because he had signed the requisition to.
Mr. Ryder, and he said that the reason he had done so
was because he was told that he (Mr. Alston) had re-
signed,—(Shame.) He had received the information from
Baron. Dimsdalel and lie shotild be very glad to hear the
eliarge refuted. In another instance, a voter residing at
Aldenham, upon being asked for his vote by his
landlord for him (Mr. Alston), replied that he had
signed the requisition to Mr. Ryder, and he gave as a
reason for doing so, that the gentlemen who had can-
' vassed him informed him that his landlord had voted for
Lord Grimston at the last election. The gentleman in
question told him that he could not have voted at that
election, because he was in Ireland at the time. He did
not think this was a fair way to get up a requisition to
a candidate. He then avowed himself a supporter of her
Majesty's Ministers, because he said he believed they
were desirous of acting in accordance with the best in-
terests of the country ; and the people might depend
that if they did not support them in carrying out their
great commercial project, that they would have
to submit to the imposition of fresh taxes by the Tories
of a character which they would find exceedingly irk-
some and injurious. He therefore called upon the people
tO.support the Ministers, and read an extract from her
Majesty's speech at the prorogation of Parliament, and
said he hoped that they would act-in accordance with the
wish expressed ,from the throne.—(Cheers.)
At the conclusion .of the Honourable Candidate's ad-
dress Mr. Blegg, of St. Alban's, claimed a right to offer
a few words in explanation of the charge brought for-
ward by Mr. Alston of improper proceedings adopted to
get up the requisition.
Mr. BLxGG said the fact was .the person in question
was a tenant of a warm supporter of Mr. Alston, but he
signed the requisition to Mr. Ryder, in common with a
great many of his neighbours, most willingly. His
Liberal landlord, however, afterwards took him to task,
and pressed him warmly to vote for Mr. Alston. He (Mr.
Blegg) denied most positively that any representation
was made too-the voter, who, •he declared, signed the re-
_ quisition: of his. own free will, .
.-:.-Mr...Auni.-SMITILnext addressed the electors, and said
this was the third time he had had the honour of solicit-

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE
(LLOYD'S).

No. ll..—.lncome and Chsrge of the Consolidated Fund, in the Quarters ended the sth July, 1840, and the sth July, 1841.
' Quarters ended July 5.• 1 Quarters ended July 5.
----.. 'N' /......--......--........--....,
INCOME. t 1810 1841 CHARGE. 1849 1841
--o---
Customs.—Consolidated Duties 3,585,928 2,767,031 Permanent Debt. • 8,181,029 8,185,079
Sugar applicable to the Terminable Annuities 7.3:),796 872,307
Consolidated Fund 1,151,1:36 909,671 Interest on Exchequer Bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund 12,329 22,922
--- Sinking Fund —
Total Customs 5,1571(134 4,676,712 The Civil List • 96,*41 97,122
Other charges on the Consolidated Fund
Excise
Stamps 1,729,651 1,680,821
Taxes
Post Office
..,
Crown Lands . 42,500 30,103 ----..— i'
Miscellaneous ........ ._.........; ... ........... 4.117 18,235 ...- , •
11,887,784 11,710,702 ,
lmprest and other Monies 207,880 197,585 - . . , , . ,
Repayment of Advances • 1665 995 143,510
The Amount of Exchequer Bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund for the Quarter ended April 5, 1840, ll
. o
11,887,754 11,710,102 'anti paid ow out of the growing produce of that Fund for the Quarter ended July 5, 1841 • '......' 4,917,733 i
The Amount issued in the Quarter ended .uly 5, 1811, in part of the aunts granted by Parliament out of the Consoli . - 4
To Cash brought to this Account ' I dated Fund for Supply Services 5,754,152 1
to be applied to pay off Deficiency " i The Surplus orthe Consolidated Fund, Quarter ended July 5, 1841
Bills
The probable amount of Exchequer Bills required to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund, Quarter ended .
11,8-37,784 11,710,702 1 July 5, 1811
a, • ,

ing their suffrages, and although his own private feelings'
would induce him to pass his life in domestic retirement,
he felt that at a time like the present he ought to sacrifice
his inclinations to his public duty. The course pursued
by the Ministry clearly showed that they felt contempt
for the landowners, of the Constitution, and of the Pro-
testant faith, and it was the duty of every man
who loved his country to come forward and op-
pose such a Ministry. The Honourable Candidate
then proceeded to state his reasons in opposition to
the Ministerial project, and said he hoped soon to see
a Government founded on the great principles of Con-
servative policy, which would pursue a course of sound
and well considered reform, and which would strengthen
instead of tampering with the civil and religious institu-
tions of the country.—(Cheers.)
Mr. IlvnEß then came forward, and was received with

the utmost enthusiam by his friends. He said that
although as chairman of a Conservative Association he had
done all in his power to support Conservative principles,
he should not have thought of coming forward in his
present position, if he had not received a requisition,
signed by 2,137 electors, calling upon him to do so; and
knowing that this number was within a very few of
that by which ten years ago the first Whig candidate was
returned, he did not think he could be considered as
presumptuous in coming forwardas the third Conservative
candidate on the present occasion. He had no party views,
he abhorred ;party, and he would support no party that
he did not think were actuated by sound and honourable
political opinions on Church and State. Those were, he
believed, the principles of Conservatism as diametrically
opposed to the opinions entertained by her Majestyls
present advisers. They had been living on negatives for
a great many years. What had they done for the coun-
try ? All they had done for agriculture that he knew
of was to take the tax off shepherds' dogs.—(Laughter.)
They had now placed that important question of the
Corn-laws in the position of open antagonist principle
to every other great interest of the empire, and this was
a position agriculture did not deserve to be placed in.
'What mighty change had taken place since last year to
induce Lord Melbourne now to agitate society to
its foundation ? It could only be accounted for by
his desire that he should not be agitated out
of his place. This, however, was not the only question
upon which the present Ministry had eaten their words,
and had found them very hard of digestion ; they had
done the same with the famous appropriation clause, but
although they found they could not carry. that, they still
appropriated to themselves placer pension, and pelf.
Their conduct had been similar with respect to Church-
rates, and, although Lord John Russell had positively
pledged himself as to the finality of the Reform Bill, he
was the first to propose to alter it by introducing an en-
tirely
.new Bill for Ireland, and by proposing to effect a
material alteration in the franchise in England. He con-
sidered that such political conduct as this warranted
the country in withdrawing its confidence from such an
administration, and from all those who gave it their sup-
port. The Hon. Candidate then went oa to declare him-
self opposed to the Ministerial project respecting timber,
sugar, and corn, and with respect to the latter he ex-
pressed his opinion that the present sliding scale re-
quired modification, but he expressed himself favourable
to the principle of a sliding scale instead of a fixed duty.
He did not think they could place much confidence in
his Hon. Opponent upon this question, for upon general
questions he supported the Government, and it was
therefore very probable that he would give them his
support upon this. He concluded by calling upon
the county to express their opinion of a Ministry
governed by that arch demagogue O'Connell, who
had openly expressed his intention to do his utmost
to sever Ireland from this country and deprive the
Crown of one of its brightest jewels, knowing at the same
time that this could only be effected by a civil war ;
that man, however, did not care what occurred, so that
he was alloWed to rule Ireland for his own benefit, and
for the benefit of the dastardly Government which he
upheld—that Ministry had thrown the cry of cheap bread
as an additional firebrand among the people, but he
hoped that from it there would arise avenging flames to
consume them.
Mr. H. G. WARD then said he had two or three ques-
tions to put to the Hon. Candidate. Ji.n the first place he
should be glad to know whether he concurred in the
sentiments uttered by the gentleman who seconded
him, in reference to that measure,
Mr. RYDER said he did entirely. He agreed, to the
fullest extent, with the principle of the measure ; but he
should be very glad to see an amelioration in any of the
details that seemed to press mostly upon the deserving
poor.--(Cheers.)
Mr. WARD—AS Mr. Ryder objected to the Govern-
ment plan in reference to Church-rates, he should be
glad to know what arrangement he should propose to
substitute.
Mr. RYDER said it could not be expected, in the situa-
tion he was placed, that he should have a plan to settle
the Church-rate question ready cut and dried, and he
should decline to pledge himself on such an important
question that had puzzled their heads for the last
ten years.
Mr. WARD then inquired what sort of sliding-scale
Mr. Ryder would propose in lieu of the present scale
of protecting duties on corn ?
Mr. RYDER said he could not be expected, npon'such
a momentous subject, to say what course he thought
should be pursued, at that moment. He must, there-
fore, decline to give any pledge.
The Htoii SHERIFF then called for a show of hands,

which wa; deciared to be in favour of Lord Grimston,
Mr. Smith, and Mr, Ryder. A poll was demanded on
behalf of Mr. Algol l and, after a vote of thanks to
the High Sheriff, the doctors quietly dispersed.

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Orator, London; from Calcutta, April 28, lat. 28, lon. 49,
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(steamer), 26th ult., in the Tagus,. by , the Montrose
(steamer), arrived at. Southampton.. Rosama, Buenos
Ayres to Cork, May 24, lat. 1 S., lon. 2V W.; Louisiana,
Nty York, for Rio Janeiro, 25th, lat. I IL, lon. 29 ;
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the Pickwick, arrived at Cork.