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LONDON:
THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1841.

We announced in our Second Edition last even-
mg the arrival of the Britannia steamer with New
York papers to the 15th, and Bosto.n papers to
the 16th instant, and gave full particulars from
the different journals of the state of affairs in the
United States up to these dates. No further
proceedings have taken place with respect to Mr.
3FLEon either in the Courts of Law or Con-
gress; but we are happy to find that,. in the files
of four different Papers Iv inch we have
received, the language. of peace and mode-
ration prevails. Not a trace of the in-
solent tone which pervaded Mr. pICKENS' Re-
port is to be found in any of these Journals. On
the contrary, the strongest hopes are expressed
that Mr. IVFLEoD will speedily be set at liberty,
and that the question at issue between the two
Governments will be brought to an amicable ad..
justment. The fitct is, all the respectable people
of the United States are no less ashamed of Mr.
PICKENS and his Committee, than of the mob of
Lockport, and are justly anxious to separate them-
selves front madmen who would embroil two coun-
tries so intimately united, merely to gratify a
spirit of wicked revenge or disappointed ambition.
The commercial and financial affairs of the States
are. still in a deplorable condition, caused partly
by the failure of the banks, but still more by the
Uncertain relations witl.l this country; and these
circumstances, perhaps, will contribute not a little
to the speedy and amicable adjustment of the
differences. Never was there a fitter occasion
for our Government to enforce their just de-
mmll4 to settle not only the boundary line, but
to come to some distinct understanding as to the
collisions which may hereafter occur on the Cana-
dian frontier. Unless this is done, we may have
a second edition of Mr. PICKENS' Report when
the people of the United States are in a better
condition to carry the principles which it em-
bodies into effect. We confidently trust, there-
fore, that the opportunity will not be lost, and
that measures will be mutually adopted
which
will contribute to a good understanding between
two nations so, much int:l23l.cd in the preserva-
tion of peace.

The Canterbury Election Committee hay-
ing speedily come to the end of its labours, last
night reported t ) the House of Commons that
Mr. SMYTHE was duly elected for Canterbury.
A similar report was not made from the St. Al-
ban's Committee, but it has come to a similar
conclusion, and Lord LISTOWELL preserves his
seat, in spite of the blustering of the Tories.
Mr. LABOUCHERE announced that he should
make a further alteration on the Colonial Tariff,
and reduce the proposed ad valorem duty of 10

to 7 per cent. He is also to lower the duty on
shingles and pine.
_ _ __ _ _

Mr. DIVETT moved the third reading of the
Jews' Declaration Bill, which . was opposed by
Mr. GLAnsToNE in a speech more remarkable for
a declaration that this was not a Protestant coun-
try than any thing else.
Mr. MACAULAY supported the third reading
in a short and pithy speech, in which he said,
having lately seen how little Articles could bend
the consciences of casuists, he should be sorry
for the House of Commons to frame any more
such cobwebs. He spoke, too, of a better gloss
being found for the Jews now taking the re-
quired declaration, were they not honest, than
had lately been put forth for holding the faith
of Rome with the endowments of the English
Church. The Puseyites will not misunderstand
this.

After a few words from Mr. GOULSURN and
Sir It.. INGLIS, against the Bill, while Lord SAN-
DON and Mr. MILNES, deserting their friends,
spoke in its favour, the third reading was car-
ried by 108 .to 31.
Some Bills were moved a stage, and the House
adjourned at Half-past Seven.

A meeting of the Anti-Corn-law Association of
the metropolis was yesterday held at the Crown
and Anchor. It was called by advertisement,
which stated that no person would be admitted
unless he provided himself with a ticket. This
mode of limiting the attendance accounts, we
presume, for the comparatively small number of
persons whom this important business brought
together. The meeting was held in the small
room of the Crown and Anchor, and that was
never anything like full. The principal speakers
were Mr. VILLIERS, Dr. PYE SMITH, Mr. L.
RICARDO, Mr. ROBERT STEUART, Mr. EWART,
&c. In such a select audience the interruption
was not great, yet there was-some, showing, un-
doubtedly, that there are yet many bona fide
differences of opinion on this great question.
One gentleman thought that we should turn our
attention to growing more corn at home, and an-
other that the "Debt-laws" should be abolished,
but none stood up to defend the Corn-laws. Even
those who are averse from first demanding the re-
peal of them seek to remove something which
theysuppose to be a greater injustice. In fact, so-
ciety has reached this singular position, that the
masses are completely discontented with our in-
stitutions, which seem only to be preserved by
the disputes amongst the suffering people as to
which shall be first amended or destroyed.

Mr. VILLIERS delivered an admirable address.
For the clear manner in which he demonstrated
that free trade would increase employment—that
the abolition of the Corn-laws would raise wages
—that the middle classes, had they all the power
now attributed to them by the Chartists, would
command the repeal of the Corn-laws without
any asssistance, as they are said to elect the
House of Commons, Mr. VILLIERS' speech left
nothing to be desired. Were men of talent to
direct their efforts, as he does, to root out the
prejudices of the multitude on this and all other
questions, we should soon be an enlightened and
free nation. The people do not want a new
education to understand homely, and well put ar-
guments;. and gentlemen like Mr. VILLIERS,
when they address their language to the present
understanding of the people, want neither audi-
tors applause nor converts.
We were glad to see Dr. PYE SMITH take a
conspicuous part at the meeting, and to hear him
exhort all the ministers of the Gospel to unite
with the Corn-law R.epealers. He placed the
question on the high grounds of morality and re-
ligion. He quoted several passages from the Bible
to prove that GOD had especially denounced those
who oppress the poor, and he insisted that it was
the duty of all Christians to aid in abolishing the
law. For a full account of the proceedings we refer
to our report. In the main, they wanted nothing
to make them perfectly satisfactory but the en-
thusiasm and the dignity of a more numerous
auditory.
We cannot say, however, that we approve of
the Anti-Corn-law Association imitating the
Anti-Maynooth men and the Exeter Hall sect,
and so countenancing by a ticket meeting the
notion that their cause is not good, or that the peo-
ple are not to be trusted. It is true that the restric-
tion of not admitting except by ticket was not
rigidly adhered to, but the notice kept away the
public, and bars and policemen kept out the
Chartists. With such a good cause to back them,
the Anti-Corn-law party should dare and conquer
the turbulent. The middle classes, had they the
repeal of the Corn-law at heart, could sacrifice
their time, which the lower classes could not;
and if they were not successful at one place or
one hour, they might be at another. It is credit-
able neither to their patriotism nor their per-
severance to allow themselves to be defeated in
such a cause by a handful of noisy, mischievous
people.

If they say public opinion is of no value, why
hold public meetings ? But they appeal to po-
pular support, and yet they shut out the people.
Such conduct is consistent in the owls of bigotry
who hate the popular light, but for Anti-Corn-
law men, demanding justice for all classes, it is
a suicidal maiming of their own limbs. Far from
excluding, they ought to invite the Chartists to
attend their meetings, and encounter them hand
to hand, and face to face. By excluding them,
they exhibit and inspire only terrible mistrust.
Some of the working classes have been led
astray, and have committed errors; but an ho-
nest and open appeal to them would, we believe,
be successful, and make them support the Corn-
law repealers. The working classes are, gene-
rally speaking, an orderly set of men ; and if
they were convinced that the holding of such
meetings were beneficial to them, they would
preserve order, and put down the rioters.
If an open appeal should fail, the fair deduc-
tion is that the majority are not with us. We
repudiate such an idea ; but our friends counte-
nance it, and degrade our noble cause to a level
with the narrow-minded bigotry of Exeter Hall
by holding ticket meetings. We are afraid that
such -,)roceedings may betray popular rights.
They stigmatize public meetings. The Duke of
WELLINGTON only said they were farces ; the
Anti-Corn-law Society act as if they were not
to be trusted. The Anti-Maynooth meetings are
worthless because they merely represent a clique,
and by following their bad example the meeting
of yesterday acquired a similar character.
The clue to the whole is that the middle
classes in the metropolis care very little about the
repeal of the Corn-law. They have no compre-
hension of its importance, and are indifferent to
•
its success. If they were' even warmly inte-
rested in it, not to say enthusiastic, they
would find means to organizeTh and give expression
to public Opinion.
parish, and even
would send forth • •
petttions,
time of the Reform agitation,
in public they would come
tavern They would
Their clubs
.
ing force of numbers and talents, and hold local,
as they did in the
.with When they met
overwhelm-
yb,ear down
they are
people
noisy
Already
all factious opposition. Unfortunantedl
with studying
not hearty in the cause, and so a few
suffice to chase them from the field.-
ndthethmey may
otelylotrleeirr classes reproach
interest; and
deserve
the heavier reproach, by consulting only their
own case, of sacrificing
Tie public liberties.

The Paris Journals of Tuesday have all reached
us. On Monday the general debate on the For-
tifications Bill closed in the Chamber of Peers,
after which their Lordships proceeded to discuss
the Bill, article by article, after the manner of a
Bill in Committee in the British Houses of Lords
and Commons. When the debate closed the
names of several Peers were inscribed in the list
of speakers who had not been heard, but such
was the weariness of the Chamber after a six
days' debate, that none of them claimed a hear-
ing. In fact, out of the Chambers the Bill has
lost all interest. The works are too far advanced
to be either retarded or modified by any resolu-
tion to which the Chamber of Peers may now
come.

The National and the Constitutionnel state that a Reformist
dinner at the Barriere du Maine was put down by order of the
pelice, just as the Reformers were sitting down to dinner.
Some arrests took place, and the Republican print complains
of the rough conduct of the police.
M. Truy, Commissary of Police, accompanied by his agents,
searched the office and premises of Viscount Edward Walsh,
the editor of the Royalist print the Mode. Three portraits of
the Duke of Bordeaux were seized and carried off.
The Prefect of Police interrik.ted a dinner, whi the Re-

formists were enjoying in the restaurant beyond the Bariere du
Maine. They in vain asked permission to finish their dinner ;
and the National asserts, that some were maltreated by the
police, even after they separated.
The Paris Savings' Bank received on Sunday and Monday
last 618,431 f., and paid away 653,000 f. There were 4,270 per-
sons who paid in the bank, of whom 647 were new.
We have stated the number of the sub-prefects whom it is
intended to dismiss or to remove to other departments at
eighteen or twenty; we have some reason to believe that the
changes in these functionaries would not be confined to this
number. M. Duchatel at any rate wishes to command the
election, and to direct them not only against the Cabinet of the
Ist of March, but also against Messrs. Dufaure and Passy, who
are the cause of great inquietude to the Ministry.
The failure of M. Lehon has been for some days past the ge-
neral subject of conversation in the Chamber and in the politi-
cal circles. It was asserted this evening in the best informed
quarters, that the Minister of Justice had resolved to propose
very great changes in the system by which the office of notary
is now regulated—Le Temps.
The accounts brought by the Baron Eichhof steamer from
Constantinople, which are of the 7th of March, confirm the re-
ports of the illness of the Sultan, wbo has periodical attacks of
cramp, which cause some apprehension.
The Minister of Agriculture and Commerce has addressed
a letter to the Chamber of Commerce of Marseilles, in which
he announces, that in conformity with the wish of the Cham-
ber, that constant protection might be afforded to French mer-
chantmen on the west coast of Africa, by stationing a larger
number of ships of war on that ccast, the Minister of Marine,
to whom he communicated this wish, has thought fit to accede
to it, and decided, that instead of three men of war, as hitherto,
there shall be five stationed on these coasts, and that Admiral
Duperre has given the command to M. Bonet, who has just
been raised to the rank of Captain of a corvette, and distin-
guished himself by his ability and zeal in the survey of that
coast in 1839.—Le Commerce.

ROLLS' COURT-(THIS DAY.)

KING OF HANOVER V. SIR H. WHEATLEY.

The defendants in this case, it may be recollected, obtained
an order for a Commission to Hanover to cross• examine two
of the plaintiff's witnesses, but a difficulty having arisen as to
the form of the order. the 'case was brought on again
for the purpose of obtaining 61 lirection sDf the Court.
The klAsTira of the ROLLS this morning stated that search
having been made an order had been discovered in a case of
Campbell v. Scongall, which appeared to him applicable to
the present case, and directed the order to be drawn up in the
same form.